Christ almighty. The best mode, it’s one redeeming feature - ruined by godawful multiplayer design. Now with less tension and skill. Think I’ve finally had enough of 343 slowly draining the enjoyment from this series…
If you’re fed up with the game, you could always quit, rather than complaining on the forums.
Kinda late to be complaining about it still imo. It’s been changed quite awhile. Also they wouldn’t have changed it if a lot were playing it. Not many liked it the way it was.
I don’t like it much at all now, but it was “OK” before. The problem before the change was that Breakout was literally a carbon-copy of Destiny’s Trials of Osiris slapped into Halo. Only thing added was equal starts, map pickups, and a flag. The low kill times ruined the fun. Can’t move unless you want to be 2-shotted by a BR. The game turns into a campfest, leading to boring matches where its a 3v1 until the final seconds of the match.
Now, we have full shields, but we have a shotgun. Why not just keep the old settings and add a shield? We want a “Halo” elimination mode, something that is competitive (Which is what Breakout was supposed to be), has decently long killtimes, and has skill gap. But people camping with shotguns is not competitive, skillful, or fun at all, and I can assure you the shotgun does not add to the skill gap
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> I don’t like it much at all now, but it was “OK” before. The problem before the change was that Breakout was literally a carbon-copy of Destiny’s Trials of Osiris slapped into Halo. Only thing added was equal starts, map pickups, and a flag. The low kill times ruined the fun. Can’t move unless you want to be 2-shotted by a BR. The game turns into a campfest, leading to boring matches where its a 3v1 until the final seconds of the match.
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> Now, we have full shields, but we have a shotgun. Why not just keep the old settings and add a shield? We want a “Halo” elimination mode, something that is competitive (Which is what Breakout was supposed to be), has decently long killtimes, and has skill gap. But people camping with shotguns is not competitive, skillful, or fun at all, and I can assure you the shotgun does not add to the skill gap
It’s more of a CS GO gametype IMO. It was made for competitive gameplay but no one played it. I used to play it a bit but lost interest, however I actually prefer the new Breakout 
Complaining on the forums without offering solutions is kinda adding to the problem. All this thread is doing is spreading negativity and hate for a already corrupting community.
A friend of mine put it nicely…
They wanted to remove 1 hit kills from the game… the high lethality element… yet then they just turn around and give everyone a shotgun?
Kinda defeats the purpose.
I’d vote for the old breakout with full shields, or the new breakout without shotguns, although those 2 choices would basically be the same. Flag scheme wouldn’t matter that much to me.
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> If you’re fed up with the game, you could always quit, rather than complaining on the forums.
Totally good reasoning dude! If you have a problem, don’t talk about it, deal with it! It’s totally your fault you don’t like it.
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> If you’re fed up with the game, you could always quit, rather than complaining on the forums.
Why has that always got to be the only option?
Just think of all the problems we would have if everyone took this approach to life.
“Your job sucks, quit”
“Your hobbies suck, quit”
“Your life sucks, quit”
God, I know it’s a game but damn. Some people want the game to be the best it can be so talking on the forums makes them feel like they have a voice. Saying “quit” every time someones opinion doesn’t align with yours to me is soo silly.
Just my opinion tho
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> Christ almighty. The best mode, it’s one redeeming feature - ruined by godawful multiplayer design. Now with less tension and skill. Think I’ve finally had enough of 343 slowly draining the enjoyment from this series…
You lost me at Breakout being the best mode…it’s a blatant rip off of search and destroy minus the bomb…one life per round and lower health
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> > If you’re fed up with the game, you could always quit, rather than complaining on the forums.
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> Why has that always got to be the only option?
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> Just think of all the problems we would have if everyone took this approach to life.
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> “Your job sucks, quit”
> “Your hobbies suck, quit”
> “Your life sucks, quit”
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> God, I know it’s a game but damn. Some people want the game to be the best it can be so talking on the forums makes them feel like they have a voice. Saying “quit” every time someones opinion doesn’t align with yours to me is soo silly.
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> Just my opinion tho
To be honest I agree with him. Personally I think 343 is a poor excuse for a studio that makes games based on the results of popular surveys rather than what actually makes a good game.
I’m going to give Overwatch a go. Fed up of Halo and having Halo fans moaning about the continued decline of the series clearly does no good. The only way 343 will wake up is when it hits them in the wallet if people stop buying and playing their games. IMO Breakout was the only mode that retained some of the old Halo’s tactical, tension filled combat. Now by simply changing the flag to being carried to your own base rather than forward toward the enemy’s they have totally ballsed it up.
The FPS genre has gone pretty stale where every game is trying to emulate the success of Call of Duty, and that means every game is becoming a noob-friendly frantic crap fest.
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> A friend of mine put it nicely…
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> They wanted to remove 1 hit kills from the game… the high lethality element… yet then they just turn around and give everyone a shotgun?
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> Kinda defeats the purpose.
Just the latest in a long line of 343 multiplayer design -Yoink- ups. Add it to, fudging up the radar. Fudging up firefight. Forgettable multiplayer maps. Ugly visuals in multiplayer. Changing the pace of the game. Introducing down sight aiming a la COD. Completely changing how damage works by vastly reducing health and shield capacity. No common sense. They just love changing things for the sake of change, especially when they just don’t need changing.
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