Halo: The Master Chief Collection Helpful Multi-player Connection Tips and Possible Solutions

2/8/2015 Beta test new content update feedback and thoughts:

Good morning all interested parties. Between the following dates: February 4, 6, 7 and this morning I tested out the new content update. This is only available to selected players under the Xbox Preview Dashboard and updates program and will be rolling out
to the masses in the near future. Here is actual facts about my experience with the beta content update compiled from these dates.

Waiting for games: On average to join session... 3-10 minutes. Players found and establishing connection... 4 minutes.

Xbox Live Party Chat: Friends not able to hear, stay in party, or game.

Halo Party System: Didn't work great and was not able to do the following: with even team members (2 friends), remain in party chat couldn't, teams were balanced in lobby, 4 to 10 minutes waiting/finding game, failed to connect, joining session and when
we did find a lobby, couldn't remain connected. Tested ability to remain in party and connected to party host, if backing out and bringing party, and this didn't function properly, it dropped my friend and migrated host.

Connection: My connection overall was no lag and no ping showing, which worked out real well, friends connection was the same. I did have an yellow ping lobby in Halo 4 playlist, which had to do with person picked to host, they were dropped and host migrated.

I did the following trouble shooting in this order: 1) Hit the Xbox Guide button on controller, 2) Hit the three lines window button on controller, 3) Highlight and selected quit feature, 4) Started game back up. This didn't fix my connection issues, dropping
parties, failure to connect in lobbies and longer times to find matches.

I then did the following connection trouble shooting: 1) Signed out of my Xbox live account on the Xbox One, 2) Powered off from hitting power button and holding power button until it completely turned off, 3) Unplugged my ethernet chord, 4) Unplugged my
power supply unit completely, 5) Waited 45 seconds, then plugged back chords including: ethernet and power supply unit chord, 6) Powered Xbox One up, 7) Waited until home screen loaded, 8) Cleared my local saved games, 9) Waited until console restarted, 10)
Waited until home screen loaded, 11) Signed into my Xbox live account, 12) Loaded Halo: The Master Chief Collection from home screen. This didn't help with unable to connect, getting kicked from parties, and losing friend when we finally found a game.

I then did the following: 1) Quit the game completely, 2) Went to settings, 3) Went to Network tab, 4) Checked Nat Type: Open check, 5) Current Network Status and Xbox Live status All services are available check, 6) Test Network Connection It's all good
check, 7) Testing Multiplayer Connection It's all good check, 8) Detailed Network Statistics following: Download speed, 22.48 Mbps; Upload speed, 2.27 Mbps; Packet loss 0%; MTU 1480; Latency 99 ms check. I ran diagnostics on my router checked out fine, then
unplugged, reset and tried again. I concluded it had something to do with the actual Halo: The Master Chief Collection game servers and patches on 343's end.

Overall game experience

Bullet registry: It was pretty solid, but had hard time registering headshots on Halo 4 playlist.

Hit markers: I noticed significant improvement, to the lesser hit markers and able to get more kills.

Teams balanced: Overall each game started with balanced players, and my party stayed on same team. This was evident on February 4, 2015 and February 6 until 4:30 PM. Between the hours of 6:30 PM to 9:40 PM, I only got to play 1 game with friend, then the
rest we lost connection, couldn't join session, failed to connect and searching for playlist. We attempted several times to back out and try again.

Playlist that were quickest to load: Team Slayer, Halo 3, Big Team, Swat and Halo 4.

Fixes that need to be made:

Halo 4 playlist: Connection wasn't good red pinged. Took over 5+ minutes to find a match. Head shots and body shots at time would not register. I had hard time registering kills, please see my file shares. Playlist needs work.

Team Halo 2 Anniversary: Had to back out 4+ times and stuck on Joining session..., then backed out and stuck on players found..., thus it took 5+ minutes to find a match. This needs fixed.

Disclaimer: This is my observation so far, please Microsoft and 343 fix the flaws in the game I identified. If anyone wants to run with me and test out my beta content update, then feel free to do so. I am not an Microsoft, or 343 employee, however I have
been playing Halo since the original Xbox and PC version. If there is one thing I do know is Halo games and their command prompts and performance flaws.

I will keep everyone posted, but so far I am about 4 stars out of 10 satisfied with this beta content update. I feel terrible, that it was working fine from January 26, 2015 through February 6, 2015 but now it is getting progressively worse. Please view
my file shares, screen prints, data, and twitter posts for more details. It was very frustrating from February 7 through morning of 8, 2015 to have the following issues: server connectivity issues, failed to connect, longer wait times on average 8 to 20 minutes,
inability to remain in party, inability to hear each other talk and unable to stay connected.

It definitely felt like yesterday evening and this morning, there was a negative decrease in performance and server connectivity.

I realize there is no release date just yet, but through my feedback I hope things that are flawed gets fixed. I am not sold in this beta Content Update, just yet and if anything it has digressed since February 4, 2015. Please don't take this as talking
negative to the game, but there are some huge issues that need resolved in a timely manner. Please put my thoughts into action, fix the problems, and thank you for the opportunity.

Ephesians,

 

*Correction to be made; Teams balanced: Overall each game started with balanced players, and my party stayed on same team. This was evident on February 4, 2015 and February 6 until 4:30 PM. On February 7, 2015 from the hours of 6:30 PM to 9:40 PM, I only
got to play one game with friend, then the rest we lost connection, couldn't join session, failed to connect and searching for playlist. We attempted several times to back out and try again.

 

Twitter timeline posts:

@XBoX @XboxSupport I am having issues and friends with party chat and able to hear friends. Is this a know issue? We are attempting to play.

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5:40 PM - 7 Feb 2015

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Xbox Support ‏@XboxSupport3 10h10 hours ago

@ Sorry to hear that it's going on for you - have you gone through this guide to start?
You can't switch to party chat on Xbox One ^BB

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‏@ 9h9 hours ago

@XBoX @XboxSupport I sure have and everything tested fine. We are trying to play Halo MCC multiplayer. I am resetting my router.

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Xbox Support (1-5) ‏@XboxSupport 8h8 hours ago

@ Sounds good, that's a solid first step. Can you have your friends do the same & let us know if you see any improvement? ^RZ

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‏@ 3h3 hours ago

@XBoX @XboxSupport RZ and BB. I think it had to do with Halo MCC. I'll post sometime this week my findings, as I have the beta CU download.

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‏@ 1h1 hour ago

@XBoX @XboxSupport BB and RZ, Once I reset my router, it improv one match. I then couldn't con or hear friend from 7:59 pm to 8:40 pm EST.

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@XBoX @XboxSupport RZ and BB, During that time, we kept getting kicked from lobby pl, joining session, and failed connect.

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@XBoX @XboxSupport RZ and BB, Finally when we found players and teams picked, it then kicked my friend or me.

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@XBoX @XboxSupport RZ and BB, I did the following during this time: restarted my Xbox unplugged it, cleared local savd gmes & reset router.

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@XBoX @XboxSupport RZ and BB, Once I woke up this morning, I cleared my local saved games. Played H3 co op cortana dropped Conn.

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@XBoX @XboxSupport RZ and BB, I then ran a speed test, did all support trouble shooting, and went to my router settings everything good.

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‏@ 1h1 hour ago

@XBoX @XboxSupport RZ and BB, My end was good, however only happened in Halo MCC. It was working fine on 2/4/15 and 2/6/15.

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@XBoX @XboxSupport RZ and BB, I am going to post findings on my forums posts. I was about 6 of 10 stars on beta CU but now 4 of 10 stars.

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@XBoX @XboxSupport RZ and BB, In my opinion, I am still not sold in releasing to public new CU. FYI I'm talking about Preview Dash Halo CU.

 

Update:

Halo: The Master Chief Collection was working great for the multi player on February 9. 2015, however, since this date, how could I put this, Halo (she) has been extremely temperamental and extremely moody. Since February 15, 2015, the game has had nothing
but problems for me and my friends, while playing the multi player. For starters, it took over 10+ minutes to find a game, then when we found a game, it's either got stuck on searching for players, or failed to connect.

During the duration of hour in a half on February 15, 2015, I had problems remaining connected with my friend at a party, not to mention, while in the party my friend and I had difficulty hearing each other, but tried a different game, party and party chat
worked great. When we did find a game, the connection was extremely large, kept migrating to host, at times stuck in limbo waiting for map to generate and stuck waiting in the lobby for the game to start. After patiently clearing our local saved games, three
attempts to restart our xbox one console, unplugging, then resetting router, all attempts were futile and we gave up.

During the duration of hour in a half on February 15, 2015, I had problems remaining connected with my friend at a party, not to mention, while in the party my friend and I had difficulty hearing each other, but tried a different game, party and party chat
worked great. When we did find a game, the connection was extremely large, kept migrating to host, at times stuck in limbo waiting for map to generate and stuck waiting in the lobby for the game to start. After patiently clearing our local saved games, three
attempts to restart our xbox one console, unplugging, then resetting router, all attempts were futile and we gave up.

During the duration of two hours February 15, 2015, I had problems remaining connected with my friend at a party, not to mention, while in the party my friend and I had difficulty hearing each other, but tried a different game, party and party chat works
great. When we did find a game, the connection was great, but, at times stuck in limbo waiting for map to generate, which took over 10+ minutes and stuck waiting in the lobby for the game to start. We initially before starting the game cleared our local saved
games, restarted our xbox one consoles, unplugged, then reset router, after continuously, losing each other, failed to connect, teams unbalanced and being put on different teams we called it a night.

In conclusion, the game worked perfectly on February 9, 2015 and since then has had nothing, but problems. It leads me to believe that my beta content update since February 9, 2015 has been removed and I'm quite frankly putting it lightly, irritated that
it gradually gets worse, then better. I have zero confidence in future content updates going forward, because for starters 343 isn't listening to the consumers, which are identifying the problems and it seems as, if they are giving up on this game.

I find this to be upsetting, until the new content update gets released, I'm not going to spend time on it, if that day Halo is being temperamental. I am extremely disappointed in the turnaround time for the content updates to be released and 343's inability
to within their company, identify the problems and fix them. I would definitely rate this launch, as the biggest plunder to date in Microsoft's Xbox consoles game releases. In a perfect world, going forward, 343 would learn from its mistakes, attack the issues
head on in a scrum management project development and fix this game already.

 

Update February 20, through February 22, 2015:

First and foremost, I want to give a shout out to forums poster and my newest Xbox Live friend, AnonymousNarc. Over the course of this week, AnonymousNarc and me have been trying different things. Here is what works and doesn't help so far on what we concluded.

Over these past days since, February 20, 2015, February 21, 2015 and February 22, 2015, I have played 30+ multi player games.

I have been playing using the following: clearing my local saved games first, then restored my character to default setting. In order to do this you need to change the following back for your character: emblem foreground, MJOLNIR, background Star, colors,
primary, silver, secondary, white, background, steel, avatar, MASTER CHIEF 6, Service ID, 117, Edit Clan ID, UNSC and nameplate, first blue BLANK. I think it resets your connection, but for this to work properly you have to uninstall and reinstall the game,
then clear your local saved games. Please note that Australia, New Zealand and Asia this might not work. It will work for US, Canada, Mexico, UK and Europe. Give it a shot, what you have to lose?

Sincerely,

AnonymousNarc

On a side note, I personally have played with others then him and AnonymousNarc would agree this helps as well. Go to settings, then System and rename your console the following: GH5TXB0XON3 and see, if your gaming and Xbox One's performance improves. I
stumbled upon this through trial and error, punching in sequences into my console name at this improved performance tremendously. Furthermore, I have proven that adding me as a friend and playing a couple games with me, seems to improve your overall multi
player experience.

New Zealand, Asia and Australia still can't play pretty much all the playlist since the futile patches and content updates released. I partied with GoldenDemon89 and we kept getting hung up with players found... and that's how far I get with him and he's
in Australia. Apparently, multi player has never worked for him since the patches and updates came out, so I will do my part in trying to get him and others able to play again. Stay tuned and I would be happy to play with anyone, but for now that's all I got.

Ephesians,

 

Good morning. How is everyone? I am sorry I haven't posted in awhile. I noticed people are having update issues in regards to the following: stuck on 100% update, game won't load, syncing data pop up on the right, game freezes, or still can't download the
update.

Hopefully, I can help you out with troubleshooting these issues. First and foremost, please make sure your console is up to date. Hit your three lines button on your Xbox One controller, highlight settings, hit A, then to the right highlight system, then
hit A, go to the left, if it says no update available, then your console is up to date. If it wasn't up to date, start the update, then let your console restart and install the update. If this doesn't fix the above problems, then I will walk you through how
to change console name.

Sign on to your profile once, you are back in the Home screen. Repeat the steps above, three lines button, highlight settings, hit A, scroll right, highlight System. While in the System folder, go to console name on top left, then enter this console name
all one big name and caps, GH5TXB0X0N3. Hit the three lines button, highlight Restart Now, then hit A. Your screen will go black, Xbox One make a loading sound, Xbox power icon will flicker, then will get a green Xbox One loading screen, please be patient,
as this takes a few minutes. Let it load your Xbox One and revert you to the Home screen. Sign in to your profile, then load the game. If this doesn't work, then power off your Xbox One with these steps below.

Hold the power button on your Xbox One, wait until it fully powers off, unplug in the back of your Xbox One console the following: Ethernet chord first, then power supply unit, then leave unplugged for 30 seconds to 1 minute long. Do the following sequence,
plug your Ethernet chord in and power supply chord to back of Xbox One console, then hit the power button. Wait for the Xbox One console to restart and revert you back to a green Xbox One loading screen, then Home screen. Sign on to your profile, then let
start up Halo disk. If this doesn't help, then clear your local saved games.

Please follow the clearing your local saved games steps, I have indicated in this forums post pasts posts. If this doesn't work, then clear your saved data for Halo: The Master Chief Collection, please see past posts on this forums posts. If this doesn't
work, which whatever reason this new update isn't downloading properly and gets stuck at 100%, then you must uninstall and reinstall the game, please see my past posts on this forums post for step by step instructions.

Lastly, if all these steps don't help, then reach out to Halo or Xbox Support on twitter.

Ephesians aka Guff,

 

I forgot to address, if you it freezes or having no luck finding games. If anytime you can't find games, partying up with people issues, can't hear, MIC doesn't work, or game freezes or gets stuck, then quit Halo: The Master Chief Collection.

Press the Xbox One logo on your controller, then hit the three lines button, then highlight quit and hit A. You may also, try the command prompts I provided to you all, I've others to try, but honestly I have a theory which I am 99% proven, that everyone,
if you haven't done, so and bought the game before 11/11/14 and by 12/25/14, should uninstall and reinstall the game first.

My theory is, because this game before 12/25/14 was jacked up, everyone who downloaded the game and played prior to 12/25/14, Halo: The Master Chief Collection download became corrupt. In order for the patches and updates to work properly, I suggest you
uninstall and reinstall the game, if you purchased and downloaded before 12/25/14.

Please see my forums posts on this forums post above for details on how to uninstall. I tested uninstalling and reinstalling with the following gamer tags and individuals: DTreaADy, Creeper81983, AnonymousNarc and myself.

Best of luck,

Ephesians aka Guff,

 

I'm Russian gamer, and I want to play in multiplayer halo tmcc, but it still doesn't work, from November 2014 to March 2015. Microsoft and 343 don't support European gamers, and don't fix there mistake. They fix it only for AMERICAN gamer, but European and
Asian gamer was forgot.

 

HALO 3 ODST codes are out now. FYI: You must have have played some time between November 11, 2014 and through December 19, 2014.You will receive a message on Xbox Live and it will have a code for you to enter. Go to the store tab on the Xbox One, select
games, and scroll down to enter code. Select type in the code on the right and enter the code. Download yours today!

 

Good morning Halo enthusiasts. I have played a few games online and for the most part, it seems like things have improved tremendously. There are some times where you have to quit the game completely, because it freezes but overall I see significant improvement.
I'm going to ask that this forum be locked, because I am now satisfied with the most recent update. Thanks again for reading and look forward to helping, if any way I can.

Ephesians,