With dedicated servers can we finally have CG Playlists?
I for one would want one that way if your friends aren’t on you just host one and have people join. This would be one of the best innovations for Halo!
I fully support the idea. Brings me back to the days of Halo PC, browsing all the open games and hopping between them.
However, this poses two problems. First of all, just because they have dedicated servers doesn’t mean they have infinite computing power or cloud resources. Hosting a CG server all the time would be a massive undertaking, and would likely mean that less of those resources are going to traditional matchmaking.
Secondly, this would still suffer from the problem that customs have now. Without some form of moderation or accountability, 9 out of 10 custom games aren’t worth playing. (Aren’t people tired of teacher and fat kid yet)?
What they really need to do is have some way to submit community gametypes for use in a moderated context, kind of like what they do with community maps from forge. And if they eliminated all rank progression and made it not affect your K/D, it would definitely be where I spent most of my time.
I’d love a fully functioning custom games browser with passwords and lobby names and ratings along with a real, proper map editor and a huge set of custom games superior to those of Halo 3. That would make Halo 5 the best Halo ever!
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> I for one would want one that way if your friends aren’t on you just host one and have people join. This would be one of the best innovations for Halo!
You don’t really need dedicated servers for that, games such as CoD 3, Gears of War etc all have custom game browsers.
This pretty much comes down to playlist offered in the game, if it were to only have a handful of playlists(players not spread across to many playlists) then yes there would be room for Custom Games playlist.