Halo Wars DE First Impressions and Feedback

Hey there folks been playing 2 hours few skirmish and actual online games.
Graphics are better not amazingly better but improved, reactors for example the hook ones look nicer.
Glitches remain, arbiter rage glitch and cannister shell glitch.
Matchmaking system is different you do seem to find games faster as you can host them now.
But and its a big but....
There is no leaderboards.
There is no trueskill system.
There is no leveling system in multiplayer whatsoever.
I pray to god they will phase this in for launch, these are core features of the original game and makes online multiplayer more competitive. If there is nothing to grind for and nothing to compete for then it loses longevity.
I love Halo Wars but please only enhance the original removing core online elements is not good, also there is no 2v2 or 3v3 party system either that means 3 friends can match against 3 randoms ruining the balance of the game.
If it ain't broke don't fix it, and this is not looking good at all, please add a ranking system and please add leaderboards, also ranked teams should only go against teams like the original game for balance.

I love Halo Wars I hope this is phasing in features as basic features are currently missing and it worries me.

The gameplay itself feels a lot smoother though!

Thanks for reading please post your intial thoughts etc.

Sorry for the complaining I enjoy the game just hopping these features will be readded in for launch.

Is the framerate good ?

cabr00kie wrote:

Is the framerate good ?

Improved massively from the first game

cuz early access, it incomplete i think

seanonix wrote:

cuz early access, it incomplete i think

Yeah i think thats whats going on, i can see why they would leave out ranks, but the true skill system is needed. im sure the game is still in its early stages. I just wish i had my copy.

at least it runs good and stuff

Early feedback is actually that the game is deceptively improved. At first blush, I didn't see much of a graphical improvement until I toggled back to the original game and then back to DE. Graphics are now WAY better. If you don't believe me, zoom in on the Prophet while he bangs his arm on his floating chair of death. All units look way better. Some maps really show off better graphics better than others. Docks, for example, looked much improved.

Game also runs more smoothly, less of a framerate glitch. I have had the game freeze up once or twice, but I think that was a player dropping out as the cause (or the player got dropped, not clear). Overall, when you have two armies attacking each other, the game handles it better than the original Halo Wars.

The multiplayer system takes an adjustment. I found it difficult to invite a friend to play with me. I had to publish the game and then he had to search for it to join in. This is a good workaround until the invite system can be fixed (hopefully by official launch.)

if you are having trouble finding games, my advice would be to try 2 vs 2 and 3 vs 3 and see what happens. I found there was a decent population count despite the fact that not everyone has a code yet. The campaign remains as great as ever if you can't find folks to play online.

Overall, I'm extremely impressed. AND a bonus is that I now have this game on my laptop too. I prefer playing it on the Xbox1, but could come in handy when my kids steal the console from me.

Seeing as they are only responding to the praise they get but ignoring this it justifies my refund.

I pre ordered ultimate edition once I heard about Halo Wars DE, I did not pre order to be scammed or for "Halo Wars the Custom Games Edition" I will repurchase as soon as 343 fix this, if not standard version of HW2 only after seeing reviews no more being misled had enough of it.

Getting stressed over a video game getting old now have few games which made me happy like Halo Wars did and they had to gut it and ruin it, thanks for ruining my Christmas 343 do the decent thing admit stripping out beloved features was wrong and reinstate them for official launch.

I am content with Halowars:DE.
Framerate is very stable and localization is perfect.
If it's possible, I want save Replays and skillmatch system.

EDDS wrote:

One of the issues I've found is on Windows 10, if you start the game with a keyboard/mouse you can't just pick up a controller and use that instead or vice versa.

Not only that but it doesn't seem like you can even change the control method in the options menu, it requires a restart of the game to switch input device.

I've found the game runs surprisingly well on my Surface Pro 3, it doesn't work with touch controls very well but that's probably asking too much :P

This is something I can live with, but nice detail if they would fix that! I just want ranks to return, even just based on amount of wins, give me something rewarding after winning the game like simple XP :P I can understand not having MM, as there wouldn't be enough people playing the game multiplayer once HW2 is released, would still be nice to have it though.

Jussx wrote:

I know im posting this on the wrong place, but nobody is reading the support page, so maybe i can get some help here. Im having trouble with the game crashing all the time.

I am able to play skirmish vs AI for about 5 minutes, with best graphics and game is running smooth and everything looks great. But as soon as there is too much action on the screen at once the game crashes without a warning. Also playing first campaign mission crashes after 20 seconds of gameplay. I have tried reducing quality to minimum but it has no effect whatsoever. It still crashes when theres too much action.Error message that i get:

FATAL ERROR Connection between Graphics adapter was lostCPU: i5-4690k
GPU: AMD radeon R9 270x
8GB RAM
I am able to play games like Battlefield 1 and Dying light on high graphics without problems but HW DE keeps crashing.
Any help?

The obvious thing to do would be to check for a graphics driver update. Just browse the Radeon app for a bit, you'll find the check for update button. If you can't find it give it a google.
If that doesn't work, check for Windows update and if that doesn't work you may need to try uninstalling and reinstalling.
This is all pressuring you've already tried to restart the computer.

For future reference, please create a thread in Halo Wars: DE Support Section if you have any problems with the game. Edit: Lol sorry you already said and done that