As someone that considers Halo 5 to be vile heresy:
I simply do not recall it being broken at launch. I recall not liking it, I recall it being feature incomplete, but I don’t recall persistent crashing issues, or network issues akin to MCC or Infinite.
If we’re talking about “does it work?”, then 5 was objectively more functional than Infinite it it’s initial 3 months.
I remember that Halo 5 was fully playable at launch with twice the maps and twice the modes of Infinite’s launch.
Halo 5 has:
The Prohets Bane
Tartarus’ Gavel
Nornfang
H2 Beam Rifle Delta aka Covenant Nornfang
CE Pistol
Halo 2 BR
THE SMG
Classic Halo Shotgun
Classic Halo Rocket Launcher
A Plasma Pistol capable of EMPs
and way more.
Bold take, I like it!
I don’t recall any technical limitations at Halo 5: Guardian’s launch.
Please don’t forget that Halo Infinite is one game and took 6 years to make. Irrespective on what happened in those 6 years… they had 6 years to make this game and it launched with less content than Halo 3 which came out in 2007. Make excuses all you want but this game is embarrassing.
Well there you go, I don’t have a series x, I have an Xbox one
5 had the same number of maps and didn’t have btb or ranked modes. Most of 5’s maps are just reskins if each other or forged variants of prior halo maps
Infinite has one of the best, most balanced weapon sandboxes in halo history. Nothing is overpowered and only a couple of weapons need changing at all to catch up to the rest.
The alternative versions of the same weapons are not a good addition to the games, and for what it’s worth Infinite has them as well. The boss weapons are mostly broken in campaign and would be in matchmaking, but so were the ones in 5
Have One myself, 2013 and a S, but have not experienced on those consoles the issues you brought up or the ones I mentioned in a long time.
you’re forgetting all of the breakout warzone and warzone assault maps, H5 had 22 maps on launch
also at launch H5 only had ranked they added social sometime after forge
there were no “boss” weapons in H5, please stop bringing H5 into your arguments as you seem to have zero knowledge of it
Halo Infinite’s weapon sandbox is a bad joke, it’s underpowered, weak, and reptititve.
“The alternative versions of the same weapons are not a good addition to the games”
This is proven untrue as Super Fiesta was and remains to be Halo 5’s most popular mode.
As for the maps in Halo 5, upon launch Halo 5 had a grand total of 20 maps day 1 and 7 game types day 1. Sorry but you didn’t do your research.
On top of that, Halo 5 also had co-op campaign available at launch with 8 different playable characters! Halo (In)finite doesn’t even have that, and I wouldn’t even get my hopes up for it being added anyway.
exactly, we’re talking about at launch. But either way, if I jumped on right now, 3/5 of the games I play would be unplayably laggy.
the boss weapons are in halo infinite, what are you having trouble understanding? The named iterations of the halo 5 weapons and the halo infinite boss weapons are the same thing
this is not only untrue, Warzone really shouldn’t count in this discussion as we’re talking about actual multiplayer. Warzone was a weird side game mode that they put in place so people would spend a fortune on req packs.
no it did not, it was a big deal that 5’s split screen was taken away for the first time in a Halo title.
nobody sensible would ever count Warzone
These are the type of people on the forums
this is untrue as bosses in h5 warzone didn’t have unique weapons
it was a multiplayer mode therefore the maps count, you can’t have your cake and eat it too, so dont cherry pick the facts.
i mainly played warzone/ warzone assault for the first year and a half of H5 and never spent a dime on it
no it didn’t have split screen, but it did have a 4 player co-op though it was over XBL, Inf dosen’t even have that. once again you are cherry picking.
face palm once again cherry-picking facts