yeah man a dead game critisized by thousands is better. Everyone agrees h5 has worse art style, worst story, worst music. But yeah its better than infinite everyway despite it not even having the population of halo 3 or reach or any other game in mcc(xbox).
but yeah i get you. You are a h5 fanboy still mad that those things arent present in infinite. Go play h5 if you want those things. We dont want old things in this new halo game. If i want to play old things, I would play h5.
Just the echoing âWere awareâ response to everything but no action being done.
finite is the worst halo weâve ever had to suffer with, i hated H5âs story and MP even though i played the yoink out of it, i played the story once on heroic, then on legend, an didnât touch it again until they added campaign scoring. and i only played warzone assault cause at launch there wasnât a social playlist so after i got my rank the first time i never came back. i grinded all of the armor through warzone assault and dropped the game when i got them all.
only recently like 3 month b4 finite came out did i start playing H5 again, and it was a torturous experience to relearn it. then finite dropped and during the first two weeks it was a joy to play.
then the campaign was released and desync started to effect everyone BTB broke an 343 went on their merry little two week vacation while the game turned into a total dumpster fire. with no new maps where by this point in H5âs life it had at least 4-5 added to it, add to that there was no pay gated armor as you could grind it out like i did.
so I think i speak for most if not all of the true halo fans when I say this the absolutely worst halo maybe even the worst video game of the last decade (excluding cyber punk though at least that game was somewhat fun and had a good story) even assassinâs creed unity wasnât as broke as this game and ubi made all of itâs DLC free as an apology same with the aforementioned cyber punk.
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- Very little content at launch
- Broken BTB
- Forced Crossplay
- Worst Battlepass Iâve ever seen
- No content updates since launch
- Straight up lying to your fan base and thinking that it wouldnât have any consequences
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Literally not a single major update since release for whatâs supposed to be a Live Service Game.
Desync was the nail in the coffin for me. The store was strike two. The lack of social features and absence of communication is another good point.
Itâs time for a new studio. 343i needs to go. They are a liability for Microsoft. Nothing more. Probably much less.
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most folk left most likely due toâŚ
- trash servers
- lack of anything to honestly do or accomplish that makes it worth while to spend your time playing
- some knowing that it took 6 years and itâs worse than any other prior game, and thus is on par with H5 and MCC at launch
- aside from campaign and MP thereâs nothing to do
- custom games work for whenever they descide to
- theater is borked
- the store being generic and overly priced
- the âimprovedâ customization being overly limited in a few places
- the UI sucks
- the game CHUGS in the main menu
- practically nothing was changed from when it was in âbetaâ so it may as well still be in beta
- the challenges being to an extent infuriating. sometimes even promoting bad team work
- no actually good progression system
- ranked is borked
- the server composer sucks so much it may as well be holding a rainbow flag
- the events being boring and generic
- the content of maps being terrible
- the content of modes being slim
- modes like BTB braking for an unacceptable amount of time
- people looking back at what 343 has said about the game and feel lied (technically yes and no⌠from a certain point of view)
- people disliking how silent 343 are
- the âlive serviceâ of the game is slow compared to H5 which wasnât a live service game
- the fact that it doesnât feel like a AAA game and more of an cash grab given how iffy a lot of things are but the shop works a-okay
- the fact that it is F2P as an attempt to excuse everything
- people being so dissapointed that theyâre waiting till S2
- what little you do earn in the game doesnât feel rewarding and intern boring or even not worth it at times
- the game feeling bloated. IE challenge swaps and double xp filling most of the BP, along with emblems being split into four things to bloat the weekly rewards
- weekly rewards not really being worth it most the time
- some being annoyed that new modes are being removed like Atrition
- some are annoyed at the cosmetic design (imo so far itâs fine, and not fortnite levels⌠yet)
- the ânewâ slipspace engine feeling like a waste of time. given that the game doesnât look better than H5 and most ânewâ things have been in past halo games in someway (equipment and abbilities) or the fact that others have managed to add things to the prior engine that this game has (the grappling hook mod to CE)
- no way to dissable crossplay
- nothing in terms of modes for ranked
- the RNG aspect to get certain modes (IE certain modes from QP and SWAT) and thus not really being player friendly
- aim assist being iffy
- some claiming it to be hard to aim in the game
- some people seeing 343 as incompetent and intern leaving thinking there is no hope for the game
- the fact that 343 has seemingly given up any further devolopment on HW2, H5, and MCC for infinite
- the engine also seemingly leaving 343 with the innability to improve or even at things and thus making things take stupidly longer. making it basically being SOURSE SPAGETIE 2.0
- FOMO with items
- some are mad at the dumb descision by 343 to outsource devs
- some also being not only done with 343, but also microsoft for seemingly allowing this to be the next gen of their flag ship series
- the terrible vehical ballancing
- the grenade/weapon ballancing
- the fact that even ESPORTS teams are done with the game
- 343 banning geo-filtering but still doing nothing about the servers putting players into regions with 100+ ping by not giving a region selection optionâŚ
and so on and so forth⌠i most likely forgot somethings, but iâm sure yaâl get the point, people ainât happy. now though we should take the numbers with a pinch of salt given how itâs just steam player numbers and not xbox players⌠it should also be considered that steam is the biggest market for PC gamers, so if itâs failing there⌠it most likely isnât doing too hot on the gameâs original platform either.
that also being said, not all of these are the reasons for everyone. just a mixture of these is all⌠these are just the complaints that iâve seen around from YT comments to Waypoint, certainly abundant issues talked about a lot
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Lack of live service and issues such as cheaters, BTB breaking and desync. Desync would effect people who donât have great internet speed the most. This was probably the majority of players.
Also, the shop was very stingy, lacking real content (using stickers and emblems as filler). The prices in the store did go down but I think that it should go further. 10 EURO should be the absolute maximum and have highly enticing content
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Thatâs quite a good comprehensive list. From speaking to my friends who have all quit, they point to the following:
- Itâs boring and repetitive
- Itâs not an enjoyable social experience (particularly with customs and BTB not working for so long)
- Lack of playlists and content
- Total lack of personalisation and customisationâŚyou canât be your own individual Spartan
- Hit reg and desync issues
- Other games are simply better and more enjoyable
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I finished the Tactical Ops event pretty quick as Iâm fairly decent twitch shooter and can play angles fairly well. As such I had some big scores in that event. Come back to ranked this week and got hammered with a kd around 0.3 in a few games as Iâm now being matched against Onyx and Diamond players probably because my social games have affected my hidden mm ranking. Cant be bothered playing a few hours of crap games getting hammered while it sorts that mess out now.
Lack of content in combination with crap match making means Iâm out for the foreseeable future. Might return for season 2 but coop is the only guarantee of me playing much at the moment.
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Lack of gameplay depth. Itâs hard for me to put my finger on it exactly, but the range based balancing is a huge part of it. Guns are balanced based on their intended range instead of ease of use. It makes the AR too strong in most fights. Automatic weapon dueling is not interesting because it too heavily relies on who-shot-who first. Combo that with RNG mechanics like bloom and a headshot modifier on every weapon, and gunplay feels super inconsistent. Thatâs the number one reason for me at least. The overall lack of content is a big part of it as well, but if the gameplay was better it wouldnât bother me nearly as much.
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Two months later, still lack of content. Not cosmetic items. Game modes, game types, playlists. Thing that any common sense player wouldâve had at launch or added quickly. Itâs very mind boggling.
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that last one âsimply better and/or more enjoyableâ⌠really just sums it all together in a nice lil bow.
your friendâs reasonings are completely understandable. and great additions to the list
The faith of Halo in the hand of 343i is the reason.
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