Hey all,
This is not easy for me to say because I’ve had such a good time playing Halo 5 leading up to the update, but I’m going to say a proper and harsh goodbye to the game. The update has, in my opinion, completely ruined Halo 5. The BR is now useless, the DMR is beyond useless (there is no need for a “long-range only niche” with that weapon), the carbine is now garbage (as if it wasn’t hard enough to use before), and the AR was buffed when LITERALLY EVERYONE IN THE FANBASE was saying “please nerf it completely”. But no - why listen to the people who made you rich? On another level, 343i has not listened to its fanbase on multiple levels and seems only to care about money. for example…where is Shotty Snipes? Literally hundreds of thousands of us have, for pretty much a full year now, been requesting that playlist because of nostalgia and because it’s a great playlist in general…but once again, 343i refuses throw its loyal fanbase a bone. I mean, we’re only the ones playing this game on a regular basis, so what do we know? Bungie would have done things differently.
My last topic is the ranking system. Win/Loss ranking is absolutely obscene, especially since a lot of people need to solo queue or don’t have friends that play H5. A lot of times people won’t party up when you ask them in lobbies (at least that is my experience). If I match a smurf or get placed with teammates that don’t know what they’re doing, regardless of how I do, I end up losing and subsequently deranking. That is not fair at all and is ranking YOUR TEAMMATES instead of you, assuming you did well. I’ve complained multiple times about this and am still shocked to find people defending this backwards system. I’m stuck at low Diamond in Slayer now, for example (Diamond 2 at the time of posting this) after being mid-Onyx last season and being placed Diamond 5 before that. Because I’m matching with Plats and other low Diamonds (I’m an Onyx tier player, mind you), NOBODY knows what they’re doing, and the tendencies of Onyx players are non-existent at this level of play. Because of this, I either win and go super positive with teammates that listen or go negative and lose miserably with teammates that don’t (which happens a majority of the time since I now have to solo queue). Bringing back the H3 system would eliminate smurfs altogether and would stop this problem, but again…why listen to your fanbase? Why allow stuff to make too much sense?
Thanks to everyone that read this, that helped me at any point in Halo 5, and/or gave me a fun experience in any facet of the game. It was a genuinely good time. But for me, the negatives vastly outweigh the positives, and it’s time I move on. I probably won’t bother with H6 at all assuming 343i continues this nonsense. Sorry for the complaints and the butthurt - and enjoy H6. GOODBYE HALO 5.
-JumpinJimmie dc
