Halo 5 - Guardians

maximoose wrote: »

Glad you got sorted! I was ready to crack up haha

What way do these playlist ranks work? Onyx me bollix, give me old fashioned numbers please

I'll give you from lowest to highest from last time I looked it up:
Bronze, Silver, Gold, Diamond, Onyx. I read somewhere they are planning on adding another rank to the top called Master but it could be wrong.

Interesting. It gave me onyx in swat after 10 games, of which I only won about 5.

You can vote now for a gametype to be added to the weekend playlists, shotty snipers is ahead with 62%, I went for ctf but it's only at 28%. Strongholds makes up the difference.

Mickeroo wrote: »

There's already a rank above Onyx called champion and you have to be top 200 in the playlist to get it.

I was given platinum for everything apart from breakout (gold). You pretty much have to be winning consistently to rank up it seems so it's not too different from the 1 to 50 system in principle.

Well at least they are consistent then. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the rest of it.

The one thing I have found with Halo 5 is I have started to work the thrusters into my tactics but I forget to work it into other peoples reactions.
I was playing a game and my shields were down so I decided to scarper around a corner and got assassinated.
I was like "Bloody lag no way he could have gotten behind me! Oh yeah the thrusters. Dammit."

Wasn't even particularly good in the games, 1.44 K/D overall! Seemed to play the same 3 maps over and over, needs a bit more variation.

Mickeroo wrote: »

Yeah I'm finding the thrusters handy for close quarters to disorientate people of to thrust around a corner if I'm getting shot from distance.

There are a few sneaky new mechanics in there now, like if you're sprinting your shields won't re-charge also as far as I can tell you don't appear on the radar when you walk anymore, only if you're sprinting or shooting (possibly jumping). Not sure how I feel about that tbh, results in a lot of cheap deaths (and kills for me once I copped it).

I had a very cheap kill when I spotted someone on my motion sensor running up behind me for the assassination.
I jumped into the air, thrust backwards, landed behind them and assassinated them. Leapfrog but with a knife and in reverse.

Yeah the speed you can move without popping up on the sensor is a bit silly.

In fairness I rarely get a game of slayer in team arena so it's pure luck. It's not possible to stick to a rotation if you're playing on your own maybe if you had a party of 4 it might

Korvanica wrote: »

Warzone is fun, but seriously imbalanced once a team gets ahead. Their req levels go up, allowing them to get tanks and snipers and totally pin you in your base. Very unfun for the losing side.

Arena is where its at. Level playing field and you know what weapons are in play.

Yeah my team managed to get our req up early in a game and we just steamrolled the other side.
I called in the Battle Rifle that is a sniper and I saw two gauss hogs heading over to enemy territory.

At some point an empty Banshee landed on the ground in front of me followed by a dead body. Yoink. My team were tooled up by then, there was no way for the other side to make a comeback.


Do the req points apply to the whole team or just the people performing actions like taking bases and such?

Mickeroo wrote: »

Not 100% sure, but I think the better you do invidually the quicker you'll have higher req cards available.

I haven't even seen all the different cards yet. A friend used the card where you get a random drop and got a Scorpion though.
Here is hoping I've that kind of luck when I get back into it.

Mickeroo wrote: »

I've a Mantis card but haven't been able to use it yet as it requires level 8. Sometimes it's so close to the end of the match when you hit that kind of level I feel like I'd be wasting the card too.

Only cards I've used so far are the Super Battle Rifle with two levels of Zoom and a Mongoose as I've a few cards of each, they are low level and cheap to call in.
Felt like Batman when I called in the Mongoose with that platform dropping me up to the garage.

It does need some balancing though and Arena could do with either better randomising or the ability to vote.

Also where's my Infection game mode philistines!?

Only problem I have with Warzone is that "last hit" deal on the bosses. Your team can take a boss from 100% to 1% and still get nothing if someone on the other side lobs a lucky grenade.

Sell all is badly needed. Although i keep 5 of everything just to have them.

I've gotten a few pack that were all Mongeese. and one of all Needlers.

Apparently they're fixing the "all 1 type of req card" pack issues though.

would they not be handy for getting back into thick of battle asap

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Mongoose is the most useless vehicles in the game.
Just a big red target

yup, and even if you a guy in the back with a launcher, he'd miss more often than he hits.

Mickeroo wrote: »

Great for CTF on maps like Valhalla though, won so many matches through smash and grab mongoose runs

Oh and Gungoose CTF in MCC is awesome.

now that you mention it, are there any CTF maps in arena that have vehicles? or was that a Big Team battle thing? been a long time since I played last gen Halo multiplayer.

FutureGuy wrote: »

The rec pacs are just full of garbage. After opening a ton of packs the only loadout I have more than one gun in is assault rifle on two. That's it. No armour mods either.

Solid mp but hate the levelling up system.

Why? Not entirely sure how it works but it seems good to me, you're actually trying to level up by winning with your team rather than the like of bf where you just play loads and it keeps going up

I meant the ranking not the req stuff, I've only played war zone twice and would only see it as a bit if craic after a night playing the the arena games! It's all about 4v4

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

It's a complete lottery and 90% of the stuff is pure muck. If there was the option to spend your credits on req packs for in game weapons and vehicles or buy cosmetic items like armour, helmets etc it'd be better imo.

Have to agree here, rec goes up quite slow during a warzone that once you manage to get the rec for a weapon, you spawn and get killed straight away (by some guy on a ghost firing what seem to be, nuclear bombs... grrrrrrr)

You are back to level 1 rec again and have to start over. By the time you get to level 7 or 8 to call in a tank etc, the map is almost over and you dont want to waste the card or you get killed instantly again.

Point being, most of the rec cards you get are crap and I end up selling 95% of them. I think it would be much better to be able to purchase cosmetic stuff like weapon skins, armor skins and emblems.

At least give the players the option.

There's too much quitting going on, they need to make the penalty harsher. Maybe lower rank and give minus 20 to their kd/r. Or maybe remove the option to quit so that they have to turn off their xbox! Anyway, ****ing quitters.