… That most of the people complaining that Halo 5 is “terrible,” are calling it so primarily due to the lack of splitscreen. Which is odd, because 343i stated that Halo 5 would not have Splitscreen quite a few months ago. If that ruins your enjoyment of a Halo game, then why did you buy Halo 5 when you knew that it wouldn’t support splitscreen?
why do you not answer or ask in that specific threat to that question?
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> … That most of the people complaining that Halo 5 is “terrible,” are calling it so primarily due to the lack of splitscreen. Which is odd, because 343i stated that Halo 5 would not have Splitscreen quite a few months ago. If that ruins your enjoyment of a Halo game, then why did you buy Halo 5 when you knew that it wouldn’t support splitscreen?
I personally don’t see the issue with no split-screen. Maybe they removed it so they could add it in later to keep something back?
It was removed for technical reasons. It takes a lot of graphical processing power to display the game at the target 60 FPS. Allowing for splitscreen would increase the required power by a large factor. You may think “but wait, it is the same amount of pixels, it should take the same amount of power”. But that’s not true since it requires memory to hold textures, processing units to handle lighting effects, shaders to do shade. Since those depend on camera interaction with the environment, it is twice the effort. So unless the xbox magically grows a stronger graphics system or, and more likely, new tricks and optimizations are created for the engine and framework, you won’t see a split-screen.
It is also worth considering what the actual percentage of players who want co-op is? Sure, you see a lot of posters here complaining about its lack, but it is deceptive. First, ‘a lot’ of posters is something in the order of dozens, certainly not hundreds. Second, the selection bias is that people who want to complain will complain while those who are happy won’t say anything; the silent majority makes it seem like the minority is a lot larger than it is. Additionally, most of the complainers still bought the game. As the OP said, it isn’t a new fact. Sure, some small fraction of those who bought it and who want split-screen will return the game, but it is going to be a minuscule number whose sales wouldn’t have covered the development and testing effort of putting the co-op mode into the game.
A lot of people are complaining that it sucks multiplayer wise, is cause they are fresh to this new style of game play. Warzone, and the fact that arena is now ranked. People need to hit up campain for a while until they get a conferrable setting to play with. Learning map locations for weapons and call out will make your halo life a tad bit easier