Halo 5: Guardians Beta Thread | Hot Red on Blue Action

Sean said:
Is there a reason for a bunch of people camping and crouching? I've been in several different games now where at least one person is crouched in place 99% of the game, even during firefights.

I assume they're just playing the game wrong but wanna know if I'm missing anything.
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Toggle crouch is on by default, so lots of people clench and get stuck crouching. Also, radar is pretty killer so unfortunately playing really defensively makes a lot of sense.
 
To those that say the AR is OP, I disagree strongly. The AR finally has a place in the game instead of just being a gun that no one wants. The BR and DMR are still king. Nothing to see here.
 
Dubz said:
To those that say the AR is OP, I disagree strongly. The AR finally has a place in the game instead of just being a gun that no one wants. The BR and DMR are still king. Nothing to see here.
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The AR can be powerful, but it would be nice if it took some more skill to use and had more consistency in hipfire, where it currently sprays a gigantic cone that sometimes kills and sometimes tickles gently.
 
Really do have to say I'm eating some crow on some of the "gimmicks" in the game. It's really satisfying getting kills with the ground pound move and killing someone trying to use it.

I'm also shocked at how much I'm liking the stabilizers. I had actually planned to just turn them off immediately but glad I decided to give them a go. Feature works really well and doesn't feel awkward at all.
 
The spawns in this game are some of the worst I've ever seen.

Also some kid just killed me the sword by killing the my teammate. Sword went through teammate and killed me. I was five feet away from them
 
Halo 2 has some of the strongest aim assist in any FPS I've ever played, so it's going to feel weird if you're coming straight from that to H5.
 
I was shooting someone with the pistol earlier and before I landed the head shot another player walked past him and pulled the recital of my gun to aim at the other player causing me to miss the shot.
 
Neo+Gaf=Nerd_Fap said:
I was shooting someone with the pistol earlier and before I landed the head shot another player walked past him and pulled the recital of my gun to aim at the other player causing me to miss the shot.
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that's actually a tactic at pro level, stick together and keep weaving in and out of each other
 
InvisibleStride said:
Really do have to say I'm eating some crow on some of the "gimmicks" in the game. It's really satisfying getting kills with the ground pound move and killing someone trying to use it.

I'm also shocked at how much I'm liking the stabilizers. I had actually planned to just turn them off immediately but glad I decided to give them a go. Feature works really well and doesn't feel awkward at all.
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Hope we have a ff mode in the final game. I want try out a lot of this stuff but in the heat of battle I forget it's there. Except for thrusting while in a firefight that move feels awesome.
 
RdN said:
OH man, this is exactly what happens to me and is the reason why I'm not playing some much as I want.

Lag is unbearable. The game keeps connecting to distant data centers (probably one on the US), giving me huge disadvantages against those playing with very low pings.

343i needs to take a step back and think of their international customers. Data center selection is a must. TMCC and now the H5:B clearly shows that their systems is flawed.

If thid change doesn't come, I can't see myself buying H5. I really like the new game play mechanics, but I simply can't buy a game where I'll be in an unfair playing field for most of my matches.
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Its a fucking joke that we can't choose the datacenter.
 
so, just played on truth with a fairly poor team against some much better opposition. we lost. by a lot. strange thing though, i GAINED exp and the post score break down placed me on the winning team...
 
fuck this game seriously.

first match of the night, can't adjust my eyes to see blue on truth correctly, get hosed across the map with AR's all the time.
 
Dubz said:
To those that say the AR is OP, I disagree strongly. The AR finally has a place in the game instead of just being a gun that no one wants. The BR and DMR are still king. Nothing to see here.
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This is exactly how I feel. I love the br, but now I always pick up one precision weapon and keep my ar. I really love the balance in this game... besides the smg. it needs more spread at a distance. I shouldn't be able to kill a guy at sword from red or blue 2. ar feels fine at a distance tho.
one last thing... thrust is awesome. I didn't think i would like it but i love it especially with jumps.
 
Prinz Eugn said:
Toggle crouch is on by default, so lots of people clench and get stuck crouching. Also, radar is pretty killer so unfortunately playing really defensively makes a lot of sense.
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Don't you still show up on the radar after shooting though?

I understand the sneaky/stealth stuff but once they're spotted and exchanging gunfire it makes no sense to stay crouched imo.
 
Sean said:
Is there a reason for a bunch of people camping and crouching? I've been in several different games now where at least one person is crouched in place 99% of the game, even during firefights.

I assume they're just playing the game wrong but wanna know if I'm missing anything.
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Crouching does remove you from the radar.

Ugh, just when I said I was done. 19-0, perrrfection. If they fix the cheese trick with the default scheme (keep holding LT, never descoped) and they reduce the strength of the automatics a bit, then the game can be grand. Honestly, I think I can attribute my rage mostly to not knowing to where and whom I am connected.
 
What am I doing wrong? I'm not able to get into a match at all. It's just sitting at the "Seting up slayer. Searching for players" screen and nothing happens. It's been like this since Monday, I've yet to be able to get into a match.
 
cardsbasebal said:
This is exactly how I feel. I love the br, but now I always pick up one precision weapon and keep my ar. I really love the balance in this game... besides the smg. it needs more spread at a distance. I shouldn't be able to kill a guy at sword from red or blue 2. ar feels fine at a distance tho.
one last thing... thrust is awesome. I didn't think i would like it but i love it especially with jumps.
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AR plus BR is how I roll these days! Great combo.
 
j-wood said:
What am I doing wrong? I'm not able to get into a match at all. It's just sitting at the "Seting up slayer. Searching for players" screen and nothing happens. It's been like this since Monday, I've yet to be able to get into a match.
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What's your NAT type? I was having some issues but I went through and adjusted my router to get me to an open NAT and I don't have any issues finding matches anymore.
 
Bsigg12 said:
What's your NAT type? I was having some issues but I went through and adjusted my router to get me to an open NAT and I don't have any issues finding matches anymore.
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So I just saw that on the X1 my NAT type is strict. But it's open on the PS4. How do I fix this?
 
Gravemind IV said:
Crouching does remove you from the radar.

Ugh, just when I said I was done. 19-0, perrrfection. If they fix the cheese trick with the default scheme (keep holding LT, never descoped) and they reduce the strength of the automatics a bit, then the game can be grand. Honestly, I think I can attribute my rage mostly to not knowing to where and whom I am connected.
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this is a thing!?
 
So it seems like there is a bug in the X1 OS?

I did some googling and saw others having the same NAT problem as me. The solution was to change the start-up type from "instant on" to "energy saving"

I did that and rebooted the console, now my NAT type is open. But I want to use the instant on deal...
 
j-wood said:
So it seems like there is a bug in the X1 OS?

I did some googling and saw others having the same NAT problem as me. The solution was to change the start-up type from "instant on" to "energy saving"

I did that and rebooted the console, now my NAT type is open. But I want to use the instant on deal...
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The problem is that with instant on the Xbox doesn't renovate it's request to open the ports necessary for Xbox Live to work.

A simple fix is to manually forward the ports on your router, so you're not relying on upnp.
 
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