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So now we are 3 game entries of the Halo universe in wiht 343 at the helm of the franchise, and so far the ratings have been very unpleasant if you are sitting at 343 office HQ. The company has had its fair share of the blunt relentless words of the community, and with good reason as they seem to be taking HAlo not in one direction but in so many different dircetins they ont seem to know what to make of it. Lets start with Halo 4 not the gameplay itself but the story... it gave us back the Master Chief and Cortana and gave us more story to the series, but it ended with the death of an iconic character and leaving our main protagonist in a sort of depressed manner and feeling like he has no true place in the world where all seems to have passed him by. Than The escalationa nd all that crap continuing the not so well written cliche loaded stereotypical world of Spartan Ops... literally not much else needs to be said about how poorly written and drawn that was... Moving on from that disaster we see this new hope in the form of the MCC or the masterchief collection with all these great options and stuff in one box oh how the fans got excited... than it was as if 343 placed a giant turnd upon your hopes and dreams by releasing what seemed to be the master chief menu screen because everything else about the game seemed well non existant with horrible wait times for a match if you even got one to begin with the lack of much needed content Halo 4 spartan ops, more on this in a bit, plus the lack of customization of armor... Jeez was it a disaster and still to this day has so many bugs that they may as well cut the damn thing and say our bad the fact that the lack of features seemed well like they were lazy as all hell... the playlist are ok ish when they work, but halo 4 got zero love in the Spartan ops mode... because lets face it not many loved to play Spartans ops... so what they did surprised me(not) Rather than giving the option to search for players who want to play some Spartan ops mission yu have to go to your friends list and somehow convince them to turn on the MCC and play a round or two of Spartan ops... why not just have the match making option and speed up the process like the scenario I ran it once once with this: I had to go to the forums to enlist the help from other players to play Spartan op missions, afgter an entire day of no reply I give up the next day I get a reply hey man ill join you, I send a message he says yea nevermind man I'm not home... this cycle of failures repeats... NO friends wanted to play SP so I'm basically stuck playing solo which = boring... and the rest is history with MCC... so now we are gearing up after the Halo 5 beta ( main reason people stuck it out with MCC) and the hype is building there is a new guy who may be friend or Foe the hunt the truth gets some conspiracy going Chief may have gone off the deep end OMG what is going on than we get previews the frame rate looks great but it cost us split screen and people were pissed and for good reason, but we carried on we figured dudes this is going to be epic right... than the day comes people jump on they go into the campaign and go oh man this is going to have mad replay value right ...Wrong literally no force on earth can get a person to replay the campaign... I mean you could ay well it has a cool story but nope that dofus who wrote escalation and Spartan ops wrote this too yay smart choice right WRONG... they brought back Cortana and turned Halo into some cheap Spanish Telenovela where someone's long lost brother who was presumed dead returns only to find out they have no Memory and they are now some evil doer... also the campaign was no were double any campaign as they said and there is no actually progression point system or daily challenges that made reach and halo 4 replayable for the campaign so really people are left with this empty feel...even the game lacked playlist which the say is Free DLC but honestly saying things like Forge and BTB are extra Free DLC in halo is like saying if I bought a car and they will give me tires and the hood for free ... really isn't that a standard option when you buy a car... Maaybe if they haven't claimed them all as Free DLC rather just much needed held back items for improvements people would not be so hard... but yea also the REQ system is cool but shouldn't be the entire basis of power weapons and vehicles in warzone perhaps have a few power weapons drops and some random vehicle drops... just a suggestion... Halo 5 seems to focus on one thing and one thing only HCS this is 343 new cream of the crop because its all about winning its no longer about just turning a video game on getting a warm and fuzzy and having fun nope the days of enjoying a game for simple entertainment is gone now you must apply and ensure you can handle the hours of play to be as good as the Pro Teams which they seem to throw in our face every time they can with hey check out the latest HCS this or that and dude there is another HCS and awe are making all our map HCS approved by moving thing and taking things out. NOw with E3 around the corner I'm assuming some Halo Wars 2 footage will be showed but not till the end to ensure the audience stays tuned, also perhaps a halo 6 preview also and boy its going to be hyped like crazy ... oh hey and if you tune in your going to get a legendary Mongoose that can only be called in at REQ level 9 and will have a design that no one really cares about but it will offer faster speed and less protection but it will be a Mythic Mongoose because the Halo community is just dying for a Mythic REQ that does zero for you... or a helmet and armor that's going to be essentially the existing armors but what a different name to it ( deadeye armor = Fotus Armor no one will notice right.... Brand new armors 50 percent are just mix and match or reskinned armors). OH but firefight is coming out soon OMG the excitement... but its not firefight firefight didn't have a timer it had lives... if you couldn't clear a wave within the certain amount of lives , and if all lives are lost the round is lost at that wave... also the intro for the love of god the intro was probably the laziest thing iv ever seen literally its the same warzone intro but this time 343 expects us to believe that you need 3 pelican drop ships to bring 8 Spartans in... what did one Spartan not play well with others and gets his own pelican ... assuming 4 Spartans to a pelican... what 343 couldn't make an animation where the 8 Spartans drop from the pelican and into battle I mean that would be more Epic... Perhaps it was just for the Beta and they will make a sweet intro specifically for Warzone Firefight but I'm not holding my breath because as 343 has shown time and time again they seem to not have much effort in design once they created a product I.E. the repeat armors with reskins and renamed, and the cheap firefight intro which is just the same warzone intro but with a new speech intro. NOw knowing that this trend seems to be 343 tradition we get back to E3 and how they will hype **** up... do you buy into the hype or do you proceed with caution at this point ... Meaning are you going to wait till halo wars 2 releases watch some videos see if the sotry is good and the gameplay is up to par or will you wait it ouot or avoid it at all cost.. and the same goes with halo 6 and future instalements. Has 343 lost your faith in them at this point?

I hear you sometimes I join in with the other guys and we get stomped now I'm not one to play hours competitively but jeeze a round or two would be fun. Though pulling I'm hesitant in pulling out my REQs because I know the other team is ready to counter them I assume if I pull out a tank someone has a Spartan laser ready, also the air vehicles essentially spawn in the same place for each map and I have literally spawn killed three banshees and a phaeton though this has happened to me its not a strategy but more of an exploit of a map failure. To me vehicles like the banshee are game changers, not so much the phaeton, but if you want to keep a game changer it would be nice to have more than a few seconds to avoid being killed or hit by a laser at spawn maybe make the spawns speracting in location so I'm not spawning next to an enemy banshee. the exploits in warzone are way to easy to figure out and really one teammate needs not do the work but lay in wait for the boss to almost be dead and time the shot just right, to me yes that is some form of small skill but its not the skill that's like wow I had to strategies' how to maneuver and avoid being hit by the boss for a long period of time no this skill is one a 5 year old can decipher very quickly I would say make the large point bosses have two life bars the small point not so much but those game changers need a better form of balance.

[9 80-Yes this thread is about the boss kills but not in the way you seem to understand it. See for one thing i think games in general are just time wasters... to me video games are those things that just fill in gaps in between time that i have zero **** to do and want to exert the most minut amount of intlectual power possible. not saying they are a complete wate of time just that they are good for wasting time to get you to that next stage in the day when you have to actually be productive and something you do will actually effect your life or society in general. So to the point we all have played plenty of warzone to know that there re times when the boss kill seems like a very annoying random bad referee call. For example the last game I'm playing on Skirmish of Darkstar or whatever its called, I go and get me my REQ saw The Answer, a very bad ass SAW and I'm doing great because at this point endurance of will has spawned and has been around for some time... so I rush to his location I run a few rounds into him pop around cover as a teammate gets blasted and dies. I Reload then continue my attack... I repeat this one more time... now I'm n my last clip I'm blasting this thing it goes boom but palmer says the enemy eliminated endurance of will ... and my whole team is DEFUQ... yes like 5 teammates and me all were baffled because we were giving constant firepower into him one with a fuel rod cannon me with The Answer and several BR shots but go figure one dufus runs up with a regular magnum ( I know this because I killed him and saw he had a AR and a magnum ). and yes the magnum was the paper to our Rock, Now I know some are like well that's just skill or its your fault you didn't kill him first but lets think more logically and use this perspective... you want to promote more REQS as a company to sell them to make that side profit right... well when you have people use REQs over and over and over again and not gain anything well people buy less REQS. Think of it this way when I heard palmer say the enemy killed him and we essentially lost the lead it wasn't that we lost the kill because the enemy overwhelmed us and they destroyed him no it was because eon guy got the lucky ini mini miny mo choice and they got the full 150 while we got spent REQS and pointless efforts and that's just the point is that a player in halo 5 puts in x amount of effort and should be compensated for such effort in some form. not saying we should get points but there has to be a better way to determine the win on that perhaps if on team only lands one shot they don't get full points... I don't know really the thing is when I heard they eliminated them all I heard was hey you know that REQ you used it was for nothing you know that time you put in it was for nothing, the time it took to even get to that level of REQ was for nothing meaning f you used a level 6 REQ and now you are at zero its tkes time to get back to at least 5 RQ points to use nothing in the game based on skill effects the reload time of req points so essentially if you use a req and you die instantly your SOL. Now you have enough reqs to get the saw I had you pull it out waste more points and are one less REQ richer, you destroy the boss nicely but the kill goes to the other team even though you saw you bullets spray him he gooes boom and you get no candy. for people like me I just goo its just a game to some point but at one point you have to realize you put in some form of time and effort into this and there comes a point where the kill ofa boss is not down to skill rather just luck its not like you can time the shot a split second faster than the pistol shot the jhuman eye cannot process that quickly. so what happens is people will start to just hord HIgh level REQ stuff because things like flying vehicles are easy to spawn camp 343 put no effort in making multiple spawn points for them they spwn In the same place at the same time hell I spawned camped 3 banshees and a phaeton that's not really a strategy when a 5 year old can decipher it. Hey my team is winning and all the air vehicls spawn there let me sit back with my Spartan laser and just go to town and while I wait I can go and spawn a second Spartan laser variant and have zero cool down time yay. also hide in my base be safe from inomng fire and still camp vehicles that have zero chance to evade I mean iv seen less and less vehiles be spawned by a team at one point because people don't see the point I mean yea it could turn the tide but really will it if the team gets a random shot and wins the game by luck because yes warzone is part skill and mostly luck. sometimes your in the right spot for things to happen and sometimes you have a skilled team but iv seen skilled teams lose the boss kill to some random pistol guy. so that's my rant I'm just a bit annoyed and feel like having two life bars for each team is a simple way of putting it so if one team does less effort to attack the boss they get rewarded less. you get what you worked for ye I understand this takes away the whole boss steal stuff but let me point this out. people say its sucks when the second team has better and higher REQS but defend it by saying its because they are putting in the effort bt why is it when it comes to bosses the whole idea of separate life bars to rewards team effort is bad is kinda confuses me and seems biased see the team with higher reqs is not complaining because they mad that effort. Also I can see people saying well if the team with higher reqs is dominated the other team will lose moral and quit... yea id rather lose moral over being dominated than lose moral over the most random of things impacting a win or loss. and for gods sakes please give us another voice besides sarah palmer and I kinda wish she wasn't so cheerleadery like let hr say your falling behind get your ass into gear **** like that that way its not like ok guys we may be losers but we can still get to the enemy core seriously no military would do that if you fall back your leadership digs into your ass. or will peoples feelings get hurt to easily.

So after this last warzone match I'm heated on 343 right now for one thing the phaeton is garbage seriously a fart will knock it out of the sky, I literally wait till half the match I'm waiting for REQ level 9 because it takes a century to gain that much req when you just pulled out a level 7 mantis and it gets boarded right after it gets out of the garage yup garage campers got to love them so now I'm back to zero and I believe it takes roughly 10 minutes to get back to 9 now I pull out the phaeton and book 3 banshees are just waiting for me and blast me I got 5 seconds of flight time and was dead again wasted a Req it was my last one too but who cares since ill never use the phaeton since its a damn piece of garbage weapon that blows up at the first sight of gunfire. literally I wanted to win I tried and got plenty of kills stole some bases and what not even got the last shot on warden but the enemy got the kill still to this day not sure how that even gets decided. but overall I felt like that match really had no purpose this is how I feel for most of halo 5 is no purpose anymore literally the game has lost so much luster and I cant even stand this anymore because they will make halo 6 and I'm sure its going to be all this hype that will be a dead beat again. I'm at this point not even looking forward to firefight because they REQed the crap out of that too 343 just has to put there dumb spin on this game everytime plus who wants more reqs that will be wasted anyways we wanted more playlist and we get a dumb warthog yay. Man halo is starting to lose me and its going to lose plenty of people for me I'm probably going to stop playing warzone till firefight comes out and even at that you may actually have to pay me to even play the game at that point.

So its been quite some time since halo 5 released. and after beating the campaign i literally rarely touch it, there are times i start a mission and quickly quite because i have one mentality towards it. this mentality is what is the point of playing the campaign. Literally you get zero things except achievements. Why 343 went this route will not be answered and i know it is because they wanted to sell the REQ system they wanted the focus to be matchmaking so they gave us a sub par campaign The plot seemed kinda pointless almost as if they just forced the characters into the situation. seriously the start is awsome but than fizzles from there, here is literally the story and why it felt rushed. You meet lockes team than you play as chiefs team oh no chief says nope im going after cortana osiris goes after blue team osisris lands on planet eventually fight a bunch of dudes and find blue team locke aims weapon at chief, serious conflict resolution issues cheif beats locke chief discovers cortan is a B lock finds out truth sets to save chief yay they are firends now .... boring as hell seriously they could have done way better... from what i heard they got the guy who made the worst halo story the guy to work on this. what was the process for that hey guys we have 3 options the first two wrote fantastic halo stories while the last guy wrote a kinda ok story...team responds with lets get the last guy. at this point i kinda feel like 343 just sits back and laughs at us and are systamcally trying to force halo into a direction it does not need to go. like the campaign is so hard to play because of the lack of story you just get bored of the pointless missions.

OK so now that i have a trend going iv noticed that i don't really suck that much at halo 5 but the game has some issues on my end as it appears. See i dont actually LAG but other players do and its costing me kills. In one match of Arena i go in for a kill and the guy jumps and suddenly appears a few feet behind me but way to quickly foe the normal speed. Ontop of that he kills me with a shotgun one shot from a long distance than appears next to me afterwards... Just some of the things iv seen more commonly where people are glitching on the map and its giving them a slight advantage to me where it be my weapons dont register the shot or they get super close but on my end they appear far.

So I thought about this as I nplayed castle base on reach... The coolest part was seeing my Spartan at the end. This is only part of my idea... I played the level and thought wow this would be an awesome firefight mode... A level where you battle through d Hordes of enemies but the objectives arent you holding it down while enemies drop I'm only rather you have a set end point you must get to location A but must battle through certain areas to get to location A thus the waves you must battle in locations and onyl by destroying or defending these locations will victory or location A be achieved. Also the new Alexandria level where you had to get to the button that triggered the air defense oh man was that an exciting level one you had to battle enemies while linking up with Marines than defend civilians after that you blast your way through enemies to get to a button so civilians can safely be evacuated this would fit the timer option perfectly since of the timer runs out all ships are destroyed... Also rather than a pelican seen it just shows your Spartan team over a horizon looking over the wreckage of their work... Cue glorious end seen moment... Followed oh look their is that wraith I blew up.. This can even be applied to a scenario where an 8 man fireteam is dispatched to insert into an enemy ship and destroy its core... Or vice versa the fireteam crimson mission where you are called back to Infinity to defend it from hostiles boarding... All great scenarios tied into lore and wargame simulations ... Essentially be ready for any situation. It adds to the veriety of things to do in warzone firefight. Just some ideas.

My overall suggestion is ha ING scattered power weapons in warzone... Not enough to where their is no need for REQS but enough to

In warzone the basic shotgu. Is useless unless your doing base defense defense, I can literally kill a guy with an awesome power weapons from a safe distance with a BR and he would never get a chance to use that shotgun once, plus if you assault a base you won't get one shot off beforea 5 man team lights you up... Iv noticed this in warzone is you die exceptionally faster because you can literally be up against 5 Spartans at once and be royally messed. Iv also noticed except for the newest level and maybe noctis most warzone maps lack cover when traversing the maps you literally are an easy target for a 4 man team to pick off with no chance of making it to cover.

just noticed today it was unable to join a match wondering if its still down

Perhaps having powerweapons as actual weapon drops scattered along the map that way everypne has a fair chance t pick up certain weapons.

I think perhaps the basic level of powerweapons should be permanent unlocks such as the basic sniper rifle,

So iv tried to play on one of the two new maps for halo 5 yet not once have i gotten this map i either get Ewscape from arc or the jungle one in warzone and i get the basic maps in Arena... how is this map rotation even working this sometimes maes me want the vote option back

Thank you Shenron yes this is actually the message i got after the 5th time so it struck me as odd that i wasnt getting that error message but that was the cuplrit in the end

So anyone else have this issue so i selected the blue steel skin for my BR and the hunter armor for my spartan well just the armor not the helmet, before the that i had the MK VI armor and when i turned off my Xbox and came back and turned on the system nd placed halo 5 on it had my MKVI armor again and the gold standard skin for the BR again its just resetting things.

I maxed the laser already but honestly it's the Spartan laser its supposed to be a powerful weapon why are power weapons being nerfed they are power weapons man, the laser though yea needs a buff because iv hit mongooses and they don't go boom in warzone, arena iv noticed I can one shot a mongoose or a warthog with the laser occasionally there is a time when it seems the laser does zero damage Almost like the Hydra that gun totally sucks. Seriously if I see a guy aiming a Hydra at me I pull my pistol out hit him once then boost left instantly I have the upper hand now. But the laser has a charge time then it hits us it sends a laser out so if you die from one shot of a laser its due to lack of awareness same with the binary man they ruined that gun iv wasted three binary shots on one guy because the beam hit the guy but didn't drop his sheild the third shot hit but I got an assist its like wait this is a power weapon where is the power part.

I sent the link of this to Josh Holmes on Twitter hopefully it becomes reality because my hunter helmet feels incomplete without that glow in the visor.

Yup I got the vanguard emblem I rock it because it's the rarest one I got the console so I got it the legit way I only see another vanguard everyone so often. Though right now I'm rocking the cheif emblem because I completed all the weapon commendations but will soon go back to vanguard again.

Funny story about that, while in the dark zone I helped 4 players secure the extraction point. Well right before I was going to put my loot on there they shot me took my loot... Well knuckleheads didn't realize my respawn point was a safehouse near the extraction point. I also at this point had a high end sniper with a DPS of just over 100k and a headshot damage bonus of 156%. You can guess what happened next yup I took a nice over watch position sniped all 4 of them. Went over to their position pulled out my pistol and execution style shot the one I suspected of being the leader... It was after this I called in my friends who also had high end gear, and decided to sit back and watch the carnage, to take part in the massive loot drop party and we called in an extraction. The next part made me luagh. The same guys show up again but seeing as I had 3 other dudes with me they decided to be good boys and let us take their loot and wait for the next extraction chopper... My team decided to stick around and secure the area for them since we all ran with nearly 3 shot kill guns on elite AI so these derps can extract there left over loot. So it went from ally to enemy back to allies. Also if you see me in the dark zone more than likely I am not alone so don't try taking my loot because my team may be watching and are going to light you up lol. But if your starting out friend me and I'll be more than happy to help you extract things free of killing you.

So I know we are getting warzone firefight and I'm excited but for regular warzone perhaps the pace is getting old. Now I had an idea when i was playing the division in the dark zone. Friend can become for and foe can become a needed ally. So what if in regualar warzone they introduce a new Core, a Core that is not belonging to one specific team rather one that triggers a self destruct of the map. Essentially if this core goes boom both teams lose. Now rather then hey lets take bases destroy the core defeat AI Bosses kill players, player of both team have a common core to defend together or no one gets cake. Now don't make it the focus of the match but at some few points of the match a horde of AI appear soley with the purpose of destroying enemy Spartans by obliterating the entire map with the self destruct core. Basically of they destroy it it unleashes a guardian or activated a ring that destroys all sentient life. And it won't break Canon because we all know the covenant are all about going to infinity and beyond blowing the galaxy up"the great journey" and promethians are just data essentially so hey they don't care blow the whole galaxy up yay. It's just an idea imagine killing red team o ly to find out you need red team to take back a neutral core. Just an idea.

So the time has come and gone but in the wake of the celebrations i managed to get the 343 Weapon Skin along with a few others well actually all of them. Who else got these nice skins

Ok so I'm aware of warzone boss kills being talked about and people take one side or the other. but I have a few things that perhaps show that it is indeed unbalanced and well not truly fair. SO I just played a round of warzone. warden was getting demolished I lined up my shot and hit that glowing part with my beam rifle and he goes boom, but it instantly says the enemy destroyed Warden Eternal. now me and my team are going WTF because 2 guys clearly saw me land the last shot it literally was the last shot because the other team only had a tank but the tank was reloading so unless someone hit him with some magic bullet from across the map on that snow level there was no way they got the last shot. My theory is one of various ill list. 1. the tank got the kill but there was some form of lag and showed him as alive,( I have also seen the team get the points for boss kills but the boss is still live) 2. I did get the last hit but the game did not register the hit. ( iv noticed hit registration kind of sucks in this game at times.) 3. there was some kind of glitch and well the game said forget you I'm giving them the kill. my theory of boss kills not being rewarded to the proper player goes on to the whole thing of why doesn't it clearly state on the kill feed which player got the kill it only says the enemy or your team. that's like saying the wind got the kill anyone could have done it and therefore it is not a accurate way of giving credit where credits due. and to clear up this theory ill provide an example of what I mean. SO on the level where you fight the tank master, its the jungle one, I'm using my rail gun and I stole a fuel rod gun from a guy who suddenly popped up just in time to kill me after I pulled out my Rail gun, proof that people wait outside of bases at certain times for those kills but unfortunately he was killed by a ghost. than the ghost went boom from the tank master... so there I am I'm actually alone shooting the tank master because my team was focused on killing the enemy team while I chipped away his health. I am on my last shot of my rail gun and he is almost, by this time iv done nearly 80 percent of the damage , than while my rail gun is reloading my teammate gets the kill, and I seriously get no form of medal usually if you kill or assist in killing a boss you get a medal but I didn't. This leads me to believe the rewarding system for AI bosses is not working properly so there may be a chance that a Game winning kill may have been rewarded incorrectly to the wrong team and it cost you the game... now its just a video game and holds no real value, yet if you were playing warzone and you worked for a kill and the game decided to just give it to the other team because it was easier to process it that way would you not be a slight it ticked off. especially when you use your High level REQS. Essentially players iv noticed refuse to use there high level REQS due to various reasons. It takes way to long to pull out a level 6 REQ after you pulled one out and got killed instantly with it. what is the point of using it if it really is not guaranteeing the kill when the game may be randomly choosing the winner. IF I have few amounts of those HIGH REQS wouldn't I want to try and use them when I'm seriously for sure I'm going to get the most out of it. Does anyone want to pull out a Norn fang just to only get one kill with it. This game is unbalanced everyone knows it too and I'm not saying 343 doesn't care I just think the fact that people don't care anymore they go play the game and it frustrates them when they are on the losing end of the decision of boss kills but than celebrate when they are on the winning side so essentially I believe this game will continue to play this way and nothing will actually get done to fix the issue. I go into Warzone knowing I have a 80% chance I'm going to lose and most likely will lose. also when I pull out a high level REQ most likely the other team have a tank waiting around the corner for me specifically because all too many times I have spawned with great weapons and got sniped or tanked. Thus I usually have no desire to pull out such weapons in regular warzone and I am saving them for warzone firefight I feel in that mode I will get the most out of my REQS since in warzone well you can be killed almost instantly because I have been spawned literally facing the wall with my back towards the enemy in warzone. So what re your guys thoughts on this.

So yes Locke's visor glows, and it probably would silhouette him during matchmaking but it would still be an option that i would like, basically be able to add the ability to make your visors glow i mean we have so many visors of mostly the same color why not add one more thing too them to make them stand out more. again it should be a toggle option or just an option in general not a forced thing so you go into free for all and maybe only 4 people choose the glow visors that's cool the only one i don't see it working with is the midnight one. This is Something i though i would get hen i pre-ordered my Locke Controller and got the resolute visor.. i thought it would glow. Well Community your thoughts on this?

SO after this update iv noticed the sheilds drop way faster now im not sure if its just me or if seems to be happening to alot of you.