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Subject: WTF is this Bungie?
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Now I fell in love with Halo 2 the day it came out. I was one of those nut cases who waited outside hours before its midnight release. I used to play it and love it. Then college came along, and with it my XBL subscription was canceled. Celebrating making dean's list and pretty much ripping my freshman year apart, I decided to treat myself to a new Xbox 360 Elite. I never bought a 360, even though I waited outside on its release day, but thats a whole other story. Today I am ranting about Halo 2. I haven't been able to play Halo 2 that much in college, the occasional LAN event, so I know I'm not the best player out there. After returning to the game from an extended break, it became obvious there was some changes made. Change can be good, but this is ridiculous. Today's specific rant is about the matchmaking for me. Not only does it take me forever to find a game(possibly my routers fault, I recognize that), when I do find a game- its ALWAYS lopsided. If my team wins a game, its by a landslide, if they lose the game its by a even bigger landslide. My first night worked in my favor. I played about 12 games of team slayer, winning 10 or so of them. Great! Sweet wins! After that night, everything has been a disgusting matches. I'm still talking about team slayer. I don't believe I've won more than 2 games in the past 2 days of playing. The scores aren't even close. 50-12, 50-14, etc. Now being on a massive losing streak, you think the match making system would attempt to fix that. Instead I find myself matched with players who constantly leave games, leaving my team to 4v3 it, which is a huge disadvantage, usually.

When did this all happen? I know bungie is not responsible for the acts of people on XBL (for the most part people still remain friendly and funny, but there are a few breeding in there creating a cesspool of people you wish you could hit), but the matchmaking is getting to be ridiculous. I remember when it was fast to find a game, and every match was a sweating battle to the last kill/score. What changed bungie? What have you done to my beloved Halo 2?

Oh well, at least the game still looks good projected on a wall.

Make it Count~ Fuel

  • 05.15.2007 10:23 AM PDT
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You can check my input on the same problem: "New Rank System," I think I called it. Where we seem to differ is on the issue of bailing. I'm one of those "annoying" people who drops out of games constantly within the first minute or two. But let me assure you, I'm doing the team a service. In these landslide games we keep finding ourselves in, I can stay, earn virtually no kills, learn nothing, have no fun, and die six million times, or I can bail and not be a deficit to the team. I really believe that in most cases a well thought-out bail is doing the team a favor even if they don't realize it at the time.

Also, my hat is off to you for being the only other person I have ever heard who agrees with me that a landslide game is no fun, even if you're on the winning side. It's really a little tiresome to play with people who only value winning and have NO sense of sportsmanship. Or am I just being a sore loser here?

  • 05.15.2007 10:39 AM PDT

This is a RETICULE, and that is a RETICLE. I'm using the latter to aim. And what are you using?

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Also, my hat is off to you for being the only other person I have ever heard who agrees with me that a landslide game is no fun, even if you're on the winning side.

Strange, I *always* felt that games which are dominated by one team are no fun at all. I regularly quit such games if I'm on the winning team (I stay until the bitter end when I'm on the loosing team, mind you).

However, those landslide victories/losses hardly happen to me. I've played a couple of games today and most of them were rather close. I think the problem is that there are practically two kinds of people who still play H2: the casual players who play the game primarily for fun, and the hardcore fans. And the later not only are more skilled than the casual players, but also usually play in parties. And a group of four random casual players hardly has a chance against four people who are used to playing with each other.

  • 05.15.2007 10:55 AM PDT
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  • 05.15.2007 11:01 AM PDT
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One of the things I noticed today if my team doesn't get the first kill- someone leaves. A stupid reason to quit the game, but there was a direct correlation. Now I still love Halo 2, I just think the XBL matchmaking system now sucks. You didn't hire someone from blizzard did you? I hope this does get turned around.

It seems like the system is possibly getting the right people in a group of 8, just not splitting them up fairly? One player can make a difference, but the outcome is the result of the team. It is boring when someone gets the only sniper rifle and just picks off the entire opposing team. Whether its my ally or not, it just sucks the fun out of playing the game. constantly dieing or standing there and doing nothing? Seems like the same situation to me.

  • 05.15.2007 2:36 PM PDT

-mattrj93

it will take a while to get matched up with people who are actually yor level

  • 05.15.2007 2:52 PM PDT
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Posted by: MiC Fuel
One of the things I noticed today if my team doesn't get the first kill- someone leaves. A stupid reason to quit the game, but there was a direct correlation. Now I still love Halo 2, I just think the XBL matchmaking system now sucks. You didn't hire someone from blizzard did you? I hope this does get turned around.

It seems like the system is possibly getting the right people in a group of 8, just not splitting them up fairly? One player can make a difference, but the outcome is the result of the team. It is boring when someone gets the only sniper rifle and just picks off the entire opposing team. Whether its my ally or not, it just sucks the fun out of playing the game. constantly dieing or standing there and doing nothing? Seems like the same situation to me.


that is dumb. there are some games where I can go half the game with 5 kills and then end up with 20 at the end. It usually takes me a while to assess how the other team plays

  • 05.15.2007 3:04 PM PDT