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Halo 5 Multiplayer Coverage! (no campaign spoilers)

Seems pretty fair as a gun. It seems to hover around before it detonates. I think your opponents were too busy trying to get a kill on you that they didn't think to boost away.

Charging up the Plasma Caster allows it to stick to the enemy whereas just shooting it off doesn't. The last enemy walked into the charged shot.
 
Wait the thread said Halo 5, but all I see is COD

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Charging up the Plasma Caster allows it to stick to the enemy whereas just shooting it off doesn't. The last enemy walked into the charged shot.
Ah, that would make sense. Still, it's fairly slow, I'm sure the booster paired with good reaction time would make easy work of someone wielding this.
 
Today is a good day, MP is live and plenty of people are streaming their headshot streaks, so tempted to pick up this game earlier then planned digitally tonight, that halo itch has turned into a nasty rash and I need to treat it soon.
 
Does arena have a no parties or social playlist? I don't want to play Warzone, but also don't want to play ranked going solo.
 
I believe those are your only options currently unless you can find people to play with.

Have people, just don't to always be dependent on organizing a group. I like that in Destiny and CoD, one could just pick up and play without too much stress.

Hopefully BTB comes out soon.
 
Have people, just don't to always be dependent on organizing a group. I like that in Destiny and CoD, one could just pick up and play without too much stress.

Hopefully BTB comes out soon.

You can also pick this up and play without stress, you'll be matched against players of similiar skill, just don't worry too much about rank and shit, enjoy it.
 
You can also pick this up and play without stress, you'll be matched against players of similiar skill, just don't worry too much about rank and shit, enjoy it.

Halo ranked is very serious business for me, unfortunately. Got to 40 in H2 and 50 in H3 - it's just how I am. I wish I could just not care, but when there is ranking, that means I have to be really sweaty.

My main concerns is fighting a party with randoms. If the game matches parties with parties, then I wouldn't care.
 
Any problems lag/ latency?? Do you get any delays throwing grenades etc?

Nope, clicked Team Arena and it loaded instantly, as soon as I pressed A it said "loading dedicated server" or something and it had a full lobby.

No lag, no delay, smooth halo goodness.
 
Am now worrying that I won't be able to find a single game in Taiwan.

The system is aware of QOS in regions and will expand search were that to be the case but the rollout goes east to west, so won't be fully normalized till US lights up.
 
Yeah I'm worrying about the population in Asia since I'm in China now that they took out data center selection.

Ah, the real reason people wanted data center selection...so you could lag out us games from halfway around the world. Glad they made the decision to not have server selection and ping locks
 
The system is aware of QOS in regions and will expand search were that to be the case but the rollout goes east to west, so won't be fully normalized till US lights up.

Stinkles what do you call that sound when you pop someone's dome. Blooooppppttttt... Addicting. I need it. Must have more bloooopppptttt
 
Watching some streams right now, I wish I had the eyesight and reflexes of my teens. I think I'm going to be destroyed in this game.
 
Ah, the real reason people wanted data center selection...so you could lag out us games from halfway around the world. Glad they made the decision to not have server selection and ping locks

Even if there are data center selection I wouldn't try suicide by choosing NA :p plus I hold my own in the beta when I basically was put on NA all the time.
 
Halo ranked is very serious business for me, unfortunately. Got to 40 in H2 and 50 in H3 - it's just how I am. I wish I could just not care, but when there is ranking, that means I have to be really sweaty.

My main concerns is fighting a party with randoms. If the game matches parties with parties, then I wouldn't care.

This question has come up a lot and I'd love to know the answer too. Does the matchmaking at least attempt to put parties against other parties?
 
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