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Halo 5: Guardians |OT5| Is HaloGAF irrelevant now?
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BizzyBum
Member
Believe me, I know. Playing Warzone is an exercise in frustration. I've really come to dislike the mode. It was way more fun when there were less Reqs and people didn't have all the stupidly OP shit unlocked.
Q1 2017 also had a ton of great games come out plus the Switch release so it only makes sense less people playing.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
Yup. Warzone was a blast pre-launch at immediately at launch. It's just a goofy crap show now.
Damn, we're so close to Achilles and progress seems to have dramatically slowed down again after a nice spurt there for awhile.
I did manage to get 3 buckle ups yesterday though!
I seem to only get them in clusters now, with long droughts of games in between them. Probably BTB would be an easier way than war zone but I need peeps to play with for that :|
Been stuck in work hell and traveling the last few weekends so I haven't had much time to play period. I am not equipped to travel all the time.
Fata1moose
Banned
Damn, we're so close to Achilles and progress seems to have dramatically slowed down again after a nice spurt there for awhile.
I did manage to get 3 buckle ups yesterday though!
I've been playing Zelda and Mass Effect, I just wrapped up Zelda so there should be time for Halo.
Eric Nylund wants to clear a few things up.
https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/64z3w4/eric_nylund_wants_to_clear_a_few_things_up/
Very sad info. He shouldn't have to ping for a job, they should be constantly pinging him.
https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/64z3w4/eric_nylund_wants_to_clear_a_few_things_up/
Very sad info. He shouldn't have to ping for a job, they should be constantly pinging him.
Eric would have been soooooo good
Fata1moose
Banned
It obviously means they got someone even better! /s
VincentMatts
Member
I think the problems are bigger than just that. They could hire him, but that doesnt make all the other problems go away.
Great games are for the most-part 'great' because they have a perfect combination of things all in one package. The games themselves are by no means "perfect", but you know what i mean.
Look at Halo CE at the time, the story, gameplay, visuals, MP, AI, enemies, universe etc they were all fantastic. It was an incredible package and practically every part of it surpassed expectations. Most of the greatest games of all time have this in common. They do practically everything right, even if they arent all perfect.
Halo 5 doesnt even come close to this standard. The arena MP is fantastic and the forge updates have been great but other than those 2 things, for me, its not even close.
He could help, but theres a lot more problems to fix than just that imo.
^ definately dont think he could fix everything. But he'd be a high level talent that could address one of this series' most flawed areas.
I think 343 has a lot of dev talent. But the direction is lacking. In each area of the game, it feels like the vision from leadership is either out of touch with halos core values, incomplete or just pain bad.
It would be nice to get the narrative back on track, even if that doesn't fix the approach to campaign structure, mp content, competitive balance, art direction etc. It would be a step in the right direction.
I think 343 has a lot of dev talent. But the direction is lacking. In each area of the game, it feels like the vision from leadership is either out of touch with halos core values, incomplete or just pain bad.
It would be nice to get the narrative back on track, even if that doesn't fix the approach to campaign structure, mp content, competitive balance, art direction etc. It would be a step in the right direction.
Chittagong
Gold Member
Yeah I'm with you. Returned after a few months. They've fixed the lag, and with my 4ms ping all my shots land just as a think they would. Get a lot of headshots. Game feels perfect.
But, 30% win ratio. Ranked down to low gold, getting almost entirely matched against teams (with Diamonds and Plats in them), some times same team many times in a row.
I grow so frustrated I swear I have had it with Halo 5. Then once in a blue moon I get matched against a non-team, become MVP and take my team to victory, and just like that, I am pulled back in.
Serious question, has 343 ever commented why teams are allowed to matchmaking with solos? It's bullshit.
The most recent argument is that a good matchmaking algorithm COULD effectively handle the job of making sure players get quality matches regardless of their party size, without imposing hard restrictions that could impact wait times.
As a math guy, i believe this argument to be true... But 343 has yet to implement a good algorithm.
The approach menke is working on makes perfect sense, but i wish it didn't take so long to implement.
BizzyBum
Member
Who was he dropped for?
Yeah I have to agree.
A lot of the new vehicles ruined the mode, so now I just play WZ Firefight and BTB for large group games.
Not sure, just said he is officially without a team again. Also fuck Cratos
Wow that really sucks.... guessing Devon took his spot. Devon was on Ryanoob's team but they were running with Commonly last night.
Yeah it's kind of odd at this point that a sport with a comparatively lower athletic requirement actually has lower retirement ages than more physically punishing ones.
Only other one I follow is Dota 2 but it has a fair amount of turnover. It's probably less proportionately though given it's a much bigger scene.
COD used to have the same problem but ever since the bigger orgs starting joining, its slowed down. Halo is really the only game with this big of a team changing problem right now.
edit: and like Fuch said its more of problem in Halo since the scene is so small compared to others in terms of playerbase.
Twitch reflexes and eyesight.
In caveman times you would get eaten by a sabertooth tiger shortly after you had procreated. Possibly the same afternoon if you got sleepy.*
Be interested to see other game styles- golfers for example can succeed well into retirement age.
Also Eric Nylund is a fantastic writer, has thick movie star hair and knows we'd be happy to have him create more stories in the Halo universe and knows how to Reach me.
Eric's skills obviously extend to more than just typing but our recent narrative design role is not writing heavy and aspects of his prodigious skill set would go unused. Or even wasted.
*science
This post brought to you from Alaska Airlines last second spring break package deals.
Lol.
But do your reflexes really degrade that much faster than the rest of your physical ability? I'm pushing thirty and I've still got better than 20/20 vision despite god knows how much screen time I've put in.
It does seem like esports still has a long way to go in being as "stable" as a pro sport career (even CoD players aren't likely to be able to make a living off it unless you are the top team, and Halo is comparatively smaller at this point), and until that happens careers will be shorter, but it also seems weird that across all sorts of games the ages are still so low. There's as far as I know no big League player older than 30, and the oldest SC2 player I can think of is 36.
Honestly the primary data is the market. There is great research happening, possibly with some of best available data ever - microsecond measurements of literally millions of participants. It is a treasure trove of data and metrics. And you can look at age curves directly overlaid.
And of course with rules, come exceptions. Gonna be plenty of Ben Roethlisbergers out there. Good for the sport. (alleged personal Behaviors excepted)
FATstronaut
Member
I wish I had thick movie star hair :'(
User 73706
Banned
dskillzhtown
keep your strippers out of my American football
I play everyday still, but it is mostly Super Fiesta. At times it is completely frustrating because RNG is so unfair. But it's quick fun that ends up lasting a couple of hours most times.
Have to come clean. I too am addicted to Super Fiesta.
SON OF A BITCH!!!
Make it happen Frank... Franchise Director the shit out of Eric Nylund creating a new story.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
Damn. Nylund's Halo is the pinnacle of its experience for me. Not to be a dick but I can't help but feel that's a huge fucking mistake to NOT hire Nylund when he's chasing you.
Did Staten take this role instead? Who's the narrative director now?
A 2 mins search shows this worrying aspect to narrative staff:
That's a lot of change IMO, turbulent even.
LOL:
I see you.
Did Staten take this role instead? Who's the narrative director now?
A 2 mins search shows this worrying aspect to narrative staff:
That's a lot of change IMO, turbulent even.
LOL:
I see you.
Over a period of years? Not particularly.
Isn't Brian Reed gone as well?
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
It's not crazy unusual but I feel it points to a lack of vision or direction across games/media. It appears there isn't a master plan or Halo bible guiding the story so each game fits in, it appears to be done in the exact opposite method.
Look at the smaller teams on earlier games, less staff on the same job and things are more contained and focused by an overseeing staff member running the whole show. Now it appears to be more by committee without that driving singular force with a vision to really craft things.
Maybe I just woke up on the wrong side of the bed but seeing a snapshot of the narrative team like this does not strike me as a good thing at all.
I'm not sure he's gone entirely but not narrative director anymore.
http://www.dbltap.com/posts/4668281-brian-reed-no-longer-narrative-director-for-halo?a_aid=41135
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
We're not believing your lies, Stinkles. H3A is all but confirmed ;b
EDITS: Reddit thread
That settles it, 3 years in the making. Definitely confirmed now.
EDITS: Reddit thread
That settles it, 3 years in the making. Definitely confirmed now.
Halo 3 was in a AMD driver 3 years ago, super confirmed!
Nah it's weird to use that though
Man, while it should happen I think Frank was too explicit in denying it for it to exist at this point.
Would have been crazy to see Halo 3 Anniversay run on the Scorpio though.
User 73706
Banned
What the hell are you talking about? Most of 343's presentations at conferences and whatnot have suggested that the narrative actually has more of a chokehold on the direction of the franchise now compared to Bungie's run. Like, regardless of opinions on the actual content, you can read about Tanaka in Escalation or Vale in Hunters in the Dark and things line up (for the most part) between the EU and gameplay. In terms of the content actually established by 343i, we haven't really gotten a Fall of Reach -> Halo Reach moment yet in terms of disparities from the extended lore to in-game implementation. Just because people may not be happy with how the content lines up with Classic Halo doesn't mean it's disparate on its own merits.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say, perhaps, he is referring to how halo 4 started a major storyline that was hastily wrapped up for a sequel, but the sequel apparently went in an entirely different direction with little connection to the previous game. Halo 4 and 5's stories certainly feel disconnected from each other, let alone a "big picture" narrative.
Yeah, there's all sorts of solutions. But sometimes too much information can actually harm a playlist from a feedback loop.
I know i was growlsy mcgrowls in the past about playlists but sometimes you also have to step aside, take the playlist fanboy out of yourself (for me, that was Team Control back then) and admit that sometimes, playlists just aren't viable or will always struggle with population.
There is part of me that still has hope, I know it wont happen, but it would be cool.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
Better than I could have said it, thanks mate. The jump from H3 to H4 then through H5 is not a logical series of steps at all. The skips across the story pond from H3-H4-H5 do not line up at all IMO. They're very disparate games apart from intros linking things together basically.
***I do completely agree the overall unification of lore, characters and assets etc has been slipspace jumps in front of Bungie days. Full merit to 343 and the lovely work done there. You've finished clean up now apply that same magic to your own series of games.
It's like my objective playlist life just flashed before my eyes.
Masterz1337
Neo Member
Reach will finally play at 30 FPS. Sad but true.