Both great ideas, but especially the second one. Some players do not care about Req points, but I also like the warning system. There already is a warning system, but make it more apparent (somehow) and keep adding time to bans if the player keeps quitting.
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Both great ideas, but especially the second one. Some players do not care about Req points, but I also like the warning system. There already is a warning system, but make it more apparent (somehow) and keep adding time to bans if the player keeps quitting.
7DollarHagane
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They added an entire mode dedicated to Battlefield Halo.
¯_(ツ_/¯
Yeah and its what I enjoyed most about the game but its a pretty minor part and pretty limited. Also the req system was unnessecary to the mode as well. Warzone should have just been the new big team battle and made ai enemies only in certain modes.
I actually really enjoyed halo 4 and big team especially. I can't keep any interest in halo 5 at all.
You complain about Halo trying to be too much like Call of Duty but praise Halo 4. I'm so confused.
7DollarHagane
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Was this posted yet?
Far better idea on Warzone Assault, or even regular Warzone, just to roll 10 deep with Ghosts and go for enemy core than pull out a Scorpion. Takes about a minute to get close to enemy core only to get planted with nades by enemy destroying your Scorpion.
Far better idea on Warzone Assault, or even regular Warzone, just to roll 10 deep with Ghosts and go for enemy core than pull out a Scorpion. Takes about a minute to get close to enemy core only to get planted with nades by enemy destroying your Scorpion.
Halo 4 took so much from CoD.
Killstreaks, Loadouts, Perks, etc... It was an unbalanced mess of a game.
Halo fans hated it and dropped the game quickly. People like you liked it but played more CoD than Halo 4 anyway and thus Halo 4's population dropped like a rock.
So Halo 5 went back to the arena roots of older Halo games. No it won't see viewer or population numbers similar to an extremely popular multiplat game like CoD... But at least there will be a healthy playerbase that sticks around this time unlike in Halo 4.
Killstreaks, Loadouts, Perks, etc... It was an unbalanced mess of a game.
Halo fans hated it and dropped the game quickly. People like you liked it but played more CoD than Halo 4 anyway and thus Halo 4's population dropped like a rock.
So Halo 5 went back to the arena roots of older Halo games. No it won't see viewer or population numbers similar to an extremely popular multiplat game like CoD... But at least there will be a healthy playerbase that sticks around this time unlike in Halo 4.
This looks terrifying for the other team
Welfare
Member
Halo Wars strats still going strong.
PetulantChild
Banned
Just had a game where my railgun legitimately went through a guy on a mongoose without doing any damage, twice. ugh.
Better than going to aim the rail gun only to have it not charge and you're just standing there taking shots. This somehow happens to me enough to complain about it.
PetulantChild
Banned
That happens to me so often that at this point I've just started selling my vanilla railguns and only keeping Whiplash. Kinda makes me wish they brought back the sticky detonator.
ATOMICJORGE
Member
The Halo World Championship Asia regional qualifier is LIVE:
http://www.twitch.tv/esl_halo
http://www.twitch.tv/esl_halo
ATOMICJORGE
Member
DMR No scope?! is this guy for real?
blue_phazon
Member
Seems like nothing is happening yet. Let's gooooooo
right now the team that just rekt the last team is getting rekt. doesn't look like much competition in asia.
blue_phazon
Member
I'm watching the current match and uhh...I feel like I could beat these guys and I'm only diamond
that's the secret..these guys are diamond
but it's probably because they can't find any local games to play, and have to go up against dudes in the US with 10 ping.these announcers are champ tier tho.
this is so fucking funny
ATOMICJORGE
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and that classic use of the gandalf strat too!
blue_phazon
Member
I want these commentators for the NA tourny
SmartWaffles
Member
Kill/scorestreaks, perk, loadout, level based unlock system, flinch, unpunished sprint, cheap weapon gimmicks, broken armor ability...
dude, they returned the map...!!! THEY CAPTURED THE MAP!!! the time in between matches is killing it tho.
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
If anyone is on Im down to play Warzone or Arena, GT is Nightmare22m
ill play some warzone with you later. grinding with a bud for onyx
ATOMICJORGE
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What's going on with the stream?
Edit: it's back now. I'm laughing my ass off because of this stream, and the chat.
ATOMICJORGE
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I know hahaha it's very funny
User 479360
Banned
Funny story HaloGAF.
So I was shopping at Wal-Mart today and saw 1 of those Christmas AXE gift packs in the clearance section for $4 (out of $27! damn it was a steal) I figured 'wtf why not free reconz and I can send the AXE crap to my brother'.
So I get home and was about to enter the code when nature hit, I guess in that meantime my cat (who I call "the orange goat") decided to hop on my bed and...tell me his thoughts on Agent Locke:
(Note the fact that he didn't destroy the code)
I'm getting him special cat food tonight :3
Haha. My cat loves those papers. He plays with them when I have them on my bed.
Good thing he didn't ruin the code.
I played Halo 5 for a few hours, or so, today, while waiting for a friend. I did really well, too, for the most part. Had a few crappy games at the beginning and end, but other than that I was in a groove.
My best was 23-8 in Shotty Snipers, my first time playing it in years. I just used the shotgun.
I played a lot of Breakout, and started getting quite good at it. I was usually leading my team, and even won some rounds in badass fashion. That's a really fun mode.
The multiplayer suite in this game is great.
Would anyone be down to playtest my Breakout map tomorrow? I'll hopefully have it in a state that is playable. An 'alpha' so to speak
Send me a message when your ready to test and I'll join up.
Somehow Halo 4 keeps getting brought up for BTB.
For once we have a game (H5) in which every weapon works wonders against infantry/vehicles and people don't it. I don't quite get it.
I really think the likelihood of a console exclusive breaking the top 10 on what it predominately a PC gaming service would be slim even if the population was much larger than Halo5's.
Halo 4 is much more like COD is than Halo 5. The Loadouts System which had you unlock weapons to bring into arena instead of having them placed on the map. The XP based progression system instead of skill based MM. the perks. The kill streaks.
You literally couldn't use halo tactics because you had no clue what weapons your opponent had, or what moves they were capable of at any given moment. Every interaction was completely random.
Halo 5 is classic halo philosophies (even starts, weapons on map, skill based ranking), with more movement options thrown on top. The idea that Halo5 is more like COD baffles me, yet I keep hearing it for some reason.
Chittagong
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I have played Halo MP quite a bit over the years, but I have been wondering about two things in Halo 5 MP:
1 - Is it really possible to kill someone with full shields in a single melee? I swear this has happened to me multiple times in Halo 5, full shields, no shots and BANG dead, and the kill feed shows the melee icon.
2 - How do I do that rush attach that kills you on one bang, and shows the arrow in the kill feed?
1 - Is it really possible to kill someone with full shields in a single melee? I swear this has happened to me multiple times in Halo 5, full shields, no shots and BANG dead, and the kill feed shows the melee icon.
2 - How do I do that rush attach that kills you on one bang, and shows the arrow in the kill feed?
1. Nope.
2. Melee whilst sprinting. It also doesn't kill you in one hit, same damage as a normal melee.
mmazurkiewicz
Member
no, unless its from behind.
RedSparrows
Member
You will also die to a melee if your shields haven't quite recharged.
What game mode were you playing? In any mode a melee to the rear is a one hit kill. In Warzone, it's possible to get guns with energy bayonet attachments. Those would allow for one hit kills...
Chittagong
Gold Member
Thanks! How weird with the single melee death, maybe in those cases they have landed a shield killing shot the very same moment as the melee, and I have missed it.
Good to know that rush melee kills from behind in one go! The regular melee seems to do an assassination which is satisfying but dangerously slow.
SmartWaffles
Member
1. A melee from behind is a instant kill.
2. That is a Spartan Charge, which has the same damage attribute as a melee attack, depletes shields from front and one hit kill from behind.
You avoid doing the assassination of you just tap the melee button. You can also turn assassinations off in your settings...
This guy on Reddit posted the following CSR distribution graph that he made using the Tracking API
In the comments he went on to explain that at least 131k players have ranked (played 10 matches) of layer so far this season.
In comparison. Halo 4 was at sub-100k total players at this time in its lifespan.
He's going to try to get similar information from the other playlists, and maybe even figure out the total number of unique users...
No these numbers aren't earth shattering, but they do suggest the sustainment model is working somewhat, and that the multiplayer is generally more enjoyable this time around. It's quite impressive that H5 can out perform H4 in this regard, despite selling far fewer copies... Makes me wonder how healthy our population would be had split screen made it in, along with the missing gamemodes.
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Edit: It also shows a nearly perfect bell curve... Though some would prefer an distribution gives each division a similarly sizes population... I disagree with that because you'd end up having people who currently play at at platinum level in the same division as the best players in the world.
In the comments he went on to explain that at least 131k players have ranked (played 10 matches) of layer so far this season.
In comparison. Halo 4 was at sub-100k total players at this time in its lifespan.
He's going to try to get similar information from the other playlists, and maybe even figure out the total number of unique users...
No these numbers aren't earth shattering, but they do suggest the sustainment model is working somewhat, and that the multiplayer is generally more enjoyable this time around. It's quite impressive that H5 can out perform H4 in this regard, despite selling far fewer copies... Makes me wonder how healthy our population would be had split screen made it in, along with the missing gamemodes.
source
Edit: It also shows a nearly perfect bell curve... Though some would prefer an distribution gives each division a similarly sizes population... I disagree with that because you'd end up having people who currently play at at platinum level in the same division as the best players in the world.
Chittagong
Gold Member
Lol, some matches just are unwinnable
Funny thing, their best player iTz Jellybaby, who I killed a fair few times, got matched against me in the next match too.
I managed to stuck him right in the beginning and he rage quit
All I play lol.
mmazurkiewicz
Member
so is today the day that the Halo Championship regionals are played in every region?
what time do the North American matches start?
what time do the North American matches start?
After the hilarious Asia qualifiers and hero Jack Me Off, watching Neighbor casually destroy Onyx players and go from Diamond 1 to Diamond 6 was pretty crazy.
Quick question, why does the ESL EU qualifier stream look better, cleaner, smoother in the twitch app, than how Halo 5 looks when I play? Maybe I'm just tired but I feel like the game is looking better in this stream than how it actually is?
Quick question, why does the ESL EU qualifier stream look better, cleaner, smoother in the twitch app, than how Halo 5 looks when I play? Maybe I'm just tired but I feel like the game is looking better in this stream than how it actually is?
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