So I played some H5 for the first time in quite awhile last night. I was going to grind out a rank in FFA but I was so rusty I decided to only play warzone firefight and then some super fiesta. Then I saw that community slayer and figured why not give it a try. I must admit I was pleasantly surprised. They were some great maps that were really fun to play.
I agree it is a lot of fun playing some new slayer maps. Once you play it a good amount you start to see the flaws in some of the maps… They feel too vertical and the spawns can be super wonky at times. It was a lot of fun at first though gave H5 a fresh new feeling to it.
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> I agree it is a lot of fun playing some new slayer maps. Once you play it a good amount you start to see the flaws in some of the maps… They feel too vertical and the spawns can be super wonky at times. It was a lot of fun at first though gave H5 a fresh new feeling to it.
They were designed, apparently, with the assumption of no GP or Spartan Charge.
Either way - at this point in the games cycle - I am fine with these maps being added to regular Slayer.
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> > I agree it is a lot of fun playing some new slayer maps. Once you play it a good amount you start to see the flaws in some of the maps… They feel too vertical and the spawns can be super wonky at times. It was a lot of fun at first though gave H5 a fresh new feeling to it.
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> They were designed, apparently, with the assumption of no GP or Spartan Charge.
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> Either way - at this point in the games cycle - I am fine with these maps being added to regular Slayer.
Yeah well I think all maps would play better without GP or SC because those two things don’t belong in Halo anyway.
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> > > I agree it is a lot of fun playing some new slayer maps. Once you play it a good amount you start to see the flaws in some of the maps… They feel too vertical and the spawns can be super wonky at times. It was a lot of fun at first though gave H5 a fresh new feeling to it.
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> > They were designed, apparently, with the assumption of no GP or Spartan Charge.
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> > Either way - at this point in the games cycle - I am fine with these maps being added to regular Slayer.
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> Yeah well I think all maps would play better without GP or SC because those two things don’t belong in Halo anyway.
I can do without SC but GP is fine IMO especially in a social playlist.
I also love the playlist very much and think it has so much potential. The playlist could continue to add new maps keeping things refreshing and it could rotate popular maps into ranked. I would be very pleased with such continuation of this system for as long as Halo 5 is live.
It has been refreshing playing on some new maps. I hope that the next time community slayer rotates in, it has even more community maps
I can’t beleive it’s gone. Had way too much fun. Would of been even better with HCS settings.
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> I can’t beleive it’s gone. Had way too much fun. Would of been even better with HCS settings.
Disagree, HCS settings are so stale. Let me guess what weapon you use… pistol… I don’t like my Halo as a one gun game. Not every playlist needs to be HCS.
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> > I agree it is a lot of fun playing some new slayer maps. Once you play it a good amount you start to see the flaws in some of the maps… They feel too vertical and the spawns can be super wonky at times. It was a lot of fun at first though gave H5 a fresh new feeling to it.
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> They were designed, apparently, with the assumption of no GP or Spartan Charge.
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> Either way - at this point in the games cycle - I am fine with these maps being added to regular Slayer.
Not exactly. All of those maps were initially designed with with the full spectrum of Spartan Abilities in mind; however, several of them, received modifications for the HCS testing and changes throughout that testing. Some of them received more modifications then others depending on when they got cut from consideration. Also, a couple of the maps (Seclusion & Analogue) weren’t part of the HCS testing; in fact, Seclusion was initially outfitted for a custom non-slayer based objective mode called Warpath that essentially had one capture-able territory that moved seamlessly throughout the level via scripting.
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> Disagree, HCS settings are so stale. Let me guess what weapon you use… pistol… I don’t like my Halo as a one gun game. Not every playlist needs to be HCS.
The magnum is the main weapon in the game so even if there wasn’t an HCS playlist it would still be the starting weapon in the majority of the traditional playlists.
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> > I can’t beleive it’s gone. Had way too much fun. Would of been even better with HCS settings.
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> Disagree, HCS settings are so stale. Let me guess what weapon you use… pistol… I don’t like my Halo as a one gun game. Not every playlist needs to be HCS.
Guy, the weapon you use the most is the Pistol across both Arena and Warzone.
Halo was almost never a one-gun game, simply due to the fact that there are other guns on the map.
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> > I can’t beleive it’s gone. Had way too much fun. Would of been even better with HCS settings.
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> Disagree, HCS settings are so stale. Let me guess what weapon you use… pistol… I don’t like my Halo as a one gun game. Not every playlist needs to be HCS.
I don’t care which weapons are on the map or if there are automatics… I’m talking about the ability tracker and the removal of spartan charge and ground pound.
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> > Disagree, HCS settings are so stale. Let me guess what weapon you use… pistol… I don’t like my Halo as a one gun game. Not every playlist needs to be HCS.
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> The magnum is the main weapon in the game so even if there wasn’t an HCS playlist it would still be the starting weapon in the majority of the traditional playlists.
You’re not wrong but In hcs it feels like the only gun used is the magnum
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> You’re not wrong but In hcs it feels like the only gun used is the magnum
I could say the same thing for Slayer or FFA. It’s likely other weapons aren’t being picked up as much because the magnum is the best overall choice to use and part of the reasoning is most likely due to 343’s weapon tuning updates with the other weapons.
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> > You’re not wrong but In hcs it feels like the only gun used is the magnum
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> I could say the same thing for Slayer or FFA. It’s likely other weapons aren’t being picked up as much because the magnum is the best overall choice to use and part of the reasoning is most likely due to 343’s weapon tuning updates with the other weapons.
We must play a vastly different slayer (granted the pistol is the most used weapon but it’s not over bearing) I have people running around using the AR as well depending on the situation sometimes opting for something else than the pistol (occasionally)
halo 5 the pistol will be the most overused gun in any regular game type but for HCS/Team arena it’s on another lvl