We’ve had Halo 5 in our hands for more than a year now, and we’ve been getting somewhat frequently updates with it. I was wondering if we would have one anytime soon and if the game’s going to be updated until Halo 6 release or it’s beta a least. I know they are going to add some REQs items, but I meant a solid update. It’s been way too long since we’ve had a new arena map. They remixed every map possible, I would love to see what new they could pull off. I also made a little list of things i would like to see in H5’s future.
New maps
-More frequent integration of forge created maps (but a BTB map straight from 343 would be nice too)
More gamemodes. Last update they integrated a custom games browser and all, it’s fun and all but it has many flaws.One of which was how they told us “make your own gamemodes, you have the tools”. I disagree. Ive seen the KOTH in the social playlist, and lately ive been playing gun game too. These gamemodes and many more are fun and should be masterised and integrated as official gamemodes. Medals and proper commentary too for KOTH, it feels dead otherwise.
Integration of veto or map selection. Now that we have social playlist, I dont see why the players shouldnt have any option to choose what they want. The action sack playlist
is an example. Way too many gamemodes and sometimes the rare one you actually wanted to play. I never played the new golf thing! Playlists like snipers and skirmish would be neat to have this feature to avoid getting molten and pegasus all the time.
Remove Pegasus II. Good idea and all with the new pathways, but the aesthetics are disgusting and so are the frame, and lets not mention the spawns. Add the og one back
Make a big update for Warzone. Not just firesquads and firefight difficulty changes. Kraken assaut, CTF, Flood Firefight, ive heard these rumors. How about they actually happen?
For HW2 release, maybe a HW2 themed update? with brutes weapons and all, you dig?
A classic playlist with alternate movements (no sprint or trust, less high jumps, etc…). Gives a nice change of pace.
An assaut playlist? I really like it but the only way I can find it is through the social slayer play- err i mean skirmish.
Customization update. So in h5 they separated it with helmets and armors. How about arm pieces, legs, body and all could be divised and mixed and match? Now of course, nobody would like to get an arm piece in a gold req pack, but lets say all these parts are unlocked in the armor drop and helmets in the helmet drop. Could be neat! Give us access to all colors too.
BTB update. Just do it.
Fixed the custom browser stability. Its annoying trying to join a game with apparently 4 spots available but then be put in a queue of 16 players.
Bring back my classic Breakout I hate Breakout 2.0 and im amazed 343 spent time on it to get that result. Full armor? Radar? Shotgun start? Flag brought back to own base, NO pushing? Just why. Should have made it a playlist on its own and messed with the arena breakout a bit more
FFA update. Integrate Vetoeds suggestions right now.
Social ffa with 8 players for chaos xDDD
Remove BTB maps from snipers playlist, literally pace breaking. Add Torque too. Add playlist variety with H2 classic beam and such.
I dont like the CE pistol in SWAT playlist, and I see many people dodging it. Remove it maybe?
Make the medals display like they used to in the beta. Why would they have to be downgraded? Theyre so clunky rn.
So yeah that’s what I could think of to give H5 a healthy and fresh lifespan! Do you guys have any additions you would make or stuff you disagree? Let me know and lets spread our ideas!
LOL, you’re right about Social Slayer. That mode comes up waaaayyyyyy too often, probably because it’s compatible with every map, but I wish there was a social slayer playlist and a separate team objective playlist.
> Speaking of Halo 5 updates, the team is hard at work wrapping up a series of fixes and improvements slated for a maintenance update tentatively <mark>targeted for early March</mark> pending final testing and certification passes. This is subject to change. We’ll have more details as things start to get finalized.
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The one coming up in March is the upcoming server fixes they said they’re gonna patch back at November to December right?
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> We’ve had Halo 5 in our hands for more than a year now, and we’ve been getting somewhat frequently updates with it. I was wondering if we would have one anytime soon and if the game’s going to be updated until Halo 6 release or it’s beta a least. I know they are going to add some REQs items, but I meant a solid update. It’s been way too long since we’ve had a new arena map. They remixed every map possible, I would love to see what new they could pull off. I also made a little list of things i would like to see in H5’s future.
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> - More gamemodes. Last update they integrated a custom games browser and all, it’s fun and all but it has many flaws.One of which was how they told us “make your own gamemodes, you have the tools”. I disagree. Ive seen the KOTH in the social playlist, and lately ive been playing gun game too. These gamemodes and many more are fun and should be masterised and integrated as official gamemodes. Medals and proper commentary too for KOTH, it feels dead otherwise.
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> - Integration of veto or map selection. Now that we have social playlist, I dont see why the players shouldnt have any option to choose what they want. The action sack playlist
> is an example. Way too many gamemodes and sometimes the rare one you actually wanted to play. I never played the new golf thing! Playlists like snipers and skirmish would be neat to have this feature to avoid getting molten and pegasus all the time.
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> - Make a big update for Warzone. Not just firesquads and firefight difficulty changes. Kraken assaut, CTF, Flood Firefight, ive heard these rumors. How about they actually happen?
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> - Customization update. So in h5 they separated it with helmets and armors. How about arm pieces, legs, body and all could be divised and mixed and match? Now of course, nobody would like to get an arm piece in a gold req pack, but lets say all these parts are unlocked in the armor drop and helmets in the helmet drop. Could be neat! Give us access to all colors too.
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> So yeah that’s what I could think of to give H5 a healthy and fresh lifespan! Do you guys have any additions you would make or stuff you disagree? Let me know and lets spread our ideas!
Gamemodes: Yes, as long as they’re good gamemodes. (Oddball, VIP, etc.)
Veto and Map selection: Yes, definately, but no map repeats.
Warzone: Kraken Assault? Huh? CTF doesn’t really work in WZ. Flood Firefight: Awesome, but unlikely in Halo 5. Maybe Halo 6?
Armour: Glad they come with the entire armour, cuz then you’d be adding 400+ new unlocks. But for the legs, nobody looks at them.
Additions: New Warzone gamemode: No bases or points, attack the enemy core while defending your own.
Have turrets in Warzone bases.
I would play the hell out of a Classic Playlist, I think theres one being prepared atm if im not being mistaken but we will have to wait and see. I Feel like 343 should make a Permanent classic playlist that uses halo:3s Mechanics and just throw in all the Ready made Halo 2 -3 forge remakes from the community. That could be Extremely fun! Would feel like a total throw back to the classic days.
It is odd that the largest update to Halo 5 since WZFF had no new maps. Would like to see a medium-sized map on Sanghelios for sure. - Really the only thing that separate the forge-created gamemodes and official gamemodes is the presence of medals and voice overs. While I would love to see more gamemodes in matchmaking, be it fan-made or dev-made, I don’t mind the lack of official support for KOTH. Oddball however, needs to be added to matchmaking. - They are in the talks about a veto but I really don’t want one. While nowhere near as bad as the voting system, it still leads to the same maps and gametypes being played over and over again. I personally don’t want it but I guess veto would be better than map voting. - Eh, the map sucks either way. - We need more maps before we get anymore gamemodes for Warzone IMO - Given brute weapons exist in the game, we’ll probably see something. Maybe not this month but we’ll probably see something. There’s a two month gap between the updates now. WZFF came out in June then we saw Anvil’s Legacy in September followed by Monitor’s Bounty in December. That means the earliest we’ll see another update is March. - Indifferent about, could just play customs for this - Team Objective would be better, also assault needs to be added to BTB - Rather just wait until Halo 6. What do you mean by access to all colors? Aside from the lack of a proper purple, we’ve got a good amount of colors. - Like I said, add Assault and also bring in one-sides gametypes. Headlong was literally created for this stuff yet Guillotine doesn’t have one-flag or one-bomb. Add magnums starts and remove BR starts from every map except Basin and Altar (the only maps made for BR starts). More maps, more tuning to existing maps. - THIS! I should not be able to join a custom game lobby if it’s capped. Either make the queue an optional feature for hosts to have or once a lobby hits sixteen, it can no longer be joined. - Yes! Breakout 1.0 is much better than 2.0! - Don’t care for FFA, do whatever. - Again, don’t care for FFA - No, the Halo 5 maps are way too small to support snipers. BTB and medium maps like Torque are a must - Don’t play SWAT often enough to care, do whatever - Eh
I just want them to revert the aiming to how it was back in February 2016. Every time they update this stupid game the bad players get better and the good players get worse.
Either that, or make the servers actually work. I don’t see why this game is more laggy now than a year ago.
Another thought I had is something that seriously needs to be looked at, and that is all of the Smurf accounts that are in Team Arena. There is a very simple fix to this problem.
Don’t let anyone under rank X (I’d say 25 as a minimum) play in Arena. This will ensure that people are not just creating new accounts to be Smurfs. This will also ensure that new players do not go into the competitive playlist without knowing what they are doing. Overwatch has this very same system and it’s amazing.
Don’t let people who have a large spartan rank gap play together. Say, they have to be within 40 ranks, so no more 125’s playing with 2’s. It’s also very frustrating whether it’s a skill based gap or a smurf ranking gap
Like in all previous ranked Halo games, make it so the person with the highest rank is the one that is paired against others. For example, in Halo 3 you could have a rank 10 and a rank 40 on the same team, but it will always match you against people that were ranked 30-50, not 1-20. Many options could be chosen here, but I’ve been paired with legit plats/diamonds and have gone against 3 1900+ onyx and 1 gold many times. Hell, I’ve been matched against a champion who was teaming with a smurf gold while my team were legit diamond/low onyx. This is simply unacceptable if you are trying to have a competitive based game.
I’d say remove radar from Team Arena and all that good stuff as well, but I know they wont listen. So all I will ask is that they fix the servers and do something about the ranking system, because right now it doesn’t work.
I hate Breakout 2.0 and im amazed 343 spent time on it to get that result. Full armor? Radar? Shotgun start? Flag brought back to own base, NO pushing? Just why. Should have made it a playlist on its own and messed with the arena breakout a bit more