The complaints and the focus of 343 are not matching up correctly from my perspective.
Right now the focus has been Forge. To me it was a great success. The Halo 5 Forge community is booming along with the competitive one as Halo 5 stands. People begged for a more competitive Halo experience and when we got it people say it’s too competitive or there’s too big of a skill gap. The people who realize this system actually works are the ones having a blast with their friends/teams.
Dedicated Servers have worked well since launch. Warzone is a great implementation that also worked well since launch. The BR works great. The DMR is like it should be as a long ranged rifle. Every weapon’s balance feels nearly perfect. It’s about gameplay not about getting something new every 5 minutes. It hasn’t been out terribly long and we already got great FREE content including although delayed, an epic Forge.
The custom games coming from Forge have been excellent! Play some customs with people and have FUN! What is this a job?! Halo was never singurlarly about getting or unlocking new things. It was always about having fun. With all the incredible remakes being made with Forge you should be excited because you can play them right now! Have you seen the Terminal remake? How about The Pit? They’re unreal! How can you not be happy about that?!
This is going to be the first months content update. It’s not going to be a major game changer by any means just yet. That will happen down the line. Just be patient and find people to have fun with because it is more than possible. Patience is a virtue as they say.
343 have been waiting to transfer to a new studio for some time now and that actually just happened. That was one of the major issues with MCC being poorly developed. MCC was essentially created to generate a quick profit for resources toward the new studio. People don’t take the time to consider the true logistics of a game companies situation or that Microsoft has a lot to do with their financial decisions. That is the exact reason why Bungie became their own private company with creating Destiny.
Tell me if you think it is wrong to be so lenient with 343. They are owned by Microsoft. Which means a lot if you take the time to understand that. They are basically a new company. Many people will say that it’s no excuse but honestly in my opinion in certainly is. It’s not really an excuse because it’s basically just how this aspect of society works realisticly. It’s unrealistic to give such a heavy weight to 343 and then expect them to throw it a 100 miles. They’re taking flack but it will better them in the end. Besides, most of the complaints are just whining anyway. They’re not even real complaints.
It ends with the simple facts. The facts are it works great, runs great and most of all plays great.
The point is is that my opinion of Halo 5 is a good one. Everything that Halo was and continues to evolve to be is how it should be. The weapons are great. The maps are decent to great. The new mechanics are flawlessly integrated into multiplayer that makes it play as good as it had 10 years ago.
Most of this is my opinion yes but the rest is unanimous. I needed to get this out there because I’m sick of huge threads dedicated to hating on things that are basically trivial at this point in gaming, especially Halo. I’ve been playing Halo since CE and played PC too. I’m a Halo veteran and I enjoy Halo 5 intensely. I don’t even know this early in the updates what more you could ask for… They have barely revealed anything huge yet but you know they’re going to.
So that about wraps up my two cents on the matter of all the complaints. I hope you can take my thoughts and expectations into consideration before going all “I deserve the world” from 343i.
Thanks, Static