- The useless 3sec countdown after pressing PLAY
- The fact of not being able to customize anything while looking for a game
- The other fact of not being able to rejoin a ranked game after the game crashed by itself
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Tell me you never played Halo without actually telling me you never played Halo. The countdown has been a thing in all Halo games. In some Halo games, it’s as long as 5 seconds. 
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Well that escalated quickly.
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The 3 sec countdown is dumb: it lasts more like 8 seconds, and you cant click on anything during those 8 seconds or it cancels, and you have to restart the whole thing.
Also speaking of matchmaking the hold to cancel is also really bad, it takes so long to cancel that you’ll prob have found a game before you finish holding it, make it a one click button that says cancel like in previous games.
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Love 3 second countdowns that are really 5+ seconds
Exactly. That’s the problem i see with those 3 secs (+ MS server latency + your networok latency + desync)
It’s not the first time and wont be the last one that my friend (he’s who always invites) starts the queue, go to menus and i wait like 1-2min until i tell him “when you’re ready let me know” (ofc i wont tell him before because it feels like if i was telling him “come oooon i want to plaaay stop what you’re doiiing”) and then he realises that the queue was cancelled because he opened the menus after 3.5seconds.
Also need a crossplay disable option, and console ranked mode only.
Need to completely revamp weekly challenges. I’ve been playing most of the day and only got one stronghold match…
This game has brilliant gameplay but that’s it… everything else is average or bad.
343 sold out, sadly
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It’s a counter before it launches you into a LOCK with other players. Like a spaceship or a boat or any other thing that launches. Its sole purpose is that it can be cancelled before you waist anyones time.
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The game is loading your assets after the countdown. What good would that be if your busy changing everything.
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If your connection is trash, I as your teammate, do not want you to rejoin. You can go lag out someone else’s gameplay. As far as crashing without connection. These things will get patched. You are not shedding light on anything with this post.
So? Doesn’t mean it can’t be improved. If you do anything else then you will cancel it. If you time it with a stopwatch then it will take longer than those 3 seconds. (Having something just because it’s traditional or nostalgic doesn’t make it a good thing on its own. It needs to have a purpose. In the older games it was a notice to get ready before the campaign or multiplayer match started. In matchmaking it was a warning that you’re about to start queuing. Halo: Reach added loadouts AND a 10 second delay before the match started. That delay that every Halo game has had since makes those beeps redundant!)
Ironically I consider removing the outlines a QOL improvement. I’d like to remove my crosshair too because I find that a fun thing to play without.
I’d like to be able to have the colors on my radar and crosshair be red instead of the yellow I’ve set enemy outlines to have. Red on blue and red contrasting with blue helps make the HUD easier to read.
Broken off turrets should not have a 100% to 0% ammo counter. Give me the number of bullets. They don’t use a battery charge.
Yes please get them to change this. I just cant wait for you yo be standing idle while the other team kills you freely because you were busy playing spartan dress up in another menu. Yes this is exactly what this game needs.
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That’s the problem. Skin customizations shouldn’t be loaded after starting a search, but after everything else is loaded (gamemode, map, oponents found, etc). And if done after all of that, it’s a matter of seconds internally (Example: Player ID:1, Helmet ID:3, Chest ID:5, etc) and then, maybe 30secs loading those skins for everyone
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Well, maybe you’ve been living under a rock but HD Multiplayer Textures have been a problem since they released the game. It’s not an xnet failure. It’s just optimization failures (i even had to close nvidia geforce experience because the auto “save my last 5min” were lagging my game. It only happened ONCE, but was enough for me to facepalm and while i was detecting what was happening, obviously my teammates flamed me because i lost like 1min checking and fixing it. So it was a ranked oddball round lost ONLY because of me. Luckily none of them was angry enough to ragequit and we won 2-1 but that really sucked)
And i i realised that the animation of Lv50 season pass killing effect causes crashes to some people (including me) i think they could have realised it too and put a semi-patch like rejoining games after the game crashes
Of course i’m not shedding light for someone who doesn’t want things to get fixed. This post was just a try to make those concerns reach the ones who can make changes. Well, that’s how generally works
You’re missing the point. The absolute last thing 343 is going to do is create anything that allows a player to not be present when the gamestarts. And like you said. It’s a matter of seconds before the countdown ends and a match is found. So if you wanna play doll and customize your spartan go do it before you hit play
There should be a timer in case you misclick the wrong one or something else and you need to cancel in case you insta find a game, but the game should allow us to click around when the timer is ticking down. That you have to sit there for what feels like forever before you can start checking challenges and stuff is just annoying.
I kinda like that for when I accidently press the wrong gamemode or I find someone in the party isn’t present.
But the other 2 points you made totally need to be implemented, the fact that you can’t re-join DC ranked matches seems like a HUGE oversight already.
No no no, i think i wasn’t clear enough.
What i’m saying is to let you customize while searching and then, the last seconds (wich, in turn, will be the ones used to load the skins) will lock you obviously to avoid potential bugs.
And no, something it isn’t a matter of seconds between the countdown and the “game found”, specially at 3 to 6 a.m. (i even waited 10 minutes for it to find enough people, and in 10min i could have taken a look at all customizations available).