Recent reviews by Cubby001

It is genuinely impressive how many times 343i have killed Halo, and are then forgiven because "this time they'll do right by us". I never gave 343i a chance until MCC PC so I was unfamiliar their history of treachery. If I could go back and pirate this instead that would have been the smarter option. Lack of online would be a bummer, but you might be better off not playing with anybody other than friends. Hope one day some team can 'Project Cartographer' this and give people an experience worthy of the original games, and undo 343i's rewriting of history. DON'T BELIEVE HIS LIES

Mods are cool but still limited by the snail's pace of development. I'm unfamiliar, but it might be good to explore ways to play without giving away your hard earned money.

arbitrary 4 save slots makes it impossible to go back whenever 4 saves happen within a minute of one another

Review is for multiplayer.
Painfully clunky and unfinished. Every change to the flow people complained would be a problem, and 343 said people just didn't get, ended up being a problem. Shotgun no longer able to counter sword. No friendly-fire. Players don't collide. Oddball doesn't have time limit. Plasma/laser weapons require "reloading", they won't cool down passively. No game/map variety. Lied in their PR. Anti-consumer monetization. Vehicles selection and spawning is bad. Chopper doesn't even 'chop' anymore. Game desperately wants to be Destiny, just like 5 wanted to be Titanfall and 4 wanted to be CoD. Doesn't have the same banning system as MCC (If half the team quits, you won't be penalized for quitting yourself). Maps are generic 3-lane, granted there is at least some verticality. Won't be remaking any good maps, which mixed with no forge, is really dumb. There aren't any team-based or neutral vehicles/equipment. Why is there another Plasma rifle that is once again way worse than the original? Crashes all the time, which also gets you banned. Suppose i should mention it's terrible optimization too. Classic Halo disappearing projectile netcode, as well as H2 Vista non-registering melees. Takes way too long to fire any weapon after pulling it out, except for the sword of course to really mess the balance up further.No exclusive-fullscreen mode. So you can't record with Shadowplay without allowing it to record the whole desktop. Which wouldn't be an issue if MCC didn't just recently have a bug introduced where Shadowplay can't record it unless desktop-record is turned off.

Lost Fleet: Skateboard record time

Crashes immediately on the first airlock. You aren't allowed to save before then so you are stuck having to watch the unskippable videos every time when trying to troubleshoot a fix, of which i've found none.

I honestly want to recommend this, but I can't even get through one match without this game freezing and hard locking the entire computer. If this gets fixed of course I'll say otherwise, but as it stands its hard to recommend a game you don't really get a chance to actually play. Offline works fine so far, but the bots don't play interesting enough to have any fun with. I've had it hard lock and freeze the computer in the hangar while not in any game too.

This game is pretty bad.

Edit: Tried it again 4 years later. This is the most unstable POS game. Crashed every other turn unless maybe you just skip your turn. And the loading screen is sleep-inducingly long. Old Civ you'd drop hours into just playing. This you lose hours trying to even get to continue playing.

30 minutes and I still hadn't gotten to play
2/10 good atmosphere for a loading screen simulator
also doesn't actually when you close it

The whole game is "ALMOST THERE". I could elaborate, but after playing this I no longer have the willpower.

This won't be cohesive, I'm just rambling here. This used to be a fun game brimming with life and ideas. Now it's the hollow shell of an idea that has been destroyed by greed. They've given up on their community that's been supporting them for ages to move onto the PS4 for the next session of cash-grabs. This game isn't complete, I have no idea why they would say it is, In fact, 2 years ago this game had more to it, minus the outfits that they arbitrarily locked off from players. No update plays the same from another by the way just so you know. If and when those updates come. They've multiple times in the past majorly broken features and didn't release an update/hotfix til 3-4 months later because "we're working on the online/ps4 version" as if this game is the pinnacle of technology, yet you have to remake the whole thing from scratch any time you want to update something. Point is, if any, that they don't care for the PC version. They've already made the sales they want years ago and are looking toward the PS4 now, have been for almost 2 years. I've been holding onto the hope that maybe one day they'll finally do something good, or even allow custom map importing like they promised years back, but it's obviously not gonna happen. Maybe the PS4 version won't be so bad, so try that instead because on the PC we just get the scraps.