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Halo 5: Guardians |OT5| Is HaloGAF irrelevant now?

op_ivy

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I bought voices of war, clg, evil geniuses, envyus, liquid, and allegiance packs. Dont think i bought any pure req packs. Happy to support a game i love and the esports scene.
 

Karl2177

Member
So for how long is this helmet pack gonna be available? I was under the impression that it would stay up, but now I'm worried I'll have to start hoarding like crazy (I'm at 5k RP lol) to get it in time...
It'll be there until Microsoft pulls the plugs on the servers.
 
I bet the req system made this one of the most profitable halos of all despite the declining sales.

Which is why I'm surprised at how many technical issue have cropped up and persisted over time. Its extremely counter productive when you've got a system that can encourage players to repeatedly spend.

I've never seen a game degrade like this.

I'm also suprised that there havent been more digital promotions (sales, free weekends, trials)... would help with req revenue.

Shatters my mind 343 has sat here and slowly let population issues make the game leagues worse than launch. Make it f2p/$15 and quadruple your REQ revenue easily.
 

IHaveIce

Banned
Halo 6 F2P with RNG loot crates.

they better not make it again as in Halo 5 that you are guaranteed an Unlock if you still haven't everything.

They should have gone full CS GO and made some stuff afwully rare and hard to get, and being able to sell or bet it on HCS matches.
 

Fuchsdh

Member
they better not make it again as in Halo 5 that you are guaranteed an Unlock if you still haven't everything.

They should have gone full CS GO and made some stuff afwully rare and hard to get, and being able to sell or bet it on HCS matches.

I don't think they want to encourage am illegal shadow gambling industry with their game.
 
Needs moar light theme
First teleporters, then you say Fred's and Tanaka's helmets are ugly, and now this?!

Step aside jem and Karl, we have a new lead conductor on the Bad Opinion Train™
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Of course....... lol
 

IHaveIce

Banned
I don't think they want to encourage am illegal shadow gambling industry with their game.

they want their game to be succesful and people to stay with the game, I think it would work and would outweigh the cons, CS GO is doing fine

You could say gifting gold packs would also make it possible to do such a thing, but gold packs are worthless if you are already an highlevel player.


Req packs don't make you addicted and if 343 is smart they will find a way to make them that way. Obviously cosmetic items only for Arena that are super rare and also super cool.

I mean their Armor skins are fucking boring, Why don't we have some more with crazy decals like in the concept art, there was an helmet that had a dragon's head painted on the side. We need more stuff like this.
Bring Animations back for winning, make them customizable like in Doom etc.

Halo is so much space to improve.
 

op_ivy

Fallen Xbot (cannot continue gaining levels in this class)
Anyone ever get matches with constant halts? Not like warzone player just left hitches, but full on os smoke coming out of my xbox/azure server hitches? Heres the worst ive ever seen. The match does start btw, and this shit kicked in whenever i was near a player. Needless to say, totally unplayable.

http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/LoopOfHenle/video/26822566
 
Anyone ever get matches with constant halts? Not like warzone player just left hitches, but full on os smoke coming out of my xbox/azure server hitches? Heres the worst ive ever seen. The match does start btw, and this shit kicked in whenever i was near a player. Needless to say, totally unplayable.

http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/LoopOfHenle/video/26822566

Probably because you played in the lobby with the cool kids last night. We gave you the disease.
 

Welfare

Member
Sold like 80K REQ's worth of points and played a few Warzone matches and got the helmets.

Don't know if it was truly worth it, but hey, Mark V Delta!
 

belushy

Banned
Can't believe they left Halo 3 Rogue helmet out of the mix.... constant disappointments 343....

Nah, but I am sad about it. Was my favorite helmet by far.
 
Fun little factoid about 1 of the LA Halo Wars trailers:

that was filmed where I used to live, palmdale california. that dealership is a real place called "Camacho Auto Sales", my mom and me went their once to trade in our old van it was a raw deal because they wanted a high down payment and a high monthly payment for the car we wanted just because my mother's credit wasn't up to par (bad credit OK my ass, but water under the bridge now).

Check out their Bios page on their official site:
http://www.camachoauto.com/bios.php

Atriox has an email, see if you can get a great deal on a used Chopper.
 

Ade

Member
I had the digital version pre ordered but decided to go physical ultimate edition. That Amazon Prime discount too tempting.

Disappointed about there only being one map for Blitz though.

Just an FYI in case you missed it, or your location is wrong on your profile, the physical version is now EU only. All US/CA/AU orders should've been cancelled.
 

m23

Member
Just an FYI in case you missed it, or your location is wrong on your profile, the physical version is now EU only. All US/CA/AU orders should've been cancelled.

I'm getting the Xbox version. I did reply to someone mentioning the PC version so I see the confusion. Thanks though.
 

Ade

Member
I'm getting the Xbox version. I did reply to someone mentioning the PC version so I see the confusion. Thanks though.

No probs, just making sure, as judging by the HW2 thread here and a few posts on reddit the 11th hour cancelling of non EU physical PC versions has been really badly communicated.
 

Trup1aya

Member
Shatters my mind 343 has sat here and slowly let population issues make the game leagues worse than launch. Make it f2p/$15 and quadruple your REQ revenue easily.

It really is mindboggling. Just forcing the population down via technical issues and making the remaining players suffer.

If it were f2p/$15/gwg tommorow, with servers and framerate fixed, they'd make a ton more money than they are making now...
 

op_ivy

Fallen Xbot (cannot continue gaining levels in this class)
While id say i prefer most of the original designs to 5's, none of those look bad to me and i like having the variety.
 

TCKaos

Member
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So, worth mentioning, if you have the helmets you're supposed to get 4 cosmetics (as per the Classic Helmet REQ pack's description). However, if you've already unlocked pretty much everything it'll start giving you HCS skins, but only one or two at a time.

We figured this out last night and couldn't decide if it was a bug because you're not supposed to unlock these out of packs without using your hard earned dollary-doos (or your currency of choice) or if it was a bug because you're only unlocking one and two of them at a time instead of 4.
 

Akai__

Member
HW2 is play anywhere, right? So I could in theory preload on my xbone and my PC, right?

Correct. Saves also carry over.

So, worth mentioning, if you have the helmets you're supposed to get 4 cosmetics (as per the Classic Helmet REQ pack's description). However, if you've already unlocked pretty much everything it'll start giving you HCS skins, but only one or two at a time.

We figured this out last night and couldn't decide if it was a bug because you're not supposed to unlock these out of packs without using your hard earned dollary-doos (or your currency of choice) or if it was a bug because you're only unlocking one and two of them at a time instead of 4.

I got 3 HCS Weapon Skins and the Athlon Champion Helmet, when I bought it a second time. All from one pack and only used RP.
 

TCKaos

Member
I got 3 HCS Weapon Skins and the Athlon Champion Helmet, when I bought it a second time. All from one pack and only used RP.

The thing is you're not supposed to be able to unlock HCS skins and armor without buying HCS packs, which were 80K RP or $9.99 when they came out. Now you can get them if you repurchase the HCS team packs (which are money only, meaning that the only way you're supposed to be getting them is by buying them).

We were pretty sure that getting them from the helmet pack was a bug in the same vein as unlocking the 343i skins. Since it's not actually granting four of them at once it may be the case that these packs aren't supposed to be granting them at all.
 

Akai__

Member
I just wish they added back in the HCS emblem, too. I'm still missing that one.

Chespace said that they will add it back, but since he left everything (including the HCS itself) went downhill. Can't say that I care anymore, but as a compeltionist I see why people do.
 
Reach Security <<< Halo 3 security.
There were a lot of things i hated about Reach, but the armor customization was not one of them. Security looked good. I still think the Grenadier helmet was the best though. Legendary status and only slightly less awesome than the Mark V and Mark VI imo
 
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