#halo-discussion

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wide trout
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Honestly I doubt modern Bungie would be able to do much better than 343

hollow bobcat
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Imagine if Epic games took over... hmmm

wide trout
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Not to be mean towards anyone but they aren’t exactly held in the highest regard in terms of dev teams either

wide trout
hollow bobcat
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Hell, I'd give the reins to one of the COD devs like Raven or Treyarch.

wide trout
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Were they ever even owned by MS?

wide trout
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This is a genuine question

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Do you think in the time they aren’t slaving away on the next COD that they will be making Infinite better in any significant way?

hollow bobcat
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Just any other dev but 343--more like 34.3 as in the number of people left (one is a child traveling around with a parent since there was no babysitter).

hollow bobcat
crystal iron
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This conversation is fruitless

wide trout
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You do realize that every dev team owned by Microsoft - gaming or otherwise - had massive layoffs the same time 343 did, right?

hollow bobcat
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I don't know who decided upon the campaign for Infinite (no spoilers), but everything that could have made it better was wasted. I felt like I was playing Halo 7 instead of Halo 6.

wide trout
hollow bobcat
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Other Halo games Oh hey, lots of colors to choose from for my Spartan. Let's go with white.

Halo Infinite Oh hey, there are some colo--wait, I have to pay money for white armor?

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Even the simplest things are done incorrectly.

wide trout
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The game is also 100% more free than every other Halo game was

crystal iron
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If you don’t like what’s happening send a ticket or something

hollow bobcat
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343: We cannot do cross core armor customization

Players: They why does this bot get to have them!? points at the bots

coarse mauve
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thx

wide trout
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There’s a ton of clipping and other issues which the bots shouldn’t have

hollow bobcat
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Then make adjustments

wide trout
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That takes time

hollow bobcat
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or let us accept the clipping to make us happy

crystal iron
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Easier said than done

wide trout
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^

hollow bobcat
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Or just start over with the armor customization and make it better.

crystal iron
hollow bobcat
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At least offer the cross core as a "beta" and the issues will be fixed later.

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At least that decision would be something worth mentioning in the media.

wide trout
wide trout
hollow bobcat
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They have the assests. Just edit the menu and customization, including RGB sliders.

wide trout
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I don’t think you understand that the multiplayer needs to be monetized so the game can turn a profit

hollow bobcat
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Literally anything I say that becomes a reality would benefit. Also, you can't acquire monetization at this point since 90% of the population died off.

wide trout
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“just edit the menu and customization” is a feat that would take more man hours than you can conceive

wide trout
hollow bobcat
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Steam charts is a major part of it

crystal iron
hollow bobcat
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Although, it's not the entire story. However, it sets itself as a bad example of the game's health.

wide trout
hollow bobcat
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November 2021 - Avg. Players 102k
May 2022 (6 months later) - Avg. players 6418.
Currently, it's floating around 3000-4000 on steam alone.

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(steamcharts)

wide trout
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SteamDB

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Can you show me where the november average was 100k?

hollow bobcat
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I would if I could copy and paste the image

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steamcharts. Type in Halo Infinite.

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Hell, there was an article about how Infinite lost 90% of it's playerbase.

crystal iron
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Kotaku?

hollow bobcat
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Techradar, game pressure, Reddit, etc.

plain junco
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Yeah the customization is atrocious

crystal iron
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So fairly unreliable sources

wide trout
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yup…

plain junco
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Gee what do you want, a peer reviewd study by harvard?

hollow bobcat
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The numbers are literally there. You can browse the information, take a coffee break, and rest up with a 2 hour nap between the long respawn timers in Halo Infinite.

wide trout
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Halo Infinite is a healthy game in the AAA space

crystal iron
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8 seconds will not kill you

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You don’t like it? Just don’t die

wide trout
hollow bobcat
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of course the game will have roughly 30k players in the first month or so.

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But what about in the next few months? Big drops

wide trout
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The game’s population fell consistently with almost every other AAA game released within the last 11 years

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With the exception of Rainbow 6, which is a weird outlier

hollow bobcat
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90% lost in 3 months is massive, especially for a Halo game.

wide trout
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Is it?

hollow bobcat
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YES

plain junco
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For a f2p game especially

hollow bobcat
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People hate MWII and Warzone II and tell us that game is dying, but it still has 81,000 players--75,000 more than Infinite.

hollow bobcat
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I'm hopping off a bit.

strange estuary
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oooooof

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tbf this only accounts for steam players which i assume are a very small minority

dusk crane
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Can I play private game with my friend in halo reach

deft bloom
# wide trout

Also infinite released along with 2 of the worst cod and bf games in the fps genre too. Would be interesting to see a 1 year time period

tepid latch
strange estuary
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wish the game was good though

tepid latch
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My only issues are the store...

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and Customization

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gameplay is pretty solid

rugged quartz
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Well I have more issues than just that but

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the bandit is solid

analog salmon
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So I’ve done Spartan Ops Episode 9 twice on legendary and my “Complete all chapters in Spartans Ops Episode 9” is stuck at 80%

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-__-

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4/5

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And the complete all chapters achievements are on 48/50 so who knows what other level is missing

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Cause I’ve done every other episodes achievement

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If you do a ticket will they give you the achievements?

low blaze
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That's rough

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That means you gotta replay a spartan ops level

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And that's boring and repetitive

analog salmon
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I’m not doing the whole episode a 3rd time on legendary just incase it bugged twice

low blaze
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I'm so glad I don't care about achievements

analog salmon
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I know they bug sometimes and you do it again and it works but I have no clue which chapter it is cause I didn’t pay attention

low blaze
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I don't want to play spartan ops on legendary

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That sounds like agony

analog salmon
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It’s pretty easy now you can use bandanna and acrophobia but doing the same episode 3 times would drive me insane

low blaze
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It's easy regardless, that isn't what makes spartan ops unfun

analog salmon
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I think I will just mod the game on PC to make the chapters instantly complete and risk having my account banned lol

low blaze
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The thing that makes spartan ops unfun is the spamming of enemies and not having a penalty for dying

analog salmon
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Appealing a ban is probably easier then getting them to fix the achievements

low blaze
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Placing as many enemies as humanly possible in multiplayer maps

analog salmon
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It’s a boring mode but I just spread it over the last few years

low blaze
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It was an awful idea to do an entire run of spartan ops

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20 hours of the same repetitive boring gameplay over and over again

analog salmon
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Idk what the play time is tbh

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I feel like most chapters take 5-10 minutes

low blaze
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I can see why they didn't make a season 2 of spartan ops

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A comic book is way less boring

analog salmon
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I did it heroic on 360 without bandana or acrophobia and that was a mistake

low blaze
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You can use skulls in spartan ops?

analog salmon
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On MCC you can

low blaze
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The worst thing about spartan ops is that it's required for halo 5

analog salmon
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Even heroic is brutal in this mode without unlimited ammo

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Yah

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Tbh I forgot the whole story because I was doing it heroic back before I played halo 5

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I was just seething the whole time

low blaze
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why did they introduce the leader of the new covenant in spartan ops?

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Why did they kill him off immediately in halo 5

analog salmon
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This time around I didn’t even watch the cutscenes

low blaze
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Why would you torture yourself like that?

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The only reason why anyone would play spartan ops is for the story

analog salmon
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Going for that 700/700 brother

low blaze
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I want to know who's idea it was to have a solo legendary achievement in spartan ops

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I could barely do one mission solo legendary

analog salmon
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A sadist developer

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Putting it frankly

low blaze
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I can't imagine doing that many missions solo on legendary

analog salmon
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I was not gonna do 700/700 because of this achievement but then they added bandanna and I figured whatever

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I was already half way through replaying it

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Switched to legendary cause with bandanna it’s easy whatever difficulty

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Finished and was gonna go back and do the rest on legendary

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But I’m at 48/50 for normal

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1 missing is the one in Ep9

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The other I have no idea

low blaze
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Mine is bugged and only counted episode 1

analog salmon
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The in game completion is local only and you can ignore pretty much

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The achievement tracks your progress regardless of what it says in game

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But the achievements still bug sometimes

low blaze
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Id imagine spartan ops would be at the very least barrable if it had online matchmaking

analog salmon
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Did it back on 360?

low blaze
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But Id also imagine most people would quit half way through after realizing it isnt fun

low blaze
analog salmon
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They tried to do a l4d mode and didn’t include matchmaking 🤦‍♀️

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They should have just cut it completely without matchmaking and redid it for halo 5

low blaze
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Didn't they not include firefight so they could have spartan ops?

analog salmon
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Yah but honestly they would be forgiven for no traditional FF if they nailed Spartan Ops in Halo 5

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343 is over ambitious at times

low blaze
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They have a tendency to abandon things that don't work the first time

analog salmon
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Ya very knee jerk reactions to criticism

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Maybe the Spartan ops idea isn’t amazing, but it could have been wayyyyy better then what it was

low blaze
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I just realized it's 3 in the morning so I'm going to bed now

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See ya

analog salmon
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G’night man

rugged quartz
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By halo 5’s time. Networking in pve was better

ornate stirrup
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maybe I'm going crazy, but is it just me only getting bandit tactical slayer?

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Like, I'm trying to get either BR or Sidekick tac slayer so I can finish a challenge but I'm only getting bandits

coarse vale
vapid marten
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Though I could've counted wrong

full warren
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The game really should have a thing where you can pick which server you are on because I been put mid game into an australia server while I am in the UK... seriously how does that even happen

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Mid game, not even start of a game, they were like on weapons 4 of the weapon escalation thing

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I just don't believe there isn't a single match going on right now that is not usa, uk, europe, or middle east that would put me mid game into a game in australia,

analog salmon
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there's a local region option

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which as far as i know makes it so you can only join European servers if you are in the Europe "region"

silent bone
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Does anyone know if Halo has a "Account merging" system? Spastically for a Halo Infinite account?

coarse dagger
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It does not

silent bone
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Sad hours :[

plain junco
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Unless you purchased a great deal of things on a separate account you can just log into your other account with minimal losses

silent bone
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True :]

rugged quartz
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It would be cool if there was a way to share armour for machinima mode or something when doing splitscreen

half yacht
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War

bitter umbra
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when are they going to rotate new halo 3 btb maps in? I'm tired of playing standoff and long shore, I miss the veto system tbh

hollow bobcat
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Is it a sin to say that Halo 4 had an amazing soundtrack? In some cases, better than the original trilogy?

onyx latch
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Depends on where you ask.

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Or when.

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Or who.

hollow bobcat
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I mean, Halo had some banger tracks here and there. Halo 2 probably had one of the best soundtracks. However, "Arrival" from Halo 4 dials everything up to 11.

onyx latch
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I'm more of a fan of Belly of the Beast and Halo 5's Light is Green tracks personally.

signal ivy
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Arrival, Green and Blue, Nemesis, Solace, To Galaxy, 117. All great tracks

hollow bobcat
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Walk Softly from Halo 5 is my favorite.

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AKA the better version of the Mantis theme.

onyx latch
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That's always a bop.

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If Infinite gets a Campaign 2 someday, I hope the Mantis is added with something close to that version.

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(If they decide to "Marty-ize" it I will be very upset)

hollow bobcat
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I hope infinite never exists

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In terms of the campaign, that experience was awful.

onyx latch
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Nah.

magic night
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I had fun in it

hollow bobcat
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If I went back in time and was handed the reins, I would scrap the open world altogether. I was just continue the game exactly where Halo 5 left off and added those story bits into gameplay.

onyx latch
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The idea was solid. I just think that the environment could've been something a little less boring.

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I love the open world for the same reason I loved ODST's open world.

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Lots of little stories and things to see. Lots of room to goof off.

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Well, ODST actually didn't have many mini-'story' areas, but still.

magic night
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I liked Infinite's open world for those reasons. Disliked ODST's because it didn't really give you much to goof off with.

onyx latch
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It 100% nailed the vibe though, it gets lonely.

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If the game were actually hard it'd be better.

hollow bobcat
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"If you ever fall for a woman, make sure she has balls." ~Buck

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Buck did not need to tell me twice considering what I'm into.

magic night
hollow bobcat
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When you mentioned difficulty, the first thing I can think of was boarding the covenant ship in Truth and Reconciliation...

magic night
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Although I guess difficulty did play into it, because what combat encounters were there were like playing the tiniest fraction of a mission before moving on.

onyx latch
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T&R isn't really hard either.

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I mean Halo in general isn't a very challenging franchise lmao

hollow bobcat
onyx latch
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I mean... Eh?

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Marines were a bigger threat to me than the Covenant lmao

white birch
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LASO including the Bandana skull was kind of silly honestly in terms of difficulty.
"Just how many dynamo grenades do you have, Demon?"
"Heheheheheh lightning go BRRRRRR"

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I still need to finish Legendary at some point.

smoky wave
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I had my fun going with the grapple and fighting, I had a lot of fun with the campaign despite my issues with it

magic night
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Being able to take on any fight pretty much completely on my own terms was good. Plus there was a good bit of variety to the random enemy encounters.

wide trout
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I remember that being something highly praised about Bungie’s games

hollow bobcat
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Halo Infinite felt like Halo 7. The good Halo story was just skipped over.

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Oh, and that Cortana wannabe replacement was extremely terrible. I would have just pushed the button myself to delete her.

smoky wave
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The story was fine tbh, my complain goes more of variety of environments but overall the story was that, fine

magic night
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I also thought the story in Infinite was fine. It wasn't a masterpiece, but it was pretty good for what it was. I would've preferred the story to continue in the direction it was going with 5.

smoky wave
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Yeah

hollow bobcat
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I won't spoil anything, but one part of the story that revealed everything that occurred after Halo 5 got me so pissed off. I said to myself, "these should have been playable missions!!!"

magic night
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I also enjoyed with the environments we got in. We didn't get multiple biomes, but the map never felt samey to me. Each region felt pretty distinct and I never felt like "I've been here before" when encountering a new location.

hollow bobcat
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Continuing on with the AI, I would have told "not Cortana" to hop in the chip so that I could throw it into the abyss.

smoky wave
hollow bobcat
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I figure it's a worse fate to go rampant alone

magic night
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She might actually follow protocol and delete herself if that happened.

hollow bobcat
smoky wave
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So aggressive

hollow bobcat
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Also very true.

signal ivy
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I like The Weapon

analog salmon
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The open world looks bland because of a lack of far shadows and density of scenery to me

hollow bobcat
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The weapon is the dog that was supposed to replace Brian Griffin.

analog salmon
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It’s the contrast between the detailed interiors and the last gen looking open world that sticks out to me

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It’s why when the sun is setting or rising the game looks best, it hides the lack of far shadows

hollow bobcat
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It would have been more interesting if the open world had deserts, snowy mountains, maybe even a bog.

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But instead, we were just given trees, grass, and metallic interiors.

analog salmon
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I just think they needed more time optimising the engine to allow for more detail at distance

hollow bobcat
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I think the game should have had an extra 2 years of development just to scrap all the terrible things.

smoky wave
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The forerunner places was perfect and I wanted more

analog salmon
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I’m pretty sure the reason they won’t add RT shadows to campaign is it will not run on Xbox and the game will looks dramatically better on PC

hollow bobcat
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And we had no explanation as to what happened to the forerunners. That's how bad the story was. It was like, "Hey everyone, we heard you didn't like Halo 5. So we just poofed that story for no reason."

analog salmon
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And it’s not that the Xbox can’t render RT shadows at distance, it’s just the engine is not optimised well enough

crystal iron
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In a perfect world, we might have gotten more biomes, but we do not live in that timeline

coarse dagger
coarse dagger
signal ivy
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That's a nice nameplate

rugged quartz
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Yes, both today's free ones are nice

velvet root
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so I tried all day at different times to play halo reach multiplayer on mcc, he's been like this for weeks now, does anyone know what the problem could be ?

crystal iron
velvet root
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I try other game modes but nothing

crystal iron
velvet root
celest heron
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do the challenges

fallen flame
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there's no such thing as permanent challenges

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its just the weekly challenges

celest heron
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there's also monthlies if you're referring to mcc.

west lake
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Man

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@celest heron help me in general please

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😭 I can’t fight the weird by my self

celest heron
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just ignore

white birch
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Well that was a weird snipers game.
One guy on our team leaves. We start getting thrashed by one dude on the other side specifically.
HE leaves, randomly, even though his team is WELL ahead of us.
We still lose. What in the actual heck

lime robin
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The second guy probably crashed. Heck any of them could've crashed.

celest heron
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your team wasn't good enough to overcome the deficit.

white birch
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I think he was on PC so probably.

warped badge
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The tv show has finished filming season 2

celest heron
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the last tab on the right in the challenge menu.

lime robin
crystal iron
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Why don't grenades count as explosives in Infinite? This makes no sense.

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The Cindershot and Rocket Launcher count, but not grenades?

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Projectile go boom boom, how is that hard to understand? I didn't know the metagame changed in Infinite.

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(it might be a desync issue on my end but grenades don't count for the ultimate challenge.)

wide trout
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Yeah I think that’s a common issue

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I don’t think I was getting grenade kills either, and a couple people on the forums were talking about it too

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If you want to be technical, Halo grenades use shrapnel to kill, not directly explosions

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maybe that’s why

crystal iron
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We literally frag blasted the vent core in The Maw...that's confusing

wide trout
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Have plasma grenades worked?

crystal iron
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I've been getting explosive kills in Fiesta so I can't say for Plasma grenades.

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man i love my service tag lol

low blaze
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It took half of the book intitled "halo the fall of reach" for the book to actually be about the fall of reach

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I think the movie adaptation completely ignored the fall of reach too

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And just focused on the first half with the origin of the spartan IIs

frosty condor
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That’s why that book is my favorite

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It tells the story of why and how the program was created

deft bloom
crystal iron
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Soooo Any updates on Cross Core, or PVE,

I haven't really played or kept up with the game. Since the Bandit rifle update

zinc glen
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quick question what would you say is the best halo machinima in your opinion?

proven pollen
zinc glen
zinc glen
crystal iron
zinc glen
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finally PvE content I might come back if its worth it

crystal iron
zinc glen
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I'm more of a PvE person than a PvP

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and the lack of PvE content has been frustrating

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but if we're finally getting stuff I'll look forward to it albeit sceptically

proven pollen
crystal iron
# zinc glen I'm more of a PvE person than a PvP

I mean More into the PVE side of things, but do enjoy some PVP fairly well.

But yea with Halo Infinite I have just decided to never get over excited or get my hopes up, and rather reserve that excitement for other stuff. I just kinda sor back and wai to see what happens and if it's good it's good if not ok, no fuss, no rants I just go back and play Monster Hunter Rise.

proven pollen
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I too hope for a deep and engaging PvE content to come.

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Would love to see a “Spartan Ops 2.0” or something.

zinc glen
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there is so much potential

zinc glen
proven pollen
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I try to do similar

zinc glen
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It's not a big deal if they don't

crystal iron
# zinc glen there is so much potential

Yes, however I do believe the game itself is built on such a disasterious amount of Bad Code or just Code that Is beyond repair that even if they are genuinely attempting to make something amazing, they are essentially sabotaged by the game itself and it's Almost flu by night coding.

zinc glen
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but ever since I watched gamecheat13 I have always wanted AI in forge

crystal iron
zinc glen
crystal iron
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Hopefully the forge community has been working on some PVE esk map templates that others xannjp.into and build up on custom designed PVE Expereinces

zinc glen
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hopefully

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when was the last time you played Infinite?

crystal iron
# zinc glen like what games?

Well I'm enjoying monster hunter Rise, and No Man asky at the moment. I but two castles in Norman sky I enjoy pushing my limits of creativity in that game

crystal iron
zinc glen
crystal iron
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After that I kinda lost interest as ot got mundane for me

zinc glen
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I just had zero interest in the multiplayer

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I enjoy PvP but that's only on the custom browser (for MCC)

crystal iron
# zinc glen I've heard good - alright things about those games

With MHR I joined the discord and learned show to build Meta Builds for my weapon and that made the game actually very fun as I have to farm specific monsters to get specific sets and it makes the hunts a bit easier not to mention just learning each monsters attack pattern.

Ii also play Elden Ring. For me those games are very fun as you have to earn everything and it doesn't just hand you the stuff or Paywall it all

zinc glen
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and that was a blast of a game only 8 bosses but they were really good

crystal iron
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Never heard of that game, maybe I'll check it out if it's on Xbox

zinc glen
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you'll enjoy it if you do play it

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though its similar to Sekiro more than any other soulsborne games

inland minnow
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back to halo discussion or take it to dms please folks

patent void
stoic pike
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ME700/IRONFIRE700#9105: If anyone in the chat has a way to make recommendations to halo, please relay this idea: PLEASE STOP pairing the solo players against squads! Squads have a level of coordination that makes the game unfair to uncoordinated bands of solos, and they cant expect everyone to always have friends online. I could understand a duo playing with the solos, or a match like this when there's no other quick pairing, but matches like this shouldn't happen for me as often as they do. This concept could easily apply to any fps multiplayer game too. Anyone else agree here?

limpid lance
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You think we’ll be seeing anything at the Xbox showcase or we’re left in the dust again?

stoic pike
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?

limpid lance
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I’m wondering if we’ll see anything for season 4 or if 343’s gonna just be like “naaah we’re good”

edgy path
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Infinite BSin me fr

both hammers swing at the exact same time, only I'm killed or even damaged

previously I melee a guy who's only just started to swing his hammer and he somehow also kills me even though his swing shouldn't be anywhere near the damage arc

hoary basalt
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hammers have no counter

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you cant even out space them because they no shield you and its an easy cleanup

undone arch
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why even bother talking anymore either, 90% of the games its only me doing callouts, so end up just muting halfway when people dont listen to the "name hes right behind you" .... dead

white birch
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I mean if your playing social games, yeah, thats how its been basically forever.
Most people dont wanna coordinate in game, they just wanna do their own thing and not focus on the fight.

That being said; motion tracker

rugged quartz
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No athlon!

full warren
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whats with games starting with a player already DCed, I had a game start missing 2 players

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they didn't leave they just never joined

analog salmon
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just incase someone can magically see their opponents and alt-F4s before the game starts

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i suppose you can see what mode/map is and game the system some way but idk

full warren
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Literally played a 2v4 odd ball then a 1 flag capture where everyone on my team went 0/X seriosuly this match making is driving me to hate this game

full warren
devout kite
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Why isn’t iratus speaking knowing I have him as an AI

undone arch
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day 5 of raging vs full stacks as solos

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1900 onxy, D3 D2 and a g3

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sounds fair against all plats

trail karma
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yeahh having the same issues with the melee in this game, it NEVER seems to work properly always they kill me n i dont get the trade or when i swing it just doesnt connect makes the sound effect n everythin just no damage

devout kite
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Btb unlimited sucks since it’s the same mode over and over again

celest heron
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don't know what that is

dull bluff
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at this time of day every sweat and their e-kitten is on.

deft bloom
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Rip to your 3 teammates

undone arch
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oh weell

dull bluff
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match making is abysmal if you're solo queueing

stray seal
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There's too many challenges that don't say in PVP yet require it. Really annoying.

whole schooner
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Omg

dull bluff
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does anyone else feel like the rebound ravager is just a worse version of the base ravager? i really like the base ravager but the gimmick version is just strange

whole schooner
dull bluff
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the ravanger is pretty solid if you know how to use it. its only a two burst kill & its power up is great annoying vehicles

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but the rebound just makes no sense

whole schooner
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It has literally no use in 4v4

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And same issue with the tracker hydra

dull bluff
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agreed. its just a goofy weapon to have that really doesnt have much of an impact on 4v4

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actually, the hydra w/o the lock on is a 3 shot kill, which is pretty solid considering you only need to aim at their feet to do enough damage.

whole schooner
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Honestly, Halo 5s hydra was actually sometimes as powerful as the spnkr/pilum. Halo infinite made it completely useless.

dull bluff
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on top of that it requires one shot to get a 1 shot melee

celest heron
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it's good for making shields low, but that's about it

dull bluff
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i think the lock on setting for the hydra should do more damage to vehicles. either that or the projectile goes faster

whole schooner
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If you are even a little bit higher, the whole thing just does no damage.

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Wait, literally everything we have said so far is true for both the hydra and the ravager?

dull bluff
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lol yea

celest heron
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happens when you have an oversaturated sandbox.

whole schooner
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Infinite happens.

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What happens when you have a sandbox with too many overpowered weapons

wide trout
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it’s an arena shooter

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the point is to have some weapons to fight over which will give a team an advantage for a short while

whole schooner
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Halo is an arena shooter. But an arena shooter isn’t quite halo.

celest heron
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weapons take on the same role when there's too many of them.

whole schooner
wide trout
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Map control defines who wins or loses

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Part of that is power weapon spawns

whole schooner
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Plasma rifle, assault rifle, pilum.

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Then they called the Brute plasma rifle, Longshot, and spnkr variants

celest heron
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look at CE if you want to see how it should be on paper.

whole schooner
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Also, raise your hand if you think that the bandit and commando don’t both need to exist in the same map on the same time.

whole schooner
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7 weapons, 2 grenades. Perfect.

wide trout
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Does anyone know if Escalation's weapon variants count for this?

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whole schooner
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?

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Like, you mean bandit counting to AR, and such?

wide trout
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No

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Longshot AR counting as AR

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For example

whole schooner
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I think so.

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In forge, every weapon counts as a separate weapon type.

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Then, you choose Longshot or default weapon configuration.

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In theory, they should check for “Weapon Type” not “Weapon.”

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That’s how you make combined weapons.

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You choose one Weapon type, but take the configuration from a different weapon.

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But when you tell it to Get Weapon, it takes the weapon you used to define “weapon type”

vapid marten
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oh how fun. Not a single Bandit challenge, and Tactical Slayer won't give me anything else but Bandits

analog salmon
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They should just group the standard starting weapons into one challenge 🤦‍♀️

thorny stratus
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I don't know bout' yall....

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But I'm still on heros of reach

wide trout
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Use spoiler tags

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||Spoilered text||

serene furnace
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I didn't say the name of the gamemode

thorny stratus
wide trout
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Don't care, use spoiler tags

serene furnace
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Will the question at least be answered if I do?

wide trout
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Doubtful

thorny stratus
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Who is the voice actor for butlr?

serene furnace
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A person

thorny stratus
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No dip sherlock

serene furnace
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And that is more of an answer than my question got

coarse fractal
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In mcc can you still earn achievements if you have non scoring skulls enabled? i want that skull with rare dialogues

magic night
serene furnace
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Non scoring skulls only disable competitive achievements, those being par time and par score

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But other achievements related to completing missions or getting easter eggs from the missions still count

coarse fractal
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damn

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then ig no skull, i still rather every achievement i may get than lose some for a skull

low blaze
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Why do none of the main 343 games have ODSTs?

wide trout
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They do

low blaze
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They have ODST spartan armor

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That isn't an odst

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That's a spartan that looks like an ODST

vapid marten
serene furnace
analog salmon
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for 4 and 5 I just think 343 were focused on introducing the Spartan 4s

serene furnace
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Some of the marines you rescue in Infinite are ODSTs, but it's hard to tell because they got no armor

analog salmon
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i mean the question then just becomes why dont they have the iconic dudes wearing ODST armour lol

full warren
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heatwave not a banished weapon?

wide trout
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Nope

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heatwave is a forerunner or hardlight weapon

serene furnace
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Covenant/Banished weapons are mostly based on plasma, Forerunner weapons are exclusively based on hardlight

white birch
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Fun thing I noticed; the Shockbrace on Mirage says it's used in melee...and when you melee with most UNSC rifles; you can see it on your Spartan when they move. So it WOULD work like it's said too in the blurb. You just bonk your foe in the face

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Actually does any other game but Halo melee using the weapon itself? Most everything else has a knife or the feet in Titanfall

civic sluice
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Hunt Showdown.

full warren
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Can't escape weapons escaltion even going to quick play....

analog salmon
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i dont play it but they seem to have halo style melee now rather then the classic knife

analog salmon
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always been an objective guy but infinite has pushed me to Team Slayer

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no silly modes and better starting weapons

thorny stratus
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It's 3:43

serene furnace
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2:43 over here

thorny stratus
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Oh

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I meant est

last crater
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Hello

deft bloom
ruby lake
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me: pings the objective 20 times

teammates: "huh-" dies

crystal iron
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Oh Dang , I just committed Heresy, I went against my Better Judgement and didn't take my own advice and went ahead and ore ordered Armored Core 6

onyx latch
ruby lake
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boy i wonder what's the next event: dippin' chicken?

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nah, that's gonna be some sort of kfc collab event or whatever lol

crystal iron
# onyx latch Ore ordered

Pre ordered, Honestly All this means is Elden Ring DLC drops right afterwards, so I got Armored Core 6, Elden Ring DLC and Starfeild on a span of 2 months or less

onyx latch
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A bubbling fry oil mythic and armor effect.

ruby knoll
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Elden Mid

ruby lake
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i dont even know how many polygons im made of

crystal iron
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U used to call me on my

coarse dagger
crystal iron
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Dang

surreal solstice
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Isn't a big deal but I wish the blue "clips" on the util/eyespy-II chest attachment for SPI was either steely/silver or used your armor coating color, had bounded physics similar to weapon charms or were at least pointed downwards. might be cool if the lens on the shoulder used your visor color too.

also the radio antenna on the util/project ra zspec chest attachment for SPI gets really close to clipping into like most of the helmet attachments. Would be cool if there was a version without the radio in my opinion.

ruby lake
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i wish to put more than just 1 armor chestpiece attatchment

civic sluice
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So Dihn isnt a spartan 4?

ruby lake
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idk what dihn is

wide trout
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He's a 4

civic sluice
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Then someone going to need to walk me through the new cutscene.

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Because he simultaniously states the site was used during the covenant war, and that site is where he got his first spartan armor.

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4s were not made until a bit after.

wide trout
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They don't ever say that the site was decomissioned

civic sluice
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Aside from being abandoned with a non fuctioning elevator shaft.

wide trout
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I blame the Banished

surreal solstice
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It could be that the site itself was built before the covenant war, but that he did not receive his armor at the site until later. Two separate events? or perhaps he did and the spartan 4 program actually started earlier than is recorded in most official documents. Or it might be a retcon. Or it could be that Iratus messed with his mind so much he's getting chronology confused.

wide trout
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I was mostly trying to insinuate that first theory

civic sluice
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I don't know, between the age difference of Dihn in his SPI armor in the S3 trailer and current Dihn and him implying he had been there a long time ago ("back in the day")

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Mind there was like 7 years between Halo 3 and 4, that probably constitutes back in the day.

wide trout
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I’m sure it does

onyx latch
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He's likely the first class of IVs alongside Agryna and Palmer.

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(Which would explain why she 'knows' Dinh enough to guess how he'd react)

wide trout
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didn’t the whole first go innie?

civic sluice
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Do you think theres like a spartan core social hierarchy?

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Cause I cant see Mirage spartans being regarded too highly seeing as the point of their armor is to cut costs to save money.

onyx latch
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Zane and her very, very dead compatriots were not considered the IVs we know today.

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Just saw part 2 of the cinematic.

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Man, oh man, they are hitting it out of the park with these developments.

wide trout
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I love 343i so much

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remember to spoiler tag if you talk about the content of the cutscene

onyx latch
wide trout
uneven bison
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Behold the 🗿

blazing pike
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For research purposes how would one safely handle a magnum like one does with gun etiquette? Like holding it without your finger on the trigger?

wide trout
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Probably treat it like any other firearm

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It's about comparable to a .50 AE desert eagle in terms of power and weight

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give or take

blazing pike
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Alright, thank you very much!

ancient briar
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I haven’t been here in a while, is this the Halo Infinite chat? I swear it had its own chat at one point

wide trout
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You can discuss anything related to Halo here

onyx latch
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Every firearm is a firearm. There's no question to how you handle it.

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My reaction to you flagging me with a .22 training pistol is the same as if you aim a loaded Desert Eagle or M16. Getting you to stop being such a fool, to disarm you, and make it as clear as possible that you are a fool for messing around. The only proper response is getting you off the field for your foolish behavior, and to notify any possible gaining organization of your failure at basic discipline to further ensure your inability to do something so foolish again.

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Sorry, gun safety is something I feel very strongly about. I'm honestly sanitizing my response.

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Extensively.

left snow
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There have been regular posts about solos vs 4 stacks. So I jotted down some game data for the last 50 ranked games.

My team;
1+1+1+1 = 25
1+1+2 = 21
1+3 = 4

So, pretty much 50% of my games are a solo stack. And 50% have a visiting squad.

Their team;
1+1+1+1 = 7
1+1+2 = 9
1+3 = 13
2+2 = 2
4 = 19

Which is more squads than I expected. Nearly 4/10 games are vs a 4 stack.

tepid latch
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depending on player base and skill level, wouldn't it be much harder and take a longer time searching in MM to make 4Stack v 4Stack rather than just placing together two teams that are close in skill level?

analog salmon
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it doesnt have to be 4stack v 4stack

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its just about not putting a bunch of solos against a 4 stack

magic night
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The compromise they made was that stacked teams have an elevated skill rating compared to teams composed of randoms.

analog salmon
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a 4 stack just should not face 4 solos. there's 3+1 or 2+2 that is far more fair then 1+1+1+1

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2+1+1 also probably shouldnt face a 4

left snow
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But stacks have MMR weightings. I've won 60% of my matches of solo vs 4 stacks.

analog salmon
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fair enough but i find it's harder

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and some nights i would just keep getting the same stack

left snow
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So yes. They could probably control the spread of squads better. But as long as they apply the appropriate weighting it should still be 50:50 going into the match.

left snow
analog salmon
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to an extent i probably just remember getting destroyed by stacks and never really remember the times i beat a stack

blazing pike
crystal iron
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HALO IS REAAAL

left snow
magic night
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It's also a pretty well known phenomenon that negative experiences tend to have a greater impact than positive ones. You can play 5 good games for every bad one, and the bad ones will leave the most impact.

rugged quartz
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Huh?

cursive stratus
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Halo👍

rugged quartz
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There is no AI in forge? Not yet

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And what do you mean everything is frozen?

half thorn
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im sorry but it's pretty ridiculous how my settings STILL get reset every other time i boot up the game. it really demotivates me from playing the game. was hoping this mid season update would have fixed it

zenith storm
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guys im playing halo CE and im excaping from the flood parasite infectors

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and they are creepy asl

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what do i do

lime robin
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Shoot them

wide trout
lime robin
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The swamp facility was super confusing for me the first time I played, but you'll figure it out :)

zenith storm
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nah i just got jumpscared

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im skippingbv tghis one

wide trout
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If you don’t like this one then you’ll hate the next one

outer sand
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And various levels throughout the trilogy

crystal iron
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You might get more bored than spooked the more you play levels with them in it

surreal solstice
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Imo it would’ve been cool if each of the fractures added new weapons themed to the core (only being available in event playlists mainly). Came up with these for fun cuz I was bored:

Yoroi:
Lotus Blades (dual short energy swords, can throw them like boomerangs)
Beetle Grenades (stick to ground and then crawl towards players a short distance before exploding)

Eaglestrike:
Leadbolter (basically a bruteshot/blast shotgun but UNSC themed)
Battlement Wall (mobile shield that you can reflect bullets at a short distance and whack people with, kinda like a repulsor but not.)

Rakshaka:
Phoenix SMG (incendiary smg, maybe a variant of the commando rifle)
Hookwire (grenade that sticks to the ground, activates when an enemy gets near it and hooks them to the ground temporarily)

Also I know rakshaka isn’t technically a fracture but, whatever yknow. Anyways, sorry for the long message.

rugged quartz
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Well chimera

surreal solstice
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Didn’t think about chimera for some reason thinkingchief probably because it’s so new or something

full warren
tepid latch
full warren
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Well there should be because you are teaming up for an advantage, every other game does it why can't halo

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league of legend always try to match teams vs teams

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If you want to play with friends then you should expect the queue times to be slightly longer

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This is pretty much expected in all online games.

leaden schooner
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Is there going to be campaign dlc?

zinc glen
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hopefully

left snow
full warren
leaden schooner
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Oh what a shame

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Do we know if we might get another halo even if it’s far away?

full warren
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well they will probably do a dlc at some point maybe a few years away considering halo infinite was not the successful they thought it could been

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so If the game is not making tons of money they have no incentive to update it

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but no one want to spend money on a dying game so its a lose lose situation

high nebula
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Hi

zinc glen
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Hi

crystal iron
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Hi

solid ingot
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Hi

toxic tangle
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Hi

onyx latch
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Though Chimera would likely just use Promethean weaponry.

neat lynx
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Any eta on when the settings glitch will be fixed?

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Ie settings aren't saving @mention/reply to meee if know!

solid ingot
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sorry for ping

onyx latch
solid ingot
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fair enough

quasi shard
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Something I saw elsewhere and wanted to ask: Did the 360 Halo's get final offline content unlock patches when they were sunset?

(Mainly curious since I heard Japanese arcade cabinets with online unlocks and content do something similar)

young glen
sullen anvil
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Do we know when we could expect Plaza? I thought we were getting our mid season update yesterday tbh

coarse dagger
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Updates like that will always be announced in advance

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Yesterday was just the event launch

analog salmon
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the Pit had 4 rockets when it landed and then got taken out of ranked for 2 weeks because of problems, so I just want them to make sure its ready before it drops

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as much as i encourage them to tweak maps after landing, they really need to get them out in a playable state at minimum

vapid marten
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anyone else feels like the Bandit is subject to desynch?

wide trout
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If one thing is subject to “desync” then everything is

vapid marten
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Then I'm just extremely unlucky with it in Tac Slayer cause it feels very inconsistent

rugged quartz
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im good with the tactical bandit

crystal iron
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I'm still waiting for the PVE, Cross Core announcements, that's why I drop in from time to time.

Granted I feel I'ma be extremely rusty when those things do come and I jump back into the game

devout kite
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I only jump in when there’s a new weekly reward

rugged quartz
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This season is all new weekly rewards

analog salmon
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gotta be a good reward and gotta have a not horrible capstone challenge

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for some reason when i jump back in im super rusty with controller but not with kbm

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i guess cause i dont play anything else competitive with controller so i just forget how to track enemies in halo's mp

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also game has a weird acceleration curve i got use to but seems much harder to relearn compared to MCC

vapid marten
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nevermind, having desynch, skewer registered every second shot

sterile meadow
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I have an issue that's not on my end, I'm wondering if anyone notices it, I don't need any help or anything

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This is something I've noticed, let me know if you notice this:

Halo infinite, fire your weapon upon spawn, notice the trigger motors on the controller triggers, then, die, and respawn, fire your weapon and notice, there is no trigger vibration, pause then unpause, then you get trigger vibration back, weird.

You know the xbox controller impulse trigger feature.

wide trout
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Ooh, interesting

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Definitely submit a bug report for that!

sullen kilnBOT
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Please refer to the Halo Support site for additional information and/or to submit a ticket concerning any issues you may be experiencing.

https://aka.ms/HaloSupport

fading tusk
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has anyone else been unable to launch Halo infinite since the latest update?

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I verified game files and restarted my PC

sullen kilnBOT
#

You may refer to #1075989764026675210 if you are in need of community based assistance. This is strictly community sourced and operated and is not staffed by any official members of the Support team.

For official support, you'll need to go to the Halo Support site: https://aka.ms/HaloSupport

celest heron
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servers always feel worse after these event updates. And now I have a bug where I can't equip anything in the armor hall..

bleak nymph
crystal iron
crystal iron
celest heron
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is there such a thing as too many settings? There's 7 deadzone settings for controller. Maybe that's part of the reason why I can't find anything that works.

crystal iron
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They need to tone the weighting for bandits in swat wayyyyy tf down. It sucks

bleak nymph
bleak nymph
onyx latch
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I miss Commando SWAT.

low blaze
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I dont

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The commando always felt like it needed a bit too much precision for what it actually was

crystal iron
bleak nymph
# crystal iron because its the worst swat, by far

Nah, best SWAT.

BRs are too free, and have nearly no range limitations of 4v4 maps.

Commandos are okay, but automatics don't feel right for it.

Sidekicks are too spammy.

Manglers are too random.

Stalkers are probably second best, but they are again too easy across the map and possibly too spaghetti up close. Plus alien weapons don't feel right for it.

Bandits are absolutely perfect for SWAT. The headshots aren't free, so aim skill is rewarded. They become significantly harder to use outside of their effective ranges, but if you really focus on your aim they are still useable. It really is the get good or die gun SWAT's been missing since Reach Swagnums. H3 was the last time we had a good rifle-based SWAT because of the slow projectiles.

crystal iron
wide trout
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get an ethernet cable?

bleak nymph
# crystal iron Magnum/sidekick/pistol swat in any iteration was awful too. Bandit feels like it...

I agree with your first statement for any game other than Reach. Reach's Magnum was excellent for SWAT. It has exactly the right amount of precision, was extremely punishing when spammed, and couldn't cross map for free.

And Bandits aren't random at all. They shoot plenty straight. When you miss a headshot with it, especially within RRR it's purely a skill issue. The BR, and weapons used for SWAT in H4 and 5 have a ton of forgiveness compared to it. It's one of the reasons I haven't liked SWAT since Reach Swagnums. There was no aim skill, it was 100% reaction speed.

crystal iron
# bleak nymph I'm really expecting Starfield to be a letdown. For me Tears of the Kingdom comi...

So far for Me I enjoy No Man Sky so Starfeild doesn't seem to be any lower of a standard than that so it won't be a letdown for me.

I'm looking forward to the Ship customization aspect of the game, story wise I don't expect much but at least a good attempt.

Armored core I expect a customizable mech that's going to look cool.

And fromsoft does make some genuine from the heart games.

It was hilarious How Salty Ubisoft and some other Devs for over Elden Ring getting the praise that it did. But it was the first No MTX fully built game In a While.

bleak nymph
# crystal iron So far for Me I enjoy No Man Sky so Starfeild doesn't seem to be any lower of a ...

Honestly Ubisoft makes excellent open worlds. But Ive never been a fan of how they load up those worlds with content. It always feels like a checklist of repetitive tasks. I do have to give Infinite credit for going with less content, but having that content be mostly unique experiences. Breath of the Wild though, that game did pretty good. Only the test of strength shrines felt like padded content.

crystal iron
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Speaking of Ubisoft I heard they are making an Open World Starwars game... Granted I don't expect the story to be great but as far as Open worlds go Ubisoft does know how to build them.

Halo Infinite could have been better had they been able to implement the features in even One of the worst Of Ubisofts Games... That Is Ghost Recon Breakpoint

crystal iron
bleak nymph
crystal iron
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The campaign would benefit from line daily and weekly missions

rugged quartz
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Like Fortnite 🙂

south lion
#

will there be a update for Mcc some time soon? or maybe just some kind of communication on the future of the game please. I don't think there's been any update since December.

smoky wave
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When it's ready they will

crystal iron
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The game doesn’t get support outside of random bug fixes

south lion
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I wish they would say something about the cheaters in halo 3 and reach. they change their names mid game and get innocent accounts banned when people report them.

onyx latch
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They have. Several times.

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Like, it's a known issue they're trying to find a solution for.

south lion
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where have they said they are looking for a solution or acknowledged cheaters in mcc? I cant find anything but I didn't look to hard.

onyx latch
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Twitter. Unyshek has talked to multiple people about it there.

south lion
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gottcha thanks for the info

onyx latch
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Yep, they're at the very least tracking it as a big issue.

south lion
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that's good to know, I ran into someone flying around the map one shoting people the other day lol

full warren
#

guy goes 1/10 in a game all he did was run around doing nothing, seriosuly why is match making doing this

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The guy obviously is new and does not understand the game

celest heron
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ugh, after a couple games the armor hall doesn't load..

full warren
celest heron
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I shouldn't have to. This has already happened 3 different times today.

full warren
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You shouldn't have to but... you know the answer

celest heron
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yes, I filed a bug for it so maybe it will get looked at.

crystal iron
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is there any news about new map in ranked?

celest heron
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cool, guy on other team gets 28 kills and of course he's mid onyx when I look the game up. Thanks mm

full warren
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They really should limit the rang to be like 2 tiers, diamond + plat or plat + gold, gold +silver etc

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then you will still have carrier and dead weight on the team but atleast they are not useless

left snow
full warren
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They can remove restriction for BTB and fiesta and those modes but quick play, team slayer they really need a range

devout kite
#

Will we get another mid season update to address the setting reset or next season

left snow
#

And it's also useful to keep in mind that the "skill gap" between divisions. An average Diamond player should go 75:25 vs Platinum, 50:50 vs Diamond, and 25:75 vs Onyx.

left snow
#

And time to give SBMM a helping hand. Why not have some sort of handicapping system to even the playing field for all players. You could play with the scores, loadouts, map pick ups, etc. Lots of different ways to do it. You could then have players a couple of divisions apart happily going head to head.

silk fern
full warren
#

on a seperate note, my team just lost 66 to 100 on BTB slayer, 5 people went 0 kill and 7-12 deaths each... wtf

undone arch
#

servers just go down?

wide trout
#

Probably maintenance of some sort

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Although last time I saw this happen, Reach launched on the MCC

full warren
#

Server might as well be down, been in queue for btb for 5 mins gave up and now 3 mins in team slayer, 4 more mins and I am going to bed

wide trout
#

Looks like a few services are having a bit of a hiccup right now

image.png
#

Consider submitting a server connection report on DownDetector so they can get location information?

left snow
# full warren I doubt handicap will ever be implemented in any game, that just isn't how onlin...

Which is a pity. Because people keep saying the priorities should be short wait times, playing with friends, not sweating, and a higher priority on connection quality.

Handicapping would pretty much tick all those boxes. It's pretty much the "antidote" to all the current matchmaking woes (social only obviously).

And I've done this a lot in custom games. With a combination of scripting and "gentlemen's agreements". And it works pretty well with Gold to Onyx players having a great time running around on the same battlefield.

full warren
#

I also don't get this play with friends and short wait times, you can't have that unless you have a massive player base and we dont

#

People are being driven away because of the stupid match making I had another noob just quit the game

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he died 5 times and quit after 2 mins

#

I am getting more and more unbalanced teams now, probably means there is less and less players. steam players is not even reaching 2-3k while I am playing

sullen kilnBOT
#

⚠️ There is currently a service alert out right now for Xbox services ⚠️

Please check the Xbox Support website for further information and updates:

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left snow
# full warren People are being driven away because of the stupid match making I had another no...

Which is the problem. We can't have our cake and eat it too. The alternative is wider skill gaps and/or longer wait times. Both of which are similarly unacceptable.

Handicapping does affect the better players in that they can't "show off" or run around with high KD.

But it shouldn't worry them from a playing perspective; scoring (lesser players worth less points), loadouts (struggling players getting better weapons and/or OS on spawn), or map pick ups (eg. power weapons, camo, equipment etc not showing up for some players).

Our group used to forge a bunch of OS on the map - and the gentleman's agreement was that only the designated damage sponges could use them. And the two Onyx type players wouldn't be allowed to pick up power weapons (especially the sniper). The games were a lot more even. Of course the better players still won - but with a bit of SBMM in the background you could easily create balanced games.

full warren
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I mean that sound fine with friend but no ransoms will agree to being handicapped. I am happier waiting for longer to have less range in match making.

left snow
karmic oriole
#

What's this glitch that keeps happening on the btb unlimited Playlist. When we get to level 6 of the guns it doesn't count our kills and it doesn't start counting again until after the other team has reached level 9. At that point there's no way to win what am I supposed to do

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I had it happen 3 times in a row yesterday and then it just happened right now again

devout kite
sullen lark
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where can i ask for a team for ranked arena Diamond2?

sullen kilnBOT
#

If you're looking for other Spartans to join you in battle, check out our LFGs:

#lfg-competitive – For ranked/competitive matchmaking
#lfg-social – For social/casual matchmaking
#lfg-campaign - For campaign co-op
#lfg-forge - For map/mode building and testing
#lfg-customs - For custom games
#lfg-other – For firefight, spartan ops, etc
#lfg-español – Para jugadores hispanohablantes en cualquier categoría de juego
#lfg-hcs-scrims-or-teams – To help you find a team or secure some scrims

Don't forget to check out #lfg-and-voice-chat to learn about the !lfg bot, how to use it, and how to create your own voice channels.

native gale
#

Is it just me, or am I getting way more Spartan Points than what the challenge hub says I earn?

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I go into firefight on MCC to easily get the Send It weekly challenge, and I exit to find myself with 3 spartan points

ocean needle
#

Why, why did they remove ranked snipers....

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I wanted to keep playing that...

lime robin
#

Every Tuesday a new playlist rotates in

vapid marten
smoky stone
#

Why do they keep adding ranked doubles when the match wait time is 2+ mins? Obviously it's not popular. When are we going to get a dedicated Ranked Team Slayer?

crystal iron
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More like when are we getting a report function that actually works lol

full warren
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Last time I had a look at ranked queue at 12 noon it said no players in the normal ranked queue

sterile meadow
#

@wide trout I'm a bit late on this response bit yeah I made the bug report about controller vibration being partially disabled upon death like you said with exact steps.

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I'm just trying to understand why a player death disables the trigger vibrations, and why simply pausing the menu and unpausing after respawn fixes the issue it's like so weird, go ahead and try, shoot, then die, then shoot and you miss out on the nice finger buzz until you pause and unpause.

wide trout
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Thank you for submitting the report 🙂

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I hope it gets solved soon

sterile meadow
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@wide trout Ok, all good, but weird right?

wide trout
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yes, and no need to ping me

ruby iris
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Hmm, this event looks interesting. I wonder how many crashes will happen before I complete it. Current tally is 1.

opaque roost
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Hello, people, do you know if it is possible in multiplayer to make a team of 4 players, 2 on one console and 2 on another console?

crystal iron
outer sand
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Game: 2
System: 1

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Still had a good time with it last night though

next shard
#

The event is interesting though. I enjoy the map effects and hope they can expand on that type of thing in the future

vapid marten
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Quickplay, estimated wait time: 0:13
Enemy with the least amount of matches: 1496 matches played
Team mate with the least amount of matches played: 1 Match played

hmmmmm

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Feels like the MM system is on some panic Christmas shopping spree where it just hauls anything off the shelves

full warren
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lol Yeah it sucks

wide trout
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Steam or Microsoft Store?

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Did you tick the “create desktop icon” box?

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hello? @crystal iron ?

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If not, there’s an easy workaround that doesn’t involve redownloading the whole game

full warren
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just right click the steam icon and start the game there all my steam game icon always broken

wide trout
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Interesting, are you sure the icon didn’t appear on a second monitor?

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If not then I will show you how to make a new icon

full warren
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luckily we still won because the bot did more damage than the 1/6 palyer

wide trout
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oh, weird

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can you right click on the icon and hit “properties”?

full warren
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Steam game icons always seem to be broken they nevver get created properly, just start the game by right clicking the steam taskbar icon

wide trout
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Ok! That is fine

full warren
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and pick the game,

wide trout
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You can just ping me whenever you are available

outer sand
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@crystal iron is this windows? Did you try searching the game from the search bar/start menu
Once you find it you can add a shortcut manually

wide trout
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All my steam icons have always been created properly

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

wide trout
full warren
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on both my pc they always invisible and broken like Peri just mentioned

outer sand
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I didn't even think of that

wide trout
vapid marten
outer sand
full warren
outer sand
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Makes sense

full warren
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he just literally runs at people never changes his gun

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AR shoots everyone ffs, people like that should not be playing in my lobbys

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3/6 quits the game and a 3/19 replaces him, if you are dying 19 times in a 50 kill slayer you need to rethink your life

full warren
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1/10 guy did 372 damage in 15 mins slayer, seriously where does match making find these people, he need to play with players of his skill

soft marsh
#

Anyone want to play halo infinite?

full warren
#

Anyone know a UK halo discord?

sullen kilnBOT
# soft marsh Anyone want to play halo infinite?

If you're looking for other Spartans to join you in battle, check out our LFGs:

#lfg-competitive – For ranked/competitive matchmaking
#lfg-social – For social/casual matchmaking
#lfg-campaign - For campaign co-op
#lfg-forge - For map/mode building and testing
#lfg-customs - For custom games
#lfg-other – For firefight, spartan ops, etc
#lfg-español – Para jugadores hispanohablantes en cualquier categoría de juego
#lfg-hcs-scrims-or-teams – To help you find a team or secure some scrims

Don't forget to check out #lfg-and-voice-chat to learn about the !lfg bot, how to use it, and how to create your own voice channels.

potent hearth
#

Hello chat

coarse dagger
covert cloud
potent hearth
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But the hit registration and flares (the equivalent to bloodshots in halo 3) is astronomically bad in HCE MCC right now

covert cloud
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in multiplayer?

potent hearth
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Yeah

covert cloud
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im kind of too scared to try it yet

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overwatch is my main pvp game

potent hearth
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There's a bunch of videos online about it and I believe it's genuinely killing the games playerbase

covert cloud
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the halo ce fans have been fans for so long that waiting for a patch is probably nothing

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but i get what you mean

potent hearth
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Being a fan can only go so far though

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I don't even open halo infinite anymore except to get my challenges done and then it sits never to be opened again

covert cloud
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a game engine that old can probably only go so far

potent hearth
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Halo CE is still more powerful enough to have functioning hitreg

covert cloud
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wait is the remastered a new engine

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they must have redone some things

potent hearth
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No, multiplayer is not affected by it

covert cloud
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ah

covert cloud
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im not too knowledgeable on game design

potent hearth
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The fact that you can play halo CE on an emulator, and then use something like tunngle or hamachi to play "online" by making a fake LAN network and it works just fine is proof enough

covert cloud
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I'm also pretty new to halo, i used to enjoy the lore videos but i got mcc and im playing through the campaigns

covert cloud
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i didnt actually finish it until like 2 weeks ago

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on mcc

potent hearth
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the gearbox port (original PC port) was a steaming pile of garbage but still fun and it's how I played through CE. The netcode was god awful but even that was better than MCCs current hitreg

covert cloud
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is it that bad? wow

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i hope its a solveable issue

wide trout
potent hearth
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People were jittery, you had to lead farther than normal to compensate for lag, but most of the time if you hit someone it counted

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in MCC you don't even get the luxury of having your shots register half of the time

covert cloud
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ik this might be slightly insensitive but why not play any other multiplayer that works better? is it just nostalgia or do you feel like ce multiplayer is the best one

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keep in mind i havent tried any of them

potent hearth
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i just prefer halo CEs gameplay and art design

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halo CE had a lot of cool things in its sandbox

covert cloud
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maybe a fan project will come together like project cartographer but for ce multiplayer

potent hearth
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like the plasma rifle stuns people when you shoot them with it, allowing you to pretty much sneak up behind them and lock them in place

covert cloud
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thats sick actually

potent hearth
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but it's hard to do now since hitreg is all wonky

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a few shots start randomly disappearing and the entire stun lock is broken

covert cloud
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hmm

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since mcc has workshop support now do you think this could be fixed by an external mod

potent hearth
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Not likely

covert cloud
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sad

potent hearth
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It's a networking thing

covert cloud
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yeah i see

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i have a better solution

potent hearth
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343 has to have borked it up somewhere even more than the gearbox port, that's the only thing I can see logically

covert cloud
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h2 multiplayer with a ce weapon and texture pack so all the weapons function the same like the plasma rifle stun

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maybe not h2 but you see where im going

potent hearth
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yeah that makes sense

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like halo 3s engine

covert cloud
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yeah

potent hearth
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halo 3 is also peak halo artstyle anyways

covert cloud
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but you can mess with the mechanics to make them feel similar to ce's pvp

potent hearth
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thats the problem though

covert cloud
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i think that would be a nice workaround

potent hearth
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halo CE should just work, by using mods there is pretty much no playerbase since everyone has to have the mod

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I expect to be able to play halo CE in the MCC and have it work 1:1 with the xbox version

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especially since we have things like skins, ranks, leaderboards, competitive etc.

analog salmon
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Omg another 4 challenges + 500xp daily without using a double xp

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When will I learn

potent hearth
#

battlepass progression systems and their (infinite) consequences

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god i hate battlepasses so much

wide trout
potent hearth
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other xp systems arent based on challenges

solid ingot
analog salmon
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It’s a skill issue on my part. I have over a hundred 2xps

wide trout
analog salmon
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I just don’t check my challenges

potent hearth
analog salmon
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I think I’ve completed this weeks challenges in like 5 games, what’s the capstone?

potent hearth
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lucky

analog salmon
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got absurdly easy ones

potent hearth
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halo infinite makes me want to teabag a bear trap

wide trout
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Wasn’t Reach’s based on challenges? I swear there was a challenge based system in Reach

analog salmon
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Yeah it was

potent hearth
analog salmon
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Well yah it had credits from performance

potent hearth
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you mostly relied on match performance xp

solid ingot
#

Modern infinite is similar in that regard

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They installed match xp, so at least there is that

covert cloud
#

is infinite multiplayer fun Flawless

potent hearth
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not performanced based though

potent hearth
covert cloud
potent hearth
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yes

covert cloud
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because i hate ranked modes

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they suck

potent hearth
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agreed

covert cloud
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just a huge ego fest i just want to have fun man

potent hearth
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i would genuinely advise you to never touch infinite to be honest

covert cloud
potent hearth
#

it is

covert cloud
potent hearth
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thats the problem

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halo infinite was built as an E-sport

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not a fun party game that CAN be competitive

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even casual feels like a meatgrinder

wide trout
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Let people have fun

covert cloud
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and I don't have friends that play halo so i don't even have that option

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I joined this server hoping to make some

wide trout
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@covert cloud If you ever need someone to hop on halo with you, DM me and I'll see if I'm available :)

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Infinite or otherwise

covert cloud
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how do you do campaign co op

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I know its a thing but I have no idea how it works

wide trout
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Simply invite a friend through Steam or Xbox Live!

covert cloud
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is there a social menu in game for it? Or is it on the steam popup when you play

potent hearth
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@covert cloud if you want to start playing multiplayer, I think halo reach is the most noob friendly, followed by halo 3, then 2, and halo CE is a sweatfest

covert cloud
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yeah I like the feel of the guns in reach

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it's tactile

potent hearth
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Can't relate, I also hate reach with a burning passion

covert cloud
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the campaign?

potent hearth
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Campaign was fun

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Besides how unbalanced it was

covert cloud
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unbalanced as in too easy or too hard lmao

potent hearth
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Too hard on legendary

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not because the AI was just too good

wide trout
#

It feels pretty balanced on Legendary actually

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Especially compared to other Halo games

potent hearth
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But because most elites would just tank a spartan laser and not even break shields

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it made me want to scream slurs the entire time

covert cloud
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I barely hit my mark with Spartan lasers

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sometimes it felt like I did no damage but I probably missed by a small amount

potent hearth
#

halo 2 was an abomination against man

wide trout
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CE was awful, 3 was too easy

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And 2 is infamous

potent hearth
#

how did you find CE awful?

covert cloud
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that room in reach with 4 hunters must be insane on legendary

wide trout
potent hearth
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I found it by far the most enjoyable game to play on legendary

covert cloud
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I died enough on normal to even consider legendary so I'm gonna stay out of this

potent hearth
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enemies weren't spongy, and you also weren't spongy

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everyone was a glass cannon on halo CE legendary

covert cloud
#

so they just buffed enemy damage and not health?

potent hearth
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well their health is technically buffed, but that's what precision weapons and plasma is for

covert cloud
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yeah

potent hearth
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just drop their shields and shoot them in the face

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needler is useful for that too if you don't have precision weapons

covert cloud
#

honestly the weapon design in all of these games is really good and let's you think about what combination you want to use

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especially with dual wielding

potent hearth
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halo CE was awesome for its sandbox

covert cloud
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yeah even with the limited weapon selection everything felt very balanced

potent hearth
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like i said, the plasma pistol stun locks in halo CE, so if you 1v1 an elite you can keep him stunned until he dies

covert cloud
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the pistol was kind of busted but that's probably just precision damage

potent hearth
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pistol was kept a secret until the game launched LOL, that's why it's so strong

wide trout
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yeah, the damage numbers were edited literally a day before copies started being printed out

potent hearth
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I find that infinitely amusing

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but i really want to see the original stats for it

covert cloud
#

I used to play destiny 2 for like nearly 3 years and I can see so clearly how bungie borrowed from halos sandbox

potent hearth
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multiplayer would definitely be better

covert cloud
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also the way it was full auto and could take down a banshee with half a mag

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hilarious

potent hearth
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im trying so hard to do my challenges in halo infinite

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but jesus christ, this game is awful

covert cloud
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why bother

potent hearth
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just because it's something new honestly, that's the only reason why. That and the hope that at SOME point in time, halo infinite will actually be a finished, polished game

wide trout
#

If you are just here to be negative, you can stop typing

Constructive criticism is fine but just trashing on the game for the sake of trashing it isn't tolerated

potent hearth
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if something deserves criticism i will say it blatantly

night fjord
#

I really think that halo does have a good variety

covert cloud
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interesting definition of constructive

potent hearth
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fine, i can be more constructive

wide trout
covert cloud
#

I understand holding video game companies responsible for predatory business models and rushed game design but there's also a lot of love and passion that goes into these that shouldn't be ignored imo

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but what do I know I haven't played infinite lmao

night fjord
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Isn’t Microsoft responsible for the rush of halo infinite?

coarse dagger
#

"This game is awful" is not constructive criticism

wide trout
analog salmon
#

Deadlock with banshees is a fun btb map 😄

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Banshee is so underrated

covert cloud
#

the video gaming space is often very toxic so I just tend to go the other direction

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not even too sure why when the entire point of the industry is for people to have fun

potent hearth
#

game engine is terrible and poorly optimized, TAA is forced on and looks blurry, sandbox is too lethal, "support" weapons have pretty much been removed, maps are frustrating and unfun, game is extremely predatory for microtransactions, fan requests have been largely ignored, gameplay is focused on E-sports and competitive rather than actually being fun, bugs since launch have never been ironed out, 343 is usually silent and not transparent with the community, desync is back and worse than ever in season 3, and thats just off the top of my head

analog salmon
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To be fair TAA is forced on because it’s probably required for the resolution scaling and it’s effort implementing alternative AA

onyx latch
#

Runs fine for me, sounds more like a monitor/hardware issue to me, most guns are the same as they've always been if they existed before (The BR and BR both have nearly the same TTK as their original rendition), there's two support weapons but they're admittedly rare, subjective, untrue, subjective, some have been corrected, entirely untrue, subjective (Many false cases exist that people don't get, or they're blaming skill issues on desync).

night fjord
potent hearth
coarse dagger
#

If you're looking to provide actual constructive criticism, have a read up on the S.M.A.R.T approch to providing feedback. It's what 343 and Microsoft both use internally and with focus groups.
Can't find a great example, but this is a fairly decent write up:
https://www.bmc.com/blogs/smart-goals/

potent hearth
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especially since this TAA in particular looks god awful, it's so blurry

analog salmon
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Resolution scaling is the reason this game is even playable on my system at 100+fps

onyx latch
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My game looks crisp and clear on a 1080.

potent hearth
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game uses way too much CPU than it deserves to for an arena shooter

onyx latch
#

... That's such a weird line lmao

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"For an arena shooter"

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Thanks for the laugh my man, that's one of the funniest things I've heard all day

night fjord
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Lol

analog salmon
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I don’t get how this game is that CPU heavy. I have an i5 from 2017 running it at over 100fps. Granted low settings other then animation and simulation quality

potent hearth
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the game is not complex or simulative enough to justify the sheer amount of CPU it uses

analog salmon
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But any decent modernish quad core can handle this game no problem

onyx latch
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I have a consistent 60fps on high for most settings with a few set dressing settings off.

potent hearth
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i've been using the same i5 from 2015 since forever, and I have never had a problem with any other game with it

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especially an FPS

stoic canopy
#

I was gonna say Infinite is a very consistent and easy to run game for the most part to the point where it's a benchmarking game

onyx latch
#

Something tells me his computer actually isn't all that great.

analog salmon
covert cloud
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very strong boy, very weak cpu

potent hearth
stoic canopy
#

It does eat a ton of VRAM but then again it's designed with AMD chips in mind who aren't nearly as stingy as NVidia are with VRAM

potent hearth
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3.5 Ghz 4 core

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its absolutely not impressive, but it doesn't have to be

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it just needs to work

covert cloud
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maybe an optimisation thing

potent hearth
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i still use a monitor that runs at 1680 x 1050 ffs, as long as the game plays fine i dont care

stoic canopy
#

So wait....4 core at 3.5Ghz is....like tail end of Xbox 360 generation CPU?

analog salmon
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Mines only 3.9ghz

covert cloud
#

me rocking w the 2.4ghz

potent hearth
analog salmon
#

Is it 8 threads and support hyperthreading?

wide trout
potent hearth
analog salmon
#

I’m thinking that might be the issue then

potent hearth
#

it is, it needs 8 threads and i only have 4

covert cloud
#

isn't switching your cpu a complete nightmare

stoic canopy
#

So you're complaining that a more than decade old CPU is struggling with a modern game designed to work with - at the bottom end - a decade old game-optimized CPU?

potent hearth
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BUT, it hasnt been a problem anywhere else

potent hearth
stoic canopy
covert cloud
#

are they like modern AAA games or old ones

stoic canopy
# potent hearth yes

Re-read that to yourself.

You're complaining about using outdated hardware for a game not designed to be used with it.

wide trout
#

So you, who is below minimum recommended spec, are complaining about a CPU bottleneck for a CPU which was made to run 720p?

onyx latch
#

Calllllled it

inland minnow
wide trout
#

^

potent hearth
#

Modern games run fine on it with more graphical fidelity, I find it had to believe that this game struggles to run on low settings with it

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It's an optimization issue

onyx latch
#

The inexorable wheel of time rolls on

stoic canopy
#

Name the other modern games you're running on it

wide trout
#

Its just

Take off cooler
Get CPU out
put new CPU in
Repaste it
Put cooler back on

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And you're done

stoic canopy
#

Because I'm about to guess you're running games that are "New" while running on super old engines vs. Slipspace, a newer and more modern engine.

covert cloud
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I'm still using an cpu with integrated graphics

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so I will need to switch eventually

potent hearth
#

Fallout 4, DOOM eternal, enlisted, battlefield V, VR games such as pavlov and VRC etc

analog salmon
#

Imo given I can hit 120fps in arena on a 2017 i5… it’s not that CPU heavy. Sure it’s not CSGO but there’s a lot that a CPU has to do for a game as good visually as Infinite. Should infinite have actual low presets? Maybe. But it’s not horribly CPU optimised. Whereas I actually think it’s much more GPU hungry then many similar games, but that’s true of MCC and even Destiny to a lesser extent.

potent hearth
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Most of these games pack far more detail onto the screen and run perfectly fine maxed out.

full warren
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I am on 6700k lol and this game works fine with that its on 62% usesage