Halo 5: Guardians |OT5| Is HaloGAF irrelevant now?
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Feel the Swift
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GG..we worked them.
It's nice but I know after a few matches it'll be sweaty town again and there would be no reason to play. For me at least.
They need to get rid of the hidden skill matching in social unless they already did that with this update.
ZeezbruhTV
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NoLongerALurker
Banned
After fiddling around with my settings in customs for about half an hour, I jumped into another social game and my aiming felt much better.
Is that for the new server browser?
I'd really love that.
I knew what this was gonna be before I clicked, lol
Yeah, that shit can't be intentional.
lol same
Feel the Swift
Member
Pegasus II definitely lags outside around the loop.
Based 343
is "heavy aim" input lag?
Yes.
ZeezbruhTV
Member
IM ACTUALLY HAVING FUN, I CAN ACTUAL AIM EFFORTLESSLY, I CAN ACTUALLY WIN AR VS PISTOLS OMGGGGGGGGGG
NoLongerALurker
Banned
Lol I heard somebody say the same thing in a game I was just in. Dude was hilarious.
sir_dany12
Member
Did you have to adjust your settings?
Nollemaster
Member
I was expecting something cool but the QR code on one of the new billboards just goes to Halo waypoint :')
ZeezbruhTV
Member
Nope, I might later. Stayed with my usual 1 horizon, 3 vertical, 3 accel.
sir_dany12
Member
Believing that 343 would remove that Kappa
NoLongerALurker
Banned
Yup. I matched with Vetoed my pervious game and now I matched Eco.
Triscuitable
Member
Anyone up for a few matches of Social Skirmish later?
What's the point of social with hidden ranks?
_/¯
))Feel the Swift
Member
The one Slayer match I tried to join from the CGB I got kicked. Lol RIP
Hmmh, seeing that Forge also didn't get the FOV update (which was planned according to Tom French) makes me believe that they also forgot the aim update...
BECAUSE, aiming actually feels good on Xbox One. Totally different from what I played on PC earlier today. On PC, and I told this my 8 viewers in the stream aswell, it still felt like you were dragging your aim through mud.
Also 1st match on Orion II. I meet a friend of a friend and Detective from GAF. Small world.
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Bug report:
When in Multiplayer screen, you can use RB to switch from Ranked, Social and Warzone. However, you can't switch back with LB and go back from Warzone to Social or to Ranked anymore. You also can't reach Custom Games or Custom Game Browser.
BECAUSE, aiming actually feels good on Xbox One. Totally different from what I played on PC earlier today. On PC, and I told this my 8 viewers in the stream aswell, it still felt like you were dragging your aim through mud.
Also 1st match on Orion II. I meet a friend of a friend and Detective from GAF. Small world.
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Bug report:
When in Multiplayer screen, you can use RB to switch from Ranked, Social and Warzone. However, you can't switch back with LB and go back from Warzone to Social or to Ranked anymore. You also can't reach Custom Games or Custom Game Browser.
LunaticPuma
dresses business casual
To avoid/minimize steam rolls. Usually social ranks have broader matching for skill to make matches start faster.
Bungie did it too. It's not anything new.
ZeezbruhTV
Member
Now that we can aim, BR and Sniper need a magnetism nerf, pretty insane now.
Prinz Eugn
Member
Theoretically, I assume it's because it would be a really shitty experience for everybody but the best players after a while. Getting wrecked ain't fun, so bad players are going to stop playing (since they'd be playing their betters much more often than with skill matching).
Your average skill is going to go up as bad players leave, meaning more and more players are going to be consistently losing and then stop playing, until you have evaporated your population to the very intense and the very masochistic.
That being said, tight skill matching in Social defeats the purpose. It needs to be ballpark, not people whose names you recognize. Everybody knows what to expect in social, to a point. Casual players can brush off losses since it doesn't matter, and good players can try as hard as they want without consequence.
You have to have some sort of hidden rank. If for nothing else to have balanced teams.
So if you cast the wide enough to match get 4 hidden golds and 4 hidden onyx in a match, that's fine. But it would be a better experience for all if there were two onyx on each team. You couldn't balance a team unless the system learned something about each players abilities.
Those are valid concerns, but I still think that social should be like the wild west which only prioritizes connection. Some matches will be stomps, but most will not be,
Nollemaster
Member
It's perfect.
Gnome Scat
Member
Can't wait to try this out to see if I feel a difference.
#1 Priority SHOULD be connection quality. But match quality should ALWAYS be a concern. Why should a dev intentionally allow for a shitty experience? That would be like not having pay restrictions in a ranked playlist :kappa:
I find it "weird" try hard players complain about matching other try hard players in social. As if it's evidence that the system is broken. Even if it was the wild west, that would happen. More importantly, if they simply didn't try so hard all the time, their hidden mmr wouldn't be so high.
BizzyBum
Member
I don't know, I'm not really seeing a huge difference in aiming personally. I guess it's slightly better, but going by those tweets a week ago it made it sound like it was a total overhaul. It's still not close to being as clean as other shooters.
Also, wasn't there supposed to be a Mythic Firefight? I just see Heroic and Legendary. I tried out Legendary and didn't notice it being any harder.
Also, wasn't there supposed to be a Mythic Firefight? I just see Heroic and Legendary. I tried out Legendary and didn't notice it being any harder.
I think Firefight enemies were previously set to legendary. Then they toned then back for Heroic Firefight.
NoLongerALurker
Banned
I think I read that Mythic Firefight is a weekend only playlist.