If you mean the campaign then I'm with you, if you are talking about the multiplayer lolololololololololololololol no.
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Halo: The Master Chief Collection V2.0 |OT| There Are Those That Said This Day Would Never Come...
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If you mean the campaign then I'm with you, if you are talking about the multiplayer lolololololololololololololol no.
That was a balance issue. Dummy glitching in Halo 2 not only meant that people were getting off the map, they were straight up going into parallel dimensions, grabbing your flag, and bringing it back through slipspace into their base.
Correct. When I said broken, I wasn't saying it was unintentional.
H2 Multiplayer with better graphics is already available in the collection, try the H2A: Team Arena Playlist.
It's H2 with best maps and gameplay but based on H4 graphics engine, revamped and restyled, in Native 4K + HDR @ steady 60fps and with no glitches/lag.
It's pure gold, and even vastly better looking than H5: Multi :)
As a player in oceania I'm incredibly disappointed with the current population size and region locking. I've been trying to play every night since the patch came out and I can't get games in anything other than H3 Team Arena and Social Slayer. I've sat for an hour plus in BTB/H2A/H2C etc and found nothing. I was hoping game pass would give it a boost but nothing has changed.
I get 140ms to US servers, that's more than enough and way better than I had in the days of Halo 3, sort it out 343.
I get 140ms to US servers, that's more than enough and way better than I had in the days of Halo 3, sort it out 343.
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Keep the region lock. Just let people tick a box that puts open region.
Anyway, finally played last night. It's nice to have classic halo on dedicated servers. Halo 2 is a glitch fest. I got assassinated by someone standing in front of me in a game where I couldn't hit the town hall clock so I do wonder if this is 100% region locked.
Apart from one or two games, I was mostly playing EU games that were a dream to play.
What is with the halo 4 hate? Apart from loadouts and drops, it plays well. Just remove those and we are golden.
One other thing halo 4 BTB maps are pretty damn good. They should have updated them for 5
Sounds like it'd be better to just have a timeout that starts searching datacenters that are slightly farther away each time it times out, and if one's got a low population count, it should autosend people to the next datacenter, and so on
I don't want that though. As a European that has lived through the horrors of previous halos matchmaking. I.E 99% of the games hosted in the US, I would rather wait a bit longer for a local game than it pushing me to open region
Halo 4's DLC maps are far better than the launch maps. And the BTB maps are overall pretty fun in Halo 4 I'd say too.
Halo 4 BTB Dominion can be very enjoyable.
Thank you. I too was a big Halo 2 player (something like 7000 matches played) and my interest in Halo fell way off after Halo 3 due to it being not very rewarding to get good at. Since it seems like you know what your talking about, is the reason Halo 3 feels so loose compared to Halo 2 because of it being a non hit scan game?
I think the reason people love/loved Halo 3 so much was because of how much of a complete package it was. The single player was arguably the best in the series, it had 4 player co-op, forge mode, theater mode, and the multiplayer was good for the time, with BTB being the major standout. Combine that with the zeitgeist surrounding Halo 3's launch, and its no surprise people remember the game so fondly. It was impressive for the time, but boy does it feel like shit lol.
Same situation here. I think giving a choice is definitely the best option. Plenty of other games do it as well so hopefully it'll be something they can implement without too much hassle.
Not the person you were quoting, but yes, that is absolutely the biggest factor. Ballistics modeling was a mistake. There's a reason they went back to predominantly hitscan with ballistics only where it made sense to do so, i.e. slower moving projectiles like rockets or plasma bolts.
Ehhh, not really. There's a pretty massive middle ground between Halo 3 and hitscan. Plenty of games use projectile weapons these days to great success. Look at Battlefield, Fortnite, etc.
Plus, today's networking is a lot better, so I'd like for projectile weapons to return to Halo. No weapon has felt as fun and rewarding to shoot as the CE Pistol and Sniper imo. The Halo 3 Sniper is fun to use, except when you're getting blood shots lol.
Just people check a box. I'm sure that there are plenty of Europeans that have friends across the pond and vice versa. But for those that only want local games, leave us covered
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Graphics , art style , story telling are leagues better in 4.... 5 has the worst campaign by far to the point of laughter.... Halo 5 multiplayer while isn't bad ..its just not Halo... Clamber slide ..boost... Make it not Halo
I booted this up last night. I was shocked at how good Halo 4 looks, 343 are wizards to get that running on 360 hardware and 4k really let's it shine. Still don't like the gameplay as much as the others.
I've missed Halo. This is how MCC should have launched.
I've missed Halo. This is how MCC should have launched.
So the spartan abilities everyone has, make Halo 5 not Halo, but you are ok with the loadouts, armor abilities and all the random shit going on in Halo 4?
H2A is so good but there's no one in the playlist. That or it's broken when you search with a full team.
Here we go. Speed matchmaking direct to the US of A. For fuck sake
I thought having ODST for free on one account on my XBOX would mean I have it for all accounts on my XBOX, but I guess it's gamertag specific.
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You should just have to set that Xbox as your home machine and then all accounts can access it.
I got it to work. Turns out I had to simply redownload it from the store, and it works for all accounts.
Such wow, amazing!! I knew it straight away in a couple of matches tonight that I wasn't playing in the EU. Big lag battle has retuneth.
Dropping this again. Such a shame.
I noticed the same thing just trying to search by myself. There might be too many playlists for the number of players. Before the playlist update, H2A was fifth and I had no problems finding matches in seconds. Now it's probably a lot lower. Real shame.
Yeah and both the games I got in today crashed in that playlist :( more people need to play it.
When did that start I have already gotten more then 5 achievements since the patch came out.
I know it's been said before, but H3 is in dire need of an FoV slider. It's so uncomfortable it's borderline unplayable.
So since I bought the game when it was broken I don't get a chance to win that awesome Xbox? That fucking blows.
I'm honestly amazed at how much has gone wrong with this game and everything around it.
i literally cant imagine people sitting around a room saying "hey lets give away something cool to people who played the MCC, oh but not those suckers who paid for it when it was broken, fuck them."
There's usually an alternate method of entry to giveaways that don't require a purchase, and this one is no different. Relax
Take out the load outs and armor ability and I like Halo 4 betterSo the spartan abilities everyone has, make Halo 5 not Halo, but you are ok with the loadouts, armor abilities and all the random shit going on in Halo 4?
It's the 29th most played game on Xbox Live right now, still a couple spots behind H5. So given they only have what's like a few thousand players each day, it's hard to understand the need for 14 matchmaking playlists. They're spreading a small player base too thin and it makes certain playlists total wastelands.
There are so many factors I honestly feel like I could write a novel on this topic.
1. Aim acceleration
2. Projectile bullets
3. Random bullet spread
4. Floaty movement mechanics and low gravity
5. Horrible netcode
Whereas Halo 2 feels snappy and immediate, Halo 3 feels sluggish and laggy. I run out of adjectives to describe it but I once read somewhere that playing Halo 3 is like "ice skating on the moon". It's so true. But it's not just the movement, it's that everything is slow: changing weapons is slow, zooming in is slow, jumping is slow, reloading is slow, it's like the game can't keep up with your head. Halo 2 you can start and stop on a dime, zoom in immediately, switch weapons in an instant, and cancel out of animations if/when it's needed. Playing Halo 2 at a high level just requires so much more nuance and is so much more satisfying to master.
As far as Halo 3 goes, yeah it's the complete package in terms of features and really felt like it was the culmination of Bungie's vision. I can respect what it brought to the table, but the bottom line is the fundamental gameplay is not that great especially when compared to it's predecessor.
Unfortunately this isn't exclusive just to MCC. It's a GamePass quest issue. Last fall I noticed a different time I "failed" to meet the GamePass quest completion because I actually owned the game (and wasn't just playing it via GamePass)
I think they're trying to gauge interest across games/maps/modes now that the population has increased and probably dial it back to a few playlists where they feel they cover the majority of players.
CROSSPOSTING FROM HALO OT: You do not need to do ANY of the quest to enter this contest:
The free entry method:
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Contests in the US are required by law to have a method of free entry, so use that one. (Yes, this applies to the Taco Bell / etc giveaways, too)
I wouldn't say the maps are that great either. The competitive standbys like Narrows and Pit are blocky and overly based on right angles, making them way less fun to move around on when compared to Halo 2's suite of circular maps (Middy, Sanc, Warlock). Guardian is also a grenade eating fiend with all the nooks and crannies and otherwise uneven surfaces. And don't get me started on shield doors...christ.
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