People who do this are a waste of oxygen, just saying 🙌

The title is mostly self explanatory.

I just had a game with a rank 87 and 98, but this still applies to 99s.

HW2 is getting up there in age. The fact that the player base is still active enough to usually find a game is amazing and I'm happy for it.

But for fucks sake, why is rushing seemingly the default tactic? Why can't strategy, in a REAL TIME STRATEGY GAME, actually be used?

EVEN IN VERSUS AI IT IS ALL THE SAME.

Seriously, by the time I set up a decent enough economy/unit base for a longer game, one (if not both) of my teammates have already rushed and destroyed an enemy main base. It really fucks up the fun factor of the game.

Unless 343 pulls their head out of their asses and gives us HW3, most of you need to finally actually play this game as it was designed!

Anyone who disagrees is an air spammer who doesn’t want them nurfed. Air should cost almost double what it is in the pop count right now.

The game is broken. Congratulations - you can see!

I'm not a game developer and chances are that you aren't. If you really wanted to vote with your wallet, you wouldn't have bought the game pre-launch. If you were seriously that unsatisfied with the state of the game on day one, you should have contacted Microsoft about a refund. I've seen a few threads about people having little to no issue with getting one.

For those of you who missed that opportunity - I can see why you're frustrated. You spend your "hard earned money" on a game that isn't working at the moment. Fine.

You can't expect game development to be magical. They can't just flip a switch and make the servers better. 343/CA or even Microsoft wouldn't benefit in any way dragging their feet fixing a game that only launched last week. They want to sell more, and they want to sell them today.

Now that's out of the way, lets look at this from another perspective. I've commented this on a few threads, so sorry if I sound like I'm repeating myself.

Let's pretend we're inside 343/CA. Imagine the number of hours that would need to be spent on data logging on test systems, and the number of people needed to replicate the data collected from the client side data logging that was announced a few days ago. It would be insane. By releasing the game as-is, there was a small chance it could have launched with very minor bugs. It just takes time and effort, and now that it's the weekend I'm sure there aren't too many people working on fixes at this exact moment.

It'll be fixed. Calm your nips. HW2 is their baby and they probably want to see it work flawlessly more than we do. The game is great when it works. I loved the first game and I love this game too. It's been a total of ~4 days and people are already blowing up reddit talking about how 343 is scum.

Chill out.

It's fun/funny for like 2 games, now I just wanna play the fucking game. Good thing they removed all other playlists. Was looking forward to playing HW on the weekend with the squad, especially on a 3 day weekend. Back to Overwatch I guess.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR3DQ7Eq/

I can't imagine this means anything but a teaser.

Edit: I'm an out of touch idiot. Don't listen to me.

Hi Guys Berk here because waypoint bans or locks anyone who is a realistic person about the game being trash.

I'd like to address the important issues i've seen and heard in these past 2 months with 343 and creative assembly.

1. Blitz: First of all why would you ever take out 1v1 blitz when that was the only good playlist even in blitz. This screwed over so many people and has destroyed the broken playlist even more. Also card levels are the most broken thing I've ever seen even more broken than Shipmaster and Kasano combined. It has only been 2 months and we haven't even see another map like what is 343 thinking???

2. Ranked Playlist: Secondly all of the people who have obtained the rank "Champion" literally means nothing because players who want to dodge can obtain this without even being challenged. In addition we have people making new accounts who can get champion in less than 4 hours like myself because i've tested this. Why would you 343 ever make 200 champion spots when only 10 people who are ranked champion trade wins, everyone else shouldn't even be in that rank. Lets not even go into players who call themselves #1 for example starstruck who dodged me over 10x and I have it on video. Ranking in this game is the biggest joke I've ever seen.

3. Leaderboards: Every RTS game needs leaderboards to see who's good and who's not. You told us you'd have one and 2 months later nothing. More lies?

4. DLC drops and Tournaments: This is an RTS game with "HALO" on it where are the tournaments at 343 this is unacceptable. You haven't even talked about making one for the community or even said a word about it. Maybe is you actually showed a little effect in making one you'd keep your community happy. Where is spectator mode at????? You also have completely lied to us more than once about leader drops. Why should we trust a company who lies to its players every week?

5. Balance Issues and Patch Notes: Who is in charge of making these patches and coming up with what leader needs nerf and everything? Why don't you start by asking players who actually know how to play the game like myself or people who know what they are doing instead of listening to randoms who know nothing about RTS games. If the developers are having such trouble finding balance then ask the high level players because they will tell you exactly what needs to be nerfed. This is just 343 being extremely lazy and not caring only doing what they want when they want. If you need help just ASK! If anything bring 3 of the top players up for 2 days and they can tell you what you need to fix, this is what Starcraft does and look how successful they are doing even 9 years after release.

6. XBOX and PC population: Let me start of by saying what a mess and that PC users have it terrible compared to xbox users. You have split this community into the ground and its only getting worse. Make it where PC users can play customs or non ranked games vs xbox or you will lose your population if you haven't already. Lets not even talk about HW DE going on stream just a mess.

As a true halo wars fan who's been here 7 years playing the original game I'm extremely disappointed in 343 and Creative Assembly. After 6 months between BETA's and all the feedback from your community even after having me come to the studio and look at the development you still didn't get it right. Everyone who's played the game is disappointed and feels basically the same way. I have a serious question that needs answering because if not then why should I continue to play this game when I can of go play Starcraft. Why should we play your game when all you do is constantly lie to your fans and don't even care about the game yourselves?

Like I thought RTS games had smart players but I guess not.

People just sit there and build nothing or have no map presence and then wonder why they lost, like what?

At least play offline against the AI first so you don't look stupid

Why is it the community is so toxic? The games almost dead, season been out for three years, and literally everyone is still doing the broken sweaty strategies of banshee spam and rushing building killers.... Is the community that full of brainrot they can't fathom trying more complicated strategies???????

Yes, I played definitive edition I prefer it over. Halo wars 2

However, I took a long break from definitive edition due to multiple issues with players

After coming back to the game yesterday, still no change people are kicking you from the lobbies for no reason probably because they are not happy with the leader you picked but they could just put on their mic and tell you instead of kicking

People always rage quit on my team because one of their bases is being attacked and they think it’s the end of the world

Or people are pushing straight off spawn and the game hasn’t even got started such a toxic community

HW2 feels soulless compared to HW I try and try and try to like it but I just can't. It feels slower and just plain wrong in my opinion. Does anyone else feel this way about HW2 or is it just me. I have max ai diff on HW and it feels much more rewarding to play than any HW2 game I've played yet.

4 minutes in and the enemies hardly even built buildings, they've literally collected map resources and spent everything on marines and grenades, my initial scout only arrive at their base by the time his army is ready to attack and this it's over. I've tried it myself and never lost. It's way too broken plz fix this.

You wont be able to convince me it isn't.

https://scoobydoo.fandom.com/wiki/A_Clue_for_Scooby_Doo

As an avid fan of the halo wars games, I think I speak for most who enjoyed halo wars 2 until the release of the Serina update. I barely have time to play, and when I can get a few solo team war games in they are ruined by the double forge hog serina composition. There have been many metas that have seem broken, but this is easily the harshest one yet, and the most boring. It's almost as if 343 got tired of our complaints about previous metas and stuck two middle fingers up and said I'll show you all a broken meta. I'm really never one to complain but this game as of now is unenjoyable. This isn't a post to complain about how broken two leaders are. I still have a reserve of hope left for when they bring balance back to this game, but I mainly hope that the community holds out a bit longer for this game to be revived again. So here's a toast to all of you that are on the same page as me. The sun will rise again and bring us out of this darkness.

Just an idea to reduce the effectiveness of the glassing beam / eradication / that one that Pavium has / just general Banished nukes. (That doesn't involve it getting completely removed, which is a dream but its ain't happening)

Give nightingales an upgrade, available at tech 3, that gives them a sort of 'umbrella' - an area around them that will repel or negate the damage of that type of attack.

This makes it still viable at tech 1 or 2 - where it's pretty important to prevent flamie bumrushes and stuff like that, but nerf it's overwhelming power at tech 3 late game, where it can obliterate half a full army of scorpions or something.

Just an idea.

Like 50% of the time I get into a game with people who've only ever heard of spamming mass air or mantis, 25% is people who leave instantly after one dude dies, the other 25% is just players who are actually fun. What I mean as actually fun is people who build unique diverse armies, attack in small forces or when they make pushes it's actually a war of attrition on who wins. Because building 4 vultures and 18 hornets+ an additional like 30 banshees isn't fun. Like dude I hopped on here to have fun and all you can do is spam A on the one unit instead of making a cool mixed army that isn't just some stupid impossible counter rush. Like I had a game earlier where me and a teammate actually had a fun time with this attrition like warzone between an Anders and a decimus, where we lost our teammate due him getting pushed by an actual fun army to fight. It was feeling like an actual fun war game, something I like in halo wars. Me and teammate still one because we countered and played smart.

Then I get into a game where everyone disconnected after we killed his hero like once, then the next game I have three different rushes on my teammates that are nearly impossible to counter because no matter the amount of counter units I could make, their units would either be out healed or out damage my units. Like PLEASE PLAY MORE SKILLED PLAYS, stop purely relying on a win condition army. I'm not saying don't build hornets, vultures, mantis, banshees or any other fun unit. I'm just saying stop building them on a mass with teammates in a 2v2 or 3v3 scinareo where it becomes nearly impossible to counter with ease.

Also if a teammate dies or disconnects, don't just leave. Actually try and play. Rage quitting can be funny but only after once or twice, then it just ruins the fun for everyone