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Anyone know if thereās a limit to this? Someone said that 10 matches IE 1000 Spartan points is the max per day but I wasnāt able to try it out because the servers were down yesterday.
If anyone knows please let me know. Because I thought of a way to farm it really quickly if there is no limit. Even if thereās a limit of 1000, Thereās conceivably an easy way to get that thousand in less than 5 minutes. You would need a squad of 4 to make it happen.
So, I understand that Halo Infinite is crossgen, so people on Xbox 1 take longer to load in. But I donāt know why it takes less time to load into a match of Halo 5? Is it because Halo 5 is last gen only? Better optimization? Everyone playing Halo 5 is on Series consoles?
Because sometimes being stuck in the map as we get shots of it as we wait for it to load for 3 minutes seems unnecessarily long.
All I have are guesses and they pretty much line up with yours.
I do think the live service nature of the game does affect memory allocation and how things are loaded. So in a game like Halo 5 where there is pretty much a limited set of weapon skins and armour customizations, there can be some optimizations for loading. In infinite you have even more things to customize so your memory allocation is reduced for other things like the level itself and increased for player and weapon skins for 24 players. And since those customizations grow weekly itās a bit tougher to optimize their loading. Load times can be fast and optimized for large contiguous chunks of data like maps and in Infinite Iām sure the map memory allocation is smaller because itās loading all these other skins and models. Iām oversimplifying things a little bit because thereās a lot of streaming, and stuff loaded in on-demand, especially when youāre dealing with 24 players with their own unique skins, weapon skins, kill effects, armor customizations, Spartan voices, AI models, and weapons charms.
But if there was any guess that I could add to yours it would be this.
The player count would understandable if I was playing BTB(I generally donāt, I prefer arena) but going into arena and having it hang for so long is so noticeable. Which kind of makes it worse, because while I donāt play BTB often, I havenāt gotten that delay on the map in BTB at all.
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Are some maps worse than others? Wondering whether Forge created maps could be less efficient.
It can be pretty random, sometimes a map that took too long to load would load quickly, other times Iām just stuck at 99% load time of the map in the lobby. I think I remember experiencing it on launch maps as well.
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It was nice to see the map at least.
VIPs really fun, eh? Between this and Match Composer, its been really fun breaking out of my Husky Raid and Firefight routine
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Personally I really miss Sentry Defense and Husky Raid especially with the Spartan points promotion. I figured Iād be playing a bit of that. Turns out that I donāt have enough time to play anyways so itās a blessing in disguise.
But VIP is really good.
The dedicated server issue coming up was something that I thought was only affecting me because apparently itās widespread.
Oh, are there long queue times for those now? I dont have an issue with Husky Raid queues personally
Sounds like a general problem with their servers according to Mint Blitz.
It worked fine before this update.
Oh okay, I havent noticed any new glitches but Im no expert. Thx!
Tried out the new Vip mode, and while fun I have issues with it. Vip selection takes way too long, which on a 9 to 9 game favors the team whose Vip died last.
I donāt care for the Vip having more health than everyone else, as I thought this game type was to encourage sticking together. But with the Vip having more health than everyone else itās pretty much just a help them if they need it situation.
The only weapon that ignores the extra health seems to be the needler, as thatās still one super combined explosion kill. Maybe the sniper, but I canāt say as I havenāt been headshotted yet and havenāt noticed if anyone has during any games.
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Been playing the new game playlist and itās pretty fun, for me mainly because itās FFA. The skulls collection and delivery part isnāt really my thing, but it does make the winner of the match pretty random.
As most times it doesnāt matter how many kills you get, as the person with the least kills has as much of a chance to win as the one with the most.
Agreed on all fronts. Not my thing but Iām happy theyāre always changing things up every week.
Though I am surprised that Husky Raid and Sentry Defense arenāt back again.
Itās really too bad that there isnāt the population to do this but it would be cool to have all modes available categorized under BTB/Squad, Ranked, Party, and Singles and Doubles.
I donāt know about Sentry, but Husky is part of the quick play option. I tend to get it when playing the list because I got rid of all objective game types.
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Just got a new notification for the champions update on HI, and someone at 343 is a troll, as they used the Achilles helmet from Halo 5 as the thumb nail.
That actually got me to click the same day it came up!
Edit: wanted to add, that the helmet will be available on HI, since I noticed my post didnāt make that clear.
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Iām still waiting for the Ai to use vehicles in firefightā¦ I donāt think any more sandbox editions or dev maps are coming thatās fineā¦ Iāve come to terms with itā¦ But at least give me this
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They could always do what they did with Halo 5 and spawn them on vehicles for later waves, this way we get more variety on the encounters.
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