I find myself playing Halo 5 for no more than 30 minutes before turning it off. Idk, Im just bored of the few available playlists in matchmaking. Arena is fun for a few matches but the maps all feel the same. Warzone is getting repetitive too, and I don’t spend money on req’s so im limited on how much fun i can have there (my own problem)
Why can’t we have snipers, doubles, rumble pit, action sack? I earnestly believe it would take them no more than a day to set these all up permanently.
Overall I just wish we had more gamemodes. Its so frustrating that the reason this game isn’t better comes down to the lack of features in comparison to games that are bad because of bad features. I love Halo 5. But the retention rate sucks.
If Halo 5 matchmaking had infection, race, action sack, rumble pit, and pretty much all the other playlists that previous Halo’s had, this would be one of my favorite games of all time. Sadly 343 only focuses on competition, leaving the casual experience behind.
Take a break from it then. I enjoy the addition of assault and grifball, but if those aren’t your cup of tea than you can peace out for a bit. We’ll still be here.
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> I find myself playing Halo 5 for no more than 30 minutes before turning it off. Idk, Im just bored of the few available playlists in matchmaking. Arena is fun for a few matches but the maps all feel the same. Warzone is getting repetitive too, and I don’t spend money on req’s so im limited on how much fun i can have there (my own problem)
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> Why can’t we have snipers, doubles, rumble pit, action sack? I earnestly believe it would take them no more than a day to set these all up permanently.
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> Overall I just wish we had more gamemodes. Its so frustrating that the reason this game isn’t better comes down to the lack of features in comparison to games that are bad because of bad features. I love Halo 5. But the retention rate sucks.
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> If Halo 5 matchmaking had infection, race, action sack, rumble pit, and pretty much all the other playlists that previous Halo’s had, this would be one of my favorite games of all time. Sadly 343 only focuses on competition, leaving the casual experience behind.
Bravo released a statement why it takes more then a day to set up these playlists that everyone wants. The modes go through multiple forms of testing by different teams, such as community members, developers etc. Snipers and doubles I can see being added since they are very similar to base slayer (I think they should be added or atleast added to the new weekely rotation that will be implemented) but other modes that involve many forms of tweaking (action sack, rumble pit, the more social modes) need to be tested and modified to fit the current mechanics of the game.
Plz dont say they only focus on competitive, you could have easily gotten away with this at the launch of the game, but every update and future updates seem to only focus on the social aspects of halo multiplayer.
But ya, take a break from Halo, especially if thats all you have been playing. There is nothing wrong with playing other games and then coming back to see if things changed
I agree it needs more playlists, I’m still waiting for a permanent doubles and KOTH
And they added Oddball to custom games, why can’t they include it into Team Arena?
BTB also needs 1 flag, and 1 bomb.
I can play arena for about an hour before the update but boy does Grifball have me, only played a little bit during the week after work, gonna hit it hard this weekend. Warzone I can play for a serveral hours, love Warzone.
6+ days of arena logged here. Halo has me in its claws.
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> > Plz dont say they only focus on competitive, you could have easily gotten away with this at the launch of the game, but every update and future updates seem to only focus on the social aspects of halo multiplayer.
You are definitely right about that. My bad. But to entirely ignore the social aspects originally still was a major mistake in my opinion. And yes, I did mean that the playlists already implemented before hand in H5 could be added within a day, not rumble pit and action sack.
I know that griffball was just added and I know they are listening, I just feel that its still not casual enough in terms of available things to do with matchmaking. And you know damn well Griffball won’t be permanent. Question- was Fiesta slayer ever in a playlist? I don’t see it anywhere. Maybe i missed it since I didn’t start playing this update until today. My first guess was that it wasn’t. When they released this update, they even said “oddball will be available to play in custom games.” So basically they implemented it, but you need your own friends on xbox (which i dont have) to play these modes. I just wish they (oddball, fiesta, and what not) were all in one social playlist or something.
They could even add team rockets, team splasers, shotty snipers, and other easy custom slayer modes into some sort of playlist. That wouldn’t be hard to do at all.
Overall I just think there are plenty of opportunities easily available for matchmaking to have a wider variety, but 343 isn’t taking them.
I agree but hopefully infection will bring back some of that longevity with the amount of customs games that are going to be available. Hell I played H3 customs for 3 hrs the other night and each game was based on infection, and it never got boring.
I’d love for Oddball and KOTH to be added to Team Arena, then rename the playlist to, oh, I don’t know, Team Objective. Let people who want to kill play the slayer playlist and people who want to PTFO play Team Objective
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> > > Plz dont say they only focus on competitive, you could have easily gotten away with this at the launch of the game, but every update and future updates seem to only focus on the social aspects of halo multiplayer.
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> You are definitely right about that. My bad. But to entirely ignore the social aspects originally still was a major mistake in my opinion. And yes, I did mean that the playlists already implemented before hand in H5 could be added within a day, not rumble pit and action sack.
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> I know that griffball was just added and I know they are listening, I just feel that its still not casual enough in terms of available things to do with matchmaking. And you know damn well Griffball won’t be permanent. Question- was Fiesta slayer ever in a playlist? I don’t see it anywhere. Maybe i missed it since I didn’t start playing this update until today. My first guess was that it wasn’t. When they released this update, they even said “oddball will be available to play in custom games.” So basically they implemented it, but you need your own friends on xbox (which i dont have) to play these modes. I just wish they (oddball, fiesta, and what not) were all in one social playlist or something.
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> They could even add team rockets, team splasers, shotty snipers, and other aasy custom slayer modes into some sort of playlist. That wouldn’t be hard to do at all.
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> Overall I just think there are plenty of opportunists easily available for matchmaking to have a wider variety, but 343 isn’t taking them.
Fiesta as of now is a custom mode, but it will be the first mode to be implemented into the weekly rotation of modes (I believe its the first one, not 100% sure). The problem with putting so many modes into existence at once is that the amount of players per playlist will lesson. We dont know exactly how many players are consistently playing halo 5 though we do know it is much less then halo 3 and possibly reach. Halo 5 just does not have the population to handle 15 different gametypes. I could see them making one playlist that throws all modes into one which could help having more modes but less playlists.
Doubles could easily be added, but I personally dont think it deserves to be permanent, its not as popular as other modes (which was seen over the holiday, it was one of the least played) shotty snipes is popular though it just does not play as well on the smaller maps that arena focuses on, it could play well on torque so again I dont think it should be permanent.
Plenty of modes that could easily be added, I personally believe should be in the weekly rotation. That in its self should draw players back each week to see what mode is not playable. I dont think Grifball is a temp mode, too many people wanted it and now that the hammer is here they are not going to risk removing grifball. The same thing is going to be for infection, its probably going to be permanent due to it being a popular social playlist. The other modes they are just not as popular should be in the weekly rotation.
Could I be wrong, of course. For all I know both of the current social modes are going to disappear and rotate, maybe they will stay, we can only wait and see.
Yeah the game really needs more content.
In the MCC you could play campaign and lots of different MPs
If this wanst enough you could go for points or just speed running.
Halo 5 has almost nothing to do.
For me it is just a grind and nothing more.
It is no fun at all and I dont see me or any of my friends playing the game in 6 months or so.
To be honest no other halo had that much to do, maybe reach with firefight, but its always been co-op campaign and MP. If your talking about playlist wise then your correct as maps are lacking as well
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> > You are definitely right about that. My bad. But to entirely ignore the social aspects originally still was a major mistake in my opinion. And yes, I did mean that the playlists already implemented before hand in H5 could be added within a day, not rumble pit and action sack.
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> > I know that griffball was just added and I know they are listening, I just feel that its still not casual enough in terms of available things to do with matchmaking. And you know damn well Griffball won’t be permanent. Question- was Fiesta slayer ever in a playlist? I don’t see it anywhere. Maybe i missed it since I didn’t start playing this update until today. My first guess was that it wasn’t. When they released this update, they even said “oddball will be available to play in custom games.” So basically they implemented it, but you need your own friends on xbox (which i dont have) to play these modes. I just wish they (oddball, fiesta, and what not) were all in one social playlist or something.
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> > They could even add team rockets, team splasers, shotty snipers, and other aasy custom slayer modes into some sort of playlist. That wouldn’t be hard to do at all.
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> > Overall I just think there are plenty of opportunists easily available for matchmaking to have a wider variety, but 343 isn’t taking them.
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> Fiesta as of now is a custom mode, but it will be the first mode to be implemented into the weekly rotation of modes (I believe its the first one, not 100% sure). The problem with putting so many modes into existence at once is that the amount of players per playlist will lesson. We dont know exactly how many players are consistently playing halo 5 though we do know it is much less then halo 3 and possibly reach. Halo 5 just does not have the population to handle 15 different gametypes. I could see them making one playlist that throws all modes into one which could help having more modes but less playlists.
I know that Halo 5’s population is possibly too low to sustain that many playlists, but im not asking for 1 gamemode per playlist. Doubles would be permanent, but every other mode could be in one. Instead of a weekly social GAMEMODE playlist, why not Social Objective and Social slayer? These would be perfect permanent playlists that could be supported by the population. Social objective has oddball, assault, ctf, strongholds, and whatever other potential fun gamemode we could have implemented in the future like koth. Social slayer can have slayer, snipers, rockets, fiesta, and more. I think that social slayer with those modes would be their most successful attempt at a social playlist. Multiple but similar for one playlist and casual
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> > > > Plz dont say they only focus on competitive, you could have easily gotten away with this at the launch of the game, but every update and future updates seem to only focus on the social aspects of halo multiplayer.
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> > You are definitely right about that. My bad. But to entirely ignore the social aspects originally still was a major mistake in my opinion. And yes, I did mean that the playlists already implemented before hand in H5 could be added within a day, not rumble pit and action sack.
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> > I know that griffball was just added and I know they are listening, I just feel that its still not casual enough in terms of available things to do with matchmaking. And you know damn well Griffball won’t be permanent. Question- was Fiesta slayer ever in a playlist? I don’t see it anywhere. Maybe i missed it since I didn’t start playing this update until today. My first guess was that it wasn’t. When they released this update, they even said “oddball will be available to play in custom games.” So basically they implemented it, but you need your own friends on xbox (which i dont have) to play these modes. I just wish they (oddball, fiesta, and what not) were all in one social playlist or something.
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> > They could even add team rockets, team splasers, shotty snipers, and other aasy custom slayer modes into some sort of playlist. That wouldn’t be hard to do at all.
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> > Overall I just think there are plenty of opportunists easily available for matchmaking to have a wider variety, but 343 isn’t taking them.
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> Fiesta as of now is a custom mode, but it will be the first mode to be implemented into the weekly rotation of modes (I believe its the first one, not 100% sure). The problem with putting so many modes into existence at once is that the amount of players per playlist will lesson. We dont know exactly how many players are consistently playing halo 5 though we do know it is much less then halo 3 and possibly reach. Halo 5 just does not have the population to handle 15 different gametypes. I could see them making one playlist that throws all modes into one which could help having more modes but less playlists.
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> Doubles could easily be added, but I personally dont think it deserves to be permanent, its not as popular as other modes (which was seen over the holiday, it was one of the least played) shotty snipes is popular though it just does not play as well on the smaller maps that arena focuses on, it could play well on torque so again I dont think it should be permanent.
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> Plenty of modes that could easily be added, I personally believe should be in the weekly rotation. That in its self should draw players back each week to see what mode is not playable. I dont think Grifball is a temp mode, too many people wanted it and now that the hammer is here they are not going to risk removing grifball. The same thing is going to be for infection, its probably going to be permanent due to it being a popular social playlist. The other modes they are just not as popular should be in the weekly rotation.
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> Could I be wrong, of course. For all I know both of the current social modes are going to disappear and rotate, maybe they will stay, we can only wait and see.
Please don’t reinforce 343i’s possible excuses for not having a permanent doubles playlist. It has a dedicated core population, requires half as many people per game as standard Arena (contributes to relatively small population numbers), and the playlists they’ve released so far have not been well balanced for the mode. Double Date was particularly awful. By comparison, FFA has traditionally been extremely popular, yet has the lowest population of any playlist in H5. Would you suggest that it should not be permanent as well? Or, perhaps, as I would suggest, they need to fix the problems that push people away from it?
Hundreds of other games to play, or be human and go outside. Break away from the confines of gaming all day.
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> Hundreds of other games to play, or be human and go outside. Break away from the confines of gaming all day.
lol…actually i can’t…off topic but im stuck in the hospital battling leukemia (going great dont worry). So Halo, Fifa, and Rocket League are all i got!
But even before i was hospitalized, I felt there wasn’t much to do in matchmaking.
Its possible its the map variety as well. There are no large arena maps due to the new mechanics, but maybe 343 should try to vary the map sizes with good balance?
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> > > I know that griffball was just added and I know they are listening, I just feel that its still not casual enough in terms of available things to do with matchmaking. And you know damn well Griffball won’t be permanent. Question- was Fiesta slayer ever in a playlist? I don’t see it anywhere. Maybe i missed it since I didn’t start playing this update until today. My first guess was that it wasn’t. When they released this update, they even said “oddball will be available to play in custom games.” So basically they implemented it, but you need your own friends on xbox (which i dont have) to play these modes. I just wish they (oddball, fiesta, and what not) were all in one social playlist or something.
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> > > They could even add team rockets, team splasers, shotty snipers, and other aasy custom slayer modes into some sort of playlist. That wouldn’t be hard to do at all.
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> > > Overall I just think there are plenty of opportunists easily available for matchmaking to have a wider variety, but 343 isn’t taking them.
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> > Fiesta as of now is a custom mode, but it will be the first mode to be implemented into the weekly rotation of modes (I believe its the first one, not 100% sure). The problem with putting so many modes into existence at once is that the amount of players per playlist will lesson. We dont know exactly how many players are consistently playing halo 5 though we do know it is much less then halo 3 and possibly reach. Halo 5 just does not have the population to handle 15 different gametypes. I could see them making one playlist that throws all modes into one which could help having more modes but less playlists.
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> > Doubles could easily be added, but I personally dont think it deserves to be permanent, its not as popular as other modes (which was seen over the holiday, it was one of the least played) shotty snipes is popular though it just does not play as well on the smaller maps that arena focuses on, it could play well on torque so again I dont think it should be permanent.
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> > Plenty of modes that could easily be added, I personally believe should be in the weekly rotation. That in its self should draw players back each week to see what mode is not playable. I dont think Grifball is a temp mode, too many people wanted it and now that the hammer is here they are not going to risk removing grifball. The same thing is going to be for infection, its probably going to be permanent due to it being a popular social playlist. The other modes they are just not as popular should be in the weekly rotation.
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> > Could I be wrong, of course. For all I know both of the current social modes are going to disappear and rotate, maybe they will stay, we can only wait and see.
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> Please don’t reinforce 343i’s possible excuses for not having a permanent doubles playlist. It has a dedicated core population, requires half as many people per game as standard Arena (contributes to relatively small population numbers), and the playlists they’ve released so far have not been well balanced for the mode. Double Date was particularly awful. By comparison, FFA has traditionally been extremely popular, yet has the lowest population of any playlist in H5. Would you suggest that it should not be permanent as well? Or, perhaps, as I would suggest, they need to fix the problems that push people away from it?
also a good point. its not hard to find 3 people in a playlist let alone 2 if ur in a party