r/HaloWars

After becoming quite frustrated with HW2 lately I'm keen to play some more of the original halo wars again, always loved it.

However the servers on pc seem to be pretty dead.

Are there any days/times when people are online, or is there a discord or group with arranged times that people go online to play?

Keeps saying “Waiting on Xbox Live”.

Why do so many people leave games in Halo Wars 2?

I've never known a game where people so easily back out of matches, and it happens constantly.

Examples:

15 minutes in, the match is pretty much even, one player randomly disconnects.

One player suffers a setback, such as the loss of a base, but the game is still entirely winnable. Nope, he just resigns, effectively ruining the game for everyone.

Sometimes you'll just be in the early game phase, 4 or 5 minutes in, and a player will just drop out.

It happens in such a huge number of my matches, it genuinely puts me off playing the game.

Why is this so prevalent in halo wars 2? And does everyone else get this?

I made a post yesterday titled 'Yap yap the destroyer, where have you been all my life?' and have, despite having other responsibilities, been degenerately playing this game all day.

Yap Yap is fun; he doesnt seem quite as strong as Atriox, and sometimes lategame can be a slug fest because the power wheel isnt as game-ending. But needless to say, I have found my main leader.

What I've noticed is that people aint bowing out against yapyap. Quite the opposte, actually. When playing as atriox, when the game was decided, my opponent quit out. As Yapyap, people go full on gorilla warfare with no base left until they're forcefully ejected from the game. It's kind of hilarious how many games I've had like that, probably more than all of the games playing as atriox combined.

While I never faced difficulties against Kodiak's as Atriox, (understandably) people like to go full kodiak turtle against yapyap. But I am not deterred. I played AN 80 MINUTE GAME against a Forge. It was like the battle of the Somme. My army marches in, gets rinsed, I kill a Kodiak, I instantly make a new army, it walks in, gets rinsed, repeat. My comp was mostly Hunters and Reavers, a few healers, a few Wraiths. I eventually mixed in some Shrouds to deal with the artillery, but honestly it was a waste of supply. Even with 5 shrouds the artillery was still blowing me up. In retrospect I probably should have added a scarab, but I was too afraid that the downtime in pop that would require would allow my opponent to actually leave his base and come murder me.

If anyone has any suggestions on the super-late game let me know. I typically stubbornly refuse to build banshees, but honestly after an hour of playing, I can probably sacrifice my morals to get out of pergatory.

HELP!!!! I can’t even download it btw it says “ready for in-game use no download needed” but it’s still locked :/

Coming back to the game after about 5 years, I’ve been climbing the ladder the past few days. Not sure why but my placement was very low.

Started in silver am now in plat. I’m not sure where my true rank is, but I think I have a while more to climb, though I have started to drop games every once in a while.

Anyway, I’ve been playing atriox. I think at these lower ranks, the difference in early game is massive. I can often expand all over the map because of atriox’s passive and am rarely punished. By the time I have 4 bases it’s kind of over, given how strong his hero powers are.

ANYWAY I am a former sweaty StarCraft player, but I absolutely adore halo. However, because the game is designed for console, the game doesn’t reward you for being a sweaty multitasker like in StarCraft 2. I’m masters league, and one of the things I really like is how overwhelming it is. My ideal RTS game has me being aggressive and taking map control. The map control gives me an information and eco advantage, and I turn that advantage into a late game win. Atriox sort of accomplishes this, because he can expand earlier, but it’s usually more of a defensive expansion that doesn’t come with map control (although atriox’s chosen is broken and DOES give map control for something like 2 minutes)

Anyway, I bought the DLC and tried yap yap. Sure, he might lend himself to a mid game smother, and his late game abilities don’t seem quite as OP as atriox, but this leader fixes the lack of scouting and lack of being annoying that I felt I was missing out on as atriox. Sure, you can spam choppers in the early game as Atriox, but they’re just expensive enough that losing one or two here and there hurts you.

I wanted zerglings and an expansion advantage, and I sure have found my zerglings. I am now determined to be an absolute plague on the ladder. See you all there

so ive been grinding halo wars 1 on steam, have just about every achievement. decided to buy game pass for halo wars 2. it will not install at all. no matter what ive tried. Any other game I've tried just because will..

It sits on downloading, MB goes up and up then it fails.

i decided to go to fit girl repacks and get the game, it installed perfectly. and is also online. but im afraid ill get banned lol. why is it like this?

I tried taking the pirated files (which are 100% like what you download from official servers) and place them in the install directory of the Xbox app. it correctly identifies the file size but still will not download at all.

just really want to play this without having to worry.

Anyone have a solution?

Just bought an Xbox after 8 years or so and tried jumping on the Xbox 360 halo wars and it was dead. Is the definitive edition any better? I would like to jump on after work and play some classic 3v3’s.

Seeing the other post asking if we "think" we'll get Halo Wars 3, and seeing a lot of nos. I was hoping to see more yeses and I thought I'd see.

Also, what suggestions would you have on Halo Wars 3? Mine would be make Halo Wars 3 in the gameplay style of Age of Empires II or Axis & Allies where you don't have a static HQ placement on the map, and the individual buildings on the HQ could be placeable anywhere as well, if that makes sense.

I know I'd love a Halo Wars 3, how about you?

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Been playing since launch 2/21/2017

Me and my best friend are sweats. Playing constantly since that day it came out.

A lots changed in 10 years. Careers. Families. But we stay linked up in halo wars 2! Stay dominating. We’ve only ever played 2 v 2. Never played with other allies. We both have months of in game time, thousands andm thousands of hours.

We plan on a 12 hour game session on the anniversary date in Feb! If you want to play some competitive 2 v 2 that day holler at me. Let’s all celebrate 10 years in style.

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