Samurai G0SU
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Halo 5: Guardians |OT4| You picked a helluva week to join up
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Fata1moose
Banned
I used to get matches in 4.5 seconds, 5 is indicative of a dead community.
Feel the Swift
Member
Yeah who knows if anyone would be up to the task let alone 343. Bungie's dark days for sure; and people say 343 don't care.
Fata1moose
Banned
Halo 3 had some pretty awful maps as well. Construct, Snowbound, Epitaph, Isolation and Orbital were all trash.
sir_dany12
Member
Halo 3 is trash
Halo 5 made me not like any of the previous games anymore.
I don't know what Halo 5 game you guys are playing where you get matches in 5 seconds. Just last night it took me almost 3 minutes to get a Fiesta match. Last week when I was playing Breakout I would have to search for 3 - 5 minutes per match (I even got the "Their might not be enough people in this playlist" message a couple times though out the days). BTB on average to around 30 seconds to get a match too, unless it was a JiP game
Fiesta and Breakout are the least popualated playlists and BTB requires more players. Of course you will search longer there.
Scully Scully Scoo
Member
thanks lads, guess i will buy it next week then. i played the beta and i enjoyed it, does team slayer have br/ar starts or ar/magnum? cant stand the latter
Feel the Swift
Member
Sure but maps like Guardian and Narrows made me forget about those. I loved Construct, and snowbound was just pure ignorance but fun.
Sikamikanico
#1 Dad
Anyone up for some map testing customs? 
Fata1moose
Banned
BTB is BR starts. You're in the minority though, most prefer Magnum.
Fata1moose
Banned
Yep, makes Viking unplayable.
Feel the Swift
Member
Keep getting Unable to Match or Problem with the Dedicated Server when queuing for Fiesta.
Fata1moose
Banned
Viking does that all by itself.
#BringBackSidewinder
sir_dany12
Member
So why was Halo 3 so popular?
Honest question.
I dont like it, but I didnt played it at the time
Yeah the art is real nice. I'm tempted to have a mess around and try to Forge something based on it.
Because it's actually a great game.
Gnome Scat
Member
Magnums aren't trash in this game so AR/Mag is fine.
Fata1moose
Banned
AR is useful too. Automatics are actually balanced, something Bungie failed to ever do.
Their is like a small cult on gaf that hate Halo 3.
Everyone else likes it tho. Amazing game.
Fata1moose
Banned
I agree.
Geez.... Players lagging out of multiple pro league qualifing matches already...
Everyone saw this coming but seriously man Pro League on these servers is not gonna go well unless changes are made. I know it's not all on the servers and some it is just gonna be poor connections from the players themselves but the servers have without a doubt gotten worse since launch.
Everyone saw this coming but seriously man Pro League on these servers is not gonna go well unless changes are made. I know it's not all on the servers and some it is just gonna be poor connections from the players themselves but the servers have without a doubt gotten worse since launch.
curiouscharles
Member
Game is healthy af for me in Canada / PNW region too.
For an exclusive shooter in this day and age I'd say it's doing damn well.
For an exclusive shooter in this day and age I'd say it's doing damn well.
ATOMICJORGE
Member
The game population is also healthy in Mexico which is not a surprise, Xbox is the best selling console in Mexico
It was a hell of a lot of fun, there wasn't anywhere near as much competition out. There was CoD 4 and that was about it. So two main titles.
A lot of people, myself included, where at that age where you have lots of free time and playing online was the best way to use it!
And then of course it had the first variation of Forge, and tonnes of amazingly fun custom games, with a big community to play them with. I played as many custom games as I did online matches, and I'm talking a few thousand. Goooooood times.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Simplest answer to that question is that it was inevitable. Halo 1 and Halo 2 sold millions, the franchise was growing in popularity and Halo 3 was the first HD Halo, 2 years after the sexy new Xbox launched.
Halo 3's popularity points to the circumstances surrounding the game, not necessarily the quality of the gameplay. I remember the first time I played Halo 3 on launch, I thought I was playing the wrong gametype with super slow settings, but then I quickly realized what Bungie had done. The beta wasn't too bad, the Carbine was actually decent and the BR sounded more effective, but come launch and seeing how gameplay was worse than the beta, it was quite disappointing.
sir_dany12
Member
Thanks for the answers guys!
Also.
PEGASUS FUCKING SUCKS
Also.
PEGASUS FUCKING SUCKS
Samurai G0SU
Member
Git gud
ATOMICJORGE
Member
sir_dany12
Member
I should pay Snipedown for some lessons
Triscuitable
Member
I have a legitimate dislike for Halo 3's multiplayer that astounds my friends. They love it. Coincidentally, they're the only people I know who are ranked Bronze and Silver in Halo 5.
(Trev, Justin, I love you).
The weapon sandbox was bad. The BR dominated everything up close but immediately fell out of favor at a distance due to random spread and projectiles. TBH, I dig the projectiles, but the random spread could (and did) screw you over up close with the BR.
Moreover, the networking for the game was garbage, and it wasn't uncommon to fire shots that simply disappearing into the aether.
The yugest. The only good thing about those starts is that I've got a Gold Standard BR that I love looking at.
The upside to Pegasus is that the callouts are easy. Everything else about it is pure garbage.
For it's time H3 had some of the best multiplayer of all Halo games and I feel like most of the pros would agree. It was challenging as hell and it was not forgiving at all. But obviously going back now and playing it on MCC, it's just not fun. H5 really changed everything.
Samurai G0SU
Member
H2 > h3
H5 overall though
H5 overall though
sir_dany12
Member
Pegasus is random. With radar is even worst.
Overgrowth suffers from the same. I can spawn between 2 enemies
Overgrowth suffers from the same. I can spawn between 2 enemies
Some people cannot be saved.
Triscuitable
Member
What am I looking at? I'm not the most attentive person.
They called the BR an Assault Rifle. They called the SMG and DMR. They also listed the SharkTooth skin twice in the sheet.
oreomunsta
Banned
Some of y'all need to stop sipping the crazy juice; H3 was terrific.
Some maps weren't that great (Isolation), but the game was so good at the the time. Forge maps were fantastic, too. Anyone else remember one time when they put out a zombie playlist and there was this forge map called Zombie Manor or something like that?
Some maps weren't that great (Isolation), but the game was so good at the the time. Forge maps were fantastic, too. Anyone else remember one time when they put out a zombie playlist and there was this forge map called Zombie Manor or something like that?
YourExWife
Member
Watching both teams' streams, Ninja is making some of the worst plays and challenges. Definitely needs to get his head in the game if they want to win. Last game on rig slayer he has camo and loses the game with a pistol battle trade instead of exploiting the camo they had.