Bugs that need to be addressed immediately, and why.
- When searching for a game I get players from mixed elo’s and mixed divisions. I.E. I search for a game as an Onyx and get players who are anywhere from Silver 1 To Onyx 2000
This is something that needs to be fixed immediately, It needs to be fixed immediately because it completely undermines the point of having an elo system, and ruins the competitive experience for experienced halo players. A Broken elo system is the same as calling it SOCIAL.
Why change it? Well it’s simple really… in League of Legends for example (a game with a somewhat similar elo system) you at the very least match players who are in your same elo… as in Diamonds with Diamonds, Bronze with Bronze etc, The reason for this is so that games are as balanced as possible. They don’t generally mix elos because one or 2 people from a higher elo can swing the game in a team with better players favor (drastically). This is true with halo as well, and that means that two people from the lower elo who got carried, and the persons who are carrying get a free win and advance in rank even though they probably don’t deserve it. Now generally this doesn’t reflect on Onyx players so much as their rank will move up a miniscule amount, but it does unfairly advance the carried people into an elo where they don’t belong.
This same problem also occurs on the inverse. Throwing one or two low elo players into a game with higher elo players can cause a team to lose as a result (because the other team will easily eliminate the bad players from the game, Farm them, keep them dead etc Not to mention the fact that most objective games have strategies that low elo players don’t comprehend (like only capping two points in strongholds, or getting 3 dead before pulling a flag, or blocking spawns etc)
Having this Occur every single game has lead me to believe that the ELO SYSTEM ON HALO 5 IS FRAUDULENT. So how do you fix this?
- Make a Social Playlist For players of mixed elo to play with their friends - Only Search for players of the same division Bronze with Bronze, Gold With Gold, Onyx with Onyx, etc. - Extend ladder… Instead of having to win 3 games… make us win 10
I see that you added a search tool for fining players with certain skills or internet connectivity… well it’;s fictitious just like the elo system. I’m still matching players who are crap, from all different elos.
Another Huge Problem…
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You need to be allowed to talk to people in your party In the menus, not just in the Pregame Lobby, I’m Getting sick of playing games with idiots who don;t leave party chat (It’s a team game).
Common sense this needs no explanation -
Spawns
Simply said, they are random as all hell, you can be standing almost on top of a spawn and get spawned behind by the enemy team, and people get split spawns all the freaking time.
I know you did this to try and prevent spawn trapping, but all its doing is getting a player who iss pushing forward killed by some goober that just came off spawn (behind the person pushing).
Unpredictability is just another word for RANDOM, randomness kills games. Look at hearthstone… The more random it gets, the more people stop playing it. At the very least make it so that people don’t spawn within a certain proximity to another player. Players who get kills should be rewarded and players who die should be punished (not the other way around).
I’ve been playing this game since it Came out (Not Halo 5, I’m talking about Halo CE up until now) So I know what the hell Im talking about. I also know that the game is dead or dying as a result of having a -Yoink- -Yoink- ranking system, and really this game might as well not have one because it’s fake/broken. When Halo 2 came out trying to get that 50 is what kept me on the game for hours and hours, halo 3… trying to get that hardcore 50 kept me on for hours and hours. Halo reach = Social = Bored as Blam.
This game = No Rank = Social = Play for an hour and get bored
It’s sad that you spend more time making new emblems and armor than you do FIXING CORE PROBLEMS,
This is why you will continue to lose players until once again, Halo is Dead.
And yeah, I’ve played with a ton of 343 employees and bungee employees over the years, YOU’RE ALL BAD AT HALO, so please listen to the pro’s (I can tell you ignore them more often then not, because there is crap in this game that shouldn’t be 
).