Im seeing alot of hate about alot of things and i just wanted to put some info out for people who seem to be misinformed ill start with arena this might be tl,dr be hear me out even vetarans will like what i have to say
Arena: people seem to forget that this halo returned to the roots of the older halos. EQAUL STARTS. Now thats just the base of it. Its called arena for a reason imagine two groups of gladiators droped into a collsueim with a knife and a sheild. Then theres weapons scattered across the battlefeild. Swords, warhammers, axes, etc. Just imagine that picture that is exactly what halo 5 arena is and no other game has this. Just that alone makes it purely competive. Now for the weaopns scattered around the map. If you havent noticed each and every weapon has a purpose. Yes i agree the storm rifle rips people into shreds but theres a trade off if overheats fast. The smg also rips but it cant work in a mid range agaisnt an ar. All the prescion weapons also have a purpose pistol 5 shot kill but high rate of fire. Br four shot kill but you have to get the headshots. Dmr fast but headshot only as its usless on body shots unless they are weak. There is always a drawback to every weapon and each weaopn can be countered by a variety of ways so saying one weaopn is op is by far misinformed. I have countered the stormrifle plenty of times. You are rewared with headshots a pistol can be a storm rifle any day you just have to get your shots in orelse your dead. Now for team play. Your team has to cordinate to win you can just rely on headshots all the time. all the weaopns one the feild are ment for a specific teammate to pick up. For example we have the rig and you spawn on blue side one is supose to go to the plasma caster one for the carbine on the left. One for the scatter shot in basement and one going for snipes near long hall. If you dont control weaopns and map control areas you are sure to loose.
Now for the aiming system. No its not bugged its ment to be that way. Itsusppose to be hard. And no its not hard for the wrong reasons. “Deadzones” etc. Theres a huge skill gap now which i love. i have faced agaisnt people who never miss a shot so how is it bugged if they are getting their shots? Why? Because they use pateince and focus. I calmed down i stoped being agressive and i got more headshots. And as time went on my shots are nearly on point thanks to disiplining myself and knowing when to zoom in rather than not. This game actually takes real skill esscpailly with eqaul starts. So start up a custom game learn all the maps and weaopns. I have seen that many complaints on the spartan abiltys itself but nonetheless combo them. If you think halo 5s movemnt is like cod think again. If you know how to combo moves like slide jump trust stabilze. You can fly around the map more so than you could than with simple wall running and boosting up to the air. You know the two bridges in the middle of collsuiem? I can make that jump and in ctf thats a crucial move to learn. Its a great addtion to halo and it litterally fit right in. I mean comon halo the fall of reach a book that waa written before halo 1 had thrusters for spartans. It actually said thrusters. And they used them exactly how you see them in the game. Yes i would like more maps. Yes orion sucks -Yoink- but overall the maps that are there are well done and even orion has a purpose. You just have to study it if you really want to win. I could say much more but ill leave it at that for now and see what you guya think
Campaign: no spoilers. some people love it some people hate it. I like it. But the only reason i like it is because i know the lore from top to bottom and everything they did with blue team made actual sense but to people who dont care for that stuff think you were fighting for no reason in some of the missons. It sucks because us lore fans want a heavy and i mean HEAVY lored out halo but to other halo fans the campagin was a let down. I do agree some things werent such good ideas like the misson where you dont even shoot you just walk around and talk. Now for that kisson i loved it because there was alot that everyone had to say even the grunt singing up top. But not being able to shoot and cause a scene really broke the atomoshpere. And alot of the story is actually in the intel. While to a lore fan ill hunt them down but as for someone that just wants to enjoy a great story alot of people are left out. I get it i understand but instead of hating. Lets guide 343 in a group effort into what worked and didnt work. Overall the cutscenes are the best ive seen in any game looks wise. While i like the story some people can have their opinoin its fine but dont put down a story another may like. Btw its really fun with all the abiltys i fly around the hunters taking them out. Never had so much fun with game mechaincs esscpically since the abiltys are amplified in the campaign like faster sprint slide and what not. This us a touchy subject since its a story that can appeal to any taste but overall spend some time with it. Dont rush the campaign and im sure youll have a blast. The huge areas and firefights are awesome initself with the story but all of this is my opinoin take it as you want.
Warzone: let me begin by saying it is not pay to win. If you read anything on how the system works. You are able to gain gold packs really easy. And the games are complwtly fair. It doesnt seem so because if you go in it alone. No one is cordinating and whatnot but if you have a fire team you can do some work tanks or not. I barely have any tanks or mantisis but with good teamwork you can take down the enemy. Thata all this game takes is teamwork and you can win anything dont look at it like “ohh theres three tanks out there” look at it like how can we as a team work together to capture basses and kill bosses. Sometimes it isnt my cup of tea but its a great addition i mean comon no matter how its setup didnt all of us wish we could fight ai with an emeny too? I know i did and its happening and think.this is the baby towrds a bigger scope in halo 6. And most importanly i have spawned and awesome spartan lasrer but to die against a br. I choked btw lol but yeah its balanced
I ganna post the reat in the comments because it got to big
The lack of playlists: i know i feelnyou guys. I want more too esspcially ball and hill BUT think about the work that was done to get even regualr slayer to work it probly took more than a year to even get the abiltys right. Overall the game is rocksolid in balance. Theres always a counter to everything. And its always 60 frames wwith deidcated servers i think everything that has shipped with the game took alot of work. Esspcially warzone maps. They even cut some map ideas out because it took so long to balance each map. Just imaigne the countless ways people can use just one map. It has to have zero exploits but still be fun and as a for game devopler i think its hard to do just that. Either way we are getting all dlc free. Complain microtransactions all you want but no other game has dlc free like this. If you guys seen forge vidoes. You see how crazy its ganna be and its ganna be free. Unlike battlefronts 55$ dlc. Praise that. Anyone that only brought the 60 base game will have more content than any other game out there. And you dont have to spend a dime on reqs. Im sure they will add more. And im sure they dont want alot of playlists either because they will separate the population. All in all i know they have reasons for everything. You think a rational human bening wants to be the head of a -Yoink- comapny? No they want to shine and give the fans what they want without over extending. 343 cant please everyone. Its immpossible while i like all the things you can do with arena. Some people just wont buy the game just because theres sprint in. You just cant. While that said guys. Enjoy for what it is and help out 343 not hate because we all have this one sentence in our minds. " we dont want halo to die" halo5 has pumped some fresh blood in the series while its just baby steps i think they are going in the right direction.
So finnally ehat do you guys think. What rational ideas do you have and why things are the way they are. And please no hate
I agree 100%. But I disagree about the aiming system. It isn’t fluid at all, you can’t draw a circle, it’s a rectangle. If they would fix the aiming and make it fluid, adjust the radar to 25 meters I feel like the game would be great. But that’s just my opinion on things.
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> I agree 100%. But I disagree about the aiming system. It isn’t fluid at all, you can’t draw a circle, it’s a rectangle. If they would fix the aiming and make it fluid, adjust the radar to 25 meters I feel like the game would be great. But that’s just my opinion on things.
Its not even about extending the radar its about making the radar work correctly. Look back at a game in theater and see when your radar pinged to show an enemy on it now look how close the player actually is in relation to your character, 100% youll see they are no more than 8-10m away lol. In no way is the radar actually detecting enemies at an 18m distance and thats a fact. Just go check it yourself bud.
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> I agree 100%. But I disagree about the aiming system. It isn’t fluid at all, you can’t draw a circle, it’s a rectangle. If they would fix the aiming and make it fluid, adjust the radar to 25 meters I feel like the game would be great. But that’s just my opinion on things.
When i get on tonight ill try to draw a circle again but from my point of veiw i was able to do it and i was able to get good shots in. I just feel its so different that i think it just takes time getting usesd to. Time will tell with updates from 343. As for the radar i got thrown off so many times getting flanked because i tjought i was safe but after a while i feel it actually disiplines you to not look at your radar so much and to only look it when your holding a power position with your team. It makes sense why they shortned it because the maps are so small and it was to easy in the beta to spot anyone on the map espically truth aince its so simple. I think a 20m should do well other than that id rather not have the radar at all. I got used to it tho i like it now. Because when im close to an enmeny i can fool him into a flank and if i need to get away he wont know where i went. My main point tho i dont want people calling me out just because they are smart enough to know where id most likely be according to the red dot. I want them to call me out by physically seeing me and with this radar so short it accomplishes that but otherwise like i said if anything id rather have no radar
Multiplayer and playlists are fine.
Story is -Yoink-. Its like getting a book and reading the first page of a chapter then going to the next one. There is no building on plot points at all. No character development. Im someone that has read every halo book and theres still multitudes of unexplained -Yoink-. I think a lot of people are playing in fanboy mode like i did on my first play through but if you actually go slow and analyse the story telling, it completely woeful
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> Multiplayer and playlists are fine.
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> Story is -Yoink-. Its like getting a book and reading the first page of a chapter then going to the next one. There is no building on plot points at all. No character development. Im someone that has read every halo book and theres still multitudes of unexplained -Yoink-. I think a lot of people are playing in fanboy mode like i did on my first play through but if you actually go slow and analyse the story telling, it completely woeful
I could agree with you but i enjoyed it. Im not saying its the best. And im not fanboying either like i said some people like it and some dont. My anlysis is just my opinoin nothing more
I forgot about custimization. Yes it sucks that we dont have halo reach level editing of amour but theres so many sets and emblems that ive yet to see someone with the same emblem or amour and if they do its always a different color scheme than mine. So it really does feel individualistic. Open req packs actually feels like magic the gathering where everything is useful but the rare stuff is actually rare. I highly doubht theres alot of req opened helioskrill amour which makes me feel special because i busted my -Yoink- playing solo on all four halos in mcc on legandary just to have that amour day one and it looks -Yoinking!- sick. Alot of the amours are actually ugly but theres so many of them i found quite a few i liked and with hunderds of reqs more to come i feel like there should be a very nice vaerity. So im fine with it along with the rest of the game. Its awesome so far despite. Very minor things ( -Yoinking!- orion)
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> > I agree 100%. But I disagree about the aiming system. It isn’t fluid at all, you can’t draw a circle, it’s a rectangle. If they would fix the aiming and make it fluid, adjust the radar to 25 meters I feel like the game would be great. But that’s just my opinion on things.
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> When i get on tonight ill try to draw a circle again but from my point of veiw i was able to do it and i was able to get good shots in. I just feel its so different that i think it just takes time getting usesd to. Time will tell with updates from 343. As for the radar i got thrown off so many times getting flanked because i tjought i was safe but after a while i feel it actually disiplines you to not look at your radar so much and to only look it when your holding a power position with your team. It makes sense why they shortned it because the maps are so small and it was to easy in the beta to spot anyone on the map espically truth aince its so simple. I think a 20m should do well other than that id rather not have the radar at all. I got used to it tho i like it now. Because when im close to an enmeny i can fool him into a flank and if i need to get away he wont know where i went. My main point tho i dont want people calling me out just because they are smart enough to know where id most likely be according to the red dot. I want them to call me out by physically seeing me and with this radar so short it accomplishes that but otherwise like i said if anything id rather have no radar
I can respect that idea. I am a situational player so I watch my radar like a hawk haha, Its just odd the the range is 18 meters rather than an even number like 15 or 20.