Well i cant play multiplayer because it appears that i don´t have access or gain to use it.
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> Poor spawn points in both Arena and Warzone.
> No recoil on anything.
> No option to start with plasmas in Warzone.
> Arena is catered towards MLG and nobody else.
> No game mode that non MLG players can enter to have fun aside from Warzone.
Arena is not catered to MLG AT ALL!
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> You haven’t played the game yet?
Look at my rank, already onyx in swat and ffa
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> Where to even begin.
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> 1. Assault rifles take no skill, never have and never will.
> 2. No team BRs at all.
> 3. Slayer, which is the main mode most people will play is nothing but team assault rifles.
> 4. Radar actually DOESN’T pick up people around you.
> 5. The only way to win is by pack running.
> 6. Grinding for req points, which tries to force buying req packs on you.
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> That’s just multiplayer.
I totally agree with you. I am pretty angry that the game turned out this way. It just doesn’t feel right. I have de-installed it. No more halo for me.
Linda is the only spartan with a brain and can do complex things
I bought the warzone req pack and didn’t get the 14 premium req packs or the futus armor
The story
Story in one phrase: What?! Why?!
Story in a longer phrase: This is pretty good… wait what? That’s really weird, wait, slow down! Wait, what was the point of that? Wait, what’s going on now?! How did that happen? Why is that character acting like that?! WHAT THE -Yoink- THIS IS RIDICULOUS, this story has lost its -Yoink!- mind! What the -Yoink- even is this. Oh-okay… it’s over I guess? HALO RIIIIING
Story actually elaborated on… well here we go, I’ll go in chronological order. Funny thing is most of the game’s story is pretty good, but the core of the story is what drags it down so much. The first five missions of this game are really promising. There are flaws though, such as Jul’s sudden and anti-climactic death, and Blue Team’s ham-fisted transition into AWOLness. But what it does really well is Blue Team’s intro scene. Chief mourning Cortana subtly, and Fred concerned over Chief’s mental health (that never goes anywhere and Fred seems to stop caring about by the end of the mission). The scene does a great job showing us that they’re really close just by them handing their weapons to each other, and the way they talk to each other. The third and fourth missions do a fantastic job at world building, showing us another side of the Halo universe we’ve never seen in the games.
The game really starts to venture into ridiculousness by the sixth mission though. The moment Cortana just reappeared and shelled out some -Yoink- excuse for surviving Halo 4 was the most insulting thing to the ending of that game and players. Halo 5 in some ways is a slap in the face to Halo 4’s story.
Luckily the game swiftly picks back up again with the Sangheilios act. The showcase of the Sangheili culture and the SOS really adds points to this game for being wonderfully executed. Arbiter is as fantastic as ever. The epic and amazing Sunaion mission was the perfect way to top off the Sangheilios missions.
When Osiris goes to Chief’s location, the Monitor that they find adds a nice new perspective to the story, and it’s very welcome. Unfortunately after that, the story comes back in full force with its silliness with the last Blue Team mission. Cortana’s character has been assassinated by this point, and the story is hopeless. Halo 4 sends Cortana off respectfully, and very powerfully, only for her to just reappear with new ridiculous motivations. Her character has been completely ruined and killed in a whole nother way by turning her into a one-dimensional Saturday morning cartoon villain. Halo 4 sets Chief up for discovering his humanity and learning to deal with loss. Halo 5 is all like lolnope and the only thing Chief is doing is just being mad about Cortana killing people on colonies. Whatever the -Yoink- happened to the “which one of us is the machine” and “soldiers aren’t machines” metaphors Halo 4 posed to the player?
Halo 5’s story gets so ridiculous and so unbelievable that my brain shut off during the last act. Cortana acts all evil to Osiris and Infinity, Cortana goes to Earth, Infinity escapes, Osiris and Blue Team unite with Halsey, SOS, and Palmer, cliffhanger. Blah.
Cortana not only returning, but being ruined in every way is my main problem. But it’s also true that Halo 5 suffers greatly from really rushed, offbeat pacing. Halo 5’s story is also just so much wasted potential and misguided priorities. The theme of inevitable death, the theme of being more human than machine, the Librarian’s plan, Cortana’s resolution, Chief’s mental state, all of it forgotten about. This game was a gross waste of Blue Team especially. The second mission, with the exception of the ending, showcased them perfectly and set them up to be expanded on even further. But after that, they’re almost entirely shoved to the sidelines and completely insignificant within the story. With the exception of a little bit of in-game dialogue, they’re never properly characterized or shown off within Halo 5.
After playing the game, I’m not convinced giving Osiris the overwhelming majority of missions was a good idea, especially when this is the first game Blue Team is in, and they need all the time they can get to characterize themselves within the game. I know this is a hunt for the truth, but it would’ve still been a better approach to have the mission split more equal between them for the sake of developing both teams equally. Preserving mystery just doesn’t beat that. Honestly, having this much of an imbalance makes it seem like they’re shoving Osiris in the player’s face to replace the old characters. Especially in the way that Blue Team was clumsily captured by Cortana and had to be saved by Osiris.
It seems apparent to me that Halo 5 underwent at least one major rewrite at some point in development. It’s pretty obvious Cortana was not originally meant to return in Halo 5 when they were planning this saga. Halo 4 and 5 are like night and day in how they approach story direction, and what they want out of the characters. Also, there are a few moments early on in Halo 5 where plot lines are set up that never play out; they might have been artifacts from previous drafts that were kept (Buck talking to Locke about how hunting Chief will make the soldiers hate them, Fred concerned over Chief’s mental state). And Halo 5’s marketing and advertisements are wildly different from what we actually get in tone, themes, and character and story direction. For some reason, Halo 5 must have been rewritten to shoehorn in Cortana and completely alter what the story was going for in terms of themes, characters, and ramifications for the universe.
Halo 5’s story is definitely the worst Halo story to me. It makes an utter joke out of everything built up to in Halo 4, and it’s just an embarrassing mess filled to the brim with missed opportunities and misguided priorities.
VERDICT
I was looking forward to Campaign story and gameplay equally. I really enjoy Halo 5’s gameplay for the most part, as well as its visuals, but the story is so mind-bogglingly horribly ridiculous and a slap in the face to Halo 4 (and just generally all Halo games that feature Cortana and Chief), I can’t help but feel greatly disappointed and discouraged from replaying the game. I hate to say stuff like this, but if Halo 4 is surprisingly good fanfiction, then Halo 5 is terribad fanfiction, in the way it’s so ham-fisted in its approach, like just nonchalantly reviving a dead character. The most depressing part about this whole ordeal is that no matter what, we can’t go back now. Halo has to move the universe forward with these ridiculous events being canon. Halo 5 feels like a parody sequel to Halo 4 in some ways.
I can only hope 343i quickly sees everything wrong with Halo 5’s story, and really straightens up for the next main installment, actually delivering to us the things that were promised in Halo 4, and DON’T give Blue Team the middle finger. Maybe then, and with enough time, the Halo universe can recover from the tragedy that is Halo 5. Maybe even make something okay out of these unfavorable circumstances. But whatever the case, fire Brian Reed. Now.
Well, besides the lack of a firefight mode, the only issue I’ve had is when I won a Slayer FFA and didn’t get any XP or REQ points for it. I got some weird error and was taken back to the home screen.
Just to let everyone know the DLC req system is still not working properly, I recently downloaded a dlc req pack from best buy and didn’t receive the correct content I was promised. I received the visor, armor and weapon but not the steel weapon skin instead I received the vengeance skin a skin not even available in this pack.
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Just won a game in Slayer and got deranked…
some people are a little laggy at times but I love the game
Lag. I went through a Warzone match and everyone was complaining. It was soo bad, this games lag is like no other. People teleporting, breaking through map barriers, people teleporting everywhere. Spawning wouldn’t spawn me. People were invincible, shields wouldn’t regen. Grenades bouncing all over the place without blowing up, vehicles not moving. And kills wouldn’t register.
But what made me furious was when I had two boss kills and like fifteen Spartan kills. But then I checked the scoreboard later and some noob joined in midway, and he was given my scores! We basically traded our scores! What? These dedicated servers don’t seem to be dedicated to anything accept for making me super fustrated and angry.
the game elapsed through 20 minutes… But hey, at least I got 10000 REQ points from it.
What the hell has 343 done with cortana. In 3, chief rescues her from gravemind, chief “dies” and halo 4 starts with improved cortana. end of halo 4, very tragic, now cortana “dies”. if it stopped there it would be one thing but now chiefs imprisoned, ah just kidding, and cortana is suddenly alive and well only for 343 to make her a traitor. WHAT. THE. -Yoink-. You cant do this, really, kill chief, bring him back, kill cortana and make chief traitor, bring cortana back, chiefs friends with wanna be spartans and cortana is a traitor? This isnt halo anymore its twisted futuristic shakespeare.
I would like to see something like file share from halo 3 to come back to halo 5
I would love to see modes for warzone where we don’t need reqs. Like in team slayer. Also, maps for Halo: Reach and past Halos to be remade, as well as forge and firefight/spartan ops.
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> it is stupid how the technology can conect you with someone across the world but not with the one right next to you. Halo was one of the games that still had that chance and they decided to take the split screen away. Seriously can they please start making videogames focused on the fun and not only on the money.
> RIP Halo, my favorite game since I was 10 years old.
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> PS: Im back to my PSX to play aside my brother like the good old times when a good gamer was made with effort and not a credit card.
Wow, there is no splitscreen… Why? There should of been splitscreen. Then, you can’t even play a custom game without Xbox Live!
I love the game, but they could make it better with some grifball!!!
Hi guys, hope this reply gets read by people that can fix it. I’m currently on the last mission 15 and there seems to be a bug that’s making it extremely difficult, my team members won’t move beyond Exuberant…which is making it a pain since I have to kill everything on my own so far. Wouldn’t be as bad if I wasn’t on legendary.
I am having a few problems with the spawns but so far I’m having a blast with arena warzone can get a bit stale to me at times but I’m loving it