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[op_ivy]

Wooowho, placed plat III in proving grounds. Loving this new radar sooooo much. This better be in, at least for arena (and HCS), or I'll be pissed.

Also, lots of changes to maps. Is there anywhere listing them all? Really like new torque. Well, it seems to be an improvement at least...

 

[BradC00]

bxbyj with the game losing ninja lol\

https://clips.twitch.tv/HorribleHardSkunkSquadGoals

 

[Fata1moose]

bxbyj with the game losing ninja lol

https://clips.twitch.tv/HorribleHardSkunkSquadGoals

Hey, finish big or go home.

 

[op_ivy]

Cryptic (ryanoob's team) up 1-0 over spylce (bubu, shooter, falcated, and shotzzy)! Let's go

 

[SCHUEY F1]

Looking forward to the matches tonight. I'm hoping EG can make it, likely Splyce or Cryptic

 

[op_ivy]

2-0 cryptic. 50-33 slayer eden. They are looking great! Devin was a good pick up.

 

[YourExWife]

It looks like I maxed out around plat 3 in the proving grounds playlist.


I was literally facing diamond players like close to the end of my placements. A lot of the matches I played in proving ground were not that fun because I keep on getting destroyed.

Probably should remove the image from your post.. Not a good idea to have your real email in a screenshot viewable by anyone.

Use the Snipping Tool in the future.

 

[op_ivy]

Cryptic beats splyce [not yet]. Cant wait to see devon beat contra to worlds

Edit: best of 7? Best of 7.

Edit 2: final score, cryptic 4 spylce 2.

 

[belushy]

Is it double elim?

 

[op_ivy]

Yeah


https://clips-media-assets.twitch.tv/24768034928-offset-8146.mp4
Saw at tb. Guess the guy survived because the rocket exploded within the wall? Lol

 

[op_ivy]

Damn, now a dominant first game for cryptic v allegiance! Never would have expected this...

Edit: up 2-0. Cryptic going to worlds? Then I'm sure we'll see some CRAZY team changes before next pro league

Edit 2: 3-0 with a 3-0 cod on truth! If they beat all (if, lol) then the only team in their way is eg, I don't see them challenging. Of course losers bracket runs could happen, spylce and all both have it in them

 

[mo60]

Probably should remove the image from your post.. Not a good idea to have your real email in a screenshot viewable by anyone.

Use the Snipping Tool in the future.

Done. I seriously don't feel like playing proving grounds anymore because I'm going to get destroyed easily because of my high rank in that playlist.

 

[belushy]

Ryanoob really wants pro status back huh

 

[op_ivy]

Damn, cryptic chocked that regret slayer to close out the series with Alg. 3-2 now

 

[op_ivy]

Reverse sweep in coming. Damn. Here's hoping cryptic can pull out an epic losers bracket run

 

[SCHUEY F1]

What a comeback by Cryptic so far in the slayer

 

[op_ivy]

Oh. My.god

Allegiance is going to tilt into the thermosphere if they lose this

That double kill to close it out.

 

[Velcoro]

32-4 RUN WTF

 

[jizzlobber]

What a comeback!
Holt shit.

 

[blue_phazon]

Watching these streams makes me hungry because of the chicken tendies spam

Great series though

 

[YourExWife]

Watching Ryan use that last camo just to gain intel for the first 30 seconds... HNNNNNGGGGG...

 

[op_ivy]

32-4 RUN WTF

Are you shutting me!? That's what it was!? God.damn

 

[Velcoro]

Are you shutting me!? That's what it was!? God.damn

18-33 comeback to win that was wild

 

[op_ivy]

https://twitter.com/Moses_FPS/status/841028784392421376/photo/1

Wowee

 

[ZeezbruhTV]

32-4 RUN WTF

If this doesn't show you how H5 is so dependent on what Tier 1 weapon upgrade you have, and how overpowered power weapons are. then you are a lost soul.

 

[mo60]

Ahh I really "love" the MM system in H5. I was doing great during placement matches in slayer, got one bulldozer after the other - and got placed Silver 2. My friend (who is rather new to the game and ended up mostly at the bottom of the leaderboard) got placed Silver 5 (we played 9 / 10 qualifying matches together)

But that's not the end of the story: After the rank reset we played some more (and I rocked the newbs we played against even harder), and now I'm Bronze 6 (he got put in Silver 3). El oh el I say, el oh el.

PS: That's the only thing I demand to be changed for H6. Single player is cool, mp is cool, maps are cool, gameplay is cool, dlc is cool, weapons are cool & wz is cool

Spoiler

(it's not)

, but fuck that fucking aweful goddamn piece of shit matchmaking that fucking hates me to death.

I seriously don't know why I ended up ranking so high after my placements in proving grounds. I won like 80% of my matches but my stats were terrible in literally all of my placement matches in that playlist. I ranked a silver 3 after my placements in team arena. Usually I'm a mid tier silver or low level gold player. Some people are ranking lower in this playlist then they usually do in other playlists.

 

[YourExWife]

If this doesn't show you how H5 is so dependent on what Tier 1 weapon upgrade you have, and how overpowered power weapons are. then you are a lost soul.

I mean, that's part of it, but they were crazy proactive in manipulating spawns to collapse and outnumber folks. Like, other than some snipes, there were very few kills that weren't teamwork earned.

 

[FUNKNOWN iXi]

Trup1aya and I fighting that good fight in the Halo Waypoint radar thread. The arguments against it usually boil down to "Halo has always had radar, why change it now?" or "I don't have eyes behind my head anymore, how can I ever know where players are?"

Just look at this:

I hope 343 sticks with this change, adds it to other playlists, and designs H6 with it in mind. No motion tracker is okay, but that does exacerbate the issues people have with Sprint and Spartan Charge, so for Halo's current gameplay I think this might be the ideal design moving forward.

 

[op_ivy]

I hope 343 sticks with this change, adds it to other playlists, and designs H6 with it in mind. No motion tracker is okay, but that does exacerbate the issues people have with Sprint and Spartan Charge, so for Halo's current gameplay I think this might be the ideal design moving forward.

Yes. yes. and yeas!

 

[jem0208]

Proving Grounds is really, really fun.


The game feels very different now, I'm using spartan abilities far less and my movement is far more considered. The Rig is massively improved imo.

 

[Gwyn]

Haven't played yet with new radar changes so my question is if feedback is positive and 343 decides to make it permanent will it affect every playlist or just team arena?

Would making new radar changes affect across all gametypes be better overall or should they just have it only for the competive playlists?

 

[op_ivy]

Twitch/halo is live. Splice vs alg soon

 

[jem0208]

Haven't played yet with new radar changes so my question is if feedback is positive and 343 decides to make it permanent will it affect every playlist or just team arena?

Would making new radar changes affect across all gametypes be better overall or should they just have it only for the competive playlists?

Probably only Team Arena, definitely can't see them changing Social playlists.

Trup1aya and I fighting that good fight in the Halo Waypoint radar thread. The arguments against it usually boil down to "Halo has always had radar, why change it now?" or "I don't have eyes behind my head anymore, how can I ever know where players are?"

Just look at this:

I hope 343 sticks with this change, adds it to other playlists, and designs H6 with it in mind. No motion tracker is okay, but that does exacerbate the issues people have with Sprint and Spartan Charge, so for Halo's current gameplay I think this might be the ideal design moving forward.

Link to the thread?

I'm up for some arguing.

 

[jem0208]

Oops, double post.

 

[op_ivy]

Cryptic e.g. on twitch/halo. Are they not going to stream alg v splice!?

 

[jem0208]

GG Akai, couldn't resist that little teabag at the end there

A second GG Akai. We destroyed them in that game.

Edit: This is why no radar is so much better: http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Il MeanBean lI/video/28178461


This playlist is the most fun I've had in Halo 5 in a long time. Absolutely loving it.

 

[FUNKNOWN iXi]

Link to the thread?

I'm up for some arguing.

Blam!

 

[op_ivy]

Msg from Sparty McCries, lol

Methwen!

Rob the neg4tle! Lol

 

[Akai__]

Played perfectly fine (well for my standards anyways) for like 5 matches... Then Torque shows up and I drop a -9 and immediately get a hate message...

The fuck am I supposed to do, when FaZe IKampus (assume it's a Kampy smurf) is in the other team just spawn killing me like a god with his Sniper? Who even puts Torque in Proving Grounds? Fuck off with your terrible maps and we being forced to play them. Give me a Global Veto checklist already...

 

[jem0208]

Played perfectly fine (well for my standards anyways) for like 5 matches... Then Torque shows up and I drop a -9 and immediately get a hate message...

The fuck am I supposed to do, when FaZe IKampus (assume it's a Kampy smurf) is in the other team just spawn killing me like a god with his Sniper? Who even puts Torque in Proving Grounds? Fuck off with your terrible maps and we being forced to play them. Give me a Global Veto checklist already...

I just matched Faze IKampus. Got truly decimated.

 

[mo60]

Played perfectly fine (well for my standards anyways) for like 5 matches... Then Torque shows up and I drop a -9 and immediately get a hate message...

The fuck am I supposed to do, when FaZe IKampus (assume it's a Kampy smurf) is in the other team just spawn killing me like a god with his Sniper? Who even puts Torque in Proving Grounds? Fuck off with your terrible maps and we being forced to play them. Give me a Global Veto checklist already...

I played way to many matches in that playlist were I went super negative for K/D and were I was playing against players that were destroying me like crazy.I started off playing fine, but then I started playing in matches were I was struggling to get kills.

 

[Fata1moose]

Played perfectly fine (well for my standards anyways) for like 5 matches... Then Torque shows up and I drop a -9 and immediately get a hate message...

The fuck am I supposed to do, when FaZe IKampus (assume it's a Kampy smurf) is in the other team just spawn killing me like a god with his Sniper? Who even puts Torque in Proving Grounds? Fuck off with your terrible maps and we being forced to play them. Give me a Global Veto checklist already...

Overgrowth, Torque, Riptide and Molten should be deleted from existence. Also, Mercy needs the power weapon saturation toned down.

 

[Akai__]

I had played way to many matches in that playlist were I went super negative for K/D and were I was facing playing against players that were destroying me like crazy.

I don't mind going negative in 1 or 2 rounds, really. It's just about the bad map, a dumb smurf account (assume it was) and somebody feeling the need to insult me right away. Some days you just can't deal with that shit.

Overgrowth, Torque, Riptide and Molten should be deleted from existence. Also, Mercy needs the power weapon saturation toned down.

Yeah, agreed. Still don't understand how 343i just threw their design philosophy out of the window when they made those maps. And people jumped on me when I said that Remix maps don't sound good... Funny how that turned out.

Also, Mercy seems to be changed in Proving Grounds? I only saw a Sniper Rifle on the map, but to be fair I couldn't explore the map anyways, since it was Strongholds and 2 teammates quit right away

Spoiler

and I was hiding like a pro.

Edit: Forget what I said, it's probably due to Strongholds.

 

[op_ivy]

I don't mind going negative in 1 or 2 rounds, really. It's just about the bad map, a dumb smurf account (assume it was) and somebody feeling the need to insult me right away. Some days you just can't deal with that shit.



Yeah, agreed. Still don't understand how 343i just threw their design philosophy out of the window when they made those maps. And people jumped on me when I said that Remix maps don't sound good... Funny how that turned out.

Also, Mercy seems to be changed in Proving Grounds? I only saw a Sniper Rifle on the map, but to be fair I couldn't explore the map anyways, since it was Strongholds and 2 teammates quit right away

Spoiler

and I was hiding like a pro.

Edit: Forget what I said, it's probably due to Strongholds.

Ha vent gotten mercy yet (or overgrowth or molteb, thankgod), but a lot of the maps in proving grounds have changed to them happy to hear power weapons may have been removed from mercy. A modified radar and far less cheese would go a long ways for that other wise decent, though not hcs ready, map.

 

[ZeezbruhTV]

I mean Torque is better, but a better turd is a nice looking....turd.

 

[klaus]

I seriously don't know why I ended up ranking so high after my placements in proving grounds. I won like 80% of my matches but my stats were terrible in literally all of my placement matches in that playlist. I ranked a silver 3 after my placements in team arena. Usually I'm a mid tier silver or low level gold player. Some people are ranking lower in this playlist then they usually do in other playlists.

Congrats anyways for the platinum rating! I guess I should give proving grounds a try, maybe I get lucky?

 

[Fata1moose]

Stasis is the remix and it's good, so...

 

[blue_phazon]

When is ryanoobs yeah playing? Unless they already did?

 

[ZeezbruhTV]

When is ryanoobs yeah playing? Unless they already did?

They are waiting in Finals for the Losers bracket to finish.

 

[blue_phazon]

They are waiting in Finals for the Losers bracket to finish.

Sweet! I wanna see them win. I just realized I said "yeah" in my original post instead of "team." hopefully no one notices