I don't know what the changes they made were to server choice, but it's not good for morning US players. Last game I was shooting a guy still clambering and there's bullet fire coming from where he would be if he already made the jump. We both died simultaneously, and I'm getting more simultaneous weapon kills.
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Halo 5: Guardians |OT3| Ball Dropped
- Thread starter BraXzy
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Breakout is not bad, but when you play it on the team arena playlist, for some reason is just feel out of place, is like the momentum shift to a passive gameplay, I think it has to do with having one spawn per round. if you die first, you could easily be an spectator for 2 minutes, its gets boring fast after you played a couple of heart pumping stronghold matches.
Mar. 15-17 Halo World Championship Prelims
Mar. 19-20 - Halo World Championship Finals
So a month and a half from now. Probably a month from the ball update.
Forerunner
Member
I can see them allowing it if its 3 weeks of preparation, but I don't think the organizer of the event would integrate a new gametype in such a small timeframe
I'm super tempted to pick that up, but I never played the first one. Hmm. Might have to watch a stream on it and decide.
Yeah it's still a weird change of pace/approach. If I'm in the mood for Breakout, I go into the Breakout playlist and get into the rhythm of it. It coming up once every 10 games is super weird, happened last night in the group I was running with and we did pretty bad because we just had no flow.
That makes sense.
If we had actually played a game on the map i would be able to provide better feedback but the focus of yesterday's stream was to test if my connection could hold up for 3 hours (it did, but with 2 disconnects from Twitch) so i didn't want to do any serious map testing.
Yes, and like the poster I quoted said, its poison because you will find a lot of AFK or quiters or people just shooting at you... basically trolls that just dont want to play that and will just make the game a one sided affair.
I dont even think its server selection tbh. I think its the other changes theyve been making. Just a guess though... I dont have much knowledge of networking I just know that from my experiences gaming when devs go for the "compensate higher pings better" route it usually turns out for the worst. Its one of those better in theory type of solutions.
Played my first matches since December today. The big break + some sleepless nights with our new baby have stripped what little Halo skill I had. Game felt so fast I could hardly keep up! Finally crossed off all of my common Reqs though which is good, time to move on to silver packs.
Edit: Is there any room in the HaloGAF spartan company? The one I'm in atm is pretty dead and I'll be getting back into the swing of things soon.
Edit: Is there any room in the HaloGAF spartan company? The one I'm in atm is pretty dead and I'll be getting back into the swing of things soon.
So can anyone at 343 fix Custom Games chat. There is no way right now to communicate with more than 12 players
While they're at it, I would appreciate custom games gametype selection being fixed. It's so annoying having to do workarounds and picking the wrong base gametype for something and it just messes up.
Why can't they just work :'(
X-Com is a fucking fantastic RTS. BUY IT.
Yeah, that's probably it. It actually has me yearning for the old days of peer to peer on a good connection, because there wasn't any lag compensation(or if there was, it was minimal).
Poodlestrike
Banned
I may just have to. But then I'll play even less Halo xD
A second Spartan Company has got Achilles armour. What are we doing guys!
Not me P2P is just awful... And no matter what changes or updates they could make with P2P it would still be awful lol
blue_phazon
Member
I'm guessing it's just removing arena breakout, and putting the original maps back in normal breakout.
Don't get too excited
Arena Breakout being removed from Team Arena is plenty to be excited about for some of us.
Leyasu
Banned
Oooh. I have a feeling Breakout might be getting the original maps and the community voted ones added in? But then again they might not have had time to fine tune them. I'd hope the revert back at least.
And yeah Arena Breakout from Team Arena is probably another thing. Permanent Sniper playlist too please?
Banned from Discord
Forerunner
Member
Please add Community TS or Arena today!
Not going to happen.
Forge maps?
H2 BR replace the original please
pls no
If Ram or Tawp says they are full up with active players, feel free to bide your time here:
https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/spartan-companies/haloslaent
I've considered renaming the company but only Cliq has those permissions at the moment
SmartWaffles
Member
God no H2 BR is super OP against pistols, it'll significantly reduce the skill cap.
Samurai G0SU
Member
Does the H2BR shoot faster than the H5 version or am i tripping?
Deputy Moonman
Member
It's pretty ridiculous when it takes 3 wins in a row just to move up from gold 2 to gold 3. At that rate I might as well bend over playing solo.
Forerunner
Member
It depends on who you play, the tougher the competition the faster you rank up. I went from Diamond three to Diamond four in two games because I was playing against Onyxes. Other times it has taken me three to four games because I'm getting matched with Plats and Golds.
IIRC fire rate is the same, but reload speed, shot spread and bullet magnetism are a little different than H5 BR.
EDIT: H5 BR actually has a *slightly* faster TTK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG11BbBt05o
The Jackdog
Member
https://twitter.com/quinndelhoyo/status/695292506330648576?s=09
forgeforgeforgeforgeforge maps please
forgeforgeforgeforgeforge maps please
Oh yeah? Shit I thought it was just a reskin! What's different about it?
Forerunner
Member
The bullet magnetism on the H2 BR is ridiculous, it's like having aim bot.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
Congrats on your new baby =)
SmartWaffles
Member
Halo 2 level bullet magnetism, it is like 10 times easier to get perfect kills than the H5 BR.
In 60fps, on actual dedicated servers.
king grimlock
Member
So just like playing halo 2 then?
Steelyuhas
Member
It's ez mode bullet magnetism
link1201
Member
I'd love to see some new maps in btb.
Halo 5 has the worst BTB maps ever. Honestly, BTB feels like an after-thought.
Because it was
Either it was an afterthought or they truly thought leaving it up to forge was an good idea all along
link1201
Member
It is but if they are going to do forge maps exclusively I'd like some better/different ones. Antifreeze can take a hike for example.