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Halo 5: Guardians |OT4| You picked a helluva week to join up
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NoLongerALurker
Banned
I was able to get a game. I was playing solo and got 7 randoms who of course wouldn't talk. Lost in round 3 during the defend the garage objective. The first 2 rounds were easy. That defend the garage is tough though. So many Promethans in the garage is crazy. Got over 1800 RP for losing in round 3 so that's pretty nice.
ATOMICJORGE
Member
We should play together
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
They hit much harder than that.
Yea that's true but it felt really easy and i played with randoms. Game lasted 11 minutes
I have to add that i only used 1 railgun and a ultra rare fuel rod while teamates had 2 tanks and 1 wraith from what i remember
wow played 1 game and its like playing campaign on easy lol
edit: maybe adjust the difficulty to be something like heroic on campaign and reduce the players from 8 to 6. Ofcourse it's too early to judge based on 1 game
Yeah we had minutes to spare in every wave. Didn't feel challenging in the slightest
ATOMICJORGE
Member
I love that all the Spartans have their custom colors it looks great
ZeezbruhTV
Member
Literally 4 knights, 6 soldiers and 10 crawlers in the base lol.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
Made it down to just Mythic Warden and the server crashed, now can't connect to a game again. I think I'm going to be moderate with REQ use until I can finish games.
Yeah, it's cool. Although, some guys like to make their spartans same colors as promethean soldiers and it can get visually confused in a big crowd.
ATOMICJORGE
Member
2000 Req points for a 12 minute match? say hello to my new grinding playlist!
Blue Ninja
Member
My group of randoms only ran out of time at the last boss, was about half health when the timer was up. Too bad.
It's fun, but it doesn't have the "hunker down and try to survive"-feel of Firefight. I hope they add in a variation that's a bit more like that.
Unfriendly TimeTraveler
Member
Glad the randoms I got put with people who knew what to do. Ended up destroying the warden with 3 tanks and two of them were hannbals.
Forerunner
Member
My group of randoms did really well, beat it in 15 minutes. It was pretty easy.
NoLongerALurker
Banned
The toughest objective by far is defend the garage. Everything else is rather easy.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
Would be easy if all knew:
1) Saws
2) Focus the Phaeton quickly
3) BRs suck vs knights
4) Do not attempt to melee knights
Unfriendly TimeTraveler
Member
Lol funny did none of those thing in defending and got destroyed. Will note this next time. Though I don't think anybody was prepared for defending cause everybody was outside and then like 30 prometheans were in the base after a couple seconds.
Forerunner
Member
Second group did it faster, 13 minutes this time, but we only had 40 seconds left at the end to spare.
It's pretty fun though and it's great for doing commendations.
It's pretty fun though and it's great for doing commendations.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
Your servers are up? Luckyyyyy.
In one of my games I assassinated a walker. Rode on its back and broke it's neck. Didn't even know you could do that.
ATOMICJORGE
Member
We are going to get the Achilles helmet faster with this game mode
Forerunner
Member
My last game was really laggy and I just kept spamming join a game until it worked.
Saucycarpdog
Member
This is what I was worried about. Firefight is supposed to be a survival mode. This feels more like a "complete challenges" mode.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
I laughed at a challenge where you shoot down 4 banshees. They didn't even attack us because they got hurt so bad so quickly they tried to flee to the edge of the map.
Zoso Achilles
Member
BRs don't suck against knights though. Shoot the weak spots (orange glowing bits, the chinks in the armor) and then headshot when it does the scream animation.
buddha0991
Member
This is a lot of fun but I think it should have 3 difficulty modes, Normal, Heroic and Legendary. Also there should be a Firefight Classic mode that is just a survive for as long as you can mode. Maybe to counter the potential huge amount of REQ points you would gain, to enter this playlist you would need to spend some REQ points?
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
In my experience it takes much longer with a BR than doing the same with an SMG or AR, and I see people missing the weak spot with BRs all the time.
Spread a video of disappointment? No thanks.
Gonna try Firefight later, if servers hold up :3
I'm sure they're holding the beta to get some impressions on things to tweak like difficulty and the like, but sorry, if you were hoping for classic Survival Firefight I don't think we're going to get it. It's called Warzone Firefight for a reason, and the time attack-based setup is far more forgiving for a matchmaking scenario. The problem with Firefight is that it is utterly unredeemable with randoms, and that's a hard sell from a resources standpoint.
I'd take a non-matchmaking multi co-op version of regular Warzone with this in matchmaking to sell those REQs.
NoLongerALurker
Banned
Just lost cause Watchers healed the mythic Warden a couple of times. It had just a tiny bit of health and then full health with 30 seconds left. Heartbreaking..
ATOMICJORGE
Member
So far I'm really enjoying Warzone Firefight my only complains is that I really find it very easy and that the game should last more like 5 rounds more, oh and I like that idea about the Skulls
The Henery
Member
Could say the same about most of the PvP playlists if my recent experiences are anything to go by. Tis a good point you make though, ODST style firefight will likely never return.
Samurai G0SU
Member
I wonder if they will have two firefight varients. one that is just 5 matches and one that is pure survival per round?
Traitor! Playing as a Promethean could be cool though. #Halo6
ZeezbruhTV
Member
Decent mode, cant wait to see where they take it for Halo 6. I don't think its going to evolve to anything more than AI on Warzone maps with some generic objectives.
EYEL1NER
Member
Bout to try it out. Looked at that Mythic REQ bundle for all of one second before I said nope. Not that I have the REQ points to get one, but probably could hit that number before the beta is over. But hell, that is 16 Silver packs. I guess those Mythic weapons would be good for WZ Firefight but I probably wouldn't end up using them in that, especially if I didn't have the accompanying certs and wouldn't get another for a while for the majority of what I unlocked.
Abinash117
Member
343 can add an objective that is basically a survival objective, but 343 would probably have to change the respawning mechanic. Is the failing condition only the time running out?
Forerunner
Member
Spamming this all weekend!
It's fun.
The xp and req are good.
Going to finish a ton of commendations.
It's fun.
The xp and req are good.
Going to finish a ton of commendations.
EYEL1NER
Member
Hell yeah. My soldier and crawler commendations jumped up a ton and I netted 1800 REQ points even though my team lost on Wave 3 when the garage fell. This is my game for the weekend (minus quick games of Griball and WZ Assault for my dailies).