Fata1moose
Banned
Bubble shields, armor lock and regen fields however...
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Halo 5 active players is the highest since Halo 3 (even before the free play period)
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Bubble shields, armor lock and regen fields however...
Samurai G0SU
Member
ALL GLORY TO FRANKIE. HE WHO HAS ABANDONED US. - Team Frankie ex member
Sounds great. I can't wait for that Scorpio patch with increased fidelity
. jk
OR AM I?
SatansReverence
Hipster Princess
Oh wow, I wish I was playing iron tier.
Seriously, if you think thruster isn't used to escape combat... You must be playing some incredibly terrible players.
I've tried and tried but nope, I can't make any sense of this...
Complicated
Banned
This is music to my ears. So excited.
Good I'm really pleased for them, Halo 5 is up there with the best , I'm a long term Halo multiplayer fan and have enjoyed all the variations that the games have brought.
I really like that it has some of the more modern FPS gameplay mechanics, but it retains the feel of Halo games. The weapon balancing is perhaps the most balanced in my eyes of any Halo game so far and that really shows. Every weapon in the game has a time and a place to use it
I really like that it has some of the more modern FPS gameplay mechanics, but it retains the feel of Halo games. The weapon balancing is perhaps the most balanced in my eyes of any Halo game so far and that really shows. Every weapon in the game has a time and a place to use it
Welfare
Member
Diamonds/Onyx's are the new Wood tier I guess.
Unlike Reach, everyone has the same abilities.
You got out maneuvered/out played.
1. I can only imagine how you feel when you feel like "you've" earned your 4 shot and someone out thrust you and crouch shots you and you get upset. Brings a smile to my face. you not learning a mechanic does not make the game bad.
2. This is just wrong dude, i've beaten out several people cqc with autos (You have to use your thrusters), and even when i lose the fights are close. In halo 3 if you tried someone with an Ar you were a joke of a threat.
3. And this game by far has the best forge maps.
Bits N Pieces
Member
ALL GLORY TO FRANKIE. HE WHO HAS ABANDONED US. - Team Frankie ex member
Sounds great. I can't wait for that Scorpio patch with increased fidelityOR AM I?
I think that should happen automatically because of the dynamic resolution method they use.
Halo 5 in full 1080p @ 60fps should be a "thing" next Christmas. Makes my Scorpio purchase all the easier
Samurai G0SU
Member
I think that should happen automatically because of the dynamic resolution method they use.
Halo 5 in full 1080p @ 60fps should be a "thing" next Christmas. Makes my Scorpio purchase all the easier
Yeah, i meant more of a texture and AF upgrade
It'll be nice to have it at max dynamic res tho. yum - cough make it 4k - cough
Outrun
Member
That is awesome.
Is there anything in the pipeline (comics, Spartan Ops-type missions, or shorts) that will further the story post-Halo 5 canon-wise, before Halo 6?
Halo Wars 2 takes place directly after Halo 5.
Good to hear.
This.
legacyzero
Banned
Frankie, am I allowed to beg for an H2BR like I did Recon armor back in the day?
Lol
Twin Tails
Member
Can I haz H2BR?
Same here- I'm a campaign buff. I love cooperative multiplay (that's why I like Destiny's coop setup) I'mean glad MP players are happy, but the situation needn't be mutually exclusive.
Best multiplayer shooter on a console. The controls are almost perfect on the Xbox One controller for a competitive skill based console shooter.
Happy to see the numbers and can't wait to see Halo 6.
Yes!!!
Split screen co-op this time though please.
Happy to see the numbers and can't wait to see Halo 6.
Yes!!!
Split screen co-op this time though please.
SatansReverence
Hipster Princess
Do tell me more about how you think ranks in Halo 5 actually have any bearing on skill...
And in any game against players who might have half an idea about what they were doing would use sprint or jetpack depending on map. Anyone using Armour Lock, Holo or Camo were just perfections in waiting.
So, I out shoot kid not missing a single shot, he thrusts behind cover before it's even possible for the last shot to land but I got outplayed? Okay, sure, definitely.
Oh, you spawned with bubbleshield and regens did you? I must have been playing a different version of Halo 3 where they spawned on the map. At set respawn times. In limited numbers.
And you got killed by a guy who couldn't shoot or move? Amazing...
SaganIsGOAT
Junior Member
takes those goggles off itll help you see what a bk you are
Apollo Cree
Member
SatansReverence
Hipster Princess
Reach was always in the top 3 against two CoD games that sold extremely well. That didn't start until 2009.
Apollo Cree
Member
I'm pointing out that you're making hypocritical statements.
Welfare
Member
So ranks don't matter now? Ok.
Yes, yes, the camo player is going to be easy to kill. As well as the AL player. Totally going to get a perfection on them, and not the sitting duck sprinters and easy to tell trajectory of jetpackers.
Can you not use your fingers once an enemy leaves your view? If you were winning the engagement, he is literally a thrust away, something you can do. How is him thrusting behind cover any different then someone dropping a floor in Halo 2/3/Reach or them strafing into a different room from you?
Prinz Eugn
Member
I don't have all day, but this is spectacular.
You very literally have no idea what you are talking about. Seriously, watch the video I linked and shudder at your ignorance.
The long and short of it, however, is that what you see on your screen does not match what actually happened in the game (according to the server) in all cases. There are a lot of things going on to cover for the inherent problems in multiplayer networking. Basically, your xbox is running a parallel simulation of the game and showing you what it thinks is happening based on the information it has, and is doing quite a bit of prediction to cover for latency, packet loss, and interweb gremlins. This is all in that video.
That's why people teleport when it's laggy- your Xbox is predicting where they are going and showing you that, but then gets an update from the server and moves them to the "correct" location. Same thing for people walking into walls back in the day. That's the direction they were going in when your Xbox received it's last update from the server, and since it hasn't heard anything different, it assumes that's where they're still going. Ever wonder why in previous theaters you couldn't go into first person on other players, or their aim seemed way off? Because your Xbox doesn't have that detailed of information in it's simulation.
So 99% what happened in your clip was that the distance between your shot and their head, according to the server (which has a better idea of where the other player is), was much closer than what your Xbox showed you.
I have personally compared clips between me and my friends where at the exact same moment, in a lag-free environment, our positions are off by 10 feet.
You very literally have no idea what you are talking about. Seriously, watch the video I linked and shudder at your ignorance.
The long and short of it, however, is that what you see on your screen does not match what actually happened in the game (according to the server) in all cases. There are a lot of things going on to cover for the inherent problems in multiplayer networking. Basically, your xbox is running a parallel simulation of the game and showing you what it thinks is happening based on the information it has, and is doing quite a bit of prediction to cover for latency, packet loss, and interweb gremlins. This is all in that video.
That's why people teleport when it's laggy- your Xbox is predicting where they are going and showing you that, but then gets an update from the server and moves them to the "correct" location. Same thing for people walking into walls back in the day. That's the direction they were going in when your Xbox received it's last update from the server, and since it hasn't heard anything different, it assumes that's where they're still going. Ever wonder why in previous theaters you couldn't go into first person on other players, or their aim seemed way off? Because your Xbox doesn't have that detailed of information in it's simulation.
So 99% what happened in your clip was that the distance between your shot and their head, according to the server (which has a better idea of where the other player is), was much closer than what your Xbox showed you.
I have personally compared clips between me and my friends where at the exact same moment, in a lag-free environment, our positions are off by 10 feet.
Fata1moose
Banned
At least with thrusters you know they have it at all times and they don't magically pull the ability out of nowhere. When did I ever claim I was killed by armor lock? It just slows the game down.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
Its a fantastic game I really need to get back into it. Is it really the highest since H3 though? Its pretty low on the ranked games still
Outrun
Member
lol, I heard that Fireteam PBS are killers.
superNESjoe
Member
This is great to hear. I've been a very vocal critic of Halo 5 since it launched, but one thing I've always fallen back in is just how excellent the moment-to-moment gameplay is in multiplayer. Halo 5 feels great.
SaganIsGOAT
Junior Member
Welfare
Member
The top 5 games probably have a huge amount of players on at a time. Mainly consists of BO3, GTA, Minecraft, Fifa, and I think NBA. All of them are going to have a big online population.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
There are probably more players now on X1 than when Halo 3 was around to I mean that was before MW for goodness sakes.
SatansReverence
Hipster Princess
Lets see, to start of with, every man and his dog could get onyx.
Now champions are matching and losing against platinum players.
Meanwhile the entire time parties of 4 are matching 4 randoms.
All makings of a great and accurate ranking system...
Wow, you really have never played against a half competent player, have you?
Oh, please tell me I should chase him. Do it, I know you want to and I need a really good laugh.
All of those things either A) Took a much greater amount of time or B) required significant map knowledge and positioning (a concept I'm sure you know nothing of).
In Halo 5, there are few positions that a simple thrust jump won't get you to safety from almost any angle. So unless the other team has psychic levels of positioning, you almost always have an escape.
ALL GLORY TO FRANKIE. HE WHO HAS ABANDONED US. - Team Frankie ex member
Sounds great. I can't wait for that Scorpio patch with increased fidelityOR AM I?
Don't do this to me. It would be glorious I don't want to be disappointed.
SatansReverence
Hipster Princess
Please, do try next time to inform me of something I don't already know. fyi, I played Halo 2, 3 and Reach on a dial-up connection and thus over those ten thousand+ games learned virtually every practicality of Halos online netcode as it is in the real world and not some ideas and theories about how it's meant to work.
So again
Where the bullet was aimed.
Where the bullet actually hit.
Where the player was.
Where the player was moving.
NONE of this equals hit.
The only time a shot like that should register is if the player was moving towards it and ended up walking into the shot as it occurred. But no, the player was moving AWAY from the shot, not towards.
But do try to tell me about these magical phantom hits that seem to happen oh so regularly in Halo 5 on it's dedicated servers that were extremely rare in Halo 2, 3 Reach and even the 4 on their inferior hosted games.
and again, that's not even the worst phantom hit I've seen in Halo 5.
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Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
SatansReverence shitting up another Halo 5 thread I see.
SatansReverence
Hipster Princess
343 slurplejerk hard at it again I see...
I mean. Wow.
If you cannot finish a kill, due to the other opponent killing you first, or due to the opponent hiding behind cover first, it likely means you did not pick a good time to engage that person or you do not have enough team support to make sure they cannot hide anywhere. Either way it just seems like an encounter gone wrong, which is what happens in games. Stop bitching about not getting a kill every time you want to get one. Running away is something that happens, and if you or your team cannot properly control it then maybe you do not deserve the kill?
Broadbandito
Member
Dude has nothing better to do I guess. HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE
Woah bro. Hax
Probably just exposes your bias towards non-Bungie Halo.
-You complained about sprint, but sprint in Halo 5 is far better balanced than it was in Reach. And jetpacks broke map design far more than sprint ever has. Yet you continued to play 5000 games of that.
-You complained about maps, but apart from Countdown, Reach threw Arena map design out of the window. Instead, we had the likes of Boardwalk. Reach's map pool wasn't remotely appealing. 3 had a handful of maps that were bad as well (Isolation, Snowbound, Epitaph, Construct. They contained shield door camping, bad spawns and lift camping. Hardly well designed map flow.
-You said the aiming is easier than any Halo game, yet the aim assist is lower than any game in the series, say for CE.
-You also said automatics are overpowered, but before they were pea shooters and absolutely pointless in the sandbox.
5 is mechanically sound in ways 3 and Reach are not. Yet you had no problems playing those.]
If only we had the black under suits.
Bingo. Which where a lot of the 'diehard' hate comes from IMO. I've been a Bungie fan since Myth, so to me that level of fanboyism strikes me as idiotic.
'It can't be Halo without Bungie!'
Except, Bungo wasn't interested in making Halo games anymore. I complain about Bungie, but I still love their games. That doesn't mean I can't also enjoy 343/Halo games.
But hey, that's just me.
Leyasu
Banned
Nice. Halo 5 mp is a thing of beauty. Although after all these months I am still not sure about spartan charges. But it is good to here that you are now happy with the fundamentals. Datacenter selection does need to be added .
I cannot fucking wait to see halo 6tf.
SatansReverence
Hipster Princess
Aww that's cute, but I don't care for Bungie.
I played Destiny for maybe a week? Probably less.
They were the ones who started the downfall of Halo (but it was 343 that triple downed on the awfulness).
I even abandoned their forums when they changed style because they were awful.
Welp, better not shoot at all then.
How long until I get accused of not even having an xbox?
blue_phazon
Member
Walk into halogaf and you'll see people complaining about stuff every single day. There's still tons of problems with Halo 5 and we acknowledge that.
But apparently liking the gameplay of Halo 5 is enough to be a "slurplejerk."
We get it dude. You don't like Halo anymore. Woop de doo here's your cookie.
I hate GTA, but I'm not gonna go into every GTA thread and say how shit it is and accuse everyone of hopping on R*'s dick.
Narpas Sword0
Member
Glad to hear this. I haven't played it nearly enough, and I want to get back into it