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Subject: Negative EXP?

Ok, so I've just started playing Halo 3 (finished reach last week, played all games in order... quite fun :), I highly recommend it).

Anyway, i'm an achivement hunter so I've been playing Halo 3 MP to get some achivements, but I've somehow got a negative amount of EXP, despite the fact I've played several games through.

I have noticed a lot that when the games come to an end and the final score comes up, that we usually end up with a "looking for host" thing before being bounced back to the main matchmaking screen. I've only ever actually quit 1 game so far (5 on 1 was hardly fair when I was the 1). What's the go with this?

  • 10.07.2010 10:27 PM PDT

I believe your referring to the red negative in your service record.

It means you EITHER intentionally quit/left before the match officially ended OR you unintentionally disconnected from the match before the match officially ended. In which case that would be a network problem either with your home network setup (bad router, bad modem, wireless drop out, etc.) or a problem with your internet provider (normal to a small degree, beyond your control but if it happens frequently you need to have a talk with your ISP.

I myself have -12 last I checked because of my ISP, I've never left a game by my own doing. I doubt you'd find many people who've even played as little as 100 games, who truly never quit, that didn't have some negative exp. because it can & does happen for reasons that are beyond our control.

  • 10.08.2010 2:32 AM PDT

Thanks Lucifer, I've just kicked off playing MP again and I'm up to -5 penalties now... I've definitely not been ejected or prematurely left any games yet. I do recall one game dropping all the players back to the matchmaking lobby before the veto countdown dropped out, but that's it. Every game i've played and played through, yet i've scored more negative EXP. It's rather frustrating.

Oh well, I'll just chock it up to bad network coding and leave it at that... thankfully I only need an EXP of 70 to get the Spartan achivement.

  • 10.13.2010 6:34 AM PDT

Your welcome.

These are your NEG experience games. I looked through your game history & you only have 14 games played so it was easy to find.

Game 1 here
Game 2 here
Game 3 here
Game 4 here
Game 5 here

Nobody's saying you quit, etc. but what did happen is the system did not record you as having fully finished these games & therefore you have your explanation/reason.

PS: I'm honestly not trying to be a jerk by pointing this out but I've never hyperlinked in a forum before and this gave me a reason to try it out and to maybe let you know about a feature(your game history) that maybe you didn't know you could find on Bungie.

Take care.

  • 10.15.2010 8:42 PM PDT

Yea, I know, I've seen them. And only two of those games can i say I quit from (namely because my wireless access point dropped off) in the remaining 3 instances I clearly remember playing and finishing the game... not too well, but i definitely finished. Those were the games where, as i described. "Game over" the screen faded to black and the scoreboard just said "searching for new host" then bumped me back to the main matchmaking screen...

  • 10.15.2010 11:54 PM PDT