Halo Infinite

Yeah maybe, been ages since I played any Halo just don't remember having this issue as much but maybe it's cause the map is a lot less flat than previous games.

I definitely the vehicles were well more flippy in this game compared to others, I do feel that it's a consequence of having a more varied topography driving over rocky outcrops and the like.

Dunno, I have been going around with a full squad of heavy weapon armed marines

It's caused me quiet a few deaths

Getting a bit annoyed with issues with multiplayer, if it isn't being unable to get a big team battle it's getting a game and getting randomly disconnected.

Just finished the campaign on PC on Heroic - and that was one of the hardest games I've played in recent years! Admittedly my skills are a bit crap and I don't get much gaming time, but several of the boss fights took me loads of goes. 

The campaign was OK, but the missions dragged on a bit as people have said, and it all got a bit silly towards the end. Heroic mode mostly made me run/grapple away lots, which was a bit dull. 

Halo Infinite campaign must be one of the biggest gaming letdowns of last year. The mp is great, however, having lots of fun across most modes.

Getting connected in btb seems to be the hard bit. Once games have started they seem fairly stable for me. Getting around 50% joy with a fireteam of two but it often puts us in different squads, which is annoying.
There's also quite a bit of lag sometimes, getting killed (seemingly) extremely quickly by opponents.

I think 111 makes a good ppint. I was playing campagin a lot, but have moved to AC Odyssey for a while. I'm hoping I'll learn a little about ancient Greence. Plus it's nice to have an open world I can walk around in with more to see, also to have quests (with dialogue).

There aren't very many nooks and crannies in Halo to explore, or at least very few that reward exploring. I had just moved off the first island, so perhaps things will get better in that regard when I return to it.

BTB is a right pain in the balls just now. Often i can't get in, then it fires up so many 'couldn't connect to the server' notices it breaks getting a game in any other mode. I have parked the mp (& campaign tbh) for now because of it.

I am also probably far too involved in spending my minimal gaming time on BF and CoD mp.

Given that Ubisoft et al get criticised for stuffing every single nook and cranny with icons to clear, it seems devs dan't win.

For my part, the exploration actually was quite rewarding. There are some fun Easter eggs in there (found a room containing a bunch of arcade machines), and also lots of little combat vignettes plastered around the place to come across. Little pockets of resistance. A propaganda tower. Whatevs. Given that the combat was the best thing about the game, more of that was OK. Plus some of the locales had some breathtaking views, and sometimes the HDR would really make it sing.

Not that I wouldn't kill everyone in this thread to get some sort of attrition mode where you had to push back an ever-changing front line, shore up defences, etc. etc. An FPS version of Dune 2000.

At the risk of sounding like a fanboy, I quite enjoyed the single player mix of objectives and more linear "classic" style missions. I even liked the story, and found the combat to be compelling all the way throughout. My most frustrating moment was probably falling through the geometry while on a boss and having to redo the whole mission! Luckily as I knew what to expect it only took about 30 mins to get back there, but still..

That's what I feared when I saw the previews. That's what happened to Gears 5. The open world was barren and all it did was slow the story down.

I enjoyed the first bits I played, but I've not come back to Halo since like the second or third night as I've been working through other games. The complaints about the campaign aren't making me more eager to return either.

Gears 5 was fantastic, yes the world was a bit pointless but i quite liked navigating around the varied world hunting out the little side bits. Maybe the problem is that Infinites world is all one environment? Certainly cant level that at Gears 5.