top 5 complaints from a Halo 5 fanboy

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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I am a Halo fanboy, been once since Halo CE. I’ve logged in around 500+ hours into each Halo game online and pretty sure I’ll do the same for Halo 5. I bought an Xbox One for the sole purpose for playing Halo 5. And yes, it’s better than Halo 4 and Halo Reach in my opinion. :smiley: (btw, I won’t comment on the campaign since I haven’t gotten half way through it)

1. Can’t the ranking system’s “seasons” last longer? It sucks because me (and I’m sure a lot of people out there) don’t have much time to play Halo 5 (unfortunately), so having the seasons reset every month is a bummer. Some months I don’t even have enough time to play all 10 games to get ranked in a playlist or I just get to play enough to reach a level I’ve been working at, but it gets reset the next day. How about 1 season = 4 months? Or maybe like sports, it lasts nearly a year?

2. Fire-team bug from launch. I know this happens a lot, but when I have a fire-team, one (or two) people drop from it before the match starts. They are still in the game, but I have to re-invite them to the fire-team after. Small complaint, but is annoying after nearly every game.

3. Why can’t we hear our fire-team when finding a match? Sure I can invite them to a party chat, but unlike many players nowadays, I like talking to the rest of my team and talking -Yoink- to the other team. So when the game is finding players, no one can hear each other. Only after players are found and the map countdown begins, players can talk. We could talk during this fine in past Halo games, not sure why they chose to disable it in Halo 5.

4. The lack of Halo mainstay playlists/game-types is embarrassing. These are playlists/game-types that Halo fans have come to expect out of the gate: Doubles, Flood, King of the Hill, Oddball, etc. I know 343i was trying to push their Warzone and Breakout agendas hard as “the biggest thing in FPS games”, but a lot of gamers vocally were disappointed at hearing these game-types/playlists were not included at launch. Worst, we got flirted with “doubles weekend” a few times, but still no news.

5. No split-screen? ARE YOU SERIOUS.

And yes, I like the radar in Halo 5. It promotes teamwork and situational awareness. Plus, the game already gives so many hints to players (audio cues, spartan chatter, etc) that you don’t need to rely on radar. If you do, you obviously weren’t man enough to play Hardcore. :stuck_out_tongue:

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People are still complaining about split-screen? The game has been out for 5 months. Let it go already.

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> People are still complaining about split-screen? The game has been out for 5 months. Let it go already.

Since I have friends coming over more than once a week and we’ve been either switching on and off or having to bring over Xbones, yes, this is a big deal to us.

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> People are still complaining about split-screen? The game has been out for 5 months. Let it go already.

If we just let it go, 343 might overlook it and leave it out again in Halo 6.

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Here’s mine

  1. SPARTAN CHARGE, its so annoying and desperately needs to have the lock on removed.

  2. Seasons are too short, I think they should last 90 days.

  3. Too few game modes

  4. Riptide, I really like most of the maps but this one is God awful

  5. I wish the ranking system would look more at personal performance than strictly just wins.

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I agree with you OP, Halo 5 is much better then Halo 4 and reach gameplay wise. I consider myself to be a bit of a Halo fan boy myself, but I don’t blindly follow 343I or MS.

I agree with everything you put as well as Halo 5 has Terrible UI, needs a much better sorting system when it comes to viewing your armour and such, medal viewing in post game matches, I wish LAN was in (I know it can’t now) lack of file browsers and how the game pretty much has to be online for anything to work aka like forge. Ranks should be military ranks like Halo 3 (We are the UNSC aren’t we?) and not this dumb gold, oynx crap like COD uses. Lack of interactive environments like H2A maps, which were so amazing!

Also I wish we had the option to opt out of JIP and being able to have our view one weapons like the BR and pistol like the old style… aka No ADS. The Halo 2BR is leaps and bounds better then the H5 BR in everyway (Look, sound, zoom in view etc)

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> > People are still complaining about split-screen? The game has been out for 5 months. Let it go already.
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> If we just let it go, 343 might overlook it and leave it out again in Halo 6.

I sure hope they leave it out.

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That is my problem

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> > People are still complaining about split-screen? The game has been out for 5 months. Let it go already.
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> If we just let it go, 343 might overlook it and leave it out again in Halo 6.

I know everyone seems to be upset over split-screen being left out in Halo 5, and I respect your opinion that you want split-screen, but I honestly could care less if it’s in Halo 6 or not. To me, a consistent 60fps is far more important than split-screen.

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> > > People are still complaining about split-screen? The game has been out for 5 months. Let it go already.
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> I sure hope they leave it out.

Congratulations you just wrote the dumbest thing I have ever read on these forums

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I’m also a Halo fanboy.

Split screen, voice thing, I agree with.

My biggest complaint as a Halo fan, is file share. And the game types. They should have 5 permanent ranked playlists (Team Arena, Slayer, Swat, Doubles, and Snipers). And then rotating social playlists. Social slayer, fiesta, BTB, Grifball, etc.

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> > > > People are still complaining about split-screen? The game has been out for 5 months. Let it go already.
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People are allowed to have an opinion you know. I certainly don’t disagree with him. If 343 left out split-screen in Halo 6, I’d be fine with it.

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Is it because you think it would put 60fps at risk? Or is it simply because you want those of us who want it to be spited?

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> > > > > People are still complaining about split-screen? The game has been out for 5 months. Let it go already.
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> People are allowed to have an opinion you know. I certainly don’t disagree with him. If 343 left out split-screen in Halo 6, I’d be fine with it.

Opinions can also be incorrect

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> > > > > > People are still complaining about split-screen? The game has been out for 5 months. Let it go already.
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> > > > > If we just let it go, 343 might overlook it and leave it out again in Halo 6.
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> > > > I sure hope they leave it out.
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> > > Congratulations you just wrote the dumbest thing I have ever read on these forums
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> > People are allowed to have an opinion you know. I certainly don’t disagree with him. If 343 left out split-screen in Halo 6, I’d be fine with it.
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…No. Just, no.

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> People are still complaining about split-screen? The game has been out for 5 months. Let it go already.

People want it, that’s why. I bet you’d also be complaining if they took something away that you liked.

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completely agree on splitscreen. My uncle is 65 years old and won’t buy an xbone because halo 5 isnt splitscreen so he can’t play it with his family. That’s at least $400 microsoft just lost because they took out a core function of their main franchise. I don’t understand it

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> I am a Halo fanboy, been once since Halo CE. I’ve logged in around 500+ hours into each Halo game online and pretty sure I’ll do the same for Halo 5. I bought an Xbox One for the sole purpose for playing Halo 5. And yes, it’s better than Halo 4 and Halo Reach in my opinion. :smiley: (btw, I won’t comment on the campaign since I haven’t gotten half way through it)
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> 1. Can’t the ranking system’s “seasons” last longer? It sucks because me (and I’m sure a lot of people out there) don’t have much time to play Halo 5 (unfortunately), so having the seasons reset every month is a bummer. Some months I don’t even have enough time to play all 10 games to get ranked in a playlist or I just get to play enough to reach a level I’ve been working at, but it gets reset the next day. How about 1 season = 4 months? Or maybe like sports, it lasts nearly a year?
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> 2. Fire-team bug from launch. I know this happens a lot, but when I have a fire-team, one (or two) people drop from it before the match starts. They are still in the game, but I have to re-invite them to the fire-team after. Small complaint, but is annoying after nearly every game.
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> 3. Why can’t we hear our fire-team when finding a match? Sure I can invite them to a party chat, but unlike many players nowadays, I like talking to the rest of my team and talking -Yoink- to the other team. So when the game is finding players, no one can hear each other. Only after players are found and the map countdown begins, players can talk. We could talk during this fine in past Halo games, not sure why they chose to disable it in Halo 5.
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> 4. The lack of Halo mainstay playlists/game-types is embarrassing. These are playlists/game-types that Halo fans have come to expect out of the gate: Doubles, Flood, King of the Hill, Oddball, etc. I know 343i was trying to push their Warzone and Breakout agendas hard as “the biggest thing in FPS games”, but a lot of gamers vocally were disappointed at hearing these game-types/playlists were not included at launch. Worst, we got flirted with “doubles weekend” a few times, but still no news.
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> 5. No split-screen? ARE YOU SERIOUS.
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> And yes, I like the radar in Halo 5. It promotes teamwork and situational awareness. Plus, the game already gives so many hints to players (audio cues, spartan chatter, etc) that you don’t need to rely on radar. If you do, you obviously weren’t man enough to play Hardcore. :stuck_out_tongue:

  • Sorry, my friend, but Halo 5 is designed to cater to the competitive community, and that means that in order to be involved in competitive playlists, you have to play often. Us more casual players get shafted on this count.
  • Obnoxious network error that is tied in with several other problems. I don’t know why 343 designed such a fragile game in this respect, but it has countless network problems associated with it, and you need an astounding Internet connection in order to avoid them.
  • I agree.
  • Some have speculated that 343i has purposefully left out popular game modes in order to force players into Warzone and encourage them to buy REQ packs with real money. I find that rather conspiracy theory-like. More likely, just like with the campaign, Microsoft set a release date before the game was ready, which required 343 to cut corners in order to meet it, resulting in the loss of these iconic playlists, most likely so that they could perfect their precious new Warzone.
  • Split-screen has been addressed many times. 343 wanted Halo 5 to maintain constant 1080p 60fps, and their engine literally could not support split-screen and maintain these criteria. In addition, it has been found that the overwhelming majority of gamers play with their friend using separate consoles anyway. The people who petition for split-screen are a vocal minority.
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> I sure hope they leave it out.

This really is the worst thing anyone can do. LESS features. Man, Waypoint, the place where ignorance thrives.

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> > > > > > People are still complaining about split-screen? The game has been out for 5 months. Let it go already.
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> > People are allowed to have an opinion you know. I certainly don’t disagree with him. If 343 left out split-screen in Halo 6, I’d be fine with it.
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Statements like that are usually where people stop taking you seriously, including myself.