Moa
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There's potential it might. I think there was some text found in HW Definitive Edition which had multiple mentions of Steam.
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Halo Wars 2 Beta Live on PC (12GB) [Up: And Xbox One]
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There's potential it might. I think there was some text found in HW Definitive Edition which had multiple mentions of Steam.
Obliterator
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Not necessarily. Gears 4 has an active PC player base still
CertifiedFP
Member
Either I'm crazy, but wasn't the reason teams were deprecated from the Starcraft competitive meta was because matches tended to snowball once one player was out of the running?
And now we're saying 1v1's snowball?
How do we know this isn't vestigial text from that time when a bunch of Halo games popped up on SteamDB for a few months before vanishing? There very well could have been plans for a PC port of Halo Wars 1 on Steam that got canned when company initiatives began to shift.
Roger that, thanks!
I didn't play it, but in the videos I saw the betas cap was something like 40 to 80 depending on how many bases you had or upgrades, the problem being units took up more pop so it was really lower than HW1. in the preview footage from the last couple days I saw people up to at least 120.
Yeah, my admittedly terrible strategies usually involve taking it very slowly.
I will say, though, that Blitz is a great option for a very quick and action packed game that really can get pretty tactical. It's nice to know I can hop on, play a few quick rounds and then jet without having to worry about getting caught in some huge match.
It probably won't be my go to mode, but I certainly like having the option for a quick game.
Moa
Member
We don't. Here's a link for those interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/HaloWars/comments/5lk2th/halo_wars_de_may_be_coming_to_steam/
It's not an Xbox platform thread without comments like these.
I mean, it's no different than Halo 5. What makes the Blitz stuff less palatable to me isn't the "pay to win" aspect but that the microtransactions are in addition to paid DLC as opposed to supplanting it.
Looking forward to playing tomorrow.
Obliterator
Member
Having an absolute blast with this, and I'm really happy with performance. Haven't dropped frames once yet under 60fps with everything maxed out. Even when it gets hectic with lots of explosions and chaos
Obliterator
Member
Yeah obviously Blitz won't have near the strategy or game length as standard multiplayer will but I still think it's really fun for just a fast paced all out battle. I could see myself putting some decent time into this mode
Moa
Member
If you still have the old beta installed it should have auto-updated to the latest version.
EchoChamber
Member
How I can change characters? It always auto lock cutter 
How I can change characters? It always auto lock cutter
Change your favorite in the deck list I think? Looks like full options arent there yet
Quick play auto locks your set favorite commander.How I can change characters? It always auto lock cutter
I think 1v1 Blitz is hurt by the ability to see opponents units on the map. In such low unit counts early in the game if you win an opening skirmish it is just too easy to watch where they are headed and drop in more reinforcements than they can bring with your income advantage. Then the game ends too quickly to get to many high cost lead powers and super units that might be able to turn it around. If you couldn't see the units then there'd be chances to actually surprise a smaller group of units or such.
A coordinated team could still do so, but generally team games just being a lot more hectic seems to keep the game going longer and lead to more swings with those late game cards.
A coordinated team could still do so, but generally team games just being a lot more hectic seems to keep the game going longer and lead to more swings with those late game cards.
Jangowuzhere
Banned
No it doesn't
Even on the first week, I had a lot of trouble finding players in most of the game modes.
Still the truth
The game is basically being sent out to die on PC. It's definitely not going to have a long standing community like StarCraft or 40k
🤔
icecold1983
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Is this a card game or an rts game?
FadedRevolution
Member
RTS game but the blitz mode gives you cards and make a deck of your troops.
EchoChamber
Member
And how I can play without quickplay.
icecold1983
Member
🤔 Def not for me if no base building
Obliterator
Member
Yes it does I play it every night. If you go into Quick Play you'll find a match in under 2 minutes every night of the week.
It's not a large community but stable
nillapuddin
Member
yo, this is fun as hell.
Blitz is crazy. Lots of strategy can be involved. Interesting tbh. Need to learn more haha
Full game has that in the multiplayer mode
Full game has that in the multiplayer mode
Obliterator
Member
Yeah I'm having a blast. Servers on PC at least are pretty iffy though. Either me or teammates are getting dropped decently frequently. Let's hope the final release is much more stable
Press find game top left and select mode. Alternatively set another favorite before you queue.
Blitz mode don't feature base building. The rest of the games does.
nillapuddin
Member
damn sorry, bone is perfection
not sure why so much hate on blitz, it is rts light, the deep dirty base building modes are all there too, just not this week
Obliterator
Member
I've already gotten 2 of the weekly challenges on the first day.....I think I might be excited for this game lol
Yeeeh I'm holding myself back to avoid 'burning out'
Obliterator
Member
Yeeeh I'm holding myself back to avoid 'burning out'
Blitz is so fast paced it's giving me that "One more game" thing. Then next thing I know I've played like 5 more haha
😁 I hope the rest of the game does the same for people but I miss building stuff. Cool mode for like 5-10 minute matches but I'm still not sure how it's going to work out at retail with card packs.
Maybe I'm just overly worried due to bad experiences in other games with this stuff.
3 scarabs at the same time 👌
Looks like it'll be really fair when it comes to earning free packs similar to Warzone in H5. With the dailies, weeklies and level up rewards there's enough there to get regular free packs. Who knows if there'll be other ways to earn them too. Seems like the perfect level of 'pack' rewards to the point where I might drop a few £ here or there, unlike something like Gears which makes me never want to give them any more money.
Loving Blitz though, seems like a really fun distraction. Also finding more strategies the more I play. The quick matches give it the 'just 1 more' feeling. Can see us playing a fair bit of this when the game launches, but it won't replace the base building mode. I was a massive fan of playing with 1 or 2 friends in the first, Blitz is just making me even more hyped for the final release.
The reason why I stated what I did is because it's not like MS is all of a sudden going to change their minds and say hey, fuck it, lets go to Steam. Ain't shit gonna change.
Never layed HW before, I know that blitz isn't the real experience, but it showed me how an RTS is controlled on consoles
So far was a fun game, I think that Blitz could gain a lot being a F2P game, otherwise will suck to pay a full retail price for a game that will always have the pay cap that this kind of games have were you will lose against guys with more leveled or better cards
So far was a fun game, I think that Blitz could gain a lot being a F2P game, otherwise will suck to pay a full retail price for a game that will always have the pay cap that this kind of games have were you will lose against guys with more leveled or better cards
I thought the same thing... blitz easily could be a f2p game.
Yeah, same for me after the first couple of matches
Can see myself getting pretty addicted to this though. Really looking forward to full release