Competitive Halo Is Back After Almost A Year Out Of The Spotlight

8 responses to “Competitive Halo Is Back After Almost A Year Out Of The Spotlight”

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   mrxion

   July 18, 2013 at 3:11 pm

   I’d rather they fixed the online multiplayer first. As someone who’s played all of the Halo games (except Halo Wars), I can honestly say that Halo 4 matchmaking sucks (and Reach was only marginally better). I rarely bother with Halo 4 and find myself playing BF3 instead which has much superior online gaming.

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      jackunit13

      July 18, 2013 at 4:09 pm

      What do you mean it sucks? I think the only problem it has compared to BF3 and CoD is that it doesn’t quite boast the number of users which can be a pain in terms of speed of finding a game and also finding local games at times, but the gameplay is really fun!

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         mrxion

         July 18, 2013 at 4:39 pm

         Gameplay is fine. I realise my statement was a bit open ended. Here are the reasons it sucks:

         Limited Map rotation (seems to always be 1 of only a few maps)
         No map choice (you get to pick from 1 of 3 maps only)
         Team balancing is way off, one team always seems to be OP compared to the other
         Games restarting because one player quits the game.
         Matchmaking taking forwver (instead of being able to jump in to an existing game as you can opn BF3)
         No way to customise gametypes

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            jackunit13

            July 18, 2013 at 5:03 pm

            Agree with map rotation, bit of a pain.
            Map choice of 3 seems pretty standard to me, but I don’t play BF.
            Team balancing usually fixes itself within 1 or 2 games if you stay in the match (and people aren’t partied up.)
            The time it takes for a game to start again when someone leaves is absurd! But I’ve never actually had a game restart from 0 if that’s what you mean.
            You can jump in to games on Halo, but unless you are playing Big Team, there’s not often room.

            I bought it day one and failed to really get in to as I also got BlOps 2, but came back to Halo in the past 6 months and completely fell in love with it all over again like it was Halo 3! The big issue is finding suitable matches I think, but if you can get a good group of friends that play it, that usually helps! Feel free to add me if you ever wanna give it another crack 😛

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               mrxion

               July 19, 2013 at 5:44 am

               Thanks for the offer, I may take you up on that. ElBurroDelDiablo.

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               jackunit13

               July 19, 2013 at 12:00 pm

               Xbox? That’s too long for a gamertag…

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               mrxion

               July 19, 2013 at 4:05 pm

               Oops, forgot I had to drop the initial E for The gamer tag.

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   jackunit13

   July 18, 2013 at 4:11 pm

   I love the tactics that one (such as this player) employs in Online FPS’ such as Halo, CoD & BF. It really is mental warfare at times and it’s a joy to watch someone when you really understand what needs to be done to get the kill…

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