I received Halo 5 thursday night. (amazon wouldn’t send it to japan and digitial downoad option is blocked in my region - thanks 343 - EVERY other game i have is fine).
I had to buy it off ebay. Two weeks later, jump on and…yeah
Big Team Battle
Vehicles/player stick/get stuck on scenery
Maps i’ve played are small (where are all the maps? ive seen three) and the visual quality is sub-par (have they not seen star wars battlefront - beautiful landscapes)
2015 and that’s the best you can do. it looks like an after thought. Just look at the ground.
Spawn points are atrocious. I was regularly being spawned in open fields in direct fire of opponents.
No plasma gun/plasma grenades start loadout
No separate playlist Big team battle slayer, forced to play capture the flag (team quitting/betraying rampant)
Feels very unbalanced/bland
The gun mongoose is sweet
The ghost is now sluggish
The banshee is spot on, controls are tight.
Everything feels fragile.
Where’s all the vehicles like in halo 4, the whole thing feels threadbare.
Warzone
Coming late to Warzone, I’m at a complete disadvantage with req cards. No access to vehicles/weapons.
Getting trounced by level 50 players when i was at 11. I played 4 hours, my random teams won ONCE!
Players not doing anything/quitting.
Req cards, select one, spawn in front of the enemy, die, lose req cards, repeat
Getting stuck on scenery again
No plasma gun/plasma grenades start loadout, getting destroyed by enemy vehicles at spawn
Notifications of areas unclear until you get close.
Cannot get req level ups if you’re not killing people upfront, i’d rather vehicle spawns, completely neglects vehicle focused players and forces a particular play style.
Breaks up the flow of the game.
Having to grind to customize, let me choose my armour off the bat.
Micro transactions i hate them, oh, you don’t have time to grind? Pay up.
I found myself thinking, ‘i’m not having fun’, i’m just grinding for what really? Had Destiny deja vu.
That dopamine hit isn’t kicking in anymore
That being said, matchmaking works, lobby is fast (except for my friends in new zealand cannot join - high latency message)
Campaign
Considering the original Halo story was stolen from Larry Nivens Ringworld (and other classic sci-fi - books)
you cant get away with that today. story has to be original… and since halo 4, its been less than captivating.
The levels i played so far seem to have been taken form the best bits of the previous games, and reworked
No split screen. My girlfriend is sitting next to me and she cant play.
The cut scenes are really well done (Fallout 4 take note)
Graphics in campaign are nice.
The original covenant characters felt good to shoot, solid and satisfying.
The new enemy (whilst cool looking) teleporting around and morphing feels like shooting at ghosts. No substance to the kills.
Co-op online works really smoothly, however
After Master Chief collection hassles, maybe i’m burnt out on halo. Going to give it some more time, because i love the franchise but…
#First world problems 
It is okay to not play if you do not enjoy it. Dont feel the need to play someone cus you enjoyed other aspects of the franchise.
Yes the maps feel too small, it feels odd that they would do something like look at games for environment art like the new Star Wars or Fallout 4 and it just seems odd when the studio claims Halo 5 was supposed to be like a next gen game and yet it just feels like a xbox 360 game, the BTB is unbalanced too and yes the spawns are horrible.
Go on Halo Lfg if you want to actually win. Google it.
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> It is okay to not play if you do not enjoy it. Dont feel the need to play someone cus you enjoyed other aspects of the franchise.
I paid good money, so i’m giving it time, because i want to like it, i really enjoyed the beta, i guess my expectation was way too high. I was expecting grand, hi res environments, drop jaw vistas and vehicles up the wazoo. (warzone looks nice)
Thanks for your response
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> Yes the maps feel too small, it feels odd that they would do something like look at games for environment art like the new Star Wars or Fallout 4 and it just seems odd when the studio claims Halo 5 was supposed to be like a next gen game and yet it just feels like a xbox 360 game, the BTB is unbalanced too and yes the spawns are horrible.
Yep i was really surprised/let down. Hopefully this is all rectified in the future. Big team battle is all i like to play (warzone is cool with friends)
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> Go on Halo Lfg if you want to actually win. Google it.
I shouldn’t have to go on anywhere to win. That means poor game design. You could have included a link.
Thanks for the advice though.
All I can tell you is this: I’ve been playing this game since day one and in just these few weeks I’ve done complete 180s on multiple different game features. And on some of them I’ve done complete 360s. I’ve had to give it a serious amount of time and my opinions on some things are still far from firm. A new game always lights you up like a pinball machine. Just be patient and a lot of the seemingly questionable decisions start to come into focus.
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> All I can tell you is this: I’ve been playing this game since day one and in just these few weeks I’ve done complete 180s on multiple different game features. And on some of them I’ve done complete 360s. I’ve had to give it a serious amount of time and my opinions on some things are still far from firm. A new game always lights you up like a pinball machine. Just be patient and a lot of the seemingly questionable decisions start to come into focus.
This is true and good advice, i appreciate it!
This is something i considered too, but from the start with halo 4, i was dominant. Maybe its age creeping in 
i do have to give it more time though, thanks
Here is some opinioms for some your Warzone problems. Since are trying to like it. when I am having games where I am just getting destroyed or dont have reqs which happens a lot cus I only buy gold packs. Get super sneaky. Start sneaking around the sides of the roads or buildings. You will not believe how many people just go sprinting everywhere in warzone. You can get a lot of assasinations and vehicle kills. It is a good feeling crawling up to the back of tank and nading him. Or even just get the jump on them.
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> > Yes the maps feel too small, it feels odd that they would do something like look at games for environment art like the new Star Wars or Fallout 4 and it just seems odd when the studio claims Halo 5 was supposed to be like a next gen game and yet it just feels like a xbox 360 game, the BTB is unbalanced too and yes the spawns are horrible.
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> Yep i was really surprised/let down. Hopefully this is all rectified in the future. Big team battle is all i like to play (warzone is cool with friends)
I guess they could but means scrapping the current forge maps and expanding on the forge designs to be bigger, add things like cool down on abilities and better spawn positions, decrease the amount of power weapons or make them further away from the spawn points when the maps are expanded.
Warzone is ok but it’s the same 3 maps over, over which basically get’s pretty repetitive but it would have potential to be something more if they added more professional maps instead of just rehashed forge maps created by the community since the ones that were made with the help of 343i were pretty poor compared to the ones I’ve seen in past Halo games.
I would say the graphics are bad. But also the art design in this game is bad, its an ugly game to look at.
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> Here is some opinioms for some your Warzone problems. Since are trying to like it. when I am having games where I am just getting destroyed or dont have reqs which happens a lot cus I only buy gold packs. Get super sneaky. Start sneaking around the sides of the roads or buildings. You will not believe how many people just go sprinting everywhere in warzone. You can get a lot of assasinations and vehicle kills. It is a good feeling crawling up to the back of tank and nading him. Or even just get the jump on them.
When i’m playing by myself, this is what i do (and i finished at no.1 once, we still lost).
With my friends, they all get pissed that i’m not pushing (they’re all level 50+ so i do, get wrecked by vehicles and power weapons and then get angry, it’s not fun)
Excellent advice nonetheless, thanks bud, going to hop on and try again for a bit
Dont worry to much about wins and losses. The highest win percentage I have seen for someone who played at least 100 was 65 %. For how chaotic and unbalanced warzone seems. The win/loss seems to be 50 50 for most people once they play enough.
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> I paid good money, so i’m giving it time, because i want to like it, i really enjoyed the beta, i guess my expectation was way too high. I was expecting grand, hi res environments, drop jaw vistas and vehicles up the wazoo. (warzone looks nice)
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Lets not forget H5 is nearly 10x the GBs than H4 or REACH… I assumed many Hi-Res maps would be available for the choosing. My hopes are with the upcoming Forge addition/update things will change.
on a sidenote: a fantastic feature I would like see implemented, is a forge tool where people can create their fantastic maps and auto-upload them to 343 where they can be tested and played on for a period of time then voted on for permanent map.
Forge is such a great tool, I have a feeling its gonna stop a lot of the complaints. Personally I would like 343 to add a type of new feature maybe on the Halo channel featuring player made maps, or a interface hub like the original Halo Waypoint featuring all the playlists of new maps… expanding upon forge is essential and would offer great reward to everyone…
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> I would say the graphics are bad. But also the art design in this game is bad, its an ugly game to look at.
Especially after playing star wars. 2015 BTB is unacceptable.
Playing Halo CE, looking up into the sky and seeing the halo disappear into the sky, that stuck with me.
Christ, listen to me, back in the day…
After reading the threads, i feel a little better, a lot of people are voicing the same criticisms.
Thanks for the reply.
Larry Niven - Ringworld
and if the maps were bigger people would complain that there to big. all this community does any more is complain
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> and if the maps were bigger people would complain that there to big. all this community does any more is complain
People are complaining because there are issues present, you are correct in that you cant please everyone, but you cant honestly tell me the btb maps are fantastic and big enough. (complaining about people complaining, the irony!)
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Nothing near the halo 4 maps. Ah ragnarok
From what i’ve been reading i’m not alone. This is a forum for opinions and i appreciate the opportunity to do so. Which is why i included details that i liked.
Thanks for your reply!
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> on a sidenote: a fantastic feature I would like see implemented, is a forge tool where people can create their fantastic maps and auto-upload them to 343 where they can be tested and played on for a period of time then voted on for permanent map.
> Forge is such a great tool, I have a feeling its gonna stop a lot of the complaints. Personally I would like 343 to add a type of new feature maybe on the Halo channel featuring player made maps, or a interface hub like the original Halo Waypoint featuring all the playlists of new maps… expanding upon forge is essential and would offer great reward to everyone…
Some good points you presented, i like the forge idea, there are a lot fanatical map makers out there. Do what GTA did with rockstar verified lists. I like the way you think!
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> Dont worry to much about wins and losses. The highest win percentage I have seen for someone who played at least 100 was 65 %. For how chaotic and unbalanced warzone seems. The win/loss seems to be 50 50 for most people once they play enough.
I checked my stats, it seems you’re right on that note