/hg/ - Halo General

Reminder to bully the lowest ranked player in a /hg/ fireteam.

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Details on /hg/ island:

https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/games/halo-5-guardians/xbox-one/map-variants?lastModifiedFilter=Everything&sortOrder=Modified&page=1&gamertag=Hect0rlo#ugc_halo-5-guardians_xbox-one_mapvariant_Hect0rlo_a16b8f2c-b5d1-4e9d-9574-b30b7784d995

/hg/ island vids:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayb4QEnJfcs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xND7zTv5f5U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyUM6GgJGrE

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>>148138940
Third for Brutes are the most tech savvy race

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Have you offered your blessing to best girl today?

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Nth for Dewrito

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>>148139270
why yes I have

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>>148139242
Watch out, Grunts are catching up.

>>148138981
Not surprising that people would want to win in ranked.

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ODST

>>148139539
There should be social playlists

>>148139270
Finally a Vale pic that shows skin but hides her hideous face.

Are there any more like this?

why is it impossible to find a match in the mcc?

t. just bought the mcc

>>148139870
Not enough people sadly.
>>148139919
I'm sorry for your lots.

>>148139919
Because it was/still is broken, so everyone abandoned it. You probably won't find a match in any playlist but the mixed bag ones. Hope you like playing Halo 3 every match.

>>148139919
>why is it impossible to find a match in the mcc?
I haven't had a problem finding one in a long time.

Is your NAT set to open?

If anyone ever thinks to defend the writing once 343 took over keep in mind they approved a scenario in which a non augmented woman overpowered a fully augmented male Spartan IV in Gen-II MJOLNIR armour.

>>148139870
All we need now is Action Sack tbhfamalam

>>148139919
Try restarting the game, that works for me. If it takes more than 2 minutes before "Connecting to players" shows up at least once, then something's wrong.

>>148139886
Yes.

>>148139919
Check your Internet settings.

I had to port forward my Xbone, but once I did I've been able to easily get into matches in Team Slayer, H2A Anniversary, Halo 2 Classic, and Big Team

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god damn bull shit swat i fucking hate this shit it wouldnt be bad if the ranking was like reach BUT NO LETS CHANGE EVERYTHING ABOUT RANKING SYSTEM THE AIMING AND FUCK IT ALL UP your team sucks? sorry guess you suck by default. someone runs behind the person your aiming at you follow them but when its one guy your aiming at THEN NOPE ALL OVER THE FUCKING PLACE FUCK THIS

>>148140214
well memed

>>148140796
Not going to do your work for you

>>148140658
>it wouldnt be bad if the ranking was like reach

>>148141042
Reach had okay ranking

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Anyone interested on the thread numbering, this is indeed thread #178 of the current /hg/ era following a long period of unsuccessful revival attempts.
As far as accuracy goes, I may be off by 1 thread at the most (some of the older threads were actually numbered, but some were numbered the same as others)

Pic related was the first thread in this current chain that revived /hg/, what I'm calling thread #1

Since then we have had 3 company leaders: Paul, Rabbit, and Kai (current)

>>148141042
reachs swat had its own ranking for its game modes im fine with the monthly shit but not when its up and down

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>>148138220

Only if you help me finish the Halo 5 campaign/MCC campaigns on Legendary

>>148141964
Halo 5 certainly has an odd system, especially because you can't rank down

Not being able to rank down is an objectively terrible mechanic for any ranking system.

5 meets in the missile by not allowing you to rank down out of rank classification.
To still be mad that you can rank down at all is just retarded.

>>148143048
5 has the best ranking system of any Halo game so far for that reason specifically.

>>148141713
There was Xbox General spread out sometimes before that as well.

>>148143678
>There was Xbox General spread out sometimes before that as well.
Xbox General just isn't meant to be.

The only reason there's a Playstation general is specifically for discussing all the miscellaneous Weeb games the console has that can't alone Warrenton their own generals, and even then, /hg/ alone is more active.

>>148140658
Swats the easiest mode to carry a team in though.

>>148143870
Even if PS4 is nogaems xbone has even less, since it doesn't have the weeb market

>>148139205
>wow an /hg/ island, sounds neat
>full of stupid shit and dumb memes

hope you all die

>>148143521
Not being able to rank down is good?
It just leads to people accumulating at the bottom of each rank.

>>148140032
>Not enough people sadly.


Hang yourself. If there's more than 500 people at any time playing a game mode then there's plenty

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>>148142182
Kai! Let's go through all of the games on legendary together! Right now! I'll get online and invite you so you better join.

>>148140658
What gt? Let's get a squad going.

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So this is the power of the Arbiter...

>>148144235
Why don't you make it yourself then?

>full of stupid shit and dumb memes
That webm is from the 1st version of the island, the most recent version looks different.

>>148144230
>Even if PS4 is nogaems xbone has even less, since it doesn't have the weeb market
Having less bad games is a good thing

>>148144807
>KI isn't on sale during the "ultimate game sale"

Fuck you M$

>>148144807
>tfw the new Killer Instinct turned out to be fucking great

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>>148144807
>tfw can't play this game because it's on W10

>>148145038
PS4 when?

>thread wasn't made early
Thank God. For a little while I was beginning to think we had a problem.

>>148145220
If you obsess over little things like that you do have a problem

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Hmm. So this is standard Elite combat huh?

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>>148144807
I refuse to play this game.

>Confusing as fuck controls
>""""""free""""""
>Sweaty tryhards like Johnny
>Can't attack back when getting shit on

>>148145220
get over yourself

>>148145424
>Can't attack back when getting shit on
You literally can combo breaker while getting comboed.

>>148144559

I'll be on in a couple of hours, whats your GT?

>>148145662
th0usand eye

>>148145424
>>Can't attack back when getting shit on
COMBO BREAKER is more than a meme anon, it's an crucial mechanic in this game, there's even a tutorial specifically made for it.

>>148145662
spankmaster rok

I first visited /hg/ a year ago and there were fags everywhere and everyone was posting their irl pic

Has that passed? Is it safe to play with you guys now?

>>148145662
known kai

>>148145969
Sure it's safe and you can play with us any time as long as you first post a pic of your dick.

>>148145767
If he button mashes enough hell eventually get the hang of it

>>148145424
>he can't even beat Johnny

>>148144249
Not if you don't suck.

>>148145424
Fighting games is the highest skilled genre.
It's not for casualfags

>>148148137
>I've never heard of Super Smash Bros.

>>148147570
What? It's a fact that it leads to people accumulating at the bottom of each tier.

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>>148148297
>Super smash bros
>Fighting genre

>>148148297
>smash bros
>a fighting game
I needed a good kek.
Thanks anon.

>>148148297

Careful. Sigmund will burn you at the stake.

>>148148297
You're right anon!
SSB is a real fighting game!
Just like Mario Kart is a real racing game!
The Last of us is a real game!

>>148148460
>>148148416
It's definitely not a "classic" fighting game but it does have 2 characters beating the crap out of each other on 2D environment.

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>>148148137
>Fighting games is the highest skilled genre.

>>148149006
As far as becoming competent in, yes they are.
RTS is the hardest to master.
FPS is the hardest to actually good at. Taking a long break from an FPS game and your skill will plummet.

>>148149205
>FPS is the hardest to actually good at
Obviously I meant STAY good at

>>148149006
They kind of are.

>>148148416
>>148148460
>>148149006
>>148148980
>>148149205
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXgpGBbh5r8

Also Halo

>>148149541
RTS

>>148149882
Was that supposed to be impressive?

>insist on numbering the generals
>improperly place the number

>>148144807
>no double-ultra
As expected of Johnny "Smash is a fighting game" Senpai.

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Why do people even find RTS hard? It's most of the time the race of who clicks faster, there's really no strategy at all. Turn based ones require much more strategy

>>148149882
button spam proves nothing, and thats all fighting games are

memorizing combos and spamming them endlessly

>>148150112
>There's a proper WAY to number a thread
This autta be good

>>148150128
why do people even find FPS hard? It's most of the time the race of who shoots first, there's really no skill at all.

>>148150128
When you equate it to "clicking faster", which isn't a bad way to put it, it comes down to being a rhythm-game done with your pointer finger.
And I don't like rhythm games, so I don't care for RTS games.

>>148150209
It's supposed to be in the thread title, you shit. Not the body.

>>148150128
Absolute shitter detected.

What is wrong with Halo 3's lip synching
None of the characters mouths move in correlation with the words in cutscenes
In gameplay its not that bad, but in cutscenes its laughable

>>148150112
>recapture into QCF+PPP is more impressive

That's enough Sigmund.

>>148150305
who gives a shit

The story is retarded and the characters suck

>>148150469
>Johnny can't do a double-ultra
>must be Sigmund
Sigmund is on Snooze right now.

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>>148150128
You never made it past bronze did you.

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>>148150272
>It's supposed to be in the thread title, you shit. Not the body.

Good lord WyvernZu is amazing, is there anything this woman can't do?

https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/4sccdp/wyvernzu_is_op_343plsnerf/
Sorry but i have shitty internet at work and can't upload images. It's the Silent Cartographer from CE.

>>148150128
>anime poster is a total retard

what else is new

>>148150764

That's enough Sigmund.

>>148150865
>his example are the three most autistic generals on /vg/
>ignores how every other board does it

>>148151006
holy shit dude nobody fucking cares

>>148151006
>implying there should be generals on other boards

>>148151124
>says the guy who cares enough to autistically go through the archive, compile a picture in rebuttal, and then put ellipsis in the filename

/dag/+/bwg/ here.

Congrats /hg/ on attaching a number issue to your threads.
You're a REAL general like the rest of us now!

Maybe we could collab on something some time.

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>>148150785
>Dota

>>148151190
im not the person that made that picture
I'm just calling you a fucking moron. You're all morons. It's only numbered because some autist went through the archive and countered ALL of the threads

I really want your GT so I can know not to play with you. You're probably one of the autists that sit on the mic in party chat spamming memes like a dipshit

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>>148151193
How's about you collaborate your mouth with my dick

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>>148151419
Starcraft dipshit

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>>148151541
Thats even worse

I went to /sc2g/ once and it literally made me want to kill myself, I haven't seen that much autism anywhere else

>>148151497
No need to get so defensive, loser.

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>>148151193
Do you like maps?

>>148151006
>his example are the three most autistic generals on /vg/
/sthg/ here. Wasn't your previous leader a raging autistic furfag?
Stop acting like your general is so spotless and clean.

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>>148151669

>>148151841
>the guy we kicked out is his citation for us being just as autistic

>>148151745
>Do you like maps?
Yes actually

>>148150883
The only reason people like WyvernZu is because she's a girl. All of her maps are shit and 343 has a bias for her and always add her maps into matchmaking.

>>148151193
I don't even know what /dag/+/bwg/ means, fuck off fagget.

>>148151841
There's nothing wrong with being a furfag.

How do I mute these clowns in Dewrito?

>>148151910
>kicked out
He left on his own.

>>148152040
Dragon Age and Bioware, apparently.
This is the kind of shit that numbering your general on /vg/ attracts. Also, when two threads get made at once, people will start debating about which is the TRUE "Thread 1667".

/hsg/ here.
Stop talking about difficulty like you faggots would know anything about it.

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>>148151934
Speaking of maps.

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>>148152229
Okay I was memeing before but I mean it now, literally kill yourself

>>148152291
>left on his own
>collectively told to fuck off and never come back

/CoD/ here.

Why don't I exist?
I'm far more popular than Halo.

>>148152454
>implying /hg/ doesn't double as the COD general

http://www.bigteambattle.net/summer-shootout-tournament/

Did anyone save the stories for the fanfic contest /hg/ made a couple of years ago? I remember there were a few good ones like that one about the Didact fucking a goat.

>>148152298
You don't count the one that dies.
It's pretty simple actually.

>>148152291
>left on his own
>was absolutely happy with his decisions until everyone crucified him for his crimes

>>148152454
Because people are off playing you.

>>148152713
Shut up, kai

>>148152897
>Kai
>not being sympathetic to Rabbit

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>people actually think I left /hg/ just because I left the company
You fags will never be truely rid of me

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>>148153017
>Kai
>Sympathetic

>>148152396
No thanks.

>>148153193
Kai's sympathetic to Rabbit, but he's antagonistic to everyone else except Tangee, who is never here.

>>148152713
>>148152897
>>148153017
>>148153110
>>148153193
Stop the drama and answer this, it's important.

>>148153413
Answer what? You didn't even ask a question

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>>148153413
You didn't ask a question, so I will.

How is pic related at all acceptable?

>>148153554
It is not. 5 having no big team maps is stupid, especially when Warzone/Assault maps could easily be modified.

>>148153554
Forge

>>148153638
If you make BTB too fun people might play it instead of warzone and then they wouldn't need to buy reqs!

>>148153828
That's sadly probably the reasoning.
The REQ system was a mistake. You should be able to get armor like in 3 or Reach, and Warzone not just having the Invasion progression system is sad.

>>148153638
But anon, didn't you know?
Warzone maps are TOO BIG to be big team maps, even though there's bigger maps in earlier games, it doesn't matter, those games don't exist anymore! WZ maps are too big. End of story. Period.

>>148153554
I can understand now why people say H5 look too clean

>>148152606
>tfw only me and you give a shit about tourneys

The only general I've gone to where tourneys are not hosted. Terrible.

>>148153554
>>148153490
Fuck you're right, this >>148152629

>>148154059
We've tried in the past, but it didn't work out.
I'd want to play in the BTB tournament but I won't be home that weekend.

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>>148154059
I'll play.
How do I sign up?

>>148154014
Every big team map in 5 is literally made of solid boxes. They really have less detail than Breakout maps, because Breakout maps have the holographic blue floor, and a color other than grey or yellow.

>>148154186

It's a BTB tourney. So far, we have 2 out of the whatever we need.

>>148154449
8 people playing at a time, up to 10 on a full roster.

>>148152298
Numbering generals brings in unnecessary autism. It's not even necessary except for "le epic OC content"

>>148154432
Hopefully they make some for Halo 6

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>Numbering a general is bad
>It's going to end the general
>Literally anudda shoa

>>148155853
>Halo 5 was only profitable because of the REQ system selling packs
>imfuckingplying they'd make a mode that's just "Warzone but a little smaller but you don't need cards"

>>148154574

Good luck finding those numbers. This general lacks a competitive edge.

>>148156178
Then why would they add big team at all, genius?

>>148156864
You mean that mode that they begrudgingly added like two months after launch and never made any maps for?
Because people kept demanding it. But that doesn't mean they put in any effort and don't have priorities.

>there is still no snipers playlist

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So is this a good armor combo

>>148157403
Do you enjoy looking like a Slurpee?

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>>148157264
>that time mythic shotty snipes was a thing

>>148157403
7/11

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>>148157403

No but this is.

>>148157264
>There is still no multi-team playlist
>There is still no Objective Playlist
>There is no Action Sack playlist

We live in dark times

>>148142182
If you guys are actually going through I would join for 3&4

Was ONI mentioned anywhere in CE? Reading the Halo 2 manual and they just popped up.

>>148157403
Use anything but the Tracer helmet, and yes

An interesting note I found is that apparently Hunters work best in pairs. Pretty sure all Hunter encounters in CE were in pairs as well.

>>148157403
Recruit Marked Helmet, pink visor.

>>148157780
I think that ONI was first mentioned in the novels, which (I believe) were published before Halo: CE came out. That said, ONI was a prior Bungie title, so it's likely they always had plans to use it.

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>>148157403

>>148158957
And this fucker looks like a piece of watermelon Bubble Yum.

>>148157780
Once Bungie realized they had a cool game, they quickly established the lore for the sequel.
Also no

>>148159079
Except for that part where they're in Fall of Reach, right?

>>148156178
>Halo 5 was only profitable because of the REQ system
I'm all for shitti n g on 343, but let's not play history revisionist

>>148157264
I feel like it's been months since snipers was a weekend playlist.
Not counting the nornfang one.

>>148159236
Except 343 even stated it. It sold only 1/3 of what Halo titles usually sell.

>>148159415
Amount of copies sold aside, Halo 5 was the most profitable launch for any Halo game. You're looking at the wrong metric.

Also, Halo 5 has the most active players since 3.

>>148159602
Jesus christ, 343. Please go.

Classic or Remastered soundtrack for Halo 2? Classic was superior in CE. I know the Remastered for 2 has that shitty replacement for Blow Me Away.

>>148159741
He's not lying though.

>>148159602
>Halo 5 has the most active players since 3
>measured during week the game was free
kek

>>148159924
The first line says to ignore units sold to see profit, but looking at REQ sales is a bad metric. The only two metrics are units sold and REQ sales.
The second line was during a free weekend, and we only have 343's word on that. And they still have yet to define what "since Halo 3" means. They could be counting Halo 3's population from that week, for all we know.

>>148159953
It was actually measured beforehand.
The free week tacked on even more.

>>148159602

Bulk of the profit was from merch sales. I don't believe for one second its even half as populated as they say, if they let us see the population for ourselves like we used to be able to I wouldn't have a problem at all. Since Halo 3 could literally be any point in its life cycle which means nothing. Would be nice to have some transparency but strange enough they refuse.

Theres also a difference between people booting up the game once or twice and being actual active and returning players. Halo 5 hit the bargain bin mere months after launch, especially due to the level poor sales. I'd imagine plenty of people would be grabbing it to try at the prices i've been seeing

>>148160134
>making shit up
We've had a stable metric for determining the population, and that shit was below 10,000 around the time Infection dropped. Nobody came back for BEFORE Warzone Firefight.

>>148159150
>Specifically asked in CE
Good thing he wasn't talking about Reach.

>>148160589
Except he said "they quickly established the lore for the sequel." when the lore was already established before the first game.

>>148160589
The novel came out before CE

Personally, I don't mind the colored undersuits.
I just wish it was just the front part that's colored. The back and legs needs to stay black.

>>148160698
>>148160727
I'm not talking about his flawed logic, I'm talking about the fact that he answered the question afterwards

>>148160921
Seems like your own logic is flawed.

>>148160561
We were below 10k? Pretty sure there's more than that.

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>>148159741
>>148159953
http://m.ign.com/articles/2016/07/08/halo-5-has-series-highest-number-of-active-players-since-halo-3

It's a fact.
Like I said, I'm all for shitting on 343 and Halo 5, but the game has been both profitable and successful.

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>>148161601
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>148161601
>the numbers are not stated
It's not a fact at all.

>>148161345
We were consistently below Battlefront, and they show the active players on their site. We only popped back above them AFTER Firefight.

>>148161601

>people come back to download update
>play a couple of games, leave

>since Halo 3
>could literally be any point in its existence

The article says 2007 but the actual post by 343 just says Halo 3. Be fucking wary

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Holy shit lads. How hard is it to split visuals and audio?

>>148162348
Do you ever get tired of complaining about everything?

>>148162348
How hard is it to have fully Customizable armor like in the original games?

How hard is it to have your personal emblem show up on armor like innthe original games?

How hard is it to not take people's money and leave them with a broken buggy piece of shit?

>>148162348
You can do this is H1, have remastered graphics with classic music.

>>148162078
>we can't trust this source! It's from a Microsoft employee!
Ok, then how do we know otherwise
>We we vaguely guesstimate based on another Microsoft source and cross reference it with an EA game source

You're just being silly. If we're going to pick and choose which soutlrces to avoid and ignore, then there's no point having this discussion.

>>148163521
I know. That's why I'm pretty shocked. They've done this before.

>>148163143
"Those who don't complain, preach" -Confucius

>>148162348
>not always playing on original

>>148163557
>vaguely guesstimate
>the xbox live game charts shows them in order of games played
>one game has 10,000 players
>another game is below it on the chart
>this somehow is less valid of a way to determine positioning than using numbers that were never even stated

>If we're going to pick and choose which soutlrces to avoid and ignore
Then please, show us your source for 343's numbers, because I'm using xbox live's own chart.

>>148163867
How does game chart measure players?

>>148164012
You're joking, right? Xbox live checks every person who is online, and sees what game they're playing.

>>148163867

Yeah Halo 5 has been under battlefront mostly for like 6 months now and at the time it fell under battlefront, battlefront only had between 20k-25k active users. Battlefront dropped to like 10-15k though and was still above Halo 5. I don't doubt the population increases when updates launch but I severely doubt its for long

>>148164145
what about people with private profiles?

>>148164380
You mean the profiles that are private from people and not xbox live, right?
Otherwise, what's stopping me from going "private" when my gold runs out and I can just play forever?
Face it, Halo 5 has actually been deader for months than Halo 4 was, and 343 refusing to give numbers is a large indicator of this.

>>148164508


Don't understand why you're being so hostile, I'm not even that other anon. Chill.

>>148164608
>proclaim that making a profile private somehow makes you skipped from the xbox live daily checkup of "who plays what"
>get called out for being retarded
>"waaah, don't be so mean to me on 4chan!"

Halo 4 had amazing DLC maps.

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>>148164735
It hides you from steamspy being able to look at your game history, so I assumed xbox live would do the same.

Also I didn't proclaim anything, I just asked "what about people with private profiles" because I wasn't sure.

Relax dude. There's no need to be in attack mode.

>>148164812
Skyline or whatever it was that was free is good, but nobody could try the rest because of how the playlists worked.

>>148164925
>Relax dude. There's no need to be in attack mode.
Just because you get super defensive after being wrong doesn't mean someone is on the attack. Sounds like a confidence issue to me. Maybe you should go play with the [REDACTED] amount of Halo 5 players.

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Drink a glass of water. Breathe.

Anybody want to play some Halo 5 MP?

>>148165092
Not him but you're the one that seems to be defensive. You keep replying and attacking him and he just asked a question.

There's nobody on the other side of the argument, but you're still trying to argue. We all agree Halo 5 has a pretty pathetic population. Take it easy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74ZhrGR0D0Y

Why do you guys care so much about numbers? The amount of players isn't proportional to a game's quality.
Halo 5 could have 20 or 800k active players and i would still have the same amount of fun on it as long as i keep finding matches.

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>>148165092
Not him, but you seem pretty upset, anon.
Sounds like you're "super defensive after being wrong" to me.

>>148165495
It's just one guy sperging out

>>148164145
So it's always updating? Like if COD was unavailable for 12 hours it would drop out?

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So far so good. Not needlessly over designed. Lights aren't all over the damn place. Look, they even added reflections!

>>148165495
Low player count definitely matters especially in arena.
Depending on rank and playlist you might not even be able to find matches for most of the day.

Fuckin' Xbox support, I can't buy Sonic and Knuckles using the Fallout 4 mishap money because on the Xbox One store it says bundle only, and on the 360 store it doesn't let me select my microsoft account as a payment option, how aggravating.

>>148166096
Is that your first time playing H2A
Johnny

>>148166171
Nobody is playing the game because there aren't any fucking playlists

There's nothing anybody that just feelings like playing a fun game can play. It's all competetive bullshit. Even fucking Big Team is competetive. Yes I'm mad.

Literally everyone is in warzone because it's the most fun for everyone and their girlfriend.

There's also no splitscreen, so you can't have friends over to play halo anymore. There's no more guests. This is disgusting. My roomate wants to play all the time, but only plays Warzone, because she doesn't want to ruin my rank in Arena, and there's no social playlists. We'll never, EVER be able to play Halo 5 together unless we get another fucking xbox.

What the fuck 343. Nobody gives a shit about framerate in splitscreen. It's fucking splitscreen, your fov is cut IN HALF, framerate is the least of your problems.

I went on a tangent but that's because I'm pissed. I'll never not be mad about no splitscreen.

>>148166171
In a hypothtical situation of course it counts but in reality we are talking about thousands of players playing 5.
You all sound like children crying about whose dick is bigger.

>>148166784
>My roomate wants to play all the time, but only plays Warzone, because she doesn't want to ruin my rank in Arena,
>She
Ban it

>>148166965
The situation I described isn't hypothetical.

>>148166784
There's tons of playlists

Assault
Arena
Slayer, FFA
Breakout
SWAT
doubles (social)
BTB (social)
Infection (social)
Grifball (social)

>>148166784
Just make an alt if she wants to play arena without blowing your rank.

>>148166096
This isn't you personal blog, fuck off with your endless complaining.

>>148167186
tfw elite slayer will never return

>>148167052
Maybe you should check your connection then.

>>148167215
>just pay another 30 dollars for a year of xbox live

>>148167186

Competitive
Competitive
Competitive
Competitive
Competitive
Limited Time
Absolute shit tacked on insult to BTB
Decent
Decent

Halo 5 really is incredibly weak and Arena is the most exclusive shit I've ever seen. Quinn said it all on twitter pre release when someone asked about social gameplay and on competitive playlsits when he said some shit like >Competitive Arena is how Halo multiplayer should play, everything else belongs in a "funsies" playlist that might come later

Their snobby, ignorant attitude is the worst part about 343

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>>148167437
>not just gold sharing
Do you even have your console set as your home?

>>148167521
I don't even know how to use the Xbox One. The UI is a clunky unintuitive mess. So I just put the disc in and press A over the game.

>>148167437
Gold privileges are shared between all accounts on the same console you dummy.

>>148167437
It's free my good man.

>>148167482
>Competitive Arena is how Halo multiplayer should play, everything else belongs in a "funsies" playlist that might come later

>thousands of people are STILL calling Halo 5 the best it's multiplayer has been in years
>there are people that call it the best EVER unironically

>>148167579
The UI is pretty basic

I don't see how anyone could get confused.

Are you the type of person they keep "streamlining" games for

And by streamlining I mean dumbing down and casualizing

>>148167730
funsies fag detected :^)

>>148167751
It's pretty basic, but it used to be laggy as fuck, much better now.

HOWEVER

There's tons and tons of shit you should be able to get rid of that you can't. I'm never going to use xbox sports so why does it need to take up an entire block on my home screen. Fuck off microsoft

>>148167482
To be honest the only playlist 5 needs to be added is Action Sack and maybe, MAYBE, Social Slayer. If you're still not satisfied the you should look for a different game because Halo 5 is obviously not for you.

>>148167302
I can see why they don't have elites.

First of all, REQ system. That makes them lots of monies, and if someone were to play as an elite, they'd have to make a FUCKTON of armor unlocks to be available, plus re-doing all the assassinations. Not to mention creating them from the ground up and animating them to work for every vehicle and weapon properly.

Secondly the 343 elite subspecies are retarded and bulky and wouldn't work well with Spartan abilities. Just look at how bad the H2A multiplayer elites were because they used the shitty 343 design instead of the h2 one.

>>148167730

The outrage he got for that tweet was fucking hilarious, I can't seem to find it now. Shows their attitude though and also explains the lack in diversity in playlists and game modes.

Having fun, social playlists and accessible non competitive maps are apparently >not the way Halo multiplayer should be played

>>148167897
I don't have Xbox sports on my screen. I have recently played games. You can add shit to the home screen by pinning it and remove shit as well.

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>>148168005
gimme covie slayer then

nothing but covie weapons

Oh wait. This isn't viable anymore because pic related was phased out of halo despite having zero justification for it. In universe or otherwise.

>>148168023
That's the funny thing, for years people complained and complained about Reach and 4 lacking a proper ranking system with competitive playlists and now is the other way around.
I wonder what could be the perfect balance of both, maybe something like Halo 3?

>>148167926

Apart from Arena is still completely fucked. As many have said, there is no middle ground. People like playing slayer and such and having fun, which can't be done in Arena. Everything about Arena down to the core was designed to play in one particular way and specifically for the competitive crowd, community and for ranked play. Making a social playlist will NOT work in Halo 5.

If Arena was specifically just a group of playlists for Ranked play and we had another hub with different maps for social slayer, btb, ffa etc it WOULD be perfect. There needs to be middle ground, not just Arena and Warzone and playlists like Infection, Grifball and Action Sack don't even come into it. We're talking about the base gameplay and "default" playlists and maps. The lack of gametypes that spiced up the casual, social playlists such as King of the Hill, Oddball and Juggernaut are still missing or not implemented in matchmaking too.

They need to drop the focus on competitive MLG shit in the next game instead of segregating players even more. If they do this, I will be happy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNAT2YHx1qc

He makes some really good points about the playlists

>>148168405
Like i said, forget about 5, it's not for you. Just leave and come back for Halo 6.

>>148168340

Halo 3 was the perfect game when it came to playlists and giving players a clear choice between serious ranked playlists and more laid back social playlists with a wider variety of gametypes.

Every Halo game should strive to appease both groups of players, they really got their wires crossed with all this competitive talk

>>148168590
I love Act Man but this dude needs to shave his armpit hair holy fuck

>>148168591
>he's not allowed to have fun in WZFF or customs because Arena is complete garbage

>>148167897
So you complain about it then demonstrate you know nothing about it

Well done

>>148168825

You're also not allowed to complain and point out flaws if a games >just not for you

I've been playing Halo online for around 10 years and someone is saying Halo suddenly isn't for me?

>>148169018
But don't you see? Making the radar super small in a game where sprinting is now unlimited, boost is a thing, and clamber takes away all skill of crouch jumps is a good thing! It allows players to sneak up on eachother without having to use the stealth mechanic of crouching. Thanks for the recommendation, MLG teams!

>>148166685
No. Just replaying the whole series and paying more attention to everything.

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>>148169319

tfw you will never get hired by a dev of your favourite franchise to fuck up the next game and tailor it to your tastes

why even live

>>148168405
But most people like the competitiveness

It's not MLG-ness it's just a challenge .
Becoming TOO casualized was bad for the series (reach and 4)

>>148169319
I'll be honest I kind of like clamber.
Crouching still helps jumps.

>>148169319
There's still skill jumps that not everyone can pull off, dude

They're just not crouch jumps.it's different but not BAD different like 4.

>>148164352
Except that those are two completely different metrics for player counts.
I knew you were going to mention battlefront. It's the same sad excuse that some 12 year old youtuber delivered one day and in reality it's not an appropriate guestimate for anything.

>>148169595
343 already tried that with the MLG audience and it didn't work, and they use Waypoint as a containment site to keep criticism out of their subreddit. It'll never happen.

>>148169627
It's ok, but only the campaign feels designed around it. Crouch jumping was added last second, and anything outside of the campaign that you can clamber you would have been able to crouch jump, grenade jump, or brute shot your way up.

>>148167482
>competetive is a negative
Fucking kill yourself.

>>148169602

>But most people like the competitiveness

Because theres barely and community left these days and its basically all there fucking is in 5 you fuckwit. Halo hasn't been competitive since 2, competitiveness has been completely irrelevant since and the minority that did care were fine with having ranked playlists like in 3. They only became a vocal minority after 3 when Reach and 4 ditched Ranked play pretty much alltogether

It doesn't have to be Reach or 4, just don't neglect the larger community to shut up a more vocal minority. People would have been fine with Ranked play again but they went and fucking designed the entire game around it. Letting a bunch of fucking MLG pro players design a game for you is a massive red flag, who the fuck does this?

>>148169797
>Except that those are two completely different metrics for player counts.
How so?

>>148169797

I have no idea what you're talking about. Games are listed in order of most populated. Battlefront was consistently ahead of Halo 5 with typically around 20-25k active players on Xbox One. It's common sense. Explain to me how that is wrong?

>>148169973

>Strawman: The post

Competitive is a negative when it sucks up the majority of the game and the majority of the game is tailored to it. The competitive crowd has been a minority for a long time, catering more to the casual crowd may have upset the vocal minority but at least it made sense. All they had to do was add in ranked play again, rather than design the bulk of the game around competitive play

>>148169973
but having practically nothing /but/ competitive /is/ a negative tho

>>148169018
Nope, i clearly said Halo 5 is not for you, not Halo in general.
You obviously aren't having fun with it, why would you keep playing a game you hate so much?

>>148169973
>no fun allowed: the playlist selection
I never played it, but I know tons of people did: Action Sack should be a playlist. Stuff like Shotty Snipers and Fiesta should always be available to play.

>>148170215
So I guess 343 is outright specifically lying to us. K.
Seriously man, Cmon now.

>>148169976
The numbers speak for themselves

I will agree that they do focus too much on the competitive stuff with their fucking "pro team"

But halo reach and 4 significantly impacted the series. And if 343 is to be trusted, halo 5 has the most players since 3.

Personal it doesn't feel very different for me either way. Just because there's a rank by my name doesn't mean I can't relax and play it casually.

>>148170453

Already been discussed in the thread, read up. 343 have been very shady discussing this. They say highest since Halo 3, yet don't divulge when in Halo 3s lifespan. You have to realise companies will bend the truth as much as they can to keep up their image, its just how it works. Not being transparent and not letting us see the numbers ourselves doesn't help. Halo 5 has been in the bargain bin since mere months after its release due to poor sales. A combination of a cheap as shit game and people turning up to download the new update and stick around for a couple of days probably pad up the number but whats for certain is they're talking out of their asses

The Battlefront debate is actually a good pointer on their bullshit

>>148170453
It would not be the first time.

>>148170224
>>148170364
>>148170215
The term "competetive" is the single dumbest meme in gaming.

You don't have to be an elite player to be good at ranked play. The only reason you would be anti-rank is if you're triggered by having a low rank, and if that's the case then you need either stop caring about an icon that resets every 2 months anyway or seriously git fucking gud.
Halo 5 has no fucking "competitive" scene. The Halo "competetive" scene is a joke these days. Having a playlist that uses the same rules and maps as team Slayer that doesn't use ranks would be no different at all. People would still play to win. Hell, it would be worse actually, because if you remember Social playlists in 3, you constantly ended up with players of random skill and hugely lopsided teams. There's a reason it has never returned.

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>>148171102
>Halo 5's playlists are strictly limited to 4v4 slayer, ctf, and stronghold matches
>lolsowat, git fucking gud

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uh oh

>>148171264
B-baku na?

>>148170816

To add on to that, it could only be one specific month that they saw a specific increase, like when infection was released. This is what I meant by be wary

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>>148171264

>>148171228
No they aren't faggot

>>148167186

>>148171102

>half the post relies on an argument about ranks
>none of what he replied to even mentioned rankings

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>>148171264
reee

>>148171459
Oh, sorry, 6 of the 10 are 4v4 killfests, one is a tacked-on 8v8, two are free for all, and one is doubles which keeps disappearing and reappearing.
This is also ignoring that Grifball is going away, as stated by 343, because the game lacks players.

Just getting on now, if anyone wants to help me finish Halo 5s campaign on Legendary (from Reunion, Blue Teams second mission) hit me up

Also need to do the MCC campaigns, so really down for whatever

>>148171476
Then what else does he mean by competitive play?

If he's seriously arguing that there's no playlist that functions exactly like team Slayer but isn't ranked then he's being retarded.

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>>148171476
That's called a strawman argument anon!

>>148171778
Which MCC campaigns?

>>148171834
>That's called a strawman argument anon!
I know. He's not even good at it.

>>148171834

Any, I have ODST too

>>148171778
I'm down for 3&4 on MCC sometime if you don't mind a mic-less player

4 player legendary is a fucking steamroll, it's hilarious

>>148171784
Don't bother arguing with /hg/ about this.

This general is filled to the brim with hyper casual iced scum that would rather play warzone all day then arena because they're mortified of ranking sub-diamond.

They're likely mostly 3babbies that consider autistic custom game types like fat Kid and Jenna to be the pinnacle of Halo multiplayer because they played them when they were early teens and have a nostalgic boner for them

>>148171778
>>148172068
I'll be down for doing 5, then speedrunning 4.

>>148172102
This.

Although I should point out that simply liking 3 the most doesn't necessarily make you a 3babby

>>148172102
You're in the minority here. You're just going to look like a jackass

>>148171784
Nobody ever mentioned ranked. But 5 is missing shit like oddball, koth, action sack for extra stuff like constant fiesta.
It's either "hop into the murderbox that is The Rig, hop into Warzone, or hope it's friday for customs."

>>148172102
Hey man don't knock customs

Getting together with some lads and drinking a few then playing wacky-ass customs is a legitimately great time

>>148172217
>You're in the minority here
That was kind of the point of the post, retard.
I acknowledged that the majority of the board is casualized trash.

>>148172102
>customs are now a negative thing because people don't like the same playlist made 5 times with 25m radars, red vs blue matches on The Rig

>>148172271
>Nobody ever mentioned ranked. But 5 is missing shit like oddball, koth
That's not what he's rebuttaling against. That poster way back listed "competitive playlist" as a negative for the game.
That's literally like saying "it's sunny out today, today is a shit day"

>>148172571
>Customs are now a negative thing
Said nobody ever.
But we do have an anon straight up saying that ranked playlists... oh, I'm sorry... "competetive playlists" are a negative.

Saying either is a negative is pretty dumb.

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Anyone down for Dewrito?

Just starting up Halo 5 on Legendary now, 2 open spots if anyone wants to hop in

>>148172571
>the same playlist made 5 times
Just keep digging that hole you're in, John

>>148172776
Can you just be GONE already?

>>148172776
>that viewmodel
I don't have a gif or webm of someone puking enough to demonstrate my disgust.

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The world needs more human on elite action

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no fun allowed

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>>148173197
What's with this shitty recolor?

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>>148172921
;)

>>148173498
How can you tolerate this shit

Is there not a mod to pull it back towards the camera so it doesn't look fucking trash?

>>148173461
Didn't the original say aight though?

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>>148173627
>Give me that classic 60 FoV
>Say no more senpai

>>148173837
hmmmmmm

>>148173876
That's not what I meant. You can have a high FOV without the arms and weapon getting stretched out and looking like shit.

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Shame there's so little good art

>>148173376
Halo 5 ass>Halo Reach Ass

Fact

>>148174060
I dunno probably. Never bothered to check,

>>148174178
(YOU)

>>148172102
I bet /hg/ could organize some arena play.

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>no skirmisher gf

>>148174732
If we could have a game with elites, brutes, grunts, jackals, skirmishers, drones, engineers, hunters, sentinels, knights, soldiers, crawlers, watchers, and all the flood forms it would be the best halo game

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>>148174914
What about me, faggot?

>>148175143
Nah I just stood on a rock and shot it in the face , it wasn't very smart.

Although, watching it send grunts flying was very entertaining.

There's also the problem of how it's a species native to reach, and reach is pretty much fucked so I don't think any survived.

>>148175707
>There's also the problem of how it's a species native to reach, and reach is pretty much fucked so I don't think any survived.
Cortana broadcasts to them

too much coop not enough customs. I'm looking at you sigmund.

>>148176152
4/20 for dank customs

Secret club members only you must say the secret password to join

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a classic

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2/8 firefight

look for Gainax Bounce or drewb2009

Anyone wanna co-op the story on legendary?
Just started.

>>148176029
Cortana would use her oogly-boogly-Prometheanoobly powers to make them talk English too
and they'd be covered in hexagons
and they'd have guta subspecies that look totally different
and then they'd get retconned so that they were humanity's rival during the human-guta war of 1 trillion BC
then we'd have Halo 34: Gutas, and all the characters are black women who jump out of pelicans

>>148178249
>hexagons
this is my new favorite meme
i don't think you guys can top it

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inferior version

>>148178012
Well, that's a pretty terrible start senpai.

>>148178407
>>148178589
pls dont post shia here

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>>148178012
4/10 get in here!

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>make all new sprint animations for brute shot and mauler
>Sentinel Beam gets shafted by only using the default 3 animations