343 here's a sandbox balance suggestion for 2023 (with poll)

All I want is decreasing Commando recoil, hard to kill enemies within 10 bullets, especially with 150-200ms ping situation (This game is dead in my region)

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Decreasing the recoil would make the Commando lose one of its most defining features. It would simplify the weapon too much.

*cough * Brute Shot *cough *

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It was a huge let down when the game launched and the Skewer didn’t send warthogs flying like it did in the trailer.

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1 - I would love for Dynamo grenades to be turned into equipment. I would make it like the electricity thing from Halo 3… But since I know that won’t happen I would make it so only one spawns in an area, It doesn’t do as much physical damage as it does shield damage. Against vehicles it’s basically just an EMP kind of like how it is. All I know is that something has to change because these grenades are so overpowered in the game.

2 - some vehicles need health increases like the Hog!!! To me it is basically useless in this game. Once last time somebody went on an epic with one? I think most of the other vehicles health are pretty good and I definitely would NOT decrease vehicle weapon damage as I find a lot of them again like the warthog is pretty useless as it is.

3 - Wraith is fine as is i think

4 - Skewer is fine as is I think

5 - Grapple for the most part I think is also fine as is. Some of the suggestions I’ve seen on here I don’t mind either.

6 - ABSOLUTELY NOT to bloom on BR! Bloom is the worst thing in Halo! Bloom shouldn’t be on any gun, PERIOD!

7 - So you want to remove Bloom from the commando and add it to the BR?? That would make the commando stupidly good over the BR. I do agree that the commando should not have Bloom at all as no gun should. If you want to give a gun some more kick back go ahead, But if something’s supposed to be a precision rifle it shouldn’t have a lot of kickback otherwise it’s not very precise is it. Precision rifles shouldn’t shoot really fast and I don’t feel like the BR does. The commando to me is a terrible gun in general and they’re just trying to combine the DMR and the saw into one weapon. The commando just feels very unhalo like to me and always has. I think just removing bloom from commando and it should be fine.

8 - They’re absolutely needs to be some bigger open BTB maps. As vehicle play just seems pretty useless on most the map so far. Tanks are not a big threat, warthogs are not a threat and so forth. Some of the older maps the reasons why they did so well was because there was some open space and if you would caught it no man’s land you were dead! Maps like blood gulch, Valhalla etc back in the day had things right. Bases troop movement along the sides basically vehicle play in the guts. So far 343s BTB maps for vehicles has been pretty poor in my opinion.

9 - Pulse rifle in my opinion is absolute garbage! Completely useless in PvP. Yeah the lower ranks it’s not too bad but as soon as you get into, I would argue high platinum low diamond rank, It is completely useless. I would probably remove it completely from PvP maps. Why they just didn’t make it like the old ones or put the carbine rifle in is beyond me.

10 - I still do not like the fact that the plasma pistol does not disable vehicles. This said, I don’t think you can do that in this game because there would just be too many things to destroy vehicles because of all the lightning weapons (Heck I would argue there already is too many things to take down vehicles easy) I still think the plasma pistol tracking needs to be a lot better, similar to Halo 5 for it to be visible in 4 on 4 play. I don’t mind your idea of there being a plasma burn effect if you hit someone with it either with the charge shot. That would be worth experimenting with.

11 - I kind of know what 343 were going for with the ravanger but I just don’t think it’s a good weapon at all. It’s primary fire I still find very useless as it’s just too slow. The secondary fire I don’t think is bad but I would make it more visible the radius of where you get burned. I would make it look like lava and then when it’s done it cools brown stays for a bit and then it goes away (due to memory restrictions) I think increasing the duration of how long it’s there for would be better too and I would keep damage as is.

12 - I think the Hydra worked much better in Halo 5. I think it just needs to be a lot more like Halo 5. As it stands right now and infinite I find it pretty uneffective unless you catch someone not looking but even then it seems to be pretty easy to avoid the shots.

I don’t really feel like I fit into any of your voting categories As I agree on some and disagree with others, so I didn’t vote for anything.

Overall I feel like the weapon balance in Halo Infinite is not great. The pistol I find incredibly frustrating to use for example. I play against people that can shoot that thing at mock speed and it’s so precise it’s just ridiculous. Now I don’t know how much a lot of these issues with weapons are because of 343s extremely poor net code and servers and connections and what not but I just really feel like so many of the weapons in this game are a step back. I know what they were going for with say the bulldog and I don’t think it’s terrible but it’s just not a shotgun and has no power to counter any of the melee weapons. So either you need the original shotgun in or you need to change something with the bulldog.

Why they would get rid of such staple weapons like the shotgun, the Spartan laser, The carbine Is frankly perplexing!

I don’t think the vehicle play is too bad in Halo Infinite overall, though like I said earlier, I think the warthog needs a definite boost (and the missile hog is complete garbage!!!) I think the biggest problem with the vehicles in Halo Infinite is the map design.

First things first though, 343 needs to fix their net code! This game is just going to get worse and worse if they don’t do something about that. Stuff like desync in the ping is just absolute horrendous in this game and it’s frankly embarrassing that games that came out 10-15 years ago have a better net code than this game.

You could just vote on the ones you agree with or are you saying in each recommendation you both agree and disagree?

Oh I didn’t know I could vote more then once. Ok cool :+1:

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My suggestion?

Stop “balancing” a sandbox and just add fun things that people like using. Halo is for fun, not balance.