Year One Opinions on Halo 5

It’s officially been a year since Halo 5’s release! And there are plenty of things that have been added since launch! Most of us have been playing for a year, some of us haven’t. What are the best things that are in Halo 5? What is the best armor? What’s the best gametype? What’s your favorite mission? Who’s your favorite campaign character? What’s your best memory?

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Thank you for your time.

Am happy.

Love Arena.

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> Am happy.
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> Love Arena.

I agree with this guy.

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Je suis un peu déçu par les bugs de serveur mais je reste ultra fan de la licence

Another unsuccessful halo down. Another batch of excuses. No real progress will be made.

Same old for the past decade of halo.

I’ve loved it. Only thing they could’ve done differently post-release is put more attention to BTB, but other than that, it was an amazing ride.

Halo 5 has been lots of fun, But it has also been the most frustrating game I have ever played. I now have not played in almost a month, I now play Gears and BF. the frustration out weighed the fun, specifically in Warzone.

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> Another unsuccessful halo down. Another batch of excuses. No real progress will be made.
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> Same old for the past decade of halo.

Define your version of ‘unsuccessful’

Please.

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> Halo 5 has been lots of fun, But it has also been the most frustrating game I have ever played. I now have not played in almost a month, I now play Gears and BF. the frustration out weighed the fun, specifically in Warzone.

Who can resist the draw of new games?

And BF 1 is a solid showing. Loving it so far.

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> > Halo 5 has been lots of fun, But it has also been the most frustrating game I have ever played. I now have not played in almost a month, I now play Gears and BF. the frustration out weighed the fun, specifically in Warzone.
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> Who can resist the draw of new games?
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> And BF 1 is a solid showing. Loving it so far.

for me if I love a game, a new game will not take me away from itI played GOW3 right up until XB1 came out, i played H4 right up until H5 came out. I don’t feel that way about h5 sadly. 343 really needs to take a look at Bf1. BF1 has amazing maps both in layout and graphics. BF1 has 32 vs 32 They have knocked it out of the park with BF1. In the BTB matches the losing team gets at least one chance with a comeback opportunity via battle train or Zepplin. what does Warzone do? It rewards spawn killing. Warzone is the complete opposite of what BF1. BF1 got it right. Warzone did not, its pretty obvious.

Besides Forge the game was a flop. If you want to know why, here:

  • Multiple is mostly competitive focused, with a few set in place to make it more appealing for social players, ultimately resulting in a bad experience for most social players, and competitive players. - All base variant vehicles are basically paper, with the tier 2 variants being wood in comparasion, only the tier 3 ones feel like they have actual armor. - Campaign…need I say more? - Theater is STILL broken, and has been broken since launch, with zero fixes. - I also should mention this game has a chunk ton of glitches and server issues. - Customization is WEAKER than older games more than four times its life span. - UI is some garbage, especially when compared to every Halo game before it but CE. - REQ system is super intrusive, while you don’t need to pay to get what you want. everything is centered around it. - Though this is mainly speculation, Halo 5 probably has the smallest population outside Halo 4, out of all the Halo games featuring FPS multiplayer(which means ODST, Wars, Strike, and Assault not included as they weren’t really full or normal Halo games). - The active communities like clans, machinima, and youtube also seem to be weaker, but I got no proof, just what I remember of the Halo Reach days. - Oh, forgot to mention most of the armor is either bad, or a useless variant whose sole purpose is to inflate the REQ system, increasing the grind. - Not to mention many problems or concerns the community has had, goes unaddressed or added in. Especially on the playlist side of things, I just dont see how hard it is to make some simple permanent playlists. - Forge is online **only.**Thats all I felt like going over. I could put in some more but I’m kinda getting tired of repeating myself and having to repeatedly justify it.

It’s great, just needs more players/better servers/matching… and more variety in MM/gametypes, maps, and modes.

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> > > Halo 5 has been lots of fun, But it has also been the most frustrating game I have ever played. I now have not played in almost a month, I now play Gears and BF. the frustration out weighed the fun, specifically in Warzone.
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> > Who can resist the draw of new games?
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> > And BF 1 is a solid showing. Loving it so far.
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> for me if I love a game, a new game will not take me away from itI played GOW3 right up until XB1 came out, i played H4 right up until H5 came out. I don’t feel that way about h5 sadly. 343 really needs to take a look at Bf1. BF1 has amazing maps both in layout and graphics. BF1 has 32 vs 32 They have knocked it out of the park with BF1. In the BTB matches the losing team gets at least one chance with a comeback opportunity via battle train or Zepplin. what does Warzone do? It rewards spawn killing. Warzone is the complete opposite of what BF1. BF1 got it right. Warzone did not, its pretty obvious.

If Halo took initiative from BF1, people would come out swinging, claiming that Halo was trying to be like Battlefield 1 because it’s popular…

I play my games to have fun. Luckily for me, Halo 5 is one of the most fun games I have ever played. The multiplayer in this game is top-notch and has the most refined gameplay in the franchise. One year later and I’m still playing Arena very frequently.

Personally Halo 5 has been nothing but a major disappointment, from terrible matchmaking/server issues if you live out side of North America to a lack luster campaign that was mediocre at best. This game had the potential to blow my mind, instead it just drained the life out of me.

The wounds from 343s slap to the face have almost healed but despite the games many perfections its still plagued by a variety of issues and bad developer practices, but Halo 5 is a completely different game from when it first launched and 343 should be commended on the work done on the Forge mode.

Multiplayer is still fun at times which is a huge improvement over Halo 4 but the lack of modes, a half finished Campaign, ugly UI and a broken theater do ruin the experience.

Hopefully 343 actually focus on what they did good an bad instead of just the bad.

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> > > > Halo 5 has been lots of fun, But it has also been the most frustrating game I have ever played. I now have not played in almost a month, I now play Gears and BF. the frustration out weighed the fun, specifically in Warzone.
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> > > Who can resist the draw of new games?
> > > And BF 1 is a solid showing. Loving it so far.
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> > for me if I love a game, a new game will not take me away from itI played GOW3 right up until XB1 came out, i played H4 right up until H5 came out. I don’t feel that way about h5 sadly. 343 really needs to take a look at Bf1. BF1 has amazing maps both in layout and graphics. BF1 has 32 vs 32 They have knocked it out of the park with BF1. In the BTB matches the losing team gets at least one chance with a comeback opportunity via battle train or Zepplin. what does Warzone do? It rewards spawn killing. Warzone is the complete opposite of what BF1. BF1 got it right. Warzone did not, its pretty obvious.
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> If Halo took initiative from BF1, people would come out swinging, claiming that Halo was trying to be like Battlefield 1 because it’s popular…

True, my mistake I wasn’t clear in what they should take away from BF1. what does BF offer that halo does not? It offers 32 vs 32 on huge maps.Its commonly known that historically BTB is the most popular gametype for Halo. So the take away from that is to expand on that such as 24 vs 24 or 30 vs 30. NOT WARZONE. Look at the amazingly detailed maps in BF, to be honest h5 maps look like they came out 10 years ago in comparison. H1 has huge maps. Death island as one example. would love a remake of it. Conquest on Death Island would be awesome. the maps have to be big enough so that one team can not hold down all objective points. BF’s BTB stuff is balanced. It needs a few tweaks , but compared to Warzone its perfect. Warzone is completely unbalanced it makes it worse by rewarding the imbalances. BF1 gives an opportunity for the losing team to make a comeback by granting a train or a Zeppelin. Warzone awards spawn killing.
Its too late for H5, but for H6 this is what Halo needs
In summary,

  1. True balanced BTB with a minimum of 24 vs 24
  2. Developer made huge expansive maps that are designed for battles , not scirmishes
  3. The match should offer something in the form similar to BF’s trains and Zeppelins to provide opportunity to turn the tide in the battle
  4. Get a new game engine if needed, but graphics need a huge improvement.
  5. Make BTB their priority. they can still make Warzone. But BTB needs to be the priority. I don’t care if BF had it first but Conquest would be awesome.

I think that Halo 5 is a fantastic game, but there is always room for improvement. They made PVE combat in Warzone artificially difficult by overclocking the AIs’ health and damage. It’s 2016, we should be way past bullet sponges.

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> It’s officially been a year since Halo 5’s release! And there are plenty of things that have been added since launch! Most of us have been playing for a year, some of us haven’t. What are the best things that are in Halo 5? What is the best armor? What’s the best gametype? What’s your favorite mission? Who’s your favorite campaign character? What’s your best memory?
>
> Share anything else that you like!
>
> Thank you for your time.

I love everything about it

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> Besides Forge the game was a flop. If you want to know why, here:
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> - Multiple is mostly competitive focused, with a few set in place to make it more appealing for social players, ultimately resulting in a bad experience for most social players, and competitive players.
> - All base variant vehicles are basically paper, with the tier 2 variants being wood in comparasion, only the tier 3 ones feel like they have actual armor.
> - Campaign…need I say more?
> - Theater is STILL broken, and has been broken since launch, with zero fixes.
> - I also should mention this game has a chunk ton of glitches and server issues.
> - Customization is WEAKER than older games more than four times its life span.
> - UI is some garbage, especially when compared to every Halo game before it but CE.
> - REQ system is super intrusive, while you don’t need to pay to get what you want. everything is centered around it.
> - Though this is mainly speculation, Halo 5 probably has the smallest population outside Halo 4, out of all the Halo games featuring FPS multiplayer(which means ODST, Wars, Strike, and Assault not included as they weren’t really full or normal Halo games).
> - The active communities like clans, machinima, and youtube also seem to be weaker, but I got no proof, just what I remember of the Halo Reach days.
> - Oh, forgot to mention most of the armor is either bad, or a useless variant whose sole purpose is to inflate the REQ system, increasing the grind.
> - Not to mention many problems or concerns the community has had, goes unaddressed or added in. Especially on the playlist side of things, I just dont see how hard it is to make some simple permanent playlists.
> - Forge is online only.
> Thats all I felt like going over. I could put in some more but I’m kinda getting tired of repeating myself and having to repeatedly justify it.

Let me SPECIFICALLY list why the game is flop by providing vague anecdotal personal opinions, in point form, backed up with zero evidence or simply a statement which reads “I have no proof”. #killconfirmed