I am astounded.
In equal weight at how this community is somehow loyal like dogs and everything that has transpired from the MCC to the Guardians beta, both betas running simultaneously.
I came to say something about Breakout. I actually just experienced so much utter garbage that I’m pushing that back:
- Announcer/killcam/animations/drums in the match intro music repeat often
- Battle Rifle now seems to have no reason behind its power as it took 7+ shots to the head to kill an opponent the last 10 games I’ve had (I assume this is related to lag)
- Lag/whatever hit so hard once past the repeating stuff that my game went to black entirely and I had to restart it
- Had to restart the game about 20 times due to continuously popping into lobbies just short of one person, being unable to back out, where the alternative is to wait for “servers have experienced an unexpected problem” error message, which should read “entirely expected”
- Still cannot go into Slayer with a friend and have it work
I am honestly not too surprised at how inept 343i is with either the Guardians beta or the MCC, though I was initially confused when the MCC launched. It seems the team that worked on both of these is somehow unrelated to the team that worked on the completely functional Halo 4. I can find no other logical explanation without looking at the ultimate and sad “they don’t care” conclusion.
On to my main concern:
- Breakout
While I felt how distant it was at the beginning of the beta, it grew on me just a little. I was still disappointed with how everything was being promoted. This mode solidifies my earlier thoughts. I didn’t expect it to come exactly in this form though.
Halo has a hardcore mode now! Grenades that kill in one hit, dramatically decreased TTK… The best part of it all - the games all began with players throwing a grenade across the map and, believe it or not, killing someone! Why not rename Trench to Nuketown?
I don’t think I need to be the one to tell others that this is the farthest point removed so far from what Halo was. If this is what they’re trying to get people hyped up over, I don’t really know how to describe it. I also don’t expect coming gametypes to be very much like Halo or an FFA gametype in this beta, though I will play it if it finally comes. After five or six matches of Breakout, I went back over to Slayer, where I encountered all the problems I listed above. The lag related ones or the one about the BR did not happen as much during the first phase of the beta, but the rest all apply.
So I guess…yeah? This is it? Congratulations Microsoft and 343i, you’ve failed. I already said that before and am lost for words now so I’ll say it again. You’ve all failed extravagantly, seemingly in acceptance of that by attempting to console people who gave you your money by giving them Halo 3: ODST - a game they’ve probably already paid for once - without firefight. You’ve alienated so many people. I don’t know how it is that any of this goes by with everything this docile. The conclusion, I guess, is that Halo is no longer relevant and nobody really cares. Apparently not even the developers if the thing they spent their time developing while screwing up something else they were kind of developing is also terribly broken and everyone is content enough with that.
It. Is. A. -Yoinking!-. Beta.
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> It. Is. A. -Yoinking!-. Beta.
This thread is feedback, that’s the point of a beta, to get feedback from the people who played it. No need to be so rude.
I love Breakout. Nothing like CoD. The beta has been running very smoothly for me and all of my friends so you must be very impatient with -Yoink- connection. Gg.
Lag in a beta? Surely not
Seriously though, try not to get so mad.
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This isn’t really Halo 5?! I thought it was out already and this was it!!!
It it all makes sense now
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> It. Is. A. -Yoinking!-. Beta.
And you are the response I could have predicted prior to clicking submit. You don’t seem to understand. The Halo 3 beta was fine. The Reach beta was fine. If this is what they consider a beta then the release will be akin to the MCC and they’ll finish the game several months after release.
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> I love Breakout. Nothing like CoD. The beta has been running very smoothly for me and all of my friends so you must be very impatient with -Yoink- connection. Gg.
No, it is nothing like CoD. It’s also nothing like Halo.
CoD is just a big name in the book of FPS games where people throw 1 hit kill grenades across the map.
Now, read your own posts. Who’s mad now? I’m disappointed beyond belief, if that’s what you’re wondering. I was mad in November.
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Considering the OP’s first sentence was insulting the community he deserves all the trash he will get.
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It doesn’t matter. Like I said, somehow people who are apparently Halo fans (and when it was that they became Halo fans is beyond me because my buddies I played with in 2005 on XBL would have ten times less the patience with this that I have with OCD, they would have moved on already) post here on a regular basis somehow content - or at the very least tolerable - of something that literally everyone should be condemning right now and it has nothing to do with my opinion on Breakout. I wanted to comment on that, but my main concern (still) is functionality, of which the failure is almost profound in its scope.
Why Waypoint has so many people loyal to 343 (or people loyal to Bungie, as opposed to being open minded) is beyond me. That’s not something defensible at this point. It was when Halo 4 released, and I like Halo 4. I thought the people who were crying “HALO IS DEAD” then were inane. Halo 4 had it where it counted, but more importantly it worked.
Imagine though if Halo 4 had been broken and remained broken for quite some time, just to get brushed out of the way for something else that is…well, broken. That’d suck, huh?
lol and apparently my OP was “insulting”…little confused with that. If I can’t give honest feedback and criticism on something I paid money for, that’s really stupid.
Calling people dogs is insulting, so go -Yoink- yourself.
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> Calling people dogs is insulting, so go -Yoink- yourself.
Loyal like dogs.
I did not refer to (anyone applicable) as a dog.
If you want to pretend that the defeatism doesn’t run strong here, be my guest.
Forgot: unable to check score with the back button during killcam sequence and killcam often does not correspond to the actual kill, showing me something entirely different
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When did I say you were mad? Someone must be mad…
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That’s weaker than usual. I mean it’s right up there. You’ve got to try harder.
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Fed up of seeing so many -Yoink- and, like this one, non constructive threads. Everyone keeps ranting on about lag etc and the Beta isn’t a fair representation of what it will be like in the full game.
This community has turned into one of the worst in the gaming world…
‘the beta has lag 1 year before release’
‘take away sprint’ - 100x a day, when we all know no Dev will release a shooter in 2015 that doesn’t have it
‘I’m not good enough to win a 1v2 its all 343s fault’
… Just to name a few of the posts flooding these forums.
Everyone hails Halo 1 - 3 like they are gods gift and they do not have a single issue, and then say Halo 5 is the spawn of satan.
We have a nostalgia problem like StarWars fans.