343, if you’re gonna sit and say that the “game is in our hands now” I wanna see even the SLIGHTEST effort put into community feedback. I don’t see one representitive of 343 addressing anyone here. 343 is acting like a half baked father, saying he cares but won’t even care to listen. I’m gonna make a nice, simple list for 343 to follow so there isn’t any more excuses 2 months from now when it’s still broken and nothings been addressed.
Fix the ranking system. Immediately. This has gone on long enough. My friend who, while dedicated, is truly a low skill player, ranked higher than me after his 10 placement games even though I had a higher win percentage, kd, and kda. He made onyx while I made diamond. Since then I’ve reached nearly onyx 1600. He couldn’t win a game in onyx for the life of him. - No profile… seriously 343? I can’t even see gamer tags in the pregame lobby? I get to represent myself with these stupid emblems that I can’t even customize? My cousin and I were 5 star generals in halo 3, with quintuple digit experience and custom game. I loved being able to show my service record at the click of A in pregame lobby. It also helped prepare for the match, by being able to see each players KD on the fly like that. Fix the fact there is little to no individuality in this game. - Post game carnage report… this is the worst report system I’ve seen in halo’s history. I can’t even view the medals I got in the game. - No fileshare… what the heck is this? Why is there NO support for fileshare yet? Why is forge not released yet? why must we wait? Is it broken like the rest of the game? - Spartan customization lacking individuality… looking through the list of 175 armor types, at least half of them are copies of the original half, just with a small secondary color design. This is a fail. It’s obvious 343 hired some crazies to design the armor for this game, because even the traditional armors from the game look absolutely horrid. It’s VERY rare I unlock a helmet or piece of armor I find aesthetically pleasing. Most of the helmets look like they were drawn by children. - FFA is broken… whose bright idea was it to put 8 spartan IIs on maps smaller than h3’s, with over four times the amount of movement capability than H3? Another point of how FFA is broken is because of number 7… - Spawns are HORRIBLE… now seriously, what the heck happened here? This is the worst spawning system I’ve EVER seen. I can promise half of my deaths in Arena are because of being killed right off spawn, and half my kills are from killing people off spawn. And it’s not like I’m being spawn trapped or vice versa, it’s basically unhelped. I die, I run right back to where I died, and finish the kill before their shields recharge. Or as I traverse the map, I stumble upon them spawning in front of my eyes. In play lists like FFA and swat, this is especially annoying, as FFA is overpopulated, and swat has instant respawn. - A lot of people complain about the radar size being limited to 18m. I thought this was just fine until I found myself no longer even attempting to follow my radar anymore in games. By time they show up on my radar it’s too late. Even if I make all the right moves, I will die to a much less skilled player than i. Although I am also concerned that at 25m, I’ll be able to find people too easy and easily use my spartan abilities to assure a kill. This means just about no matter how it goes, it’s gonna suck. - The intermission between games is horribly annoying. After finishing a stressful game I like to put down the controller for a moment,maybe even walk away. Nothing is more irritating than discovering you’re midway through a game and you’re going 0-10. Then when you quit the game, you get a temporary ban for quitting AND inactivity. Get rid of this disgusting feature. No one wants to reque that instantly. I spend a lot of time watching pro players, and I only hear them complain about this… and the next problem. - The tier system is broken… why as an onyx am I playing with people who haven’t even finished their qualifying matches? Or people not an onyx? If I have an onyx, I shouldn’t be able to play with anyone, even friends, that aren’t at least onyx. The fact that I could search in a Playlist I’m onyx in with a person who ranked bronze (which I’ve never seen anyone below gold EVER) sucks. And if they’re going to go through the trouble of having tiers, make them acccurate. I can hold my own in halo, but I’m not deserving of onyx in any Playlist. - In regards to the postgame intermission - make it so that once you’re searching again you have at least 5 seconds to quit/change your mind before you are instantly matched. That way you can invite players as soon as you start searching, and they can join before you get an insta-lobby. - (Commented opinion) tracker should be increased to 25m at the very least. You can’t detect a sprinting spartan about to charge your hole until it’s too late, leaving it more of ‘who sees who’ first deal than you being able to turn around and combat them like in prior Halo games. - No br starts in any Playlist! Whyyyyyy - A HUGE topic I feel like I missed… why the hell is way point and halo channel not just the same damn thing? Why do I have to keep switching between the two to be able to respond to these threads comments. Also, I can’t view my friends service records on halo channel, only my own. Not even the people in my spartan company. Bungie had an AMAZING community system in 2007, I don’t understand why this has been misplaced. Even as I got back to halo.bungie.net today, I see more info there than I have ever unDer 343s development. I miss heat maps, ranking history, achievement history, weapon use, so many things that were perfect years ago have only become worse. 343, pleasseeeee combine way point and halo channel… just support one of them. - More commented opinionated issues below…There should be a casual playlist so you don’t have to try your hardest all the time
-more games modes (things like big team battles, slayers with different loadouts, king of the hill, infection, etc)
-playlist for each game mode not just mixups (like ctf and stronghold in team arena)
-the player that kills you should at least be highlighted in yellow or something
Don’t think there’s a game mode where you spawn with a dmr
-can’t see other peoples Spartans and progress in pre game lobby
-can’t mute in pregame lobby
-specific armor pieces (Halo Reach did it right)
-custom game settings are missing things from previous games (like unlimited ammo and other options)
-no spectating in custom games (why?)
-can’t record in theater anymore
I’ll add more as I consider them. I’m happy to see dedicated servers working flawlessly though! So amazing. Great connection… please feel free to suggest your own issues, maybe if we spell it out 343 they’ll do something.
I agree with this, but I think that 343i will add a file share in December along with Forge and BTB. A problem I have with the game is the lack of split screen. I do think it is good that they are delaying Forge so they can finish it though. Broken Forge at launch would be worse than a fixed forge released later, in my opinion.
Sums up all my complaints. No matter what they may say the lack of local multiplayer is a massive failure. I used to play that with my brothers all the time, and the maps are minimal and too small in slayer variants. They all seem to be indoors, and many of the swat maps look to have been made in forge. You summed it up well
agreed with most of it but what the hell are you asking for basically longer time in between matches? its so quick to find matches so if you don’t wanna play right away back out and start a new search whenever you want but don’t make people that wanna play as quick as possible wait for no reason.
Basically agree with everything said here except the radar. Halos radar has been set at 25m for a reason the past 10+ years, to change it now… especially since the mechanics have been sped up with sprint/jetpack and spartan charge, it made no sense to decrease it, but all the more sense to if anything increase it. in saying that though 25m felt perfect in the beta and should be increased back to that immediately… if not this game is going straight down the toilet.
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> agreed with most of it but what the hell are you asking for basically longer time in between matches? its so quick to find matches so if you don’t wanna play right away back out and start a new search whenever you want but don’t make people that wanna play as quick as possible wait for no reason.
If I wish to get in a game immediately after one, I have a better chance of backing out of the post game lobby and voiding the intermission time, and searching for a new game, than waiting 30 seconds, but maybe that’s due to my high speed Internet. But this wasn’t my complaint. It was the fact that a lot of people who play competitivly aren’t used to this feature, and it does cause problems for a lot of people I know and watch on streams. If it’s that easy and faster for me to search for a new game by backing out first, why would I wait 30 seconds to play the next one if I wanted right back into the game?
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> Basically agree with everything said here except the radar. Halos radar has been set at 25m for a reason the past 10+ years, to change it now… especially since the mechanics have been sped up with sprint/jetpack and spartan charge, it made no sense to decrease it, but all the more sense to if anything increase it. in saying that though 25m felt perfect in the beta and should be increased back to that immediately… if not this game is going straight down the toilet.
It was 30m in beta. I feel like the negativity that brought made them reduce it drastically to 18m.
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> > Basically agree with everything said here except the radar. Halos radar has been set at 25m for a reason the past 10+ years, to change it now… especially since the mechanics have been sped up with sprint/jetpack and spartan charge, it made no sense to decrease it, but all the more sense to if anything increase it. in saying that though 25m felt perfect in the beta and should be increased back to that immediately… if not this game is going straight down the toilet.
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> It was 30m in beta. I feel like the negativity that brought made them reduce it drastically to 18m.
30m would of been fine, 25m is perfect… but 18m is just absolutely ridiculous
Agree with everything in the OP, however here are a couple minor additions:
In regards to the postgame intermission - make it so that once you’re searching again you have at least 5 seconds to quit/change your mind before you are instantly matched. That way you can invite players as soon as you start searching, and they can join before you get an insta-lobby. - Motion tracker should be increased to 25m at the very least. You can’t detect a sprinting spartan about to charge your hole until it’s too late, leaving it more of ‘who sees who’ first deal than you being able to turn around and combat them like in prior Halo games.We need to collate all of these fixes into one thread, and one OP, and sort them by severity and type. If we’re gonna do 343’s jobs for them, may as well put everything in there that we can. If such a thread already exists and someone has a link, post it here.
Yeah, the intermission times are good now, no sense in increasing them. If you want a longer pause, just quit the lobby. Now you have time to check out your possibly acquired req pack and see the carnage report (which should show more info, that I agree on).
As I post from my phone, I could not locate the search feature for keywords in the thread but I’d like to add an issue that may have already been brought up. I apologize if this is a repeat.
Matchmaking Lobby:
After starting a party aka “Fireteam” as H5 calls it, why can I not hear my friend at all times? Why during the match finding/loading process does the game cease verbal communication during steps 1-3, and return communication during step 4?? This is so frustrating and dumb. Sick of repeating myself or having to look to see when my friend might be able to hear me so I can speak! It’s crazy how hard it is to party up and talk on the Xbox one! So many unnecessary steps (to start an Xbox party). It used to be so much more simple and just work (I feel like).
I can’t understand how it’s 2015 on the “best Xbox and Halo yet” and the simple things like talking to your party, or even just viewing players in your game lobby inorder to scout or even MUTE an annoying player are not possible until you’re in the game. I love this game and won’t stop playing or anything but please use your brains 343 and focus on the simple important issues people are addressing here.
I can’t agree more this is exactly all the reasons why I dislike halo 5. I was sure it was going to be good but then they put that 18m radar without telling anyone and then there is that aim acceleration… why change something that has been like that since h1 ?.. Free for all is a complete mess I always get spawn kill or crossfire all the time you are barely able to do legit 1v1 combat in ffa its always bad spawn 2v1 or you get crossfire because of the radar… I don’t get it… the game was super fun in the beta I was so hype I almost wanted to buy the game twice but all these random weird change are just stupid in my opinion. I would say there is a serious lack of decent map too but thats not that much of an issue unless they don’t use community forged map in multiplayer.