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Halo 5 November Update Sneak Peek

tearway doesn't look like that nor that bad.

looks moe like a ps1 shaded game

honestly cant compare teir forge things too mch. They are so lifeless and textureless....
 
Really looking forward to splitting my time between Warzone, BTB, Arena and trying to do a co op legendary run, I'm going to be playing this game for a long long time :)

Do we know if we're going to get new maps every month? Forge or not, I'll be delighted if we do!
 
Leyasu said:
first of these was an update to the “One or more members of your fireteam has high latency to the dedicated server” error message. Previously, this message blocked players in error, preventing you from playing with the other player(s), and we’ve now removed this restriction. Also, we’ve been keeping an eye on feedback from international players regarding Warzone matchmaking, and found that we were a bit too aggressive in filtering players during matchmaking. After reviewing the current parameters, we’ve made adjustments that will allow Warzone matchmaking to not only allow players to find matches quicker and easier, but also allow for improved matchmaking for players across the globe, thanks to updated searching parameters that also better prioritize players in your region. Today, thanks to your reports, we were able to confirm that the changes did indeed improve matching for players across multiple regions. We need to do some additional tests to ensure that the changes don’t negatively impact any playlists, so we’ve temporarily disabled the changes, and will be re-adjusting the parameters once these changes are verified.


Am I the only person who thinks that they contradict themselves here? So they deactivated the ping restrictions on parties, made changes that will find games even quicker (shudders), but then say it will prioritize players in your region.

Its already clear that they didn't give a fuck for match quality when they prioritised matchmaking speed. Now they are opening it up to make it even faster?? What the fuck am I reading?

How about disclosing the fucking parameters so that the people who are affected can decide whether or not they should keep this game. Where can we give feedback? I am in the feedback program, but surely that is not their only measuring device??

Time to suck it international players. I'm off work next week, ill probably end up with an American accent by the end of it. Fucking 343
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Their matchmaking is broken shit anyway. Ditch it and give us server selection so we can get into lag free matches almost instantly.
 
Very interested in the changes to the controls, that can make a difference for me, granted it will still play like halo, but turning and aiming, I need that to feel good to me, so any change or improvement is welcome

Those maps look like ass though
 
Collingwood said:
Their matchmaking is broken shit anyway. Ditch it and give us server selection so we can get into lag free matches almost instantly.
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No, please no. Then we have a situation like GoW where you get tons of US on European servers and vice versa.

Just let me see latency in game, that's all that matters to me, and should do with anyone else.
 
SatansReverence said:
Are you fucking kidding?

Go try the same shit in Halo 3 or Halo Reach.
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Okay

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If you don't want bullet magnetism, don't play shooters on console
 
superNESjoe said:
This update is killing it for me. The amount of content in the game is embarrassingly low. BTB only taking place on Forge maps is a joke. Every Halo game before 343 has managed to launch with a longer campaign, more maps, more custom game features, more game types, more everything!

I have always had Halo as my "stability" game. I play it a ton when it comes out and then leave as new games arrive, only to return to fill in release gaps or as a consistent multiplayer game with friends. I have played each Halo consistently from the day it's released to the launch of the new one. Halo 4 dropped the ball on that hard. Halo 5 is at least leagues better (in multiplayer) but so laser focused on a small handful of maps and modes that it loses all sight of what Halo actually is. I cannot believe I am so bored of this already.

343 has NO idea what Halo actually is, what makes it special, and how to build a game that lives up to that. That team needs a serious restructuring if this franchise will ever get another entry actually deserving of the IP.
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Yep.
 
leeh said:
No, please no. Then we have a situation like GoW where you get tons of US on European servers and vice versa.

Just let me see latency in game, that's all that matters to me, and should do with anyone else.
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Why would people choose a server in a different county?
 
Collingwood said:
Why would people choose a server in a different county?
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Gears seemed to encourage it with the netcode, but it's not exactly a good example of it. I did usually find if you was playing early in the morning, then there would be a lot of people from the US. That's probably due to tiredness.
 
I don't understand in the first place why they aren't making proper maps for BTB. The maps in Halo 4 were pretty damn good, fun and nice looking. Like others said here, where are the textures?

I just 343 could tell us what the plans are. Please don't let the upcoming free maps until next year not be Forge. I want some good looking maps.
 
superNESjoe said:
This update is killing it for me. The amount of content in the game is embarrassingly low. BTB only taking place on Forge maps is a joke. Every Halo game before 343 has managed to launch with a longer campaign, more maps, more custom game features, more game types, more everything!

I have always had Halo as my "stability" game. I play it a ton when it comes out and then leave as new games arrive, only to return to fill in release gaps or as a consistent multiplayer game with friends. I have played each Halo consistently from the day it's released to the launch of the new one. Halo 4 dropped the ball on that hard. Halo 5 is at least leagues better (in multiplayer) but so laser focused on a small handful of maps and modes that it loses all sight of what Halo actually is. I cannot believe I am so bored of this already.

343 has NO idea what Halo actually is, what makes it special, and how to build a game that lives up to that. That team needs a serious restructuring if this franchise will ever get another entry actually deserving of the IP.
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All of this is absolutely true, but i'll give them a few months to prove themselves here and see what they have in the sustain pipeline. If the new year rolls around and Halo is still scrambling about, may have to check out. This makes 4 games now giving them the benefit of the doubt. Halo games were juggernauts when it came to features and replayability and it's getting old waiting for a return to form.
 
superNESjoe said:
This update is killing it for me. The amount of content in the game is embarrassingly low. BTB only taking place on Forge maps is a joke. Every Halo game before 343 has managed to launch with a longer campaign, more maps, more custom game features, more game types, more everything!

I have always had Halo as my "stability" game. I play it a ton when it comes out and then leave as new games arrive, only to return to fill in release gaps or as a consistent multiplayer game with friends. I have played each Halo consistently from the day it's released to the launch of the new one. Halo 4 dropped the ball on that hard. Halo 5 is at least leagues better (in multiplayer) but so laser focused on a small handful of maps and modes that it loses all sight of what Halo actually is. I cannot believe I am so bored of this already.

343 has NO idea what Halo actually is, what makes it special, and how to build a game that lives up to that. That team needs a serious restructuring if this franchise will ever get another entry actually deserving of the IP.
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I looooove halo and like halo 5. But if some of you want to buy it consider what he wrote.
 
Honestly, the maps look ok. Wasn't expecting the first batch of content to come so soon, that's cool.

However, that doesn't change the fact that we need more than just forged maps. They should really clarify whether these are part of the 18 DLC maps coming (I'm guessing they are, now), and whether the new non-forged maps will all be remixes, or brand new (we know about brand-new Warzone maps, that's for sure, also Frankie seems to confirm actual BTB maps). They have a lot they should explain, and they can do so without it really spoiling everything that's coming.
 
I honestly believe 343 can't take the steps to make a proper Halo. They have had 6 or so years to do it.

I don't know what is going on there but I just feel they have some misguided talent in the studio. you can tell Ms threw them together with no sort of experience working together or something. There is no feeling in their craft.

I think that the difference with bungie is they were a group or like a family when they started Halo. You can't just throw that same kind of thing together.
 
Looking forward to it. :) and Forge in December. It's good stuff.

I love Forge for what it enables players to create, but I also hope handcrafted developer maps for BTB are coming.
 
Diablohead said:
i'd accept a direct port of halo 4 BTB maps if it means maps other then forge for BTB.
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The problem, I'm guessing, is that the Spartan abilities require a lot of reworking and testing to ensure balanced and exploit-free play. You can see how the added mobility in something like Titanfall has resulted in lower map counts due to added complexity for design and testing. Hopefully, the Forge content is just a stopgap between more premium asset-based map packs and a way to lead the community into Forge releasing wide shortly afterward.
 
BTB maps are just forge. They are so fucking ugly. I guess war zone gave them an excuse to ignore BTB. I wouldn't mind but these look like dog shit aesthetically. Are these shitty looking forge maps part of their count of maps they have promised? I'm so disappointed.


BTW I love war zone, arena, breakout etc but I remember when all reach btb maps became forge variants and I hated it. I like for maps to be by the devs with all of their tools. I'm looking forward to forge for the inevitable crazy fun custom games but not for maps in the BTB playlist. Just look at Orion and Pegasus versus other arena maps. Yuck yuck yuck this is disappointing.
 
Ol No Bones said:
BTB maps are just forge. They are so fucking ugly. I guess war zone gave them an excuse to ignore BTB. I wouldn't mind but these look like dog shit aesthetically. Are these shitty looking forge maps part of their count of maps they have promised? I'm so disappointed.
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It's a good job none of these Forge creations were made by valued contributors to GAF
at least one is.

You could at least attempt to rein in your over reactions for their benefit.
 
Ol No Bones said:
BTB maps are just forge. They are so fucking ugly. I guess war zone gave them an excuse to ignore BTB. I wouldn't mind but these look like dog shit aesthetically. Are these shitty looking forge maps part of their count of maps they have promised? I'm so disappointed.


BTW I love war zone, arena, breakout etc but I remember when all reach btb maps became forge variants and I hated it. I like for maps to be by the devs with all of their tools. I'm looking forward to forge for the inevitable crazy fun custom games but not for maps in the BTB playlist. Just look at Orion and Pegasus versus other arena maps. Yuck yuck yuck this is disappointing.
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krang said:
It's a good job none of these Forge creations were made by valued contributors to GAF
at least one is.

You could at least attempt to rein in your over reactions for their benefit.
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It has nothing to do with them or even the map design as I have yet to play it. Its that forge even now has serious limitations. I want the artists to draw up something interesting, and then devs to design a map with all the tools at their disposal to the best of their abilities. Any forger is completely beholden to whatever parts are available. There may be a shit ton of stuff for them to play with but it will not be the same as an original map designed from the ground up. We have already seen this before. I love BTB and 343 decided that it wasn't important. That's fine but now that its likely that BTB wont get any original maps I'm extremely disappointed.
 
Ol No Bones said:
It has nothing to do with them or even the map design as I have yet to play it. Its that forge even now has serious limitations. I want the artists to draw up something interesting, and then devs to design a map with all the tools at their disposal to the best of their abilities. Any forger is completely beholden to whatever parts are available. There may be a shit ton of stuff for them to play with but it will not be the same as an original map designed from the ground up. We have already seen this before. I love BTB and 343 decided that it wasn't important. That's fine but now that its likely that BTB wont get any original maps I'm extremely disappointed.
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Well it's all well and good expressing your opinion properly now having had someone mention it, but back to your original post, was this really necessary?

Ol No Bones said:
BTB maps are just forge. They are so fucking ugly. I guess war zone gave them an excuse to ignore BTB. I wouldn't mind but these look like dog shit aesthetically. Are these shitty looking forge maps part of their count of maps they have promised? I'm so disappointed.
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Come on, son.
 
krang said:
Well it's all well and good expressing your opinion properly now having had someone mention it, but back to your original post, was this really necessary?



Come on, son.
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Yes I meant it. That's the problem with forge maps in all halos. As good as the creators may want them to look they never look good. So spare me a lecture. Look at those maps and with a straight face and tell me those don't look like crap aesthetically. I was certainly hyperbolic but its incredibly disappointing that a beloved mode will likely get no original maps. I'm mad because I actually love this game and was hoping that it would be fully fleshed out with BTB maps made from the ground up.
 
krang said:
Well it's all well and good expressing your opinion properly now having had someone mention it, but back to your original post, was this really necessary?



Come on, son.
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what's wrong with him saying they are ugly? That is how people talk...

Let's not get too good two shoes now.
 
krang said:
It's a good job none of these Forge creations were made by valued contributors to GAF
at least one is.

You could at least attempt to rein in your over reactions for their benefit.
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It isn't their fault that the asthestics of forge don't seem too great. Maybe they made a good map, but I will never censor my opinion just because someone on Gaf may have worked on something. I give whoever it is mad props for putting in the time, but I don't care for how they look visually atm. Seems like that is more a limitation of forge rather than the creators. The bigger issue for me is that our first halo 5 experience with BTB is forge-made maps.

That aside, if I'm thinking of the right person, his map looks pretty good anyhow. It's the last two I don't care for.
 
Ol No Bones said:
Yes I meant it. That's the problem with forge maps in all halos. As good as the creators may want them to look they never look good. So spare me a lecture. Look at those maps and with a straight face and tell me those don't look like crap aesthetically. I was certainly hyperbolic but its incredibly disappointing that a beloved mode will likely get no original maps. I'm mad because I actually love this game and was hoping that it would be fully fleshed out with BTB maps made from the ground up.
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Didn't Frankie straight up deny that BTB wouldn't get normal maps?
 
Forge maps aren't too bad as long as they don't go overboard with them. I thought Halo Reach was spoilt a little bit by all of the constant forge maps they had in the playlists.
 
343 is doing a great job imo. They have really evolved as a studio and how they are interacting with the community. Things are looking good for Halo 5.
 
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