I swear that I learnt how the red racks work from a loading screen at some point. Maybe that was before one of the seasonal updates?
I would have agreed with improving the Disruptor but that’s not what the notes say. It’s actually in line to get nerfed, which I don’t understand at all. Maybe it’s a typo or maybe I’ve been sleeping on this secret power weapon…
Does anyone else find it somewhat ironic that a bunch of players who purport to be “casual” can get so upset over a minor tweak that they haven’t even tried yet.
It’s almost like it brings out their “competetive” side.
Wait… what? Noooooooooooo…
Don’t worry, I think it’s reserve ammo. Though if the Bully only got to carry say, 5 shots instead of 7, that’d be… Mostly okay? It’d encourage you to at least get closer to guarantee the 2-shot.
LMAO yeah it gets like that.
@Darwi It is also only for ‘competitive’ which is presumably Ranked and HCS. Plus with less ammo it will respawn on the rack more often, for those times when some -Yoink!- got to it first.
Ranked sandbox down to like 3 guns haha, getting to be a caricature of itself here
Pfft, no kidding. Someone who barely knows how to USE it…
Sentinel Beam
Sniper Rifle
Battle Rifle
Commando
Sidekick
Disruptor
Stalker Rifle
Shock Rifle
Bulldog
Heatwave
Plasma Pistol
Rocket Launcher
Assault Rifle
Needler
Thruster
Camo
Overshield
Repulsor
Drop Wall
Frag Grenade
Spike Grenade
Plasma Grenade
Dynamo Grenade
Just goes to show, you don’t play competitive.
Hey KC, how many games of Ranked have you played in the last 3 months, and what’s your peak? Just want to make sure who I’m getting lectured by.
Honestly, I’m impressed that someone with Onyx has such terrible takes. I think that’s an achievement in and of itself.
GG on Onyx, but you don’t seem to have a good handle on the comp community.
EDIT: Diamond III, not played a lot of Halo lately. Had a lot else going on. Not too ashamed of that, not too worried about it.
The reason the sandbox feels tiny is because so many of those guns are single-map single-gun spawns. Sentinel and stalker have one spawn on streets, that’s it. Sidekick just spawns on Aquarius and frankly I never see anyone use it in my lobbies. AR I virtually never see used, but again, weapon uses can vary by lobbies, I get that.
The Ranked sandbox is already 95% BR and is way less diverse on a game-to-game basis than H5. My idea of “rebalancing” isn’t just vaulting things. Hell, the mangler still plays totally fine except in like, high level Onyx games. My idea of sandbox balancing isn’t just tossing out half the weapons. And the reason that carbine and mangler nerfs feel more substantial is because they’re the opposite of guns like sentinel and stalker–they’re frequent across most maps with multiple spawns.
I don’t like comparing ranks and I think the game should be fun for everyone regardless of rank. I just didn’t appreciate you calling me out on not playing ranked—I mean, talk about pot calling the kettle black.
You know what, fair. I’m sorry. I’m used to this forum being AR kids. So yeah, I’ll take that lump. Sorry.
I think it should be broadly fun too. Hel I think social players deserve as good a time as comp. But what I really think is that this is a good balancing act they’re pulling for now.
No worries. We’ll see how it shakes out, and hopefully the bandit and other future additions will help spice things up.
The Bandy’s got me a little worried honestly. I don’t like that bloom it’s got. I think it’ll be fun, but not BR fun. We need to get rid of bloom entirely.
Im glad they are changing the sniper to be more accurate in the hip fire. Me personally idc much about it as Im usually using it as its intended longer ranges. Cant speak for everyone tho and It makes sense how people want hip fire to be tweaked.
Overall, I think these changes are mostly positive. Not anything I personally would complain about
I’m really glad I don’t play Ranked… you guys are seriously going to nerf the Commando and Plasma Pistol, both of which still need to be buffed in regular multiplayer?
I like the Commando as it is now but it definitely does not need another buff. It’s quite strong now and people are definitely using it more often.
If they are intent on nerfing it a little bit I hope they also give it more spare ammo at the same time. It’s the main weakness compared to the BR at the moment.
The Commando needs to work at the very least how it is now. It does not need any nerf.
If they can Vault weapons for competitive play. Why would they tweak weapons casuals / non-ranked players don’t abuse or get good enough that it’s an issue.? Like the Mangler one shot melee. Would 343 consider tweaking weapon balance back for these vaulted weapons?
What commando needs is getting rid of full-auto mode, just make it semi-auto like the Sidekick and people will be able to appreciate it without complaining. It os good as it os now like you say, but you have to throw the ide that’s a fully automatic gun in your head, obly then it can become good, otherwise the gigantic recoil paired with bloom make the gun totally worthless, you can as well try to melee someone from 20m away, same effect, a k.a. none.
I agree. It’s kind of pointless having the full auto when all it does is make the weapon less user friendly to new players. If they rework it so it’s not totally useless with full auto at short range then it would at least make sense to keep but really I don’t think it’s needed at all.