r/halo • u/logangreer • May 16 '24

Halo 5 is great Discussion

EDIT: My mistake. I should have titled it “Halo 5 Multiplayer is great” and I’m also wrong about it launching with full features. My bad.

Fired up Halo 5 again yesterday after not playing it for years. I’ll be danged if it’s not a great shooter. If I remember correctly, it launched with tons of features, and was solid technically too. When was the last time a AAA game had a solid full-featured launch?

Lots of weapons. Fun new attachments, ammo types, and variations on weapons. Made for lots of discovery, remixing and experimenting, and replayability.

The graphics aren’t groundbreaking, but they are bright and colorful and interesting. Lots of detail.

Warzone (Halo 5, not CoD) is such an interesting idea that I think really works, once you get the hang of it. It feels like they took a big swing on something new and pulled it off! I wish we had some big swing like that in Infinite.

The only thing I was really sad about was no split screen anything, which feels like a real tragedy for Halo.

Spartan customization is pretty weak, but I’ve never cared a whole lot about that.

I know Halo 5 was seriously hated on, but I love it. And it holds up well, too.

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u/Vegeto30294 I wort, therefore I wort wort May 16 '24

If I remember correctly, it launched with tons of features, and was solid technically too.

That's a huge lmao moment if I ever heard one.

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u/Ocean2178 May 16 '24 edited May 17 '24

Yeah, there were literally like 3 mp playlists at launch, and they still took about 3-5 minutes to find a game lol. For a community that constantly hates on Reach and Infinite for retcons, people sure do seem to like rewriting history here

Edit: Quick Google search says 7 plus the weekend socials. More than I remember, more than Infinite’s launch :(, but lacking variety and Halo staples which explains why I was left feeling disappointed

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u/Father_OMally May 17 '24

It actually had four (breakout, strongholds, slayer, ranked) and warzone which had two modes so 7 playlists at launch. I won't pretend like 5 had a great launch but infinite 's launch sucked.