Halo is dead, can it be saved? Halo 5?

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The population drops bit by bit everyday.

At this point the game is really beyond salvaging. The people who left are not going to come back unless there are some pretty radical (needed) changes made, which won’t happen.

We’ve all read the countless threads on what is wrong with the game and it all comes down to competitiveness.

I literally logged well over 10,000 games of Halo 2 alone. I’m sure the people who played a lot back then will agree that competitiveness was the driving force of play. That is really what halo has always been about, getting better than others.

If you remember, back then the kids who would be classified as casuals were in the minority. Zombies and Tower of Power were fun but the majority of your playing was either in Matchmaking or in competitive custom matches.

Ranks drive competitiveness because they are used for bragging rights. Thus people care about their rank and give it their all to rank up.

Halo 4 just is not competitive and that is why people don’t want to play. Its a really boring game. The ranks give no indication of skill, just how much you play. Everyone pretty much has all the same weapons and armor abilities which are in reality just power ups. There are no power weapons on the map, they just get dropped right to you.

This is the first Halo game, in which when you spawn, there is nothing on the map that is worth trying to obtain. In every other Halo game, there are power ups and power weapons on the map that you need to go get.

In Halo 1-3 and even Reach, you basically had to do your workout and then you get your cake. In Halo 4, you get your cake with the option of working out.

The drive to get that power weapon or get that power up is really what makes Halo. The fight for control of these power items is what drives people to get better. Since this is non existent in Halo 4, Halo really is dead.

They aren’t going to swap AAs to custom power ups, they aren’t going to get rid of ordnance, we aren’t going to get a good ranking system that even resembles H2’s or 3’s, therefore they will never revive the game.

So just let this game die, we need to worry about Halo 5.

We need to compile a list of things we want for Halo 5 to bring the Halo series back to life. The sad thing is that it isn’t that difficult.

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If it is not al ready reach’s population ill be twice that of halo 4 in no time,
And why? Because 343 just would not listen

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I guess not being #1 on the population list means it’s dead. I miss the old Halo play style too, but this game is not dead.

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> We’ve all read the countless threads on what is wrong with the game and it all comes down to competitiveness.

No, it all comes down to a lack of a local only search filter. I think for many people that is the first major problem and most important one.

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> > We’ve all read the countless threads on what is wrong with the game and it all comes down to competitiveness.
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> No, it all comes down to a lack of a local only search filter. I think for many people that is the first major problem and most important one.

Nah while that would be sick, people mostly just want MM they can go into and get a good competitive match with players that have relatively the same skill level. No ranks and a game that i snot very competitive make that goal impossible.

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You mad bro?

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> > > We’ve all read the countless threads on what is wrong with the game and it all comes down to competitiveness.
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> > No, it all comes down to a lack of a local only search filter. I think for many people that is the first major problem and most important one.
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> Nah while that would be sick, people mostly just want MM they can go into and get a good competitive match with players that have relatively the same skill level. No ranks and a game that i snot very competitive make that goal impossible.

Oh yeah, because if there’s one thing Australians love is having to kill someone 5 seconds before they think they want them to.

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Halo isn’t dead. I can find a game relatively easily and have fun matches all the time.

Jeez, if you people keep saying 343i isn’t listening, why bother to keep complaining?

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It’s an inanimate object. It was never alive to begin with.

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Considering halo 4 is in the top 3 most active games played on xbox right now i hardly consider that dead. That and a game is never “dead” until you can’t find a match in a decent time. Stop being melodramatic.

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halo is dead. Thats funny, I just found a match in under 30 seconds.

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Halos not dead :stuck_out_tongue: also, at the end of next month the 1-50 system will come online.

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halo 4 is one of the most played games on XBL at this time and supposedly its dead?

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It’s called the Holidays. Seriously not everyone sits on games all day. H4 has to also compete with other popular games that are out so the Population is going to drop but not overly exaggerated as what many people try to say.

it isn’t going to go from 100K to 10K in a month just because the game for some of the people they say it isn’t finished or it doesn’t have what they wish it had.

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> Halos not dead :stuck_out_tongue: also, at the end of next month the 1-50 system will come online.

FYI it isn’t going to be 100% like the 1-50 and they never said it was a permanent idea for the CSR they said it would and could be changed at any time if they wanted to.

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Halo is not dead. I would call it ‘The eye of the storm’. Once 343 actually fix Halo 4 completely (Which shouldn’t take too long), Then Halo 4’s population will increase.

Remember this; 343 took over after Bungie, What did they do with Reach? They made it into a much better game than it was out the box. 343 have given us FuD, They were responsible for Halo Waypoint.

I am pretty sure they care as much about Halo just as much as we do. They most likely want to get every fix into a single TU and then release it as opposed to multiple smaller updates.

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People said Reach is dead yet I played games constantly right up until Halo 4 came out.

halo isn’t dead OP. sorry to disappoint you.

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Halo as you supposed halo 2 OG’s (as you think of yourselves) see it, is dead.
Deal with it.

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Ugh another one of these threads.

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Halo is Dead ( Kinda ) Because To Many People Nowadays Play That CoD And Say Halo Is For Nerds Well Its Not For Nerds It Takes More Skill Than CoD!! and In CoD It Takes No Skill People Think Halo Is Nerdy When Most Of Them Haven’t Even Played Halo!!