Trademark system may have a serious problem
The problem is that it does not have some type of regulation since certain players with unsportsmanlike behavior may be harassing when marking objects or enemy Spartans all the time and this can become stressful
I have no idea what your are talking about.
We’ll have to learn more about the mark/ping system first — hopefully there will be a limit in place that prevents players from spamming a million pings, but we don’t know any details yet
A possible counter could be to have an option that will allow you to see or not see other player’s pings.
At first I was super excited about the Mark System, but upon further reflection I do worry it will cause people to take Social Slayer much more seriously instead of relaxing.
“Playing Social like it’s Ranked” as I like to call it.
There will probably be a cool down or buffer after so many marks or a time limit after mark.
Halo 5’s ping rarely got spammed much, outside of say when the Warzone bosses you can spawnkill in Darkstar/Stormbreak are about to spawn and someone who’s actually interested in getting them is headed there, but can’t really base judgement on that alone since Halo 5’s a paid Xbox exclusive and not a multiplatform FreeToPlay.
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> Halo 5’s ping rarely got spammed much, outside of say when the Warzone bosses you can spawnkill in Darkstar/Stormbreak are about to spawn and someone who’s actually interested in getting them is headed there, but can’t really base judgement on that alone since Halo 5’s a paid Xbox exclusive and not a multiplatform FreeToPlay.
Yeah the pings I’ve seen till 152, I can count on one hand.
Yea let’s hope it doesn’t come to that
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> At first I was super excited about the Mark System, but upon further reflection I do worry it will cause people to take Social Slayer much more seriously instead of relaxing.
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> “Playing Social like it’s Ranked” as I like to call it.
Social slayer in Halo 5 is currently a training field for full onyx teams. If you want casual, Team Arena is your best option…
Damn dude, criticizing a feature we haven’t even seen yet is definitely not the way to go.
Just wait until you had your own hands on it.
Personally the only game I’ve played a lot that had a ping system was Evolve, and I think it worked well.
Yellow Ping for a general marker.
Orange I think marked wildlife.
Red for the monster.
And if you spammed more than I think 3 pings you got locked out of pinging for a set time.
So, you swap Orange for points of interest (like weapons and vehicles) and Red for enemy, and it works. With 343 talking up their accessibility options, these colors would obviously need to be customizable.
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> At first I was super excited about the Mark System, but upon further reflection I do worry it will cause people to take Social Slayer much more seriously instead of relaxing.
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> “Playing Social like it’s Ranked” as I like to call it.
Or “being a -Yoink!-” is what I would call it. No shortage of idiots doing that now on MCC and H5.
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> I have no idea what your are talking about.
I think OP is trying to say that the ‘ping’ or ‘tag’ system can be used for bullying. Singling out an enemy player and always directing pings and tags at them.
Players will probably cop on what this player is doing and ignore their pings and tags.
I don’t understand
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> I think OP is trying to say that the ‘ping’ or ‘tag’ system can be used for bullying. Singling out an enemy player and always directing pings and tags at them.
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> Players will probably cop on what this player is doing and ignore their pings and tags.
Yeah well unfortunately people are -Yoinks!-, always have been -Yoinks!-, and always will be -Yoinks!-. I assume that 343 knows this and will not include anything that is painfully abusable but the -Yoinks!- always find a way. I am not personally worried about the ping system in particular, though.
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> At first I was super excited about the Mark System, but upon further reflection I do worry it will cause people to take Social Slayer much more seriously instead of relaxing.
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> “Playing Social like it’s Ranked” as I like to call it.
Unfortunately is difficult for people like myself, competitive players, to truly play in a casual manner. It’s just instinct to treat it like ranked. Speaking from personal experience of course. I was playing Social last night and went 25-1, i’m one of those a-holes
It’d be no different than “Flag taken, Flag dropped”
If someone is spamming the ping, hopefully it’ll only run like twice and then give you a cool down if you spam it. Otherwise my teammate is gonna get shot in the back of the head 
I don’t know what you’re talking about, but I imagine it would be good to place the reported GTs in the same group so that they fight each other and not affect each other.
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> Unfortunately is difficult for people like myself, competitive players, to truly play in a casual manner. It’s just instinct to treat it like ranked. Speaking from personal experience of course. I was playing Social last night and went 25-1, i’m one of those a-holes
That doesn’t make you an “a-hole” haha. I also am competitive and do quite well, though I attribute that to almost 20 years of time with the game than anything else really.
I was merely referring to those players that can’t read the room or recognize they are playing Social Slayer and treated it like their old Halo 3 50 rank is on the line. I have known people that scream callouts like it’s the 2007 MLG Grand Finals, but then the scoreboard shows they have 3 kills and we’re down by 20 points indicating they are not doing well.
My concern is that pinging will help to exacerbate this high intensity environment, which these players could not even hope to compete in given the scoreboard.
Overall it will be good, especially for newer players. Also when matchmaking alone and no one is communicating (so rarely these days people do, as they’re in parties or don’t have mics, or just don’t want to talk. All of which I respect!)
I just don’t look forward to watching people callout like it’s life or death and ping nonstop, and yet they can’t even get a kill. If that makes sense!