Fix the damned servers. Mexican players are always prioritized
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This specific issue is why ‘always online’ games really bug me. I’d love to just jump in and finish up Hivebusters, but I wouldn’t get any credit for beating any of the levels, nor any of the character skin unlocks, and I’d just have to go back and do it all over again. Take me back to the days when I could jump into campaign, offline, and my profile xp , unlocks, achievements would carry across all modes, regardless of being connected to the internet
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So all the game modes say locked again just like it did yesterday for me. I’ve restarted my game 3 times and it still says the same thing. Is this happening to anyone else ?
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Yep same crap mate.
Now the quick play is unlocked but now it switched to ranked being locked? Tf
Best to just wait. Like yesterday it’s gonna get fixed soon.
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kept reloading the game, now I can see my level and can see the active tour objectives. Did this last night as well.
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Yep getting disconnected, Total mess since yesterday. Please fix finally on track to reach GEN.
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Should re name the dlc gears busters instead!!
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Still borked? Just played another game for 3 hrs and was planning to come back and try to knock out some dailies. Was expecting it to be fixed by now.
Kind of makes me glad that I’ve reached General just a few days ago.
But making it to General or not; having constant disconnections, unstable servers, characters & Horde/Escape cards not properly loading are problems that are highly unacceptable.
Especially when we’re more than a year into this game’s lifespan.
Things seem to be working for me now. No official word from TC though.
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I can’t join any online game modes because I keep getting “removed from game”. I tried hosting public and private games by myself and still got the problem. I get removed as soon as I see the map in game.
I tried playing with my brother and he has no problems playing online and we are also playing on the same internet. I just don’t understand how my brother can successfully join online games and I can’t.
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I completed a game of Jingle juvies now
Quickplay is not unlocked either because you can’t play any game mode
As someone who works in the cloud industry I understand why this is probably a perfect storm of issues that’s hard to fix, but if they’re working on it they’re doing a terrible job of showing it.
My speculation: They didn’t expect the DLC to take off. It’s one of the best graphics experiences on the Series X right now and the characters are so much better than the main campaign. Review sites / reddit are drooling over it. Thanks to Game Pass it’s easy for people to jump in, and then old players probably realize that OP5 makes PvE actually fun and try to stick around for Gearsmas.
TC probably has some scaling bug (software or under-provisioning) in their metadata service that’s causing it to brown out but not completely crash. That’s usually what would cause this kind of inconsistent behavior. Maybe they accidentally introduced it with the recent title update (these things happen).
Since the actual hosting servers are fine, people are getting just enough data to play games until it has to load something else and then boom you get kicked out. All the Xboxes and angry players are constantly trying to refresh to fix themselves, which ironically would just make everything even worse.
I’m pretty surprised that Microsoft doesn’t step in since at some point it looks pretty bad for Xbox. Maybe they’re trying to help but since they don’t actually own the code (they just provide the servers) they can’t do much?
At any rate, it’s disappointing since I actually got off work early for once and was looking forward to playing. Give them a break though - literally. Just turn off your Xbox or play something else. It’s the best thing you can do to help at this point.
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How does turning your Xbox off or playing something else help though? It helps the other players who stay and then get to play, but I don’t see how it actually helps.
Microsoft needs to really step up and do something. Soon.
I had this yesterday afternoon on the map Gridlock,(Wave 1)just finished ,and exactly what u had on your screen my friend,truthfully I’m slowing down on this game,sadly getting very close to uninstall.I’m on the Xbox one console.
Ask yourself this, whoever you’re maintaining infra for - would an outtage of 48 hours plus be acceptable?
We dont know if TC has application issues or if its infra related, but we do know that there is a consistent pattern, they roll out updates and everything breaks.
I dont know if its because of contracts or what, but this level of consistent badness would likely see people losing jobs at my place of employment.
If I had to guess, this could be 100% wrong, but there are a few UI clues that leads me to believe their backend is maybe a microservice architecture - I nice benefit to that is the ability to fix services individually without needing to bring everything down. The problem is, they dont appear to be in a hurry to do so. Several people have already started leaving for holiday break after all.
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