Halo 5: Guardians Discussion | New ViDoc

I'm enjoying the core gameplay, they got that right. The fact that every weapon is viable is a nice change, because everything serves it's own purpose. I never talked about what they did right, because I had to actually experience it myself. I bought the game to give it a critical look. I enjoy the multiplayer, and that's about it. We're lucky that we got Snipers this weekend, because the lack of options is getting boring already.
 

 

Generally speaking I don't think he's wrong, against all odds I think 343 laid the foundation for a good games. I personally just hate all the maps, that's the biggest thing holding me back from playing it right now. Well, that and Fallout 4. 

Did anyone else get their ranks reset? Might just be my internet bugging out or something, but I have no problem signing in, and both of my accounts are back to SR1 and all my playlist ranks are gone.

Did anyone else get their ranks reset? Might just be my internet bugging out or something, but I have no problem signing in, and both of my accounts are back to SR1 and all my playlist ranks are gone.

https://twitter.com/Halo/status/664510606548963328

 

Game's having issues today.

H2 crashed on me 6 times tonight while loading the map, wtfs going on

H2 crashed on me 6 times tonight while loading the map, wtfs going on

Forcing you to play Halo 5 my man.

 

Pretty bad exploit in Warzone Assault right now, you can capture the armory out of order and reset the game clock which also fucks the defending teams spawns.

Holy shit, I've been trying to figure out shortcuts and ways to make games of Warzone go by faster, but that's just stupid. 

343 Pro Team vs Top European Teams starts in 10 min

 

http://www.twitch.tv/halo

There is no way Halo 5 is dedicated servers, i match American host every fucking game.
I die twice as quick by an AR once i have someone noshield with an AR i still need to shoot a half mag on them.
Pistol is fucking shit people will be standing still eating 3 bullets of pistol.
Beatdowns never work just like MCC probably same shitty netcode.
This is MCC Halo 3 all over again......
 

There is no way Halo 5 is dedicated servers, i match American host every fucking game.
I die twice as quick by an AR once i have someone noshield with an AR i still need to shoot a half mag on them.
Pistol is fucking shit people will be standing still eating 3 bullets of pistol.
Beatdowns never work just like MCC probably same shitty netcode.
This is MCC Halo 3 all over again......
 

They removed the region barriers for the dedicated servers so if you can't find games in your region you can match USA servers, which will be laggy for you due to how far you are from them.  It's not USA host in the sense that one person is hosting the game, but if you're the only foreign person then yeah it'll be BS for you.

I've had pretty much no issues with lag whatsoever, outside of when I forget to turn off my torrents.

There is no way Halo 5 is dedicated servers, i match American host every fucking game.
I die twice as quick by an AR once i have someone noshield with an AR i still need to shoot a half mag on them.
Pistol is fucking shit people will be standing still eating 3 bullets of pistol.
Beatdowns never work just like MCC probably same shitty netcode.
This is MCC Halo 3 all over again......
 

They removed the region barriers for the dedicated servers so if you can't find games in your region you can match USA servers, which will be laggy for you due to how far you are from them.  It's not USA host in the sense that one person is hosting the game, but if you're the only foreign person then yeah it'll be BS for you.

I've had pretty much no issues with lag whatsoever, outside of when I forget to turn off my torrents.

I can play fine and on good servers before 6 PM but after it is sooooo horrendous. :(

Big Team Battle is a great addition to multiplayer, and it's something to break the monotony. 4 maps is a lot better than 3, so it brings more to the table than Warzone, even though it is packed full of features that BTB doesn't have. Warzone got old very, very fast to me. 

As expected, BTB is ranked, because social is not a thing anymore thanks to Ghostayame. It's great for the competitive players, and especially the BTB teams that we all know and love (right), who run 8's like it's MLG. But really, it's great that they have their own place to dwindle and sweat.
Myself though? I don't like taking BTB too seriously, so it's also great that I can control my own rank by absolutely destroying myself in my placement matches. Turns out, it's too early to hit Bronze tier, which is rock bottom. I had 10 losses, a K/D of more than -10, and less than 5% accuracy on my shots hit. No objectives player, minimal kills, and every death I could seek out. I played the worst I could possibly play, and still got put in the Silver tier, so there's a tip for anyone who wants to enjoy their time in the playlist -- wait.

Otherwise, I really enjoy the maps. In my placement matches I was able to play every map at least once, and I made myself familiar with pretty much everything as in the time I had on my disposal. I didn't want to play the matches anyway, so why not explore the maps a little to kill time? I like them all quite a bit since they are remakes/imaginings of previous Halo maps, but it still bothers me to no end that this is what they give us when they made the conscious (don't even fucking kid me) choice to delay forge, so we won't be sour when they provide us forged maps to justify the lack of proper, full-fledged maps that were released with the game. We're still depending on them to bring us the content, so we can't complain no matter what they serve us.

Other than that, I still think this is a good thing. BTB was sorely needed, and I've experienced little to no frame-rate issues -- or issues at all -- so I'm expecting it to slip up to the top population wise. I don't know what else to say, the 6.w/e GB update nearly made me blow my brains out? 5 mbps download which goes on strike every half hour is not made for todays digital games.

BTB is ranked?  That seems silly.
I got a 0.20 k/d in btb and got into gold lol.
Somebody play BTB wiff me? GT: Smuttny

And Gamesager, who ran with a team of 8, has a 4.0 KD, 50% accuracy in the playlist, and won EVERY MATCH out of the 30 he played ( before I went to bed yesterday) got put in Platinum. What?

They either changed the way ranks are distributed by closing the gap between the best and the worst, or they literally just put ranks on for show, and they do absolutely nothing. I was getting sweated on in Silver, so maybe the latter. We'll figure it out eventually.

I never understood how you get placed any ways. I went 10-0 in dubs (on Friday evening) and my last 4 games were some of the sweatiest games I played in H5. I had a pretty good KD in all my games and  never went neg. I got placed in diamond. My friend who i played every game with except 1 went 9-1 and went neg in our last 2 games and got placed into onyx. We won 2 games after he placed in onyx he jumps to champion 127. 

I honestly think they just spin a wheel after your 10 games. 

Another small rant I have about the ranking system. At this point I'd much rather have the 1-50 system. IDC what anyone says how much better this system is than the 1-50. My biggest complaint is that I can't get the highest rank because i literally don't play enough. I pretty much only play on weekends because of my work schedule so i'll be stuck in onyx forever. Plus I hate the placement system. I always seem to get the short end of the stick but I win almost all my placement games. In slayer I won 9/10 with almost 20+ kills every single game and got placed in platinum. 

They have to give BTB the same req earnings as Warzone. I just finished a 20 minute match and was awarded 750 RP.  You're locked to that if you lose, and 900 max if you win (with no boosts ofc). That's fucking crazy, because I can get the same amount in a 3 minute long match of SWAT. It's the least efficient way of earning requisition points right now, so don't even bother if that's what you're looking for.
Got 15+ KDA and got a plat.  Life will go on though.
I like H5. I spent a couple years playing LoL so I ended preferring these kinds of ranking systems. The gameplay is pretty fun and competitive. A few of my games ended up getting pretty sweaty. My only real gripe is that I wish there was more maps.

Weapon efficiency goes like:

Sniper > Rockets > Magnum > BR > Suppressor > Mantis > Everything else > Empty Sword > Spartan Laser

You LITERALLY cannot kill a ghost with a single spartan laser shot. It has to have taken damage otherwise, and it is so fucking inconsistent with how much damage it deals. It's a fucking wreck, and it's not even worth picking up. They made every weapon in Halo 5 viable, except the Spartan Laser.

 

Weapon efficiency goes like:

Sniper > Rockets > Magnum > BR > Suppressor > Mantis > Everything else > Empty Sword > Spartan Laser

You LITERALLY cannot kill a ghost with a single spartan laser shot. It has to have taken damage otherwise, and it is so fucking inconsistent with how much damage it deals. It's a fucking wreck, and it's not even worth picking up. They made every weapon in Halo 5 viable, except the Spartan Laser.

 

Just shoot the driver out? It's unbelievably easy to kill anyone in a vehicle that doesn't fully enclose the pilot/passenger/gunner. The few times I've used the spartan laser I just put shots on the larger vehicles or use it to finish ai in warzone.

Weapon efficiency goes like:

Sniper > Rockets > Magnum > BR > Suppressor > Mantis > Everything else > Empty Sword > Spartan Laser

You LITERALLY cannot kill a ghost with a single spartan laser shot. It has to have taken damage otherwise, and it is so fucking inconsistent with how much damage it deals. It's a fucking wreck, and it's not even worth picking up. They made every weapon in Halo 5 viable, except the Spartan Laser.

 

Just shoot the driver out? It's unbelievably easy to kill anyone in a vehicle that doesn't fully enclose the pilot/passenger/gunner. The few times I've used the spartan laser I just put shots on the larger vehicles or use it to finish ai in warzone.
That doesn't make the laser any better, which is the problem. Killing a ghost with it was just an example.
I think it serves it's purpose. Are you talking about btb or warzone, because sword and ultra ghosts have more health/shield. I've never had a problem killing ghosts, banshee, etc. in btb with one shot.

BTB bragging rights

Kill / Death Ratio

Kill + Assist / Death Ratio

Kills Per Game

Headshot %

I agree. 

They made the spartan laser beam super thin. It's almost impossible to kill something that isn't as big as a vehicle. And even then, its damage is very inconsistent. 

Lol you can get banned for being bronze rank i got console banned for a week.
I'm Bronze in every playlist, dunno how that happened to you.
Lol you can get banned for being bronze rank i got console banned for a week.
You were probably reported enough times for pubstomping the thumbless.

Probably yeah.