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[RowdyReverb]

Got the "Gamesaver" medal. Not sure why. I was the only player on my team with a positive K/D so maybe that's it?

Anyone having issues getting into a match? Been trying for 13 minutes now.

No. Are you stateside? Have you tried a hard reset just in case?

 

[Anfony O]

This game is so not good it hurts

Got to love these drive by fart comments. Come in and stink up the place

 

[brickwalker0]

Anyone having issues getting into a match? Been trying for 13 minutes now.

How many times have you backed out and gone back in?

 

[nhlducks35]

Apparently tripping over swords can get you killed

http://xboxclips.com/Sgt+Yasha/a4c3b248-96a1-43c6-a59a-5bbe79989fe4

 

[Einchy]

Got the "Gamesaver" medal. Not sure why. I was the only player on my team with a positive K/D so maybe that's it?

No. Are you stateside? Have you tried a hard reset just in case?

Yes and no.

I keep getting into lobbies with people but they keep getting stuck on 4v3. I've gotten a few 4v4 but it takes too long to start, someone drops and then everyone starts dropping from the lobby.

[edtit]

17 minutes and I finally got one! woot

 

[JTripper]

I'm really liking the game so far. I haven't played the "new" maps but I think the abilities are very useful, except for ground pound. It's so pointless. The ADS is pretty much a replacement for the zoom, plus it also makes using the AR much easier. Also, I'm really glad that I see myself using more than just a DMR and BR constantly, even if it is just an AR.

The lack of loadouts is also definitely a plus. The emphasis on map control is back and combined with the new abilities and mechanics, makes for a whole new type of Halo game while still making it feel more Halo than any other type of shooter.

 

[Chitown B]

Net code can be all kinds of fucked up. Just had my first experience getting shot through a wall and dying with the kill cam saying that I died before I did my heroic dash to cover.

yeah this has been happening to me a ton lately. I keep dying after I'm behind walls. Plus the kill cam is ALWAYS wrong.

 

[HTupolev]

Net code can be all kinds of fucked up. Just had my first experience getting shot through a wall and dying with the kill cam saying that I died before I did my heroic dash to cover.

That sounds completely reasonable for a game using asynchronous networking. There's not really a "perfect" way of dealing with latency; you can keep things completely synchronized by forcing people to deal with input lag, but that's hardly an improvement.

The other person DID shoot you before you made it to cover according to their machine and probably also the host; it's just that your console didn't learn about until "after you were behind the wall."

 

[thunker 9000]

Breakout seems pretty fun. I just have to put myself in a completely different frame of mind when playing it.

Playing some now if anyone wants to hang out.

 

[ZROCOOL]

They need to tone down the nade splash damage, and how quick they spawn on the map. And the matchmaking is a joke..

 

[RowdyReverb]

They need to tone down the nade splash damage, and how quick they spawn on the map. And the matchmaking is a joke..

I think thrusters are adequate as far as toning down damage from grenades. If I'm not mistaken, one thrust away from a grenade negates all damage

 

[Bsigg12]

Got the "Gamesaver" medal. Not sure why. I was the only player on my team with a positive K/D so maybe that's it?

No. Are you stateside? Have you tried a hard reset just in case?

I think Gamesaver is what you get get instead of protector or guardian angel when the other team has 49 and you deny the win.

 

[RowdyReverb]

I think Gamesaver is what you get get instead of protector or guardian angel when the other team has 49 and you deny the win.

That seems to match the scenario in which I received it. That's actually a great idea for a medal. I love the really unique ones like that

 

[Jessie.Bristol]

Just a couple of clips, one is a little bit of "sword play" and the other is double jump snipe kills (basically I record two clips, one had only the first kill but it happened so fast that it is in the other video as well so I will post just one). The rest of my clips never appeared on XboxClips.com so I will have to manually upload those:

Swordplay: http://xboxclips.com/DestiniesReqium/9a30911a-eb69-41bd-a89e-f60170f1c971
Double Jump Snipes: http://xboxclips.com/DestiniesReqium/c80558b5-9e52-46d9-af1f-0e18ebbabbb4

 

[FUNKNOWN iXi]

It's not that I'm terrible, I just think it's lame how everyone starts with an easy to use pinpoint accurate gun that works at pretty much any range. Defeats the whole purpose of picking up any other gun besides stuff like the sword/rockets.

Spoiler

We need Halo 1 pistol starts

Buffing the Magnum solves the Halo weapon starts problem. It needs an increase in its Red Reticle Range and would be better off as a 5sk.

 

[Defect]

Buffing the Magnum solves the Halo weapon starts problem. It needs an increase in its Red Reticle Range and would be better off as a 5sk.

Apparently the pistol is 5sk with headshot damage.

 

[Ramirez]

Cross post,

Pro tips for Eden:

http://xboxclips.com/TJ+Ram/8e9910f0-ccfa-431d-ace2-ce817cfae31e

You can also shoot the light on the outside cover to drop it and two tall covers come out on each base side.

 

[Apollo Cree]

After extensive research, I've come to the conclusion that no, you cannot shoot and kill the bugs on Regret. You're welcome.
Also you can press A instead of Menu on the title screen. Subscribe for more pro tips.

My expirements yielded different results. Tomorrow I'll retest my result.

 

[Heretic]

Cross post,

Pro tips for Eden:

http://xboxclips.com/TJ+Ram/8e9910f0-ccfa-431d-ace2-ce817cfae31e

You can also shoot the light on the outside cover to drop it and two tall covers come out on each base side.

Nice!

 

[Jessie.Bristol]

Cross post,

Pro tips for Eden:

http://xboxclips.com/TJ+Ram/8e9910f0-ccfa-431d-ace2-ce817cfae31e

You can also shoot the light on the outside cover to drop it and two tall covers come out on each base side.

Huh, I didn't even know there was a map element like that. Wonder if there are any others on the other maps (I know Truth has the lights light up on the top of Pink and Big Tower if someone is inside).

 

[LiLSnorpSnorp]

Yea, I just lost a game 50-30. I had 25 of the kills.

Maybe I need to team up with gaf to avoid the headache!

 

[SomeOneInaHat]

Cross post,

Pro tips for Eden:

http://xboxclips.com/TJ+Ram/8e9910f0-ccfa-431d-ace2-ce817cfae31e

You can also shoot the light on the outside cover to drop it and two tall covers come out on each base side.

Goddamn that's useful

 

[Ramirez]

Goddamn that's useful

Yea, the only problem I had with the map was that those boxes didn't have enough height for any clamber routes. Figured it out though, lol.

 

[GringoSuave89]

Yea, the only problem I had with the map was that those boxes didn't have enough height for any clamber routes. Figured it out though, lol.

You can kinda thruster to the walkway by turbine, but it's hit or miss.

 

[SomeOneInaHat]

Yea, the only problem I had with the map was that those boxes didn't have enough height for any clamber routes. Figured it out though, lol.

The bottom of Eden was a design blunder in my head. I thought for the longest time that it was a punishment route for people who missed jumps. Now though, mmh, those fuckers pinging from the high walkway will be toast I say, toast

 

[Welfare]

Cross post,

Pro tips for Eden:

http://xboxclips.com/TJ+Ram/8e9910f0-ccfa-431d-ace2-ce817cfae31e

You can also shoot the light on the outside cover to drop it and two tall covers come out on each base side.

:0

How did I not notice this?

 

[Chitown B]

Anyone else having a problem where your Party chat sound drops out a couple minutes into a match and you can't get it back until after the match is over? Happened to me two games in a row just now and it's happened before. It's maddening.

 

[Twilight Gap]

Cross post,

Pro tips for Eden:

http://xboxclips.com/TJ+Ram/8e9910f0-ccfa-431d-ace2-ce817cfae31e

You can also shoot the light on the outside cover to drop it and two tall covers come out on each base side.

dynamic elements like these are great for maps. much more practical than the stuff from H2A

 

[HTupolev]

Anyone else having a problem where your Party chat sound drops out a couple minutes into a match and you can't get it back until after the match is over? Happened to me two games in a row just now and it's happened before. It's maddening.

Yes. Halo 5 Beta is a chat system catastrophe.

 

[Chitown B]

Yes. Halo 5 Beta is a chat system catastrophe.

But I thought Party Chat was a system thing, not a game thing. So it shouldn't matter what game I'm in - chat should work on the system level.

 

[Poodlestrike]

Anyone else having a problem where your Party chat sound drops out a couple minutes into a match and you can't get it back until after the match is over? Happened to me two games in a row just now and it's happened before. It's maddening.

You might have accidentally switched into game chat on the score screen.

 

[Papercuts]

Nothing like a teammate going 1-15.

how the hell do you even pull that off

 

[SatansReverence]

Nothing like a teammate going 1-15.

how the hell do you even pull that off

Better question, how do they even get into the onyx/semi pro devision?

Rank system is awful...

 

[HTupolev]

You might have accidentally switched into game chat on the score screen.

That's a part of it, but it seems complicated and has real issues. Last time I played with a party, we had situations where some people seemed to have a party-chat connection with some players and a game-chat connection with others. Or something. Like, we'd have situations where some people couldn't chat with each other even though some members were able to talk to everyone (forcing us to tell them to relay our chat to the other people). It's really strange.

Maybe there was some obscure interface quirk we weren't aware of. I don't know. Whatever was happening, it was pretty screwed up.

But I thought Party Chat was a system thing, not a game thing. So it shouldn't matter what game I'm in - chat should work on the system level.

Were it so easy.

 

[Leyasu]

That sounds completely reasonable for a game using asynchronous networking. There's not really a "perfect" way of dealing with latency; you can keep things completely synchronized by forcing people to deal with input lag, but that's hardly an improvement.

The other person DID shoot you before you made it to cover according to their machine and probably also the host; it's just that your console didn't learn about until "after you were behind the wall."

But the game is supposedly running on dedicated servers. Either 343 are lying or lots of us (nearly every NA halo player) are playing out of region on US servers.

Last night was a fucking lagfest for me where nearly every game was not in the EU.

 

[ebullientprism]

I started the beta by disliking the kill cam. Now there is an intense hatred towards it. Almost to the point of not wanting to play at times.

For the love of god 343 make it optional or skipping it should be absolutely instantaneous. Like a millisecond.

 

[HTupolev]

But the game is supposedly running on dedicated servers.

Compared with peer-to-peer, that should have basically no effect whatsoever on latency. It should deal with a large fraction of the hiccups that occur, but stuff like "shot behind wall" should be basically as prevalent as ever (which is to say, extremely common).

 

[Death Metalist]

The best thing about the game for me is obviously how smooth it plays and the sound mixing. Gunplay though, I'm still not hooked.

 

[Magwik]

Compared with peer-to-peer, that should have basically no effect whatsoever on latency. It should deal with a large fraction of the hiccups that occur, but stuff like "shot behind wall" should be basically as prevalent as ever (which is to say, extremely common).

The solution is simple then, we go back to the weapons being projectile instead of hitscan

 

[Leyasu]

Compared with peer-to-peer, that should have basically no effect whatsoever on latency. It should deal with a large fraction of the hiccups that occur, but stuff like "shot behind wall" should be basically as prevalent as ever (which is to say, extremely common).

Getting shot behind the wall never happens ever in Titanfall. It also doesn't happen on halo 5 when the gods smile, and I get put into a game on an EU server

 

[ZROCOOL]

Nothing like a teammate going 1-15.

how the hell do you even pull that off

I had two teammates that went 0-15 and only losing by 7... Man was I pissed

 

[GECK]

Anyone for some slayer right now?

 

[Archpath1]

Anyone for some slayer right now?

I'm down for some games
Gt. Archpath1

 

[CoCo_CoCo]

Finally got MCC and played H5.

- Sprint and all those silly abilities are obviously garbage. Spartan Charge rewards rushing like a bafoon. The controller feels cluttered and claustrophobic with all the abilities.

All the chatter gets completely tuned out except for weapon timing.

Super high Bullet Magnetism with no aim assist is a yucky combo, I feel afraid to move my crosshair because when I do my bullets do nothing.

Laggy opponents are impossible to hit, but they can hit you with no trouble at all.

Maps are mediocre by fault of needing to design around abilities

Strafing feels pointless a lot of the time and it feels too difficult to hit persons peek shotting you and you can only see their head, but when aiming perfectly and shooting, nothing hits. But when someone peak shots around a corner and you shoot them the registration feels better than any Halo before it.


- It's kinda fun, but there are too many dislikes to say anything more positive than,"it's better than H4." That's not saying much.

 

[Marvel]

I started the beta by disliking the kill cam. Now there is an intense hatred towards it. Almost to the point of not wanting to play at times.

For the love of god 343 make it optional or skipping it should be absolutely instantaneous. Like a millisecond.

I feel you on this.

Seriously... give us a toggle or get rid of it completely.

 

[Twin Tails]

Kill cam Is also broken

 

[Twilight Gap]

they need to increase the strafe speed and lower the bullet magnetism.

 

[Welfare]

they need to increase the strafe speed and lower the bullet magnetism.

They need to increase the base speed. Way to slow.

 

[BuggeryBugz]

I now understand what my fellows Aussies are saying about lag. Just started playing the beta today and have had quite a few games where I throw a grenade and it releases from my hand about 1 second later. Impossible to do well in those games. Other than that, when it's lag free, I'm really enjoying it.

A little clip of some kills.
http://xboxclips.com/GDVersace/3259cb59-5d36-4a07-9a5d-99dd356044ed

 

[SpiceMelange]

What is "bullet magnetism"?