The actual challenging survival mode not that joke of arcade fight and wow, this was SO much fun. It tested your skills as a player to be resourceful and rely on team mates for a better experience. I was running Reach on my Xbox One since I no longer own a 360, so there was a choppy frame rate when a bunch of enemies spawned, but even then I had a blast.
Its crazy that 343i took out firefight for Halo 4, and even crazier how they didn’t put in ANY PVE mode in Halo 5, didn’t even consider it. (the whole, “if you guys want it, show your support for it and we MAY add it later” -343i.
The thing about PVE, its always going to be more relaxing than PVP, and isn’t that what video games are supposed to be? Come home from a hard days work, turn on your Xbox, kick back with your favorite drink and have fun. This game is competitive, which I could care less about honestly since i’m not MLG “pro”, but there should be SOME type of relaxing game mode in every Halo FPS. There’s not even a social playlist or Action sack for dumb fun.
Anyway, BoT this game NEEDS some type of PVE or it’s not going to last very long, mi thinks
i would love for them to make a PvE Warzone Assault with each base a different AI.With the Core comprising all of them.
OH as far as playing Reach, Want a real challenge? Do a custom firefight with nothing but Hunters. Thats real fun.
Reach’s Firefight was dramatically inferior to ODST’s, even playing with limited lives.
I’d like it to return in some iteration, as I love the mode, but it’s no deal breaker. Of my 22 days played in Reach, only 3 were in Firefight.
I agree completely! Just the other day, I played some Reach Firefight on Installation 04. I created a custom mode where there weren’t any ammo crates (to add some survival mode similar to ODST), and it was a complete blast! Back in the day, I would spend hours playing different variations of Firefight in Reach. I miss those days, and I don’t understand why 343i wouldn’t want to bring it back.
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> Reach’s Firefight was dramatically inferior to ODST’s, even playing with limited lives.
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> I’d like it to return in some iteration, as I love the mode, but it’s no deal breaker. Of my 22 days played in Reach, only 3 were in Firefight.
ODST’s firefight was WAY superior I agree, doesn’t mean Reach’s was bad in any way
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> The actual challenging survival mode not that joke of arcade fight and wow, this was SO much fun. It tested your skills as a player to be resourceful and rely on team mates for a better experience. I was running Reach on my Xbox One since I no longer own a 360, so there was a choppy frame rate when a bunch of enemies spawned, but even then I had a blast.
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> Its crazy that 343i took out firefight for Halo 4, and even crazier how they didn’t put in ANY PVE mode in Halo 5, didn’t even consider it. (the whole, “if you guys want it, show your support for it and we MAY add it later” -343i.
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> The thing about PVE, its always going to be more relaxing than PVP, and isn’t that what video games are supposed to be? Come home from a hard days work, turn on your Xbox, kick back with your favorite drink and have fun. This game is competitive, which I could care less about honestly since i’m not MLG “pro”, but there should be SOME type of relaxing game mode in every Halo FPS. There’s not even a social playlist or Action sack for dumb fun.
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> Anyway, BoT this game NEEDS some type of PVE or it’s not going to last very long, mi thinks
Odst was what made Firefight challenging, Reach just gave people the ability to spam over-powered weapons all the time. If they were going to add firefight to Halo 5 so it should be based on Odst and not Halo Reach’s attempt.
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> > The actual challenging survival mode not that joke of arcade fight and wow, this was SO much fun. It tested your skills as a player to be resourceful and rely on team mates for a better experience. I was running Reach on my Xbox One since I no longer own a 360, so there was a choppy frame rate when a bunch of enemies spawned, but even then I had a blast.
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> > Its crazy that 343i took out firefight for Halo 4, and even crazier how they didn’t put in ANY PVE mode in Halo 5, didn’t even consider it. (the whole, “if you guys want it, show your support for it and we MAY add it later” -343i.
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> > The thing about PVE, its always going to be more relaxing than PVP, and isn’t that what video games are supposed to be? Come home from a hard days work, turn on your Xbox, kick back with your favorite drink and have fun. This game is competitive, which I could care less about honestly since i’m not MLG “pro”, but there should be SOME type of relaxing game mode in every Halo FPS. There’s not even a social playlist or Action sack for dumb fun.
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> > Anyway, BoT this game NEEDS some type of PVE or it’s not going to last very long, mi thinks
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> Odst was what made Firefight challenging, Reach just gave people the ability to spam over-powered weapons all the time. If they were going to add firefight to Halo 5 so it should be based on Odst and not Halo Reach’s attempt.
Reach DOES have a challenging firefight mode, I can’t remember the name, but the mode YOU mentioned was Arcade fight
Yes, the challenging mode is gone from firefight matchmaking for Reach now.
You have to use custom games. Then with all the customisation options you can make it as challenging as you want.
Score attack online can be challenging solo. (Since you are trying to beat your own /your friends score each time).
No way can anyone say Skirmaggedon isn’t challenging.
I agree OP 343i dropped the ball with pve.
I also don’t understand the want for a pve Warzone. It won’t work. People will complain of getting too many assists.
I have been saying this for some time now, I look for any threads that relate to Firefight or Spartan Ops and make sure to support them. It was a tragedy that 343 dumped firefight for Spartan Ops, but even worse is that Halo 5 has nothing. The best part of gaming is having fun playing with friends and a half -Yoinked!- campaign that has no commendations, no scoring, no par times and no earning req points for playing doesn’t cut it at all 343! PvP isn’t loved by everyone this game suffers from not having an alternate.
Please 343 for the love of gaming add a PvE warzone variant!
By the way what really made the ODST firefight the best was the set skulls, I was so disapointed that there was no option for it in custom firefight for Halo Reach. Also the crazy Reach variant that took skill was Legendary Limited, and I was one of the few players that voted for it when it showed up, but everyone just wanted Arcadefight.
I would defiantly like to see firefight in Halo 5 Gaurdians
I felt that Reach blew it with firefight in matchmaking for exactly the reason you said: it was about having infinite lives with which to rocket and snipe hapless and helpless enemies all day and night.
As an actual survival mode it gets pretty tense. Just a shame that there won’t be any brutes or engineers even if it does come back in 5.
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> I felt that Reach blew it with firefight in matchmaking for exactly the reason you said: it was about having infinite lives with which to rocket and snipe hapless and helpless enemies all day and night.
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> As an actual survival mode it gets pretty tense. Just a shame that there won’t be any brutes or engineers even if it does come back in 5.
Why not? Warzone is a simulation isn’t it, so no reason we can’t fight brutes or even the flood.
Love Firefight Limited in Reach (Versus was cool to but no one ever wanted to play it) and ODST Firefight. Only time I bothered playing firefight matchmaking as everyone played arcade fight. I wish that they add in a PVE gamemode for Halo 6
Firefight limited! That was the name! I played THAT mode with friends yesterday and it was awesome
I think ODST will always have the Better firefight since it was not only challenging, but because you played as ODST’s instead of Spartans.
PVE is something that really NEEDS to happen in Halo 5. It would just make this game complete.
Oh and that is exactly what I enjoy about video games… Sitting back, having a cold one, and playing. Arena can be too stressful playing alone. But with friends playing, the games may be intense, but it’s fun.
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> Oh and that is exactly what I enjoy about video games… Sitting back, having a cold one, and playing. Arena can be too stressful playing alone. But with friends playing, the games may be intense, but it’s fun.
Anything with friends is a hell of alot better, but PVE can’t be stressful to me
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ODST firefight stressed the -Yoink- out of me lol. Taxed my friendships too.