The flip side to this is why so long after launch we still have melees not registering and no solution to the drop out of players before matches start. Pretty much everyone would agree starting a ranked match 3v4 is pointless and it would be better to matchmake rather than enforce one team to get beat up with zero chance, particularly in objective games.
There are serious issues with core functionality in the game that are not being fixed, that’s not being negative to highlight them. Sure the game is great fun but yesterday I had a run where for 4 games either 1 player didn’t load in or someone rage quit in ranked. That’s 30+ minutes of unenjoyable play that frankly if it happened to a new player they’ll not be back again.
It is possible to like the direction they took with Infinite but not like some of the decisions being taken around its development.
Problem here is one of ping, and you can’t improve ping without increasing the player numbers.
They need to focus on content - they literally cannot fix melee phasing otherwise.
So there you have it - an answer.
This long after launch you still have melees not registering because people are not playing the game in large enough numbers to focus on ping; therefore any efforts put into this areA right this second are utterly POINTLESS.
I’m not sure the melee bug is really down to ping, nearly every game I have is 20ms. I’ve had games where I’ve hit stuff consistently then out of nowhere a point blank backsmack never registers. There are some serious netcode issues with this game and ping is being used as an excuse imo. I put hundreds of hours into the Titanfall games with much faster gameplay and probably lower populations and have never seen as much as what happens in Infinite. Content will matter little if people come back and the same bugs that drove them away still exist. Its a vicious circle.
Maybe you should take a step back and analyze the current atmosphere surrounding video games and the corporations that make them. They are not your friends, they do not care what you enjoy in a game, they are only after your money. Gone are the days when developers made passion project games for the sake of the player. The only things that matter now are battlepasses, cosmetic shops, and publicity. Everything else takes a back seat.
I have seen this excuse sometimes and yeh company’s are not peoples ‘best friend’ but they do need to listen because there still trying to sell a product and if there’s no interest then there bound to fail to make enough money. and that’s exactly what a corporation shouldn’t be proud of.
Company’s don’t just jump into the industry and just assume things are automatically going to be ok no matter what they do since they need feedback from the gamers and to see what works so they can tell if their product will sell.
I’m thankful that 343 lied to us about their “player-first” idealization.
I’m thankful that 343 delayed season 2 for almost an entire year.
I’m thankful that 343 hasn’t listened to us since Halo 5. (I’m not counting halo 4 because I’m that 1% that still likes Halo 4.)
I’m thankful that I have to spend nearly $30 on a bundle of colors in their in-game store.
Let me know when you’re not crying about how the community is right. 343 butchered this game. Halo: CE was my first, my baby, Halo 3 is a very boring title, still okay gameplay, imo; Halo: Reach… i don’t care much for Reach. Noble teams’ deaths were predictable, yet laughable.
you gotta learn to sift through the bs to find the actual criticisms with the game, for instance my criticism of the armor kinda goes for the whole artstyle, as in they both lack originality. the artstyle just looks like a copy of halo reach and 3 with very little bits of 4 and 5 mixed in, and speaking of reach. the mk-V(b) doesn’t looks bad, looked better in reach and the customization is so restrictive in infinite due to monetization, challenges, events, coatings and just time it self. grapple shot is very useful but feels gimmick-y, like every games got have a grappling hook now. i think i know the chest piece you’re talking about, looks cool, wish we could change the color on it. next 3 i have no comment on, not really what i look for in the game. not a fan of the a.i.'s, they’re all annoying and the last time i played i don’t think there was an option to turn them off, they also just feel like a way to fill up space for the lack of content this game already has, and Finally! 343 is doing an awful job, not only with the multiplayer but also the campaign, if you wanna open that can of worms i already made a post on why the campaign should be scrapped.
The armour is the best bit, the whole graphics are quintessentially “Halo” and there hasn’t been a bad armour core yet. Even the flamboyant stuff looks semi-ironic in its current implementation, but those same items will probably look great on a female spartan bootay.
the art style isn’t my only issue, to me the game looks and plays almost identically to classic halo to the point i ask, why not just play classic halo?
When you have to elevate granular features to be thankful for, it makes Infinite look worse, not better. The player base hasn’t shrunk because players are ungrateful.
Also, there’s zero reason to take shots at Halo fans. Posts that do this should be auto-locked. There are thousands of opinions and a few bad actors in the community. It’s pointless to stereotype fan behavior. It makes you look like you’re posting for cred.
I’m as disappointed as I can be in this game holistically. I was so excited for it prerelease and even during the beta. But then, slowly and surely the myriad of issues became more and more apparent. I stopped playing fully, two different times for at least a couple months each. All the people I played with also stopped playing (mostly desync related…hard to play ranked games wherein much of what you do is futile). I got pulled back in by the last person in our group of friends who still insists upon playing. Honestly, I started playing again a couple weeks back solely for them, but it still is a painfully frustrating experience.
I have replied to a number of posts on here, had a few flagged (nothing toxic, just basically questioned the validity of this individual who more than strongly stated that desync wasn’t real and wasn’t a widespread issue). Nonetheless, I do NOT think 343 should be replaced. For more reasons than I feel like typing out, it just wouldn’t be beneficial at this point and would be the current end of Halo as we know it. What needs to happen is simple, they need to restructure the company (staffing, job roles, overall support) and they need to get to work fixing the game engine, building and rolling out content, and overall just living up to their model choice of a live service game.