Hello Waypoint and Community,
Please note, this post is not about “hating” or “flaming”, “trolling” or “griefing”… it is about giving 343 Industries and Microsoft Studios a genuine list about the criticism and issues with Halo 5: Guardians and what can be improve on for the future installments in the Master Chief Saga. #HaloUnite
Bugs/Issues
Ghost Melees/Beatdowns/AssasinationsMissed the Mark
Campaign - GametypesTweaks/Alterations
Continued List (IF REQUIRED)
We need hosted servers I reckon, dedicated servers isolate people that aren’t in the United States. If dedicated servers are a thing, don’t always give priority to Americans. 343 is racist.
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> We need hosted servers I reckon, dedicated servers isolate people that aren’t in the United States. If dedicated servers are a thing, don’t always give priority to Americans. 343 is racist.
Hosted servers? As in Peer2Peer?
I disagree, I believe it should still be Dedicated Servers just less weight should be carried on American Servers, it should be a RNG or randomized person in the lobby, or lobby majority rules…
For example, if 5 Europeans, 1 American, 2 Oceanic players were in the lobby, the host will be in Europe and then localized even more… so 2 British, 3 German, Berlin Server etc.
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> We need hosted servers I reckon, dedicated servers isolate people that aren’t in the United States. If dedicated servers are a thing, don’t always give priority to Americans. 343 is racist.
American is not a race. It’s a nationality. I’m an American, but my heritage does not come from anywhere near North America.
On Topic: Laggy dedicated servers are much better than laggy hosted servers where the host has a huge advantage over everybody else.
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> > We need hosted servers I reckon, dedicated servers isolate people that aren’t in the United States. If dedicated servers are a thing, don’t always give priority to Americans. 343 is racist.
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> American is not a race. It’s a nationality. I’m an American, but my heritage does not come from anywhere near North America.
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> On Topic: Laggy dedicated servers are much better than laggy hosted servers where the host has a huge advantage over everybody else.
Yeah agreed. 
my only problem with halo 5 is that there are so many bugs in it and it is 87GB!!!
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> We need hosted servers I reckon, dedicated servers isolate people that aren’t in the United States. If dedicated servers are a thing, don’t always give priority to Americans. 343 is racist.
That’s the improper use of racist. Peer to peer connections are dead now thankfully, due to dedicated servers. All Microsoft has to do is put up more dedicated servers in Europe.
One thing I would like to see looked at is less isolation due to the dedicated servers. Being in Australia, it can make it difficult to find matches in any and every game type during certain times. If this could be fixed or helped in any way, that’d be great.
Another thing is that I feel a few items are rather weak. While it can be effective, I feel the Wasp has fairly low vehicle health. (if it turns out that I’m just bad with it, any tips or tricks would be appreciated) I also would like to see a slight change to the assault rifle. When competing with a few other load out weapons it can triumph occasionally, but I very often find that accuracy weapons like the DMR, BR and Magnum will almost always out gun it, even the SMG can quite easily. It’s one of Halos most iconic weapons, I think it deserves a bit of the spotlight in Halo 5.
Something for a future Halo game, I wanna see custom button mapping!
As for the campaign, I want 343 to continue with what story they’ve got. While I personally enjoyed Halo 5s campaign, I have been told that the story got a slight re-writing after the amount of harsh criticism Halo 4s campaign got, which replaced the Didact, who was supposed to return for a future Halo, with Cortana. I understand that the advertisements were different to what we got, there was not as much conflict in game as was displayed in the trailers, but it was there, if only for a time. I trust Halo campaigns of the future will improve, but players need to let them write the story even if they didn’t like it. We don’t need a repeat of Halo 4 & 5 campaign and story issues.
Things required at launch:
selectable data centres are a must
clearly defined social/ranked playlists
BtB with dev made maps (I can’t believe I have to include this)
Forge
file browser (in game)
game type variety oddball koth assault cotf
Things that need to be removed (imo):
microtransactions
sprint
spartan charge
clamber
bonus’ gained through smartscope on automatic weapons
things to be tweaked
increase FOV
increase BMS
lower bullet magnetism on all weapons
buff pistol to 4sk -OR- reduce RRR on automatic weapons slightly
vehicle health/physics
that’s all I can think of at the moment will add stuff later
To be blunt and honest, the original Halo Trilogy had a great story. Even in Halo 2 where the player played half the game as Arbitor, the story was still focused around Master Chief. Halo 4’s story wasn’t great, but Chief was the main character. Halo 5 only had THREE missions involving Chief, only three. There was barely any content hinted on by 343. The story line created by 343 has no point to it, and shouldn’t have been made. Halo Reach should have been the final Halo game. Everything since Bungie left Halo has been a failure.
For the note, a lot of the mentioned is quite pointless. Like I value everyone’s opinion but Assault Rifle getting a buff, Making magnum a four shot is not viable…
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> Hello Waypoint and Community,
>
> Please note, this post is not about “hating” or “flaming”, “trolling” or “griefing”… it is about giving 343 Industries and Microsoft Studios a genuine list about the criticism and issues with Halo 5: Guardians and what can be improve on for the future installments in the Master Chief Saga. #HaloUnite
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> Bugs/Issues
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> - Ghost Melees/Beatdowns/Assasinations
> Missed the Mark
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> - Campaign
> - Gametypes
> Tweaks/Alterations
I believe 343 will not check this list, and even if they do it I’m afraid they will not take it into account…
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> For the note, a lot of the mentioned is quite pointless. Like I value everyone’s opinion but Assault Rifle getting a buff, Making magnum a four shot is not viable…
I don’t know if this was directed at my post or not but,
i actually called for the AR to get a slight nerf not a buff
and I called for the magnum to get buffed to a 4sk -IF- the autos didn’t get a reduction to their RRR
not both, asking for both would make the pistol a little more powerful than it should be so
either reduce the RRR of the autos and leave the pistol the same
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leave the autos the same and buff the pistol to a 4sk
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> One thing I would like to see looked at is less isolation due to the dedicated servers. Being in Australia, it can make it difficult to find matches in any and every game type during certain times. If this could be fixed or helped in any way, that’d be great.
This. I feel that I have little to no fun anymore on Halo 5 because of the poor dedicated server choices that have been made by Microsoft for 343. As an Australian, every game is a HUGE disadvantage in almost any playlist on expanded search preference. It really does suck. I hear in the upcoming update, we will be getting some server fixes, I hope that means Aussies are able to search in playlists on a stable balanced connection.
For me the game crashes sometimes and in the warzone freezes a little bit when a player leaves. Another thing i believe is the matchmaking and the spawns needs improvement. At least spawns specially in warzone.
For game’s balance i believe this list is good:
I believe that the ability to select a map should be added back into the game. I want to be able to have a selection of maps every game to chose from, not just be handed a map that i don’t particularly like. Also some of the power weapon placements on maps are a little akward, why on earth is there a sniper on tyrant?
Couple alterations to Halo 5 I’d like to see:
-More equal map and mode rotation in playlists. I don’t play Team Arena just to get Slayer on Regret three times in a row.
-Nerfs to pretty much every enemy in WZFF. I think I’ve seen Grunt Ultras take a fuel rod to the face and just walk away as if nothing happened.
-Reduce the effective range of automatic weapons. Not too big of an issue for me, but the range on them (Assault Rifle in particular) is a bit ridiculous.
-Improved vehicle physics. I swear the Scorpion always fights me when I’m trying to drive it.
-More consistent server connections. I don’t get disconnected very often, but the servers seem rather inconsistent.
-Better join-in-progress. I really don’t think that this kind of thing should happen.
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> Couple alterations to Halo 5 I’d like to see:
> -More equal map and mode rotation in playlists. I don’t play Team Arena just to get Slayer on Regret three times in a row.
> -Nerfs to pretty much every enemy in WZFF. I think I’ve seen Grunt Ultras take a fuel rod to the face and just walk away as if nothing happened.
> -Reduce the effective range of automatic weapons. Not too big of an issue for me, but the range on them (Assault Rifle in particular) is a bit ridiculous.
> -Improved vehicle physics. I swear the Scorpion always fights me when I’m trying to drive it.
> -More consistent server connections. I don’t get disconnected very often, but the servers seem rather inconsistent.
> -Better join-in-progress. I really don’t think that this kind of thing should happen.
>:( You really had the nerve to lock my thread! UNACCEPTABLE!!!
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> > Couple alterations to Halo 5 I’d like to see:
> > -More equal map and mode rotation in playlists. I don’t play Team Arena just to get Slayer on Regret three times in a row.
> > -Nerfs to pretty much every enemy in WZFF. I think I’ve seen Grunt Ultras take a fuel rod to the face and just walk away as if nothing happened.
> > -Reduce the effective range of automatic weapons. Not too big of an issue for me, but the range on them (Assault Rifle in particular) is a bit ridiculous.
> > -Improved vehicle physics. I swear the Scorpion always fights me when I’m trying to drive it.
> > -More consistent server connections. I don’t get disconnected very often, but the servers seem rather inconsistent.
> > -Better join-in-progress. I really don’t think that this kind of thing should happen.
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> >:( You really had the nerve to lock my thread! UNACCEPTABLE!!!
Sorry, but these aren’t my forums, and I have no control over the rules. Discussing modded or hacked content is against those rules. If you have an issue with your thread being locked, message one of the monitors on the forums.
Now, please, stay on topic.