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

Collingwood said:
Horrible experience for us non-Americans. I was literally dying at CoD speeds while my weapons did nearly no damage. Fucking infuriating.
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My experience as well.

Game keeps putting mo on american servers.. Me with a 200ms ping against people playing on a 20ms ping.

Very fair, fun and rewarding. Great job, 343i.
 
I swear my aim is off because of the switch to 60 fps (not saying 60 fps is bad). I now have to play on sensitivity 2 or else my aim is just too fast and twitchy. But, I don't know if I should just keep practicing and conditioning myself to keeping it at 3 because I know 2 may be a little to slow for some situations. Ugh.. decisions.
 
So I finally got a few matches in where I got ahold of the Hydra. Am I missing something or is it completely useless? Any tips or tricks?
 
link1201 said:
Do you think its an aggressive weapon? It seemed I was only able to get kills when I caught the enemy unawares. A 1v1 I was dead before I could do much. I would've preferred the RL I think.
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It is a passive weapon. Any competent player will kill you if you try using it in a straight up 1v1.
 
these should be victory animations
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Collingwood said:
Horrible experience for us non-Americans. I was literally dying at CoD speeds while my weapons did nearly no damage. Fucking infuriating.
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Yep, they really need to let us select which Azure region we want to play on. At the very least they need to show it and take latency into account with rankings etc.
 
I'm starting to feel seriously gimped playing solo. I destroyed my qualifying matches, winning 9/10 and earning Gold Tier 3 but ever since then it's been slow going towards onyx on my own. The ranking system doesn't seem to have any correlation with the actual matchmaking.. Making it a total crap shoot. I've been getting matched with a lot of teams of four lately now which is usually a guaranteed loss for a team of randoms (assuming they don't totally suck).

Despite this I'm having fun. I have high hopes for this game. IF they listen to feedback it could be really good I think.
 
Hate to say it but this game got old pretty quick. Was fun for a week then nose dived - feels like the titanfall syndrome. Bad sign for a Halo game. Onyx rank with a 4ish kda - but I dont find the game fun to play - it doesnt have that Halo fun. Its too serious or something - hard to place. To be fair, im more of a Big Team Battle dude, so I hope that redeems it.
 
I find the regret variant of midship worse in every way. There are no landmarks present to get your bearings on spawn. I find myself spawning and looking around wildly trying to get an idea of where the hell I am on the map, then dying from cross map fire cause I'm terribly out of position - but I don't know that I'm out of position because I don't know where the hell I am.

Bad map design and needs serious revision before release.

Other than that really enjoying the movement, gunplay and overall feel of the game. Even some of the things I was skeptical about going into it I ended up really liking. Love boost and clamber.
 
Played my first match today (slayer).

Was 2nd best on my team with 5-16 lol. Saw a lot of instances of lag spikes too.

I haven't followed the news much but mannnn everything feels so different.
 
DesertFox said:
I find the regret variant of midship worse in every way. There are no landmarks present to get your bearings on spawn. I find myself spawning and looking around wildly trying to get an idea of where the hell I am on the map, then dying from cross map fire cause I'm terribly out of position - but I don't know that I'm out of position because I don't know where the hell I am.

Bad map design and needs serious revision before release.

Other than that really enjoying the movement, gunplay and overall feel of the game. Even some of the things I was skeptical about going into it I ended up really liking. Love boost and clamber.
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I have the same problem on Regret. Truth is much better, though I do like the daytime jungle setting of Regret better.
 
God damn, tonight was just mostly laggy matches. Had a few smooth games, but at least 3/4 of them were too laggy. Never had so many laggy games in the Halo 5 Beta in a single night before.
 
Yeah serious lag in the games I played. At least 7 out of 10 of them were bad. If they get the dedis sorted for release the game will be awesome
 
I know everybody says oh you need to play with a party but when I get on this I usually just want to play real quick. So i end up just booting it up and playing.

It's so frustrating playing alone. Me and a teammate went +6 and +4 only for our teammates to go 5-14 and 4-17.

I've never had such an overwhelming amount of uneven and badly matched games before. If half the team is +10 we shouldn't be losing by double digits.
 
Some clips of mine from matches I played tonight:

http://xboxclips.com/DestiniesReqium/e78c30a4-8d51-4b65-bb72-54b5fd6c4e78
http://xboxclips.com/DestiniesReqium/3817b013-1386-4fc1-8350-7518ad0b4234
Match was going decent until it had a Server Disconnect: http://xboxclips.com/DestiniesReqium/2f2eda8c-d8d8-463d-a57a-673115754c85
2 Snipe Kills, ending with a Snapshot Headshot: http://xboxclips.com/DestiniesReqium/1813c263-0adf-4041-8c2c-8f8bf32e476a
My first Lock-On kill with the Hydra, it sucks because as I double-tapped the Nexus Button and pressed X it also brought up available Apps. So I went to close that and pressed left on the D-Pad, only it highlighted The Master Chief Collection and started booting that, thus kicking me out of the match: http://xboxclips.com/DestiniesReqium/8f593ee7-b01a-4076-9b9b-e57db9eda10e
http://xboxclips.com/DestiniesReqium/26c120cc-3ea3-4b0a-9eba-33ac1e64f474
Another Snipeltaneous: http://xboxclips.com/DestiniesReqium/f64b5f19-b5a0-4a78-806d-23c11e178293
SMG Brawler: http://xboxclips.com/DestiniesReqium/7123c8b3-0f17-4057-9202-91a4bb7d6209
http://xboxclips.com/DestiniesReqium/4efbe735-dec3-4c33-b979-5df1838ca571
http://xboxclips.com/DestiniesReqium/9d7e842d-187f-4405-a2a5-6861eba81b61
Had to win a 3v4 because one player was AFK the whole game: http://xboxclips.com/DestiniesReqium/049fb302-dfbc-473b-b142-453ba59b7f11
 
Naked Lunch said:
Hate to say it but this game got old pretty quick. Was fun for a week then nose dived - feels like the titanfall syndrome. Bad sign for a Halo game. Onyx rank with a 4ish kda - but I dont find the game fun to play - it doesnt have that Halo fun. Its too serious or something - hard to place. To be fair, im more of a Big Team Battle dude, so I hope that redeems it.
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I love Halo for everything that Halo could offer to me (flood, action sack, swat, grifball jenga tower, rocket Race, split screen with friends etc.) and also BR slayer, classic slayer etc. this is why Halo was so special to me with H5 I feel only the competition part and like you I become bored now, it's always the same, this diversity that got Halo in the past is not here. I play pretty good on the game and I really love the BR start but yeah something is missing.

Also if the ranking is in each playlists, I will play few then because I can’t play at my best after an exhausting day at job in a game like H5. In the past I could play for fun and relax when I was not in mind in fact so I hope that simply it’s because we are in a beta (one year before) and I want see how the things will evolve with this game and especially with BTB, btw I asked to Josh Holmes seems they will speak of BTB later when will be closer to launch: https://twitter.com/JoshingtonState/status/551093485915234304

I will buy the game anyway for the campaign with the new gameplay anyway but even if I love the new gameplay then something of Halo is clearly missing in this one at least in the beta.

MCC could have been so awesome instead but with all the issues… + no browser files really seriously 343i?
They completely killed the Forge community, the casual community, the art community (screenshots, forge art etc.), the grifball community, they kept only the pro players community and some hardcore fans of the series like us.

Halo will never be back as the number 1 of the FPS on console, it was another time but for sure if they support each of their players (casuals, core and hardcore) they will have a bigger base of players on their Halo games. Hardcore is often the lowest community btw. I was surprised to see that Reach got around 18 000 players as population actually compared to Halo 4 that got around less than 10 000 players.

Another thing that bother me of 343i recently is the Halo Twitter, the bulletin videos (what a crap idea to do videos, now the info in the videos are always week(s) late because of the time for them to do the video you know..) and the management, they speak only of competition, tournaments and the H5 beta meanwhile no news on MCC new patches or something else that is not a tournament… really boring I am tempted to unfollow the twitter Halo because these things does not interest me at all.
 
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