It’s kinda hard to enjoy something when I’m having trouble getting used to the newer mechanics when it seems like I get placed against a more competent team while I’m still struggling to figure out what strategies work best. Atleast with the HW1 demo, we got to play offline against some bots. Or atleast some form of private lobby would be nice.
Just learn on the fly. There’s nothing wrong with the way it is right now. It’s new.
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Easier said than done. Hence this thread. It also doesnt help I’m being rank when I’m still learning what to do.
So there’s no skirmish mode against the A.I? That’s disappointing.
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> So there’s no skirmish mode against the A.I? That’s disappointing.
That was my first thought as well. But nope, straight into ranked MP.
I agree. I know it’s a beta and the best way to test the game overall is PVP. But at the same time, I would have loved to learn the game fighting A.I.
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Agreed. At least the real deal will have it (I’m assuming).
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It was confirmed in today’s blog to be in the final game. Why it’s missing in the beta is probably 343i’s underestimating it’s popularity to consider a reason to bother adding it in the beta.
That or the beta is another server stress-test, in which case: It still sucks, regardless of reason.
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Don’t know if I should even bother playing then. I wasn’t too fond of the first games multiplayer, only played it for the achievements, but I had a blast in skirmish mode. Guess I’ll just wait for the full release. I don’t wanna become frustrated with this game before it even releases.
I am glad we have a Beta, no questions about it. I will continue to play and contribute reporting bugs and other details. Honestly, it would have made a huge difference if it had a Skirmish mode or a first mission sort of map against the AI. There are a few changes hard to adapt right off the bat, and even though yes, with a few matches one starts getting a hang of it, it adds up to the initial frustration.
Once I played a few matches I was fine; but I feel there’s much to learn yet and I’m just rushing under pressure.
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Be careful now. We know how 343 is with game modes that should be in the game.
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Well, TBF It’s a good thing Creative Assembly is actually making the game. Like dont get me wrong. I’m excited for HW2. But I’m not that good at RTS’ and I’m not magically any better now. The beta would only benefit from an offline/skirmish mode though.
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Yeah, I’ll likely just play a game or two to try it out. But not planning on going nuts (unless it is really fun). Full release, I’ll be all over the achievements myself. It’s the only reason I played HW1, and I ended up loving it.
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It also had a good campaign with an intersting story and characters…Something halo has been lacking lately.
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Definitely. One thing I’m glad for is that they seemed to have kept the original art style from the first Halo Wars. I really disliked how the Marines looked in Halo 4, so I’m glad they didn’t carry that design over to Halo Wars 2.
I loved the story of the first Halo Wars. Some of the missions were a little “meh”, but it was a fun game.
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BLUR has also come a long way with their cgi skills as well. Halo Wars 2 and even H2A visually look much better than HW1’s cutscenes.
But as far as gameplay goes, I like the new mechanics (Except the drastically shorter pop count, 3-4 count for just ONE marine unit? Really??) but I greatly dislike the omission of skirmish to play around with.
After a long day of work I turned HW2 on to relieve some stress. But I forgot this beta doesnt have skirmish. I dont want to agitate myself further with this game’s meh ranking system.
Being that it’s a beta, there’s no need to worry about rank… Learning while losing isn’t exactly a big deal right now. Fake it till you make it.
In the end everyone here’s right, you do have to go toe to toe with the best to learn how to beat them, though in all truth there are people out there that would rather relax and face something that’s not going to make them feel angry. Wars 1 still had those people messaging me over how bad i was when all i wanted to do was see how others played. some like the hard core Pvp and some like to relax and play the game, think of it like Fire Fight in halo reach it gave people a mode to relax and kill things with out having to worry about try hard’s and trolls (to an extent but the private game solved that) a lot of people will buy this game to play the story and that’s all and when the servers go down people can still come back to the game with bots. think of it like how 007 and perfect dark was, Halo 2 with bots for the old Xbox would still make me a happy person lol like i still go back to the old C&C Red Alert and play against bots. All in all just having the option of bots would make everyone happy because people that aren’t to good and don’t really want to get good with stay with bots and the PVP’ers can play against people that want to get good, or all those people that want to get all of the achievements.
And as for people that say skirmish and bots should never be in a game because that’s not how its meant to be played, a game can be played many ways and if the options there just ignore it its for someone else example being the FOB system in MGS5 or forge in halo, i don’t like it but I’m not going to say it shouldn’t be in the game.
And for some people they want it in the game because if its not it feels like its has less then what it could have like how battlefield used to have bots but doesn’t anymore though it might be in BF5 just because people want something to fight that doesn’t jet ram them ever minute or -Yoink!-.
May points here, take it as you will.