As someone who’s Xbox 360 has retired and in need of repairs I only have access to the master crafted edition. Now to be fair I haven’t touched it in a couple months cause of the gamepass price spike but discovered this morning it got downgraded to the basic pass so I redownloaded it and hopped on only to find every single vs mode is empty, 0 games across the board. Managed to find a lone iron hand marine killing orks in exterminatus mode and we got an ultramarine to join us but then when we reached round 6 the servers crashed and all three of us split up. I check their Xbox profiles only to see they both moved on to different games. I’m disappointed because I loved this game as a kid but only have access to the lesser version of the “remaster” and I’m surprised no one is playing it. With how big space marine 2 is you’d think there would be a small community that trickled down to space marine 1, I was one of them because here’s a hot take: despite my in depth post on the MP of SM2, the MP of sm1 is way more fleshed out, it has two more game modes but only three classes (tactical, assault, heavy). There’s more to do at the very least. It’s an older game and there’s a stigma that older games are boring and old, but that’s entirely unfounded with this game. Anyways I’m sad cause my rose tinted glasses are shattered. I’m sure it’s cause the game launched in a bad state and was purely dedicated to a niche part of the fanbase. I love my first born marines and the assault class in SM1 is what I wish assault was in SM2 

But I do have a question, is there is a community on the original versions? If so I’ll fix my old 360 up to fix my SM1 itch. If there’s a community for the master crafted edition I’d like to know. I found one guy making a group for Thursday afternoon. 

SM2 NEEDS A CAPTURE TH FLAG MODE PLEASE GAMES WORKSHOP/SABER/FOCUS GIVE US A CTF MODE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why is space marine MCE dead?