The past several matches of this day I all had team mates who left and it came down to something like 2 v 4 or 1 v 4 and I ended up getting banned for a hour so I have time to rant to 343 about it probably because I’m a little spiteful about it but also because I care about Halo …
I understand to ban jerks who leave a match of 4 v 4 or 3 v 4. People say 3 v 4 can still easily win if you work together but your getting matched with 11 year olds/people with no mic so majority of time your going to loose. Some guy on these forums is gonna say i deserve to get banned but whatever. I dont think I should get banned when the members of the opposite team are sending messages telling me to quit cause halo 5 sucks when its 1 v 4 no matter what team your on.
It could use improvement and if you disagree your in denial or just a plain dumb fanboy of 343.
This is easy problem to fix but maybe its to “hard” for them to not make the ban-hammer not apply to everyone who leaves a match?Here are the options:
- Reward players with more RP who sit to play through a 3 v 4, 2 v 4, or 1 v 4 match.
- Don’t have a match a player leaves that is 2 v 4 or 1 v 4 count towards a ban.
- Have a option to invite a player in to fill in the empty slot ( I don’t really support this idea though because you could invite a really good player and it would be unbalanced when you paired up against gold or silver maybe)
I’ve heard little from 343 about this problem or doing anything about it.
In my opionion of a halo gamer since halo 1, 343 has yet to actually pull off a halo game of equal quality of any bungie Halo game. They always feel half -Yoinked!- in one area, halo 4 being the multiplayer and halo 5 (while multiplayer is amazing) campaign was a complete disappointment. I would say the graphics of halo 5 would be good if it actually ran as a full 60 fps experience, enemy and other players animations don’t run at 60fps and it looks terrible if everything else is 60fps…they made all these graphical sacrifices for halo 5 and using the escape goat of 60fps of explaining why it doesn’t look much better from halo 4 simply doesn’t cut it when it doesn’t even actually have a true 60fps experience. Now, Halo 5 is beautiful thanks to the amazing art directors but on technical scale it disappoints compared to what other halo games did during their time.
Both halo 5 and 4 where mediocre in one or two areas.Halo 4 did a good job with the characters and cut scenes but it disappointed halo fans in many other areas. Halo 5’s did multiplayer well and forge well so I give the developers for credit on that, if only they could actually do the same for the rest of halo 5’s content. Honestly, I don’t know if its Microsoft’s fault for making them rush games or maybe its 343’s fault but I don’t think Microsoft would rush halo development by that much and they had PLENTY of development time for this halo.
Halo 5’s AI is worse in my opinion compared to previous AI in other halo games like Halo: Reach.
Firefight was never asked to be taken out of halo but now its coming back and it uses warzone maps. Maybe it’ll be as good as reach’s or odst’s but they have a lot of work to do on the AI…in fact maybe thats why firefight wasn’t at launch just because the AI was so terrible compared to other halo’s. THE AI COMPANIONS IN HALO 5 are so dumb its not even funny, looks like my 5 year old sister is playing as one of them. Next halo game needs to raise the bar in what we expect of AI in action and shooter games…thats what halo use to do…it doesn’t now
Another problem with halo 5, where is the file share where I can find all these files in the community and not just being limited to 343favorites or my friends…c’mon 343…maybe this will be added into halo 5 but do we really want the standard of halo games being “Wait 8 months to have the complete experience of halo 5 after it launches” No we don’t…which is why 343’s halo 5 had one of the worst reviews out of any halo game.Fine with req packs as long as I get free DLC maps, but customization was downgraded compared to other halo games and you can only change helmets,visors,and sets of armor. Compared to halo reach you could change shoulders,chest,legs,etc. way better.
And I sound like a huge -Yoink- who is criticizing all these hard working developers for not making a 9/10 or 10/10 or revolutionary game…well if you cant make that type of game then you shouldn’t be making a halo game…sorry halo has expectation and 343 simply hires people that cant make a revolutionary amazing first person shooter all around game…if it wasn’t for the active community we would probably still have the COD garbage multiplayer that was in halo 4…thank god for the community the saving grace of 343 and they let the community know that they actively rely off them in developing halo games because lets be honest here…they wouldn’t know what the -Yoink- to do with halo without the community.
But seriously, is it time we get a new director for the Halo franchise just to give it a new breath of life? Pass it on to a new generation of developer? Or is is just the company Microsoft ruining this IP and making them rush through development, because those missions with your player just walking around talking to stuff where so BAD and hearing what frank said about you running around a Halo ring being a scientist for one halo game worries me and I hope we don’t get more of those type of missions in halo 4 just walking around a confined small map in another halo game… Maybe its the huge development team size of 343 and its hard to make a solid game with so many people working on it? I don’t know but they need to get it together and ill reiterate this if you can’t make a master piece game or your not a developer who wont stop making a game till its perfect, you shouldn’t be making a halo game. Bungie did it for halo reach, 3 , 2, 1 , and odst with equal to maybe if less development time with possible even less people compared to 343.
ALL I ASK FOR HALO 6 is to have a slightly slowed down version halo 5’s MP ( which is amazing) , forge at launch, file share, and amazing 8 + hour campaign.
A developer of 343 may hopefully see this and ask me " Well -Yoink- how do we make a good campaign?" Look at ODST, you do listen to the community right? IF you do you would know odst is the best one almost but a campaign like that would actually require well thought out development, something 343 didn’t do for halo 5’s campaign. Frank seems to be to focused on the lore of halo rather than the story and it was really bad in halo 5…great all this cool lore cool if you read the books but if your actually looking for a good story or amazing new characters your not gonna get that in halo 5, which STORY > LORE. You should put that first on your list for making a halo game Frank 
I loved the silent protagonist and simple character that master chief use to be because you know why? CAUSE it actually made me feel like him.
343 either needs to downsize their development team so they can do a better job with quality or to have a longer development time. Sorry , the stuff I have said is extremely rude but I feel like they need to know all of this. Great hard working development team, its just halo needs more than talented developers and passionate developers, they need to go the extra mile to make a halo game.
A halo gamer,
Erik