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Data Caps’ Worst Nightmare: Halo Infinite bug causes over 1GB of network traffic every two matches [Update: Fixed]
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This might explain why the disc drive kept spinning up after my matches. I'm digital, but the drive normally like to jump when a download starts. Or coincidence.
This game is the poster child for the necessity of just letting franchises reach their natural end of life. I don't doubt that there's a huge pool of talent at 343, and I actually think Infinite has a really solid skeleton of a game in there (the gunplay, equipment, map design). But there's only so much you can pay highly talented engineers, designers etc. to work for a company whose only purpose is and will ever be making Halo. I expect many people would take even slight pay cuts to take jobs at studios where the next 10 years of work aren't basically already set in stone.
I don't have a data cap, but it sounds like if I play Halo over the weekend, I just might manage to convince my ISP to implement one.
This is the only damn shooter I enjoy, and I gotta tell ya, it's like rooting for a pig at the greyhound races
It feels like a fan game alright. But not one that is good lol
I want to like it so bad because the gunplay is so good. It hurts.
It's a ton of fun to me to just drive around in a Ghost in BTB, running over people on Breaker, laughing all the way, until I accidentally fly into that melting beam. I enjoy it. A lot. And other stuff. I love crouching around and headshotting people when they grab my flag. Or firing off a SPANKR and hearing my ridiculous AI get all hot and bothered. It's all so extra, it's good shit.
But 343...
...
...is 343...
This news doesn't surprise me at all.
The main menu is where I had most of the problems back when I still played this game. Shit would randomly stop loading, my profile would randomly blank itself out and other times i'd get completely random profile cosmetics on my account. Shit is jank as fuck lol.
The main menu is where I had most of the problems back when I still played this game. Shit would randomly stop loading, my profile would randomly blank itself out and other times i'd get completely random profile cosmetics on my account. Shit is jank as fuck lol.
The gift that keeps on giving, at least it was free on GamePass.
Post of the day
pngs, not jpgs, which is why they're so big -- PNG is a lossless format, and high quality ones can take up a lot of space.
But yeah, this is a huge oversight. You should never be needlessly constantly fetching the same data over and over again, especially something as relatively large as images.
I imagine the bandwidth used in a multiplayer game is very similar. This is a bug with redownloading a banner image over and over, as fast as your connection will allow.
Are they recording the entire match from every player at 720p?
This is the only reason that could explain
This is the only reason that could explain
I had to convince a family member to go unlimited because they were getting charged for going over their cap.
Covid really fucked up some folks home network.
You're saying they are similar as in over a GB or similar if they fix this banner bug, aka under ?
Tech debt.
But let's not single out 343,
Warzone devs, Ubisoft, Dice, and a lot developers not on Unreal Engine have been struggling since the start of the pandemic.
But let's not single out 343,
Warzone devs, Ubisoft, Dice, and a lot developers not on Unreal Engine have been struggling since the start of the pandemic.
When the banner bug is fixed, it should be similar. Says 11MB of traffic in a typical game.
Gears 5 used "live" content as well (not sure what else to call it, Unity's internal name for it as Addressables but not everyone's going to instantly understand that) which was easily seen when the servers were tanking towards launch and in the beta with how various images or icons just didn't display and even animations were screwed. Makes sense from a developer's standpoint since you can update things much easier and faster without having to go through certification processes for everything, but when done wrong it can lead to bugs with practically the entire menu getting messed up depending on just how much of it is driven by remotely updated content.
When it works, it works great. When it doesn't, things go very wrong.
When it works, it works great. When it doesn't, things go very wrong.
Here you go 343, this might help you in future:
https://tinypng.com/
300mb for a banner image... 🤦
Edit: oh wait, tinypng has a 5mb individual file size limit, so they couldn't even use it with the banner image as-is. Smh
https://tinypng.com/
300mb for a banner image... 🤦
Edit: oh wait, tinypng has a 5mb individual file size limit, so they couldn't even use it with the banner image as-is. Smh
Of course! There's nothing wrong about showing live images in your live service game.
But I mean, caches exist since forever, 343 doesn't need to reinvent the wheel here.
This game needs a complete overhaul. Lol
I don't have data caps, but I do monitor traffic on my end. After I read that reddit post I went back and checked my usage and boy does it spike when I play Infinite.
I'm guessing that's why the menu takes 50 years to load?
I don't have data caps, but I do monitor traffic on my end. After I read that reddit post I went back and checked my usage and boy does it spike when I play Infinite.
I'm guessing that's why the menu takes 50 years to load?
if the game downloads all that after matches when you queue to play another and shows the "other players joining the match" message that would make sense as to why it takes so long lmao
"Spartans, we've heard your reports of increased data use in certain scenarios loud and clear. We're currently investing the cause of this issue and will have more to share in the coming months. In the meantime, our recommendation is to disconnect your device from the internet as soon as you've completed a match of multiplayer. Look forward to a fix at some point in Q3 2023. 👊"
Wouldn't this been a concern day 1? Where players would've noticed something with their data caps?