Everyday I try to play this game and I always end up shutting my xbox off. I remember staying up for HOURS playing Halo 3 or Reach. So why not Halo 5??
Well, everything in arena is always sweaty, try-hard players IN EVERY MODE. Doesn’t have to be ranked, everywhere you go it’s always a stacked team against you.
Now, I’m guessing because of my csr it’s ranking me against similarly skilled players–which is fine…
But I am a solo player, so it’s not fun playing against a stacked team like it’s HCS. Don’t get me wrong, I love playing competitively, but not ALL THE TIME! Social slayer would be great although I assume csr would be in effect their as well…
Big team battle has been ruined by a bad map rotation and lack of fun modes, and for some reason… A lack of VEHICLES! I don’t know why they had to go and make btb feel like slayer on bigger maps.
Moving onto warzone…
Firefight? We all know the issues here: long respawns, tough enemies, etc.
Bottom line is it’s not how firefight used to be, which was FUN!
Firefight feels like a -Yoinking!- chore sometimes.
So yeah, I’m having issues even opening one gold pack a day right now.
Does anybody else feel this way??
Lots of people feel the same way.
Because you can’t have fun if you don’t breath competition.
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> Big team battle has been ruined by a bad map rotation and lack of fun modes, and for some reason… A lack of VEHICLES! I don’t know why they had to go and make btb feel like slayer on bigger maps.
I can shine some light on this issue. The Halo Community is well aware of this issue and there has been a ‘Meet Your Maker BTB’ competition that ended July 31st. The Forgers have been hard at work to resolve this. Most of the submissions focus on vehicle gameplay and hopefully we will see some of them in the BTB playlist in the Fall update. HERE is a complete list of all the submissions. I will throw this Trailer here too, it is my submission to the contest and it heavily focused on vehicles!
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> > Big team battle has been ruined by a bad map rotation and lack of fun modes, and for some reason… A lack of VEHICLES! I don’t know why they had to go and make btb feel like slayer on bigger maps.
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> I can shine some light on this issue. The Halo Community is well aware of this issue and there has been a ‘Meet Your Maker BTB’ competition that ended July 31st. The Forgers have been hard at work to resolve this. Most of the submissions focus on vehicle gameplay and hopefully we will see some of them in the BTB playlist in the Fall update. HERE is a complete list of all the submissions. I will throw this Trailer here too, it is my submission to the contest and it heavily focused on vehicles!
Thanks, I did hear something about that guy updating his Valhalla remake. This is a step in the right direction.
Your post actually answers the question its title asks…
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> Because you can’t have fun if you don’t breath competition.
But this is the TL;DR version. Sad but true.
BTB gets stale when, nearly 9 months later, we’re still only allowed to play Strongholds, Slayer, and CTF on nothing but forged maps.
It’s obvious they do not care about BTB.
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> BTB gets stale when, nearly 9 months later, we’re still only allowed to play Strongholds, Slayer, and CTF on nothing but forged maps.
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> It’s obvious they do not care about BTB.
I’m honestly fine with CTF it’s like the only fun mode on big team, strongholds is so boring, it gets so boring I just camp at a stronghold with a power weapon which I don’t like to do but it’s just so boring capping things. Slayer I’m fine with but I like more objective based things, like one flag cap.
If you’re not a sweaty pro MLG wannabe this game is not for you.
343 tried to accomodate casual play with a terrible idea called Warzone, totally overlooking the people who want to play Arena with no HCS ambitions.
I’m very sad to say that I agree with you OP. I’m NOT a Warzone player, but playing Arena without a devoted team is a nightmare.
For us there’s nowhere to go, and Warzone Firefight comes short as well. Depressing times for non-MLG Arena focused players.
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> > BTB gets stale when, nearly 9 months later, we’re still only allowed to play Strongholds, Slayer, and CTF on nothing but forged maps.
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> I’m honestly fine with CTF it’s like the only fun mode on big team, strongholds is so boring, it gets so boring I just camp at a stronghold with a power weapon which I don’t like to do but it’s just so boring capping things. Slayer I’m fine with but I like more objective based things, like one flag cap.
I agree. I love CTF but Strongholds has gotten boring. It’s no King of the Hill. That was a fun mode because the Hill kept moving. It’s shouldn’t be hard to implement, it just feels like they don’t want to.
I play arena solo a ton. Granted you hit a ranking wall without a team, but it’s still fun. This is bad to say, but I have more fun when I focus on my performance and don’t sweat the win too much, especially in warzone.
There should be a solo matching Playlist.
Max party size 1
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> > I’m honestly fine with CTF it’s like the only fun mode on big team, strongholds is so boring, it gets so boring I just camp at a stronghold with a power weapon which I don’t like to do but it’s just so boring capping things. Slayer I’m fine with but I like more objective based things, like one flag cap.
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> I agree. I love CTF but Strongholds has gotten boring. It’s no King of the Hill. That was a fun mode because the Hill kept moving. It’s shouldn’t be hard to implement, it just feels like they don’t want to.
We all know it’s no secret that warzone is their priority but what can we do? Not much. But as long as CTF pops up a little more often or they add koth or one flag id be fine for the rest of halo 5’s cycle. I have some fun times in Warzone as well but CTF just has something about it that makes it fun even when solo.
Its cause the game sucks, time to move on. halo 5 lost all its halo roots once they added the get out of jail free card known as thruster. Engagements dont feel as rewarding when people can make mistakes and thrust away to safety. If you made any of these same mistakes on a older halo, u would get eaten alive, no exaggeration.
Probably because we never win in multiplayer. It’s either pro-players, or 3 Warden Eternals or 5 mythic hunters!
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> Everyday I try to play this game and I always end up shutting my xbox off. I remember staying up for HOURS playing Halo 3 or Reach. So why not Halo 5??
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> Well, everything in arena is always sweaty, try-hard players IN EVERY MODE. Doesn’t have to be ranked, everywhere you go it’s always a stacked team against you.
> Now, I’m guessing because of my csr it’s ranking me against similarly skilled players–which is fine…
> But I am a solo player, so it’s not fun playing against a stacked team like it’s HCS. Don’t get me wrong, I love playing competitively, but not ALL THE TIME! Social slayer would be great although I assume csr would be in effect their as well…
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> Big team battle has been ruined by a bad map rotation and lack of fun modes, and for some reason… A lack of VEHICLES! I don’t know why they had to go and make btb feel like slayer on bigger maps.
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> Moving onto warzone…
> Firefight? We all know the issues here: long respawns, tough enemies, etc.
> Bottom line is it’s not how firefight used to be, which was FUN!
> Firefight feels like a -Yoinking!- chore sometimes.
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> So yeah, I’m having issues even opening one gold pack a day right now.
> Does anybody else feel this way??
Try hard = players who are better than you. So unless you’re the best player, there will always be try hards. It’s only sweaty if you make it. It doesn’t have to say social for you to be laid back. Yes, it’s easier less competitive if there are people that destroy you and people you destroy, but you are ultimately in control. Infection, Grifball, and all 3 warzone playlists are pretty laid back to me.
The BTB map rotation (or any map rotation) really isn’t that bad. The only thing I’d suggest is a veto system.
You can’t think of warzone firefight as firefight. You have to think of it as PvE warzone. I do agree that it needs a lot of tuning, as I’m personally not the biggest fan, but if it’s a chore, then why do you play it?
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> Its cause the game sucks, time to move on. halo 5 lost all its halo roots once they added the get out of jail free card known as thruster. Engagements dont feel as rewarding when people can make mistakes and thrust away to safety. If you made any of these same mistakes on a older halo, u would get eaten alive, no exaggeration.
Smh you think halo lost all of its root? Many have that same opinion (not me), but from thrusters?! Even a lot of people who hate the spartan abilities think that thrusters would be a cool edition to classic halo.
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> If you’re not a sweaty pro MLG wannabe this game is not for you.
> 343 tried to accomodate casual play with a terrible idea called Warzone, totally overlooking the people who want to play Arena with no HCS ambitions.
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> I’m very sad to say that I agree with you OP. I’m NOT a Warzone player, but playing Arena without a devoted team is a nightmare.
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> For us there’s nowhere to go, and Warzone Firefight comes short as well. Depressing times for non-MLG Arena focused players.
Honestly, if you said this at launch, I would’ve agreed, but 8 months in, I very much disagree. There’s 8 social modes and 5 competive modes (breakout should be ranked, but there’d still be more social modes if it was). If you can’t find one social modes that you like, you really need to expand your taste.
Going into arena without a team really isn’t bad. I play solo 99% of the time, and I do fine, with my highest rank being a Diamond 1 (no, it wasn’t FFA. FFA I have diamond 2).
Also, I’d hardly call halo 5’s most popular playlist a terrible idea.
