It’s been a week since I’ve returned on mcc after a long time. And still can’t find H2A btb games. Why??? It’s such a good game and remake. Why people dislike it? I can’t believe they prefer Reach with its all connection issues. They did an amazing job with H2A giving us even forge and… Nothing, game totally underrated and dead and I really don’t get why
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What do you mean by this? I play it almost every day and I don’t experience connection issues and only occasionally see anyone dropping out either.
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I mean that the shots on the enemy are bad registered in reach. You don t know how many times I melee an opponent (so no more shields for him) and then I shoot him in the head with dmr and he doesn’t die. It seems you have to wait a couple of seconds before your headshot can affect him. But during those seconds it happens that he kills you. Another similar fact is when you take down shields with 4 dmr shots and despite other 3 - 4 shots in the head they survive. While they are able to kill me in just 3 shots in the body and not even in the head. That’s totally no sense for me. And before you ask, my ping is always low. These are just a couple of example about what I’m talking. And no, I don t have a bad aim. I clearly see shots hitting them. Maybe it is a desync issue? I don t know. Anyway, all this s*** doesn t happen in H2A, and it clearly means a lot
Reach & H3 you’ll 100% find matches because they’re the fan favourites
H2A it’s not because players dislike it, it’s because there’s not enough map variety & content for H2A, if they started adding more to the game then I reckon it would become more active again
But I’m more of a Halo 2 Classic fan
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I would consider the lighting to be a big contributor too. It gets incredibly hard to see in a lot of basic areas.
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Mah, I’ve never had this problem playing H2A. In my opinion the light is good and more limpid than all others halo games. Maybe it also depends on tv / monitor settings
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About 4v4 H2A, there is a good map variety even because there are some forged maps. About btb ok, there could be more maps, I’m agree. But the game itself is really good and not to play BTB just because there’s not enough map variety sounds more like a caprice. It’s weird to me that many people are spending time in Halo 3. Ok, this is the most popular but just because everyone is nostalgic about halo 3 and the time they lived with it… Because if we have to talk objectively… : Weapons shooting feel inconsistent; medium - long distance br or carabine shots are unregistered on the enemy or drastically weaker than normal; shooting at enemies feels like you are shooting at rubber or play dough. Halo 3 is cool for map variety and game modes, no doubt, but absolutely not for gameplay, even if people still like it.
Reach is so much better about weapons shooting consistency, but there are terrible issues. For example, if you melee an enemy (so, shields down) and you shoot immediately in the head with magnum or dmr, or needler rifle, enemy doesn’t die. Everytime feels you have to wait 2 seconds after shields went down to kill him with a headshot. You can see this issue also in the campaign when you get down shields on an elite. He will not die by your first dmr or magnum or needler rifle headshot, and sometimes even sniper rifle. If you play Reach so much, for sure you noticed all these facts. Don’t tell me the opposite. A game based so much in dmr, needler rifle, magnum headshots, can’t afford these terrible issues! (My opinion)
In Halo 2 Anniversary these kind of issues are totally almost absents. Weapons shooting is really good consistent, spartans and elites finally feel like they have the really heavy armour we always knew by the descriptions or books, and also the steps you hear are heavy. Gameplay is totally better for these reasons and also for others objective reasons. But people don’t play it cause of a bit lack of maps. I really can’t understand them 
2a is garbage and having newer graphics doesn’t change that. Halo 2 fans are playing classic instead.
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I really can’t understand why people don’t include H2A in BTB match-composer. To me maps are pretty good, especially Bloodline and Remnant and i would like to grind the Splatter and Environmentalist achivements too.
To me is impossibile to find an H2A BTB but it’s very difficult to find a general BTB with all games, all modes, all servers, all inputs and cross-play enabled. Even when i find one it’s the same game with the same PC players that monopolize the action and the leaderboard. So i think in general people don’t play BTB, especially H2A.
To me, it’s a shame.
Plus, i think 343 Industries needs to introduce the feature of joining existent match with free slot in social games, in order to make the matchmaking faster and to help people keep playing even when a player exits the match.
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Offline bot support would do wonders in helping the mode be revived.
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It would be almost impossibile to develop, because these games are prettty different and would be hell to do so. Joinin ongoing matches would be pretty much easier to develop.
I completely agree! some games just dont get the love they deserve especially h2a
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H2A had been the best Halo ever made IMO… Sure it could use some adjustments to the weapons but what Halo doesn’t need that… The biggest issue with H2A is they didn’t remaster enough H2 maps for it so there is little player interest in it. Sure they threw in some forge made maps but that wasn’t enough to bloster interest. Sadly I doubt 343 will remaster any more H2 maps. I would give just about anything to see maps like waterworks, terminal, and Colossus remastered. Heck… even just put some weapons and power ups on the H2A infection maps and throw them in the FFA and 4v4 rotation at least.
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I agree I really enjoy H2A a lot and wish I could get more games for it. Feel free to add me maybe searching in groups would help 
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