For starters, matchmaking itself is more broken than ever. In the last six “ranked” matches I played solo my opponents’ teams were an average of 1.4 K/D ratio and my teams were an average of 0.7 K/D ratio (and sometimes I was the best performing player on my team). How is that competitive when EVERY SINGLE GAME the other team is significantly better? It almost seems like it would take effort to make match-ups so consistently bad.
Beyond that, the actual gameplay experience has degraded to unplayable. The lag/hit detection is completely broken. 95% of the firefights are decided by servers and not players. It’s pure luck that determines whether grenades will destroy someone or do absolutely nothing at all. Never before has the Halo experience felt so inaccurate and and dissatisfying.
Oh, and none of this includes the facts that the stupid challenge system is apparently still in effect. The progression system that everyone hates and makes no sense is apparently here to keep forcing people to play game modes they hate. Oh, and there’s no ranked slayer playlist because apparently 343 doesn’t remember what makes a game Halo.
I just needed to vent because I’m so frustrated by how awful this experience has become. I’m sorry for all the hard work that was put into this game because clearly it has not paid off.
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Sadly, It is probably not going to get better. The Halo community is limping on with broken and superficial promises. . . As soon as their “broader audience” gets bored and/or the next big BR with customizations or trendy game comes along they will all leave Halo. And we the OG crew will be left with smoldering ashes of two decades of memories wtrapped up in an unplayable mess called Infinite.
343 has already stated through leadership that Halo is not meant for the people that Halo has alwasy been made for. The “broader audience” they are trying to appease is merely the generation that doesn’t know Halo but love spending money on customizations. They honestly don’t care how the game itself performs as long as their cash flow from skins and colors stays steady. If they did care about this game or its original audience, the game would not be in this state. The gameplay issues are catastrophicly terrible. And 343 HAS to know this.
I was playing a game of fiesta last night and I shot a rocket at a guy right in front of me and the rocket dissapeared into the floor right in front of him, never exploding, and the player killed me with a one hit melee immediately after, even though I had taken no prior damage.
Between cheaters, desync, lag, server switching, bad hosts and just plain ole terrible programming this Halo will forever be known by fans as the worst iteration by far… And we thought H4 and H5 were bad. 343 said hold my peers…All of them. lmao
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Goodbye threads don’t really provide much discussion value
This issue should be stressed. Sorry to see so few discussion. I experience the same issue almost everyday, hoping that 343 will give us a proper update to solve this problem. This problem is so deadly that it affects the game experience so much. I even gave up this game for a while because of this issue. Considering the little content, this problem must be solved ASAP. However, it’s not a simple one. That really hurts. I have to bear it and blame 343 in my heart almost everyday. I am not intended to, no one does. I know it will be very hard to solve. But there would be no reason for gamers to stay. It’s up to you now 343.
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