{"id":24163,"date":"2015-11-01T10:48:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T15:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=24163"},"modified":"2015-11-01T10:48:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T15:48:52","slug":"halo-community-update-post-launch-carnage-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=24163","title":{"rendered":"Halo Community Update: Post Launch Carnage Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a reblog from Halo Waypoint:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

By Bravo:<\/p>\n

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On Monday night, we joined together in a celebration that only Halo fans can understand. Whether you had Halo 5: Guardians pre-installed at home or went to a nearby store to pick up your copy on release night, you could likely feel a particular excitement in the air, and we hope that excitement resulted in an all-night (or day, depending on where you might call home) session of campaign, multiplayer, or a perfectly balanced mix of the two.<\/p>\n

Halo 5: Guardians is now in your hands, so this week, we\u2019re talking about you. Your accomplishments, your feedback, and your findings.<\/p>\n

Since Monday, teams at the studio have been monitoring your activity 24\/7. We\u2019ve been keeping a constant eye on what you\u2019re playing, which REQs you\u2019re earning, and your feedback from experiences across the game. We\u2019re now taking close looks at things like spawning in both Warzone and Arena, custom game options, feedback on Fireteam display, controls, improving map and game type variety across playlists (including adding additional maps to select playlists), the REQ System, and much, much more. Teams across the studio have made on-the-fly improvements to Onyx and Champion rank display, REQ System maintenance, banning, and beyond. Your feedback on Waypoint, Twitter, reddit, and elsewhere has kept us quite busy, and that\u2019s how we like it. As we review this feedback, we\u2019ll be providing timely info regarding tweaks we\u2019re looking at making as well as new things that are in the works.<\/p>\n

Speaking of tweaks, earlier this week, there was a GIF making its rounds that many of you likely stumbled upon. It was filled with a specific UNSC all-terrain-vehicle. For more on this and the changes that followed, I now hand things over to Investment Lead Chris Blohm.<\/p>\n

CHRIS BLOHM, INVESTMENT LEAD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mongooses all the way down<\/em><\/p>\n

On the morning of the 28th<\/sup>, the day after Halo 5: Guardians launched, I got to work and my inbox is full of the same link. They are all of a post from \/u\/TheMisterBdog on reddit featuring this:\u00a0http:\/\/gfycat.com\/AccurateScratchyBarasinga<\/a><\/p>\n

My first thought was \u201cthere is no way this is possible.\u201d I send off a quick email saying as much but then, to be sure, I open our telemetry tools as well as the tools that 343 uses to control the rarity of REQ cards in our packs.\u00a0It\u2019s not only possible, but our rarity numbers for all the Mongooses are higher than they probably should be.\u00a0Meanwhile I receive a dozen more links to the infamous pack opening that I now see even when I close my eyes.<\/em>\u00a0In a system so wide and as random as Halo 5\u2019s REQ pack system, things can happen even though we have a dedicated group of folks looking into every aspect. So, a group of us circled, and decided it was clear that we should do what we can to get fix out as soon as possible. As much as we love every piece of hardware in the arsenal, no one should get that many geese.\u00a0That last sentence might be the biggest understatement I have ever written.<\/p>\n

We immediately set to work, and yesterday (Thursday) morning, deployed a fix live to production.<\/p>\n

The result? The Mongoose should be less common, in all of its flavors, in both Bronze and Silver packs. It will still be a common REQ but there will be less of them, particularly in Silver packs.\u00a0Additionally, we should never see the bit of nonsense illustrated by \/u\/TheMisterBdog.\u00a0This whole situation illustrates a design goal for us — we are listening and watching and will do what we can to correct and enhance the experience of Halo 5.<\/p>\n

So in celebration (or to needle us) Lead Concept Artist Darren Bacon and Concept Artist Justin Oakford collaborated on the following:<\/p>\n

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With the REQ system live and massive amounts of data being generated, as well as YouTube videos and forum comments, more than ever we are dedicated to our original design intent:<\/p>\n