I’m listing off all of the problems that I have with Halo 5. I will try to not burst out in an angry rant in the middle of this post because I have a lot to get off of my chest.
Campaign:
- The Story is way to short
- Blue Team nor Osiris is relatable at all in the story
- The “Hunt the Truth” or the lack of it is the most disappointing aspect of the game
- Why am I playing as Locke for 80% of the game, I played the game for Chief
- Locke has no emotional motive to hunt Chief down
- The three walk around missions are pointless, they could’ve just been cut scenes
- Your A.I. companions are so stupid
- Underwhelming battles with Warden Eternal and the Kraken
- Overall Boring
Multiplayer:
Arena:
- There are no social playlists at launch so everything is ranked
- Poor map rotation even after the patch
- Lack of game modes like King of the Hill or flood
- Poor aim mechanics make playlists like SWAT that are based on precision, harder to play in my opinion
- The CSR is messed up. How come I win 2 of 10 games in Rocket Rumble and get Onyx but win 9 of 10 games in BTB and get Gold?
- The “Increased XP gains” for weekend Social feel like a boost that anyone recognizes. Why not a double XP and RP weekend for Weekend Social? That would keep players coming back
- Maps are not memorable
- Why are most of the arena maps forge maps? Really, go to custom games and look for yourself
- The XP and RP gains for playlists like FFA make me not want to play at all
- FFA needs to be reduced to 6 Players Max
- Full Fire-teams should not be playing against four single players
- No join in progress. So when someone leaves because they’re getting BS’d on, we’re automatically at a disadvantage. Or when you servers can’t keep 2 players that live right next me in the game so I’m forced to 2v4 the entire game. But, if I leave I risked getting banned? Why?
- Why are the polls for Weekend Social game modes that should already have its own playlists, like every other Halo games had including Halo 4
- Radar only 18m’s???
- No clear distinction for players on different levels on the radar like there was in Halo 4
- If you want to have fun, there will be next to non here
Warzone:
- Clearly pay to win
- No penalty for people Armory Glitching in Assault?
- Lack of Warzone maps
- No dedicated and lack of Warzone Assault Maps that lead to mostly one sided matches
- Weapons despawn too quick
- Players shouldn’t be able to move to the armory until the Spire, Garage, or Fortress is captured in Warzone
- Not properly rewarding teammates for boss takedowns. No boss takedown assists for someone who put damage into the boss?
- Warzone Legendary and Regular Boss steal kills lead to people spamming shots when the other team gets the boss’s health down
- Marine’s do a bit too much damage in my opinion
- Despite claiming the biggest maps, Warzone feels like a lot of empty space and two BTB maps
- Boss’s and AI spawns at the exact same places and the exact same times *cough *cough Destiny
- People who pay more clearly have the advantage with more REQ’s at their disposal, despite 343’s claims
- No overtime for Attackers on Warzone Assault when currently capturing the base when the game ends
- REQ energy progression feels way to slow near the end of the game
- Loadout weapons should not cost more REQ energy than nearly every single high end power weapon and vehicle
- Armor mods? Why?
- I might not have caught it but 343 made it seem like that the tournament needed $1 million dollars through fan funding to have the tournament then later said they already had the million but wanted more for the tournament?
- 343 admitted that they had a lack of game modes at launch to get people to play Warzone and buy into that system. Wow way to make a few thousands dollars and loose a few thousand players at the same time
- Warzone doesn’t feel like a… Warzone. Half of the time people are camping in corners with an energy sword or shotgun while having active camo, One person sniping the entire time at each base and the few guys who stay in a Ghost Ultra the entire match getting way to easy splatters in this game
Custom Games:
- No Loadout option to have game modes with varying classes. One of the main reasons why I miss Loadouts
- No real advancement here in terms of options like yet again Loadouts or random weapons like Gun Game or Sharpshooter from Black Ops II (Not trying to start a CoD v Halo mode)
- Lack of game modes yet again
- No real problems in Customs just feels slightly more limited compared to other Halo’s
Theater:
- Zoom button is glitched, you have to press in both thumbsticks at the literal exact same time
- No options in menu for theater move and strafe speed like there was in other Halo’s
- Theater controls feel sloppy
- No advancement here like Set camera points, shaky cam, or Depth of Field like say GTA 5
- No time bar
- Forward and backward buttons go to far backward and too little forward
- Weapon lowering doesn’t appear in third person
- Audio bugs like the entrance of the Warzone games
- How is it possible that I bookmarked a game that I wasn’t in. No seriously I bookmarked a game where we got a clutch Warden kill that we totally stole and after the game I bookmarked that exact game, went into theater and I wasn’t in the game nor on the leaderboard. Then I came to realize, It’s not even the game
Forge:
Other Problems:
- Lack of Armor Customization. Nothing like Reach or even 4
- Commendations give you only emblems. No seriously, I heard that when you reach the max rank, all you get is a freaking emblem. NICE!
- No armor reward for completing the game on legendary or doing hard commendations like there was in Halo 4
- Reaching 60 fps wasn’t worth it as I was taken out of the immersion with texture pop-ins and character framerate and longer distances. At some point I blew up something far away and it looked like a slideshow playing in the distances of the plasma turret that I blew up
- Controls feel tight and awkward, can’t really tell what it is but it feels worse than the Beta
- It’s funny how the Beta felt more fun than the full game
That is all of the issues I have with Halo 5. It is clear to me and many Halo fans that 343 doesn’t care for casual community and their sophomore effort was a huge disappointment. I defended the REQ system, now I’m against it. I defended 343 in their first Halo game, no I’m against the studio on further Halo’s. The community managers for the game aren’t doing their job as countless people are complaining about the big issues with the game and we get nothing back except for that the game is getting more Req’s so you better cough up some cash to unlock em! It’s clear that Microsoft needs to get some people out of the 343 staff or Halo is going to be officially dead by the time Halo 6 comes out. It’s already apparent with the sales of Halo 5 selling far less than Halo 3 at launch while at the same time having less Xbox 360’s than One’s at the time of Halo 3’s launch. Microsoft has a choice, end 343 or watch the death of the only thing that kept the Xbox relevant. If you have any problems that I didn’t list in the post, feel free to post them down below and if you disagreed with some of the things on my list or agreed. Glad I got all of that off my chest
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343 and people need to see this Bump
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> Go play something else
Wow, I can’t even list the problems of a game anymore. You’re one of the reasons why the communities voice isn’t getting heard
Whiney community is the biggest problem and unfortunately 343 can’t patch them.
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> Whiney community is the biggest problem and unfortunately 343 can’t patch them.
Listing the problems of a game… whiney. Wow this community has turned toxic
I disagree with you. I am loving this game and my only complaint is that I don’t have more time to play it.
People do not need to see this post and you are not the voice of the community.
Hopefully 343 keeps on improving. Halo 5 is a great step forward for the franchise.
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> I disagree with you. I am loving this game and my only complaint is that I don’t have more time to play it.
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> People do not need to see this post and you are not the voice of the community.
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> Hopefully 343 keeps on improving. Halo 5 is a great step forward for the franchise.
Clearly with the population drop and forums complaining about the game, people do need to see this sir
I agree with quite a few of these but some things I believe you’re being very nit picky about and/or impatient. You mention Forge: they’ve said from the beginning that it will be out in December (not far away at all, even at launch). You claim warzone is pay to win and I know the consensus is probably pretty split on this but it isn’t at all. Sure people can spend all they want and get endless supplies but they still need to get to those specified levels to use them which involves alot of skill to get to 6 and above at a point in the game where spawning something big still matters. On top of that, let’s say for the sake of easy math and to be, at least in my eyes, very generous with these figures; 1 in 6 people that play this game spend like there’s no tomorrow. That’s 2 players per team. Do you really think 2 spenders in a team of 12 will be the difference between win and loss? Sometimes sure, but most of the time, of course not. Warzone is absolute chaos and to say it’s pay to win is absolutely ridiculous in my eyes. I want to be clear here though like I said in the beginning, you do have quite a few valid complaints and 343 should look into a lot of them but some of them are just very petty and/or have been answered by them already.
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> > I disagree with you. I am loving this game and my only complaint is that I don’t have more time to play it.
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> Clearly with the population drop and forums complaining about the game, people do need to see this sir
That’s what gaming forums are used for by most players. Complaints. Or suggestions. Unless the population drops so I can’t find a match (it won’t) then no, people don’t need to see this. Time to get off your high horse.
For the CSR Rumble Rockets thing, if you were closer to the top of the leader board you rank up, however if youre close to the bottom you lose CSR xp. thats why I’m somehow at Diamond 1 in FFA… and I’ve only won once since then.to just add on, I’m a crappy FFA Player. H5 Beta had a better way of CSR I agree, and the rest of this is somewhat true, the game is being fixed. they wanted to restart Halo from scratch and they found examples from COD and Halo. Sure they removed gametypes to get people to play warzone, but they wanted to see how the community reacts to it. If all the gametypes were back, then we would never get a detailed review of warzone. Now 343i knows that some people hate it and will try to patch and fix anything. If they tried adding more updates similar to the way warframe does it (Making big changes and upates that can reconstruct the gameplay, for example they changed the parkour system and amped it to the extreme and removed the stamina bar that hinders the parkour actions.) such as adding in a new rank system, more campaign DLC except it is added into the direct campaign (Pretty much lost missions), more maps (Bring some of the classics and favorites back, such as Guardian from Halo 3: a perfect fit with the name, Blackout from Halo 2, the Halo Reach Fan Favorite: Sword Base, Foundry from Halo 3, the perfect Industrial Forge sandbox, speaking of also add “Sandbox” from Halo 3 DLC back in and a last good one is FORGE WORLD for obvious reasons. It’s the biggest halo map to date and perfect for forge) and gamemodes, some brand new weapons that can even be added into custom games and forge, A skybox editor (Backgrounds and terrain), an enhanced radar (At least give us 20-25m… I dont care, I hardly ever use my radar as often as i used to), and add in TRUE CUSTOMIZATION, REACH STYLE. that’d be nice to have in Halo so it works out.
Don’t forget about the fact that we pretty much don’t have a filesharing system or file browser 
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> > > I disagree with you. I am loving this game and my only complaint is that I don’t have more time to play it.
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> That’s what gaming forums are used for by most players. Complaints. Or suggestions. Unless the population drops so I can’t find a match (it won’t) then no, people don’t need to see this. Time to get off your high horse.
Did you just say that a games quality and MP success is reflected only in whether or not you can find a match?
You forgot to add something to the Forge section and that is that there is no recoding clips of any length of time from any angle like you could in past halos, Halo 3 and Reach to be specific.
infection. griffball. team snipers. team dubs. action sack. team rumble pit. social slayer witg no VISIBLE rank OR k/d. oddball. king of the hill. 1 bomb. VIPs. headhunter. map remakes and new maps. halo 3’s sandtrap and the elephant in BTB made some epic moments lol. anyway all missing in Halo 5
Don’t worry, OP. Most realize that 343i is not perfect at all and that they have messed up Halo 5 in some ways. I’m impressed you managed to list them all; I don’t have that patience. Campaign was indeed very underwhelming. It was funny how Frankie said that AIs would be better than random teammates. Haha, they haven’t played Halo 5.
I am with you.
Yes 343 -Yoinked!- Halo up. Its fact. The Halo we loved is dead. 343 destroyed over one decade of Halo franchise. The reason why Halo 4 and 5 are bad is simply because 343 isnt a good dev team and will never reach th level of the good old Bungie team. Yes Bungie sucks too now, but this is because ppl left, staff changed etc. Nothing lasts forever. But this is how it is, the real Halo is dead and we need to get over it. Still have trust in Creative Assembly, i expect much.
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You are clearly someone that just spends tons of money on packs for good cards and camps, and noobtubes, and thinks that there is nothing wrong with this game. Yes, we could play something else, but as true Halo fans we expect more.
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> You are clearly someone that just spends tons of money on packs for good cards and camps, and noobtubes, and thinks that there is nothing wrong with this game. Yes, we could play something else, but as true Halo fans we expect more.
Did you just get out of cryo sleep? Holy necro…