My only issue with the game is that none of the achievements have unlocked, despite the fact that I have completed the campaign as well as played a good number of online matches.
The plot for the campaign was god awful.
multiplayer spawns definitely need to be fixed.
more game types maybe?
Maybe some better map design that doesn’t look so bland
It is impossible to find games…
What is the problem with matchmaking???
Will we have the same issue we had with Halo MCC?!?!
I thought 343 learned the lesson, but I don’t think so!!!
Fix the matchmaking…
The only problem I have is that forge mode isn’t installed at the moment. When I first installed the game I was really looking forwards to seeing all the new materials to use in forge, especially since this is supposed to be the “Biggest” forge mode yet. I only hope 343 keeps there promise this time and actually gives the community a fully functional and non-buggy forge mode.
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> my only problem is that I’m at work and not playing right now. lol so far it’s been amazing.
this… every single day this week…
More campaign!
Make it DLC, I will pay for it.
Want to play as the Master Chief more.
Continue the story, don’t put it second to the MP in terms of expansion!
LAG LAG LAG LAG LAG. I have finished 10 games on slayer, and those were ridden with lag too I just didn’t get booted. I have 25mbps internet, all xbox one live ports forwarded to my xbox IP, and I even set the QoS on my router to high priority for my xbox MAC. So it will literally take all the bandwidth if it has to. I really have enjoyed the MP when its working but it has not worked at all. I know its not on my end, but I don’t what the issue is. I am from So Cal.
The campaign is a little boring so far. Multiplayer is fun though.
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> TL;DR; where’s the rest of the game?
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> Okay, so I’m gonna go into details about why I think Halo 5 was a disappointment. Be warned: a lot of the things I say will be very controversial.
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> The Story
> So right off the bat, we’re told that Halo 5 will be about fireteam Osiris hunting down Blue Team amidst the Guardians wrecking havok on entire planets. This giant manhunt that will be jaw dropping. The mystery behind the Guardians. I’ve read plenty of fascinating theories about what they are, who’s controlling them, why they’re here, etc.
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> What we got was a segmented, plot hole ridden, incohesive narrative that failed to live up to its name, then ended in the most cheap and obnoxious unsatisfying cliff hanger I’ve ever encountered.
> The mystery of the Guardians is perhaps the most infuriating element of the plot. The fact that not only does it basically throw away much of the buildup in Halo 4 in regards to the Ur-Didact, (yes I know he got composed and that’s ALSO infuriating.) the Prometheans, and more by making CORTANA the antagonist and seemingly forgetting about the direction that was being taken (you know, HUMANITY -Yoink- YEAH MANTLE OF RESPONSIBILITY stuff) and making it a clone of Hyperion Cantos. Like, I’m all for twists. But they can’t come out of nowhere and contradict foreshadowing from the previous game and seem cheap. Like, Cortana died. Her death had so much symbolism and significance in the story and it’s a shame that they took that, turned it inside out, and made her a rampancy-cured but somehow still rampant power hungry psychopath. Not to mention how poorly she was introduced as an antagonist. Then there’s Jul’s premature death and Halsey’s amnesia of how she was almost assassinated. Jul was gaining so much significance in the plot and to kill him off in such a cheap manner when he had so much potential, that’s just bad writing.
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> - How exactly did Cortana access the domain if it was DESTROYED when the Halo array fired, being a precursor artifact? Like, what??? This plothole is so severe since the ENTIRE conflict revolves around it
> - I’m no fan of Palmer and I’m not disappointed by this plothole, but what happened to her unreasonable hatred of Halsey? Did she have like an epiphany or something?
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> The campaign mechanics and structure
> My biggest gripe is that the campaign is not single player friendly. I’m interested in the story. The last thing that I want is my friends screwing aroubd while I try to immerse myself in the narrative. But when the campaign is designed specifically for bringing friends, it becomes very frustrating. There’s all these alternate paths and strategies that are really only effective when there’s more than one player because the friendly AI is still quite limited and they follow you literally everywhere. So if you wanted to flank the enemy, you couldn’t because your AI squad members are incapable of consistently following the commands.
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> REQ packs implementation
> One of the things that I just can’t stand is that everything is unlocked via REQ packs. Literally everything. So if I want a specific helmet, I have to keep grinding REQ points until I can buy another pack that might have the helmet I want. It probably won’t though. There’s no sense of challenge. You no longer “earn” a customization item. And that’s infuriating, and worst of all, it makes the microtransactions all the more enticing.
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> Casual gamers are all locked into Warzone
> I’m a casual gamer who loves the traditional equal starts formula of Arena. I’m not compatible by any means. I’m also not really liking Warzone. So I’m sidelinned. The Arena playlists are purely catered to the competitive community, forcing me to play with competitive players who “don’t know how to have fun” in order to get that traditional Halo sandbox. That sucks for me. This could have easily been prevented by adding a social playlist to the Arena mode, but as of now, no such playlist exists. I’m caught in the crossfire between casual and competitive and it’s not an enjoyable place to be.
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> “Custom” games
> When I first booted up Halo 5, I jumped right into custom games to see how I could play around with the various gametypes and options to make something awesome while I wait for Forge. What I found was disturbing: most of the gametypes were missing, and more than half of the gametypes options were missing. Infinite ammo, random weapon starts, loadouts, weapons on map, appearance, etc. Basically the only things that I could control was the Spartan abilities. That was it. It’s like they only added options that the competitive community would use, leaving gamers like me to rot. It’s like half of it is missing. Perhaps they’ll add more to custom games when Forge launches in 2 months, but I’m not confident in that. (Just look at Halo 4. They managed to make custom games even less flexible than those “options.”)
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> Delayed/missing content
> Forge, big team battle, the rest of the Custom games options, the file browser, split-screen, you name it. Where is everything else? Why are things being delayed or removed like this? It’s reckless and frustrating. Inexcusable. When I spend $60 on a game, I expect it to be finished. Clearly, Halo 5 is not finished. There’s a long list of features that are simply gone or delayed. Features that I was looking forward to. Now I’m stuck with replaying the campaign and
> killing the Warden Eternal 600 times with nonfunctional AI squadmates who literally walk into his big -Yoinking!- sword
> again and again, grinding in Warzone, of getting stomped on in Arena. It’s shallow and underwhelming.
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> A disappointment, at the very least. This is not what I was thinking of when I spent my $60.
A+++ man I literally agree with everything you said except I don’t believe H5 was a huge disappointment but I’m a man who respects other peoples opinions. I was actually thinking about the Domain as well and about how the hell DID she have access to it. I mean if you put that point against the story it just destroys it. I actually think that maybe she didn’t have access to it but she had access to something else, I don’t know what but because we never actually see it happen we just have to take Halsey and Cortana’s word for it and considering at one time one joined forces with the Covenant against Humanity and the other has gone completely crazy ex girlfriend on Chief and wants to destory not just Humanity but ALL LIFE IN THE GALAXY can we really trust them? Because as far as I know the mantle of responsibility meant to protect all life in the galaxy not destroy it.
We should be able to see our Fireteam through walls, at least just highlight them a different color so you can tell who’s who.
FIX YOUR SERVERS! I KEEP GETTING SERVER BOOTED SAYING CONNECTION FAILED! PEOPLE ARE WALKING INTO WALLS! FIX FIX FIX FIX FIX FIX
we need more maps
Ok I feel like an idiot! My husband and I are new to Halo 5 AND to Xbox One. We both have xbox live accounts and are both logged into the Xbox but are having trouble getting both of us to be logged into halo 5. We are trying to play halo Co op or mulitplayer. My husband has sent game invites to me and I have gone to friends, then join his game and it doesn’t work. What are we doing wrong? Please help!
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> Ok I feel like an idiot! My husband and I are new to Halo 5 AND to Xbox One. We both have xbox live accounts and are both logged into the Xbox but are having trouble getting both of us to be logged into halo 5. We are trying to play halo Co op or mulitplayer. My husband has sent game invites to me and I have gone to friends, then join his game and it doesn’t work. What are we doing wrong? Please help!
Split-Screen no longer exists to maintain 60 FPS.
What is the point of Spartan Companies? No emblem, no service tag, no specific armor for the Company, literally just a name under everything you have.
I enjoyed the campaign and mechanics greatly. I loved the visuals, art styles, and music. However with what we were promised and what we got where a bit different.
I would hazard to guess most of what I’m going to say is already said:
REQ System:
-> Can we please reduce the amount of double, triples, and even packs with all the same items.
Multiplayer ( I have not personally played Multiplayer as of yet):
-> Map variation and uniqueness.
Campaign:
-> Team Member AI requires improvement
-> Many areas to get stuck on Geometry
-> Need about 2x as much story to cover the disjointed plot: Playing the game should not require out of game lore, thus when did Blue Team reunite? When did Team Osiris form and why those members? Why is Palmer, Locke, and Lasky all of a sudden buddies with Halsey? Why is Cortana Rampant but cured? Where did Promethean Soldiers come from and why did Knights change? What happened to the Halo 4 story / Spartan Ops story? Etc. Etc. Etc.
-> Legendary seems unbalanced. Particularly Crawlers, Soldiers, and The Eternal Wardens need to be balanced on Mission 14.
-> Audio is not always synced with Voice of Characters.
-> Co-op 2-Player should allow each player to command a Spartan AI.
-> Spartan AI can get locked up / confused if Player 1 issues a command to be revived and Player 2 issues a command to attack a target / go to position.
-> Discover-able intel should not run parallel to story/character dialog. Listening to characters talking while having intel audio playing is quite infuriating.
Overall:
-> Joystick Sensitivity needs a boost
-> Radar seems useless
-> Climb seems to work only when it wants to
-> 60 Frames Per Second sounded nice until you see 15FPS/30FPS animations 100 Meters away from your character.
-> Better explanations for Armor Variants and changes
-> Cleaned up UI of Armor, if the base helmet / armor is the same with a different skin place in same column/row or make a sub section for skins.
-> Halo 5 lacks nearly 30-50% content compared to other Halo games. For the amount of time and people who have worked on Halo 5 I believe we expected more. I will use this example. Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a prime example of what games should be.
-> Custom games needs to have options returned. https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/3qgzmb/halo_5_custom_games_are_lacking_significantly/
Thanks for making an open ended discussion about what might be wrong with Halo; and not just a Halo sucks because it doesn’t have exactly what i wanted in it, and my K/D is -Yoink- because the game is -Yoink- post. I do believe the pistol is a little too powerful, i mean i can snipe people almost across a whole map with that little -Yoink-.
I think the Campaign is poor
Either I am doing something wrong, or Halo 5 really -Yoinked!- up. How do I see who I am matched with and what their stats are before the game starts? If that is honestly non existent, it’s so dumb, what’s the point of wearing rare or legendary stuff if nobody can see it? What’s the point of being in any type of clan if nobody can tell? FIX THE MENUES TO SOMETHING A LOT MORE SIMULAR TO WHAT WE KNOW AND LOVE!!!
Fix your servers. Lag spikes and teleporting.