I’ve actually pretty happy with that blog post. How about you guys?
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It’s okay, but I’m still just super disgruntled that they didn’t put this out sooner. It’s essentially just a list of issues that they’ve said ‘yes we’re working on’.
The actual TL;DR is if it’s not coming on 3rd May, it’ll be coming a lot later on in season 2 or 3. 343 have a proven track record of lying to people so until I see an actual update applied to the game, everything I read is just a hollow promise in my eyes.
I want bug fixes. Even if it’s tiny things but an update once a week. They ignored the community for a whole month and only now they’ve put this blog out saying ‘yes, yes, yes, we’ll make changes’.
I’m just so drained at this point.
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No intention of adding a crossplay toggle.
I’ll stick to MCC and 5.
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I think the population is just to low for a crossplay toggle.
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At least they recognise those issues and plan (I think) to solve them (Even if they won’t). That’s a good start for 343 to get back on track. Now all they have to do is deliver, which might be a problem…
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link?
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https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/season-1-outcomes-report
it came out today/yesterday.
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When people left specifically because of that, seems like a no brainer to implement it. Enough people gave feedback on it to merit them issuing a response about it.
If I have to wait an extra couple minutes to find a match, that’s fine. I’m already looking at waiting until Season 3+ for anything worth bringing me back to this game.
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I’m glad they are addressing some issues but we won’t know if it will actually affect the gameplay experience positively until it actually drops.
They also have not made any decisive decision to at least revert the VK nerf on launch which is the least they could have done to improve the weapon, so I’m not thrilled over that either. Also, no news on more maps than just the 2 they announced, so that’s kinda -Yoink!- as well.
I’m not disappointed but the blogpost just feels like more promising until we actually see the improvements.
One thing I am happy about though is the global reduction to Melee damage. This probably means melees will still take 2 hits to kill, but it won’t damage Full Shields +10% HP > Next melee kills but will be Full shield drain > Next melee kill.
This will be more in line with older Halos where it’s not so much of a melee beatdown rush.
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Literally click ‘News’ at the top of this page and then click on the first article.
How lazy are you?
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They talk about fixing melee “whiffing” (which we’ll have to wait and see if it fixes the melee issues or makes it worse) however they completely “whiff” over the networking, matchmaking and desync issues. Don’t expect any significant improvements in gameplay experience during Season2. Very disappointed in this whole blog to be honest as just full of fluff.
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mobile, forum, no news button my friend. 
Beside, it’s usually common knowledge to provide a source when opening a topic.
So instead of wasting your and my time: stick to the topic.
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I’m glad they at least acknowledged that there is something wrong with aiming and aim assist. It’s obviously a bug that needs to be addressed asap.
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They did talk about it.
We believe supporting crossplay as our primary avenue for players to match make is important to maintaining healthy and populated matchmaking experience for players to find matches quickly. There’s work on our feature list we’re looking to get into future updates along with improvements to our anti-cheat systems to help ensure better matchmade experiences.
Since launch we have already done some work to help improve matchmaking in some regions, such as Australia, and will continue monitoring and making updates during the lifetime of this game.
We are aware of desync issues related to shot registration and players rubberbanding or warping and a working on improvements in all of these areas.
Could also be interpreted as a whole lot of nothing cos they didn’t mention fixing it at all. Honestly there’s alot of this blogpost that really feels like hot air until they show us some flight footage or let players play a flight version with the changes.
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I thought there was some good stuff in there.
Disappointed about the 2 melee Mangler. Was just starting to get the hang of it myself!
I like that the CSR is now per match and not per session so you can get a clearer picture of what happened. We still need the breakdown though (opponents vs team-mates vs personal performance vs hidden MMR vs purchase history in the store) - even if it’s just in the API and accessible via sites like HaloTracker.
Huge reservations on the Champion tag. At least if they try and Halo 5 like pick out the top 200 (which would be woefully inaccurate on a global scale). The CSR number is already encouraging toxic play…
I welcome the buff to the drop wall. I’m getting better at using it but still finding it just failing a split second too early.
Loved the shoutout to Australia. Aussie Aussie Aussie…
New maps and playlists. Love that Attrittion is coming back. King of the Hill! And they mention having more maps going through the art process - but no mention of if this means later in S2.
And confirmation of a Forge flight. Insiders… fingers crossed it’s sooner rather than later.
On my quick read through - nothing about an XP / Spartan rank. Very disappointing.
Obviously it’s just a lot of words and promises at the moment. And I understand why the fanbase is a bit jaded / sceptical. But if they can fix all those things in S2 Halo will be well on it’s way…
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There’s really only a handful of things they say are ready for beginning of season 2. Most of the things say “Coming in Season 2” instead of “Starting” which makes me wonder. Also, if they have a bunch of bug fixes for crashes and what not ready, why would they wait another month and not push these fixes to us sooner? Just my 2 cents. Also am really hoping they announce more maps and modes in a near future update. Otherwise people will just leave after battlepass is completed again.
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Ridiculous to put attrition in quick play. The LAST thing I want to do is be forced to play garbage CTF when I want to play attrition. So stupid.
They are putting it in multiple playlists
The blog post made several mentions of it being added to quick play. Didn’t see anything that mentioned “other playlists” but even so… I don’t WANT it in another playlist. I want to PICK THE GAME I WANT TO PLAY. Not be forced to play games over and over I don’t have interest in