halo-discussion

[left cape]

IMO, you win games, your CSR should go up. As long as you're not blatantly cheating, I can't say I have any qualms with that.

[serene furnace]

Nothing compares to the ranking system Halo 3 had

[analog salmon]

all i can think is its forcing players to only play the game when they can find 3 others and lowing engagement

so from 343's perspective encouraging more players to play the game more is their priority

even if that puts actual groups of 4 high skill players off playing

and those groups will just move over to LFG 8s chats anyway

[serene furnace]

Isn't encouraging more player to play the game the top priority of any live service game?

[analog salmon]

this is a decision that might enoucrage more players to play more often overall, but at the expense of another group of players

[left cape]

I really hope this is what happens. What I fear will happen is that we'll get people deranking so they can run with their friends.

[analog salmon]

idk if deranking will even work. when your MMR and CSR are massively out of wack the game just puts you in a queue forever

happened to all the diamond players who placed gold when ranked slayer landed

they fixed it but those of us who placed gold were stuck queuing forever

[left cape]

Smurf accounts then, whatever. Point is, there's now an additional incentive to be a lower rank than your actual skill.

[analog salmon]

all the serious teams will go to 8s and so its a matter of how many casual high skill players quad stacking there are i guess

[low ivy]

Could we have on Halo infinite, the Hemorrhage map in btb (12 players) in matchmaking, created by blacksmiths or/and by 343 industries ?

[analog salmon]

its also going to be very interesting how this effects the rank distribution

individual skill will be much more important at Onyx level

[celest heron]

it always says RP doesn't have enough players to get a wait time.

[glacial tartan]

Did they ever add bot boot camp back?

[celest heron]

no

[lime robin]

At this time, I don't think you'd want it back anyways

This is in the known issues

[celest heron]

why is there always at least one sweat in TS? strafing like they're playing ranked. sigh

[neon vapor]

Maybe that’s just how they play

[long cypress]

shoutout to the guys in team sniper swat that trashtalked us lmao

and i queued up with all of them again

[analog salmon]

some sweats just like being the best player in the lobby but half the time i just cant find matches in ranked or cba to wait

if i could just use team slayer as a warm up i would probs

[ruby knoll]

regular deathmatch/tdm is lame and must be nuked from orbit

nonvanilla tdm/dm and OBJ modes 5ever

[analog salmon]

team slayer is the most fun mode with no SBMM outside of BTB

for Arena with SBMM objective is pog

and for me BTB is just objective or nothing

[celest heron]

that would be more annoying cause it implies they can't turn it down.

[analog salmon]

most players do

very few players will try their very best if they're comfortably winning

but games are balanced so they are usually fighting for the win

[celest heron]

the players aren't 2k onyxes where not trying still equals getting perfects (hyperbolic at bit). these ones could def. turn it down to where they're at least dying a little if you get what I mean. but yes, I could see trying more if the games are close.

[analog salmon]

btbs the mode i just chill

i find it a bit weird when i see players sweating hard in btb with insane amount of kills

especially when they're using objective to farm kills

then again there's entire stacks of 8 in MCC who do that for fun

[midnight tree]

the solution is to stack harder

[analog salmon]

for me it would just be boring. testing your skill in a balanced game and learning to improve is far more rewarding

[celest heron]

I should play btb more. I didn't play it cause on xb1 it was awful.

it was my main playlist in all the other halos although not anymore cause mcc lacks population in the ones I like

[white birch]

Lot of them are using it to rank up their career. Seen people that are in Platinum already

[analog salmon]

reach has the lowest skill ceiling i think so it tends to have pretty balanced btb matches. but the rotation is rubbish in mcc

[white birch]

Same pattern too: monopolize the shock rifle, stand in the back and camp

[analog salmon]

i wish i played more halo 2 btb when mcc's population was higher

a lot of fun when you're not against a stack of 8 halo 2 veterans lol

[celest heron]

I always ran into the same 8 stacks when I played h2c btb so I didn't play it as much

[scarlet shuttle]

For god sake, I play Infinite every day since release and today I can’t kill anyone.

[analog salmon]

in fairness i find the halo 2 stacks play objective and dont farm kills. they just seem like good players who wanna play btb

halo 3 stacks by contrast are so toxic

[celest heron]

depends. there were a couple that just farmed

[analog salmon]

yeah im generalising a bit

in a way i sort of think that's just what halo 2 has become. it's competitive only now

[celest heron]

I remember they put the bomb on top of the wheel in zanzibar to just farm, but I dropped it off to end the game. they didn't like that too much lol

[analog salmon]

i've had games where one of them lags out and it tips the balance in our favour. the toxic ones arent that good usually. but when mcc has no SBMM its easy to spawn trap

[celest heron]

I could try h2c again. I think I blocked most of them, heh.

[analog salmon]

apparently blocking doesnt work but if it does work, you pretty much have to do it

so ive started blocking them just in case

so far i dont think i've seen the same stack after blocking them

[celest heron]

it does in social.

[analog salmon]

game changing if true

imo it should work but only in BTB

and 4v4 should just always be balanced

but frankly since 4v4 isn't balanced i would be tempted to block a 4 stack

[celest heron]

people would probly cringe if they saw my list but idc.

[analog salmon]

nah i totally understand

i would get the same stack again and just turn off my xbox and do something else

actual game breaking nonsense how unbalanced mcc matches can be

[full warren]

The game just never took stacking into consideration, The game with 4 man pre-mades are always stomps, you only ever occasioanly get 4 players who just want to play with each other

[celest heron]

yeah, although you'll still get smurfs but not as bad

[full warren]

they always stack to abuse the system

Every time I see a stack of 4 man they are always diamonds or plats never a team of varied players or like 2 onyx with 1 silver friedn

[serene furnace]

It's a shame the coolest BTB maps in Halo CE never show up on MCC matchmaking

Like Infinity
I've never got Infinity on MCC even once since I started playing in 2017

[analog salmon]

yah i wish they would just normalise the weighting

maybe its based on data from when mcc had a voting system or something

but the difference in the weighting of maps is far too high

it should only be a slight difference at most

this is just insane

ridgeline is straight up terrible

I respect it was added to reach as a throwback to CE but its a bad map and the weighting remaining this high over one of Reach's best BTB maps is indefensible

pains me how easily something like that could be fixed but probably never will

[errant parcel]

why do they not allow remakes of maps from other IPs? is that like halo IPs or just other IPs outside of halo? I can remake old halo maps correct?

[analog salmon]

IPs outside halo

they dont disallow it, they just wont add it to matchmaking

[celest heron]

lot of the 'newer' maps like that one and highlands are weighted high in reach btb. don't like them.

[analog salmon]

in fairness to highlands its actually a decent map. I use Ridgeline vs Boneyard as an example because I dont think anyone would argue Ridgeline has any place being higher weighted then Boneyard at this point

when Reach launched sure, give the DLC maps a few seasons to shine

years later? its like they just forgot and dont consider it a priority at all

the weighting is core to the matchmaking experience i can't understand why they wouldn't go back and re-evaluate it

[celest heron]

sniper is extra annoying on it. I don't mind boneyard although part of the map is just empty space

[analog salmon]

that's just cause Boneyard was meant to be an invasion map and just ended up being a better BTB map then Invasion

not gonna argue Boneyard is one of the greatest BTB maps but its solid

[celest heron]

yea, better than another forge map

[analog salmon]

given Reach has a voting system and i can remember playing Boneyard a lot back in the day, safe to say it was well liked

[celest heron]

although there a few better forge maps in general that aren't in mm

[analog salmon]

they restricted a bunch of maps to heavies only, not sure if Paridiso was one of them

Spire is only in Heavies

i honestly barely remember heavies back in the reach days. think everyone voted for regular modes over heaives

spire i remember running for the banshee most games which is only on regular

[celest heron]

heavies was so laggy on some of the forge maps

[analog salmon]

if Paradiso is in heavies ig its better then nothing but that map was a ace CTF map

ig because it has tanks they might just have assumed it was a heavies only map, not sure

[celest heron]

parties ruined that map for me

[white birch]

On console or just PC? Might be worth a shot

[celest heron]

console, but don't know about pc

[devout kite]

Why can’t we buy individual items from the bundles

[sinful agate]

Has anyone gotten a stockpile BTB recently

I still need that achievement for it and I haven’t seen one in over a month 💀

[lime robin]

The chances of getting stockpile are very low due to community complaints. It's being worked on to improve, but when that work will be completed is unknown.

[devout kite]

I haven’t play normal btb because it’s boring and lame

[lost fulcrum]

is Infinite having server issues?

lots of desync happening at peak time West Coast

[velvet moth]

why do we lose rank xp if a team mate quits or de-syncs? its super irritating. are they ever gonna change this like they did in H5?

[violet minnow]

This game always has desync. Part of the games charm.

[lost fulcrum]

no but it feels TERRIBLE today

like way worse than usual

[violet minnow]

Oh yeah, I've felt it too

[lost fulcrum]

also did they add a weight to join that new map more frequently? cause I got that new map with like 50 hiding spots 3-4 games in a row

[violet minnow]

MCC behaves so much better

[lost fulcrum]

well it took MCC like 8 years to fix it lol (oh wow it was only 5 lol. Feels so long ago)

[violet minnow]

They did say infinite is a 10 year game, only 7 more years to go

Overall, this game doesn't do it for me anymore.

[long cypress]

i have a quick question (which is probably stupid) but what is a gungoose and where can you find them?

[celest heron]

mongoose with guns on it. H2A

so annoying trying to get challenges done, but can only find games for it in H3.

[ruby knoll]

in h5 and infinite they have grenade launchers

[sinful agate]

Depends on the game, ik in infinite they’re all over the place in BTB and squad battles

[crystal iron]

Jello people, So when do you guys think the game will get a decent matchmaking PVE mode. Like not a beta form not a only on forge mode thing .but a full on search for players jump into game earn XP mode

[crystal iron]

Hokestly I just moved on to other games, currently doing another playthrough of Pokemon scarlet,

Sometimes I play COD and isn't Broken build Shotgun, but mostly waiting on Starfeild.. Halo for the most part will just become a Once every month type of game maybe like 1 or 2 rounds.

It also hinges on the PVE and Cross core stuff.

If that not in game within the next 3 seasons I'll most likely just forget the game mostly

But I took the advice of that one dude on Twitter in think it was Sketch or something said to not be focused on just one game

[languid prism]

Halo support finally got back to me on the bundle not giving me the stuff i purchased. Got told that it was forwarded to the dev team and that if anything new happens they'll update me. Pretty sure i'm never going to see that 10$ again honestly

[glacial tartan]

Ah yes the copy/paste response. Look forward to weeks of emails saying “there was a fix released and while it didn’t exactly try to fix your issue hopefully it did”

[languid prism]

I'm tempted to do a charge back but i really don't want my microsoft account banned because of that. Ugh, love it. I just wanted the sentinals shoulders because they look slightly like some banished symbol

[livid fable]

? I don't know of a grenade launcher in Halo infinite

oh, gungoose. sorry.

[crystal iron]

It really feels like there is one part time employee working the Halo Support thing lol

[glacial tartan]

"The development team released an update for Halo: The Master Chief Collection. While this update does not include a fix for the original issue you reported, we’re reaching out to check if the issue you reported is still occurring. Please download this update and try to encounter the same issue you originally reported."

This is the message you'll receive for the next few months 😛

Swap MCC for Infinite ofc

[crystal iron]

Possibly s controversial opinion but the UI in Halo Infinite was not a well thought out thing.

Especially when it comes to armor cores and customizations it feels so lazy

[sharp tendon]

man i was playing H2A on the level regret and the phantom in the tiny firefight area that drop enemy just despawn after hitting the middle structure of the area

[hushed nest]

what's a Sanghelios favourite fast food restaurant? Arby's.

cuz Arbiter.. hahaha. no? not funny? oh ok.

[long cypress]

so for the 3hr legendary challenges, do you have to do it in one straightforward run or does it combine your best legendary times?

[shy fulcrum]

I believe it is sum of best

[livid fable]

what the heck is up with the energy axe in super fiesta

i swung at a dude 3 times while he was about 4 feet away and he turned around and killed me

yo, i wanna see the ravager rebound kill stats

[upbeat magnet]

Hola

[livid fable]

because this weapon is literally worse than just punching someone

.............
WHY can we not practice with variant weapons in the training / sandbox mode?

like i get why there's no weapon drills but why can't i access them from the weapons menu

what is the point of training mode if you can't practice with the weapons you don't understand

[eternal lion]

because that was done before the variant where put into multiplayer

[livid fable]

updating a menu to allow the use of the variant weapons which are now files the game has access to whether you have the campaign or not shouldn't be a monumental task.

maybe i can use forge

[eternal lion]

its maybe not just a menu.

• you don't know the process inside 343

[livid fable]

do you do any programming? at all? like, even excel would be fine

the object which you scroll through to select items is a menu

[grave ether]

Yes, using Excel should definitely give you what you're looking for

[livid fable]

i know you understand what i'm talking about.

can't make bots stand still in forge to target test

use explosive coils maybe?

[grave ether]

why me

[eternal lion]

Excel is not programming...

[livid fable]

i don't have enough juice for this

[eternal lion]

Again we have 0 clue how 343 processes and develops features.
We do not know the tools too.
Well, we know that in 2021 all of these were tedious and that's why the game was in this state

[grave ether]

But why me?

[lusty wraith]

It’s not that simple, there’s asset creation for the images related to Weapon drills, there’s likely some exploration involved regarding scoring, there’s optimal bot positioning, etc

Definitely something doable but not shocking that the campaign variants aren’t there yet

[lofty ridge]

Is Bazaar no longer in ranked playlist

[eternal lion]

https://support.halowaypoint.com/hc/en-us/articles/17920041655188-Halo-Infinite-Multiplayer-Playlists

[livid fable]

? like i said, i understand why we wouldn't have weapon drills

i'm just talking about running around sandbox mode

the menu where you select the weapon you're holding? that doesn't have any of the variants.

anyway, I set up a sort of a firing range in forge. it's just a bunch of power cells spaced roughly equally apart.

the longer it takes for you to destroy the power cell, the less damage you're doing to it at that range. so I don't know a whole lot. but I do think I figured out how the ravager rebound is intended to be used

I guess if I set up some different size platforms with fusion coils on the corners, I could also test the AOE

but basically, if you would use the assault rifle, you're too close to use the ravager rebound

I don't think it can kill anyone in a single blast, but the AOE is pretty dang big even with the basic shots

maybe if you combined it with a threat sensor the AOE would be big enough to effectively use it around corners. but it really is a long range weapon.

I am getting no consistent results with the axe.

... I wonder if it does a variable amount of damage

[coarse dagger]

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[radiant sundial]

Question, do i need to start a new save for the halo infinite LASO achivement to unlock, or can i do it with my main save file?

[lime robin]

You need to start over. The skulls you've unlocked on the main save file should stay unlocked.

[grave ether]

I'll never learn why me it seems

[devout kite]

Cross core helmets when lol

[smoky wave]

When it's ready

[full warren]

well I am not playing squad balltes ever again

no one on my team even got more than 2 kills. and the enermy just stomped

I had 7 kills and that was double the team kills in squad battles, the 7 of them could not get 7 kills between them

[devout kite]

Then play infection lol

[livid fable]

prior posts have marked you as knowledgeable regarding technical matters

[livid fable]

I drove a chopper through a wraith a ghost and a banshee

some games are awful but some games go great

[low musk]

I wonder if it will be mid or late September when we start getting info for Season 5

There are rumors and leaks of course, but i’d rather hear it from 343

[livid fable]

same. rumors are the same as hearsay.

[paper mist]

does anybody know if spartran ops mcc is cross platform or no cus the campaigns are not

[livid fable]

unsure. currently giving up on ffa oddball. melee is so busted that me and another guy looked like we were air slapping each other.

i just looked at my feet and threw a sticky instead.

yall we can't play oddball if melee jump literally never activates

[full warren]

34/9 and still a lose in team slayer so sad its come to this kind of games

[left cape]

This game is nonesense. Win 21/30 games, get +50 CSR. Lose 5 after that? -50 CSR.

https://tenor.com/view/anakin-star-wars-i-dont-think-the-system-works-gif-22251757

[coarse dagger]

Sounds like your rank is around where you should be, maybe have inflated slightly from some of the wins or you lost to some teams that the system thought you would be able to beat

[left cape]

I understand how the system is computing me, but that's kinda bs, isn't it? I'm winning way more than I'm losing, doesn't that mean that I'm better than I'm being given credit for?

[devout kite]

Bruh sometimes you get a good team sometimes you don’t if you want to win then play with a stack team

[full warren]

I mean... every game is like this lol, but this game was particularly bad since we lost by 1 kill. the rest of the times I get 30 kills we are still lossing by 10-15 kills in slayer

Also there isn't anyone to play stack with nor do I want to play with people

[coarse dagger]

Not if you're beating players the system expects you to, you won't gain much for that. Unfortunately it can't always put you against better players

There's a lot of balancing around a lot of factors that weigh into how matches are found, set up and scored

[devout kite]

Then idk

[full warren]

There is no solution until 343 change their system, also doesn't stop me from complaining because it is annoying. You can't say going 30+ in a slayer and lossing is fun

Just no way around it

[left cape]

Everyone in my games is the same rank as me. For 30 games in a row. Regardless its been +6, -10, nonstop. Like what, I'm the best player the game can find and I'm at diamond 2? That's insane.

I have a pretty good guess at what's going on: I'm contributing to my team's performance in ways that MMR doesn't measure: Assists, callouts, holding power positions. They all contribute to wins, but they don't necessarily boost your K/D.

[wicked marsh]

play ranked; better teammates, harder competition, more enjoyable experience

[full warren]

Occasionally I do but at this time there is no one playing ranked

I could queue for 15 mins to just get 1 game and I am not going to waste my time on waiting

[wicked marsh]

fair, but that would probably be the same for social if the game mm tried to give you similar skilled lobbies
its doing the best it can to give you fairly short queue times by expecting you to carry worse players

[full warren]

Im just saying there gotta be a limit, you can't just put a guy with 0 games played with onyx players and call it a good lobby, I am happy to wait slightly longer to have plat players or something

[left snow]

The system can't do that. Who you beat or lose to has to be taken into account. It's basically how ELO systems work (and why they are so much better than simple W/L sorting algorithms).

[crystal iron]

I just had a question

having an issue where my custom games in halo infinite are kinda not working

it says loading map 0% and just sticks there for a good minute, and then says I've been disconnected or something like that, and then says "waiting to join", for an undefined amount of time.

just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this or if it's a known issue with custom games or what

[left snow]

Everything you do contributes to the win. And it's pretty much the W/L that guides your MMR (relative to the skill level of who you beat or lose to). So keep doing all those things.

But your K/D doesn't help.

There is a weighting for kills per minute (KPM) - but it's only a weighting. It works to rank you faster (and detect smurfs). But it won't rank you higher as it's VERY hard to boost your KPM against players better than you.

[left snow]

They are the same rank as you - the system actually pulls players into the lobby based on the CSR.

But they will all have different MMRs. Some higher. Some lower. Depending on recent form.

And that is what mainly influences changes to your CSR at the end of each game. If your MMR > CSR then you will get more for a win and lose less on a loss. If your MMR < CSR then you will get less for a win and lsoe more for a loss.

Essentially your CSR chases (and resists moving away from) your MMR.

[left cape]

Everything you're saying is coherent, but it doesn't explain how a 70% win rate over 30 games results in +50 CSR. I get that occasionally I'll be playing against players better or worse than than their ranks. But they shouldn't be too much better or worse. And particularly over such a large sample of games, I'd expect to be matched against, on average, similarly skilled players.

And bottom line, whatever the reason, it's super frustrating for an average loss to be penalized at 3 whole CSR higher than an average win over an extended period.

[left snow]

It depends.

Those couple of extra wins can be against teams of equal or lesser skill and they won't mean a lot to your MMR.

And a bad loss or two to teams way below your station can sink your MMR.

It's hard to know because we don't have the context of everyone's MMR.

Plus, 343 made a design decision to always give CSR for a win. Even if your MMR is lower. So players tend to accumulate a small CSR debt.

This gets paid back on the next loss... Resulting in the two steps forward, one jump back that everyone experiences.

Which I agree is very frustrating.

I would love to see 343 explore some other options for the CSR system.

[cinder pier]

bruh reach elites are so good

reach in general just has my favorite versions of all the covenant

[glacial tartan]

Even in multiplayer they are OP

[cinder pier]

reach is actually my favorite halo game, even if that seems to be a pretty controversial opinion

[cinder pier]

Although bungie kinda blundered with the brutes in that game, the rest of the covenant is peak

[low bloom]

I'm tryna remember the name of this old halo animation on YouTube

It's got like a bunch of people on halo 4 big team battle and their yelling about being pinned down
And you just here, "don't worry guys. I gotcher back"

And a guy valiantly drives a mongoose forward only to get hit by a tankshell

Anyone remember this video?

[celest heron]

sounds like something that will never be found unless they remember the name. there are probly hundreds of h4 btb vids.

[hollow bobcat]

Was Rocket Race ever possible to create in Halo Infinite? It's the multi-team mode with mongoose vehicles and rockets and you passed through hills to score.

[lean prism]

https://discord.com/channels/471722331820130324/1138539021837029427

[ruby shell]

I’m the one person in Halo Infinite with the Peppermint coating

[lean prism]

Which one is that?

[ruby shell]

The one in the 1st season

It appeared in the Noble contingency

[lean prism]

I think I might have it but I probably don’t

[lime robin]

This one

[white birch]

Not a bad coating

[ruby shell]

Anyone who uses that coating is a tryhard, and I’m gonna make that more true.

[tepid latch]

wait what why 😭

[dark wing]

Who doesn't have that coating.

[compact linden]

Hi guys!

[low musk]

I still love my Deathly Poison coating

[native tinsel]

The Cyber showdown event was pretty easy to complete ngl

It took abt 2 hours, the gear you get completing it is pretty good

[turbid radish]

can somebody help me with a game issue, i get no response from reports so maybe one of you know

[native tinsel]

What’s the game issue?

[turbid radish]

when playing mcc i dont have the option to a battle pass, instead there is the exchange where the battle pass would normally be. i only bought the halo reach portion of mcc rather than all modes.

[native tinsel]

Wait, what game is MCC again?

[turbid radish]

yes

[native tinsel]

?

[turbid radish]

mcc

[native tinsel]

Yeah, what game is it

[turbid radish]

master chief collection

lol

[native tinsel]

Oh, if it’s that game I can’t help

[turbid radish]

rip, okay

[native tinsel]

Never played it before cuz it takes up to much storage

I’ve only played Halo 3, Halo 4, Halo Wars 1, Halo 5, and Halo Infinite

[turbid radish]

i only play mcc cus my gpu doesnt meet the requirments to play infinite'

[neon hazel]

Chrimas

[native orbit]

So uh..... Just coming back from a long break and Halo Infinite seems..... alot better now? Like..... it's almost where it should have been at launch.

[ebon lava]

its gotten the love it shoulda gotten before it was shipped out the door of 343

but hey, better late than never

at least they didn't abandon it like some other poor titles

there are still a LOT of issues with this game though

and most of the main ones are still regarding desync

Especially with Ranked Swat now being in the game

ping heavy as it is, it still feels like a lot of times clear headshots just do not kill

[native orbit]

Ah ok, the only thing that still seems off in that regard is melee. Sometimes there's a bit of a lunge but most of the time there's no lunge. It's weird and I see alot of players wiffing their melees. Hopefully they see the positive feedback from Season 4 and keep on this path.

[cinder pier]

halo infinite is probably my favorite multiplayer just cuz of the gameplay, but halo reach is my favorite campaign

[native orbit]

I need to replay the reach campaign at some point. Been a longgggg time

[hollow bobcat]

Is it just me or does it feel like the quick play option is just worthless?

It's like, we have slayer and objective modes you can select. Quickplay just feels like a coin-toss.

[analog salmon]

It’s basically just the social arena playlist

[crystal iron]

It’s the point of quick play

[hollow bobcat]

It's rather pointless tbh

[crystal iron]

Nah

Some people like searching different game modes at same time

Like I always enable both slayer and objective modes in mcc for example

[hollow bobcat]

Or we just have that MCC filter.

[analog salmon]

Quick play is flawed because it’s just a playlist

[crystal iron]

That would be a good thing

[hollow bobcat]

Decide what I want to play in my own moshpit of modes, the matchmaking can be set to auto-queue based on my selections, profit.

[analog salmon]

It’s possible to search quick play or team slayer and get the exact same map mode combination yet they’re separate queue

So basically there should be team slayer and team objective playlists, then a quick play option to search both at the same time

That would allow for optimal queue times

And wouldn’t force people willing to wait for an objective game to play slayer

[celest heron]

a match composer would do wonders

[smoky wave]

Just let me choose different playlists at the same time

[glacial tartan]

When the multiplayer beta first started the match composer was a key piece of feedback

if we're following MCCs lead its still another few years away

[devout kite]

Why can’t we aren’t allowed to pick what item we want to get from bundles

[young glen]

I play quickplay because it tends to have a low or zero percent chance of 'wacky' game modes that get boring after one match. I would prefer if quickplay were a function to search for the first available social match that has the highest quality ping and skill balancing, though.

[coarse dagger]

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[white birch]

In a carry situation, the proper ratio is one newb to three hard carriers.
Thats how you ensure the newb actually gets wins.
Having more newbs than carriers results in a net loss for the carrier as the newbs continue to get picked off due to making simple mistakes the enemy team will exploit relentlessly.

[lime robin]

#1076327824924872755

[dense wing]

Awesome thank you mate 😊

[acoustic cargo]

What the hek! I was playing ranked arena Halo Inf and was ctf. We had the flag during sudden death and the game still ended wtf is this!? Older Halos as long as u had the flag game wouldnt end. (Teammate did run/throw the flag and grab it again during sudden death.)

Another thing, been playing ranked arena got one win away from gold 6, and now am all the way down to gold 2 almost 1. Ive been playing mainly as a random and accept the consequences of that. But even now at gold 2 still feels like the other team is better than me and its sure a damn grind. At least in previous Halos Id stay roughly at the same rank once i reach peak.

[devout kite]

If the flag just standing still then the timer will go down

[devout kite]

As you get higher in the ranks you’ll face better players

[toxic hedge]

Anybody wanna play mcc online or coop campaign with me?

Id be down to play through h3’s campaign with someone

[devout kite]

#lfg-campaign

[livid fable]

when i hit a warthog dead on with a chopper from the front while boosting

and it doesn't kill it
there is a problem

[analog salmon]

i think if you shoot it and keep ramming it the kill time is pretty fast

not as satisfying as halo 3 but it will do the job

[livid fable]

. . .

the ramming speed of the chopper is sufficient to destroy the warthog.

It is SUPPOSED to destroy the warthog, IN INFINITE.

you can test this by going to forge.

when the warthog instead bounces, it is not functioning correctly.

it's rather like saying the sniper rifle will eventually kill people, you just have to keep landing hits on their head. It's supposed to kill them in one shot if it hits their head.

[analog salmon]

yah i mean its not as satisfying as halo 3 even when it works though

feels clunky either way ig. i dont think i've had a successful chopper ram in MP yet.

i like most infinite's vehicles but i reckon the chopper needs a fair bit of work. doesn't even really sound distinct from the human vehicles

[devout kite]

Why haven’t 343 fix the morrigan helmet like how hard is it to fix that stupid giraffe neck

[smoky wave]

Let morrigan have a giraffe neck

[devout kite]

No it make a good helmet unusable

[smoky wave]

unusable
Kinda exaggerating over there

[devout kite]

The only way to hide the neck is with a stance

[fallen flame]

Alot of helmets in infinite are either really low or angled strange or quite high on the neck

[onyx latch]

Actually, after some pretty extensive testing of models on my part via blender, Morrigan is too high to fit on a normal person

Eyes align, chin does not.

It needs to be lowered by about 2-3 inches to fit right

[runic slate]

Yall ever wonder how big Shaq would be if he was a Spartan 2? Like hes already bigger both in height and weight than Chief.

[grave ether]

Shoot, If Shaq was a Spartan he wouldn't even need enhancements

[runic slate]

Honestly Kurt and Sams pre-retcon height now makes more sense if you believe that they had the same genetic potential as Shaq.

[low musk]

At level 86. Might get to 90 by Sunday.

[tepid latch]

at 63 i think atm, playing a lil every few days so i can finish it before s5 😎

[tepid latch]

T_T been getting into ranked atm cuz Tac Slayer is in, I keep going between Plat 2 and 3 lol

[low musk]

I’m trying not to finish too quickly so I have something to strive for. The weekly rewards are hit or miss. My favorite being the wrist attachment

[tepid latch]

Yeah i feel ya! tryna make it last for the whole season, its nice to have the weeks of events too where i think im playing the most

also wtf just came across this https://imgur.com/a/mSkB8kE

left the game up for like an hour to do stuff came back and the menu was like this, I assume there's like a fog layer in the game that keeps stacking. exited out and back in and it was fine lol

[languid prism]

Yep support was useless, i love how i just bought a bundle and got literally nothing out of it. Very funny just throwing away 10$ for nothing, sucks because i even have video proof of me buying it and getting nothing.

[tepid latch]

What bundle?

[languid prism]

Hcs bundle, i was in the menu for the arms and i bought a bundle that didn't load properly (common occurence when you first start the game). So what i thought was the sentinals arm bundle, turned out to be literally nothing

I thought it was a joke and restarted the game to find out i literally spent 10$ on nothing.

Lesson learned i guess, don't buy a single thing in the store if it doesn't load entirely.

[tepid latch]

What the hell! thats a terrible bug to have! id really like to see that get fixed, im sure other people would have run into that sort of issue given the not loading is extremely common

[languid prism]

I wish something would be done but nothing will happen, steam can't refund me the credits because i "spent them" on "nothing". Support won't do a thing because they can't grant credits/a refund. If i do a charge back on my bank they'll ban my 8 years old microsoft account

So yea, having fun over here getting scammed outta 10$. Lesson learned i guess

[tepid latch]

As if Support cant see your purchase history in halo ://

like that should be recorded so this can be prevented or at least resolved

[charred musk]

oof kinda scared to spend anything now

[tepid latch]

fr

[round forge]

That's illegal.

You should talk to a lawyer as you might be able to get money back through legal action.

[tepid latch]

esp if you have records of it happening

[round forge]

Also legal action might scare them into changing policy.

[languid prism]

I included a video report of me buying it too on halo waypoint. There isn't much that can be done at this point AFAIK

[tepid latch]

they can give you the piece you bought, they totally have the power to do that

[languid prism]

Getting a lawyer over 10$ might cost me more than it's worth but I do appreciate the ideas

[tepid latch]

Wish we were able to get this to a community manager, surely anyone would see that this is unfair af

[languid prism]

Fr, would be nice. I might message a mod to see if they can talk with the 343 dudes here, maybe someone higher up can resolve it. Or at least pass my video on to the team so others don't have this happen to them

[tepid latch]

Yeah i would just hope they dont send you straight to Support again

Like just on video proof it should be visible that you've paid for something and should have that in your inventory all of which they should be able to check on their side

Did you get the helmet at least?

[onyx latch]

Try contacting Xbox support, not Halo.

[coarse dagger]

Nobody here can help with this

As Trench said, reach out to Xbox Support. Only they can resolve billing issues

[coarse dagger]

We're not a go-between for 343 staff

[ruby lake]

hmmmmm

when will the spaghetti code be fixed?

[smoky wave]

You have to first finish eating them

[ruby lake]

but then there would be no code then!

[coarse dagger]

Can't have spaghetti code if you don't have any code

[ruby lake]

so i just have to untangle it

sounds easy enough!

(easy as untying a shoelace)

[near blade]

Just boil it

Cover with a nice ragu

[onyx latch]

They're still commiting dev time to Halo 2?

[dawn vessel]

Halo 3 needs a remake

[signal ivy]

nah

[dawn vessel]

Yeah

Just so they can redesign the brutes

And explain why up in space the brutes are so powerful and have a small amount of armor but what they do have is strong and durable

But down on the halo ring they are all super weak and they all have armor and most of the armor barely protects them

[uneven bison]

Different subspecies and weapon variants already explain this

If your talking about halo 2 and 3

Also gameplay differences

Because elites are your Allies now, bungo wanted to have the brutes be the “mediator” of sorts

We don’t need a halo 3 remake for an question with an obvious answer

[dawn vessel]

But it still doesn't make any sense

You can't just program them to be a absolutely horrible and very very easy to take down enemy

Without saying why they are even though one crash ago they werent

[uneven bison]

I think they can

Because they made the game

[dawn vessel]

They should put a reasoning behind it

Like fighting brutes in halo 2 anniversary was fun

They were a challenge

And in halo 3 you crash down onto a ring and all a sudden they arent?

They are boring easy to kill waste of ammo

Like maybe when there are 5 of them with a jet pack

But with just a couple of armored brutes they are a waste

Like you want to ruin a enemy fine but atleast make a story of why after just a single crash they are completely different

Or make a story like in space they are for some reason better but the ones living on the ring sucks

[onyx latch]

You literally never crash on a ring in Halo 3

Well

I lie, you crash on a ring that has flood on it, not brutes.

[crystal iron]

Some enemy type being weaker gameplay wise in next game doesn’t need a lore explanation lmao

[onyx latch]

Brutes weren't even that bad in 2, all things considered.

Sometimes they're nasty but they usually are about the same threat level.

[crystal iron]

Also since when brutes live on halo ring?

[onyx latch]

Halo Infinite.

The Banished are actively claiming it as colonized territory.

[crystal iron]

Yeah but he was talking about halo 3

[onyx latch]

Ah.

Then I think he's mistaking the Ark for a ring.

[crystal iron]

Probably

[dawn vessel]

What are those things with blue armor

That rush at you time to time

That has a lot of brute like characteristics

[onyx latch]

Elites, or Brutes. But they're not on a ring in Halo 3.

Unless you're counting the infected elites which are elite minors.

[crystal iron]

You crash on earth

[onyx latch]

You don't crash on anything at the end of either.

You crash on Earth in 3's beginning.

[twilit basin]

John Halo

[onyx latch]

You don't crash on a ring in any Halo's beginning or end, actually. In Halo CE Chief flies away; In Halo 2 Chief pops in-system and Arbiter is just chilling; In Halo 3 Chief's on a spaceship that's just floating; In Halo 4 Chief's just chilling; In Halo 5 Chief and Locke are chilling; In Halo Infinite Chief's chilling.

You crash on a ring in the second level of Halo CE, and you crash about halfway through Infinite.

So I don't know what game you think you're playing.

But you should problably eject it and look at the disk.

[white birch]

I dont know what version of Halo 2 youre playing on but you must not have had to face Brutes on Legendary.
Bullet spounges galore
No strategey, no planning, just shoot them till they DIE

[smoky wave]

Kinda shows they were half cooked during development too

[onyx latch]

I just needler spam.

Or carbine spam.

[dawn vessel]

I played halo 2 anniversary

[onyx latch]

Really, carbine and needler carry the Arbiter half of the campaign.

[merry mural]

I played a super sweaty match of Crazy King on Warlord in Halo 2 Anniversary and I gotta say that was crazy fun 😄

[white birch]

Pretty much.
Headshots, headshots headshots.
Unless the Brute leans over to charge you in which case best of luck.

[merry mural]

I've never played that map or that mode

[dawn vessel]

That happened a lot

[onyx latch]

I never really died to that all that often

[dawn vessel]

But they are kinda easy

Just keep jumping, they will hit you sometimes but your health may regenerate in time

[white birch]

Not on Legendary it wont.

[dawn vessel]

On normal you can dodge the attacks a little easy

[white birch]

That's Normal.

[full warren]

just checked someone's score, guy been getting 25 ish kills per game and winning 60% of his game while I get nearly 30 kills and I am winning 33% of my games this is so stupid, my teammates just rock bottom, I literally prefer bots

[tulip tusk]

i think for 60% wr maybe hes playing with a buddy or two

[grim citrus]

God no

[full warren]

ouch, i just got 32/6 and still lost

lol the guy who won but has only 19/9 started messaging me and abusing me lol

[young glen]

Sounds like you found a new friend to group up with.

[full warren]

well he blocked me

I mean he only knew 1 swear word

I think I hurt his feelings

This is actually I found alot, people on the opposite team always either call me a cheat, block me or start verbally abusing me after game and then blocking me lol, I must really hurt their feelings

Probably get 2-3 a week

I wish we can see our hidden MMR like it is in ranked so I can see if these teams are actually "fair" because we got 46/50 even tho I got 32 kills. so its basicly expecting me to get 36 kills in a slayer game. I mean its possible but damn its verging on impossibility. 343 definitely have these data because it has expected performance on halowaypoint, I just wish they can limit this to under 30 kills

[quasi finch]

Why are the helmet attachments so scuffed, especially cbrn on jfo and the shoulder pads not even connected to the armor?

Especially FJ shoulder pads on mk v

It’s so irritating cause I love those shoulder pads but I can’t not notice it and it’s really annoying

And also willow flashlight on cqb helmet

Also did 343 ever say if they would add colored armor attachments? Cause that would be cool and my armory wouldn’t be all grey armor cores.

[cinder pier]

i wish so badly that infinite had the fuel rod cannon and carbine

travesty that they werent included

[random ore]

what about the spartan charge

[cinder pier]

hell no

[random ore]

it shredded kids espically in xbox lobbys

[cinder pier]

tbh thats one of my biggest complaints with infinite is just the lack of guns that were in previous games, also the fact that 343 refuses to cave in and give us a plasma rifle

[crystal iron]

so I know Halo has it's core Playerbase, but with all the new games dropping and announced and the features they are sapposed to have like MW3 supposably doing a Open World Zombies Mode,

Does it feel like Halo Infinite is kinda being left behind with how they are developing the game in terms.of features.

[brisk coral]

how do i reduce the fat reticle on infinite

[quasi finch]

Fov

Raise fov

[brisk coral]

thx

[regal mirage]

They were already getting left behind when they released a low effort game to begin with. Then they were slow pushing out content. 343 just continues to disappoint

[ivory glacier]

I think they fixed the game up pretty good now

[full warren]

If you look at it as technically yes its kinda fixed

but their match making is still terriable

Litrally either I get -10KDA team mates or I sit here waiting 5 mins in team slayer and getting no games

[grim citrus]

Infinite to me will not make another year

Sounds like it’s relevant because the multiplayer games hasn’t dropped for the year

[full warren]

I mean if the new player experience is getting put against me and other good players and go 0/12 0/15 I doubt any of them will want to come back and play lol

imagine getting 0/15 for 10 games in a row that will demotivate anyone to play

[ruby knoll]

lmao people said that such and such game or the other would "kill infinite"

considering the mental prowess of the fanbase i don't put much stock in the predictions of doom

[crystal iron]

No I did say Halo has it's core Fanbase but I will admit an Open World Zombies PVE mode with multiple different teams sounds great at least I think it does.

Just hope Halo Infinites PVE is at the very least just as interesting and. Not 4 players on Multiplayer maps we have with some hordes thrown in

As of right now Starfeild and MW3 have me looking forward to something where Halo Infinite hasn't really delivered me much to rally look forward too.

When MW2 delivered Ground War and Invasion mode I was seriously thinking that is what Bigger team battle should have been like.

Halo is nice but It just feels stale compared to what these other games are trying to do.

Like I'd rather play COD right now over Halo Infinite.

[onyx latch]

Then do so?

[crystal iron]

I like the Whole Tac Stance which is a In between Hip fire and Aiming down Sights .that's going to be amazing with my KV Broadside

[onyx latch]

Honestly, as much as I chafe against Halo's super focus on wannabe arena, I totally get why people play CoD as competition.

That's not anger speaking, just... I get it. It's why I'm irritated the 'Hero shooter' concept got shot down.

[crystal iron]

I mean I am, just pointing out how Halo feels it's being left behind, and I really wish to feel that excitement for the game. It right now it just doesn't deliver

[onyx latch]

Well, yeah, you're absolutely right.

It is. It's getting stuck behind, in parts, from being a wannabe arena shooter.

The reasons why people prefer loadouts are pretty obvious when analyzed beyond "Durr CoD release schedule".

It allows for gimmicks, creativity.

[ruby knoll]

buh buh buh if it ever deviates then its le uniconic and le bad and le not le halo

[onyx latch]

Beyond Halo's very static way of happening.

[onyx latch]

I will cave your skull in with a rock and eat the marrow (I know AC and am being silly)

[crystal iron]

I didn't mind the Load outs from Halo 4, I get. It having them in 4v4 but it made BTB pretty fun

[onyx latch]

That's kinda the thing.

There's a logic to all of how this works, but people refuse to see it to the possible detriment of the franchise.

[crystal iron]

I really don't like the Small Weapons Sandbox in Halo Infinite. It made Fiesta Feel not so Fiesta

[ruby knoll]

the weapon sandbox is roughly on par

[onyx latch]

Yeah but the Hydra isn't as cool and it lacks Mantises

[ruby knoll]

i refuse to look up the weapon counts because of how many times this has been rehashed

[crystal iron]

When does Season 5 come out again ?

[hollow bobcat]

Some rumors speculated that season 5 might be released in October.

[lime robin]

@pliant crane

[crystal iron]

Hmmm, so MW3 drops in early November, hopefully this open world PVE Zombies Mode drops day 1, but if so That means Halo Should really push that PVE mode in Season 4...? Iv all but given up on cross core armor or any significant amount of it..

But Halo would have to really deliver some epic PVE mode in Season 5.

I'm just hoping it's not another Falling flat on their face thing they release

But I gots Starfeild in a week and some change and November is giving me Zombie PVE in large scale...

Honestly I hope they don't night mode for that PVE zombies mode lol... No Night vision

[pliant crane]

What happened

[lime robin]

You have the date for S5 on your bio, that's all

[pliant crane]

Ohh

[onyx latch]

What a nerd Icky is

[lime robin]

[onyx latch]

Having a bio

Who has a bio? Not me, that's for sure.

[lime robin]

Bio, About Me, same thing

[crystal iron]

well I have to go Piss off some gamers with a Shotgun that has been nerfed many times yet I still seem to be OP with it.. lol

[lime robin]

Broski's going to go play Halo 2? Good luck!

[onyx latch]

Halo 2's shotgun was nerfed from day 1 though

It hobbled out of the gate with half a leg and half a brain

[crystal iron]

Naw MW2 KV Broadside Shotgun with 25 round drum mag Fast Trigger and DeagonBreath Rounds

It's. Napalm shooter

[onyx latch]

That once again makes me wish for a Halo with canonically crazy equipment

Some of the stuff MJOLNIR can do is crazy

[crystal iron]

fire Rounds

[onyx latch]

Oh incins aren't that crazy

[crystal iron]

Ok up the KV broadside with Fire rounds... It seriously had people so angry when it does dropped and it still induces rage..

I have mine set up to Flush out campers and keep them out of those corners

[onyx latch]

I'm aware, vaguely, of what CoD metas are despite not partaking since BO3.

[crystal iron]

I have some Video I can send your way if you so desire

[hollow bobcat]

The real meta for Halo is that motion sensor.

[onyx latch]

The real meta for Halo is having fun

[hollow bobcat]

Define fun.

[onyx latch]

Enjoyment.

Sparking joy.

[hollow bobcat]

If it's about playing casual matches without sweaty try hards, that's a dream.

[onyx latch]

I am that sweaty tryhard.

[hollow bobcat]

Me too.

[onyx latch]

And by sweaty tryhard, I mean "I am literally just playing that game normally"

[crystal iron]

I never was a shotgun guy in COD mostly just Sniper and SMG but once I got that KV broadside to Max it was something I would never drop.

[onyx latch]

I remember that I used to run Saiga 12K in BF4 with slug rounds because it technically was a shotgun in shotgun servers.

[hollow bobcat]

My definition of fun is based on the game modes. I remember the days when it was action sack on Halo 5. It was just Mongoose sumo, infected on scary maps, and other interesting ideas.

[onyx latch]

And I'd run it that way because people didn't realize right away that the AK-looking shotgun was a shotgun.

And that I was using it like a DMR.

[crystal iron]

It's crazy too cus I got it to platinum and there this Skin that makes it look like it's on fire and melting which looks amazing with the Platinum skin

Is anyone else’s game crashing on startup?

[crystal iron]

I can send.touna video of the thing it's basically a War crime

[onyx latch]

Naw.

[crystal iron]

Aight, maybe you should drop into MW2

Try out Ground War and Invasion

Just stay out of ranked though it's brutal

[crystal iron]

It basically the KV broadside is the Saiga on Roids sounds like a 50cal going off

They also have Explosive rounds but those are kinda lame honestly compared to the blinding Napalm rounds

Oh damn I have to get to bed, needs to wakeup early for my workout Schedule.

Night all

[upbeat cape]

MCC PvP Competitive has been more dead than usual. Anyone know what's going on?

[celest heron]

lol, just saw someone kill an enemy with the AR from across the map in btb. it should not have that kind of range.

[onyx latch]

It doesn't have that kind of range.

They were likely using it to clean up someone else's sloppy work.

[upbeat cape]

Anyone doing any MCC competitive on PC? I need 2 wins and I guess I need to know where people are actually playing.

[celest heron]

never fails. play h3 and match a smurf with a 5 to 1 k/d.

[celest heron]

point is, the bullets shouldn't even go that far.

[merry mural]

Do the featured items in The Exchange in MCC change when the limited time items change?

[sharp edge]

@unreal thorn 🧄

[glacial tartan]

I don’t believe they’ve updated them in a long time

[merry mural]

Well that sucks lol

Halo 2 Anniversary skins are only available that way 😦

[celest heron]

maybe one day they'll get updated

[upbeat cape]

Maybe if we contact them on (X) Twitter? Like multiple people to get their attention

[grim swan]

how tf do i get past the second pelican bay in halo 2 legendary 😭

[digital plover]

you dont

[olive brook]

imagine a world where invasion on mcc is a social gamemode..

[outer ingot]

Guys, i need help, in Halo 2 i have death lag in second mission for Arbiter

[tepid latch]

lmao baffled by this guys attitude in a Fiesta game saying we need to come up with a strat and stick together? like... its a Social mode with random weapons idk what you want, just shoot people and have fun ://

is the butlr ai issue ever gonna get fixed T_T

[wanton root]

stick together? that's one way to get multikilled by a rocket the enemy always appears to have

[full warren]

wow my win rate is a all time low of 32% amazing

while still getting average of 25 kills in slayer...

[tepid latch]

thats what im saying! 😂

[full warren]

wish there is a BR only mode that is not ranked getting tired of having to play pistol all the time in team slayer

[tepid latch]

tac slayer? or does that still have other guns?

[full warren]

well tac slayer is not really a normal game is it

[tepid latch]

ive only played tac ranked recently n thats br only

[full warren]

no one has sheild

[tepid latch]

tru

[full warren]

kinda defeats the purpose of wanting to pratice lol

[tepid latch]

🤷 was all i could think that is br only

[full warren]

I could only do 2 games of tac slayer ebfore I had to quit

2 placement games vs basicly high diamond and onyx lol

too sweaty

[tepid latch]

rough, SWAT was one of my fav modes in MCC when ranked tac came out it brought a whole lotta players to it so i could finally play n i been lovin it

tho i am only Plat 3

[full warren]

I mean I am still winning those game but it is really sweaty lol, it is basicly a different game compared to normal halo

[sharp tendon]

man why halo 3 have the worst player

[onyx latch]

Because Halo 3's the worst Halo

Match made in heaven

[untold mesa]

Infinite have any problems on old gen or nah?

[shrewd aspen]

Anyone else not able to log into the game rn?

[viscid ravine]

Do Hunters, the Mgalekgolo breathe?

Would chemical weapons that starve them of oxygen kill them

[sharp tendon]

i dont think they breath i think the covenant found them eating some forerunner thing in space

[toxic parrot]

Anyone else hate the new weapon spawns for catalyst?

[devout kite]

What’s with rank giving me bad teammates that can’t play the objective and get kills

[devout kite]

Also can 343 just ban stacking in rank

[white birch]

They suffocate same as every other species when exposed to no atmosphere.
They operate in human-equivilent enviroments without any issue (as do most species bar the Unggoy for that matter)

Presumably that means they breath the same gasses humans do

[white birch]

No.
Stop playing ranked, duh XD

[devout kite]

Do we have an calendar for which rank modes are coming each week or no

[devout kite]

Why’s the CR so little when you win

[abstract vale]

Hiya folks, im currently playing Halo Infinite on PC via Steam. I enjoy the game, however I notice some weird "lag" when aiming on any gun just in-game, it appears to almost be capped to 60fps to aim and so therefore the animation looks really choppy as im on a 144hz monitor, is there anyway to stop this?

[crystal iron]

What is this Ranked you speak of...

[neon hazel]

Does anyone know how much "horsepower" the Warthogs make? I'm a car guy and it's something I've been wondering for a bit

[muted brook]

Do elites have throwing knives?

[ruby knoll]

probably

there's a lot of elites so it stands to reason that at least 1 might have some

as standard equipment for elite soldiers though? probably not

[celest heron]

don't think it's been mentioned. the real life version can make a thousand hp.

[ruby knoll]

there's multiple real life versions afaik

though none of them are meant to be mechanically "accurate"

[celest heron]

yes, I'm referring to the latest one that they raced at the dragstrip

the game version probly makes a lot less

[ruby knoll]

i think a reasonable guess would be somewhere in the ballpark of modern military vehicles

[neon hazel]

It feels slow and clunky so I'd imagine it's somewhere in the 400's at least

[celest heron]

it's likely built with more torque in mind so it can get over obstacles.

[ruby knoll]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_MaxxPro

375 hp, a bit less than I thought

idk (again completely random and baseless ballpark value) 300-600 is probably the range for what a warthog would have

i base this almost entirely on a gut feeling

[neon hazel]

Like I said I think around 400

[ruby knoll]

that sounds reasonable if that MRAP above does 375

[neon hazel]

Yeah cause it would be much lighter

[muted brook]

I would think a military vehicle would have an abnormally high hp to carry all that armor and equipment, especially in off-road environments

If it can carry a half ton spartan it should have high hp.

[neon hazel]

Spartans way half a ton!? Damn I never knew that

[velvet cosmos]

Most of the weight is the armor.

[neon hazel]

Makes sense

[muted brook]

That's what I read anyway, but I think that's only II in armor

Spartan 2s in armor

[velvet cosmos]

Think the suits are 800-1100 pounds, depending on the variant.

[celest heron]

it doesn't need super high hp cause they're not gonna be traveling fast all the time. torque and having the right gearset would be more important

[muted brook]

In its final phase the Mjolnir battlesuit weighs half a ton, or 1000 lbs when in use. So basically half a ton with a 250 pound person in it

[neon hazel]

Torque cause rocky(bumpy) terrain right?

[neon hazel]

Makes you think melee should do more damage 😆

[celest heron]

it gets the vehicle moving

[muted brook]

Not when you melee someone else in a 1000 pound battle suit

[velvet cosmos]

Depends on what you hit.

[neon hazel]

Poor grunts

[velvet cosmos]

Grunt punt go nyoom.

[muted brook]

Well, when chief was 14, he ACCIDENTALLY killed a couple ODSTs after augmentation. Without battle armor. When he was still only 14. And not even using his full strength

And Spartans regularly flip tanks in the field

[crystal iron]

Those things wouldn't be the same as a warthog I know from first hand expereince with those hunks of junk

[onyx latch]

TBF, swinging weights around can kill someone surprisingly easily.

I guess it's the three on one that makes it a big deal, but generally, having even a 50 pound weight land on your foot will keep you from fighting for a bit.

[muted brook]

Fair point

[white birch]

Glances at the mountains of Zeta Halo and forcing my Hog up through crowded passes with boulders as big as it is.

Yeah

[neon hazel]

Warthog is dream car

[runic slate]

No? The field guide says that they can flip warthogs with the only mention of them being able to flip tanks coming from Frank in the Halo Legends commentary. Unless the encyclopedia or latest books like Rubicon and Outcast buffed them without me seeing it, them being able to flip tanks is just gibberish.

[ruby lake]

i disagree

halo spartans flip their tanks in the battlefield

because the game told me to

[earnest thunder]

Man, I suck so badly at this game. I just lost 3 ranked matches in a row and am burning through my rank points.

[neon hazel]

X to doubt, also to flip tank

[worldly gulch]

Is there a blood ritual or dark magic I have to do to not get better teammates? This is way too consistent of bad teammates to be random circumstance

[muted brook]

You can easily flip tanks in the games

[runic slate]

Master Chief also cant swim in the games. Flipping any vehicle in the game or basically anything that can be flipped is a product of game mechanics, and is not indicative of the lore. Them being able to actually flip tanks would go against any of their strength showings in lore.

[white birch]

I believe they said they could flip a tank if in the right situation.

However, we get stuff like the Elephant which, if you flip it, gives you an easter egg.

[white birch]

No, but I think if you crush up a bunch of superhot Doritos in a cup and then pour either Rockstar or Monster over it, then blend that mess up and boil it down to a paste and then spread that paste on your game console it SHOULD help.
Just be sure the paste doesnt get into the vents or fans, obviously

[fathom lodge]

What’s everyone’s opinion on the WW1-WW2 style helm variants the EagleStrike has?

[white birch]

Needs a rain cape.
And a multi-helmet gas mask filter bit.
And preferatly some kind of "in the trenches" armor coating with mud splashed all over it.

All of the armor coatings for it so far are just way too bright and pretty.

Oddly enough old school Watchdog (the first one, not Neos) works pretty well.

Helmet wise specifically its Kerbros or nothing

[crimson edge]

does anyone know how to get those forge armor coatings

[crystal iron]

Nope

[runic slate]

The more I keep thinking about it the more I start viewing the 4's to be baby space marines rather than spartans.

[dark wing]

man whesn the next infninte update

i want more maps

[celest heron]

idk, like two months from now

[white birch]

Not inaccurate.

[white birch]

Which one, the Master Builder ones? Or something else.

[crimson edge]

i think so, the one with guilty spark's colors

[white birch]

That rewarded for getting a map into the Community Playlist I believe.

[crimson edge]

damn now i gotta learn how to make a map

[white birch]

And then get it into the rotation. Im not even sure if they're open to submissions for it right now

[crimson edge]

i heard they're looking for like seasonal themed maps though

[celest heron]

they really need to make the death cam further away from the player's body.

[low musk]

If there was one coating that you want to be crosscore that already exists, which one would it be and what would you use it on?

[celest heron]

wow, I know my team isn't good when I'm the one getting first place.

oh well, I'll take it I guess

[velvet root]

so I have this thing and I don't know why there is a soap here at home that every time I clean my hands with it and I smeII it I think of halo
a very weird fact about me with halo does anyone have something similar ?

[celest heron]

well I see the banshee is still the assist machine. sigh

[modest carbon]

I'm not much for first person shooters. If they make a tactical strategy game off of Halo, you let me know.

[crystal iron]

I felt that 💀

[crisp tiger]

looking for 7 people to test a map can any others help

[coarse dagger]

#lfg-forge / #lfg-customs

[tepid latch]

Probs gotta go with the Gundam coating, i love using it on my MkVii would love to see it on others

[tepid latch]

is tac strat like Xcom sorta games?

[hollow bobcat]

Name a weapon that would mean the death of you if you ever had to wield it against other Spartans.

I think mine would have to be the ravanger.

[tepid latch]

Yeah Ravager for sure, I'd have a better chance fighting with a spoon

[shy plume]

heyo, anyone know how to stagger spawning in halo reach mcc?

[sinful agate]

Commando unless they have one too lol

[onyx latch]

The Skewer, of all guns.

I have the tendency to miss shots that matter and hit every shot that doesn't.

[runic slate]

Extremely hot take here but just let me cook for a bit. Halo is a dying IP, and with the failure of Infinite trying to wrangle in a newer and much larger playerbase, I feel like all similar attempts in the future will end up the same. Therefore Xbox should instead ABANDONE Halo as we know now and expand the franchise to different genres. So a Halo like Xcom, a Halo like Baldurs Gate 3, and a Halo like Doom etc. Because as a story lover I aint getting any love from 343 so whats the point. Either Halo stays like that one uncle that always talks about his prime in highschool, or Halo goes in another direction in an attempt to find a new life.

[signal ivy]

I see it's time for the daily "halo is dying" post

[runic slate]

I mean I vividly remember crying in elementary school arguing with my friend over which is better Halo or COD lol. So to me is it dead? No, but like I wouldnt cry now lol

[coarse dagger]

"Better" is entirely subjective - there is no right or wrong

If you prefer Halo - cool
If you prefer CoD - also cool

They're both great game franchises

[runic slate]

Well try to talk nuances to 9 year old me and see how well that works out for you lol

[magic night]

9 year old you doesn't exist anymore, so there's no need.

[runic slate]

I mean technically there could be another me somewhere and that version of me could be 9 years old but I get your point lol

[grave ether]

But you aren't 9 and this isn't a "which is better" debate crying over which game is better

Do you want to be crying over which franchise is better?

[runic slate]

Im not saying which is better lol. Im saying that I cared to cry about it when I was nine. And I used the statement of "I wouldnt cry now", to indicate how less I care about the franchise now. Because if I cried about it when I was 9 that would mean that it was the world to me. Now it is not.

[grave ether]

Yeah, that's how growing up works

[runic slate]

My point exactly lol.

If people want me to be just blatant about my message ill spell it out for all of you. Halo is a dying franchise so much so that its almost niche. Therefore I find it logical that Xbox experiement with the IP in an attempt to revive it. There lol.

[grave ether]

Your point reads more like "because it doesn't inspire the passion in me that it did when I was still learning to control my emotions, that halo isn't as important as it used to be and just shouldn't be a thing anymore"

https://tenor.com/view/this-is-the-way-mando-mandalorian-mando-yes-mandalorian-yes-gif-26449593

Now you can either be nice and join in the conversation or you can see yourself out

[runic slate]

I mean of course I dont think that it shouldnt be a thing anymore. Its just not relevant to me anymore. I think my love for Halo even as a kid was so strong because I didnt grow up playing video games. I had very strict parents and so Halo was one of the few games that I ever played as a child. You know spending countless hours at my cousins house playing 3 player free for all splitscreen on blood gulch. Like all of us here I want the IP to succeed, and I just dont see how it can if it doesnt change.

[ruby knoll]

are you sure about that? you're talking to it right now

[runic slate]

Ah quality conversation. Im sorry for not sucking on 343 and offering my opinion as to how the franchise can increase in popularity lol. I mean seriously if these are the type of responses to suggestions than imo the people acting like children are yall. But my bad though, ill keep quite and get in line with yall.

Just do me a favor and hit me up when 343 decides to continue the endless storyline lol

speaking of which anyone know where Anders is at?

[crystal iron]

Tbh expanding halo franchise to other game genres would be pretty cool

Like sure, we had halo wars and spartan assault/strike but man, turn based strategy game or something like that would be cool

[grave ether]

That's not it. But if that's how you want to view it sure, you do you

[runic slate]

So making a backhanded claim about me being 9 isnt an insult?

[grave ether]

I'm not saying that wasn't insulting, but you looped everyone that responded to you in that comment

[runic slate]

Ah yea I see it. Yea I get that.

I just use yall a lot so the intention of the word has somewhat been skewed for me

[full warren]

my team mate hit 33 shots in a team slayer game....

700 dmange dealt total in the whole game wow

[errant flicker]

I feel like 343i gets blamed too much for Halo’s decline in popularity, though I’m not saying they didn’t have any part in it. I feel like it’s decline is also due to just new trends. When CoD came out Halo just wasn’t the “trendy” thing anymore, the new thing was modern military shooters, so Halo just naturally declined.

[runic slate]

I agree 100%

even if u look back Halo 3, when MW2 released I believe it still sold more than 3, and was arguably more popular

[brisk token]

I had a dream last night master chief and blue team just showed up in diary of a wimpy kid

Out of the blue

[crystal iron]

Tbh I think that halo’s problem is that it’s a console exclusive. Exclusivity isn’t great for multiplayer games.

[brisk token]

MCC is on pc

Halo isnt a exclusive anymore really

[errant flicker]

W move, I feel like that extended Halo’s lifespan, and created limitless possibilities through mods

[crystal iron]

I said console exclusive. From three consoles on the market, it’s only on xbox. These days most of people prefer to play multiplayer games that they can play with friends that play on other platforms as well

[errant flicker]

As in, it’s not on PlayStation

Or Switch I guess

[crystal iron]

Yes and I think that it’s one of the reasons why today halo isn’t doing as well as years ago

[brisk token]

As much as i love the switch i cannot see it running halo well

[errant flicker]

It’d be pretty fun if they could make it work, Halo on the go

[brisk token]

Without spending the money on a steam deck

[errant flicker]

Yeah, that certainly doesn’t help in the long run. I’m no business expert, but wouldn’t 343i have to run it through with Microsoft if they want to release Halo on PS

[runic slate]

Putting it on playstation would make it more popular but I dont think it would be as big as you think it is. The market today just favors the cod style gunplay, and its not like Infinite didnt have an opportunity to capture a large audience, I mean 20 million people tried the game across console and pc. Edit: It was 20 million not 40 lol

[brisk token]

I think FPS games are oversaturated as a whole

[crystal iron]

They would need some approval from Microsoft I think. Also Sony could be a problem but that’s just my theory

[crystal iron]

I don’t think that it would make halo as popular as biggest titles on the market but it would definitely bring a lot of players

[crystal iron]

Yeah, there’s a lot of them

[tulip tusk]

i dont like the market today talks i think with all the video essays and youtube content everyone thinks they are one of the dreaded corporate suits with confident arrogant perspectives on markets, people, financial strategies, transactional design when its all really just about awesone nerds making a fun game that people like to play...the ancient foundational ways of gaming

[errant flicker]

When the classic Halo’s came out, there weren’t as many FPS games for it to compete with, but then CoD came out and after that tons of FPS games came out, so now Halo has to compete with a ton of games. So that would make it more difficult for Halo today to gain popularity

[runic slate]

I agree to an extant that talks like this can devolve into people acting like arm chair businness people. The fact of the matter though is that COD succeeds because it offers widely different gameplay than Halo. Like I said 20 million people tried Halo Infinite and 99% of those people left. If COD can sustain and gain players, where Halo fails to attract and keep players. Surely the difference has to do with fundamentals like gunplay.

[errant flicker]

I feel like the lack of content is what drove people away from Infinite. It’s gunplay is some of the best Halo has to offer in my opinion

[eternal lion]

Cod came out in 2003...

[errant flicker]

CoD4

[runic slate]

I would argue that lack of content is what drove away the people that didnt mind the slower ttk arena style gameplay. I would argue that the slower ttk arena style gunplay is what put off most people.

[tulip tusk]

maybe who knows, wouldve been cool if those 20million answered a couple question survey about why they stopped playing i thhink there were so many problems to choose from. it just was not a good game at launch in many ways

[eternal lion]

well, its only the 4th

[brisk token]

I have no opinion on cod as ive only played world at war and the old modern warfare

[crystal iron]

Lack of content and features, not great progression system etc.
Overall people mostly left because of problems imo

[young glen]

Yeah, Infinite's issues don't come down to just one or two.

When I play other MP games, it's pretty apparant that Infinite is dated and lethargic in content delivery.

[errant flicker]

CoD4 came out in 2007, but I think it was CoD MW2 that started the modern military trend

[eternal lion]

And still 2007, it was Halo 3 that was before Cod4 in selling copies

[tulip tusk]

cod is interesting bc i think it is a propoganda arm of the us military, they have fun campaigns too and the multiplayer is simple pew pew to pick up

maybe when alien wars happen halo will get some govt funds

[runic slate]

MW2 was the first COD game that had a proper console release. Everything prior or hell every other fps prior was focused on the pc market. We saw that once Halo saw competition in MW2 that it was no longer the go to fps game on console.

[brisk token]

I want a halo game like battlefield or the older battlefront games

[errant flicker]

Yes, I want one where you play as marines, but that might put it too close to Battlefield gameplay wise

[tulip tusk]

me 2

[errant flicker]

Honestly, I just desperately want a game where you play as a marine

[signal ivy]

UNSC slaughter simulator

[brisk token]

Closest thing to that is heavily modded arma 3

[eternal lion]

The geographical market is important too. After Halo 3, Europe went a lot toward Cod for a major reason : the 1st console was Playstation. And without PC to compensate, Halo couldn't went for a worldwide stimulus.
And then it continued to be Xbox exclusive but Xbox One was far far behind the PS4... So Halo couldn't grab the Japanese and European market. And Microsoft understood it perfectly. It get full US strategy (English behind inside the language circle). Halo 5 did some to Europe but not for long (again Playstation is more powerfull

[runic slate]

Halo 3 14.5 million copies. MW2: 22.7 million copies. Whether these numbers are still up to date who knows.

[errant flicker]

I’m just gonna put it out there while I’m here, I do think 343i is overhated right now. Obviously they’ve had missteps and are certainly no saints, but they’re trying. They are really trying to please this very split fan base, trying to make compromises to please each group

[runic slate]

To me thats one of the issues. The community is split between evolving the gameplay and keeping it the way it is. And for someone who frankly doesnt care, I would argue that keeping the game the way it is is whats killing the franchise.

[brisk token]

I consider 343 to be a different company following the great purge of employees earlier this year as they obviously changed

[tulip tusk]

my most unknown game request is battletanx global assault, was a nintendo 64 tank multi/campaign game. so fun i wish there was an updated version for today bc it's outdated

[brisk token]

Also who thought it was a good idea to name the company after a orb who wants to kill sentient life in the universe to stop the flood

[errant flicker]

Honestly, they’re going to have to stick with compromising with the different groups and just avoid creating new groups.

[full warren]

pls no, halo is already struggling trying to support the old xbox, imaging trying to build a game for a PC that is running 4090 vs a switch

the coding mess

[runic slate]

I remember reading the stats somewhere but didnt Halo 5 fair better than Infinite in the most played ranking on the Xbox store? Not now of course, but when Halo 5 released it was at a higher spot for a longer time than Infinite.

[eternal lion]

But by doing so, they can't please anybody...

[brisk token]

Halo 5 had good gunplay and decent multiplayer imo. I didnt like everything else

[runic slate]

This just leads to pleasing no one and stagnating the franchise. 343 needs to stick to one group and thats the group that wants to evolve the game.

[full warren]

to put into prospective just how US focused halo is, the season 3 loading screen crashes was because it did not support some european language inputs on windows LOL

they never tested the game with anything other than US keyboard input and maybe a few others.

[eternal lion]

and let's no go to the localization theme XD

[runic slate]

God I love Halo 5 multiplayer. I wish everyday that it gets a pc release.

[brisk token]

"Best i can do is forge"

[full warren]

I mean its not even localization it was they just didn't even support their keyboards lol their game can be english language

[brisk token]

I feel like thats more english focused rather than US focused

[errant flicker]

Honestly, I feel like they almost got it with Infinite, they just fumbled on the content.

[full warren]

I mean, I had a custom english keyboard input in the UK and that also broke it lol

Which did not break the game in season 1-2

[errant flicker]

Last I checked when Infinite’s gameplay was shown it was mostly praise from all groups. Then the game came out with zero content, plus major features like campaign co-op and forge being delayed

[tulip tusk]

i dont understand the group vs group idea and they have to choose one group or something. its just people having different opinions

[brisk token]

Which group will make the company more money

[full warren]

I wonder why they dont just release the game on playstation, no one buys an xbox because of halo anymore lol

[errant flicker]

Well, those opinions are mainly split in favor between Halo 3, Halo Reach, and 343 games

So they have to please one group of opinions

[full warren]

Exclusivity just turns people off these days, I literally didn't buy some games because it was exclusive, I was not going to get a new platform just because the game is on it lol

[brisk token]

Say what you want but Nintendo only exists because of exclusives these days.

[stark osprey]

What's the crafting recipe for the fuel rod gun again? I can't find it on the wiki

[tulip tusk]

minecraft?

[errant flicker]

Well, Nintendo does dominate the family-friendly market

[crystal iron]

Localization… man, I still can’t believe that they called forerunners "precursors" in my language lol

[eternal lion]

nah, now its even US focused

[errant flicker]

Again though, on the whole pleasing different groups, I think Infinite is the way to go gameplay wise, evolve off of that.

[full warren]

However their exclusives are kind niche lol I got a switch for games that really is not playable anywhere else lol

[errant flicker]

Also, I recently played Halo 5 again, and it’s actually pretty fun

[eternal lion]

A problem when there is precursors later XD
In french they left it like that.
But translation is hard. And without the support of the original creators, its even harder. Add the multiplicity of support (and translators) doesn't help... they just don't have the ressources to do good

And now that is done by a machine (a bad one of course)...

[radiant sundial]

welp

[low musk]

I still wish they would lower the respawn counter even if by a couple of seconds. Feels irritating to die and wait what feels like an eternity to get back in

[radiant sundial]

idk, it feels fine rn

u talking about mcc or infinite tho

bc i havent done any mcc matchmaking in about a year

[low musk]

Infinite, but I might be in the minority on that opinion. Doesn’t mean I’m right, just that’s how it feels personally

[crystal iron]

Tbh I’m curious what’s gonna happen when some future halo game will mention precursors lol

[full warren]

how many times do you die a game lol,

[eternal lion]

don't you have the Forerunner books ?

[low musk]

It’s about a 1:1 KD. Some games I do way better, others worse

[crystal iron]

The only halo book that has been released here was fall of reach and it was released 20 years ago

[full warren]

I really have no opponion on death timers. any shorter you might get people pushing a lane then the person they killed just spawn infront them before their shield even recharge lol

[eternal lion]

Right ,i just look. Its sad :/
But translation in europe is ... strange

[low musk]

I would agree with you on some level, but because of games where you spawn far from the action, sometimes you get blitzed by a group that sees you way before you see them before you can even see the objective

But this is coming from a guy that primarily plays BTB

[ruby knoll]

cuz it's harder than just pushing a "release PlayStation build" button

[eternal lion]

https://twitter.com/Lunaramethyst/status/1457347631374606342
Translation of Halo books

[full warren]

I feel like the reward is definitely more than the cost lol

[ruby knoll]

halo's engine is very much built around the directx ecosystem

unless i missed something, PS doesn't do DX at all

[full warren]

I guess them moving to unreal engine would enable them to release on anything right?

[ruby knoll]

ew

[crystal iron]

Yeah, it’s sad. I would love to own these books physically but it is what it is

[ruby knoll]

why can't people suggest an engine that isn't astronomically overhyped

like Source

source also has the benefit of being backed by a far less awful company

[full warren]

I am just saying what leakers have said, and I imagine unreal is much more main stream than source?

[ruby knoll]

le leakurz

[full warren]

Cough cough 343, microsoft

[ruby knoll]

how is 343 awful again

[full warren]

I mean they are owned by microsoft

[ruby knoll]

right but between Epic and Valve i'll take Valve any day

[devout kite]

So someone on my team got +12 knowing he spent less time in the zone then me and less zones secures

How is that fair

[ruby knoll]

plus source has far better physics than ue

[full warren]

The game been kill focused since day 1 lol

Just one of many problem

[coarse dagger]

No leak discussion please

[devout kite]

Again I got little CSR for being the mvp of the match

[full warren]

You guys should add this to the rules-and-guidelines, What do you consdier rumours? does that count as leaks or just rumours

[coarse dagger]

It is

[glacial tartan]

"Do not post datamined content, leaks, or spoilers with the intent to ruin experiences for others. This includes discussion, YouTube videos, screenshots, or any other media."

[full warren]

Ah ok yeah i read it all and missed this as I was expecting it to be under "legal" part

[eternal lion]

leaks are rumours

[full warren]

but are rumours, leaks hahaha

[low musk]

You don’t want to tow that line. Trust me

[grave ether]

Considering they could be about a leak or a spoiler, yes.

[slim flint]

is there a practical reason for repeatedly picking up and dropping an objective while moving it?

[eternal lion]

its a lot faster

[serene badger]

Yep. CTF, you see everyone who knows the trick repeatedly picking up the flag and dropping it.
What is funny in Infinite, is that flag runners no longer hop on a warthog and be driven back to base, instead, the flag runners hop on top of a wasp and are flown to base...

[celest heron]

think it's only faster if you're slide sprinting while juggling it.

I also heard you can hit the flag with a fusion coil and it will go flying across the map.

[full warren]

When you drop it you can also shoot lol, then pick it up and throw it infront

[full warren]

repulse it forward too or grapple it as you run ahead

[celest heron]

whenever I try equipment tricks, I'll always mess it up somehow

[full warren]

if you fast enough you can repulse it forward, and repulsed yourself upwards for some crazy plays

[devout kite]

It’s called flag juggling which is a lot faster to move the flag across the map

[grave ether]

I thought it couldn't be repulsed

[slim flint]

thanks

[serene badger]

Idk, but i am totally going to try throwing fusion coils at the flag now. 😈

[devout kite]

It can but you have to be fast enough

[devout kite]

Practice in training mode

[edgy summit]

can someone check #1143282330128097541 💀

[crystal iron]

Ranked Tactical needs to be a mainstay, but I know it won't 😭

Also it irks me that they changed it to tactical slayer instead of swat

[analog salmon]

Just keep calling it swat then

I’m guessing saying tac slayer or tactical on its own hasn’t caught on cause so many people just say swat still

I would just make swat ranked only

[velvet cosmos]

Why did they change it to begin with?

[analog salmon]

Make it more descriptive

They’ve changed the name of all the playlists pretty much

Social slayer use to mean team slayer with social settings

Now it means what action sack use to be

That’s most confusing for long time players coming back

[velvet cosmos]

But for what reason? Most players, if not all, already know what each game mode is, and each game type, regardless of name, has a short description of it.

[analog salmon]

Just be thankfully they didn’t name swat hardcore mode man

[velvet cosmos]

Just doesn’t seem like a change that helps anyone, but that’s just me.

[coarse dagger]

There are a lot of new players that constantly discover Halo, not everyone is able to figure things out. People that have been playing a long time will be used to terminology, but it's not always inviting or apparent to new players

[analog salmon]

It’s a bit stupid tactical swat is actually less tactical in the sense of the word ngl. You are just mindlessly running around shooting people in the head given halo has so much magnetism you barely miss

Like it plays nothing like Counter Strike or something

[glacial cobalt]

[analog salmon]

I can’t really think of a good name, swat sounds like it’s some goofy cops vs baddies mode

[eternal lion]

yeah like a attack/defend situation

[grave ether]

It's Tactical Slayer because it's TactiCOOL!

[coarse dagger]

[tacit hatch]

Can there be a forfiet button

Like please

[woeful stirrup]

any tips for speeding through cyber showdown event pass besides challenges ? i only just got home today to play 😿

on infinite

[eternal lion]

you can't. You have to make all this week challenges

[woeful stirrup]

great

thanks anyway

wow slowmode on this server

[woeful stirrup]

think its doable in 20 hours? mint blitz said it was doable in just a couple hours but . . . thats mint blitz 💀

i literally just got back into the game so not got much reference besides the few challenges i see before me now

[full warren]

I mean how many kills do you get? I normalyl compelte all 10 challenges in like 4-5 games lol

[woeful stirrup]

im very rusty, im a swat player lol so

im just playing fiesta for them atm

[eternal lion]

yes you can.

[woeful stirrup]

cool ty

[left egret]

Question. I know if you bought a season pass and did not finish it, you can continue to unlock it later. If I don't purchase the current season, can I still buy it later as well? Money is a little tight right now, but I don't want to miss out on this season if I can just get it later.

[grave ether]

Yep

[left egret]

awesome, thank you.

[woeful stirrup]

did the event wow so glad it was quick

[modest carbon]

So I bought the Fortnite: Battle Royale BATTLE PASS™️. Can that be transferred over to my Halo Infinite account?

[grave ether]

No

[modest carbon]

Shoot

[devout kite]

No two completely different games

[misty vale]

It took me 16 games to finish the challenges this week

I wasn't trying for any of them other than 'kill with a shock weapon'

They are as easy as anything has ever been

[low musk]

Especially on super fiesta

[woeful stirrup]

yeah I just did super fiesta a

[devout kite]

It only takes my two days to finish the challenges

[hard mauve]

When is the next john halo game comig

[full warren]

Don't know how people play on 100 ping it feels like I am chasing ghosts and getting shot from no where

After I get the hit register and turn around I am already half dead, can't even shoot back, I think this is the main problem with high ping, you can't react to things

[long cypress]

anybody have any tips on completing the level Halo in ce on legendary bc i am fighting for my life out here

these elites suddenly got worse

[uneven bison]

Which level

[slim flint]

level 2

[uneven bison]

So halo?

(The Level called Halo)

[runic slate]

Was bored and I wanted to see how tall Shaq would be if he was given Spartan 2 augmentation. Without armor he stands at 8'3, and in armor he stands at 8'7. Out or armor hes taller than Kurt in SPI by 1 in.

basically he a chonky boy

[fickle bluff]

Bonjour qui parle français

[tulip tusk]

je parle en peu de francais mais jai oublie beacoup...je parle anglais 🙂

[celest heron]

c'est un serveur anglais.

[long cypress]

this level’s getting on my nerves bro oh my GOD

it’s probably my want to get par score on my first legendary run just so i never have to do it again

[celest heron]

throw nades before they jump out of the dropship and use the plasma pistol on them. for the other areas, you can get a sniper marine in your passenger seat and just drive around while he shoots them.

or you can just kill all the marines which will cause foe hammer to come down essentially skipping the areas.

[long cypress]

so throw nades at the marines to make em “collateral” so they don’t shoot ya?

if i wanted to kill of the marines, anyway

[celest heron]

if you want to kill them. once they turn into enemies though, you have to be careful cause they'll tear you up.

if you want to get the par score done, I'd suggest a lower difficulty and just turn some skulls on.

[full warren]

Playing team slayer at 2am getting american servers is completely different than UK time, all I am facing are 1600 onyx players (or unranked but 10+ KDA) in my lobby but its god awful trying to play when I have 120 ping. I feel like I am the worst player but I am also just dying around walls every time

I want to enjoy finally playing vs people that are my level but man its hard to stay happy with the game at 120 ping. the amount times I die around a wall is fustration

However this does tell me sbmm does try to match teams of equal skill mostly so that means I get terriable matched teams in the UK even during peak is because the population is just so small it can’t make a even team.

Because 8 games in a row on USA sever was all very equal skill players. This is really sad. I guess I will never be able to play a game like this again

[crystal iron]

2 people on your team quit, you went positive, but still lost the match? Sorry that's gonna be a minus 14

[ivory glacier]

I still didn’t get the update for the new Xbox dashboard. It should’ve happened by now. Is there something I can do?

[devout kite]

I hate how two matches I was mvp and got little csr for my effort lol

[ivory glacier]

You know how you can submit a ticket for halo? Is there something similar I can do to get the new dashboard? Like a Microsoft ticket or something?

I don’t know how this stuff works

[tulip tusk]

infinite is going to ban me soon for all my crashes

[devout kite]

Why did you reply to yourself?

[ivory glacier]

Cuz I’m trying to ask something

[ivory glacier]

Is that all you have to offer? Can anyone actually give me some kind of answer

Great. Thanks

[sand scaffold]

does anyone know how to fix the problem when I try and play multiplayer the armor core unlock keeps popping up and sending me back to home screen.

[celest heron]

try the Xbox discord server

[ivory glacier]

Thank you. I’ll try that out

[celest heron]

already sick of Dredge and I don't even play the 24/7 playlist of it

[low musk]

Dredge is ok, though its far from my favorite map. Scarr is still a pretty fun map and my favorite BTB map by far

[celest heron]

I wouldn't mind it if I didn't get it so much

[celest heron]

don't know why so many people challenge when they're one shot. I must've gotten six kills in one game from people doing it.

[frosty condor]

I’m trying to get the nasty montage clip of out-BR’s

I need to learn to not challenge as I’m not that good anymore

[abstract fossil]

who remembers noble 14 the last halo 2 multiplayers

[crystal iron]

Everyone

[ivory isle]

noble 14 yeah, the last 14 players who refused to log off when the halo 2 servers got shutdown, last person kept his xbox running for a month after the shutdown

[merry mural]

Just ran into my first ever hackers in MCC

Any way I can guarantee their bans? I tried reporting during the match but it kept saying "Report failed, too many reports"

[lime robin]

Do it manually

[sullen kiln]

https://aka.ms/HaloSafety

[drowsy storm]

Anyone here played Ultimate Firefight Sandtrap?
Currently going through it now and am just impressed with how much it adds