Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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Subject: Screw H2V.

Halo 3 for PC.

Posted by: Frnksnbns
The game is a horrible port. We know it, Bungie knows it, Microsoft knows it.

They did such a bang up job that Hired Gun ceased to exist. Since these guys were an internal M$ team, it goes to show how bad they do PC games. And when it became clear that the game had serious flaws, they just walked away and kept their mouths shut.

For all it's flaws, Halo PC is to this day a much better port job. But to be fair to Hired Gun, I think a lot of the problems that you guys are talking about stem from the awful GFWL interface.

So basically the game fails on so many fronts that it's just a total disaster. I can't think of one area where the game excels. Graphics options, nope. Mouse controls- terrible. Controller aimbot- thanks. Horrible online problems such as cheating, crashes, lag when people enter the game (this didn't happen when the game launched), and the whole thing wrapped in the GFWL interface. Wow. Fail. I want my money back please.
+ this major flaw.
Posted by: Itz Gunmonkey77
want to know a better joke.
The game is so horribly coded, that the major flaw, is the text/Unicode that appears on screen, can cause major game lag.

Examples of this flaw
1. The Game Browser, there is so much text, that it lags the game's FPS.

2. Join lag
When a person joins, the text comes up, "* has joined"
this freezes people's games and makes their connection to temporarily become unstable to the host.

3. Unrenderable chars/crashing text.

4. Mass text spamming (identical to the browser).

This game has been the biggest joke in the whole world, to think that any text that's used is a weakness.

wtf a game that can't render text very well, WHAT THE F**K.

  • 12.30.2009 11:24 AM PDT

Posted by: Nessy

The bungie.net community is the halo PC community that is renowned for being unbelieveably sucky.

The text lag issues started happening well after I uninstalled. IIRC it was due to an update of GFWL. I wanted to like this game, honest I did, but it just was a terrible online experience. For me, mostly because of the mouse input lag and lack of sensitivity. Apparently the game only got worse as time passed which is really inexcusable. I couldn't care less about stats and all that, but a lot of younger gamers enjoy that kind of stuff. The fact that none of it is linked to this website is further evidence of how lazy this port is. Just a complete joke. Shame on everyone involved in releasing this game.

  • 12.30.2009 1:19 PM PDT

Posted by: ApolloCree
It's a good thing I'm a pokemon trainer, and can handle your Jiggly-Puffs.

Posted by: JacobGRocks
Yeah, i know who that crasher is (XD frosty XD/rainman 116). He posted on my vids once and made his own server.
Also, R3sisted, did you get the Anti-Crash? From Kiwidoggie? It works better than the moose one. Which means lessof this.

EDIT: Here is another video the crasher, but made by him (dumb move)

Lol I looked @ the comments on one of his videos and he said that he's 13. what a sad bastard.

  • 12.30.2009 3:31 PM PDT

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I thought about trying Halo 2 Vista, but not anymore.

  • 12.30.2009 4:35 PM PDT

Posted by: Nessy

The bungie.net community is the halo PC community that is renowned for being unbelieveably sucky.

Posted by: ChrisN1357
Posted by: JacobGRocks
Yeah, i know who that crasher is (XD frosty XD/rainman 116). He posted on my vids once and made his own server.
Also, R3sisted, did you get the Anti-Crash? From Kiwidoggie? It works better than the moose one. Which means lessof this.

EDIT: Here is another video the crasher, but made by him (dumb move)

Lol I looked @ the comments on one of his videos and he said that he's 13. what a sad bastard.




LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOOOLOLOLOLOLOLOLlul

Biggest piece of crap game ever. You rock Bungie.

  • 12.30.2009 9:55 PM PDT
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Posted by: Frnksnbns
Posted by: n357
Posted by: Frnksnbns
Screw H2v.

Posted by: n357
couldn't have said it better myself!

Choo choo!
All aboard!aye! captain!


You Called?

Also, Anything that I could contribute to this thread has generally already been said more or less.

[Post quoting fail]

[Edited on 12.31.2009 2:53 AM PST]

  • 12.31.2009 2:48 AM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

Let me guess how they do it:
1. Cheat engine
2. Crash
3. People freak out
4. Moose bans everyone, causes drama
5. ????
6. PROFIT!!!!1

And since it is buggy and has no exploit protection, people go on multiplayer and cheat.

  • 12.31.2009 7:36 AM PDT
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Posted by: JacobGRocks
Let me guess how they do it:
1. Cheat engine
2. Crash
3. People freak out
4. Moose bans everyone, causes drama
5. ????
6. PROFIT!!!!1

And since it is buggy and has no exploit protection, people go on multiplayer and cheat.
Moose is just a dumb ol'Fool.

  • 01.09.2010 3:29 AM PDT

:3 I will die. :[

Haha,agreed.

  • 01.09.2010 6:17 PM PDT

Grenades are like RAM, you can never have too much

im sorry but i have to bump this, this cant be buryed with the other crap this needs to be brought to attention :\

  • 01.21.2010 6:01 PM PDT
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Posted by: Itz Gunmonkey77
wtf a game that can't render text very well, WHAT THE F**K.


Imagine if Halo PC had problems displaying text.

Oh, hold on...

  • 01.21.2010 8:25 PM PDT
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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

Posted by: Btcc22
Imagine if Halo PC had problems displaying text.

Oh, hold on...

I haz no porblem dunno wut ur talkin bout

HAY WTF I ALT-TABED AND NOW MY TEXT DUN WORK RITE

  • 01.21.2010 10:19 PM PDT

Posted by: Nessy

The bungie.net community is the halo PC community that is renowned for being unbelieveably sucky.

this thread kicks arse

Shame on all people/entities involved in H2v. Shame.

  • 01.22.2010 11:25 AM PDT
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Yes, I am a hypocrite, and I'm sorry. I really do mean well, but I'm not running on all cylinders.

Everytime someone buys a copy of Halo 2 Vista, a puppy dies.

Running Halo in windowed mode solves the text lag problem.. for me, anyway. But how fun is playing in a little window?

I'm currenly running CE on Slackware GNU/Linux with Wine. Works great, no Windows required. Only problem? Only decent input is a controller. :|

Also, I spent over a week on the phone with MS support. I know them all by name now. I talked to the floor manager after getting po'd and he assured me he'd do his best to get my H2V problem resolved. Upon callback, the guy I talked to said the server list issue "might" be resolved in a few weeks. Regarding the crappy mouse control, he told me to update my drivers. I said thanks anyway and hung up. I should call back and let them know they're bastards, just in case it's not obvious to them.

[Edited on 01.22.2010 1:06 PM PST]

  • 01.22.2010 1:05 PM PDT

Grenades are like RAM, you can never have too much

wait, your actualy doing something about this? Your awesome bro. the server prblem isnt my big thing its the horrible lag and general problems that are not in the xbox version

  • 01.22.2010 11:20 PM PDT
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Yes, I am a hypocrite, and I'm sorry. I really do mean well, but I'm not running on all cylinders.

Everytime someone buys a copy of Halo 2 Vista, a puppy dies.

They really messed up the Windows version. I can keep pestering Microsoft, but they say more people have to complain before they'll consider doing something. Well, most do. Some MS support reps say it's a "known issue", but the story changes every time.

I wish Bungie would step in and make this right.

[Edited on 01.23.2010 12:36 AM PST]

  • 01.23.2010 12:35 AM PDT
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Posted by: n357
They really messed up the Windows version. I can keep pestering Microsoft, but they say more people have to complain before they'll consider doing something. Well, most do. Some MS support reps say it's a "known issue", but the story changes every time.

I wish Bungie would step in and make this right.
Bungie suck at making PC games.

make a story up, and have alot of followers,
like
"My computer has been hacked, and all my personal details were stolenz, I phoned my ISP, and they said the attacks originated from bla.bla.bla.bla:3074, which according to my records mean, he has exploited a flaw in h2v that allows some bull-blam!- to happen where he gains system autority over my computer remotely." lol.

fake story 2.
This h2 dedicated server, which has no name, was hosting a custom map, i and many people joined it, and downloaded the custom map, but when downloading had finished...something something executed blah blah code, and fuxxors my comp (edited registries or something else as serious, lawl.
get alot of people on the same story, and even report to known news websites etc.

[Edited on 01.23.2010 2:29 AM PST]

  • 01.23.2010 2:22 AM PDT

Grenades are like RAM, you can never have too much

first of all, theres no reason to lie, when there is so many problems to be truthfull about.

and fake story 2 can happen, someone did that before (im pretty sure i know how but...well you people and such)

second reporting bul-blam!- problems like that will only get halo2 taken down not fixed

[Edited on 01.23.2010 8:05 AM PST]

  • 01.23.2010 8:04 AM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

Heres a better story, and this is true:
"I was playing H2V and the server browser crashes. Now i cant play."
Its old but true.
Besides, dont make up fake stories, that is just bad.

Also, ms support is crap, they blamed halo 2 Xbox (yes, h2xbox) going down on THE USERS INTERNET!!!! They said it was a weak connection "yeah right" and they said the connection somehow "got weaker".

[Edited on 01.23.2010 9:11 AM PST]

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Posted by: JacobGRocks
Heres a better story, and this is true:
"I was playing H2V and the server browser crashes. Now i cant play."
Its old but true.
Besides, dont make up fake stories, that is just bad.

Also, ms support is crap, they blamed halo 2 Xbox (yes, h2xbox) going down on THE USERS INTERNET!!!! They said it was a weak connection "yeah right" and they said the connection somehow "got weaker".
best story ever, but then M$ would send one user, to confirm it.

  • 01.24.2010 3:09 AM PDT

Grenades are like RAM, you can never have too much

So, what exacly is the ms support Phone number that i would call to get a hold of these -blam!-s, im sure if we get enough people we could get SOME of this -blam!- fixed

  • 01.25.2010 8:58 PM PDT
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Yes, I am a hypocrite, and I'm sorry. I really do mean well, but I'm not running on all cylinders.

Everytime someone buys a copy of Halo 2 Vista, a puppy dies.

1-800-MICROSOFT

Last guy I talked to says they know about the server problem. They just aren't fixing it.

  • 01.25.2010 9:45 PM PDT

Would a lawsuit stand if they were getting sued for supplying something that doesn't work? Basically false advertisement? After all someone got Mc-BLAM!- for not putting a warning label on their coffee cups.... Maybe we could find some way to get MS...

Main point(I guess) They say we can play online.
But, when we get on, we are unable to do so.

I'm sure we could figure something out!

-Mam

  • 01.25.2010 11:47 PM PDT
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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

They could just argue that they're doing a public service by keeping the servers down. It's as true a statement as any. ;)

  • 01.26.2010 12:19 AM PDT
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Yes, I am a hypocrite, and I'm sorry. I really do mean well, but I'm not running on all cylinders.

Everytime someone buys a copy of Halo 2 Vista, a puppy dies.

LIMITED WARRANTY

A. LIMITED WARRANTY. If you follow the instructions, the software will perform substantially as described in the Microsoft materials that you receive in or with the software.

From the EULA that comes with the game. I suppose the best you could expect is a refund. Also, it sounds like the MS testers were using crappy hardware that mitigated some of the bugs. However, the server browser not working is a "known issue" and is "being worked on". I wonder for how long?

  • 01.26.2010 3:09 AM PDT