So I'm curious, are you guys still on track to release Reach by the end of the year? I do appreciate all the dev updates and stuff, but it doesn't really give a good indication of how much work you have left.
We've never given a release date or window yet other than "it's ready when it's ready." Things are going pretty good though, but these flights (and more importantly PC, since it's new) will inform a lot about the work ahead, remaining issues, etc..
FYI - We just doubled the size of the audience for this Xbox Halo: Reach MP flight. If you're a registered Halo Insider who opted in for Xbox flighting, please check your inbox (and spam folders) on the email account you signed-up with. More info HERE.
Welcome aboard! We need your help! If you can, please try and play Social Matchmaking tomorrow (10/5) between 5-9PM PT. We are trying to drive a large number of concurrent players to really stress our systems and services.
Hahah GGs! Not sure if it was this game or the one after, but I unfortunately crashed before we finished (I didn't quit).
Please share this in our official support site (or at least in the pinned Reach flight thread here - makes it much easier for the right folks to find this info)
The new batch has been sent! We've doubled the size of the flight audience.
Update HERE
A huge batch of new invites has gone out - but now I'm told they're processing ONE MORE BATCH so, there's still hope? #DeliverHope
No guarantees here obviously - we still have far more Halo Insiders opted-in than we can really accommodate. But, good news is that it sounds like we're adding upwards of 15K more people over the course of the day. Part of the selection criteria will be targeting eligible Insiders who have been active in H5/MCC over the past 90 days (in an attempt to get engaged players in who will actually play). Not sure of the exact cutoff criteria / definition of 'active'. Thus far we've seen somewhat disappointingly low engagement amongst the large initial group that was invited. We're looking to drive a big push for tomorrow's 5-9PM PT play session to really get a high concurrent player count and try and stress services more. If you get an invite (or already did), please plan to join us tomorrow evening if at all possible!
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thanks!
Will we be seeing centered crosshairs on the Xbox as an option?
it's been disucssed / on a list, but I dont believe it's been committed to for launch.
I haven't really experienced many issues with the flights besides a few bugs. Besides that. It's been running smoothly. It crashed once or twice. That's all the issues I had so far with game crashing bugs, there are two I noticed, I've been binge playing it, thank you 343 <3
if you haven't already, reporting those crashes via the support site would be super helpful!
I literally can’t get it to download the right build of insider.. still don’t have reach. I followed the instructions in the e mail to a T. I’ve hard reset the console 3 times. Any tips??
it's been an issue for some folks (myself included). I unenrolled/re-enrolled and power cycled by console multiple times last night and it finally worked. Hope yours eventually did, too
I felt the same issues on my end. I only played 3 or 4 matches last night but some things like melees felt a bit off
If you have clips/films and can report via the support site, that would be super helpful for the team. The more information and specifics, the better.
I'm enjoying the flight very much. Can I post videos on here that show bugs? It's hard for me to explain things.
it would be super duper helpful if you can also post those issues to the support site / file a ticket. (but we'll keep tabs here, too)
Yes, you will be allowed to stream/share content - but access to the build itself is reserved solely for the person/gamertag that enrolled. As soon as the build goes live (should be this afternoon) all selected participants will receive another email with the full instructions, play time schedule, rules of engagement, etc.. (and that info will also be shared in the Halo Insider forum on Waypoint)
Sorry, there's no way for you to pass on your invite to someone else. I do appreciate the gesture though of trying to share the love since you're unavailable. This flight will run for a full week, so maybe you'll be back in action before it concludes?
I check my halo email account just now and i got update from Halowaypoints Insider Program, but it for Halo 5 Guardians. What hell 343i..........
Is this a joke? Because i am not laughing. I sign up for Halo MCC not Halo 5 Guardians. So hold on does this mean Halo 5 Guardians need fix too, because i thought all the problem with Halo 5 Guardians over with? Anyway i trash the Halowaypoint message, because i don't about Halo 5 BS Edition.
EDIT: Oh, sorry, you must be referring to the heads up email about the xCloud public preview program? Don't sign up if you don't want to.
Is the nameplate on offer the same as last year's? Looks the same to me...
It is indeed the same as last year. Team is pretty tapped out with Reach these days so getting a new one wasn't in the cards this time.
I got an email saying that I've been enlisted, I don't see the flight in the Insider app.
That was a heads up email to give some prelminary instructions - most importantly to help make sure any old MCC Insider folks remove the old builds before the new one is posted. The new Reach MP flight build should be posted to the Xbox Insider HUB sometime this afternoon and participants will receive a new email to let them know when it's ready for action.
On XB1, multiplayer will be free and campaign/firefight will be paid DLC. On PC, it's all a separate piece you need to buy.
Bingo! Thanks for jumping in and helping share info! Reach campaign/firefight for MCC on Xbox will be a $9.99 premium add-on. For PC, it's just $9.99 for the whole game.