Caboose The Ace

As I said before, it might be funny but I still do not like it. Its not my kind of humour and that's it. So saying that I should revaluate myself because I didn't find something funny its just dumb. Not like asking them will help because its always going to be super positive Halo PR rubbish. And you know what? Fan's should complain, if nobody ever complained about Halo 4 we would still be having loadouts no doubt. When you complain you do in hopes a developer from the game company will pick up on that feedback and try to fix it in the next game. Its not so much as the Halo community likes the system its just the fact that REQ haters get shoved under the rug by fanboys real fast.

I do, and its a great thing. It also makes 343 kinda pointless at the same time but whatever.

Can I point out a certain map made by 343 has horrendous spawn camping in it too? Cough Orion Cough

Why so negative? You remember Halo Reach right? That game later in its life cycle had a lot of community made maps but in matchmaking and you know what they are not half bad and were actually really well made. There are some talented Forgers in the Halo community who are just as talented as those who made the Forge maps in Halo 5. (Since a lot of Halo 5 maps are Forge created) So be optimistic about things because there are talented people out there.

Well 343 have said that the new maps are inspired by older maps. That map does look a lot like Headlong and is to me from all the maps I've seen looks the most like a classic Halo map, though I bet something is different about it though. Take a look at this map for example, its inspired by Valhalla but isn't an exact copy.

Herro one and all and welcome to the weekly smashup 10! Article one: Big Team Battle is coming to Halo 5 very soon Oddly for a Halo game, fan favorite mode, Big Team battle was absent as a matchmaking playlist for the launch of Halo 5. But that is soon to change. In an update on Waypoint, Bravo revealed that the popular game mode is coming in the next update. "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," (More REQ packs too, great) To make the maps for the gamemode 343 enlisted some of Halo communities “top Forgers” to make maps using Halo 5’s Forge. (Really showing off its potential) These new maps take inspiration from previous Halo maps such as Headlong, but have been made just for the purpose of Big team battle. Eventually their work was turned over to 343 to be further developed and iterated to be implemented into Halo 5.Take a look at one of the new maps by clicking the spoiler tag! For Forge they look pretty good. Article two: Dying Star Wars fan gets his final wish granted (Like my last article this is not exactly gaming related but its a really nice story to read) Daniel Fleetwood was a Star wars fan, who was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called spindle cell sarcoma in july. He was told he had two months to live. With the Force Awakens release date so far away Fleetwood realized he was possibly not live or be in the condition to see it. In order to grant Fleetwood his dying wish, a Twitter campaign dubbed #ForceforDaniel was created. Thanks to the generous support from actors such as Mark Hamill and John Boyega, the campaign grabbed the attention of director J.J. Abrams, who reached out to Fleetwood and had an unedited version of the film screened for him at this home. Fleetwoods partner later thanked Disney on Twitter for helping Fleetwood fulfil his dying wish. Article three: A new teaser for Mass Effect Andromeda has been released In celebration of Mass Effect's N7 Day (November 7th) BioWare has released a new teaser for Mass Effect Andromeda, the upcoming game in the series that is set long after the events of the first triolgy. While the trailer doesn't offer much by way of gameplay, it does feature the voice of Jennifer Hale's Commander Shepard, in which the original trilogy's hero bids a slightly nostalgic farewell to the franchise. So go watch latest trailer for the game! https://youtu.be/Rn98FdSg-Fo Thanks for reading everyone, until next time! Source one: (Also contains more awesome previews of the new Forge maps)http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/11/07/big-team-battle-coming-to-halo-5-guardians-in-next-update Source two: http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/11/06/jj-abrams-shows-star-wars-the-force-awakens-to-dying-fan Source three: http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/11/07/mass-effect-andromeda-teaser-shepard-passes-the-torch

If Halo did have a big enough fanbase up for that I would say yes, but it really dosent at this point have that fanbase. 343 are always talking about not fragmenting the community and so I bet they would think your idea would fragment it too much, so I'm sure its still not going to happen for that reason.

Alright I have an idea, no REQ packs. I'd rather pay for my map packs than have a system that entirely cheapens everything and ruins half the point of the game in my opinion, progression. Besides, I've been having a look at the Forge maps 343 have been showing and they look like actual maps for once so why do we need 343 to give us maps when the maps we build ourselves look almost as good?

Finally someone agrees with me on this! That video was nothing short of a joke and all it was, was just the Spartan telling us what the system did and any legit concerns were swept aside. Maybe it was supposed to be funny but I didn't find it funny in the slightest, just kinda offensive.

Actually the reason it was changed from Halo 4 was because the majority of the community was against the idea of loadouts in the first place and wanted fair starts. Your ideas are in the minority as far as I can tell and so probably not going to happen in Halo 5 or Halo 6 if I had to bet money on it. So its not going to happen anytime soon.

In light of recent events this "contest" if you could call it that is now back on, so if you have any other good names, submit them!

Why? Because the whole game including the engine is built around 60fps. Meaning it could not work without 60fps. Without the support of Xbl servers (That's while online co-op is a thing) then splitscreen could not happen because the Xb1 is not powerful enough to have both 60fps and splitscreen. Or Ms is taking us for a ride and wants us to buy more Xb1's to fill their pockets... Either one works I guess.

Alright, thanks everyone for the suggestions. I now certainly have a very good new name for Jack. (I don't know how much he will like it though)

Recently I did a deal with Jack for the rights to change his username for two months (Jack has agreed to this) So my question to you all is. What should I change it to? I already have a few ideas in mind but I want to everyone to have the opportunity to have to chance to humiliate Jack as much as possible. To be considered the name must be either one of these things: Humiliating or funny. (OR BOTH!) And that is all - Supreme Leader Caboose, out! Have fun thinking of names.

"Be appreciative" Be appreciative of what? A broken game? If you pay 60$ for a game you expect it to work as advertised. I don't care how bold the title is or what awesome ideas or innovative design ideas are in it if its broken. Because I cannot play it. And its not as if it came with only a few bugs or something the game was downright broken for almost everyone and still is for some. Its simply unacceptable.

Can you give us some more specific points on your issues with Halo 5 and how is its now like Call of Duty?

Welcome one and all to the latest semi weekly site poll! After a slightly out of form week last week this weeks question is most certainty a return to the usual format. With Halo 5 343 decided to make one of the, if the not the most controversial decision in the Halo franchises history. The removal of splitscreen. This created a rather big uproar within the Halo community as splitscreen has been one of the series biggest assets as so many modern games do not support it. However to compensate for this loss 343 managed to make Halo 5 run at a near solid 60fps. So my question to you all this week is.... Is the loss of splitscreen worth the 60fps? Note: You may want to watch this video by Digital Foundry before you "vote" https://youtu.be/-gQMulb6T2o As usual voting ends on November 9th. If you have any suggestions or criticism, feel free to pm me. Happy voting!

Alright thanks everyone for the "votes" or better put, opinions since for one week only this was not exactly usual format and more of a first impressions thread. But do not worry this weeks latest poll shall be a return to the usual format. Until next time!

Masterpiece? The game launched completely broken. Saved games being deleted by themselves, matchmaking was broken for months and hardly ever worked (and is still broken for some) poor servers, Random rank resets occurring etc. Mcc was nothing short of a broken mess, now it might be fine for most people. But that was a few months down the line. Hell, I'd even go so far to say that Mcc has a worse launch than Battlefield 4.