Halo 3 Infection spreads slower in pairs

by Dustin Burg { Oct 31st 2007 at 3:00PM }

It's looking like our plans of group Halo 3 Infection will have to be put on hold for a bit, because there's something spooky going on.

According to Luke over at Bungie.net (and our own personal experiences) the Halloween exclusive Infection matchmaking playlist isn't playing nice when you're in a party. More specifically, going into matchmaking alone produces speedy results, but when you party up with a buddy or two then you'll have to wait a while ... a long while. A group of us sat in matchmaking for more than five minutes without getting paired up into a game before we quit and went our separate ways. Team Bungie is looking into the group slowness and we'll be sure to update you once we get an update from Bungie. Going solo produces quick Infection fun, but we're all about group zombie killing ... fix it Bungie, stat!

Tags: bungie, bungie-studios, halloween, halo3, infection

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Bravo6 @ Oct 31st 2007 3:08PM

Thanks for the head's up!

polar @ Oct 31st 2007 3:27PM

OH please! I just emailed a few guys about playing tonight when we're off work. Hope it's running smooth by then.

Please and Thanks Bungie!

UNSCleric @ Oct 31st 2007 3:28PM

Extend the playlist.

Malekith @ Oct 31st 2007 3:54PM

Jeez, you guys should be lucky you dont live in Australia on a 1.5mb connection, sometimes it takes like 30mins to find a match =(. And your complaining about 5mins?

Evan @ Oct 31st 2007 3:54PM

I really don't think this is exclusive to this playlist. It is possible it is worse in this playlist but I have had similar problems in other playlists when in a party.

Insomnious @ Oct 31st 2007 4:09PM

Ach, you're not missing much. The playlist gets boring pretty quick, and no-one really uses any tactics so the games are over in 5 minutes. Got the spartan laser achievment though!

WildCard @ Oct 31st 2007 4:20PM

A little off topic but whatever.

Recently I was playing infection in the pit and some guy figured out a way to hide under the staircase. I ended up figuring out how and tried it out myself. It was a fairly good way to kill a lot of people, but is kinda cheap.

So would you consider it cheating even though Bungie put it in the game?

Please respond.

Grant @ Oct 31st 2007 4:30PM

"So would you consider it cheating even though Bungie put it in the game?"

It's considered glitching, and that is considered cheating by most, usually a patch comes out to fix such things.

As for the matchmaking problems, me and a friend set there for nearly 10 minutes without getting into a game of infection and we just gave up and played something else.
oddly enough, i have noticed that you ONLY play with people of the same level, and i think that might have been part of the problem since me and my friend were different levels.

Ben @ Oct 31st 2007 4:43PM

A friend and I were planning on playing tonight. I'm a higher level than he is. I hope they have this sorted out by then!

Grant @ Oct 31st 2007 4:55PM

A little clarification to what i said before, We sat there for 10 minutes and couldn't find a game of infection, then went to team doubles and connected immediately, then played BTB afterwards and connected immediately too. It's definitely the playlist.

I don't know about anyone else, but i LOVE this playlist, i think EVERYONE should push to see if we can get this sort of thing permanently implimented into matchmaking.

Lianne @ Oct 31st 2007 5:02PM

I played in a party with one other person while on my lunch break. He was level 4 and I was 3, and it took no more than two minutes to find a game.

Chukapakrtkara @ Oct 31st 2007 6:10PM

"Going solo produces quick Infection fun"

Didn't work for me. I wanted about 10 minutes and it found like 6 players max, but u need 8 minimum. So yeah, no infection fun for me. :O I'll go and try again. :S -> I hope they will make it a lil' longer and fix it.

DemonGSides @ Oct 31st 2007 5:21PM

Difference between a 3 and a 4 is negligible, while a 3 and a 10 is totally different skills.

Brandon @ Oct 31st 2007 7:10PM

I hate the guys that just commit suicide over and over (so they don't end up infected) to end up as the last man standing, it does nothing but make everyone else in the game mad at you...

dylan @ Oct 31st 2007 8:15PM

I had a party of four and we sat for over 15 minutes with nothing happening, finally gave up and played slayer... just tried it again for about 8 minutes with a group of two finally gave up... multiplayer halo is only fun for me when I can play with my friends, so I vote this to be no good.

Neight @ Oct 31st 2007 9:33PM

I had a party of 3 set to play and in an hour we managed to play 2 games...it was pretty ridiculous.

It's unfortunate because it is a really good game type. It's a whole lot of fun when one friend is a human and the other 2 are zombies, so they screen cheat to see where he's hiding.....

Sunny @ Oct 31st 2007 10:04PM

It would be awesome if this led to the playlist being around for like a week longer than planned. :) Or at least through the weekend.

Boff @ Nov 1st 2007 5:18AM

I was HUGELY disappointed with the party problems. It really spoiled things for me. I ended up playing on my own until I was the same level as my mate. We had a bit more success when we were both Lvl 4's and then partied up but after a couple of games he went up to 5 and we had the same problem all over again.

The main thing I was looking forward to was having a game with a few mates.

Bravo6 @ Nov 1st 2007 10:59AM

Did it ever start working? I couldn't get it to work with a party of 2 at about 6 CST. I did however find out I'm really bad with both the shotgun AND the plasma sword.

Hey #7, somebody did that in an infection game lastnight, was the last man standing of course and as people kept trying to get under the stairs, he racked up about a dozen kills, lol, punkazz

Etchasketchist @ Nov 1st 2007 1:52PM

Well that was the lamest holiday fun fest ever. What a stupid gametype. I tried it twice, every time, people were just confused and complaining the whole time. And that shit ain't scary. Now, if they could do it where you turned into a fucking Flood, then we can talk. But this "event" was mega-lamez0r.