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> > It is a little on the light side, that’s true. But, I am thankful for the update nonetheless. Gives me more to collect. The stances are nice, the emblems are solid, and the fixes are all around great. Jumped back into H5 today after a month of being away and my Warzone match was phenomenal! Best I’ve had in a looong time.
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> > You are right- it’s a lighter update- but I’m glad we got it. Gives me a reason to jump back into the world of Halo. One I hold close.
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> > PLUS, did you see the February sneak peak? Gravity Hammers? and did you notice the new Brute emblem is a Legendary? I’m smelling a February Brute Update!
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> This post just made me sad. The fact that halo players these day have to get excited about being able to use a gravity hammer, get a stance that no one will see, and a brute emblem really speaks to the current pathetic states of the game. Those are not things that should be exciting at all
Sorry I made you sad! Hopefully you’ll bounce back quickly. Think about happy things like kittens. Yeah… kittens are good.
True, maybe things like this shouldn’t "excite" an everyday player. But for a guy who plays the game very casually, and with his friends and family- well, it’s enough for me. If I were playing this game on the daily- it probably wouldn’t be too exhilarating. . . but for someone like me, it’s a nice bag of chips. I’ve got a lot of games on my plate. An update like this is enough to bring me back for a few weeks, then take off again to another game with another update. The flow of causality is a marvelous thing my friend. Try it sometime
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> > > It is a little on the light side, that’s true. But, I am thankful for the update nonetheless. Gives me more to collect. The stances are nice, the emblems are solid, and the fixes are all around great. Jumped back into H5 today after a month of being away and my Warzone match was phenomenal! Best I’ve had in a looong time.
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> > > You are right- it’s a lighter update- but I’m glad we got it. Gives me a reason to jump back into the world of Halo. One I hold close.
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> > > PLUS, did you see the February sneak peak? Gravity Hammers? and did you notice the new Brute emblem is a Legendary? I’m smelling a February Brute Update!
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> > This post just made me sad. The fact that halo players these day have to get excited about being able to use a gravity hammer, get a stance that no one will see, and a brute emblem really speaks to the current pathetic states of the game. Those are not things that should be exciting at all
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> Sorry I made you sad! Hopefully you bounce back quickly. Think about happy things like kittens. Yeah… kittens are good.
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> True, maybe things like this shouldn’t "excite" an everyday player. But for a guy who plays the game very casually, and with his friends and family- well, it’s enough for me. If I were playing this game on the daily- it probably wouldn’t be too exhilarating. . . but for someone like me, it’s a nice bag of chips. I’ve got a lot of games on my plate. An update this is enough to bring me back for a few weeks, then take off again to another game with another update. The flow of causality is a marvelous thing my friend. Try it sometime
I actually don’t play the game anymore at all, I am just lamenting what the game has become since I used to love the halo franchise so much.
the reason people expected game modes/playlists with this update is because its unacceptable to have this few playlists. this game desperately needs variety. we thought they answered our calls somewhat by bringing us holiday social and holiday doubles. i assumed they would replace these with permanent playlists, or just other temporary ones after there holiday. i was very wrong.
the real fact is people are leaving this game because of the lack of variety mainly in playlists. most people will not keep playing just to get new weapon skins, stances, and play 2 new maps (very rarely). i have many friends who are really bored with halo 5 already and looking for the next game. lots of them didn’t even buy it because of split screen. now they are refusing to give us playlists that are obviously ready to go (snipers, rockets, doubles, social, and more) and it makes no sense. i understand grifball and KOTH and stuff are not ready, they made that clear.
They did not make it clear why they haven’t brought back any of the temporary playlists they tease us with. Theres NO reason we can’t have doubles and snipers back at least. That is why everyone is upset. we aren’t mad that they didn’t include grifball, we all knew they weren’t going to. but game types like doubles could literally be added today if they wanted, and since they haven’t made any comments on it we were all hoping they might bring back something essential that this game needs; variety.
343 is so lazy this game might be “dead” for me soon. once all my friends don’t want to play it anymore i won’t have much reason to play unfortunately. even the MCC had more variety than this game. Warzone is stale, there aren’t enough social playlists, and there arent enough game types and quality maps. Community maps can obviously be put into a playlist easily. if BTB is all forge maps already why not just give us some good community remake forge maps? That would not be hard (as we see with community breakout).
Give us SOMETHING as far as a playlist before the end of february. please.
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> Two new maps, and a few skins? I was under the impression there would be game types, since they spoke about how much they were working on them. Worse, I can’t even look at these new REQs yet. I know that will be resolved and I’m not that upset about that portion, but feels like a light update for how much they hyped it up.
join the club of persumably alot of people including me who are disappointed with these updates. PRESUMABLY OTHER PEOPLE ARE
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> the reason people expected game modes/playlists with this update is because its unacceptable to have this few playlists. this game desperately needs variety. we thought they answered our calls somewhat by bringing us holiday social and holiday doubles. i assumed they would replace these with permanent playlists, or just other temporary ones after there holiday. i was very wrong.
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> the real fact is people are leaving this game because of the lack of variety mainly in playlists. most people will not keep playing just to get new weapon skins, stances, and play 2 new maps (very rarely). i have many friends who are really bored with halo 5 already and looking for the next game. lots of them didn’t even buy it because of split screen. now they are refusing to give us playlists that are obviously ready to go (snipers, rockets, doubles, social, and more) and it makes no sense. i understand grifball and KOTH and stuff are not ready, they made that clear.
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> They did not make it clear why they haven’t brought back any of the temporary playlists they tease us with. Theres NO reason we can’t have doubles and snipers back at least. That is why everyone is upset. we aren’t mad that they didn’t include grifball, we all knew they weren’t going to. but game types like doubles could literally be added today if they wanted, and since they haven’t made any comments on it we were all hoping they might bring back something essential that this game needs; variety.
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> 343 is so lazy this game might be “dead” for me soon. once all my friends don’t want to play it anymore i won’t have much reason to play unfortunately. even the MCC had more variety than this game. Warzone is stale, there aren’t enough social playlists, and there arent enough game types and quality maps. Community maps can obviously be put into a playlist easily. if BTB is all forge maps already why not just give us some good community remake forge maps? That would not be hard (as we see with community breakout).
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> Give us SOMETHING as far as a playlist before the end of february. please.
Couldn’t have said it better myself. A lot of people in this thread are missing the point; we know the ball game types are coming, and Grifball is coming, but why Doubles and Team Snipers are not permanent is beyond me. It’s not like there’s already too many playlists or anything… there’s barely any!
Everyone is so angry that I made the mistake about when expanded game types were coming. Apologies, I’ve been too busy playing the game to read into the forums deeply. But as some of the more friendly community members have pointed out, they could add some variety to the playlists to keep it fresh until they add the bomb game types. And I’m not upset about free updates, I appreciate them. I was just hoping for something more substantial as I am a dedicated player.
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> Keep telling yourselves this… Josh said ONE gametype was “in the works” and might come out by the end of February.
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> We need Social Slayer, Doubles, Team Snipers NOW. I am so sick of 343 I may go kick a squirrel.
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> the reason people expected game modes/playlists with this update is because its unacceptable to have this few playlists. this game desperately needs variety. we thought they answered our calls somewhat by bringing us holiday social and holiday doubles. i assumed they would replace these with permanent playlists, or just other temporary ones after there holiday. i was very wrong.
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> the real fact is people are leaving this game because of the lack of variety mainly in playlists. most people will not keep playing just to get new weapon skins, stances, and play 2 new maps (very rarely). i have many friends who are really bored with halo 5 already and looking for the next game. lots of them didn’t even buy it because of split screen. now they are refusing to give us playlists that are obviously ready to go (snipers, rockets, doubles, social, and more) and it makes no sense. i understand grifball and KOTH and stuff are not ready, they made that clear.
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> They did not make it clear why they haven’t brought back any of the temporary playlists they tease us with. Theres NO reason we can’t have doubles and snipers back at least. That is why everyone is upset. we aren’t mad that they didn’t include grifball, we all knew they weren’t going to. but game types like doubles could literally be added today if they wanted, and since they haven’t made any comments on it we were all hoping they might bring back something essential that this game needs; variety.
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> 343 is so lazy this game might be “dead” for me soon. once all my friends don’t want to play it anymore i won’t have much reason to play unfortunately. even the MCC had more variety than this game. Warzone is stale, there aren’t enough social playlists, and there arent enough game types and quality maps. Community maps can obviously be put into a playlist easily. if BTB is all forge maps already why not just give us some good community remake forge maps? That would not be hard (as we see with community breakout).
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> Give us SOMETHING as far as a playlist before the end of february. please.
Am I the only one who wants a Chief based campaign expansion?
I love how 343 has us in a state where we are grateful for them releasing gravity hammer, ball game modes, infection, etc all for free 4 months after launch. This “free DLC” should’ve been in the game at launch, but I guess it takes time to make game modes…
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> Couldn’t have said it better myself. A lot of people in this thread are missing the point; we know the ball game types are coming, and Grifball is coming, but why Doubles and Team Snipers are not permanent is beyond me. It’s not like there’s already too many playlists or anything… there’s barely any!
exactly, thank you.
no one is upset that there isn’t grifball or KOTH yet (well really they should’ve been there at launch) but why they can’t include doubles and snipers is beyond me as well and i really would like them to address this. We all know they have these playlists available. Why has no one else spoken up about this weekend playlist garbage? Doesnt anyone else feel teased?
I find it hard to get excited about any temporary playlist when i know it will be gone very soon. Rockets was OK for a weekend, but that was probably the only one i was glad to see go. They should replace any temporary playlist with another, it can not be that hard. if nothing else just bring back doubles or something, for the love of master chief.
Even the holiday playlists were a sham. They never mentioned if you had to rank in doubles in order to get the end of the season “rank in all playlists” req pack (not that its a big deal at all, just something worth noting). Why they had a ranked playlist for only a week or two is something i can’t answer, but from what 343 says is they wanted to tweak it after taking in feedback. well its been about a month now, can’t they make a few tweaks in that time and put it back online?
still no social playlist, all they did was rip ranks from BTB (along with teasing us with a holiday social playlist). all of these things need to be addressed before the next update. they have added playlists in between updates and they better do the same. i know for a fact many people playing this game are already getting very bored with it. some of my friends have stopped playing already, and once my friends go there won’t be much reason to play anymore. I like this game, i want to keep playing it, but if there isn’t variety added soon it will suffer in population quickly. (it already is, not to mention lack of split screen driving people away already)
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> Am I the only one who wants a Chief based campaign expansion?
well to be fair i would love to see more chief in the campaign. but honestly most people don’t care about the campaign. i found it pretty boring and not as long as i thought it would be. 3 missions with no fight at all? only 12 missions? they need a something, so a chief expansion would be great.
that being said i think it is very low on priorities behind the additions multiplayer needs. that is where most people are spending their time in this game, its where the replay value is. i hope they add more permanent playlists and maps to MM well before they start expanding the campaign.
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> Hey, at least we don’t have to pay money for these new maps and such, I think that’s one thing we can all be grateful for in that thus far 343 hasn’t tried to squeeze more money out of us
I’m assuming you mean they havent tried to squeeze more money out of us, other than the $100 Req bundles…
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> > It is a little on the light side, that’s true. But, I am thankful for the update nonetheless. Gives me more to collect. The stances are nice, the emblems are solid, and the fixes are all around great. Jumped back into H5 today after a month of being away and my Warzone match was phenomenal! Best I’ve had in a looong time.
> >
> > You are right- it’s a lighter update- but I’m glad we got it. Gives me a reason to jump back into the world of Halo. One I hold close.
> >
> > PLUS, did you see the February sneak peak? Gravity Hammers? and did you notice the new Brute emblem is a Legendary? I’m smelling a February Brute Update!
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> This post just made me sad. The fact that halo players these day have to get excited about being able to use a gravity hammer, get a stance that no one will see, and a brute emblem really speaks to the current pathetic states of the game. Those are not things that should be exciting at all
well the grav hammer because of GRIFBALL and the rest i agree with its like these updates dont really have anything in them. the only thing i got in this update was a new map,halo 2 BR, and the achilles
Considering they had over a month ( I know there was holidays and they moved offices) but yeh it’s super light. I reall appreciate the community breakout though. That’s made the game fresh to play. Not sure about the new warzone map though. The game plays like -Yoink- for banshees (0 cover ) and the massive open spaces can’t really be used properly because let’s face it who actually uses warthogs properly. The base is also really boring to defend. Other maps gave a clear sight out of it but the ramp just men’s you can only see people as they come inside.
