Not sure but I wish I'd saved my packs till the end of the 7 weeks when they would start spitting out good stuff.
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Halo 5: Guardians |OT2| All Hail The Conquering Hero
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Not sure but I wish I'd saved my packs till the end of the 7 weeks when they would start spitting out good stuff.
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Yay. My campaign save is fucked now. Keep crashing back to the dash. Thanks 343.
same. starting the mission over didnt fix it. when i die, the game crashes. when i resume, the game crashes.
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Fucking useless. How can a studio comprised of highly paid, mostly poached talent, consistently produced AAA titles with so many BASIC issues?
- Playing online
- Functioning achievemevents
- Functioning campaign
Why is it so hard for them?
Ninja Sharingan
Banned
I feel ya man. I love this franchise... I hate seeing whats happening from a technical stand point.
Ninja Sharingan
Banned
The game is exactly what I wanted it to be from a gameplay perspective. 6locjed 60 fps is a dream. But technical issues need fixing
Speedy Blue Dude
Banned
As much as I love Halo 5 and think it's the best competitive Halo game yet, If someone asked me if I think 343 has done a terrible job with the franchise, I would still give a firm yes.
They did great with Halo 5, but it took them two awful Reach Map packs, then doubling down on awful Reach design with Halo 4, them completely ruining Halo 2's Anniversary Project and releasing a broken game with Master Chief Collection.
I still think giving 343 the keys to this beloved franchise was a mistake, and unless 343 just completely knocks it out of the park again with Halo 6, I won't change my mind. However, like I said, if Halo 6 is phenomenal, 343 has earned my love.
They did great with Halo 5, but it took them two awful Reach Map packs, then doubling down on awful Reach design with Halo 4, them completely ruining Halo 2's Anniversary Project and releasing a broken game with Master Chief Collection.
I still think giving 343 the keys to this beloved franchise was a mistake, and unless 343 just completely knocks it out of the park again with Halo 6, I won't change my mind. However, like I said, if Halo 6 is phenomenal, 343 has earned my love.
PetulantChild
Banned
How dare people be mad when basic functions of the game don't work!
NoLongerALurker
Banned
Strongholds on Guillontine is just not fair for red team. Blue team has such a huge advantage. The have easy access to both blue yard and cargo. Which gives them easy access to sniper and camo. Rockets are 50/50, depending on how many push cargo. Tower one is just all by itself in a corner and pointless. Blue team also has an easier shot at the Mantis and spartan laser because of the man cannon. Something needs to be done 343. This is such an obvious issue.
Forerunner
Member
Still no Vale or Linda helm/armor, but Buck is cool too! So decent WZ bundle this week.
Golgo 13
The Man With The Golden Dong
Forerunner
Member
Decent? That's an insane come up -- 3 Legendary items in 2 packs is just "decent"?
Actually it's five legendary items!
But I have most of everything, so I'm just expecting to get Ultra Rare and Legendary.
Arby 'n' the Chief
Member
*gets third place moves down 20 places in rank*
the ranking system in FFA is just ugh especially if you're in onyx tier, should be like lone wolves where top 3 players benefit once the match ends
the ranking system in FFA is just ugh especially if you're in onyx tier, should be like lone wolves where top 3 players benefit once the match ends
Had a first tonight in Breakout. At the start of the round there was a DMR glitched into the ground next to where it spawns.
http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Cee5aw/video/12874014
http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Cee5aw/video/12874014
Speedy Blue Dude
Banned
I legit can not find a match in Big Team Battle... Is the population that low that I can find 15 other players? I know it's late night for most of America... But really? A triple AAA game has a population this low? .-.
Gnome Scat
Member
Got an Ultra Rare Magnum skin. Never gonna use it, but still cool I guess.
Arby 'n' the Chief
Member
just found a match in 5 seconds, what region are you in?
I have never had to wait longer than 30 seconds or so to find a match. If issue persists maybe try a hard reset. Seems to fix a lot of weird problems.
Speedy Blue Dude
Banned
United States.
Weird, game is even giving me an error message saying there's not enough people to match make a game. Guess I'll hard reset my Xbox.
The Antitype
Banned
Oooooooh, 8 hour ban. Now it's serious business.
'But please, while you're banned, keep playing our garbage Warzone mode, where last shot kills game-changing bosses, nullifying team-play. And be sure to buy some REQ packs if you're EXTRA stupid'.
'But please, while you're banned, keep playing our garbage Warzone mode, where last shot kills game-changing bosses, nullifying team-play. And be sure to buy some REQ packs if you're EXTRA stupid'.
It might be a tired argument to you. But for us solo players who love playing this game, but are getting fed up with the matchmaking, the argument is still extremely relevant. Just let solo players play other solo players.
Bornstellar
Member
Fixed your username for you.
Should be an hour longer for all the non-constructive complaining you do. You would allready be banned until Halo 6 lol
seems like they did you a favor
inoperativ
Member
Play Halo 1 and 2. If they take longer to complete than Halo 5 I'll be very surprised, they're both about 30% shorter on Heroic for me. 5 is about as long as 3 and Reach. Running past enemies is an option in all Halo games...
Twilight Gap
Member
i'll ignore fanboys before i ignore haters because critical discussion is healthy. but there is a point where criticism becomes whining and i think antitype has long passed that threshold. it's hard to read this thread now and not even i could stomach a game if i were to complain about it to that extent.
SmartWaffles
Member
That's what ignore list is for though.
Yep, anyone that thinks 5 is shorter than previous games are just delusional, length wise it is just about perfect, slightly shorter than 3 but on par with Reach I think, definitely longer than CE, 2 and 4.
Twilight Gap
Member
Eh, i give people the benefit of the doubt first. i don't disagree with most of the criticism, but there's no discussion to be had in posts like "343 has no talent." Come on now.
Red Team has high ground and better access to vehicles though, and it's so easy to spawn trap Blue team. I don't want to play that gametype ever again.
LinkToTheFuture
Member
I agree with this. Calling 343i names & being disrespectful is utterly childish. There is nothing wrong with criticizing where it is deserved but people over react way to much over a simple form of entertainment & insult / disrespect people over it, its just really silly.
You can tell people problems about something they made without insulting them. Its not hard.
inoperativ
Member
Agreed. It's ridiculous that they've managed to mess up the single player for a bunch of people with a multi player patch but shit happens, complain loudly and it will no doubt get fixed quickly. There's absolutely no value in being a dick about it though.
Re: 343's overall performance with the Halo series, I think it could have been much better but in hindsight I guess it was insane to expect a completely new studio to be able to take over the job from one of the best studios in the world without some serious missteps happening. I also MUCH prefer this solution to keeping Bungie on the job -- Destiny shows that they're just not interested in making games I like any more, and that's okay, at least this way I still get Halo games that play better than ever even if there are some technical issues. I am also very impressed by how seriously 343 take (constructive) fan feedback which partly makes up for some of the problems.
Twilight Gap
Member
indeed, 343 are very attentive to feedback, which is all the more reason not to be bitter about it, especially this soon after launch.
The Antitype
Banned
Ok, you want constructive criticism?
If you want to curb or significantly decrease quitting, give players the option to hide all stats outside their ranking.
You make players individual records easily viewable online via website, app and in-game, then you incentivized a dick-measuring contest. To the shock of nobody (aside from 343i, of course, but they're clearly the last to consider anything), players are happy to quit when it means making their e-peen look bigger at a passing glance.
This is the direct result of a design philosophy built around catering to the least important populace in gaming ('pros').
It's pretty easy to have your cake and eat it too in this case. Let the 'pros' show off their stats as much as they want, let anybody who wants to set their stats to private do so. Assuming 343i's matchmaking means fuck all (spoiler: it doesn't, take it from a platinum that's been going up against diamonds and onyxs most of the weekend... but let's operate on the premise they make it functional), then the only front-facing information necessary is the rank. It's enough to show whether you 'belong' in the match or not, and give a general idea of your skill level relative to your peers, teammates and opposition.
But for the love of god, fire every single person involved in the multiplayer UI at 343i. Don't even bother giving them the courtesy of cleaning out their locker. Just dump their shit somewhere over Siberia and let them go look for it, it will keep them busy for awhile and spare all of us ever having to experience their work again. Hire some kids out of the Art Institute at a bargain rate, give them a copy of Reach and tell them to copy it as closely as possible.
You give players the ability to hide a K/D they're shy about, you remove the incentive to bail on a match where 343i's currently wretched matchmaking ensures their K/D is going to get the prison shower treatment.
Simple.
Extra points if your provide players with the option to wipe their stats back to zero and erase all the hellish history of being bent over and violated by your goddamn worthless placement and matchmaking systems.
EDIT:
Bonus constructive criticism: Leave your 'vision' or whatever at the door, and scrap last-shot kills in Warzone. It's been panned by pretty much every community I've seen discuss the mode. It's terrible, frustrating, actively disincentives team coordination, and - given the impact that 150VP bosses have on the outcome - makes Warzone a roulette wheel instead of a skill-based enterprise. Considering the mode is already significantly impacted by the cards that players have at their disposal (which is obviously random), I'd say limiting other random factors is a necessity.
If you don't want damage dealt to be the deciding factor, then use DPS and change the color of that yellow icon that denotes their position on the map to the color of whichever team is dealing the higher DPS at that moment. Whichever team is dealing the higher DPS at the time of the final shot, earns the kill.
That way, if I'm on the red team and I see that the boss is at half-health and his icon is blue, I know I need to get my ass over their and maybe burn a req card to try and even the odds. Or maybe I need to decide whether to deal damage to the boss, or try and take out the guys dealing the damage.
But at least I fucking know who is going to get credit for that kill instead of spamming shots at the boss and crossing my goddamn fingers.
evanswolves
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This week's reqs xboxclips.com/evanswolves82/3a13ee6f-dc3f-49a1-a56d-884298926f35
dmr a new stance and some armour, love the viper venom armour
dmr a new stance and some armour, love the viper venom armour
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