I’m curious. I’m sure a lot of you guys have noticed by now the huge problems with halo 5 multiplayer. What I can’t understand is why 343 has gone and made changes to things that were perfect to worsen the experience for players of their game.
The party system is an absolute joke and a mess of the worst kind. In every other game ever made with competitive MP, when you queue alone, you usually get into matches with more solo queues, or maybe the odd double queue. But not in halo 5. Because in halo 5, even if you’re solo, you get matched against a party of four extremely often. I can’t even remember the last time I didn’t get absolutely annihilated by a 4 queue in arena. Getting 20 - 30 kills and still losing because my incompetent team mates think that capture the flag is a good way to get their KD up by baiting the flags. They don’t even try to play the objective. Ever. It’s not even like this happens sometimes, it is literally every game I play, every day, every time that I play arena. The only game mode we can win is slayer because I can kill a lot of people. And even then I get into matches with people who are completely useless, and the other team is a full stacked party who are clearly communicating and controlling the map. It’s not hard 343, don’t tell me your fancy algorithms can’t add 1+3 or 2+2. Stop giving me -Yoinking!- randoms when the other team is stacked to the heavens.
The Search Preference update doesn’t do a thing, at all. I have it set to focused. I’m from western Canada, and I get into a match with a bunch of people who live in Mexico City or Texas. Last I checked it said focused will give you the best experience as far as ping, rank and skill level. So why is it that my team is always horrible atrocious garbage and the other team are knowledgeable, decent players? The answer is that the Search Preference is just there to please people who asked for it, it really doesn’t do anything at all. In CS:GO, when I set my max ping low, I get a damn low ping and all players are matched decently well, with the exception of maybe one in fifteen games usually late at night there will be a Japanese player or something.
Leavers. What is this all about? One time I got disconnected from a match and I got banned for 2 minutes. I mean really? 2 minutes? Who on earth is going to stop leaving games if you get banned for 120 seconds. You could read a text or check instagram and by the time you look back at your tv you’d be unbanned. Seriously no one leaves about 1/10th of the time. It’s ridiculous. And they can because there is virtually no penalty for doing so. And hey look, you get even more losses and get rank -Yoinked!- stuck in a rank that you most likely don’t belong in because the other team gets the first three kills and some impatient baboon decides that “it’s over man, there’s no coming back from this”. Really 343, 2 warnings, 30 mins, 60 mins, 2 hrs, 4 hrs, 1 day, 1 week, 2 weeks. Like every other game that does an at least semi successful job of keeping players in the match. You have so many other games you can look at to fix these problems, it’s so obvious that it makes me cringe, and you guys just don’t even try to fix it.
Forge maps. Did you guys just get lazy and realize that you wasted a bunch of money having the “pro team” side of development. And your answer to this is just to get them to make a bunch of horrendously lit buggy garbage forge maps? Seriously I would rather pay money for real maps like every other halo game than have all these terrible free forge maps that I hate to play cause they look like halo 2 and it just breaks the experience for me. Really man, they look SO terrible. It’s like some alternate game mode where you take the roll of an action figure fighting in a miniature plastic world. It just doesn’t make sense. Not to mention that the graphics across a lot of the maps look so different that you could show someone one and say its halo 4, and they’d believe you, and show them the next and they’d say “wow! look at those graphics!”.
Come on man, it’s a AAA studio.