Longtime Reach player, about to get into Halo 5 finally.
Any suggestions on best playlist to get my feet wet?
Still a solid population?
It might be a bit of a steep learning curve- there’s about a billion weapons in this game. But it’s well worth slogging through the learning curve.
I would try something arena-y to start off with so you can get used to the movement and precision weapons. That should be a good starting point! Maybe whatever ‘social’ playlist sounds best to you.
As far as population goes, I hope you’re in the 'States. The population seems to be steady here, but I’ve read reports of other countries having low pops.
Oh, and welcome to Hao 5! I hope to see you on the battlefield.
Once you get a BR id say hit up Warzone. Phenominal mode.
I recommend arena just for starters and then switch to warzone once you understand some what how to game works. Though I feel the community of halo is split into two categories
only play arena
only play warzone
I’d be in the first one. It’s all preference on what you want to play they both have their fair share of problems and enjoyment.
halo 5 has a steep learning curve and that usually dismays people so theyvquit or give up on trying to get better at the game but think of it this way I’ve never seen one person who said “I’m going to get better at this game” not get better at the game. It just depends if you want to learn it. If you do you will.
i also find this so much more enjoyable when you are playing with friends
thats all I have to say enjoy your stay and see yea out there Spartan
Thanks guys.
From what I’ve read on the forums for Halo 5, there is more skill level matching in this game where Reach ranks were related only time logged in-game. But there are people artificially de-valuing their rank to some degree?
Will prepare myself to get outclassed a fair bit at first!
Actually, I think you should look through thr custom games browser dude. There’s tons of diff users on their trying out their maps they’re working on, practicing certain things, fun wacky custom games, etc.
Getting good with the magnum is one of your main goals early into this game, of course with learning the maps and stuff. To practice the BR, hopping into BTB is a good route. For practicing your magnum I’d have to say customs browser, or a social playlist with magnum AR starts…which might only be warzone modes though…which are very different than anything else in this game.
I myself like to warm up when people host octagon maps in the custom browser so my shot isn’t too bad. It’s just a instant respawn map where you and the other guy shoot the heck outa each other. It’s great for warming up as long as the other guy doesn’t cheap sauce it and turn it into him leaving his sights in a spawn trap with a sniper rifle repeatedly. I have no idea why some people do that.
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> Longtime Reach player, about to get into Halo 5 finally.
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> Any suggestions on best playlist to get my feet wet?
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> Still a solid population?
The pop is decent. It dropped after the OT update and CODWW2 and Fortnite stole a fair amount of players.
Just don’t give up. You will get destroyed. My first month I had the saddest K/D of 0.37. FFA helped a lot because it helped with chaos fighting and learning all abilities fairly quick. Slayer has the largest pop so if you rank low like Silver or something you can still get mostly fair matches. HCS is sweatier and there are more underclocked people in there. Meaning there are Diamond dudes sporting Gold in HCS. Team Arena is fun. BTB is good too. Once you start piling on the Req cards jump into WZ. I am not a huge WZ guy but it can be fun and must be experienced. WarZone Assault is fun but it has the lowest pop of all gametypes. Also you can go PVE as well to get used to weapons with WZ Firefight.
It probably won’t be too much of a learning curve if you’re used to Reach other than getting decent with the Spartan Abilities. Aiming shouldn’t be too hard considering you’re used to dealing with bloom.
Hey OP I’m like you and have only played H4 for the last year and just started 2 days ago, once I set up my controller settings to what I’m use too etc I jumped into Warzone and BTB. From my experience it’s very different and a big learning curve! I’m getting destroyed but that’s ok as I’m still getting use to it all, my K/D is horrible but that’s cool I’ll work on that when I get better which takes time. I posted about starting H5 also and it has lots of great advice, it’s under “Starting H5 mp for the first time” which may help you. Let me know how you go mate as would be interested to see what you think. See you on the battlefield 
All good advise given. Just don’t get discouraged. I find WZFF and SWAT a great place to improve headshots. I would suggest that you try all the different modes to find one you like. If you are into WZ, then welcome to the REQ grind. Start with silver packs until it gives you REQ points, then move on to the gold, until you open everything in the REQ pool. It takes a very long time to open everything. If my memory serves me correctly, I was at level 121 when I completed the REQs.
Better late than never. It gets frustrating but you’ll be OK. Just keep at it, start with a low sense then work your way up to where you can do a quick 360.
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> Thanks guys.
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> From what I’ve read on the forums for Halo 5, there is more skill level matching in this game where Reach ranks were related only time logged in-game. But there are people artificially de-valuing their rank to some degree?
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> Will prepare myself to get outclassed a fair bit at first!
In arena you’ll sometimes match a team of Champions who have one guy that is on a smurf and is ranked silver/gold. The one low ranked kid makes the whole team match lower ranks rather than other champs.
A lot of sweaty Warzone players also play on smurf accounts because we have ridiculous matching times due to our high levels/MMR. So, you’ll match a team of SR 50 somethings, but get steamrolled b/c they’re all really 150+.
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> All good advise given. Just don’t get discouraged. I find WZFF and SWAT a great place to improve headshots. I would suggest that you try all the different modes to find one you like. If you are into WZ, then welcome to the REQ grind. Start with silver packs until it gives you REQ points, then move on to the gold, until you open everything in the REQ pool. It takes a very long time to open everything. If my memory serves me correctly, I was at level 121 when I completed the REQs.
I would start with bronze packs then silver then gold, in bronze packs you’ll have a chance of getting a new weapon cert or armour or emblems and with silvers and golds you will always get 2 or 3 permanent things, bronze packs only have common stuff but I would get all the common stuff out the way and keep an eye on every section in your collection of customization and reqs as once you have all the common stuff, you can move onto silver packs which give you uncommon and rare stuff and once you’ve gotten all that (you’ll know cause it will give you 3000 reqs back if you have all the silver pack stuff when you open another silver) then move onto gold stuff, if you move onto silver and gold immediately from the get go, your just gonna waste your req points as its RNG based so you’ll most likely end up getting common stuff in a gold pack. Hope this helps!
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> > All good advise given. Just don’t get discouraged. I find WZFF and SWAT a great place to improve headshots. I would suggest that you try all the different modes to find one you like. If you are into WZ, then welcome to the REQ grind. Start with silver packs until it gives you REQ points, then move on to the gold, until you open everything in the REQ pool. It takes a very long time to open everything. If my memory serves me correctly, I was at level 121 when I completed the REQs.
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> I would start with bronze packs then silver then gold, in bronze packs you’ll have a chance of getting a new weapon cert or armour or emblems, bronze packs only have common stuff but I would get all the common stuff out the way and keep an eye on every section in your collection of customization and reqs as once you have all the common stuff, you can move onto silver packs which give you uncommon and rare stuff and once you’ve gotten all that (you’ll know cause it will give you 3000 reqs back if you have all the silver pack stuff when you open another silver) then move onto gold stuff, if you move onto silver and gold immediately, your just gonna waste your req points as its RNG based so you’ll most likely end up getting common stuff in a gold pack. Hope this helps!
Only thing is that bronze packs don’t guarantee that you unlock anything each time. Starting with silver is the best bet.
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> As far as population goes, I hope you’re in the 'States. The population seems to be steady here, but I’ve read reports of other countries having low pops.
This almost sounds like people from the US can’t play with people from other continents and vice versa. That can’t be true right?
I’m from Europe and some playlists really take a long time to find people… 
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> > As far as population goes, I hope you’re in the 'States. The population seems to be steady here, but I’ve read reports of other countries having low pops.
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> This almost sounds like people from the US can’t play with people from other continents and vice versa. That can’t be true right?
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> I’m from Europe and some playlists really take a long time to find people…
I play with guys from Australia, England, Canada, and France. Of course 90% of the people I meet are either from the U.S. or Mexico, so that just means that other countries have fewer people on Halo than US/Mex. Timezones are also probably an issue b/c if it is evening for you then it is likely late at night/early morning for North America
First off, welcome back to Halo Spartan…now that formalities are out of the way 
here’s my advice…
If you like equal starts, skill base gameplay, controlling areas, power weapons on the maps as pick ups, etc. aka more traditional Halo, play Arena. If you don’t play Warzone.
Personally, the only Warzone I play is firefight as I find the rest of the playlists in that mode just don’t play or feel like Halo at all to me and I just find them annoying and frustrating. It’s a rich get richer mode in my opinion. If i wanted that type of gameplay I’d just play a other game entirely. When I play Halo, I expect and want Halo rules, set up, gameplay etc. But that’s me
Customs games are still fun obviously and customs browser is a great feature, definitely check it out. You can literally find anything there.
Now get out there Spartan, the UNSC (aka 343I/MICROSOFT lol) needs you!
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> All good advise given. Just don’t get discouraged. I find WZFF and SWAT a great place to improve headshots. I would suggest that you try all the different modes to find one you like. If you are into WZ, then welcome to the REQ grind. Start with silver packs until it gives you REQ points, then move on to the gold, until you open everything in the REQ pool. It takes a very long time to open everything. If my memory serves me correctly, I was at level 121 when I completed the REQs.
I started with ranked in the begging, got hammered terribly and went to WZ. It’s been a while, but I was about the 119-122 range also. I opened 3 silvers to 1 gold ratio so would at least get some higher level weapons and vehicles to play with.
Thanks all!
I hadn’t played shooters much prior to Reach in all honesty, so it took me a while to get past the run at people shooting and go for the pummel when the shields pop stage. Rarely does that strategy net someone a positive result in the end.
I’m used to some growing pains, but far less impulsive play style these days.
Looking forward to checking it out.
Hao 5… spelling error? …or intentional because he takes no L’s? 