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Connection issues still? Really microsoft?

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  • 20-09-2010 8:50am
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    RAIN
    Registered Users Posts: 1,422 ✭✭✭


    Seriously, I am major pissed at Microsoft. Its bad enough that we have to pay for live but then to give us a piss poor experience to boot is just insulting. I know its still within a week of release but come on. Its no excuse. Not only can I not play a game of co op campaign without the slow motion effect, EVERY game of Big Team battle is plagued by either the game dropping all together or the agonizing host migration screen coming and delaying the game for up to 5 mins!

    I use a 5Meg line and my friend is using 20Meg and we still couldn't get through a game of campaign without timing out. Everything else works well though, all the 4 team playlists and even firefight. Its just mad that such a huge game is being pwoned by issues that the last game suffered from. Anyone else having problems?


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    Zeouterlimits
    Registered Users Posts: 988 ✭✭✭Zeouterlimits


    Been pretty much perfect for me, I'm really happy with the netcode, big improvement over H3.


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    maximoose
    Registered Users Posts: 9,202 ✭✭✭maximoose


    haven't had a single problem with my connection. halo 3 I used to lag out quite a lot from games but thankfully it seems to have improved a lot....in my experience


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    Batmantastic
    Registered Users Posts: 185 ✭✭Batmantastic


    I've yet to play online as I'm without broadband atm, new house and whatnot, hopefully at the end of the week though, but I'll have to forfeit loads of credits I've earned offline because of some BS reason Bungie gave regarding "Levelling out the playing field"

    I haven't heard any issues regarding lag or anything with it so I'm assuming it's a lot better than Halo 3 was, the ridiculous amount of lag playing Halo 3 was insane but it was still fun as hell


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    RAIN
    Registered Users Posts: 1,422 ✭✭✭RAIN


    I'm going to try searching by best connection tonight. My connection is UPC 54ms Ping, 5 Meg. Last night I couldn't play a game of firefight without everyone getting booted but me. It actually played to my advantage because I could then get into a rocket fight and kill all around me - see stats


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    Batmantastic
    Registered Users Posts: 185 ✭✭Batmantastic


    RAIN wrote: »
    My connection is UPC 54ms Ping, 5 Meg.

    I've no idea how UPC's 5mb works out but their 30mb is king IMO


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    maximoose
    Registered Users Posts: 9,202 ✭✭✭maximoose


    Batmantastic wrote: »
    I've no idea how UPC's 5mb works out but their 30mb is king IMO

    amen to that


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    RAIN
    Registered Users Posts: 1,422 ✭✭✭RAIN


    maximoose wrote: »
    amen to that

    Its all I can afford at the minute just moved in. Went down once in the last 6 months but besides that its freekin awesome. No problems with any other game and I played battlefield every day since it came out (until reach hit) so its driving me mental that I'm having issues with Reach. Hopefully the search by best connection will help my cause.


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    Useful.Idiot
    Registered Users Posts: 1,834 ✭✭✭Useful.Idiot


    I have a crappy Eircom 2mb connection and it runs grand!


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    RAIN
    Registered Users Posts: 1,422 ✭✭✭RAIN


    Customized the search to look for best connection. Had no issues last night, it was deadly :).

    Couple of guys who played with me got cut off from our party though and I defo seen other people have issues with Lag etc. But I couldn't care less about them :P

    Finally got a few games of Invasion last night too. It was awesome


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    Shammy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Shammy


    RAIN wrote: »
    Seriously, I am major pissed at Microsoft. Its bad enough that we have to pay for live but then to give us a piss poor experience to boot is just insulting. I know its still within a week of release but come on. Its no excuse. Not only can I not play a game of co op campaign without the slow motion effect, EVERY game of Big Team battle is plagued by either the game dropping all together or the agonizing host migration screen coming and delaying the game for up to 5 mins!

    I use a 5Meg line and my friend is using 20Meg and we still couldn't get through a game of campaign without timing out. Everything else works well though, all the 4 team playlists and even firefight. Its just mad that such a huge game is being pwoned by issues that the last game suffered from. Anyone else having problems?

    Go to www.speedtest.net and do 3 tests in a row , see if there are any differences in the speeds , do it at a peak time say 9 pm.
    Also check if your nat settings are open , a lot of upc customers have a problem with this.
    Batmantastic wrote: »
    I've no idea how UPC's 5mb works out but their 30mb is king IMO

    No it aint ;)

    edit , never mind Rain just saw your last post , you had no problems last night :)


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