Halo 5 - Guardians

Mickeroo · 06-11-2015 3:09pm

IvoryTower wrote: »

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.

You already get a ban for doing it too much, even that doesn't seem to be discouraging people.

IvoryTower · 06-11-2015 3:22pm

10 min ban is nothing, muliple quits should be 24hr ban. For the people worried about their rank and kdr, hit them where it hurts so that theyre better off playing the game out

06-11-2015 6:29pm

Anyone online tonight for a few games? Haven't played since last week.

Stone Deaf 4evr · 06-11-2015 6:37pm

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Anyone online tonight for a few games? Haven't played since last week.

Be on late after a raid in Destiny first

06-11-2015 6:40pm

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

Be on late after a raid in Destiny first

LOL Stone...ya got roped back in again :pac:

Stone Deaf 4evr · 06-11-2015 6:52pm

M!Ck^ wrote: »

LOL Stone...ya got roped back in again :pac:

I know. And I was clean for so long too!

IvoryTower · 07-11-2015 2:17am

Just played for 5 hours straight, I officially love it, being on with 3 friends makes huge difference. No quitters and good craic. It was just like back in the halo 3 days where you just had to keep playing one more game until you eventually can barely see the screen

Mickeroo · 07-11-2015 1:09pm

Yes yes yes!We don't have too long to wait for BTB by the sounds of it

In just over a week, the next Halo 5 content drop will be here, and with it comes Big Team Battle in Arena matchmaking, brand-new REQs, and a whole ton of juicy vehicular combat.......

THere's a sneak look at some of the BTB maps in the bulletin: https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/community/blog-posts/november-sneak-peek

Mr Freeze · 07-11-2015 2:07pm

The more I play of Warzone, the more I struggle to like it and end up hating it instead.

Its so badly balanced, the Req (Pay 2 Win) system ruins it.

With very few Reqs its no different from a Walking Simulator trying to get from A to B in it.

Stormhawk88 · 07-11-2015 2:32pm

Haven't been on much this week between work, study and the missus refusing to put it down. But should hopefully be on for a few hours tonight after work if anybody is up for it. Gt is Nerobear for anybody who hasn't got it yet.

IvoryTower · 07-11-2015 4:32pm

The first rank you get is a bit sketchy, one of my friends got gold cause he was playing with us but he would be getting hammered in every game! another lad got platinum and he's decent but not THAT good! They should just let you work up the ranks like they used to or base the first rank on individual score

Mickeroo · 08-11-2015 2:10pm

I hadnt realised when i posted above that those btb maps are only forge maps, kinda crappy there's no proper pre-made btb maps. I hope this is a case of them using these to fast track the playlist's availability with some properly crafted maps coming in a month or two.

maximoose · 09-11-2015 10:26am

Am I missing something, or is there no way to get to medals in the carnage report?

Korvanica · 09-11-2015 11:18am

Mickeroo wrote: »

I hadnt realised when i posted above that those btb maps are only forge maps, kinda crappy there's no proper pre-made btb maps. I hope this is a case of them using these to fast track the playlist's availability with some properly crafted maps coming in a month or two.

This is whats happening I think, Theyre building proper maps at the moment, but decided to give us BTB with the forge maps while we wait. Which is pretty sound of them.

IvoryTower · 09-11-2015 11:28am

I played one game of shotty snipers at the weekend, slaughtered! It's more of a game mode for bigger maps.

Played about 50 games of team arena yesterday(my thumb aches), got from gold 1 to gold 6, was about to go platinum when 2 players quit at start of a breakout game, rage, but id been against teams that had the same problem, works in roundabouts! It's a tough slog on your own, ill be recruiting in here to get from platinum to diamond thats for sure

Mickeroo · 09-11-2015 11:43am

maximoose wrote: »

Am I missing something, or is there no way to get to medals in the carnage report?

Think I've seen people complaining about that on reddit as there's no way to looks at them at the moment.

Korvanica wrote: »

This is whats happening I think, Theyre building proper maps at the moment, but decided to give us BTB with the forge maps while we wait. Which is pretty sound of them.

That's actually pretty good so in fairness, game is really missing a playlist you can just go into and dick around for an hour and the novelty of Warzone has kind of worn off a bit for me.

IvoryTower wrote: »

I played one game of shotty snipers at the weekend, slaughtered! It's more of a game mode for bigger maps.

Played about 50 games of team arena yesterday(my thumb aches), got from gold 1 to gold 6, was about to go platinum when 2 players quit at start of a breakout game, rage, but id been against teams that had the same problem, works in roundabouts! It's a tough slog on your own, ill be recruiting in here to get from platinum to diamond thats for sure

Yeah best I've managed on my own is platinum 2 only to have a bad run of games put me back to square one. Think I have you on my friend's list already so give me a shout if I'm on. Probably be Destiny for tonight though but will stick with halo for the rest of the week then i reckon.

Korvanica · 09-11-2015 12:10pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

That's actually pretty good so in fairness, game is really missing a playlist you can just go into and dick around for an hour and the novelty of Warzone has kind of worn off a bit for me.

Not a fan of Warzone either, as mentioned before, games are always insanely one sided and noone plays for objectives. I play the odd game and if my mates are playing ill play. But mostly play arena when on my own.

When in warzone, do you have to be within a certain radius of the AI bosses for them to appear on your hud? I've been through a good few games where only a couple of bosses popped up for me. Some games I was on with friends and they could see the marker, i couldnt though.

AirBiscuit · 09-11-2015 6:42pm

Know what game mode I'd really like to play? Warzone, but with SWAT settings. I mean seriously, I'm lucky if I even get 3 kills in a match, but get about 10+ assists. Very annoying how hard it is to kill.

On a side note, if anyone wants to do the co-op campaign with me that would be much obliged, playing on Heroic and on the second mission so far. Gamertag: AirBiscuit

Stone Deaf 4evr · 09-11-2015 11:42pm

Played a bit more of the campaign between tonight and last night, I dunno, maybe it's cause my expectations were lowered, but I'm actually enjoying in.

just finished the escape mission, the fistfight between chief and Locke was pretty cool, and the cutscenes are like something from a summer blockbuster

I reckon I'll be sticking with it till completion before I play any more blops or witcher, I'm trying not to fall back into my old habits of starting tons of games and finishing none of em.

IvoryTower · 09-11-2015 11:45pm

I think I joined your game not realising you were playing campaign, it should say really!

Stone Deaf 4evr · 09-11-2015 11:58pm

IvoryTower wrote: »

I think I joined your game not realising you were playing campaign, it should say really!

Really? No notification popped up or anything. Feel free to join away whenever though.

IvoryTower · 10-11-2015 12:06am

Will do, it could've been someone else but they were in the "clan"!

ZiabR · 10-11-2015 9:22am

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

Played a bit more of the campaign between tonight and last night, I dunno, maybe it's cause my expectations were lowered, but I'm actually enjoying in.
just finished the escape mission, the fistfight between chief and Locke was pretty cool, and the cutscenes are like something from a summer blockbuster
I reckon I'll be sticking with it till completion before I play any more blops or witcher, I'm trying not to fall back into my old habits of starting tons of games and finishing none of em.

I just finished Mission 10 last night. I am playing it on Coop Legendary, can be very tough in spots even with 3 human players and 1 AI. I keep thinking to myself, playing this solo Legendary would be so infuriating. The one AI we have is useless and is a glorified medic.

Enjoying the game, Legendary makes it challenging and a good laugh.

Stone Deaf 4evr · 10-11-2015 10:05am

logik wrote: »

I just finished Mission 10 last night. I am playing it on Coop Legendary, can be very tough in spots even with 3 human players and 1 AI. I keep thinking to myself, playing this solo Legendary would be so infuriating. The one AI we have is useless and is a glorified medic.

Enjoying the game, Legendary makes it challenging and a good laugh.

yeah, I'm only solo playing heroic and on mission 5ish, but the cracks in the teammate AI are really starting to show, If I get downed and request assistance, its almost always triggers a train of one teammate after another getting downed before game over.

Also, its that videogame trope of your teammates firing away at the enemies and killing approximately zero of them.

Mickeroo · 10-11-2015 10:07am

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

yeah, I'm only solo playing heroic and on mission 5ish, but the cracks in the teammate AI are really starting to show, If I get downed and request assistance, its almost always triggers a train of one teammate after another getting downed before game over.

Also, its that videogame trope of your teammates firing away at the enemies and killing approximately zero of them.

Think I'm around the same point as you, maybe a little further on solo legendary and they're a nightmare at times. I basically try to keep them as far away from the action as possible.

maximoose · 10-11-2015 10:08am

I got to mission 5 on legendary solo where

Warden Eternal first shows up

and got a bit annoyed with the AI, and haven't gone back to it since - more out of lack of interest than frustration I think though, the campaign just hasn't grabbed me at all.

Mickeroo · 10-11-2015 10:11am

maximoose wrote: »

I got to mission 5 on legendary solo where
Warden Eternal first shows up
and got a bit annoyed with the AI, and haven't gone back to it since - more out of lack of interest than frustration I think though, the campaign just hasn't grabbed me at all.

I'm not even sure how I beat him, was running around trying to avoid him when the fight suddenly ended, nearly sure he fell off the map trying to kill me or something. Was finding it very frustrating before then, game feels very cheap at times on legendary......still nothing compared to CE though :mad:

Mr Freeze · 10-11-2015 10:14am

maximoose wrote: »

I got to mission 5 on legendary solo where
Warden Eternal first shows up
and got a bit annoyed with the AI, and haven't gone back to it since - more out of lack of interest than frustration I think though, the campaign just hasn't grabbed me at all.

On Legendary Solo, I was beginning to think it was not possible to beat this level.

As soon as the checkpoint loads, I would run towards the left and head up to the higher ground looking down on the boss as he is spawning, fire a grenade or 2 as running to take out the crawlers that spawn.

Then leap down on the platform where the boss spawned and hopefully his back is still turned and you can lay into that weak spot. You might hit it twice and get 2 of this damaged animations, then leg it back to the high ground, leap to nearest floating platform and get a power weapon and lay into him with that.

Will take several retries and you might have to retreat to high ground and pick him off with a light rifle. Some shots to the face with hit the weak spot too, so you can try that, 1 shot in a whole clip might hit the weak spot when shooting at his face.

Stone Deaf 4evr · 10-11-2015 10:15am

Mickeroo wrote: »

I'm not even sure how I beat him, was running around trying to avoid him when the fight suddenly ended, nearly sure he fell off the map trying to kill me or something. Was finding it very frustrating before then, game feels very cheap at times on legendary......still nothing compared to CE though :mad:

For me, I was the last man standing as usual and I was boosting around the round column at the back of the map, when he got snagged on some scenery :rolleyes: with his back facing me, I just kept hitting him in the back with the scattershot until it was all over.

Its pointless having bosses that your teammates need to aggro so that you can hit them in the back, specially when your teammates are useless, and the boss ignores them for the most part anyway, in that fight, I may as well have gone in there solo from the way he was making a bee-line for me, the others only got downed as they happened to be clustered together and in the path of one of his attacks that I dodged.

Mickeroo · 10-11-2015 10:16am

There's an incineration cannon on the floating platform above where he spawns too, I also had one from the knight you kill jsut before the encounter. One shot from that starts his stagger animation.

Mickeroo · 12-11-2015 11:09am

Team Doubles, CTF amd Shotty Snipes were the options for the weekend playlist, doubles won.

On mission 13 in campaign now (scorpion one), have been tipping along nicely on legendary with only the occasional bout of frustration (usually involving warden eternal). Might have to restart the mission though to try and get the scorpion all the way through.

Mr Freeze · 12-11-2015 11:11am

Mickeroo wrote: »

On mission 13 in campaign now (scorpion one), have been tipping along nicely on legendary with only the occasional bout of frustration (usually involving warden eternal). Might have to restart the mission though to try and get the scorpion all the way through.

Its easy enough, you can pick off the Warden with the tank from a distance, he just stands there if you far enough away.

maximoose · 12-11-2015 11:11am

Doubles & CTF - I don't get why these aren't given a permanent playlist

Korvanica · 12-11-2015 11:14am

I'm sure they will be given time. Voted for doubles myself, was always fun and people were always very talkative in it unlike most other gametypes.

Req Packs. How are ye opening them ?

Gold: Gold REQ Packs contain a large number of REQs ranging from Uncommon to Legendary. Players are guaranteed two new permanent REQs, if available.
Silver: Silver REQ Packs include Common to Rare REQs with the added value of two new permanent REQs, if available.
Bronze: Bronze REQ Packs include Common, single use REQs, but is likely to unlock a new permanent REQ, if available.

I've seen a few things online that you should open bronze packs first until you have a good few permanent unlocks, then move to silvers then golds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCSV9BvFlMs

Started doing this and I've unlocked a load of stuff. Probably getting a permanent unlock in 2/3 packs. Opening bronze allows me to open 4 packs for every 1 silver.

List of Reqs

Stone Deaf 4evr · 12-11-2015 11:17am

Mickeroo wrote: »

Team Doubles, CTF amd Shotty Snipes were the options for the weekend playlist, doubles won.

On mission 13 in campaign now (scorpion one), have been tipping along nicely on legendary with only the occasional bout of frustration (usually involving warden eternal). Might have to restart the mission though to try and get the scorpion all the way through.

You're just ahead of me mick, there have been points in the last few missions where I've nearly launched the controller out of frustration at my teammates. the part where I had to take out

the wraith ahead of entering the temple

I must have died 15 times trying to do that, either i'd get one shotted and put back a long way to the checkpoint or else I'd get downed and my teammates would either ignore my requests for revival or promptly die themselves.

when all is said and done, its still pretty good though.

taking down the kraken was cool

Mickeroo · 12-11-2015 11:18am

Mr Freeze wrote: »

Its easy enough, you can pick off the Warden with the tank from a distance, he just stands there if you far enough away.

Haven't got that far just yet but I heard you can use it for that encounter alright, I'm already on fire though so need to restart and be a bit more careful with those damn knights and their incineration cannons.

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

You're just ahead of me mick, there have been points in the last few missions where I've nearly launched the controller out of frustration at my teammates. the part where I had to take out
the wraith ahead of entering the temple

I must have died 15 times trying to do that, either i'd get one shotted and put back a long way to the checkpoint or else I'd get downed and my teammates would either ignore my requests for revival or promptly die themselves.

when all is said and done, its still pretty good though.
taking down the kraken was cool

I found a passage on the left that gave me good site lines on

the wraith and enemies

, did have a fair few deaths though. Meant to record when I beat it, just grabbed a plasma pistol off a grunt and used the emp to freeze the tank then ran out and mounted it.

Mr Freeze · 12-11-2015 11:26am

Mickeroo wrote: »

Haven't got that far just yet but I heard you can use it for that encounter alright, I'm already on fire though so need to restart and be a bit more careful with those damn knights and their incineration cannons.

I was so far back, those Knights were just wee pixels, I sent in the team on their Ghosts and one had a Wraith and while the Knights were engaging them killing them with ease, I picked the Knights off from a distance with the tank.

IvoryTower · 12-11-2015 11:31am

Doubles will be fun but give us btb already!

I don't pay any attention to req packs I just open them between games while I'm waiting, I hope btb is the way it's always been

super_furry · 12-11-2015 9:43pm

So happy that Big Team Battle is returning. Was worried that it had been dropped in favour of Warzone.

Mr Freeze · 13-11-2015 11:14am

Anyone up for blasting through the campaign on heroic tomorrow in co-op?

Mickeroo · 13-11-2015 11:23am

Mr Freeze wrote: »

Anyone up for blasting through the campaign on heroic tomorrow in co-op?

Finished legendary solo last night so count me in, am moving house today but should hopefully be up and running before then.

Looks like there's a nice amount of new reqs coming next week along with BTB: https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/games/halo-5-guardians/updates/battle-of-shadow-and-light

Stone Deaf 4evr · 13-11-2015 12:04pm

Maybe Its because I'm playing it a mission or two a night, but on the whole, I'm actually really enjoying this so far.

I've just

Left sanghelios, thought that the planet was very well realised and hadn't seen that kind of 'grand canyon' looking landscape in a halo game before, the following mission where you took out the air defenses and raced to catch the guardian was also pretty cool, even the fight with warden eternal wasn't as frustrating. Then the start of the next misson where you were jumping down the surface of the guardian to the surface of genesis was really cool to look at.

With a bit of luck I'll have the time to finish out the campaign tonight, I'm itching to get back into the multiplayer.

Mickeroo · 13-11-2015 12:41pm

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

Maybe Its because I'm playing it a mission or two a night, but on the whole, I'm actually really enjoying this so far.

I've just
Left sanghelios, thought that the planet was very well realised and hadn't seen that kind of 'grand canyon' looking landscape in a halo game before, the following mission where you took out the air defenses and raced to catch the guardian was also pretty cool, even the fight with warden eternal wasn't as frustrating. Then the start of the next misson where you were jumping down the surface of the guardian to the surface of genesis was really cool to look at.

With a bit of luck I'll have the time to finish out the campaign tonight, I'm itching to get back into the multiplayer.

Yeah I've found the campaign really good overall, thought it really picked up when you

get to Sanghelios, loved all the stuff with the Arbiter.

And there was loads of vehicle sections too which break up the on foot sections nicely.

There was a point in mission 14

where the old master chief theme kicks in and gradually builds as you're making your way through a section and i thought it was just great

Mr Freeze · 13-11-2015 1:27pm

I must be the only one who was really underwhelmed by the campaign.

And I found the new spartan abilities to almost restrictive in terms of movement, this is probably more so to coming from Titanfall to Halo and just finding it painfully lumbering.

Plus that damn friend A.I, its so bad, the Elites are forever jumping to avoid grenades and rockets and sniper shots, but the team A.I are utterly useless.

Stone Deaf 4evr · 13-11-2015 1:30pm

Mr Freeze wrote: »

I must be the only one who was really underwhelmed by the campaign.

And I found the new spartan abilities to almost restrictive in terms of movement, this is probably more so to coming from Titanfall to Halo and just finding it painfully lumbering.

Plus that damn friend A.I, its so bad, the Elites are forever jumping to avoid grenades and rockets and sniper shots, but the team A.I are utterly useless.

No, I'd say that more people are disappointed with the campaign than the other way around. yeah, the team AI is terribly bad at times, they're next to useless. I'd nearly prefer to just die and respawn, rather than be forced to tap the revive button and watch the lemmings ignore me or run to their dooms.

Mickeroo · 13-11-2015 1:49pm

They are awful but I actually got kind of used them before the end and if you told them all to shoot the smaller enemies like soldiers or crawlers they would kill them pretty quick, even elites, just don't send them against a knight or warden eternal. Still caused me more deaths than they prevented though.

Stone Deaf 4evr · 14-11-2015 1:18pm

Well, finally got to the end of it last night, I dunno, I thought it was great overall. The last 4 or 5 missions were really really good.

as for the much complained about ending, I thought it worked out nicely, and the status quo between chief and Locke had reached a mutual respect and the trilogy is definitely set for a big conclusion.

I'd also gained an appreciation for the promethean weapons throughout the course of the game that I didn't have in halo 4. Looking forward to more arena now.

Korvanica · 16-11-2015 11:38am

Anyone having trouble connecting to matchmaking after the new update ?

Since the update I always get : "Unable to connect to the Halo 5: Guardians Lobby Service"

I cant play online at all.

Tried hard reset, removing my profile and re-adding it along with a few other things but nothing is helping.

Seems there's more having the same issue too,

IvoryTower · 16-11-2015 11:43am

apart from being randomly booted twice i haven't had any other problems

I've clocked 2:2:26:44 apparently, seems a lot!

Mr Freeze · 16-11-2015 11:54am

Korvanica wrote: »

Anyone having trouble connecting to matchmaking after the new update ?

XBOX update or was there a Halo patch?

Halo 5 - Guardians

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