So I notice in the campaign level "regret" there's this weird audio issue where when cortina speaks while in game, it's very low. And when other JOCs talk as well. Is this a known issue? I'm currently re downloading the game to see if it fixes it. I am running the game off of a external hard drive, but that shouldn't matter right?

Hm, I don't remember running into that, and I just played through it a couple weeks ago. Not sure why it'd be happening. Can you turn subtitles on and perhaps just get through the level that way?

Hopefully reinstalling fixes it.

I think the audio balancing in that whole package is kinda jacked. I get the same thing in the halo 1 campaign, The music is super loud compared to the voices.

I wondered if it was something to do with the usb cable or something, but halo 1s audio seems fine. And other games

I just played through the campaign myself and yeah, those voice sure drown out a lot. Sure would've been nice from them to add subtitles in-game as well.

My Xbox kinda started bugging out too. When I turned it back on from instant on mode the dashboard started doing this graphics glitch thing and the halo main menu music kept playing. Hopefully this was a isolated issue and my console isn't already breaking.

UPDATE: only halo is doing that still playing music even though I'm in the dashboard. Sunset overdrive works properly. Is it that this game is just fucked?

I wish I could say, because while entirely possible, it must have not been a huge issue if I can't remember, or it's possible I just hadn't had the same issue. Are you using a headset? I only use the home theater system, so it could be the headset, or maybe you just have a bad case in which doesn't affect every copy. Sorry to hear about the issue. For me, all the games sound great. The only real issue is that in Halo 4, the game sometimes doesn't load your save and instead freezes then quits to the dashboard, so you have to start the mission all over again. That doesn't really matter now though since I finished them all on Legendary and so I've done what I wanted to.

@ntm: no, just using audio through my TV. It's not just because it's on a external either, I moved it onto the internal storage and had the same issues.

I'm having a similar issue in halo 3. Gun sounds are quite low.