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Halo 5: Guardians |OT2| All Hail The Conquering Hero
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BizzyBum
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I noticed a ton of lag in my games late last night.
Thought it was just my connection.
Where did they say this? Didn't hear it on the stream and didn't see any balls in the sneak peek. New map looks interesting, very dark.
Riptide looks like a good map too. I'm interested to see how the H2 BR fits in arena. It has a slower kill time than the regular BR but has that nice scope on it.
They talked about it at the beginning of the stream, on the "Community update" section, when listing the gametypes coming in february. Also, the ball was shown as a concept art in a Waypoint update recently.
Leyasu
Banned
The first few games were awful this afternoon. It did settle down though. But I had lots of games that were 3 br shots and 4 pistol shots. Disappointing, especially when it is in the arena.
I tried to see if you could pull this off when I played a few games of Community Breakout yesterday. I only got this map once or twice, but the move is definitely possible.
(Super fast flag cap on High rise)
https://youtu.be/RWqHi38dWRw
(Super fast flag cap on High rise)
https://youtu.be/RWqHi38dWRw
Leyasu
Banned
I popped my cherry on plaza earlier going for the OS. I was running, then slide, dash and then jump! Bearing in mind that I have been trying this since I first saw it.
SmartWaffles
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Sprint then boost at the edge of a ramp/platform, when you are JUST about to drop off the ramp/edge, crouch then jump.
Leyasu
Banned
I was running along the flat bit on plaza. If I remember I will go into theater and make a clip
Perhaps I did fuck all.
Did they confirm any other stat differences?
SmartWaffles
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There are multiple ways to do it, your approach works too.
Beyond has a pretty in-depth tutorial on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy7JyqDtYtU
Leyasu
Banned
Ok, I remember recording it now. Edit I didn't record it.
^^I'll have a look at that later.
SmartWaffles
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More often than not in Gold league, I got something like 3+ KD but the rest of team goes -30 or more makes everything I did meaningless.
Eh, I don't think what level you are matters, it's all a luck of the draw on MM. I reached 1850 at one point in Slayer this season playing solo, and the next day dropped all of the way back to low 1700s. I was still playing well, but got some bad breaks with teammates.
The lack of party restrictions really makes the whole Onyx tiers mean dick if you're playing solo. A high ranked player could be rolling with 3-4 guys getting solo players on the other side, and I could be getting lucky as a solo player being paired with a team of 3 good people, you just never know.
Well, you are bound to get matched with Onyx that are not really good (I.E. got carried over), I will rephrase my initial idea: if you play against top tier players and you are doing solo matchmaking, then one player carrying a team is not going to happen, you will need a good teamwork to be able to win against a team of top tier players.
When you are in gold and plat tier, even Diamond, One legit Onyx can carry the whole team.
@SmartWaffles When you say +3KD is something like going 14-11? or 20-5? anyways, I still think that if you are in gold and cant make up for your team blunders then you need to get better.
I think the main problem is that the Ranks in Halo 5 are not a good indicator on the player real skill level, the fact that you cant derank from your initial rank placement is the reason why. people and players will always use this as a way to say that the matchmaking wasn't even because of the different rank, whereas I feel that the system is matching correctly based on the calculated trueskill, and sometimes (like previous Halo) you will have high skilled players teaming up with low skill players, reason why you might have some players completely dominating in a game.
Nah it's not luck of the draw with MM. You just are at your proper rank now... It fluctuates on some nights maybe based on luck with teammates and the smaller sample size of games but in general it seems like Onyx 1775 or so is right for you if you're jumping between Onyx 1700 and 1850. "luck of the draw with MM" implies better players won't rise to the top and it's just a crapshoot which isn't true.
If I put you on a GT with a platinum rank right now you'd increase your rank right back up to Onyx whether you were playing solo or not... There's no "luck of the draw" with that. It won't matter if you get some stinkers for teammates because you're just gonna carry your team and win more than you lose anyway because you are significantly better than people at that rank. If it was just "luck of the draw" then if I put you on a plat account you would just stay there because it's out of your control which would'nt happen
ElzarTheBam
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Ahhhh button combo 'glitches'
Sign of a good Halo game.
This isn't an opinion.
Sign of a good Halo game.
This isn't an opinion.
VisceralBowl
Member
Where can I download and check out the new breakout maps?
edit: nvm found a list.
edit: nvm found a list.
Carrying dudes with that 1.8 kda lmao
They said it on the stream.
Feel the Swift
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Don't you know by whether or not you are still unlocking permanents in silver?
Samurai G0SU
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Some games.this morning. Lol i dont like warzone if the opposing team has both spawns on lock with vehicles and snipes. Was such an unfun game on noctus even though we lost 1000 to 770
This is quite frankly an awesome glitch... I consider it a feature... Maps should be designed around it, at this point...
Feel the Swift
Member
It works amazing on Eden when trying to get to rockets first.
Emblems are the only Permanents I have left in Silver. My question is, if I'll now open 20 packs where I get 2 Emblems in each pack or if I'll open like 2 Silver packs and be done with them.
I'll obviously find out when I'm done, but I really have no interest in grinding out Emblems. Least interesting unlocks for me.
backflip10019
Member
Do the new REQs go live the day of the update? Hoarding REQ points now... Almost at 50k already.
Twin Tails
Member
req station loading forever is aways great.
But I mean I didn't start losing ranks from 1850 because I was getting pooped on, I hit a streak of quitters, and had one game that docked me 30 points because it started the match 1v4.
I just think outside of your professional players, if you're playing solo, once you hit Onyx, the actual number ranks mean little because there are so many factors that can play into the number.
It's seems like there is a delay of several hrs from the time the new DLC goes live , and the time people start getting reqs
They take some time to show up. Always F5 the REQ page on Halo Waypoint until they show up. If they are on the page, they are in the game.
Feel the Swift
Member
Trying to get through all of these new community breakout maps. Havoc is my favorite so far.
Same, especially now that I'm getting the crossed swords. As soon as I hit them, no longer care about any emblem. The worst is that the last update added all those number uncommon emblems, thereby making it tougher to unlock what you really want because you end up getting like 8 of those, 3 different types of scout hogs etc.
Poodlestrike
Banned
We'll be playing Halo Wars 2 first.
Forerunner
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As long as most people are active, I could see it happening before the end of the year, probably sooner.
I think we'll have the armor soon, but the helmet? Probably never unless the numbers get adjusted, lol.
Once they add in a social playlist, I could see some of the numbers going up. I could play all day and maybe muster 2 assassinations against competent players.
ElzarTheBam
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Tawpgun, can you demote the leader of the SC? Ya know, since he doesn't even play H5 as his primary game. ;P
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