Why do the armor sets look so impractical, unusable and goofy? Some of them don’t even have visors to see out of, let alone move in. Where is the knife coming from? Why is customization so limited compared to halo: reach? Why aren’t the armors from previous games all included? Most of the armor sets seem like the same damn thing except a few different random shapes weird places. Why doesn’t the armor have your emblem on it? Why are emblems options so limited in style and color?
Why is the amount of gametypes so limited? Where are all the old maps? Why are the automatic call-outs barely used?
Why does all the music feel like a remix of old music?
Why do you barely get to play as Blue Team? Where was all the mystery in the campaign like the advertisements alluded to? Where was the character development? Cortana is fine, now shes crazy, now she has god powers, now she has stupid flaws in her plans. Why didn’t Chief just kick locke’s butt, and why was that fight so slow and just…bad looking? Why does blue team seem to wear crappier armor? Why does the plot in general seem so rushed and shallow? Why can’t I play as the Arbiter?
Why is there no split screen? Why does the game seem to stutter or slow down in multiplayer? Why are animations slowed down? To fake your way to 60fps? Why do some of the textures look so horrible? Where is spartan ops or firefight?
- I had problems today. I keep getting dropped from Arena. It said lost connection. I’ve never lost connections on any other game ever.
Also. This a big one.
Can you add a submenu under Arena so we can pick the game we want to play.
I like playing Stringhold and Capture the Flag
Anyone else want that option?
Regret is the worst level in halo history.
So far just the lack of split screen is my only ‘problem’, but i mean it’s not really that big of a deal. Apart from that I love how even though I’m in australia (with horrible internet) I’ve had fantastic matches with people. no Lag on my end.
Spawning in Swat is almost as bad as Reach. 5 times in a row I took two steps and was dead in one game.
Another thing that bothers me is that I have a much higher KDA and win percentage than my friend in SWAT, but for some reason he’s Onyx and I’m Diamond 1… Same thing happened to my friend in breakout. He has a higher KDA with the same win percentage as me but I’m in platinum and he’s gold 3 so I don’t understand the ranking system at all.
My only other complaint was Fathom. That map is the absolute worse map imo. Poor layout and no power positions.
Other than these things I absolutely adore matchmaking!
Most of the maps look almost cartoonish. The colors are just way too bright and all the textures are too shiny.
In big maps it is difficult to tell a red player from a blue player because every spartan glows.
There is no way to tell on the radar if a player is below or above you.
The whole “REQ” thing is dumb and confusing. After a little while you figure it out, but for the most part, it’s really stupid.
Are there only like 8 maps? I’ve played for like an hour and am already bored with these colorful cartoon maps.
You only have like 5 seconds after a match to back out to the lobby. It then loads for 20 seconds to let you choose a game type. About 2 out of 3 times it won’t even let you back out.
I hate that you can’t just pick up items any more besides a storm rifle and the occasionally hard-to-find BR. There’s one sniper on the map and it’s on a timer that gets announced. I can’t stand how everything you can interact with glows. What is the point of that? We’ve gone 15 years without having glowing weapons. It just makes everything look even more cartoonish.
What’s with not being able to choose your specific colors on your emblem. It takes forever to find the right color scheme in that ridiculous way you organized it. I can’t imagine who came up with that and anybody thinking that was a good idea.
I’ve never been big into the campaigns, but this is seriously agonizing to make me sit through the cut scenes.
And of course, WHY NO SPLIT SCREEN??? Who needs your coveted “60 fps”??? Graphically this game doesn’t look any better than halo 3.
This is just what I’ve noticed from my first time playing. 343, I’m sorry but you drove Halo into the ground. You tried way too hard to make this into call of duty.
So I bought the req pack bundle, got the pre order bonus dlc and the dlc that came with game. …I used all the codes and don’t have anything form the dlc please help
No colour blind mode 
My biggest issue with the game thus far is, while in Arena, I am constantly spawned in the other team’s cross-hairs. I’ve had matches where I’ve spawned, only to be immediately killed, and be stuck in that loop three times.
Also, spawning so far away from teammates is another issue for me in Arena. I like to hunt in packs, so to speak, and when I’m spawned on the other side of the map from the rest of my team, it makes me easy pickings for the opposition.
Other than that, I love the game so far. Beautiful to look at, extremely smooth, and very engaging.
SO MUCH LAG I AM SOOOOOOOOOO MAD I CANT EVEN PLAY CAUSE OF THE LAG, ALSO RANKING MATCHES IN WARZONE
In the grand scheme of this game, split screen is almost at the bottom of the list of things that I give a -Yoink- about. The game is def better than MCC. and I enjoy the multi player more than Halo 4.
There is a problem with glitched enemies after you kill them though… and warzone assault kinds blows
The only problems have with it is that my wifi couldn’t keep up, that’s fix now tho.
The main thing for me was the campaign. I listened to the #HUNTtheTRUTH audio logs on Halo Channel, as well as basically everything else on there and I was SO HYPED for the story. I was really looking forward to the way it was going to play.
Then I played the campaign. So many plot holes, so many things that were advertised and released in the lead-up were either not there, or not properly implemented and the entire campaign was so disappointing. I feel so let-down.
I can understand that you (343) want to innovate and be new and that you want to introduce a new character in Locke. I get that and I can even appreciate it. I liked the introduction of him in Nightfall. I like team Osiris and I WANT to get to know their characters better and see their story and adventure play out. I like that there are new Spartans and new heroes. But what happened to Palmer, where did her character go I also love the MC and the absolutely poor amount of content involving him and Blue Team (with whom I was very excited to play after reading about them in the books) and the fact that MC and Blue Team made up such a small part of the campaign, and the final confrontation between Locke and MC, is overall absolutely abhorrent. Why is the majority of the campaign all from Locke’s POV? Why not a 50/50 split like in Halo 22? I feel like this was not a good design decision. Not to mention the numerous cut-scenes and hints in other games/videos/lore with Locke and other characters (like the Arbiter) that are completely lacking in Halo 5.
The main Villain was done poorly. I personally believe they should have been left alone after the events of 4 which I thought had an overall fantastic impact and a great story-driven and emotional reason for occurring, however I do not find your choice of villain to be a bad one, simply that the character and explanation of that choice and the development of them becoming a villain were not explained very well or to an extent which made them believable and effective. Things from previous games/lore were contradicted without apparent reason.
I feel like you hinted at a lot of great things, new things which could have taken the series in a great new direction yet everything just feels lacklustre and incomplete. As if somewhere in the creation of this new, exciting content the implementation or some form of understanding was lost and instead of giving us the new riveting story and direction for the series, we have been given a disorganised and incomplete picture. It’s like the marketing and development team were not on the same page. Where are the events in the #HUNTtheTRUTH audio log meant to have occurred? Why are they not referenced in game? This picture and message has been confusing and this confusion has led to the only understandable response. Sadness and anger.
In regards to the PVP/Multi-player. I think quite a few of the arguments listed here already are based on individual taste/experience, such as things like map design and weapon effectiveness and control layouts (which will always take some getting used to. You can buy a customisable SCUF controller to fix this).
There are a few serious issues however like spawns, aim-assist functionality, the (ineffective) radar, and the lack of a social playlist for those who wish to play non-hardcore super competitive PVP. I personally think Warzone needs some tweaking yet overall has been implemented well. The lack of Forge at release is, though disappointing, understandable.
In regards to the REQ packs; I fully support small cosmetic micro-transactions especially if there implementation results in all DLC being released for free. This however is my personal opinion. I do think that they were implemented well and could have been unbalanced quite easily had they not been done in the way they have been.
A personal idea:
One thing that could be improved is that we should be given an option to be choose which armour and customisation options we unlock in req packs within reason. For example, restriction of all skins and legendary/ultra/super rare cosmetic options to a random card. We should decided if we choose the random option or picking our one cosmetic unlock from a list whilst keeping all the other in-game cards/items of the req pack random. This would let us play for a specific gear whilst still retaining random one-use items and keeping the super special cosmetic options random if we choose not to specify a cosmetic piece.
Lastly, the hot-topic. Split screen. Thought severely disappointed that this was not being included in the game. I was willing to let it slide because of everything else you were implementing, however given how poorly that implementation has been I feel the anger of removing this feature has become somewhat justified. You said that the removal of this feature was for a reason, that reason being for the extra features but unfortunately these extra features are either not what you led us to be believe them to be, unfinished, or both.
I will quickly mention that even though there are issues and things to be address. I did still enjoy Halo. It’s just that I was awed and excited by everything you did pre-released and the game failed to meet the fantastic content you have been releasing prior to launch. I believe you can fix that. Lastly, the music and graphics are amazing. Whether or not you perosnally like the style of the graphics I will concede that the detail and fidelity is fantastic and you have done a great job.
Overall the game is ok, and the base game-play is fine but it is not what I expected from what you told us, nor is what I expected from a company like 343 or the Halo franchise. You can do, and should have done a better job. There is still hope. I still enjoy the franchise and look forward to you remedying these issues which I have faith that you will do so. I only hope you do so soon. A good reputation that has been damaged is very hard to recover and your time is running out.
Sincerely.
a long time fan.
EDIT: Spelling, Grammar, and Style. I also did not mention the resetting of all stats. Issues with servers and stuff like this, while disheartening and upsetting, do happen. But seriously, fix these ASAP please. I only hope all of us can gain back that which we have lost.
Ranking system doesn’t work. Like, at all.
I dare someone try justifying getting matchmade against a Champion ranked 82 in that tier while I had teammates that didn’t even have a rank yet. Not to mention that I’ve had multiple teammates throughout today that placed higher than they needed to be. Having ranks be based solely on wins is absurd.
halo needs bungie it also needs forge blood a good campan a good online 343 industries need to get there -sh#t- together or thay will never make a halo like reach even if they tryed
Well there’s way too many problems to talk about but one in particular is annoying . Req varietys. The only way to get somewhat decent req is through gold packs everything else gives you Tue same stuff over and over the promotion packs I get literally for me contain for the most part are as follows : saw , needler, and mongoose . Now please name one of those items that can help me take out a tank/wraith or even a banshee for that matter yes the saw can be useful if used correctly but when they have two tanks a banshee and a wraith all out at the same time plus other Spartans you’d have to be a pro with the saw to even manage to destroy one of those. I’d love to have more variety and worth while stuff I’m not asking for ultra rare or legendary just stuff thank can help me out more than a mongoose or any other common req
So I just got the hardcopy of Halo 5 today and it is taking abut 400 years to install (one of the worst qualities of Xbox one) it has been on 1 percent for the past hour and a half. I’ve paused then resumed downloading, I’ve reset my Xbox and I even Uninstalled then reinstalled. So far nothing is working. Does anyone have a fix for this? I’ve looked online and it seems a lot of people have had this problem since launch but 343 is doing nothing about it.
What happened to the Swat mode in multiplayer? it seems to not be there anymore… lol…
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> So I just got the hardcopy of Halo 5 today and it is taking abut 400 years to install (one of the worst qualities of Xbox one) it has been on 1 percent for the past hour and a half. I’ve paused then resumed downloading, I’ve reset my Xbox and I even Uninstalled then reinstalled. So far nothing is working. Does anyone have a fix for this? I’ve looked online and it seems a lot of people have had this problem since launch but 343 is doing nothing about it.
its probably your internet my halo5 only took 30 min
The radar range is terrible. Someone can be 3 feet away and not showing up at all.
Also, the spawns are abysmal.
Everything else is great.