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Halo 5: Guardians Beta Thread | Hot Red on Blue Action
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neogaffer1
Banned
Has anyone found melee to be BS? I melee a guy with full health/shields, he loses shields. He melees me with full health/shields, he kills me. Plus there's def some wonky netcode, saw a guy melee me from a few feet away, killcam shows he was right on top of me. Also recorded random frame drop/freeze, will share links to both later.
RageOfFury
Member
I've redeemed both codes, downloaded and installed the game. But I'm getting an error saying that the Beta begins on Dec 29th. Ugh!
Messofanego
Banned
Where are all the gifs and vids?
Head.spawn
Junior Member
Mother of God. This thing is still downloading, like two hours later.
Holy.shit.
100mb connection here.
/sadface
Holy.shit.
100mb connection here.
/sadface
Normal melee just drops shields. Reqs second to kill.
A rushing melee should be instakill if it connects.
launching from mcc or the halo beta app?
Leyasu
Banned
Where is your location?? Sounds like you are playing out of region.. P2p perhaps..
neogaffer1
Banned
Phoenix, AZ
xemumanic
Member
My buddy called me telling me the same thing, I came on to check if anyone knew any workarounds............
EDIT: Reading up on some of you, I noticed some didn't have the invitation downloaded, nor did he. He installed it, and it worked! So there you have it. Thanks NeoGAF, especially you Syriel!
Did the early access DLC key download? Go to manage game and see if it is there. If it isn't installed, download and install that. If it is not there at all, then reenter the early access key.
Leyasu
Banned
p2p??
RageOfFury
Member
The standalone Beta app
UND3RxOATH
Neo Member
9% to go. Come on!!!!
Messofanego
Banned
Guess I'll watch Giant Bomb play this. http://www.giantbomb.com/chat/
Add to party.
Put simply, I enjoy this game so much. SO MUCH
But not in a Halo way. It feels nothing like Halo. It is like Halo 4 Team SWAT (which I like) with good grenades. The movement is awesome.
Everything few seconds I complain about something stupid, but then I realise that I am only hating on it because it is just different.
So yeah, I like it, it's really something new.
But not in a Halo way. It feels nothing like Halo. It is like Halo 4 Team SWAT (which I like) with good grenades. The movement is awesome.
Everything few seconds I complain about something stupid, but then I realise that I am only hating on it because it is just different.
So yeah, I like it, it's really something new.
Maybe? Probably?
I've been match made to some matches in under 5 seconds which is cod AW territory.
Yeah I really get this vibe from watching the game
WonkyPanda
Member
I'm expecting the 343 shitting to begin soon, but this game feels fucking great.
Shining Sunshine
Banned
lol Phil Spencer was watching Lirik's stream and Lirik was like "I like it cuz it's new. It's nothing special. It's actually quite mediocre."
Tripp Daily
Member
They just said dedicated servers for all multiplayer on the stream.
Altered Juice
Member
just wait until the 29th
Diablohead
Member
um, when you scope the SMG the aim reticle shrinks to half size.
I'm also seeing a lot of auto aim going on, even on the official halo stream players are shooting a good foot away from a moving target and scoring headshots.
I'm also seeing a lot of auto aim going on, even on the official halo stream players are shooting a good foot away from a moving target and scoring headshots.
PROh1bited
Banned
So why can't 343 leave the Halo name alone and rename this game Generic Space Shooter or something. They have tarnished the Halo name. Its as though the people working there never gave a flying fuck about Halo. They only wanted the name.
This game is what I wanted CoD AW to be like. I could never like any CoD but I thought movement speed and low TTK could go hand in hand like it does in Titanfall. Halo 5 Beta does it sooooooo much better than Titanfall even.
Ehhhhh, generic? The stuff they added to this doesn't make it more generic breh.
Ehhhhh, generic? The stuff they added to this doesn't make it more generic breh.
neogaffer1
Banned
Melee netcode problem (?):
http://xboxclips.com/jcracken/27887b9a-3113-4269-8ea0-44c1542ad483
Now I look at it he probably just boosted to me and melee'd me, killcam still makes it seem that he's closer to me before he starts boosting than what I saw.
Weird lag/freeze:
http://xboxclips.com/jcracken/19c22791-a7c1-4c1a-b949-fbfdac0487d1
As you can tell, I was doing really bad in this match.
http://xboxclips.com/jcracken/27887b9a-3113-4269-8ea0-44c1542ad483
Now I look at it he probably just boosted to me and melee'd me, killcam still makes it seem that he's closer to me before he starts boosting than what I saw.
Weird lag/freeze:
http://xboxclips.com/jcracken/19c22791-a7c1-4c1a-b949-fbfdac0487d1
As you can tell, I was doing really bad in this match.
Isn't it 4 shot?
Ugh...
Anyway at 70%. Shit i have to work tomorrow i hope i can get at least two or three games in tonight but it isn't looking likely.
My download just finished, but it doesn't let me play. It appears this message: "Almost there" The Halo 5: Guardians Arena Multiplayer Beta begins on December 29th. See you then! I've redeemed the 2 codes that I receive from X Live.
Fixed, I restarted my Xbox and works fine now.
Fixed, I restarted my Xbox and works fine now.
Leyasu
Banned
Boom.. I hope that includes customs as well. I'm too old and don't have enough time to have a clan and shit. But customs on dedicated servers is great for people that do. You can arrange matches and not have Zeus on one of the teams.
RageOfFury
Member
I fixed my "only available Dec 29th" issue!!!!
I restarted my console. Go into Settings, then Power & startup and choose Restart Now. After the reboot It recognized the 2nd code automatically and let me play. w00t!
I restarted my console. Go into Settings, then Power & startup and choose Restart Now. After the reboot It recognized the 2nd code automatically and let me play. w00t!
neogaffer1
Banned
I found most of the control schemes not very good, the only one I enjoyed using was the Halo 4 one.
They did, it's called Halo CE, 2 and 3.
Future PhaZe
Member
The dudebro is just
i mean why
i mean why
Seriously, the commentary during the game is so annoying. "I GOT SNIPEZ!!"
I hated the idea of the teammates AI speaking, but having played it I like it very much. It is basically what Grunts do in Titanfall. It stops non-communitive teammates from ruining the game.
I think that they should make it so dropped weapons are more visible. I can't tell what is what until I walk over it, and when I kill someone with a weapon I want I have no idea which one went where. They need to fix that.
Power Weapons should be told when they spawn, that's fine, but I don't like that it shows where it is the whole time. I could ping it instead I guess?
Anyway, here is a clip that made it feel like I was playing Halo: http://xboxclips.com/Izuna+Lasky/d49be9fb-6ab9-45b6-bac9-5374a56fb6b0
Compare that clip to this Team SWAT H2A clip:
http://xboxclips.com/Izuna+Lasky/de8bfc8c-cd2b-4f07-bf7e-d0d1dae9b41f
I really feel like Halo 5 Guardians is basically constantly Team SWAT. Forcing that pro team-DM Halo 2 feel in every match. Halo CE can have that feeling sometimes too. (I know I used a Sniper, but really the TTK is so quick even with AR at mid-range that it feels like Team SWAT)
I just really hope there will be some Halo 3, more open wide maps, where people aren't all using precision weapons constantly.
I think that they should make it so dropped weapons are more visible. I can't tell what is what until I walk over it, and when I kill someone with a weapon I want I have no idea which one went where. They need to fix that.
Power Weapons should be told when they spawn, that's fine, but I don't like that it shows where it is the whole time. I could ping it instead I guess?
Anyway, here is a clip that made it feel like I was playing Halo: http://xboxclips.com/Izuna+Lasky/d49be9fb-6ab9-45b6-bac9-5374a56fb6b0
Compare that clip to this Team SWAT H2A clip:
http://xboxclips.com/Izuna+Lasky/de8bfc8c-cd2b-4f07-bf7e-d0d1dae9b41f
I really feel like Halo 5 Guardians is basically constantly Team SWAT. Forcing that pro team-DM Halo 2 feel in every match. Halo CE can have that feeling sometimes too. (I know I used a Sniper, but really the TTK is so quick even with AR at mid-range that it feels like Team SWAT)
I just really hope there will be some Halo 3, more open wide maps, where people aren't all using precision weapons constantly.