Underhanded Move By 343

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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So, being a nerd, I read the entire update list, including the bigly little changes and all the forge additions and a few things stood out to me that I didn’t like in particular, as they do. People are much more likely to remember something they disagree with, then something they agree with. So one thing I’ve noticed came with the update, but I do not believe was ever mentioned, was that the despawn of power weapons in Warzone, is back to a crazy low figure.

When 343 changed this ridiculous despawn of roughly 5 seconds, up to around 20, players had a second chance at going back and grabbing their valuable power weapons if they had lost them, it was great. But over the past few days playing Warzone again, a lot of my power weapons (all of them intact) have gone missing when I have tried to return. No if it’s in a crowded, area or a route with heavy traffic, I just write it off as picked up by another player, as to not point fingers. But on numerous occasions in the last few days, I have been in secluded areas by myself, and say get sniped, or my killer leaves without taking my weapon, but upon my immediate return, it is gone, as well as my load out (proving despawn).

Now for the life of me I cannot find the list of all the update changes again, but I do not at all recall seeing this being mentioned, as it would’ve made me quite irritated. So if 343 actually made this change, and didn’t think to mention it, I gotta say that’s really sleazy. They obviously have a horse in the race of more REQ’s despawning, meaning more REQs spawning, and more REQ packs bought, so I have to say, if this truly has been lowered (it has) and if it truly was never mentioned (I really don’t think it was), that is massively unprofessional by 343, and a terrible move for a company that’s already on thin ice with it’s users.

Please post the link of the update list in you have it, because I want to be proven wrong. I really hope it was mentioned in there, because if it was done under the table, it really makes me wonder what this company is all about…

Thanks for reading the rant!

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Im not sure of this. I can remember multiple occasions recently where ive gone and picked up my weapons after dying.

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Have not had the same experience thus far, but I’ll try to pay extra attention to it, cause if you’re right that would be dumb.

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Just played today and my weapons are still there for 20 seconds. Considering the last time it happend, it took me 7 seconds to respawn and 10 seconds to go to the location from where I died.

I think people are picking up yours and you just don’t see them doing it.

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I haven’t noticed a change. FYI not all changes are shown in the update list (i.e. ONI hog now overheats).

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Yeah for me it is always just someone else getting the weapon before I pick it up.

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I felt like the despawn was faster, but I could be wrong.

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Considering the fact that before they updated it from 5 seconds to 20 seconds I was seeing -Yoink- despawn the moment the guy died, I’d say I don’t care. It’s been all over the place and no matter what there never seems to be a fix for me…

…or the game.

I’m not actually crazy.

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Still the same. I respawned just in time to see a fellow team member pick up my needler. Also respawned and went back to get my hydra launcher. Still there.

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Op you could always go into theater mode and see what happened.

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> 2533274875982754;9:
> Still the same. I respawned just in time to see a fellow team member pick up my needler. Also respawned and went back to get my hydra launcher. Still there.

Man…glad to hear.

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yeah i’ve picked up dropped weapons just fine…

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I’ve experienced going to pick up an enemy weapon right in front of me after I killed them and it spawned very quickly

I’ve also spawned right where I died and my weapons weren’t there and I had time to watch it while I was spawning.

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I am still able to retrive my op weapons.

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You’re wrong.

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Some members of the SC I’m in have mentioned a quicker despawn, but I’m not convinced yet. We’ll just have to give it more time to be certain if it changed.