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> > We need more of this playlist! More maps with different swords and abilities. A prophets bane on one map would be amazing to fight over.
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> One of the maps, The Undercity of Sunaion, has a Prophets’ Bane that spawns at the center. 
There is also a vorpal talon on one and (2) ravening slivers on one
It’s quite the fun mode, but the sword v sword hit detection is spotty at best.
Sometimes clashes will result in an instant winner, sometimes you’ll trade on the first hit, and only on occasion will it actually clash like it’s supposed to.
Same with spartan charges. Sometimes you’ll get the kill like you’re supposed to (or trade if they also charged you), but a lot of them time it will clash somehow, or give you a trade with someone that was standing still.
Here’s a clip of one of the times that the spotty detection was in my favour.
You can clearly see several of the guys I hit swing in time for a clash, but I won anyway.
Oddly enough, I’ve found a fair amount of consistency in which maps are in my favour, and which maps I’ll have perfect timing on my swings but still lose like I didn’t attack at all.
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> > > I think it’s good in custom games, but in matchmaking it’s another story.
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> > people are just going to farm in it to stat pad and boost RP & XP like how people do in Reach’s Grifball
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> That’s always an issue with these types of playlists.
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> It’s too bad they didn’t design H5 to allow stat-tracking to be disabled in Action Sack, as well as objective and other social game types. Hopefully, it’s something they’ll consider incorporating into the next Halo.
I mean, they made it so that any gravity hammer or sword kills you get in grifball count for your personal stats, but don’t contribute toward your spartan company’s power weapon commendation.
So I’d say it’s possible.
It’s fun so far, but quite laggy. It’s annoying when I lunge at someone, hit them, but lose the fight and not get the kill. Or sometimes I just lunge right past them, due to lag reasons. I feel the gameplay is also quite tedious, respawning, running, getting a kill, being killed. Repeat.
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> > > We need more of this playlist! More maps with different swords and abilities. A prophets bane on one map would be amazing to fight over.
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> > One of the maps, The Undercity of Sunaion, has a Prophets’ Bane that spawns at the center.
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> There is also a vorpal talon on one and (2) ravening slivers on one
Indeed. And two others have a special Gravity Hammer in the middle. I tried to place weapons that made sense with the theme and design of each map.
After playing some games, it’s readily apparent that a lot of work went into this playlist, so many thanks to Omarlotrc and those involved!
I appreciate the efforts of members of the community who go out of their way to improve the quality of life for all.
Castle Wars in Reach while it’s working in 8v8 show how it’s really not supposed to, I don’t know for Halo 5…
Both teams attempt to rush towards the enemy base, first clash, one team wins or someone rush past the fight and is soon attacked by someone defending the base and another respawning player, it’s the main problem with 8v8, it’s very hard to push deep enough in the enemy base, the hardest part is to get to the flag and take it, its of course ten times easier to move the flag once it’s down to ground level but still hard near the enemy base (insane respawning time for the flag) .
Ranged attacks should stay in their bases but shouldn’t be an easy to use weapon, a wraith is fine for what the gametype is, a castle wars.
It was ok. Just got to keep pushing forward.
The map designs were nice, so kudos to the designers.
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> > Wish it was normal weapons instead of just swords and stickies but still fun.
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> I’m assuming it’s always swords? I played 1 round, saw it was running with a sword and trading kills, then bailed. I’m not a fan of hammers or swords, probably because I usually just trade kills.
Yeah I’m pretty sure it’s always swords, there’s some map variety but without different weapons it’s kinda meh.
Can’t stand it
its a interesting playlist. kind of wish it wasnt swords but its not a bad game to play
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> > > Finally I can focus on those CTF commendations more productively.
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> > Good luck already tried and the chances of getting the harder ones are near impossible!
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> What are the harder ones?
Defender of the flag, seems to be one of the harder ones. To put it in easier terms I’ve finished mongoose kills faster than that commendation.
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> Defender of the flag, seems to be one of the harder ones. To put it in easier terms I’ve finished mongoose kills faster than that commendation.
its really hard getting the vehicle kill commendations unless the person you stick is stupid or there’s a gravity hammer
I love the new playlist, me and my friends always used to play it in custom games, but we hid invisible teleporters that went piles of nornfangs and spnkr primes
Why isn’t Castle Wars apart of Action Sack? It is like, a TRADEMARK Action Sack type of mode…
This is what I’m talking about… this is what PEOPLE are talking about… Meanwhile, 343 KNOWS that people want Snipers, and they go and give the community this? Or if they’re feeling halfway generous, they’ll put out Mythic Shotty Snipes… but that’s not SNIPERS! They claim that the numbers weren’t good enough to continue to support Snipers… but Breakout’s numbers ARE? I have an incredibly hard time believing that Breakout has more players than Snipers did (or WOULD HAVE if it was just available at launch, when it should’ve been…). It’s been heavily requested since launch! H4 didn’t even launch with Snipers right? And they finally put it in… Same mistake in H5, not at launch, people get upset, population slowly dwindles, and they blow it off an entire year before it’s implemented… within a couple months it’s gone again, because the numbers weren’t “good enough.” Gee, I wonder why! 
And at that point, what good are the numbers even anyway? It’s not an effective representation of your consumer-base because a huge number of them aren’t 1) playing regularly, or 2) got fed up with game/lack of content/lack of support for their desired ways to play.
That’s what gets people ticked… it’s as if 343 is just trolling the community at this point. It’s like they don’t get it. Triple Team is also a fun take on Multi-team (could also be 2v2v2v2, to keep player counts down to 8 on Arena maps), another series staple in Social MM, but that’s just going to get removed for the cheese that is Castle Wars? When it could’ve been apart of an Action Sack refresh?
Selective hearing at work, once again… It’s no wonder why half of the fanbase has left the game. It’s like they don’t even know their own product, or fanbase.
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> Why isn’t Castle Wars apart of Action Sack? It is like, a TRADEMARK Action Sack type of mode…
They probably want it to get as much exposure as possible. In Action Sack, you aren’t guaranteed to play it because of all the other gametypes in that playlist. I think that it should eventually get put in Action Sack though and let something else get its own playlist.
Personally I am happy to see a CTF playlist, even if it is Castle Wars. I would prefer a more traditional CTF playlist, but I will take what I can get.