<mark>Do not repost locked content, post about forum moderation, make nonconstructive posts, or purposely bypass the profanity filter.</mark>
My original post: "Just left a game of Strongholds on The Rig where one of our random teammates was just standing there getting killed and not doing anything. Because losing the game affects my initial April rank, I left the game. I went to rejoin my fireteam and I get the banhammer. I’m done with 343 and the whole Halo/Microsoft franchise. I will not be purchasing anymore Xbox consoles, nor will I be purchasing anymore Halo games. This banhammer bs is just going to keep driving more people away. I’m 46 years old and I’m getting too old for this bs. I never had an issue with banhammers in Halo4 multiplayer and why 343 decided to put it in in Halo5 is beyond me. Keep driving away your core Halo fans, 343. Good job "
You’re alienating the core of your Halo fans - the ones that have been here since the beginning. We’re telling you the game is broken, but you just like to turn a deaf ear to what we’re saying. I’ve been playing online since Halo4 on the 360 and there were a lot of cheaters on there. We reported these cheaters, yet nothing ever happened to them. It almost seems like you encourage people who cheat, just so it makes your game appear more appealing, like the average Joe might actually achieve those higher ranks. Halo5 is not different. I get the impression that the game server favors certain players/teams over the others. How else do the enemy get hit multiple times with grenades, and then shot/melee’ed, but don’t die. Instead, they turn around and kill you with one hit? I’ve experienced this “phenomenon” with the game one time too many, and I am fed up.
I leave games when this “lag” starts happening and I lose 4 games in a row, where my aim seems to be broken, but not for anyone else. I’ve gotten outgunned by enemies with ARs from halfway across the field while I’m shooting them with the BR or Magnum and seeing the hits register, but they just don’t die. Are they cheating, or did they get the server advantage? So, leaving games, because of potential cheaters or lag gets me banhammered, because I don’t want to play with cheaters or with enemies with the server advantage.
I come on to play for fun (like I used to on Halo4 multiplayer), to unwind from a long day at the hospital, or a long day of classes and studying in nursing school. You’re banhammering all the wrong people - the people like me who just want to come on and have fun with other people of similar levels. The cheaters and the people with server advantage ruins it for me, so I leave. I don’t want to play games where I’m shooting marshmallows from my guns and they kill me with 2 -Yoink!- hits from all the way across the map. And they don’t die when I Spartan-charge them and then shoot them, and they turn around and kill me with one shot. That’s bullsh*t. I know I have a lag when I see myself ducking around a wall or corner for cover and I still get shot 2 or 3 times and get killed. HOW??? I’ve got a fast internet connection, yet I seem to be the laggiest player in the game. Sometimes, I wonder if you’re doing this to me on purpose.
You deleted a lot of my posts because you deemed them negative and not constructive. Well, I got news for you, sunshine. You’re not going to know what to fix if all you get is constructive feedback. The game is still broken, but you don’t care, because you think the core Halo fans are still having fun here. I can tell you we’re not. You broke the game when you unnecessarily added all these Spartan abilities and shortened the radar. I can’t even defend myself from a Spartan-charge because their red dots don’t appear on radar until right before they kill you. The storm rifle is way overpowered as is the bolt shot. How do you defend yourself from 4 bolt shots that track you and kill you when it takes 5 or 6 shots with the BR or Magnum to kill? CQB weapons shouldn’t be able to kill from across the map, either, but they do. I’ve gotten killed with one shot from a shotgun or scattershot from halfway across the map, but I can’t kill the enemy with 3 shots from the shotgun or scattershot when they’re right in front of me. Tell me that’s not me lagging, or the enemy having server advantage.
Like I said, I won’t be buying the next Halo game or the next Xbox console. You’re nonchalance towards the core Halo fans totally turned me off from the game that I once loved. I still love playing Halo CE in its original format, because even now, there are still things to discover that you can do; to go around an enemy; to kill an enemy from different directions and different ways. Halo5’s storyline sucked. It was so linear and one-dimensional. Instead of playing, we were forced to watch all these cutscenes that were way too long. Instead of a level where we battled Jul Mdama, you put that in a cutscene. WHY??? That should have been a level unto itself. Whoever wrote the Halo5 storyline, I hope doesn’t get hired to do Halo6. That would be only thing that could get me to come back to Halo - a great storyline and game action akin to Halo CE, 2, 3, ODST, and Reach.
So, go ahead. Read this post and then delete, like you normally do. It’s not like you give a crap about the direction in which your franchise is headed.