what is going on with the server

I've been having the same problem, just started today. I haven't tried any other games...

Albino Rat it is possible to cheat votes with a USB device but only with one set of the downloaded maps.



One set of DLC maps will only play installed to the HDD but the other set will play installed to the USB. If you take the USB out while the DLC map is loading it will force a new vote. If you try and play with the other DLC maps installed on USB it will
just restart the vote due to a problem with loading the maps from USB.



Because of this it is actually a problem telling if someone has a map on USB or if they are pulling the plug on a map to get a new vote.



If it works in any other manner I am not aware of it. That's my experience with the maps via USB having taken them up to my friends before on a USB stick to play. I haven't ever pulled the plug, but it doesn't take a genius to figure out what would happen
if you did (plus if I did that it would sign me out as my profile's on my USB too).

2 suggestions

(A) Your internet / ISP are messing up. You can do some speed tests.

(B) Your Disc drive is on the way out.

I would be inclined to go for (B) due to the thread you started about getting map load failures and the fact the disc drives are not of the greatest quality. In that thread you mentioned you had 4 load failures in a row which is excessive.

If you fail to load a map then it boots you back to lobby on your own if you are the one with the load issue. It tends to take a max of 4 load fails on one voting session before booting you but typically no more than 3.

TBH a few people have mentioned map failures and blame it on people modding / affecting the course of the voting system to get what they want. In over 5000 games I have yet to see that happening. Yes I've seen load failure plenty of times but not once has
it seemed like someone was using it to go for something. Either the faulty 360 player gets booted which is obvious or something gets voted for that everyone wanted anyway but still fails.

Hate to be a pessimist but it sounds a lot like a disc drive on the way out.

Are you installed to harddrive? If so then it could be something corrupt somewhere so it might be worth reinstalling it to your harddrive again.

NOTE:- Just because other games work fine doesn't mean your disc drive is fine. I know from the experience of 6 repairs / replacements (5 for drives) and I would get disc problems with my least scratched / newest games.

PS Sorry for layout in advance.

nah all of my games are installed to hard drive. as in i got them from market place. it was working fine up until a week ago when i started noticing i was getting dropped from games. it was one game once in awhile and then last night boom. all of my games
dropped me. i had no problem with my internet last night with my computer or playing any other game on my hard drive. it was just the halo reach one. i think i will re download it and recover my gamertag just in case both of them are corrupt

I haven't had the problems you mention, but I was in a game the other day when two of my team apparrently quit. Then the remaining two of us batted on and we got a blackscreen again and when it came back to normal I saw the entire other team had apparrently
quit. This of course finished the game and paid me (and I assume the other remaining teammate) 15000cr.

Perhaps those other players were experiencing the same things you speak of.

Me, personally, can't complain in this case.