Speak your mind now! Or halo 6 is doomed

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Are you satisfied that our community is split apart? Are you ok with people riding the hate train because halo 5 only focused on the requisition system and the competitive players? FACE IT! This game is not for you! It’s for the competitive players and that esport money, here’s some facts!

1 Halo 5 is set to 60fps and 1080p, why? You think it will handle split screen? No! they know split screen will not function if the graphics is set to max! They set the game like that so it looks good on streaming platforms like twitch and it plays smooth for competitive players.
2. Look at arena! Where is the casual fun gametypes? King of the Hill? Juggernaut? I can go on forever listing the fun gametypes we didn’t get because it isn’t esporty enough!
3. Where are the big maps? Oh there isn’t because competitive players don’t play big team battle.
4. All the arena maps are small and hideous lookin just so it fits the competitive players.
I would keep listing more stuff but that’s not my point.

My point is I need our community to speak their mind freely, don’t let halo 6 slip away just like halo 5 did. Don’t listen to those " I was playing halo sense ce -yoinkers-" I want you to speak freely about everything! How halo youtubers are ridiculously low, how xbox is barely selling well and how halo should be on pc too, how Microsoft pressure 343, how the req system benefits or hurt the community, how 343 should focus on both casuals and competitives, anything!

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Here is what I think should be in halo 6,

I believe there should be a balance between competitive and casual, I believe war zone should make a return, WITH reqs. However, I believe there should be more variants of req packs, so armor packs, vehicle packs, weapon packs, that way it isn’t AS rng, I believe there should be a more classic firefight.

As for Spartan abilities, they need to stay, splitscreen would be nice, but I doubt the Xbox one/ Scorpio could handle it with 60 fps and 1080p/4k

Now; as for 60 fps, this is one of the most important things. It makes the game smooth, and consoles are far enough behind already, we absolutely cannot go back to 30 fps. It is absolutely unacceptable.

the halo community needs to come together and decide what they want, a mix of classic and new, and make it enjoyable for both parties. One thing I truly believe halo 5 did excellently was the weapons sandbox. to clarify, I don’t just mean the forum community, I mean the halo community, people on the forums are a very small percentage of the halo community.

The UI needs to be improved for req sorting, and just an overall improvement.

The campaign, it was pretty bad in h5, we need a campaign like h4’s, the story was beautifully crafted, lots of character development, it looked beautiful, and played amazingly. It is imperative that we have a great campaign. and personally, I prefer pre-rendered cinematics like in h2a

Forge… Forge is great in halo 5 but, we need more control over the content and well, maps. We need a editing kit, and be able to download the maps weapons etc to the Xbox, this would be a massive undertaking, but forge as it is currently, does not allow us to create custom weapons, it does not allow us to edit terrain, it does not allow us to place AI, it does not allow custom animations or characters to my knowledge. It does not allow custom particle effects, it is very limited. It works well for what it was intended for, to modify existing maps, but we need to be able to create custom content.

matchmaking, sigh, the algorithms for matching players needs to be completely re-worked. Teams should be matched with teams, randoms matched with randoms.

Offline content, campaign, theatre, forge, and solo firefight needs to be offline.

Marketing MUST match what is actually released, that is a no brainer.

Ive been around in halo for a long time, and I’m very passionate about it, and I prefer halo 5 over every other game, at least it’s multiplayer. We need to create a blend of classic and new to appease everyone. And unify our Lcommunity.

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> Are you satisfied that our community is split apart? Are you ok with people riding the hate train because halo 5 only focused on the requisition system and the competitive players? FACE IT! This game is not for you! It’s for the competitive players and that esport money, here’s some facts!
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> 1 Halo 5 is set to 60fps and 1080p, why? You think it will handle split screen? No! they know split screen will not function if the graphics is set to max! They set the game like that so it looks good on streaming platforms like twitch and it plays smooth for competitive players.
> 2. Look at arena! Where is the casual fun gametypes? King of the Hill? Juggernaut? I can go on forever listing the fun gametypes we didn’t get because it isn’t esporty enough!
> 3. Where are the big maps? Oh there isn’t because competitive players don’t play big team battle.
> 4. All the arena maps are small and hideous lookin just so it fits the competitive players.
> I would keep listing more stuff but that’s not my point.
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> My point is I need our community to speak their mind freely, don’t let halo 6 slip away just like halo 5 did. Don’t listen to those " I was playing halo sense ce -yoinkers-" I want you to speak freely about everything! How halo youtubers are ridiculously low, how xbox is barely selling well and how halo should be on pc too, how Microsoft pressure 343, how the req system benefits or hurt the community, how 343 should focus on both casuals and competitives, anything!

This is just stupid. You act as if competitive players are out to get you. It’s stupid how you guys are up in arms when we haven’t had a good competitive game IN 10 YEARS. 10 YEARS.

  1. This is just so stupid I can’t believe you even typed it out.
  2. KoTH is a competitive gametype, actually.
  3. Oi.
  4. How does this make sense?

You are honestly the most uninformed person I’ve seen on Waypoint, and that means a lot. You have this hate for Esports, and I’m just going to assume it’s because you’re bad. Competitive players don’t make the game, and literally only 5 maps are in the HCS rotation if I’m not mistaken. You think we don’t want split-screen? You think we don’t want casual modes? You think we don’t like BTB? You think we don’t want good maps?

Honestly, this thread just be locked.

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A good balence between the two would make more people happy

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The biggest issue was misleading promotion. We had this epic marketing, the Chief and Locke in their trailers seconds from executing the other, the Chief has gone crazy apparently, Locke is hunting him down… instead, we got none of that. Another issue is Tanaka and Vale, two nobodies who could’ve been cut from the story and wouldn’t have effected it. Blue Team are nobodies as well unless you’ve read the original books (Fall of Reach, Flood, First Strike) or watched the animated series Fall of Reach. So characters you need to read expanded Lore about.

Another issue is the huge focus on competitive players at the start. We had no unranked playlists, a lot of fan favourites, Grifball, BTB, Infection were missing. And these “free updates” were actually paid for by the microtransactions in the REQ system (I’m not even gonna talk about that).

And finally, Firefight. Which is the most unbalanced mess I’ve seen. Some of the objectives aren’t fair (especially with Prometheans), we spawn from 150 metres to 200, the objectives are always on the otherside of the map, enemies by round 3 become bullet sponges. And the constant reinforcements is a pain as well. Sure, it’s possible, but the respawn timer makes it impossible, as we’re all forced to wait an entire 30 seconds before we can join. Then we spend another 10-20 running back to the fight. I was excited for Firefight, but not anymore.

Last firefight match we killed the two Mythic Wardens in Noctus with only 10 seconds remaining. Firefight before on Darkstar, PROMETHEANS EVERYWHERE. Knights kept spawning in, we had Soldier Ultras with the aimbot Splinter Turret that can one-shot you regardless, and Crawler spamming…

And we had to run through all this up a hill to protect an armoury, with a 15 second timer respawn everytime we died.

Where’s the balance?

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eSports exclusively isn’t really the issue. However the needless focus on it is one of many.

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A game that we know almost nothing about, and isn’t coming out for at least another two years is going to be doomed already? Take a seat and wait for more information to come out before saying it’s doomed.

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We’ve spoken our mind for quite some time.
But it seems very apparent.
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That 343 doesn’t care
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About what the fans want.

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Yeah i disagree, this game is by far NOT competitive.

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To be honest, at this point 343 has gotten a lot of critical feedback from the community on the things we liked and disliked. If at this point 343 doesn’t know what direction to steer Halo, it might just be better off to let the franchise crash and burn. It wouldn’t make a difference.

If they cared about what we think, they would have asked.

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As one of those “I been playing since Halo: CE” yoinkers that generally likes Halo 5, I fully endorse that you all speak your minds. Criticize the game. Pick it apart, pull its guts out and raise them up to the observation glass for the benefit of the spectators there that one cannot see in the bright glare of the surgical lighting. The heart of this topic is right – this is the place, and this is the time. Tell 343 what you feel. Bravo and Grim see this stuff, and they make note of the points that seem to be widespread. Heck, maybe even tweet them, and find Halo 5’s official subreddit and bring your sentiments there.

The way I see it, I enjoy Halo 5 and I enjoy every Halo game prior. I seem to be an easy buy for 343. So, whatever. As long as they make a better story, I’ll be happy. They should probably focus on the unhappy customers like all y’all.

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I really try to fight for the Halo franchise. I post threads about ideas and what other people think and I hope that 343I will make Halo 6 as what the many of the community wants

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Br starts, Open map design, 1-50 or some numbered rank system. Boom Halo 6 is great! Go back to this H5 casual crap, another 3 years of suck.

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A remaster of Halo 3 with NOTHING changed but graphics and sound, that came out the same time as Halo 6 could be a cool way to compensate?
Give all of us people who don’t like where Halo is heading something to be happy about (because the MCC was a joke and shouldn’t be counted as anything) and then the competitive, hardcore graphic fans can get what they want. (Even thought the FPS and graphics aren’t even good)

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Thank you

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I think its gonna be good