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Halo 5: Guardians |OT5| Is HaloGAF irrelevant now?
- Thread starter sir_dany12
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Great event. I think i saw 40k viewers on twitch with halo at #1 during game 7.
Shame about the reload glitch. I saw it happen in lethuls stream once with a pistol. It probably was never deemed important enough to be a priority fix, i bet that changes now.
Anyway, congrats to Envy. They played out of their minds in order to beat Optic in 2 series back to back.
Shame about the reload glitch. I saw it happen in lethuls stream once with a pistol. It probably was never deemed important enough to be a priority fix, i bet that changes now.
Anyway, congrats to Envy. They played out of their minds in order to beat Optic in 2 series back to back.
BizzyBum
Member
Yep, 343 is aware of it. https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/5hun52/profile_sync_error/
Regarding that reload glitch, it's super unfortunate but Frosty should have still killed Huke with the carbine.
Good to know it wasn't on my end. Thanks for the link!
BizzyBum
Member
LOL! Amazing
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
jizzlobber
Member
Woah, this Simms hate is rough!
Ok he may not be as knowledgeable as T2 but at least he is trying to be entertaining... to be honest I find T2 incredibly boring and snobby, and Walsh/strongside fumble with their words to the point where they look unprofessional and awkward, Elamite is decent.
One thing I noticed when watching the recent Rocket League world championship was the castors were so much more entertaining than the H5 castors which made the event so much more exciting and thrilling to watch.
Simms is a similar style of commentator imo.
Ok he may not be as knowledgeable as T2 but at least he is trying to be entertaining... to be honest I find T2 incredibly boring and snobby, and Walsh/strongside fumble with their words to the point where they look unprofessional and awkward, Elamite is decent.
One thing I noticed when watching the recent Rocket League world championship was the castors were so much more entertaining than the H5 castors which made the event so much more exciting and thrilling to watch.
Simms is a similar style of commentator imo.
Normally I'd agree with you, but he really felt boring and uninspired during this series. He's alright usually, though.
Is there a better way to celebrate my return to Halo 5 than by betraying my buddy like this ?
Man, BTB feels pretty good after being away from it for so long.
Man, BTB feels pretty good after being away from it for so long.
Triscuitable
Member
Halo-hating friends asked me to play Battlefront with them tonight instead of Halo 5.
I'm so sorry. I'll never do it again.
I'm so sorry. I'll never do it again.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
Is White Cell considered a good map around here?
I was constantly getting shot or rushed right off spawn. Not a good first impression.
ugh this game is so spastic lol. Just incredibly aggressive. Fun to watch, but I'm just not feeling it right now.
I was constantly getting shot or rushed right off spawn. Not a good first impression.
ugh this game is so spastic lol. Just incredibly aggressive. Fun to watch, but I'm just not feeling it right now.
Triscuitable
Member
So sick of this shit.
How on earth has this game been out for over a year, and these constant disconnects still happen? This isn't an "oh that sucks I was disconnected" kind of deal. This is an "oh, I was disconnected yet again, for the second time today, on my stellar internet connection." Wired. 120Mbps down. 15Mbps up. No packet loss. Minimal ping to my ISP. And yet, this. Constantly. Predictably.
This bullshit doesn't happen in Gears 4. Or Titanfall 2. Or Battlefield 1. Or even Battlefront. But it happens a fucking LOT in Halo 5, and I am so goddamn sick of it. I don't give a damn about any of the updates Halo 5 adds if I can't play the game without having to roll the dice on whether or not investing my time and effort into the game is even going to be WORTH IT, since I might just get kicked by crappy servers!
And the cherry on top is that this could compound and result in me being banned from Warzone matchmaking for no fault of my own, because the game still doesn't differentiate between server errors and quitting from the options menu.
How on earth has this game been out for over a year, and these constant disconnects still happen? This isn't an "oh that sucks I was disconnected" kind of deal. This is an "oh, I was disconnected yet again, for the second time today, on my stellar internet connection." Wired. 120Mbps down. 15Mbps up. No packet loss. Minimal ping to my ISP. And yet, this. Constantly. Predictably.
This bullshit doesn't happen in Gears 4. Or Titanfall 2. Or Battlefield 1. Or even Battlefront. But it happens a fucking LOT in Halo 5, and I am so goddamn sick of it. I don't give a damn about any of the updates Halo 5 adds if I can't play the game without having to roll the dice on whether or not investing my time and effort into the game is even going to be WORTH IT, since I might just get kicked by crappy servers!
And the cherry on top is that this could compound and result in me being banned from Warzone matchmaking for no fault of my own, because the game still doesn't differentiate between server errors and quitting from the options menu.
No idea, the only time I disconnect is when the match starts to load (on the lobby screen) and only when I play with someone on the other side of the world (I'm an Aussie).
Didn't actually know this was a problem because I haven't suffered from a disconnect in at least a month.
Maybe it has something to do with your Search Preference being Expanded or something so you're getting placed on servers too far from where you live? Otherwise no idea.
Triscuitable
Member
Once more, but with server kicking. To make things better, this was a meager two games later.
Always Focused. Never not Focused. Open NAT, low ping to my ISP, no packet loss.
Always Focused. Never not Focused. Open NAT, low ping to my ISP, no packet loss.
jizzlobber
Member
wesleyshark
Banned
Simms is my favorite Halo caster, I'd say. He's very entertaining
jizzlobber
Member
Getting plenty of opportunities to use the grenade launcher in super fiesta... really cool weapon, 100% should replace the plasma castor in team arena/HCS.
The Real Napsta
Member
I like Simms. I really like all of the current casters. I really miss Chris Puckett though.
Feel the Swift
Member
I'm not a big fan at all
Fata1moose
Banned
It'd feel a lot better if they'd fix the frame rate issues. That problem has persisted through a major update, which is unacceptable.
Also remove Basin and go back to the second version of Deadlock. While they're changing the map pool they could add Avalanche. Oh and pistol starts.
Yes, framerate is far from perfect, I agree. As for map specifics, I never played BTB on Halo 5 before this update, so I can't say much on that. But I would love to play a remake of Avalanche, that's for sure !
Well, sorry for being too optimistic, must be some kind of honeymoon feeling caused by my fresh return as casual player for now.
VincentMatts
Member
So after doing a custom games night with 6 people this weekend, i have to say, there is not enough variety for gametypes.
Also, does KOTH not work on any of the 343 maps? Couldnt get it to work once. And oddball is really missing here. I had no idea how to create it or if its even possible.
At one point we were only 5 people and i couldnt even get breakout to work.
Custom games needs some work.
Also, does KOTH not work on any of the 343 maps? Couldnt get it to work once. And oddball is really missing here. I had no idea how to create it or if its even possible.
At one point we were only 5 people and i couldnt even get breakout to work.
Custom games needs some work.
I'm still incredibly mad they ruined Breakout. Is there anyone that was complaining about Breakout earlier that actually likes it now? Because from my experience everyone I know including myself who used to LOVE Breakout now absolutely hate it. It was my favourite playlist in Halo 5 and I'm so disappointed to see it gone.
Personally I like it more the way it is now, with the possible exception of the fact that you return the flag to your own base to score rather than the other way around and the motion tracker.
blue_phazon
Member
I forgot breakout existed lol
I love it. Simple, old school, easy to figure out.
Returning the flag to the base is 100% better than pushing with it.
Its a big factor in preventing the incredibly campy nature of the previous version of Breakout. Before if the enemy team grabbed the flag you could just sit back and wait for them to come to you. The flag was basically pointless. Now if the enemy grabs the flag youre forced to push forward otherwise theyll score easily.
Going by the wording on Tom French's Twitter, Halo 5 dev time is pretty close to being done. Luckily we got this update before they fully stopped!
At this point there is very little doubt in my mind that Halo 5 will be used as the base for Halo 6 MP, just way too much stuff to do again from scratch
At this point there is very little doubt in my mind that Halo 5 will be used as the base for Halo 6 MP, just way too much stuff to do again from scratch
That's really exciting though isn't it? The thought that this could be near the entry point for Halo 6 with updated graphics and all their dev time going into making incredible maps, campaign, enemies, modes, etc.
The flag was never pointless. They only added the objective as a secondary win condition to prevent players from camping as soon as they were at a numbers disadvantage.
The primary win condition was eliminating the enemy team.
Samurai G0SU
Member
You just hope the next iteration of this engine is a substantial upgrade in visuals and animation.
i find the layout really confusing. only played on it 4 or 5 times, but still. few maps take me more then a couple games to "get"
Not bad!
#WeBack
Wait what happened? I watched some and it sat arround 10.000. But needed to go to bed.
Samurai G0SU
Member
itll be a tricky thing for them. To move everything from the halo 5 mp over to a new title and having people not question it.
Some might argue they are lazy and brought nothing new to MP. Where others will see this as tremendous value keeping the mp as a platform with additions, not rehauls moving forward.
You could see gaming website taglines like;
Halo 6 - play all of your halo 5 maps and more with updated engine!
Halo 6 - What did they do with all that time for multiplayer?
Halo 6 - We wanted something new, not Halo 5.5
Halo 6 - The multiplayer platform we didnt know we needed! Is this the future?
you get the jist. I think this will be very interesting to watch. to see what the 343i team chooses to do when talking about the features of the next halo mainline game.
Some might argue they are lazy and brought nothing new to MP. Where others will see this as tremendous value keeping the mp as a platform with additions, not rehauls moving forward.
You could see gaming website taglines like;
Halo 6 - play all of your halo 5 maps and more with updated engine!
Halo 6 - What did they do with all that time for multiplayer?
Halo 6 - We wanted something new, not Halo 5.5
Halo 6 - The multiplayer platform we didnt know we needed! Is this the future?
you get the jist. I think this will be very interesting to watch. to see what the 343i team chooses to do when talking about the features of the next halo mainline game.
Pushing the flag to the enemy base doesnt help with that though. If you lose a player you sit back and let the enemy push the flag to you.
With the current setup if you kill an enemy theres an actual advantage to grabbing the flag. Before there wasnt one.
Feel the Swift
Member
You'll hear bitching either way. "Not enough changes" or "changes don't work, why fix what isn't broken".
I hope they bring back more of a gritty feeling to the visuals and animation for H6.
I hope they bring back more of a gritty feeling to the visuals and animation for H6.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
agreed. I tried the new breakout and every round the other team nabbed the flag immediately. I preferred the elimination focus instead of the panic flag focus.
Meh, perhaps breakout was just not a good fit for Halo.
edit: For Halo 6, I wonder if they have been able to improve their engine. When I see games like BF1/Gears 4/Infinite Warfare, I'm pretty underwhelmed by Halo 5's look.
Or like almost every other elimination based game, whatever team has more people alive at the end of the round gets the w for that round. You could even make it a custom game setting for the mode, if for some reason you're a fan of the tactical tie: Most players at end of round wins: [yes/no]
Fata1moose
Banned
I really like White Cell. Nice sight lines, not saturated with power weapons.
Speaking of which, in customs I tested my Mercy tweaks.
-Beam Rifle > OS (Open Ramp)
-Removed the Hammer
-Saw> Grenade Launcher (Closed Ramp)
It plays really nicely. Top mid has more flavor w as you don't have to worry about getting sniped.
Prinz Eugn
Member
I've had that in the past with some maps, where I subjectively had a hard time understanding the layout, and others found it simple. Good example is overgrowth, although now it's easy for me. I bet there's a brain science about it