I just recently got back into halo 5 after reinstalling via game pass. One of the reasons i stopped playing it for so long was that my disk broke. Basically the only thing i play now is custom games considering that the rest of the game has gotten pretty stale for me at this point. I always knew long ago when it was implemented that the game browser and custom games were a mess but good lord, i did not know they were this bad.
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Its a complete toss up whether you actually join a game or not. I can’t tell you the hundreds of times I have tried to join a match that clearly have spots open yet i never load into the game and it spams me with error messages until i have to find another one. The only games i can ever join are the ones with little to no people. This leads me into another reason.
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The player count in each custom game is widely inaccurate. I cant name how many times I’ve joined a game that says something like “10/16” (just an example) yet when i enter it says the lobby is full. It’s like the main menu of the custom browser showing player counts is extremely behind in keeping track.
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The game freezes literally any time somebody leaves, and sometimes the game freezes so badly that i have to close out of the game and restart it through the xbox. I want to say this happens around every 1 out of 10 times.
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When a game ends, the game has a chance of freezing when you’re exiting the carnage report. If i exit the carnage report too quickly the game freezes, and and i end up having to do the same thing i explained above in number 3.
I know my complaints are most likely not new and i know this has been an ongoing thing. But seriously. This is ridiculous. I went back into halo 5 feeling hyped to get back into it. Then I remember that the only thing i enjoy playing in the whole game anymore is completely busted. I know none of this is going to be fixed considering that halo infinite is well on its way and that halo 5 is something of the past now, but i hope to god that if 343 ever implements something similar into halo infinite, i hope they actually take their time to get it right.