What Should Have Been Here At Launch

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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So Halo 5 is over a year old now, and we’ve recieved numerous content updates adding new features, however we know some is delayed content. How much of what was added in should have been in the game at launch?

I would say forge, firefight, infection and big team battle should definitely have been in the game from day one, maybe griffball too. What do you all think?

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Every game mode from at least from Halo 4 should’ve come with Halo 5.

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Your list, minus FF. I feel like WZFF was something that coulda been a post-launch mode. Even Forge, to a certain degree, considering how huuuuuuge H5 Forge is.

Oh well, I still like this game enough to play it.

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Oddball

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> So Halo 5 is over a year old now, and we’ve recieved numerous content updates adding new features, however we know some is delayed content. How much of what was added in should have been in the game at launch?
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> I would say forge, firefight, infection and big team battle should definitely have been in the game from day one, maybe griffball too. What do you all think?

Griffball, Fiesta, and Assault were added as well and likely should have been available at Launch. Oddball is buildable, but not an official game type and not in matchmaking. KOTH doesn’t appear to be on the horizon. VIP and Juggernaut are seeming like pipe dreams…but those game modes should have been available at launch in my opinion.

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What should have been at launch?

griffball
gravity hammer (<- people actually call this free dlc?)
oddball
vip
race
assault
king of the hill
file browser
big team battle
firefight
forge

Feel free to add to this list

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> Your list, minus FF. I feel like WZFF was something that coulda been a post-launch mode. Even Forge, to a certain degree, considering how huuuuuuge H5 Forge is.
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> Oh well, I still like this game enough to play it.

Actually, I think a PVE mode is really important

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Wait I forgot, a human air vehicle should have been in at launch, although not necessarily the wasp (I like it, but would have like a falcon more)

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What makes me angry is that Halo 5 has little to no support of community features.

  • Both forge and the file share were released post launch meaning that people couldn’t build maps and share clips/forge maps. - Theatre is still broken so it would be hard for people to create cool clips and would make making machinamas really difficult and frustratingIts like 343 intentionally tried to make halo 5 fail. If a game doesn’t support its community then the community won’t grow,
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> What makes me angry is that Halo 5 has little to no support of community features.
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> - Both forge and the file share were released post launch meaning that people couldn’t build maps and share clips/forge maps.
> - Theatre is still broken so it would be hard for people to create cool clips and would make making machinamas really difficult and frustrating
> Its like 343 intentionally tried to make halo 5 fail. If a game doesn’t support its community then the community won’t grow,

I don’t think it’s intentional
I just genuinely think they don’t know what they are doing
their games are either bare bones at launch or completely non-functional at launch

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long story short, a FINISHED PRODUCT!

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> > Your list, minus FF. I feel like WZFF was something that coulda been a post-launch mode. Even Forge, to a certain degree, considering how huuuuuuge H5 Forge is.
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> > Oh well, I still like this game enough to play it.
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> Actually, I think a PVE mode is really important

Soooo Campaign?

We really don’t even need FF… it just takes dev time and assets away from the production of more worthwhile MP content… If people want to play something like FF, they should just fire up Campaign and turn on scoring.

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I still wonder to this day, why do people think it’s important to say this after the fact it is in the game? We can’t go back in time, so what good does it do to say “it should’ve been at launch” when we have it at the current moment?

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> > > Your list, minus FF. I feel like WZFF was something that coulda been a post-launch mode. Even Forge, to a certain degree, considering how huuuuuuge H5 Forge is.
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> > > Oh well, I still like this game enough to play it.
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> > Actually, I think a PVE mode is really important
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> Soooo Campaign?
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> We really don’t even need FF… it just takes dev time and assets away from the production of more worthwhile MP content… If people want to play something like FF, they should just fire up Campaign and turn on scoring.

Then how about they make it so we can play campaign levels in matchmaking again? I would be happy with that, at least. It’s one of the best parts of Halo Reach.

However, Firefight is a very different experience than campaign, and my opinion is that it’s just as “worthwhile” as the other multiplayer content.