The top of the Steam news page says the event is live right now, but I don't see any playlist in any category.
We discovered a bit of a mistake there in terms of the 'start time' for the Steam event. Our weekly playlists updates usually go out around 10AM PT. Winter Contingecy is now live in the game (you'll find it in the Social Games match composer). We'll look at altering the Steam event info to better align with our title update timing.
This is very nice, but we really need community-run server browser, much like what is in eldewrito.
Custom Game Browser... keeping the faith alive since 2018. I 'member. (jokes aside, it's still on the list for the team)
Are you playing w/ a controller or M+KB? There have been some lingering reports from M+KB players who feel there's some input latency going on. The team is continuing to investigate and haven't found any glaring issues but we do know that enabling uncapped frame rate can potentially have an impact on input and many players found that disabling external programs running the background helped. If you continue to experience this issue, please visit support.halowaypoint.com and file a ticket - it helps the team as they investigate causes and is helpful in determining the overall scope/volume of players having this problem.
Read moreI had the original aluminum bottle of Mountain Dew Game Fuel for Halo 3 for 10 years.
still got my commemorative edition (a few of us on the team who helped with the partnership got one). Thinking of cracking it open once H3 comes to MCC PC... :)
(I also have a few unopened Dortios bags in a storage box somewhere....)
The team is currently in the process of running a new round of queries as a follow-up to the last wave of bans. This will catch new offenders and issue more severe second strikes to people who received smaller bans last time and immediately resumed this behavior (the most egregious offenders from the last round should still be banned unless they made new accounts - which many probably did).
We have automatic tools that are detecting this behavior. Regardless of whether it's the in-game theater or GameDVR it's just not super practical for people to dig through and watch hundreds/thousands of clips for video evidence. The team is on this though and hopefully with the latest round of bans and the looming threat of more serious enforcement actions - along with DoubleXP for legit players - we'll see this issue die down.
In general, behavior that is intended to bypass game systems, rules, and/or creates a negative experience for other unwilling players is not behavior we condone in the game. Collaborating to trade kills is much harder to track and isn't something we're pursuing as aggressively as the rampant AFK XP farming epidemic we've seen. Often times it's a mutually agreed upon thing with no real 'victims.' In many cases, the bannable part of 'sword-lining' comes when someone declines to opt-in and then is barraged with threats, insults and offensive language (voice and/or text) and/or repeatedly betrayed and griefed, which then violates the code of conduct.
Read moreFrom the announcement:
Complete (without quitting) 10 matchmaking (PvP and/or Firefight) matches on snowy maps.
Sword Base (Halo: Reach)
Solitary (Halo: Reach)
Glacier (Halo: Reach)
Or, beat the par score on any two snowy campaign missions.
ONI Sword Base (Halo: Reach)
The Package (Halo: Reach)
If you have MCC on Xbox then you have more games than just Reach which means there are more options included (for both Campaign and MP maps). This Message was specifically for PC, which currently only has Reach.
It is, maybe they updated it since you looked at it
It's included but was inadvertantly left out of the initial messaging.
I just completed both par scores for ONI Sword Base and The Package and did not receive the nameplate. Is it delayed?
It's a manual grant that someone on the team has to do. I think there's a chance they will do one or two grants over the holiday break (I'm hearing maybe a first grant tomorrow, maybe another next Friday, etc.) but offiically, at a minimum, players can expect to get the nameplate post Jan. 1 when folks are back at work from the break.
Copypaste for people currently behind the fun filter:
"'Tis the Season to bundle up in ugly sweaters, gather around a fire, and keep warm while playing Halo. To claim your very own Ugly Sweater nameplate, complete matches on wintry wonderlands between now and January 5, 2020. Meeting one of the following requirements will earn you the nameplate in the New Year!
Complete (without quitting) 10 matchmaking (PvP and/or Firefight) matches on snowy maps.
- Sword Base (Halo: Reach)
- Solitary (Halo: Reach)
- Glacier (Halo: Reach)
Or, beat the par score on any two snowy campaign missions.
- ONI Sword Base (Halo: Reach)
- The Package (Halo: Reach)
We can’t wait to see Spartans all warm and cozy. As always, we will see you online.
Before you go, please note that action is being taken on players who are creating a negative experience for others, attempting to exploit the progression system, or griefing teammates and idling in excess. Avoid the banhammer by heading to the Halo Support site for more info: https://aka.ms/mccbanrules"
Just a note that this message was specific to PC - which currently only has Halo: Reach. MCC players on Xbox One can also earn the nameplate via the same criteria on snowy MP and Campaign maps from other Halo titles in the collection.
I agree, but banning the people who haven't done anything wrong isn't the right way to go either.
People who get banned always say that. Thus far every single person who has reached out to question a ban has in fact been shown to have deserved it. The criteria was actually pretty forgiving just to be extra careful false-positives weren't an issue.
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Status is that it's in progress. It's unfortunately a complex issue that is, thankfully, on track to being resolved, but takes time. We know it's one of the biggest areas of frustration for players and the team is tackling as quickly as possible. We'll try and dig into more of the technical details and background after the break.
halo reach has inverse flinch where being shot will draw your crosshair towards the opponent
this directly helps controller users and kept fucking up the aim of kbm who keep overcompensating when the game moves ur crosshair
hopefully this is actually fixed
Definitley a strange mechanic that was present in the OG Reach and something our internal Pro Team really honed in on during pre-release testing. Initial reports are positive, but we'd love to hear feedback from M+KB users on how this change feels.
I think so, yeah. I never even knew it existed until someone shared a video a few days ago.
Same here and this is legacy code from 2010. It became much more egregious and noticeable on M+KB I think. Our internal pro team brought this to light a few weeks back and the community at large seems to have just picked up on this earlier this week - just in time for this patch to address it. :)
Is it worse than OG Reach? OG Reach was notoriously bad and 343 mentioned that there wasn’t much they were going to do about it.
It's a pretty hard problem to solve given the underlying campaign networking architecture is very old. Re-doing all of that is a signficant undertaking (much more complex that the work that was done for MP, dedicated server support for Firefight, etc.). Not sure there's _nothing_ the team can do, they've heard the feedback and would like to find opportunities to improve, but real talk there's no magic solution and anything would be a massive reworking of the entire netcode for a 9 year old game.
https://m.imgur.com/gallery/qOn3Eh1 Is this considered acceptable behaviour or should I report? ;)
thanks for flagging this.
Not currently, no. We know there's some demand for splitscreen support on PC but it's currently out of scope. The team would like to look into this more down the road but it's unknown if it will be possible (5 more PC games to ship next year plus a growing list of fixes and improvements to be made for Reach).
We don't truly have the capacity to investigate and act on every single report like this. HOWEVER - we know this is an issue, we are datamining and tracking this activity, and we know who these players are. The team is waiting on some services work/updates to occur behind the scenes (as quickly as possible) and then we will start addressing these players w/ bans/XP removal/unlock removal, etc.. (yes, the egregious offenders will likely lose the XP and unlocks they've acquired by cheating the system in addition to getting banned)
Yeah why is grifball so fucked? Each match either someone leaves immediately or just jumps/moves foward without actually playing. Do the devs know about this?
Indeed. Just doing a little work with the services team to setup some tools and then it's banhammer time. These folks are likely losing the XP and unlocks they earned in addition to getting banned.