Totally get what you’re saying. Myself and my real life friends are a bunch of Halo CE vets, and all mid-40s…I’m 47 years old myself.
In the first week we had 8 players on each night, but the numbers have already decreased to 3 or 4 per night. This is largely due to them struggling with getting kills and repeatedly dying all the time.
I’ve placed P4 and P3 in two of the Ranked playlists and the best of the rest of my friends are G1 and G2 so the others will easily be Silver or Bronze. If SBMM is kicking in when we play together and I’m pulling in higher level players then there’s no way we can continue playing together if it means that their fun is diminished.
Most posts I’ve read in this thread that are complaining about how the aiming feels seem to imply the same root cause to me. Most of you sound like you’re purely aiming with your look joystick or your mouse, which doesn’t cut it in infinite.
Use your own strafe to help aim more than you’re currently doing, instead of trying to track an opponent wildly moving left and right during strafes with your crosshair, just get your crosshair close and match their strafes. You’re going to wildly improve your accuracy if you do this, and all you really have to adjust your crosshair for is matching vertically if they jump or crouch.
You can turn off cross platform in the console settings. I did once I heard there are already cheaters on PC. Maybe try ranked. It ranks you after 10 games, maybe it will put you in with people on your own skill level.
48 here. I do alright but I prefer to play more during the early hours. It’s the evenings where I feel like the sweats get on, and in groups. The sweat groups just make it plain unfun. I’m sure they’re having a blast though.
I don’t really get the point about aiming. This is a PvP game, and usually having fun in such a game actually means besting other player or in general winning which means for you to have fun in a single instance someone else has to be bested by you. Unlike PvE this is a zero-sum game. As this game is a skill based PvP game it makes total sense you can’t really feel fun unless you can perform at a certain level. Now, usually that level for halo games is way lower than say for something like CS:GO but since the multiplayer has barely been released and for free at that there are a lot of players who thrive in competitive FPS games. That raises the necessary skill level to have fun.
All of that is totally normal for PvP FPS games, and is an intrinsic property of the genre. What you are essentially saying by analogue is that you can’t have fun playing chess because other players in general are way better at it than you and you don’t have time to get better.
As for crossplay, that one is really questionable.
Aim Assist is a difficult matter. It needs to be balanced cause you can’t have the game entirely aiming for you and on the other hand you need to breach the gap to PC players somehow. Fortunately, Halo Infinite seems to support keyboard/mouse on Xbox, at least it did in flights although not without problems, correct me if i am wrong. So, the simpler solution for bad AimAssist (or rather not good enough to just press fire button and win) is simply to use a keyboard/mouse on Xbox and forget about it.
So on the MCC if you have crosplay on and look at the top players on each of the team and there profiles it shows there PC players 85% of the time. But don’t take my word for it go try it yourself if you think I’m lying.
I’m only 32 and even I concur with this. I never rage or spike my controller, but this game does it too me. Something about this game that kills my enjoyment of his game. I can’t wait for the Campaign though.
I hear ya! The game can be frustrating especially if somebody has aim bots. Try the Big Team Battles: CTF, Control, and Stockpile. I suck at Slayer so I try to backup in a group. Everybody is going to die in the game but the effort to achieve your objective is fun. Win as a team; lose as a team.
I checked the theater playbacks of my matches from the perspective of the players who did well. Most score hits while not actually aiming anywhere near an enemy player, indicating aimbots. Given that shooting is the core mechanic of a first-person shooter, that gives them an immense advantage over players who don’t hack. A few get more blatant and turn on deathless mode or change their minimap to show enemies who should be hidden.
A few good players are actually good, and some are excellent, but most are just cheating. So much so that documenting every instance of cheating in every match would take more time than the matches themselves. I’m not going to put more effort into fixing this game’s multiplayer than 343i. They’re the ones getting paid.
This is some low quality bait, but I’m as I’m waiting for Thanksgiving dinner I’m hungry so I’m biting.
Aimbots zero in on players, their key tell is a frame perfect snap and static camera movement when viewing them from a first person perspective. It’s not an aimbot.
The hack in question would be closer to a bullet magnetism hack, but without also incorporating a noclip hack as well I find it incredibly difficult to believe that the overwhelming majority of good players you come across are shooting into the air, a wall, or a structure and taking out entire teams without effort. This would present a fishy experience, so it would be worth looking into, but this is not happening as frequently as you suggest or I would be seeing it too, which I definitely am not seeing.
So strike one for misidentifying potential hacks?
We’re not 5 years old, no need to explain something to someone who has already stated they have years of experience participating in programs that identify hackers/cheaters/exploiters and ban them.
Spend some time in CSGO ‘Overwatch’, or watch some videos of it. You’ll get a much better visual understanding of skill vs hacks. I strongly encourage it.
Yeah this would be a problem if you had proof that these hacks are being utilized. But there’s not a single person I’ve come across that I couldn’t kill, and most of the questionable “he couldn’t see me” moments I’ve had resulted in confirmations they could/did/hear see me within gameplay parameters and took advantage of that.
Oof lemme fix that:
Much better
When you have this documented, I encourage you to share it. I cannot wait to see, I honestly want this more than I want to get married at the risk of angering my fiancé .
I dunno why you would, the game is nearly perfect gameplay wise. But sounds like an out to me kiddo.
Cheating would be pretty obvious if you checked other players’ perspectives in Theater replays, or maybe just your own. I’ve never seen someone so salty about claims that a game has cheaters unless they were already using hacks themselves.
Cheating would be pretty obvious if a player presented a reason for me to think they were cheating.
As I’ve stated, there have been a few times I thought players were wall hacking, when I did look into Theater mode I was proven wrong.
You calling me a cheater kiddo?
Oh he is.
Burden of proof is on the accuser, unless you have definitive proof of your claims, your arguments are as see through as the unbelievably overpowered Active Camo in this title.
May 343i strike me down and ban me where I stand for your assertions I’m cheating.
The unfortunately reality of the situation is that if you choose not to get better at the game. Then you better prepare to be left behind while everyone else moves forward. That’s how life works. The people around you will keep getting better as time goes by, while you’ll find less and less people who are around you level in the long run.
Everyone that has replied here, as well as the OP, you realise they still have game modes coming out when the game goes live? They have a lot coming including the option to not do cross play. They have stated this, however I understand you may only get a short time to play. That will unfortunately be like every game released.