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So this game has now become basically unplayable. Wide ranging issues are starting to plague this game now, from nearly every game being join in progress, to well over half of all games having one player who more than doubles the next best persons kills. Disconnects, lobby search failing, being booted out of a lobby and crashing on the menu, awful, AWFUL, rankings in match making, (I’ve just played 5 games in a row against someone who has 4 times my kda), and now this.
I can’t help but feel the corner cutting necessary to make finding a match a possibility has ruined this game. I cant remember the last time I had a normal, balanced, fair game of arena. It just doesn’t happen anymore.
This is how bad it’s getting. I’ve had bad JIP before, but this is the first time I’ve ever joined a game and literally not even had a chance to move. Normally in these cases its a case of having 10-20 seconds to try get a kill before you lose the match, but this time I got a loss on my record just for searching for a game. -Yoinking!- unacceptable. Every one of the issues I’ve mentioned has been getting noticeably worse over the last few weeks, and there’s just zero enjoyment left in this game now. If you’re not being absolutely dominated by a fire team (no solo only playlist, thanks 343), you’re being kicked out of games or put in one with ONE person whose kda is 4/5 times higher than anyone else’s, but now you cant even get that far.
Halo 5 was fun whilst is lasted, but now its just a husk. Anyone else been having these issues? I’d personally rather wait 20 minutes for a game that works rather than just get destroyed all the time and get thrown in to matches that have already finished. This is just horrendous.
ive never had these problems except for the rankings, Halo 5 no matter what game-mode is just overly competitive. Even the social playlist has a hidden ranking system you cant relax with this game. But i try to look past it, sorry about the other stuff though ive never seen anyone else with that problem.
There’s a lot of JIP issues in the social gametypes, in Warzone its a lot worse cause a ton of people just quit when the other team gets the center base/fortress/spire etc. There should def be stricter penalties for people who quit games cause it doesnt seem to work. This is also a big problem with modes like skirmish/assault so I can see where your rage is coming from. But it is a vicious circle, more people quit, the more you’ll get JIPd. So yea, gotta have stricter penalties for quitting (even if it is social, its still a nuisance) and should tweak when JIP should work. I cant say ive been having a problem with disconnects/crashing, at least no more than usual which honestly hasnt been much of a problem up.
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> There’s a lot of JIP issues in the social gametypes, in Warzone its a lot worse cause a ton of people just quit when the other team gets the center base/fortress/spire etc. There should def be stricter penalties for people who quit games cause it doesnt seem to work. This is also a big problem with modes like skirmish/assault so I can see where your rage is coming from. But it is a vicious circle, more people quit, the more you’ll get JIPd. So yea, gotta have stricter penalties for quitting (even if it is social, its still a nuisance) and should tweak when JIP should work. I cant say ive been having a problem with disconnects/crashing, at least no more than usual which honestly hasnt been much of a problem up.
Im just worried about me getting penalties, my old modem will reboot itself a few times a day and it kicks me out of stuff
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> > There’s a lot of JIP issues in the social gametypes, in Warzone its a lot worse cause a ton of people just quit when the other team gets the center base/fortress/spire etc. There should def be stricter penalties for people who quit games cause it doesnt seem to work. This is also a big problem with modes like skirmish/assault so I can see where your rage is coming from. But it is a vicious circle, more people quit, the more you’ll get JIPd. So yea, gotta have stricter penalties for quitting (even if it is social, its still a nuisance) and should tweak when JIP should work. I cant say ive been having a problem with disconnects/crashing, at least no more than usual which honestly hasnt been much of a problem up.
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> Im just worried about me getting penalties, my old modem will reboot itself a few times a day and it kicks me out of stuff
True and I wouldn’t hope that people like you who get dropped out by accident are punished. That being said, you’re in the minority of people, and they should definitely address those players who do quit games whenever they want (theyre losing or feel it wont be an easy game)
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> There’s a lot of JIP issues in the social gametypes, in Warzone its a lot worse cause a ton of people just quit when the other team gets the center base/fortress/spire etc. There should def be stricter penalties for people who quit games cause it doesnt seem to work. This is also a big problem with modes like skirmish/assault so I can see where your rage is coming from. But it is a vicious circle, more people quit, the more you’ll get JIPd. So yea, gotta have stricter penalties for quitting (even if it is social, its still a nuisance) and should tweak when JIP should work. I cant say ive been having a problem with disconnects/crashing, at least no more than usual which honestly hasnt been much of a problem up.
XD, this is why I play infection, you can’t get JIP’s.
Is playing the same opponents in team arena any indication of the the game population? Probably saw the same guy at least 6 times in 2 hours of playing. And this was after exiting to the multiplayer menu after each match and manually searching again instead of waiting for the post match countdown.
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> > Probably won’t be till the next Halo title
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> True. It’s gonna be the game that will be the most populated up until the next big FPS game comes out.
Pretty sure that Overwatch, COD and BF1 have much higher populations than Halo.
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> > > > Halo 5 isn’t dead…
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> > True. It’s gonna be the game that will be the most populated up until the next big FPS game comes out.
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> Pretty sure that Overwatch, COD and BF1 have much higher populations than Halo.
They do. My point is, Halo 5 still has a large enough population to hold out until the next game.
You forgot getting put on a team with players who aren’t even 100…against a team thats half Spartan Company and the rest are 140 or above. This keeps happening to me in BTB. Like…the hell?
If your going to do that, stick me with the 140s?!
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> > > > Halo 5 isn’t dead…
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> > True. It’s gonna be the game that will be the most populated up until the next big FPS game comes out.
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> Pretty sure that Overwatch, COD and BF1 have much higher populations than Halo.
On PC, PS3, Xbox or what? All three titles are multi-platform, multi-system.
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> > > > > Halo 5 isn’t dead…
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> > > True. It’s gonna be the game that will be the most populated up until the next big FPS game comes out.
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> > Pretty sure that Overwatch, COD and BF1 have much higher populations than Halo.
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> They do. My point is, Halo 5 still has a large enough population to hold out until the next game.
OK I got you. It’s a different story when you’re from the EU (which I am). I basically have to wait until about 4-5pm to find matches in Arena. Social games are available starting about 11am. So over here the game is dead at certain hours.