- mans1ay3r
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My case seems to not be as bad as others because I can play but I get freezing issues. The freezes always occur in the same spots when playing and fortunately, I was able to bypass all of them in strange in-game ways. Continue reading if you're only having freezing issues in-game, if you can't play at all, this unfortunately wont help.
I first realize the problem when trying to run up a hill and fight some hunters. Every time the hunters noticed me as I am coming up the hill, right before any of them fire, freeze. Every time. I'll try not to spoil anything but the objective wasnt necessarily to kill the hunters, it was to destroy something they were protecting. I drove around back, put my warthog next to the shortest part of a cliff, jumped on it from the warthog and was able to get to the location and destroy the target without the hunters even being aware of me. I was ecstatic because now I could continue playing.
After I beat the mission, I loaded it again at Rally Point B which starts you in front of the destroyed objective. I ran up the hill where it was previously freezing, no issues.
When I continued playing, I realized I'd be screwed if it froze in a corridor. And guess what, few missions go by, and it does. There was no other way to get through. It froze about 10x with me trying to figure out how to get through. I was about to try and go through again, but went online to forums to rant (ha) but I didn't pause the game so I went idle. Then I notice it was freezing exactly where a objective marker ends. The one that comes up when you're idle and the game thinks you're lost, and it says you are # distance away from where you need to go. As you get closer it ticks down 100m, 50m, 20m etc.. its around the 0m area when it disappeared and the game froze. So what do I do? I turned around, and walked through it, backwards. It worked. I can't explain why, but it worked.
First time I did this, I died right after I passed the "freeze zone." But then it froze on my dead body. So I restarted, walked backwards, it froze. Restarted, walked backwards, it worked. I got through. Crazy, I know.
Now of course this will only help those that can actually play. But I'm not sure if the "freeze zones" occurs in the same areas for all of us so these locations specifically were:
Mission: Tip of the Spear (After Rally Point Alpha)
The hill leading up the the second Anti Aircraft gun
Mission: Exodus (near beginning)
When you enter the dark building with suicide grunts and its in the corridor with three grunts shortly after seeing the two Armor Lockups.
I was playing on normal difficulty, original launch Xbox 360, and its installed to HDD. Hopes this can help anyone that is having freezing issues similar to mine.