Halo 5 10/27 and MCC Thread

Man that trailer is good. I'm not even that big on Muse but that was really well done.

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

 
Trailer was great....song, not so much.

Picked up my CE today from Best Buy, and there was another guy picking up his too. We explained to the employees the benefit of the digital code, if you have two consoles in the house.

Didn't have a chance to pick up my console yet, I'll get that tomorrow. Had a load of credit at Gamestop, so thats the only reason I ordered it from them. Plus, they give a little more in trade for my old console.

I'm a little salty about this free charger that you can get with the controllers now. I ordered the controllers back in Aug, and NOW they come out with this. I called Best Buy and asked if they could do anything, but they couldn't. I had to order another set and then I'll just return them.
Annoying, because its extra work for me, the store, the credit card co. When they could have made it so simple and just sent it to me.
 
I'm glad GH got me into Muse, although they've hit the radio circuit lately, I'm actually surprised how many good bands GH has introduced me to. Awesome trailer, can't wait for my pre-order copy. Getting mine from Microsoft Store with the bings rewards promo.
 
Nice...will join tonight.

My LCE order got delivered last night and man is it big. I ordered it during a Best Buy glitch earlier this year so $125 total but even that is a hard sell. Haven't decided yet if I'm gonna keep it or not.
 
AvengedBacklog said:
Nice...will join tonight.

My LCE order got delivered last night and man is it big. I ordered it during a Best Buy glitch earlier this year so $125 total but even that is a hard sell. Haven't decided yet if I'm gonna keep it or not.
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Just keep it because if you try to return it, there's a good chance that the order will charge you back for all of the discounts you got so you'll end up screwing yourself. I just sold mine on eBay and still made a profit. The problem is that since it weighs 15 lbs. the weight is gonna cost you an arm and a leg for shipping. I used the cheapest option which is FedEx SmartPost and it still cost me over $20 to ship that sonuvabitch.
 
Donut2922 said:
Just keep it because if you try to return it, there's a good chance that the order will charge you back for all of the discounts you got so you'll end up screwing yourself. I just sold mine on eBay and still made a profit. The problem is that since it weighs 15 lbs. the weight is gonna cost you an arm and a leg for shipping. I used the cheapest option which is FedEx SmartPost and it still cost me over $20 to ship that sonuvabitch.
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Yeah, I was mainly looking at selling locally. But I think I'm just gonna keep it at this point since I would buy the LE anyway at $80 after GCU so an extra $45 for the statue is pretty reasonable.

Anyway, sent my request to join the clan tonight.

 
Sell me on getting the regular or the fancy edition. Do you think the goodies are worth the extra cost? (Using normal numbers all around) $40 difference for the $25 Req pack thing and the little statue.

Also, are req cards for Warzone one-shots like Titanfall burn cards or are they unlocks? If I get super ultra rare gun unlock is it gone the match after I use it?

 
Wow I pre-ordered back in July and three days ago I get an email from the Microsoft Store saying they can't authorize my payment. Card is fine, talk with the bank and they say everything is fine on their end. After a day talking to multiple CS reps, who couldn't do anything but escalate my issue/notate that I called in checking up on my order, I cancelled and went with BB with my GCU and store pickup.

I can't wait for the game, the MS CS rep told me it would be 5-7 days, lol nope.

Anyone aware of the big launch stream going on tonight? Watch Halo 5: Guardians' launch event live
http://www.vg247.com/2015/10/26/watch-halo-5-guardians-launch-event-live/

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I watched at the beginning, then they said "here's mission 10, spoilers!". Turned it off. Plus Keighley's a douche.
 
I was gonna wait but caved and got it from BB. I got a few extras like an art book and such but honestly that stuff is waste don me.

 
Just finished the game on normal took me 5 hours and 14 seconds. I bought the Xbox One specifically for this game, another wise i'd probably waited another year to get an xbox. Will run through on legendary with people  / friends soon and get the skulls and intel.
 
Just some random points.
 
- Game is very smooth.
 
- Cut scenes are very well done.
 
- Audio and OST are top. Such a good blend of Martys sounds and fresh ones. Some of my favourite tracks since Halo CE. I love just sitting on the main menu listening to the music.
 
- Art direction is great
 
- I love the scale of characters, humans look tiny next to Spartans, that look tiny next to Elites - never felt this much with other Halo games.
 
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The missions on Sanghelios were awesome. LOVED the art design, the huge statues of Elites etc. Also the little "hub" world where you speak to Arby, Halsey etc. I wish future Halo games have proper little hub areas like this.
 
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Only three missions as Chief is a little bit of a letdown
 
- Level design is good, they all felt big and vertical and that I had loads of choice to tackle the area. Should be awesome in coop.
 
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Running down guardian was cool AF
 
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 Like 2-3 of the missions are literally speak to a couple of people then they end?
 
- Buck is cool, Arbiter is BOSS, and I really don't mind Locke at all. He gets too much hate.
 
- The story
...not sure how I feel yet. The Halo 2 esque cliff hanger ending doesn't bother me much. Can't wait to see whats next with Halo 6. But the story just being Cortana going rouge was a little ehh. I think it was hyped up soo much .. HUNT THE TRUTH etcetc. Its funny how the Hunt the Truth series was so gripping and this was pretty standard.
 
- The graphics.. I totally see where they cut corners to get that 60 FPS. Some textures are janky and completely flat. It's not too bad in motion but if you stop during some of the slower moments they stand out. If this game is really pushing the xbox one then oyy.
 
- Played a little MP, Warzone, slayer, SWAT and I feel right at home. As someone who grew up playing Halo and not played since getting a PS4 two years this instantly hit the spot for me. I am going to get addicted to req cards I can tell!
 
- Ordering your squad around is weird. Press UP to give them directions press UP on enemy to target, hold UP to stick to your position. The amount of times i've tried to mark a target and its just sent them off to stand somewhere..
 
- I like how when I get into a warthog they are smart enough to have one hop on the gun but the other two get their own gun goose. Instead of one being useless in the passengers seat.
 



thenexus6 said:
- Ordering your squad around is weird. Press UP to give them directions press UP on enemy to target, hold UP to stick to your position. The amount of times i've tried to mark a target and its just sent them off to stand somewhere..
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Does it feel like it was left behind from a dropped kinect feature?
 
My install got stuck at 7%. I hear it's a common issue. I fiddled with it, stopped the update download and it was getting farther, but its still taking way too long. If I can't get it to work tonight, I'll probably return it.

I haven't been on the 343 hate wagon, but this could be the deal breaker for me.
 
Liking it so far. Played and awful lot of Team Slayer and Free For All last night.

There is one map I really don't like though. The one that is like a little city. It feels ripped straight out of CoD.

They definitely need to add BTB back in. I want to run for the Scorpion or Warthog.

Also - if anyone is looking for team partners shoot me a friend request @ dokstarr - unless I'm playing with my other buddies I'd be up for playing with people with mics.

 
[quote name="chubbyninja1319" post="12992417" timestamp="1446034083"]My install got stuck at 7%. I hear it's a common issue. I fiddled with it, stopped the update download and it was getting farther, but its still taking way too long. If I can't get it to work tonight, I'll probably return it.

I haven't been on the 343 hate wagon, but this could be the deal breaker for me.[/quote]
Destiny is calling you back.... We have new dances and masks...
 
chubbyninja1319 said:
My install got stuck at 7%. I hear it's a common issue. I fiddled with it, stopped the update download and it was getting farther, but its still taking way too long. If I can't get it to work tonight, I'll probably return it.

I haven't been on the 343 hate wagon, but this could be the deal breaker for me.
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I'm curious, regular or NXE?
 
My install took quite a while (didn't actually time it), but my friend got it installed significantly quicker. Our download speeds should be comparable, but the differences I noticed are:

I'm on NXE and installing to stock hard drive

He's on OG Dashboard and installing to external drive (which should have slightly faster speeds)

Cool game so far. Waiting for some friends to get on it before I run through the campaign but played the first mission. Played a bunch of arena, haven't touched warzone yet.

They gave me some MC and Locke Halloween masks for picking it up at midnight, along with a decent quality drawstring bag. Gotta say I would have rather had a shirt or a hat or something.

 
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I still need to finish Halo 4, so no campaign for me yet. But I did get in 5 games of Team Slayer and really enjoyed it despite getting my ass kicked. The finished product feels really good- so much better to me than the very disappointing beta.
 
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Lol, well I'd advise installing games offline because I've never run into those issues.

Played a lot of the campaign today, man it's good. Have to say I wish I could use two weapons and then a pistol. I've varried my weapons choices throughout the missions but damn do I love every gun lol.

Also this game looks gorgeous and cinematic cut scenes. It is funny though when your AI character dies and then they have an audio part moments later lol.
 
I need BTB in Halo because War Zone doesn't cut it. Feeling eh about the game so far. I'm more of a fan of the original, classic Halo's, like 2 and 3. But, I'm not giving up yet.

 
Dokstarr said:
They definitely need to add BTB back in. I want to run for the Scorpion or Warthog..
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My friends and I we saying Warzone is BTB without fun weapons, awesome vehicles and fun. Super disappointing since BTB was the reason I played Halo multiplayer.
 
I wouldn't be surprised they'd add it in later due to community request.

I beat the game and since I'm in offline world I guess the only thing I can do is bump up the difficulty and start the campaign over again. Not that I'm complaining, I actually quite liked the campaign - contrary to some critic's beliefs I guess.
 
Having a small number of game types at the start isn't anything new. Pretty sure past Halos were the same way. I'm just glad SWAT is there at the beginning this time around.

 
I want it to stay small:add BTB, Team Snipers, and Team Doubles.

Maybe Action Sack for the kids.
 
Have they talked about adding any other team sizes for Arena game types?

My core group of players is bigger than 4 and so now that we all are getting it it is harder to be able to play those and instead will have to stick to Warzone. I would love for some 6v6 game modes to come out with BTB as well. 

(Yes I know we can run custom games but that isnt the same)

 
Where have I been for the past year or so that I missed the part where you can't do split-screen in Halo 5!? I'm sure this has been beaten to death already but I could not believe it. There are 4 people in my house that want to play but we only have 2 X1s. We used to be able to play 4 players on one Xbox... At least give me 2 player split screen. Oh well.  

 
Spybreak9 said:
Halo 5 sold a lot in its 1st week: http://news.xbox.com/2015/11/04/halo-5-guardians-biggest-halo-launch-in-history/

One week after launching worldwide, Halo 5: Guardians has made history as the biggest Halo launch and fastest-selling Xbox One exclusive game to-date, with more than $400 million in global sales of Halo 5: Guardians games and hardware, pushing the franchise to over $5 billion lifetime. With the highest week one attach rate for a Microsoft first party title on Xbox One, the game was the most played of any game on Xbox One, as well as the most played on Xbox Live.

Fans have logged more than 21 million hours of total gameplay, including 12 million hours in campaign mode alone. The widely praised multiplayer modes have also led to nine million total hours played with nearly seven million multiplayer matches played across Arena and the all-new Warzone mode. In addition, Halo fans are taking to the new Requisition System in a big way, with over 45 million REQ Packs acquired, totaling more than 568 million REQ Cards.

Last week’s Halo 5: Live earned a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for the most watched video game launch broadcast, setting a precedent with more than 330,000 unique streams on the evening of the broadcast. Additionally, content from the broadcast generated 5.5 million total views throughout the week. This resulted in a spike in digital sales of Halo 5: Guardians, leading to it becoming the best-selling digital game ever in the Xbox Store for an opening week.
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^ Is this Microsoft's new way of avoiding hard sales numbers?

 
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