I’ve been a competitive Halo player since Halo 2, Halo 3 being my favorite, and I’ve played everyone since then. I really wanted Halo 5 to be the series saver and 343s chance to redeem themselves after the scrubbed launch of MCC but unless some serious fixes/changes are made I done think it’s going to happen.
The point of the this thread is for 343 and the community to take acknowledgement of the current issues.
- The first thing I noticed right away was the horizontal sensitivity problem, if you try to turn horizontal (180° or so) while trying to aim vertically at the same time the sensitivity for the rest of the movement is dropped to like 2 sensitivity. this may be more noticeable for me because I play on 10 sensitivity - The next thing is when did halo become so noob friendly, Halo has always been about skill when it comes to online matchmaking. The fact that the assault rifle is so powerful and long range blows my mind… the battle rifle is the pinnacle of halo and always has been so why can I only find 2 or 3 on each map I play… Also I understand giving people a countdown for a weapon spawn, but anything over 10 seconds is a little overkill and just makes it impossible to get any power weapons. - A big thing for me when I play halo is the sense of a pregame lobby to see who your competition is and give a little good luck have fun before the game but a lobby system doesn’t exsist… - I have mixed feelings about the REQ system, I like the whole idea because I’m a fan of FIFA Ultimate Team and it kind of reminds me of that but introducing micro-transactions into a halo game is a little bit ridiculous. Every game now days has it end that’s just not what gaming should be. We pay $65 for a game where we have to pray we can enjoy and then there’s stuff wrong with it and they want more money… it is easy to earn REQ points so it’s not that huge of an issue - The lack of online Playlists is terrible. There’s no game type with a battle rifle start. The breakout game type is suppose to be a competitive arena? You run around with smgs and pray you get the one battle rifle… - 18 meter radar… beyond pointless, you’re better off not looking at it at all.Feel free to add anything I forgot in the hopes that 343 take note and makes some changes. I’m at work so if I think of anything later I will make an edit.
But all map packs are going to be free. Aside from the aiming thing, I honestly feel like your complaints are minor. Don’t get me wrong, I agree with almost every point but I just don’t see them being that big of a deal. The game is the most fun I’ve had since h3.
To your second point OP the AR is a capable weapon sure but it really is not OP the pistol is so much better than it so is the BR etc if you can aim it’s balanced I rarely get killed by the AR or any other spray weapon. I mean it could be the aiming that is throwing you off which is your first complaint and I have seen a lot of people complain about that so if that get fixed you may feel differently on point 2.
The spawns in slayer are terrible. I’m always spawning right next to guys on the other team. Last night I literally spawned in front of a guy on a staircase and he assassinated me immediately.
All maps are gonna be free and people who pay for REQs are funding that so I see no problem there. Now the aiming thing should be fixed asap it feels robotic and not smooth at all. Don’t know why they changed it from beta it felt great back then.
The entire MP experience within ARENA seems forced when taking into account the clunky aiming, high powered AR (at range), too many camping section and wonky radar.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have a problem with how short ranged the radar is but since there are so many blind corner people and figured out since the range is so short, they just have to camp in tighter spots. Many maps have corners or cut out like, WTF this is only here to hide in?
23 games in to get my rank in Team Arena and Slayer but sadly I am already over this game. It’s not because I didn’t get a good rank Plat and Dia in another.
Not to mention, if you can’t hear your teammates, the game is boring as hell and more than likely your team is going to get run over. Going in a group isn’t always an option. That was never an issue with H2 or H3, because there wasn’t soo much confusion and blindness across the maps.
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> The entire MP experience within ARENA seems forced when taking into account the clunky aiming, high powered AR (at range), too many camping section and wonky radar.
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> Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have a problem with how short ranged the radar is but since there are so many blind corner people and figured out since the range is so short, they just have to camp in tighter spots. Many maps have corners or cut out like, WTF this is only here to hide in?
I hate the radar. It doesn’t need to be super long range, but currently it’s useless. By the time someone pops up on it they’re already SMG range-close, which by that time it’s too late. I’ve begun to ignore it altogether.
You guarantee they will sell us map packs… yet 343 already announced they would all be free.
HMMMM who to believe, random person on the forums with a cynical hunch, or a flat out confirmation from the devs.
> The fact that the assault rifle is so powerful and long range blows my mind
You mean because combat is no longer being given to a single playstyle through massive sandbox imbalances? Seems to favor a more competitive environment to me (given that one can make the decision to adopt a different playstyle based on the demands of the situation, and demonstrate thereby not just a proficiency with another skill set but a proficiency in selecting which to apply, rather than slapping a thoughtless one-size-fits-all [and very, very accommodating] BR/DMR policy onto all of it.)
I complained about the aiming too when I was on my 46’ TV now that I’m on my 23’ monitor it’s open season!
Matchmaking/ranking seems to be beyond broken.
At least, for Warzone (if it even applies, and it should)
I’ve now lost 9 in 10 matches. Woo, doesn’t that sound fun?
And I don’t mean just lost by a bare margin, no, I mean get curb stomped and barely half the other teams score at the end.
That’s just sad. And to see it over and over again?
I fully agree on the radar tho, it’s beyond pointless when people move about so quickly. They can be within striking distance so fast that they barely register on your radar and the next thing you know their assassinating you from behind or popping your face off with a shotgun.
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> I complained about the aiming too when I was on my 46’ TV now that I’m on my 23’ monitor it’s open season!
I’ve been on a 27" gaming monitor for about 5 years now, the aiming system is horrible.
The radar needs to be fixed. As of now it’s a game of who sees who first, chance. Just awful.
That there’s no BR playlist is outrageous. There’s a significant amount of us for whom the last 11 years competitive Halo is BR slayer. AR/pistol start isn’t competitive. It’s a dogpile.
If these two things are corrected Halo 5 will be playable for me. Until then I have no reason to play it as it isn’t fun.