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To me, get good means persevere, have patience, believe in yourself, try again, and conquer your obstacles. I say it to myself in real life all the time if I fail at something. Don’t despair, just gottafckngetgudm8. Bloodborne was my first souls game, click moment and all. It sounds silly but it really did change my life. If you want something bad enough, you will find a way to get it. Fuck giving up.
I just want Halo3 but with some improvements... I'm 31 years old now and have been waiting for 343i to be dropped forever. I'll give the next Halo one more try, then I give up. - Simple ranking system, not seasons. - Dedicated servers that don't prioritise US. (Being in UK, I should be given option to only play in EU as high ping) Halo 5 was ruined for me as I had to block US IPs so I wasn't playing in 200ms ping. - A working theater mode. - Forge looks good in infinite but the community browser needs an overhaul. - No sprint. - Prioritise the sandbox. - Less jarring grenades. - Balanced weapons and bring back the BR but get the time to kill right/bullet spread right. - Special abilities and pick ups are fun, but there's been a few mistakes made that ruined the series, remember armour lock? How many overkills do you think that ability ruined? 99% of abilities and pick ups should have some sort of counter attack option. - Microtransactions purely cosmetic. Less of this overall, but obviously this will never go away as that's the money maker. - Social and Ranked being simplified, not a messy game mode selection, get the basic playlists established. I also like the idea of having rankings within each playlist. - Infinitely (Pun intended) more maps and content from launch and consistency with updates. - More community features to bring people together when playing. This is what made Halo a good community back in the day. - Unlockable armor from completing challenges, not all about the money. Make things difficult to get, so that it's a status symbol to actually work hard and achieve some shiny wearable. This makes people sweat and keep playing. Anyway you get the idea, not exactly the most perfect list but just a few things on my mind. I just wish the wider gaming community could see what I seen in Halo years ago, I've never played a game like it since and what I'd do to go back in time and play like I used to!
You seem to have community twitter brain rot if your focus are the players satisfied with halo infinites end. Most people smd by the figures you showed know the game was an utter failure, and failed to recuperate any initial excitment.
I actually think the gameplay of infinite felt great. Some of the guns were flim flam… but yeah they made the vehicles junk and it felt empty with the free to play/ paying for items etc
Remember when finding an arena slayer match took 30 seconds? Pepperidge Farms remembers... Oh and on a serious note, I guess good things don't last forever guys
As someone who fell out of Halo back in 2018 until sometime past 2021 when getting MCC on PC, Infinite struggles to resonate with me quite a lot. On the other hand, Halo needs a leadership where you have the right people. The ones who love Halo and make it the valuable juggernaut it once was and a fresh new storyline without needing to retcon the Original so much. We can make the future of Halo ourselves, even better. Speaking of which, I have something in the works that's Halo-related and will be coming soon. Best wishes, Favyn!
Git Gud was once a joke, but it was co opted by some very toxic players and used for evil. They do not represent the Souls community at large but have seriously caused it harm with their behavior.
I hate to drop the truth bomb, but maybe the thing to take away from this is the fact that you can't create a fair system by appealing to the lowest common denominator. The best system is to allow players to influence their own game experience by investing in it.
Idk, I feel like every time 343i releases a new Halo game it’s an average/mediocre Halo experience with a solid foundation to build off of, and they they scrap all of it and start from scratch. It’s happened twice now, and once again Infinite is a solid foundation, gameplay is fun and smooth, feels like Halo, albeit a little fast paced, campaign was solid and cohesive. And they could easily use this foundation to craft an even better experience that I think could be phenomenal. Infinite now I think is a great package of a game, but it’s how it should’ve been at launch. And once again it seems like 343i is trying to distance its self from Infinite’s short comings and starting from scratch again
Your wrong don't protect bad players they need to at least face average players half the time of they get on once a week and suck oh well get average what about casual players who are great like me I get on play a few matches why do I have to struggle cuz of bums who aren't even casual it's not about protecting casuals it's about protecting bad players I see bad players who have thousands of matches and a negative KD all the time end up in high ranks cuz they play a lot with a reverse boosted bad player account
Your wrong the bottom players already have easy matches and the average players can use the noobs as a easy game and pros can use average players as a easy game your wrong the matches don't have to be sweaty and again your wrong I don't have to like having a trash team vs a sweaty team even in lose ranks your wrong wrong wrong
I definitely have a better understanding of SBMM after watching this. My biggest issue when playing is when i get put in a good match with good connection and win, i immediately go to a bad match with bad connection. I don't care if i win a match or if i have good players on my team they're learning (hopefully) . I wish that connection was the main priority in match making. its so infuriating when you get killed before you make it around a corner then watch the kill cam and it shows something completely deferent. you go from a 30 ping to a 80 ping. I get packet burst and packet loss at the same time. This lead me to assume it SBMM issue when its most likely not. I'm on the east coast just keep me on east coast servers and ill be happy ( i wish that was an option)
I had my “click” moment against the Death Rite Bird in Caelid. He was kicking my ass and I could not figure out a good strategy to go with. Then all of a sudden it hit me and I said “Wait. Isn’t he an undead type enemy?” I whipped out my Inseparable Sword and hit him with the AOW and it took a huge chunk of his health bar. I literally hollered at the screen “Oh! I got you now!”…….and that was all she wrote.
The gatekeeping accusations largely have to do with how people play the game through builds. As a long time soulsborne fan this community is extremely gatekeepy and it has only gotten worse with Elden Ring including newer, more casual players in the community. "If you didnt beat the game using X,Y,Z then you didnt actually beat the game."
"if this game clicks for you, you won't think it like other game" the glaze is real lmao. Video game isn't that deep, it's either you like it or don't.
Verdansk, caldera, and al mazrah I felt I averaged roughly 2-8 wins for every 30 matches with about 2-4 bot lobbies and 5-8 sweat lobbies. Sometimes more or less for all those numbers, had a 3 day period I won like 15 games with a 6 game win streak. Had a period where I wouldn't get a win for 2-3 weeks. For the most part I stayed around the 1-3 win range every couple of days, and I enjoyed all of those warzones enough to play them 4-8 hours every day. Urzikstan I've played probably a total of 180 games since it came out, I got 15 wins. Ive counted less than 10 bot lobbies with me winning about 6 or 7 of those games in those bot lobbies and getting a 17 kill 2nd place in one of them. All my other wins I had to sweat against players I would say are around my skill level and better that I won more so with my decision making and positioning winning with only 2-5 kills. But other than that, no less than 155 of the games I've played on urzikstan every single person that kills me has 10-15 kills sometimes not 5 minutes into the match, who will get killed by another dude with no less than 12 kills and will get at least 6 more kills before he dies to a dude with almost 30 kills. If you go to about any and every RU-vid video that's a cool clip or sharing a good gun build 90% of the comments are people complaining how consistently sweaty the MW3 warzone is. I used to have well over 20 people that I could squad up with back in the day and even were down to squad up when MW3 first came out, now I know 4 people that even play the game anymore and only one of those dudes plays everyday because nobody enjoyed trying to hop on for a couple of hours to consistently get torched by 3,4,5, 6+ KD players literally every single game. MW3 warzones sbmm system seriously has something wrong with it. Theres no reason for anyone under a 1.5kd to be in a lobby with a single 2+kd player anymore than 3 out of 10 matches they play. Theres no reason for a 1kd or lower player to be in lobbies with nothing but 2+ kd players for 2 weeks straight just cause they had a couple of 5+ kill wins in one day. Just give everyone 2 bot lobbies and 2 sweat lobbies out of 10 games, and keep the other 6 games right there within .5 higher and lower. Last but not least keep the top 1000 or so kill and win leaders all in the same lobbies. 210% no reason some big streamer like metaphor, zlaner, swagg etc should be in any lobby at any point in time with my buddy that can only play 6 hours a whole weekend if he's lucky
I saddens me that infinite never met the expectations that I saw for the game. As my favorite game as a child was and still is halo 3, it’s sad to see where the game is now. RIP
@@FavynTube well the frags not being able to bounce guns but plasma grenades being able to is because plasma grenades are a pick up. To balance the game so that one team can’t be literally given power weapons right off the start of the match. And don’t bend this into something competitive because I watched your gameplay, you suck at halo. You and many others would get tired of rockets constantly flying towards enemy players.
Thank you. I hate sprint. I don’t play any halo with it. I’ll take increasing base movement speed (minorly). Sure. But sprint? No. Not fun for me with a shield based game. :) I haven’t put any money towards halo since sprint came about.
In a gaming scene where everyone is hung up on nostalgia, why don’t they bring the original formula back. Hell remaster Halo 3 but leave the mechanics alone, like leading your shots, no sprint just straight up team based classic halo.
Hello Favyn, I've been a huge fan of yours since the first videos you've made, and I just wanted to leave this here as a thank you for your content on this website. You've done a lot to showcase sandbox design in your videos to the degree that I've taken a lot of inspiration to (...eventually...) try and create a game in this style. It won't be quite to the degree of your vision, as I have some ideas of my own that I'm cooking up, but your analysis's have given me MANY ideas to make a 'Halo-like' game that focuses on environmental and sandbox gameplay. I also have a fairly unique solution to the sprint debate, but since I don't want anyone beating me to the punch, it's something I won't be sharing publicly. Anyways, have a good day and enjoy some time with your family! P.S: When is your next video coming out? I'm very interested to hear more of your opinions on design!
Honestly, I've thought about prototyping something along those lines in either Godot or Roblox to see if it could be done... at this point, I think it's desperately needed.
At what point do we as Halo fans collectively agree that Halo is a dead franchise? I know Halo has potential to make a comeback but I don’t think 343 is the company to do it. They have had three tries, all of which failed. Three strikes and you’re out is the way I see it. But unfortunately that won’t be happening.
SBMM makes sense but only for beginners. Create a beginner only lobby and after that it should just be random matchmaking. The odds of playing a beast are exactly the same as playing a noob, most people will be average. You get to play a different match every game and fight all types of different opponents. No SBMM allows the prospect of meaningful improvement whereas rather than every time you improve you just continually get put into matches with people exactly at your current level you get to experience the reward for you improvement as since youre always playing random opponents over time your performances will get better and better which will make you want to keep playing compared to playing the same match and performing exactly average every game.
"No, you guys. A lot of you just like everything". This is something that people need to recognize for themselves. Like, great! I am glad that they're easily satisfied and capable of enjoying objectively bad games, but 95% percent of the other people don't share their sentiment. They see what's directly in front of their face and solely recognize their own enjoyment while also being utterly incapable of understanding how anyone else may feel. Having low standards in conjunction with poor social awareness is a genuine sign of low IQ. I'm just glad that Microsoft and 343i are more aware of this than these so-called fans.
I love infinite multiplayer regularly play it don't understand all the hate skill gap is nice mechanics are satisfying do away with the SBMM and add more maps and it's perfect imho
Favyn, we need you! The rumors about remaking Halo: CE suggest that they'll include sprint & clamber, and Mint Blitz and Ben Plays Games have both endorsed the addition of sprint. They (343 & the sprint junkies) can't keep getting away with this! We need immediate backlash to change the Overton Window.
It sounds like they're going to remake the original trilogy to train up their studio on Unreal Engine. I say: Fair enough. It's potentially less risky than trying to make Halo 7 as their first project in Unreal. It's also a chance to right the wrong of CE: Anniversary and make something better than the Gearbox port. If they do a good job, having a more stable, aesthetically true version of the OT could be nice. I can even get behind adding new Halo sandbox elements to CE- the energy sword, fuel rod cannon, hijacking, drivable wraiths, etc. I would enjoy it if they added some levels from Thel's perspective in CE. That's riskier, given their track record of awful storytelling that ignores canon and relies heavily on non-game material. And some things probably ought to be changed to match Bungie's original plans: If they continued on to Halo 3, I wouldn't say no to a remake of Cortana that actually looks like High Charity and includes the Flood Arbiters. Playing as the Arbiter for The Covenant would also be welcome, seeing as Bungie overcorrected by sidelining the Arbiter after backlash. Arby deserves to be the main character when you defeat Truth. There are some potentially exciting possibilities in this project, and I don't begrudge 343 the necessity of practicing with Unreal before continuing the main story of Halo. But it sounds like instead they're going to fundamentally change the gameplay so it's basically not CE at all. Now is the time to speak out against that! We have to head it off, or Halo is doomed to forever be Not!Halo.
343 have tried to appease old Halo fans whilst trying to capture a new audience and it's been an impossible task. Halo fans can't accept that the sandbox playstyle is just not as appealing as a progression based playstyle for the newer generation. 343 meanwhile have chased industry trends for all 3 mainline Halo games to their detriment. They also aren't brave enough to try anything new and so Halo will continue in this downward spiral, trying to appeal to everyone whilst not being appealing to anyone.
The insight into Halo's mechanics presented on this channel has quite a lot of explanative power and I think it's really valuable. It would be pretty cool if another video was made, this time discussing the rumors of the Halo 1 remake on UE5 which is reportedly going to have the "advanced mobility" mechanics of Infinite
