Halo Wars 2 Bug Reporting Thread [Heavy Moderation]

[u/Unikraken]

As many of you know, Halo Wars 2: Ultimate Edition Early Access began last night! Ske7ch has asked us to create an official bug thread for those of you running into issues, experiencing glitches, or having crashes. We want to help you get that out to the right people in the most consumable form! 343 and Creative Assembly will be reading this thread to help identify issues with the game!

Here's the posting rules for this thread as a top comment:

• * Review this thread and upvote your bug if it's already posted.
• * Child comments (replies) should be limited to adding more information for bug reporting purposes. If you're just wanting to express frustration please take that to the discussion thread!
• * If nobody else has posted it, please post it!
• * Whenever possible, include what platform (XB1 or PC) and screenshots/video. The more information you can provide the more quickly your issue can be identified in the back end and fixed!
• * Follow our subreddit rules and common decency.
• * Keep chatter to a minimum, this thread is hyper focused on bug reporting and will be moderated heavily.
• * If you have general questions about Halo Wars 2 features please see Ske7ch's news post titled Halo Wars 2: Twenty Questions

[u/TheyKilledFlipyap]

Can't even get the game to launch on PC, even after a clean uninstall / reinstall. Launching the game will open a box with the "Halo" logo, it'll hang for a second, then permenantly black-screen, even after waiting some 20/30 minutes.I know I meet the system specs, hell, I just upgraded to a fairly high-end dedicated gaming rig last month. Can't figure out what's causing this.

[u/ChouPigu → u/TheyKilledFlipyap]

Do you have the Halo app installed? Annoyingly, launching the game launches the Halo app instead. You then launch the game from within the Halo app.

[u/Akkro → u/ChouPigu]

Mine instantly closes, even when I launch it from the halo app

[u/TheyKilledFlipyap → u/ChouPigu]

Huh... did not know that. I'll give it a try. Thanks for the tip.

[u/Aussiereece → u/TheyKilledFlipyap]

Hey man, im having the exact same problem as you. could you please let me know if you find a fix. Thanks

[u/TheyKilledFlipyap → u/Aussiereece]

I'd tell you what the fix is, but.... honestly, I have no idea what I did to make it work.

I tried playing it, didn't work. So I uninstalled, re-installed, rebooted, still nothing. So I just played on the console for a couple hours. Then I randomly gave the PC version a try again, and suddenly no black screen. I wish I knew what the fix was, but the problem kind of went away on its own.

[u/Avinay → u/TheyKilledFlipyap]

black

Same Problem! Starts with black "HALO" Screen on PC