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Halo 5: Guardians |OT3| Ball Dropped
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Samurai G0SU
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Forerunner
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solo4life
Samurai G0SU
Member
^never gets laid
YourExWife
Member
Like seriously. The crazy irony is that on "Warzone Saturday" we're making posts saying message if you want to play, hey we're playing, come play and on the same pages people were complaining about playing solo.
Forerunner
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Triscuitable
Member
They stopped because the game had no social playlists at launch, and I'm noticeably better at Halo than they are. Hence, when we matched into ranked games, they'd get stomped because I'm Diamond and they're Bronze and Silver. Additionally, Warzone lost its appeal for them really quickly, so the potential for that mode to be a saving throw was out. They simply found other games to flock to, like Destiny and The Division. I stuck around and found some folks who I occasionally play with, but for the most part I matchmake solo, and would like something like that in Halo 5. CoD has "Mercenary", and Destiny has "Freelance", so something in that vein would be really helpful.
In other news, I got this today! First Legendary drop.
Samurai G0SU
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^ i hate you.
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Wow. Twice within one play session , aka 30 mins, the halo 5 server gods kick me off when i use a rp boost.
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so jealous
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Wow. Twice within one play session , aka 30 mins, the halo 5 server gods kick me off when i use a rp boost.
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#hirefata1moose
Prinz Eugn
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RIP yoga pants
Almost everyone would like a solo-only playlist, but you're taking more effort to write these posts than it would take to scrape a team together. I can't even stream on twitch to my whole 12 followers without some random new person wanting to play. Invite random people who you notice aren't terribad in-game is also a pretty solid way to accrue people as well.
And actually, winning 1000:13 is pretty rewarding, but Warzone actually does seem to try to put parties together. We regularly see obvious clans.
GringoSuave89
Banned
Deputy Moonman
Member
Warzone is not friendly to players just starting out. Once you unlock a long shot br and then the dmr things get a lot better. Takes a while to know how to approach attacking and defending as well as when to go after bosses or stay put. Unfortunately new players may not give it enough of a chance.
I like fatalmoose's playlist selection and im definitely in favor of a solo queue as well.
I like fatalmoose's playlist selection and im definitely in favor of a solo queue as well.
Triscuitable
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If it's any consolation, Mister Chief's face is obscured when using the skin in-game. You only see the sexy, sexy rainbow.
FUNKNOWN iXi
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zZzWAT
That gametype is gutter trash, Stinkles. We all know it's because of you that it's still there.
That gametype is gutter trash, Stinkles. We all know it's because of you that it's still there.
Yeah, hopefully it returns at some point.
Very true lol. Long overdue for 4v4 and 8v8 Action Sack playlists.
Spartan3PC
Member
It's finished.........the Gold pack grind is over. I'm finally up to date. Time to stockpile points for the next update!
EYEL1NER
Member
That sucks. I obtained a Legendary RP Boost earlier and decided to use it right away but was intensely paranoid the entire match that there would be server problems and I would lose it. Thankfully there were no issues.
You still don't have the Ehh, Arr? Git gud and open some packs scrub!
ATOMICJORGE
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Yes I agree the EH... ARR is the best AR skin in the entire game!
Feel the Swift
Member
How does anyone get champion? I don't think it's anything special. As a pro they just have great awareness, when to challenge, and a great shot.
Triscuitable
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> wins game
> "you have lost connection to server"
> wins another game
> "you have lost connection to server"
And now I'm banned from matchmaking. Fix this shit already. It's been happening all day and it's really fucking aggravating.
> "you have lost connection to server"
> wins another game
> "you have lost connection to server"
And now I'm banned from matchmaking. Fix this shit already. It's been happening all day and it's really fucking aggravating.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
There are definitely a lot of pixels hidden in little notches on the horizon sporting longshots and DMRs. Trolly as fuck (because they aren't taking over anything), but expected, I suppose. I still have 54 common pieces left (mostly armor and emblems) so I'm unsure if I want to go through all those with bronze or start opening silvers to try for the better loadouts. The small chance will be there, but when going through bronze a fuckton of certifications opened up before loadouts so I wouldn't be surprised if that happens again.
FUNKNOWN iXi
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Lunchbox is streaming Halo Wars and he's been in this match for like an hour and 20 mins lol. Those good ol' Halo Wars feels :]
EDIT: They just resigned as I posted this.
EDIT: They just resigned as I posted this.
ATOMICJORGE
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New game is starting I wonder if the focus of Halo Wars 2 will be eSports like Halo 5 interesting
aHebrewMenagerie
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1. Make Halo Wars 2 a MOBA
2.?????????
3. PROFIT
2.?????????
3. PROFIT
Poodlestrike
Banned
aw hell naw
Don't you lay that evil on me
Go outside, turn around three times and spit.
You shut your mouth before MS thinks that is a good idea.
ATOMICJORGE
Member
Well I was thinking about this the other day Warzone is already a MOBA sort of I mean we have the basic 2 bases to defend and then is the core, we have AI enemy's and bosses on the map, we have a currency system in the form of REQ levels, we can buy items (reqs) with our current currency and of course we have a team battle it you put the pieces together it makes sense so Halo Wars 2 could become a MOBA
What do you guys think about my theory?
P.S I want Halo Wars 2 to be an RTS game not a MOBA
I remember when we faced that one team on Saturday in Warzone Assault that was made up of members with levels literally greater than SR100 if I recall from multiple spartan companies like Whiskey, some members of the Triple Cap spartan company and members of the Twitch spartan company. If I recall that was one of the games we lost on Saturday.
The next dlc is dropping in early April.
Who had the best spawns + who overcame having he worst spawns.
Sure there's some luck involved. But luck doesn't consistently net a player wins.
Prinz Eugn
Member
Yep. Compare this to Reach, where our party regularly had win streaks of 25 (edit: 25 games) or more. It's not perfect team matching, but it's pretty robust compared to previous games.
You don't have be always 1st to rank up in FFA, I got from Plat 5 to Diamond 1 in FFA without getting 1st once lmao. System works great.
Armor abilities would have been fine if it was limited to one mode like Invasion. I was surprised they didn't see anything wrong with Armor Lock. You can tell it was broken from the first match.
Despite all that, i still like it. Campaign is my favorite after Halo:CE
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jfoul
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Yeah, I don't understand this at all. We have this thread that doesn't move too fast when we're in between content updates. We have a Discord group that's great, but very few use it. We even have a forum for the Spartan Company on WP. Right now this is what we have to work with until 343i integrates the WP SR features into the game, if ever.
Maybe people are a bit shy to join in with others, or think they're above/below skill levels? I think the HaloGAF community could use a separate thread for grouping up. We could list our ranks in playlists, what time of day we play and so on.
Discord App Download (Android, IOS, Windows, WEB UI)
That Discord link doesn't work....
I haven't played reach much because I played it near the end of it's life, but it looked like we were going to win every single match we played in Warzone at one point on Saturday. The matchmaking system was smart enough to pit us against that team eventually.
jfoul
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Looks like the invite link on the first page has expired. I don't know if this will work, but try the one below.
https://discord.gg/0bfhDvCfOJTworhv
Edit: Should be working. Updated the link in the other post
YourExWife
Member
No, you really have no idea. We had nights where we had like 20 steaktaculars in a row.
At least Saturday, we had to win some close ones and come-from-behind and shit. Social matching used to be insane dong-party central. Was it fun? Sure, but it gets boring.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
5th game tonight with a team of 8 that takes everything in under 5 minutes then kill farms for 12 minutes. I don't believe you that it tries to match teams with teams. I'm pretty sure it's completely random.
Edit: I would accept "Sorry you got kill farmed" gold pack commendations.
Edit: I would accept "Sorry you got kill farmed" gold pack commendations.
Almost all of the warzone matches I play are long drawn out matches or quick matches were players don't farm other players and just try to complete the objectives on the map I rarely do get into matches were the enemy team farms the other team. If the enemy team does capture all the bases we usually get at least one of them back.From what I heard what you experienced seems to be common for some people, but others don't experience it as much. I don't think warzone matches you randomly against other players if I recall.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Got disconnected so my friend quit the game, banned from Arena lol. It was his first quit.
Can't wait to find out more. One thing I just thought of is its art style. I hope it doesn't get too busy with details, and I wonder what style it will be based on: classic or new designs.
This one worked. thanks!
Arby 'n' the Chief
Member
Damn you Fun, if it weren't for my dumb teammate spartan charging me right when two reds rushed in for the flag things would have turned out differently.
#robbed
#robbed
Prinz Eugn
Member
It tries, and is much better than older Halo games, but there's only so many people playing on a Monday night in the right regions.
Looking at your actual game history, you are getting beaten, not farmed. Your games are not total blowouts, the losing team got over 700 points 5/8 times tonight. That's better in terms of "evenness" than the 9 games I played last night, where that happened only 4/9 times. And those games were either solo or with two other people, one of which was TCKaos (noted non-pro) and other some dude from twitch who didn't have a mic and was perfectly average anyway.
But your personal performance is umm... well, you should get your internet checked out. If that's fine, you need to adjust your playstyle, because whatever you are doing is not working.
EDIT: Updated numbers.
jfoul
Member
Do you actively talk during matches? From my soling experience, even if I'm the only one doing call outs, my chances of winning increases drastically.