In my opinion I cant have much fun in halo 5 because of the lack of community playlists, and because all the game modes in it are ones i care about kd and win loss stats. What about you guys?
Eh. I guess I’m an average/above average player so I don’t really see games as being too competitive but it would be cool to have some more fun gametypes like in the MCC such as Medal Madness or even the Pancake gametype they showed off in a community update.
I’d love to see more social and just for fun types of games come through. It seems like their main focus is the HCS crowd, though.
Action sack was fun.
It just needs Infection. The social stuff is fine.
I’m an average player and yes it is very competitive, playing during the week is a lot easier than playing on Friday night/weekend
Totally agree. It’s so competitive, the high aim assist and bullet magnetism practically aim for you!
H5 is all HCS sweating or bust. Even in warzone you got people acting like they are playing for the world championship all day with full parties.
Halo5 is teaching me how to cry and forget how to laugh.
nothing wrong with it
Mechanics themselves aren’t all that competitive, yet the playlist structure leaves much to be desired in the way of social play.
Blows my mind that they made the social slayer playlists temporary when everyone was asking for them.
I prefer a competitive game. Makes me a better player. I love breakout for that reason.
way too many casuals in this game 
Love slayer, the uneven/unpredictable matchmaking can be frustraiting. Usually an easy win or a spanking.
Halo 5 appeals to the competitive crowd and completely disregards the larger, more casual and fun focussed crowd. You have Arena and BTB (which is basically Big Team Arena, not proper BTB). Warzone is insanely repetative especially with how few maps we have and how long the gaps between new maps has been. The lack of custom game options and game modes again just proves their competitive focus.
I’ve always been confused about the focus of Halo 5, the competitive community is by far the minority yet they focused all of their attention on it? It seems like they really wanted it to succeed, recreate the hype Halo 2 had in its competitive days and get some attention from the esports crowd. It didn’t really work, especially with HCS which only really gained any attention because of the prize pool and in game armour sets
I agree that arena is too heavily focused on CSR ranks. I don’t think that warzone is too competitive though.
If you want to just play non competitive make use of the social playlists every week. Then you will learn why Halo 5 is better played competitive… ( the amount of times someone has a 0.1 KD makes me want to cry ).
There are some very bad players out there… arena is no fun with bad players.
BTB is a lot of fun and not at all competitive. But if you are in the EU like me, you will have a hard time finding a match.
I will say that this Halo probably has the largest skill gap to date, causing it to be very competitive. I think that there needs to be more social options as well. It is getting better (Grifball/Fiesta/BTB) but there needs to be more. “Social Slayer” & “Social Arena” would help people to have a playlist to be causal in and play some Halo that isn’t so tight in terms of competition.
This is why I think people are getting burnt out on the game and/or turning away from it. They can’t relax!
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> Mechanics themselves aren’t all that competitive, yet the playlist structure leaves much to be desired in the way of social play.
> Blows my mind that they made the social slayer playlists temporary when everyone was asking for them.
I agree that the biggest problem is the playlists. It needs more social and fewer ranked playlists, so ranks really mean something. Ranked should be left to relatively few, balanced competitive formats and not crap like SWAT. Team Arena should be tournament gametypes or changed to social and replaced with a ranked HCS playlist. I should not be playing Torque Strongholds for a rank. Team Slayer does not need to be ranked. Breakout is debatable, despite my distaste for it. I would lean towards unranked.
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> In my opinion I cant have much fun in halo 5 because of the lack of community playlists, and because all the game modes in it are ones i care about kd and win loss stats. What about you guys?
OP you’re going to find really competitive people no matter what playlist you’re in… Next you will be creating a thread that you are getting your -Yoink- whooped in Social.
Just to clear up, 1. This is not the account i use on my xbox. 2. I do well in Halo 5 matchmaking, and often am competitive. 3. Im just saying there was something more relaxing about social in every other halo game, maybe its just more people were talking, maybe its the playlists, maybe its the amount of try hards. I dont know, maybe infection would solve it.