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Subject: The ODST problem reporting and complaints thread
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Posted by: Skibur
Please try to keep discussion of common issues and complaints about ODST in this thread.
If you make a new thread about it, it may be locked.

Complaints can include:

-The lack of Matchmaking for Firefight
-Lagging out during Firefight
-Not getting an achievement
-Buck's hair is too perfect


Thank god, this is a MUCH needed thread 'round these parts. And Skibur, why you get rid of your custom avatar......? :(

  • 10.02.2009 4:44 AM PDT

7.65 M in Firefight on Lost Platoon on Heroic.
Set 13 # 05:52:26
Now thats something to brag about.

High score not updating on B.net :(

  • 10.02.2009 4:46 AM PDT
Subject: The only "omg I wanna complain for SUM RAISON" thread

When I was playing the campaign and finished up to kizingo boulevard on legendary, I decided to get my vidmaster: classic on Tayari Plaza, so I select Tayari Plaza on the replay missions menu, and start to play, after a while i understood that this wasn't the best mission to get the achievement on so I continued my campaign, finding out that you can't go straight to Mombasa Streets with the rookie, even though you just finished a mission(in my case, Kizingo Boulevard) No problem i thought, so I played Kizingo Boulevard again, but when I finished it I found out that all the checkmarks at the previous locations had disappeard, so do I have to do the missions Tayari Plaza and Uplift Reserve again?

  • 10.02.2009 4:53 AM PDT
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  • 10.02.2009 5:13 AM PDT
Subject: The ODST problem reporting and complaints thread

I wish there was a hammer spree......

1) Make the red screen when your stamina is low not so red. It is hard to see, and it is especially annoying with black eye on.

2) Fix the hunters` melee distance. They can hit the air and you take damage.

3) Make it so that you pick up the health packs by pressing a button.

4) Add the AR to firefight.

That is my list.

[Edited on 10.02.2009 5:18 AM PDT]

  • 10.02.2009 5:17 AM PDT

*falls to his knees* my baby is back! *nussles his magnum*

I forgot to mention this, they need to take auto aim off, it has the same problem halo 3 has (which has waisted ammo or gotten me killed) when scoped out if any enemy runs infront of the reticle it follows them. this is a problem for the spartan laser the most because when your expecting the last second to fire where you want a grunt runs by and it jerks it to the left and you miss....

or if boosting a ghost ill swerve after one grunt.

[Edited on 10.02.2009 9:41 AM PDT]

  • 10.02.2009 5:53 AM PDT
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Has anyone else noticed that when you drop a gun/ exit a vehicle sometimes it instantly disappears? I noticed this in campaign multiple times with weapons, and once each with a mongoose and a ghost. I got out to download an audio log... and my vehicle was gone.


The lack of passenger animations is also really disappointing. Fun game, but long live rentals...

and Buck's hair is WAY too straight.

  • 10.02.2009 6:13 AM PDT
Subject: The only "omg I wanna complain for SUM RAISON" thread
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I LAGGED OUT A-FRICKEN-GAIN!!! FRICKEN FIX THIS FRICKEN BUG BUNGIE! ITS GETTING A LITTE FRICKEN ANNOYING. I HAD ALL NEW PEOPLE THIS TIME, AND WE STILL LAGGED THE FRICK OUT!

  • 10.02.2009 12:19 PM PDT
Subject: The ODST problem reporting and complaints thread

Complaining due to lag

Bungie, I love you guys and your games are frakking awesome. But I must complain, the campaign/firefight disc lags any time I play multiplayer. Whether it be 2 player co-op, 3 player firefight or whatever, it renders the game unbearable to play. I've tried it in both my consoles (I have a 20gb normal model and a ltd edition halo console), I've had the game replaced by the store but still the errors occur.
My internet connection is great, I have a dedicated line just for xbox and this is the first game to ever experience lag! Speedtest.net confirms the line stability and I have tried loads of other games with no lag at all.
I've tried installing to hard disc but it doesn't help one bit!
So, there it is, another voice in the seemingly large list of lag complainers. I'm not going to waaaaah about the game mechanics or anything else, cos I think ODST rocks so much. I just wish I could play it with my friends!

[Edited on 10.02.2009 1:22 PM PDT]

  • 10.02.2009 1:22 PM PDT

Yes, really

bucks hair is just waaaaay too perfect. please fix it.

no really. there are alot of exploits in firefight, like the one where the barrier respawns and your inside of it, and the one on crate where you can ghost ledge out of the map and into most of new mombassa.

  • 10.02.2009 1:24 PM PDT

One word LAG, the lag is soo bad in campaign or firefight and you can only play with 4 players, its should even lag with 8 let alone 4. Its totally unacceptable Bungie.

Bungie fails at networking yet again.

  • 10.02.2009 2:01 PM PDT
Subject: The only "omg I wanna complain for SUM RAISON" thread

(05:43:26 AM) Zach Buckley: uk host is tolerable sometimes but australian host.... they might as well standby
(05:44:22 AM) ENORP: how about them mexican hostz
(05:44:42 AM) Zach Buckley: kinda hard to have a good internet connection when you pay for it by selling oranges

Posted by: Labfiend7
i beat vidmaster deja vu 3 times today.
1st times problem: we made it to where the end cinematic was gonna happen and then "a player has left" the dude's time on xbox live ran out! RIGHT THEN!!!!
2nd Time: (also in the same spot as #1)Connection error " a player has left" we went to lobby and everyone was still there! WTF?!?!?!
3rd Time: the person didnt tell us he got in passenger seat of warthog all the way at the beginning of the #3 and we won it.
I DONT HAVE THE ACHIEVEMENT... BUNGIE PLEASE GIMME
LMAO I WANNA MAKE SURE EVERYONE GETS A CHANCE TO READ THIS!!

  • 10.02.2009 2:04 PM PDT

how do you get the audiophile achevement ? ? ? ? ?

  • 10.02.2009 2:20 PM PDT

Semper Fi- Always Faithful: Honor and Justice. I will hunt down the Defiant and Dishonest. Brutally.

Ignorance CERTAINLY isnt bliss. I hope to fix this in the forums.

The Answers To ALL your complaints!!!!

My connection continually lags when I am with certain people, and for some reason whenever I am not with these people, the game is perfect. Is it possible for your connection to be 'incompatible' with someone else's? I have a theory that it is only with one certain person....

  • 10.02.2009 2:33 PM PDT

Im Awsome

This games needs a patch, does bungie even know of these issues

  • 10.02.2009 3:24 PM PDT

LLLLLLAAAAAAGGGGGGG!!!!!!

  • 10.02.2009 3:27 PM PDT
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Get it right.

I would like to hear from bungie if this thread is just another "BR Thread" aka complain all you want,we wont read or care,or are you guys actually taking notes for possible AU?

anyway my complaint is Lag.
I can play fine with 3 players in europe(1 in my country and 1 in uk)
throw 1 in there who is from outside europe,and it lags.
Infact,it even lags if i play with anyone outside europe,this even happens in 2 player co-op firefight or story mode.

I remember time when this never happend in Halo 3,then came some update and it started to happen in Halo3,and it is still problem in ODST.

I know that my connection is fine,because no other game lags for me.

I really hope that you guys at Bungie take a look at this issue,play with someone outside your country with regular speed internet and so on.

  • 10.02.2009 8:05 PM PDT

My commplaints:
-Lack of Matchmaking in firefight
-Constant lag in deja vu(not lagging out just terribly laggy for no reason)

  • 10.02.2009 8:19 PM PDT
Subject: The ODST problem reporting and complaints thread


Posted by: Mace Windex
My only complaint with the game is that Dare sort of resembles Willem Dafoe in some scenes.


HAHAHA that is so true

  • 10.02.2009 8:31 PM PDT

Kikowani Station glitch.

The team didn't fly their Phantom into the building (they're stopped looking at the squid-pod they just blew up), so the Phantom that's supposed to unlock the far door didn't move. I killed the Phantom, but now I can't open the door.

This is on Legendary, don't know if it matters.

  • 10.03.2009 6:22 AM PDT
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I need a dropshield dropshield

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For the rest it's a great game XD

  • 10.03.2009 6:26 AM PDT

No VISR or HUD on new game until change the scoring options.

This has happened to me twice. Once on Normal once on Legendary.

I'm about to start a new game. I change my skull options. I start the new game, first level. When the game starts, I have no HUD Compass, and when I press the VISR key, I get the "clicking" sound, but the VISR doesn't appear.

I can save/exit, restart, doesn't fix it. Powered off my XBox, restarted, didn't fix it.

But if I change the scoring options, from Team to Multiplayer or vice versa, and restart, voila, the HUD Compass is back, and when I click the VISR key, I get the VISR.

BTW, I went for the "Classic" Achievement on the first level, but didn't get the Achievement. In researching what may have happened, the only thing I can come up with is that I did a tail-slide with my Mongoose. If that is what prevented me from getting the Achievement, that really sucks.

  • 10.03.2009 6:56 AM PDT

You messed up Tricia Helfer really bad. Buck at least resembles Nathan Fillion all-grimed-up, but I don't see how the hottest Cyborg in the history of Sci-Fi ends up looking like Veronica.

  • 10.03.2009 7:01 AM PDT