Please add the radar back to multiplayer. No radar is not enjoyable.
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Absolutely not. I love playing with no radar in ranked. It encourages team work and communication.
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Radar lowers the skill floor and ceiling by making rushing flanks near impossible. There’s a reason every competitive Halo playlist turns it off.
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Objective based modes are dramatically more fun without radar IMO
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Nah it’s good the way it is, makes it feel a bit more SWAT-skilly.
Also it’s a motion tracker if you want radar go back to CoD.
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nooooo no no. keep that head on a swivel
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I think it will be fine when they fix the sound effects from behind.
At the moment you often don’t get sound input when something behind you is happening (even when being shot…) to reduce the sensory load when playing for the player.
In H5 you could manage well with the environment sounds as well so I think it will be fine
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The radar is free visual information, and Ranked demands use of environmental awareness skills. They don’t mix.
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not going to lie, I love no radar so you can really sneak up on people instead of people always knowing where you are so instead, you can use ears to hear them coming behind
i enjoy both. they offer different styles of gameplay. i always thought reading the radar better than your opponent was a fun mechanic. I also think radar supports matchmaking better as less communication is required. Radar also allows me to chill playing halo untill someone pops up on my radar. currently the radar is too small.
You’re smoking Moa pack, Stick to Bot arena or the other playlist with radar
Agreed - some people enjoy sneaking, but I hate it. It doesn’t take skill to hit someone in the back. Radar restricts the degree to which people can camp and forces straightforward fighting.
I’ve never understood why competitive Halo prefers to not have radar. I guess it is to try and fit in with the CoD players who think real skill comes from shooting first.
I think it would work better if footsteps were more prominent. But in Halo there are so many other environmental sounds that even if they were louder it would be difficult.
The point is to control the map, be aware of where enemies spawn, communicate effectively, and move intelligently through the map. Understanding the game state is a skill, and an important one. Not having a motion tracker is the whole point: Ranked is meant to test your skill, and the lack of a motion tracker stresses most of Halo’s most important skills for playing effectively.
No radar in ranked period.
No radar means you must be aware of your surroundings, it promots map knowledge and mastery. Go into a custom and run around the map.
Back during H3 and other games of that time, players would take their time to learn things before hopping directly into ranked.
I blame 343i for not having gametype selections like in H3. You can’t selected slayer only and vote on your maps like in 2007 and 2010.
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Lol spoken with true ignorance. Watch radar on halo tournaments, they are absolute campfests.
Hell no for most HCS game types the only game type it’s good for is team slayer like in past comp types
I prefer so radar.
I think the best compromise was the radar that they experimented with in the first Flight - sprinting and shooting make you appear up but normal base movement does not make you appear on radar.
If they want back to that radar style for both quickly and ranked I wouldn’t be mad but definitely don’t put the current radar in ranked.