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Due to the nature of dedicated serves, you will not be paired with someone across the other side of the world, you're paired with people in the same region you are. That's the very idea of how dedicated servers work, additionally lag is put to an absolute minimum so it not a factor for 9/10 games you'd play while on the servers. What P34nut said is correct, if you expect to win games in the ranked Arena, you bring a team. It is suicide to expect you're going to win without one, that is basic knowledge with competitive games such as Halo. If someone states otherwise, they're flat out wrong and know nothing about how competitive games work. Your team doesn't even need to be that top tier, so long as there is a unique and good synergy between yourself and the buddies you're playing with. On the chance you have absolutely no friends to play with, we live in an era where the internet is so accessible that you can find anyone to play with in an instant, all it requires is a minimal amount of effort.

REQ system is NOT content, regardless if you think it's a good loot system or not, that is not content in any regard to actual gameplay. Playlists and modes are. At launch there were only 5 modes in Arena; Slayer, CTF, Strongholds, SWAT and Breakout. Then you had one large player mode which was Warzone. If you call that "variety" or "content" then you are objectively wrong in literally every way imaginable by comparison to what any other Halo game provided on launch. Hell, even Halo 4 had more playlists, granted not all of them were actually good, but there was variety in how each of the gametypes play out. In Halo 5 Guardians there are really only 4 modes, because Slayer and SWAT are the same thing in terms of mechanics. That is lack of content, REQ's do not make up for that. So your idea that you need to play "600 hours" to achieve 100% is completely irrelevant and wrong in terms of gameplay. Regarding the incompletion of the multiplayer, may I refer you to the spawn system. Halo 5 Guardians hands down has the worst spawn system and spawn placements in the entire franchise. There is no such thing as weighted spawns, which means you're more likely to spawn with your team. That simply does not exist, also the spawns for SWAT were so infamously bad that the population died so hard in that playlist. New playlists every week is also nothing something unique to 343i, that has existed since the early days of online Halo multiplayer. 343i also cannot grasp that idea that social/casual playlists NEED to be implemented into the game as soon as possible. There is only one casual playlist currently and that's Warzone. BTB is not casual, it's currently a ranked playlists. In addition, Halo 5 Guardians did NOT make 400 million at launch, that was a sneaky statistic Microsoft gave out to the public to make Halo 5 Guardians seem impressive. That statistic included every Xbox One bundle sold, so you now remove the price of the Xbox One from that statistic and you have very low sales in comparison to the rest of the franchise.

During this final month of the year for 2015, we come to recognize somewhat differently to the normal process with who we decide most deserves this title. Typically the Moderators of all ranks discuss people on this forum who are active, contribute positive content and are friendly to not only their friendship groups but people they have nothing in common with. This month, we decided to keep online those three criteria as norm, however we're extending the domain to which they apply. Halo is the common interest all of us share, we are united not only as a forum here at 343i.org by it, but rather all of the community of Halo is. That extends from general game playing of the franchise, reading the books and becoming a lore expert, cosplaying as your favourite characters from the series or even joining the ranks of professional players. Whoever you are, you love Halo and that's what this month we're here to prove. Additionally this promotion differs in the fact that we are not promoting one person, but rather a group. Not many people may know these members who are being promoted as the representatives for what we're recognizing. These three members are part of the development team known as i01, are have created such a beautiful creation "Installation 01" which aims to connect Halo players who loved the original trilogy through a multiplayer experience. Not only will it bring back classic memories that have long passed, but all of this will be available for free for all people in the community when completed. However, you don't need to personally know them to be hyped by their work. This applies to all of us who wish to experience the good old days of Halo again, all upon PC, Mac and Linux. As before, our intention is recognize people who bring a wealth of positivity not just to our forums, but to everywhere and everyone that celebrates Halo as something that they hold dear. December, the final month of 2015 recognizes the team of i01 as those who brought us their latest development news on this great undertaking of a project. All members from the team* will be awarded MoM for this month to recognize our appreciation for their work for the Halo community in general. This is the first time that more than one person in a single month has been awarded MoM, but we're not awarding this to one person, we're awarding this to a team who works for all of us. TheChunkierBean ISJTrigger Progo And all of the i01 Team! !!CONGRATULATIONS!! You three as part of the i01 team on our forums are recognized as our top choice for bringing together the Halo community even further, we trust that your eventual release of the full project will bring the classic and new Halo community together in the way that Halo MCC was meant to. You can find the i01's latest trailer as the time of this announcement here and information regarding their project here! Additionally their social media pages are provided; Twitter and Facebook *Note that our very own Community Moderator Church is part of the i01 team, but due to his status of a moderator, cannot receive this award that his colleagues are, but do not forget that everyone not only on the forums here, but in the team in general is being awarded this as a group.

Warzone never existed in Halo in any other titles in the franchise. Splitscreen cannot be updated into the game, it's technically impossible because of how the game was written. Sorry bro

Staff Response Thread locked, there was no attempt for discussion as OP simply flamed without any constructive criticism.

It's using Dynamic Resolution. What that means is in order to preserve 60fps in surround visuals, the game must sacrifice textures and model animation rates to keep the game at a solid 60fps. While this is a smart system for consoles, it's very noticeable here due to the art that the textures are formed from in the first place. So what that means, being point blank offers the best textures, as soon as you start taking a foot back from the object, you're going to notice drop offs in quality.

Just because you feel like the maps are not unique, doesn't mean they are not unique and interesting in their own way for others. I myself love the maps Empire, Regret and Plaza. Those maps are easily better than a majority of every Halo map created. They may be not at the standard set by greats such as Lockout, The Pit, Battle Creek and Midship, but they are certainly viewed highly by myself. Others love the recreation of midship; Truth, it flows perfectly and works wonders with CTF. However, your point about the spawns is absolutely spot on. 343i's pro team clearly did not play test the maps correctly as the spawn system is broken at such a fundamental level. The problem is at its worse in SWAT, I had one incident where I died 6 times within 15 seconds. 2 seconds per life to react proves such a failure of the spawn system. Also Big Team iirc is coming this week with the first major update for the game, bringing its own exclusive maps (albeit forge creations from the Cartographers).

The system is fine, you were just unluckily paired against some tool. Happened to me in SWAT, nothing can be done about it in game. I mean strictly in game, open their Xbox Profile and report them. When enough reports are sent on a player, (doesn't have to be many either), punishment will be applied to the player.

Why add proximity in the first place? Parties exist for a reason, there's literally no benefit to proximity voice chat over party/standard game chat. Immersion is not an excuse either, you're a spartan, you have comms.

Yea, well either it's bugged or really doesn't do anything significant lol

343i have confirmed they're looking over all players who should've been eligible for it. No ETA on when this investigation will conclude though.

All weapons have very little aim assist, so you saying that it's easy, good on you that means you're decent. Spartan abilities were added as a new way of mobility within the game, just because something is inspired by another game doesn't mean it's bad. The radar I do agree with you, the range on that thing is absolutely tiny. Smart-link has always been in Halo, see the Magnum from CE. This is just redesign of it. Power weapons don't win you games, skill does. REQ system was a horrible idea, pay to look good is never a good design option. Agreed with you there. You can turn off many abilities, including the hover ability, go to the menu for control customisation. The vehicles aren't less durable, they just have more powerful counterparts through the REQ system which last a lot longer. Shotgun has just as much range as it used to. If you can't understand that story, you shouldn't play a campaign. That was by far the easiest campaign to understand in the entire franchise, it may have been disappointing but in no way shape or form was it hard to understand. Halo 5 is far from a fast paced kill game, the kill times are slow, it's just that the movement is fast.

I always pick it during Warzone in the hope I ever notice it does something. I swear it must give you a 1% increase because I've never noticed a thing. Speed reload is a much better choice to use.

If you haven't been given access by now from 343i, you won't be given access to the Multiplayer at all until release like everyone else. Only those with the Alpha Arena access are able to play it.

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Oh yea I joined, got crap all from my REQ pack though ):

Friendly reminder than her death in Halo 4 made no sense and was proof of poor writing from 343i.