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Halo 5: Guardians |OT3| Ball Dropped

jfoul

Member
All REQs unlocked. Feels good man.

Same here, I just opened this last Gold Pack. I can now get out of WZ assault zombie mode.

Good news is that a lot of Emblems are unlocked through commendations, not req packs. I'm at 195/254 with Emblems right now.

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Crv756

Banned
I can't find any games in either Slayer, Team Arena or FFA. Is there anyone also experiencing this? I'm from Europe.

Ps. I switched to MCC and found a game instantly.
 

Magwik

Banned
Getting closer and closer to maxing out gold REQs is the best. Upgraded Binary rifle cert, upgraded Splaser cert, 5 mantis certs in a row, it's such a good feeling
 
Man I hope the update is next week can't wait for ball gametypes.

I was reading the update and I kinda got the impression we'd be able to throw the ball to teammates.

I don't remember being able to do that previously (if true) but it would add a whole new dimension to teamplay.
 

Welfare

Member
I was reading the update and I kinda got the impression we'd be able to throw the ball to teammates.

I don't remember being able to do that previously (if true) but it would add a whole new dimension to teamplay.

It's an option that can be turned off and was a feature in Halo 4.
 
It's an option that can be turned off and was a feature in Halo 4.

it made ricochet my favorite gametype to play with friends to be honest.

like wed actually set picks and run routes to pass the ball to eachother.

on haven, the ball would spawn on the bottom floor in the middle. so one person rushes it, turns around, throws it up to the top floor, that person snags it out of the air and long bombs it into the net.

awesome stuff.
 
You know one thing i started noticing, is the lack of ambient sounds in regards to enemy players or vehicles. I never hear anyone coming up on me until its too late. Im either getting meleed or getting splattered when i first hear them. It was never like this is other halo games. I always used to hear footsteps or ghosts coming from far away so at that point i could somewhat prepare, or jump over a ghost, now i barely hear anything anymore.

Is anyone else noticing this?

Edit: Like ghosts, if theyre not in front of me i never hear them coming.
 

Fuchsdh

Member
Platinum feels like the right spot for me, although it's still jarring to swing from getting a coordinated team that wrecks mine to teams who seem like their top player could only be bronze (winning Strongholds games 100-0.)
 

Caja 117

Member
Yesterday I tried to reach Diamond on Arena....., was doing good, until I lost 3 games in a row, I was playing a really bad Halo in that stretch, I decided to put down the controller, and go to sleep, maybe tonight I can get that Diamond.

The Silver pack grinding sure is really slow.
 

Fuchsdh

Member
Yesterday I tried to reach Diamond on Arena....., was doing good, until I lost 3 games in a row, I was playing a really bad Halo in that stretch, I decided to put down the controller, and go to sleep, maybe tonight I can get that Diamond.

The Silver pack grinding sure is really slow.

If you ignore bronzes, you need something like 286 silvers and 155 golds. I don't have the link to where they figured out the Bronze -> Silver -> Gold optimization, but even assuming I haven't unlocked anything silver and bronze at my rate of between 1–2 silver packs a day that's around 190 days or six months remaining. Given that I've bought the weekly pack and a gold bundle, plus the various gold and silver packs I earned before I realized it was smarter to focus bronzes down, I'm wagering I've got another solid three months before I'm done with silvers due to <6 hours weekly playtime.
 
Yesterday I tried to reach Diamond on Arena....., was doing good, until I lost 3 games in a row, I was playing a really bad Halo in that stretch, I decided to put down the controller, and go to sleep, maybe tonight I can get that Diamond.

The Silver pack grinding sure is really slow.
It's terrible...esp if you only really enjoy playing arena. I'm going to switch to WZA for a few days because it's driving me crazy
 
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