Whatever happened to huge firefights around bosses? What ever happened to super close games where a single boss would determine the victor? What happened to those comebacks where one team would destroy the core. What happened to Warzone being a casual friendly mode? 343 mentioned Warzone would be all of these in their vidocs, yet any of these events rarely occur.
My average Warzone experience: (1) either I find a team in halo LFG and we usually dominate the other team. We take every boss, triple cap, and wait until the 10 minute mark to destroy the core (sometimes your teammates would get angry if you even touch the core). (2) I queue solo and my team rarely touches a boss, we get triple capped, and we get farmed the heck out of.
We’ve been requesting for balanced matchmaking for months now – solo-queuers should queue with solo-queuers and team-queuers should queue with team-queuers – but all we get is silence. Is 343 even acknowledging the issue? I feel like I see a post like this every once in a while, but I’ve never seen someone from 343 acknowledge it.
rant over
How would you guys fix this? I have a feeling balanced matchmaking is out of the picture. Any recommendations to 343?
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> Whatever happened to huge firefights around bosses? What ever happened to super close games where a single boss would determine the victor? What happened to those comebacks where one team would destroy the core. What happened to Warzone being a casual friendly mode? 343 mentioned Warzone would be all of these in their vidocs, yet any of these events rarely occur.
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> My average Warzone experience: (1) either I find a team in halo LFG and we usually dominate the other team. We take every boss, triple cap, and wait until the 10 minute mark to destroy the core (sometimes your teammates would get angry if you even touch the core). (2) I queue solo and my team rarely touches a boss, we get triple capped, and we get farmed the heck out of.
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> We’ve been requesting for balanced matchmaking for months now – solo-queuers should queue with solo-queuers and team-queuers should queue with team-queuers – but all we get is silence. Is 343 even acknowledging the issue? I feel like I see a post like this every once in a while, but I’ve never seen someone from 343 acknowledge it.
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> rant over
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> How would you guys fix this? I have a feeling balanced matchmaking is out of the picture. Any recommendations to 343?
Nothing happened to them. In the three Warzone matches I played yesterday, literally everything you mentioned occurred. Multiple times.
I hate going solo or with 2 or 3 friends, you get so many randoms that have no clue what they’re doing it’s really frustrating that is why people now serach in parties
There is a pretty easy way to balance teams. At the end of every round your KDA is given to you. Figure your average out over the games you played and balance the teams based on that. If you have a good set of players partied together that have a high KDA you figure the remaining players to counter that.
I only play Halo arena or Warzone with my spartan company. Every time I run with them we wreck the other team and get a ton of xp and req points. I used to play by myself until I realized the advantages a team provides. This would not be a problem if more people had mics. The only game modes I play solo now are the social like BTB and any weekend playlists.
How exactly would someone implement a party-only queue and solo queue? What about people who go in as 2, 3 or 4 people? Would you have separate queues based on the number of people? That’s why it won’t work. I get that it’s broken and I agree but there’s nothing they can really do about it.
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> I only play Halo arena or Warzone with my spartan company. Every time I run with them we wreck the other team and get a ton of xp and req points. I used to play by myself until I realized the advantages a team provides. This would not be a problem if more people had mics. The only game modes I play solo now are the social like BTB and any weekend playlists.
> 2777219770235327;1:
> incoming rant
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> Whatever happened to huge firefights around bosses? What ever happened to super close games where a single boss would determine the victor? What happened to those comebacks where one team would destroy the core. What happened to Warzone being a casual friendly mode? 343 mentioned Warzone would be all of these in their vidocs, yet any of these events rarely occur.
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> My average Warzone experience: (1) either I find a team in halo LFG and we usually dominate the other team. We take every boss, triple cap, and wait until the 10 minute mark to destroy the core (sometimes your teammates would get angry if you even touch the core). (2) I queue solo and my team rarely touches a boss, we get triple capped, and we get farmed the heck out of.
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> We’ve been requesting for balanced matchmaking for months now – solo-queuers should queue with solo-queuers and team-queuers should queue with team-queuers – but all we get is silence. Is 343 even acknowledging the issue? I feel like I see a post like this every once in a while, but I’ve never seen someone from 343 acknowledge it.
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> rant over
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> How would you guys fix this? I have a feeling balanced matchmaking is out of the picture. Any recommendations to 343?
Queue searching is not a effective way to search because then connection will become a an issue. As for suggestions to fix this? I am a long time advocate of Rank warzone playlists and Company War options. These would take away the “sweaty” teams for the most part and let the casual players play against casuals more often. As for how Warzone should be played, it’s war. All is fair in War.
> 2777219770235327;1:
> incoming rant
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> Whatever happened to huge firefights around bosses? What ever happened to super close games where a single boss would determine the victor? What happened to those comebacks where one team would destroy the core. What happened to Warzone being a casual friendly mode? 343 mentioned Warzone would be all of these in their vidocs, yet any of these events rarely occur.
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> My average Warzone experience: (1) either I find a team in halo LFG and we usually dominate the other team. We take every boss, triple cap, and wait until the 10 minute mark to destroy the core (sometimes your teammates would get angry if you even touch the core). (2) I queue solo and my team rarely touches a boss, we get triple capped, and we get farmed the heck out of.
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> We’ve been requesting for balanced matchmaking for months now – solo-queuers should queue with solo-queuers and team-queuers should queue with team-queuers – but all we get is silence. Is 343 even acknowledging the issue? I feel like I see a post like this every once in a while, but I’ve never seen someone from 343 acknowledge it.
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> rant over
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> How would you guys fix this? I have a feeling balanced matchmaking is out of the picture. Any recommendations to 343?
This is never going to happen…like ever. Honestly I would love this to actually happen and it would make Warzone a better place but unfortunately this is all in a dream. Even if they do manage to make this happen its still not going to work. it would take AGES just to find one game because of one slot that is still open, but oh wait, this is team queue, time to restart the match making again!
Just to piss people off I really want to go join one of those twelve person teams that are looking to farm players and sit back at the home base while they cap everything and set up outside the enemy base. After that I’ll just grab a fuel rod waltz over and blow the core up before they can get too far with the killing.
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> I hate going solo or with 2 or 3 friends, you get so many randoms that have no clue what they’re doing it’s really frustrating that is why people now serach in parties
And I think thats also the cause of many bans that players get from quiting. I don’t mind losing games if its a close fight down to the vary end but when I’m going to end up losing a slayer game cause my teammates can’t handle a weapon or an objective game because they don’t understand how it works. I get tons of players who don’t defend our flag, they just take the other teams and expect someone else to hunt ours down which doesn’t work when three players have that mentality and the one who is hunting has to face a team of their defending their carrier. And for strongholds all they do is go capture points they don’t understand that you should just capture two and focus on defending and only take the third if you have total control over the map.
Theres some teams of sweaty basement dwelling neckbeards who try to stack their team, alot of them are pretty bad if you can get them 1v1. What I do to have fun is once they triple cap pull out a sniper and overlook the most recent base they took. They are all standing on the roof most of the time. You can also bring out a wraith or scorpion and kill a ton of em.
I dont think the mode is as casual as intended, its fun and chaotic though.
If you solo queue just be thankful if one or more of your teammates are competent. (same could be said for any playlist though.)
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> I only play Halo arena or Warzone with my spartan company. Every time I run with them we wreck the other team and get a ton of xp and req points. I used to play by myself until I realized the advantages a team provides. This would not be a problem if more people had mics. The only game modes I play solo now are the social like BTB and any weekend playlists.
gonna bring up what you said about people having mics, my from my experience playing on XBL for the last 10 years or so as soon as any one in game chat says anything almost instantly some one else tells them to “Shut the F*** up” and so after almost a decade of this happening most people who do have mics don’t bother to use them because some else will tell you shutup!
> 2777219770235327;1:
> incoming rant
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> Whatever happened to huge firefights around bosses? What ever happened to super close games where a single boss would determine the victor? What happened to those comebacks where one team would destroy the core. What happened to Warzone being a casual friendly mode? 343 mentioned Warzone would be all of these in their vidocs, yet any of these events rarely occur.
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> My average Warzone experience: (1) either I find a team in halo LFG and we usually dominate the other team. We take every boss, triple cap, and wait until the 10 minute mark to destroy the core (sometimes your teammates would get angry if you even touch the core). (2) I queue solo and my team rarely touches a boss, we get triple capped, and we get farmed the heck out of.
>
> We’ve been requesting for balanced matchmaking for months now – solo-queuers should queue with solo-queuers and team-queuers should queue with team-queuers – but all we get is silence. Is 343 even acknowledging the issue? I feel like I see a post like this every once in a while, but I’ve never seen someone from 343 acknowledge it.
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> rant over
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> How would you guys fix this? I have a feeling balanced matchmaking is out of the picture. Any recommendations to 343?
I’d tell them to stick their sodding **** where even the sodding sun doesn’t shine if I played on their side. I give them 2 minutes to farm if we are dominating. I am REQing a Fuel Rod and mercy offing the core the moment they aren’t looking and they can break their mics if they feel like it. We don’t want your git gud -Yoink- here…