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> We get told what ranked settings are? Or there’s a flight for the ranked settings? Where can I view this info?
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> Ranked info coming next week
Thanks bro I appreciate it. We only get to watch it seems…
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> > Ranked info coming next week
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> Thanks bro I appreciate it. We only get to watch it seems…
Sounds fine to me. I trust pro teams with the settings.
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> > > Ranked info coming next week
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> > Thanks bro I appreciate it. We only get to watch it seems…
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> Sounds fine to me. I trust pro teams with the settings.
Its not just the settings that need to be tested though. Pros are more geared to that In terms of playing tournaments. I think it’s important for actual players that will be playing the game to have a weekend to test the ranking system too though. See if it has any huge flaws in it. Did you play 5 from the beginning? Halo 5s beta actually tested the ranking system and still had a enormous issue for years into the game. Definitely don’t want a repeat of that dude. It goes beyond just what weapons we’re starting with and on what map…but even if we were looking at it that way, 343 had their in house pro team. Look at what 5 had in it despite having pros in on all of it? The saw was an available power weapon in ranked even dude.
New game…history shouldn’t repeat itself…but…the track records not held up all that well is all. Its cool to trust professionals with their feedback, but I imagine our ranked playlists may not even end up with their true tournament settings. There’s certain maps that never make it into the tournaments because of how bad they are and whatever other issues are found by the players of the game. Then we get stuck with that crap for way too long even. Just my 2 cents man.
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> > > > Ranked info coming next week
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> > > Thanks bro I appreciate it. We only get to watch it seems…
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> > Sounds fine to me. I trust pro teams with the settings.
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> Its not just the settings that need to be tested though. Pros are more geared to that In terms of playing tournaments. I think it’s important for actual players that will be playing the game to have a weekend to test the ranking system too though. See if it has any huge flaws in it. Did you play 5 from the beginning? Halo 5s beta actually tested the ranking system and still had a enormous issue for years into the game. Definitely don’t want a repeat of that dude. It goes beyond just what weapons we’re starting with and on what map…but even if we were looking at it that way, 343 had their in house pro team. Look at what 5 had in it despite having pros in on all of it? The saw was an available power weapon in ranked even dude.
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> New game…history shouldn’t repeat itself…but…the track records not held up all that well is all. Its cool to trust professionals with their feedback, but I imagine our ranked playlists may not even end up with their true tournament settings. There’s certain maps that never make it into the tournaments because of how bad they are and whatever other issues are found by the players of the game. Then we get stuck with that crap for way too long even. Just my 2 cents man.
I agree with the post above mine that it’ll definitely take some more time than 3 days. They got rid of the pistol meta again. A few tunes between the BR/Commando and that could be all we need. I’m sure pros don’t want the same mistakes to be made with Infinite that were in 5 as well. I think we’ll get a lot of info and give some feedback for last minute changes if need be.
Halo’s 20th birthday is on November 15th… maybe we’ll get another load of info dropped that day? Maybe even the final flight for the game will happen around that time?
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> Halo’s 20th birthday is on November 15th… maybe we’ll get another load of info dropped that day? Maybe even the final flight for the game will happen around that time?
I don’t think we’re getting another one. Uny said we could uninstall the tech preview via his twitter.
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> > > > > Ranked info coming next week
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> > > > Thanks bro I appreciate it. We only get to watch it seems…
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> > > Sounds fine to me. I trust pro teams with the settings.
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> > Its not just the settings that need to be tested though. Pros are more geared to that In terms of playing tournaments. I think it’s important for actual players that will be playing the game to have a weekend to test the ranking system too though. See if it has any huge flaws in it. Did you play 5 from the beginning? Halo 5s beta actually tested the ranking system and still had a enormous issue for years into the game. Definitely don’t want a repeat of that dude. It goes beyond just what weapons we’re starting with and on what map…but even if we were looking at it that way, 343 had their in house pro team. Look at what 5 had in it despite having pros in on all of it? The saw was an available power weapon in ranked even dude.
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> > New game…history shouldn’t repeat itself…but…the track records not held up all that well is all. Its cool to trust professionals with their feedback, but I imagine our ranked playlists may not even end up with their true tournament settings. There’s certain maps that never make it into the tournaments because of how bad they are and whatever other issues are found by the players of the game. Then we get stuck with that crap for way too long even. Just my 2 cents man.
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> I agree with the post above mine that it’ll definitely take some more time than 3 days. They got rid of the pistol meta again. A few tunes between the BR/Commando and that could be all we need. I’m sure pros don’t want the same mistakes to be made with Infinite that were in 5 as well. I think we’ll get a lot of info and give some feedback for last minute changes if need be.
I guess you’re right. I mean what’s the point in letting us even try? We’re just a bunch of thumbless idiots with no opinion on anything because we aren’t professional players. 3 days wouldn’t do anything. Hopefully we get to test super Fiesta. I think that would accomplish something. We got to test btb on 1 map. I’m sure there was a point to that. 3 days of ranked when there’s players who logged almost 100 hours of play time in the social playlist because there was no ranked tho? Yea I’m sure it would be entirely meaningless data.
5s beta was more than 3 days. There should be more effort this time around. It was also what? Almost a year before it launched…and we’re how many months away for infinite?
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> > > > > > Ranked info coming next week
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> > > > > Thanks bro I appreciate it. We only get to watch it seems…
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> > > > Sounds fine to me. I trust pro teams with the settings.
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> > > Its not just the settings that need to be tested though. Pros are more geared to that In terms of playing tournaments. I think it’s important for actual players that will be playing the game to have a weekend to test the ranking system too though. See if it has any huge flaws in it. Did you play 5 from the beginning? Halo 5s beta actually tested the ranking system and still had a enormous issue for years into the game. Definitely don’t want a repeat of that dude. It goes beyond just what weapons we’re starting with and on what map…but even if we were looking at it that way, 343 had their in house pro team. Look at what 5 had in it despite having pros in on all of it? The saw was an available power weapon in ranked even dude.
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> > > New game…history shouldn’t repeat itself…but…the track records not held up all that well is all. Its cool to trust professionals with their feedback, but I imagine our ranked playlists may not even end up with their true tournament settings. There’s certain maps that never make it into the tournaments because of how bad they are and whatever other issues are found by the players of the game. Then we get stuck with that crap for way too long even. Just my 2 cents man.
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> > I agree with the post above mine that it’ll definitely take some more time than 3 days. They got rid of the pistol meta again. A few tunes between the BR/Commando and that could be all we need. I’m sure pros don’t want the same mistakes to be made with Infinite that were in 5 as well. I think we’ll get a lot of info and give some feedback for last minute changes if need be.
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> I guess you’re right. I mean what’s the point in letting us even try? We’re just a bunch of thumbless idiots with no opinion on anything because we aren’t professional players. 3 days wouldn’t do anything. Hopefully we get to test super Fiesta. I think that would accomplish something. We got to test btb on 1 map. I’m sure there was a point to that. 3 days of ranked when there’s players who logged almost 100 hours of play time in the social playlist because there was no ranked tho? Yea I’m sure it would be entirely meaningless data.
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> 5s beta was more than 3 days. There should be more effort this time around. It was also what? Almost a year before it launched…and we’re how many months away for infinite?
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> But yea. No point I guess.
5’s problem was the focus was on competitive too much. They are finally giving the game back to more casual players because it’s a majority of the fanbase. The point of the flights was only to balance weapons, test mechanics, fix bugs, and stress the servers. I’d like more before launch too but they can only give us a slice of the game apparently and that’s all the data they apparently need. Staying cautiously optimistic.
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> > > > > > > Ranked info coming next week
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> > > > > > Thanks bro I appreciate it. We only get to watch it seems…
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> > > > > Sounds fine to me. I trust pro teams with the settings.
> > > >
> > > > Its not just the settings that need to be tested though. Pros are more geared to that In terms of playing tournaments. I think it’s important for actual players that will be playing the game to have a weekend to test the ranking system too though. See if it has any huge flaws in it. Did you play 5 from the beginning? Halo 5s beta actually tested the ranking system and still had a enormous issue for years into the game. Definitely don’t want a repeat of that dude. It goes beyond just what weapons we’re starting with and on what map…but even if we were looking at it that way, 343 had their in house pro team. Look at what 5 had in it despite having pros in on all of it? The saw was an available power weapon in ranked even dude.
> > > >
> > > > New game…history shouldn’t repeat itself…but…the track records not held up all that well is all. Its cool to trust professionals with their feedback, but I imagine our ranked playlists may not even end up with their true tournament settings. There’s certain maps that never make it into the tournaments because of how bad they are and whatever other issues are found by the players of the game. Then we get stuck with that crap for way too long even. Just my 2 cents man.
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> > > I agree with the post above mine that it’ll definitely take some more time than 3 days. They got rid of the pistol meta again. A few tunes between the BR/Commando and that could be all we need. I’m sure pros don’t want the same mistakes to be made with Infinite that were in 5 as well. I think we’ll get a lot of info and give some feedback for last minute changes if need be.
> >
> > I guess you’re right. I mean what’s the point in letting us even try? We’re just a bunch of thumbless idiots with no opinion on anything because we aren’t professional players. 3 days wouldn’t do anything. Hopefully we get to test super Fiesta. I think that would accomplish something. We got to test btb on 1 map. I’m sure there was a point to that. 3 days of ranked when there’s players who logged almost 100 hours of play time in the social playlist because there was no ranked tho? Yea I’m sure it would be entirely meaningless data.
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> > 5s beta was more than 3 days. There should be more effort this time around. It was also what? Almost a year before it launched…and we’re how many months away for infinite?
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> > But yea. No point I guess.
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> 5’s problem was the focus was on competitive too much. They are finally giving the game back to more casual players because it’s a majority of the fanbase. The point of the flights was only to balance weapons, test mechanics, fix bugs, and stress the servers. I’d like more before launch too but they can only give us a slice of the game apparently and that’s all the data they apparently need. Staying cautiously optimistic.
Think about what happened in infinites tech previews for tons of players for a second. No ranked playlist for players to test that out. Where’d they all go? Right into social with the people just trying to test things out in the casual mode.
LVT even streamed kill races between pro players going ham on social randoms just trying the game out with prizes for it. I’m sure those players on the receiving end had an absolute blast trying to test things out. How game breaking of an experience do you think some people had? God forbid we test out ranked and let the social players not have 4 stacked players goin in as if they’re playing ranked tho right?
It’s already over and done though. Obviously its too late…but there were many threads of people feeling this experience I’ve just pointed out…and it was bad man.
5 was by design, built for competitive…thats its own separate topic… We’re talking about utilizing valuable feedback that we could be giving by trying out playlists…with what little time we have left…I think it does matter.
if they tested both at the same time it would have filtered the matches especially for the casual players and got valuable data all at the same time…all that…and without extending more invitations even.
Not seeing more campaign bothers people.
Not getting to test ranked bothers people.
2 different things but still 1 in the same…all while being this close to launch…it’s hard to stay optimistic. Cautiously optimistic though. I get you. I hope you understand I’m just expressing my concern and voicing the opinion that it would matter if we did get to test it. Unfortunately we just gotta test it for them when the game comes out and undoubtedly has issues.
Sorry if I go overboard with trying to get my point across. Hopefully it helps though.
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> I don’t think we’re getting another one. Uny said we could uninstall the tech preview via his twitter.
So the flights are really over? Dang
Thanks for letting me know though, I never saw the tweet.
Flights are a huge time commitment and a big drain on resources. I’m sure in an ideal world 343 would like to flight more, they aren’t limiting it to keep the game out of players hands or because they don’t care about the communities input, its just not feasible to manage this close before launch.
Halo 5 was easier to flight for because they only needed to get a stable build for one SKU, Halo infinite is being built for 4 different xbox SKU’s and PC. Getting all those different versions of the game stable enough to be distributed out to players to flight while working remotely would be almost impossible, it’s difficult at the best of times. I’m sure the pandemic delayed all their flighting plans, which is why we’re only getting a couple of server tests towards the end of development. If there are glaring issues when the game drops 343 can further tune and balance it, on the whole they’ve already got a good amount of data on weapon balance from these flights. Part of the point of developing the BLAM engine into the slipspace engine was to allow them to more easily deploy updates and patches to the game quickly, I wouldn’t worry about the game being “stuck” with any issues for its entire life cycle.
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> > I don’t think we’re getting another one. Uny said we could uninstall the tech preview via his twitter.
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> So the flights are really over? Dang