Modular game eh? Perhaps that will apply to Halo 6 as well eventually, to avoid Halo 5's bloated installation?
They're doing away with the multiple title playlists.My only question is: if we can decide which games we want to download, can I avoid downloading Halo 4 and still queue into a Slayer playlist that contains Halo 1, 2, 3, and 4?
Never have to play Halo 4 again!We have heard feedback from the community about matchmaking times, voting, and the selection of games in playlists. In the future, we will limit playlists to a single game and remove the voting stage.
They're doing away with the multiple title playlists.
Never have to play Halo 4 again!
We'll go full... well, whatever the small map in one COD was.
Well, it might finally be able to be your go-to game with fixed netcode, etc.mcc might end up being my go-to game. it feels weird saying this so many years after it launched.
Well, it might finally be able to be your go-to game with fixed netcode, etc.
Playing the Halo 3 playlist brought back all those good feelings of classic Halo and I realized that I really want that again. I really, really hope they nail this patch, continue to support the game for the foreseeable future with updates, and give it away on Game Pass or GWG to sustain a good population. Classic Halo gameplay still has a place and if I want to play one flag on Headlong (and I do!) there should be an outlet for that.
I want the game improvements and all and that's great, but really the XB1X enhancements might be what tip me over to buy a new console. Always up for seeing shinier versions of the Halo campaigns.
(And then I'd pull a George Lucas and go back and adjust the in-game typography so they were consistent. Or at least get rid of the ALL CAPS Bakeesh littering Halo 4.)
Waiting for PC might be a better option. I doubt the Xbox One X enhancements will be that significant.
That's already a thing.
I see two options here:My only question is: if we can decide which games we want to download, can I avoid downloading Halo 4 and still queue into a Slayer playlist that contains Halo 1, 2, 3, and 4?
3. Toggle-based Matchmaking replaces playlists. If a player doesn't have the content for a certain toggle, it's greyed out.I see two options here:
1. Multiplayer is a download block and you have to install everything multiplayer side.
2. You can download individual games, but you'll be locked out of all cross game playlists and obviously the game you neglected to download.
Are people as a whole happy with the removal of voting? Nice to see multiple title playlists getting the boot but I don't understand removing voting on maps and modes. If people want to play a specific map or mode why should we be forced to do something else?
I guess at least with a customs browser it will keep some level of freedom.
Ah, yes. I too enjoy playing literally nothing but Slayer on Lockout over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over andAre people as a whole happy with the removal of voting? Nice to see multiple title playlists getting the boot but I don't understand removing voting on maps and modes. If people want to play a specific map or mode why should we be forced to do something else?
I guess at least with a customs browser it will keep some level of freedom.
Are people as a whole happy with the removal of voting? Nice to see multiple title playlists getting the boot but I don't understand removing voting on maps and modes. If people want to play a specific map or mode why should we be forced to do something else?
I guess at least with a customs browser it will keep some level of freedom.
Voting doesn't prevent people from being forced to do things they don't want. It lengthens the matchmaking process and removes variety from the experience as people simply vote for what's most likely to be win.
People who want a break from the norm have no recourse.
A much better way to handle MM today, is just let people select all maps and modes the are willing to play, and throw them into matches with players who have overlapping interests.
That assumes a healthy population. I'd be totally in support otherwise.
It doesn't. It's less dependent on a healthy population.
If you only want to play a less populated gametype, you'd make it your only enabled toggle. Wait times would be just as if this gametype had its own playlist.
If you are open to multiple gametypes, you widen the population you are eligible to play with, reducing your wait times and increasing the variety of your experience.
Are people as a whole happy with the removal of voting? Nice to see multiple title playlists getting the boot but I don't understand removing voting on maps and modes. If people want to play a specific map or mode why should we be forced to do something else?
I guess at least with a customs browser it will keep some level of freedom.
Yes...let it die in a fireAre people as a whole happy with the removal of voting? Nice to see multiple title playlists getting the boot but I don't understand removing voting on maps and modes. If people want to play a specific map or mode why should we be forced to do something else?
I guess at least with a customs browser it will keep some level of freedom.
Good video on Halo 5's shortcomings. I'm just glad someone demonstrated fairly well why Halo 5's soundtrack is so boring and has no subtlety. I know a lot of people defend it. It's not like it sounds bad, but it doesn't elicit various emotional responses. It's overbearing, doesn't know how to be quiet, repeats constant arpeggios with strings that ping pong back and forth between notes, and is generally too loud and bombastic. It makes for a very predictable sound that is there just to having exciting background noise.
Here's the time stamp for where this guy talks about it with examples:
Definitely. The MCC version of Halo 4 could pass as an early generation game.
idk, it's entirely up to the player to not make his search too narrow/granular. If I just picked slayer+Halo 2 I'm sure I could find something. But if I wanted slayer+Halo 2+Br Starts+Lockout I'd probably have a lot longer wait time.
I'm up too late. I'm probably not thinking this through. Regardless, I would prefer it.
I mean, if you don't like strings, that's something, but I don't have a problem with them or any of the tracks. I can still tell where they are in the game, and I get the emotional heft I need out of them for the beats. The criticism seems like it's backfilling an explanation for the music being "bad" and "not working" because he doesn't like where Halo 5's story went rather than the music itself.
It's also kind of hilarious to compare Halo 5 to Halo 4, which I agree has great music like the rest of the series but which is absolutely lost constantly due to terrible sound mixing and editing frequently.
If you want to to talk about the pitfalls of generic sounding music, you shouldn't be looking anywhere at the mainline games (looks disappointedly over at Halo Wars 2 and its generic action cues.)
EDIT: Also going to call bullshit on the campaign being the buggiest. Guess he forgot all about the level-stopping bugs in Halo 4.
That's right the player would basically determine how long their wait times are by how strict they make their search-
But exclusively searching unpopular gametpyes it would be no different then trying to MM in an unpopular playlist.
I was just primarily using the OST part of the video to highlight that there is a reason why I and others do not like the direction of the music. It feels repetitive, predictable, and lacks the subtlety and emotional complexity the others had. While I don't agree with the comparisons to Halo 4 necessarily, I think he was using it to highlight that 343 went in a different direction with the franchise and Halo 4's OST definitely sounded like it. I went on YouTube and found some Marvel OST videos and just randomly clicked around and found very similar sounding music to Halo 5. Are they 1:1 the same? No, however the style, structure, and flavor is largely the same. Halo 5's OST doesn't distinguish itself like the previous games in the series had. Now it sounds like a Marvel movie OST instead of being unique and distinctly its own.