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Halo 5: Guardians |OT2| All Hail The Conquering Hero

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BraXzy

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op_ivy said:
Me. I'm still waiting for two packages that should have arrive on the 22nd. They were in Reno, two hours away, but now are in Sacramento 3 hours away two days later. Ugh.
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Damn that's a pain. My GF ordered something in November, never got it, turns out it was signed for and recorded as delivered 2 miles from her house o_O

As for me, I was all done and wrapped a week in advance for the first time ever. I just remembered I have family cards to write for, shoot.
 
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BraXzy said:
This is too good.

http://i.imgur.com/bqxJ0bG.gifv
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This is precisely why I barely hang on to any of my REQs outside of the occasional weapon cert freebies, Void's Tears and Whiplashes. Well, and all the XP / RP boosts.
 
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Slightly Live said:
We can try. :)
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I will strive to have my Breakout map completed for the first GAF customs.
I know how much everyone likes Breakout <3

Detective said:
Can someone explain to me why overgrowth is hated so much? I've played on it yet . just tried the map on custom .
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I'd say part of it is people have had the least time to play on it and get used to the map. But most of it comes down to the maps design.

Lots of tight, closed spaces. Not a whole lot of clear sightlines. Lots of corners for people to crouch around. Combine all of that with the fact two of the power weapons on map are Shotgun and Sword to make all those corners that little bit more fun. There's also camo, which for some reason is placed right by Shotgun, which is right near one teams spawn. Oh and there's lots of nade spam so overall it is a pain to play on.
 
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Detective said:
Can someone explain to me why overgrowth is hated so much? I've played on it yet . just tried the map on custom .
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It is really close and cramped. Leads to a lot of people sprinting around and spartan charging. I kind of like it, it encourages a different playstyle than any other map in the game.
 
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Detective said:
Can someone explain to me why overgrowth is hated so much? I've played on it yet . just tried the map on custom .
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Zero sightlines at all on the map, which would be fine if it had a sensible weapon loadout but as it stands it has Sword, Shotgun, Railgun, and the Active Camo powerup. Nothing in this game is more rage inducing than Camo+Shottie or Camo+Sword. Not only that but Blue Spawn has a clear and consistent advantage to each and every one of these at the beginning of the game. So not only is it unfun, but also clearly unbalanced.

TL;DR: Take 343i's baffling hate of clean sightlines. Multiply it by 1000. Then add the most unfun elements of the H5 sandbox and shake it all up.
 
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Replace Sword with Plasma Caster and Camo with Damage Boost. Boom, map plays 200% more intentionally chaotic and less cheap-feeling. At least if you get exploded by a roided-out dude with a caster you'll come to terms with it quicker than an invisible dude packing sword and shotgun running around eviscerating people.
 
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The Req gods have smiled on me today. I opened my Daily pack for a WZ win and was greeting by the legendary Twin Jewels Of Maethrillian, an ultra rare Damage boost and the rare Railgun Arclight. today was a good day :D

Will probably never use the legendary Binary Rifle.
 
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BraXzy

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Sub-Zero at a Starbucks said:
Replace Sword with Plasma Caster and Camo with Damage Boost. Boom, map plays 200% more intentionally chaotic and less cheap-feeling. At least if you get exploded by a roided-out dude with a caster you'll come to terms with it quicker than an invisible dude packing sword and shotgun running around eviscerating people.
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I feel like Plasma bolts bouncing around those narrow corridors would be just as bad :3
 
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Caja 117

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link1201 said:
Is the Sayonara medal broken? I've gotten the kill for an enemy that has fallen to their death but not this medal.
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I asked the same about the Extermination medal, I did an extermination, but didn't got the medal. but there are definitely some medals that are not activated if you go by the medal list in Waypoint, and that Sayonara one I also do the requirements yet don't get the medal, .
 
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link1201 said:
Is the Sayonara medal broken? I've gotten the kill for an enemy that has fallen to their death but not this medal.
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You're not alone. The same thing happened to me a bunch of times. I can't say it's definitely broken though, because some may have that medal.
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I asked the same about the Extermination medal, I did an extermination, but didn't got the medal. but there are definitely some medals that are not activated if you go by the medal list in Waypoint, and that Sayonara one I also do the requirements yet don't get the medal, .
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That medal too. I know I should've had that one plenty of times in swat.
 
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Detective

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BraXzy said:
I will strive to have my Breakout map completed for the first GAF customs.
I know how much everyone likes Breakout <3



I'd say part of it is people have had the least time to play on it and get used to the map. But most of it comes down to the maps design.

Lots of tight, closed spaces. Not a whole lot of clear sightlines. Lots of corners for people to crouch around. Combine all of that with the fact two of the power weapons on map are Shotgun and Sword to make all those corners that little bit more fun. There's also camo, which for some reason is placed right by Shotgun, which is right near one teams spawn. Oh and there's lots of nade spam so overall it is a pain to play on.
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CeeSaw said:
It is really close and cramped. Leads to a lot of people sprinting around and spartan charging. I kind of like it, it encourages a different playstyle than any other map in the game.
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E92 M3 said:
Sword, camo and shotgun on a map with a bunch of corridors. Basically whoever gets sword essentially wins the game. Especially on FFA.
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BleedOrange said:
Zero sightlines at all on the map, which would be fine if it had a sensible weapon loadout but as it stands it has Sword, Shotgun, Railgun, and the Active Camo powerup. Nothing in this game is more rage inducing than Camo+Shottie or Camo+Sword. Not only that but Blue Spawn has a clear and consistent advantage to each and every one of these at the beginning of the game. So not only is it unfun, but also clearly unbalanced.

TL;DR: Take 343i's baffling hate of clean sightlines. Multiply it by 1000. Then add the most unfun elements of the H5 sandbox and shake it all up.
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Thanks all for you responses. That sounds boring. I gotta try that out. Hope something does not break :p

I don't mind close quarter combat.but it sounds like these weapons and power up shouldn't be there.
 
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RodanCeros

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My wife bought me The Art of Halo 5 book. Amazing gift, awesome book, but the REQ pack it came with was a stinker: one common armor, one common XP boost and one common RP boost &#128530;
 
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Caja 117

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RoslindaleOne said:
You're not alone. The same thing happened to me a bunch of times. I can't say it's definitely broken though, because some may have that medal.


That medal too. I know I should've had that one plenty of times in swat.
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I don't think it is broken, but I think that there are some medals that 343 don't have activated, in weapon proficiency medals, the rocket kill medal comes to mind.

Extermination stick out because at this point in this game you would had easily find Youtube videos with exterminations, yet the most recent ones are from the Beta.
 
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Detective said:
Thanks all for you responses. That sounds boring. I gotta try that out. Hope something does not break :p

I don't mind close quarter combat.but it sounds like these weapons and power up shouldn't be there.
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I actually really like the map. Close quarter chaos going on there. Just don't go sprinting around the map. You never no who lurks in that corner...
Caja 117 said:
I don't think it is broken, but I think that there are some medals that 343 don't have activated, in weapon proficiency medals, the rocket kill medal comes to mind.

Extermination stick out because at this point in this game you would had easily find Youtube videos with exterminations, yet the most recent ones are from the Beta.
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I don't have (but should) the rocket kill, sniper, Splaser and a few others. I was looking at someone's service record and they have all the weapons proficiency medals. So, I'm a bit confused. Maybe they got them in Warzone?
 
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RedSparrows

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Argh the whines, they burn.

Overgrowth is indeed very CQC, but it does have sightlines. The out corridors, and through Bog. It's still a bitch at times, however.
 
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BraXzy

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RodanCeros said:
My wife bought me The Art of Halo 5 book. Amazing gift, awesome book, but the REQ pack it came with was a stinker: one common armor, one common XP boost and one common RP boost &#128530;
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I assume it's the same Basic Supply code thing I got from my LootCrate.

I half hoped for something akin to the preorder bonuses with a Legendary armour piece :(
 
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Sai

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The Antitype said:
It's the sum experience, from the moment you start the game.

Halo 2 and Halo 3 (which was an iteration) were purposely designed to make players feel like they were sitting on the couch with their friends or at a LAN party.

Halo 5 feels like it's designed to mimic the environment of a tournament.

You come into the lobby with a preset team. If you don't have one, too bad, you can't talk to anybody or even look at 'them' (their profiles/characters). After the game, everybody leaves, on to the next match. No funny medals, no killed most/killed most by. No chance to party up and move on to the next match together.

Nothing light. Nothing fun. Nothing social. Nothing accessible.

Sit down for your match, win/lose, get up and leave.

Cold. Anti-social. Intimidating.

All of which is exacerbated by a matchmaking system that is more than happy to place a team of strangers who can't talk until the match starts, against prebuilt teams, and is happy to ignore their own ranking system when throwing players together.
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I can kind of get behind this. It's why I haven't been in the Arena as much as I'd like.

It would absolutely help if I partied up with folks, but whenever the opportunity to do so arises, something important comes up. I haven't even been able to continue that co-op Legendary run I started with some of you like a month ago. ;_;
 
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Caja 117

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RoslindaleOne said:
I actually really like the map. Close quarter chaos going on there. Just don't go sprinting around the map. You never no who lurks in that corner...


I don't have (but should) the rocket kill, sniper, Splaser and a few others. I was looking at someone's service record and they have all the weapons proficiency medals. So, I'm a bit confused. Maybe they got them in Warzone?
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That's a possibility I guess, but there is a section of Warzone medals which it make it even more weird. One medal that wasn't included in the game that I miss soooooooooo much is the Killjoy medal, I loved that medal.
 
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RoslindaleOne

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Caja 117 said:
That's a possibility I guess, but there is a section of Warzone medals which it make it even more weird. One medal that wasn't included in the game that I miss soooooooooo much is the Killjoy medal, I loved that medal.
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I really don't get why that was taken out. I loved Killjoy as well.
 
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StaticJam said:
At least your disappoint with the loads of uncommons makes for a fun VOD to watch :p
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Haha were you watching? I was in a lobby of 12 so it was hard to multitask.

Damn man, this game has made me spend so much money on these packs!! I have never done this before! Spent over £200 on them!
 
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E92 M3 said:
I think it came from a passionate place (doesn't actually mean it) and it won't happen again. Nonetheless, we have to address the core issue and not focus on the dumb crap.
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Right, so whenever I get called "autistic", or see someone calling someone else "autistic", I'm not supposed to have my feelings hurt because they "didn't actually mean it". Never mind that I am autistic, and that stuff hurts like nothing else. And now people use it to insult someone who's really knowledgeable about a subject.

The dumb crap is what Anti said, not what they were discussing. I don't give two shits about what they were talking about; I care about the fact that they delivered a hurtful, ableist comment to 343.
 
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Im only 2 commons away to be done with those, I just want to get my MKV helmet an armor, hopefully it gets easier after I stop purchasing Bronze req paqs.
 
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