I’ve posted a lot on these forums, and never seem to receive any acknowledgement. That’s fine 343 you guys need to be busy. I can accept the free to play, cosmetic microtransactions etc. But we need to see the real things, effecting what can be the best Halo game of all time.
PVE is fantastic, legendary is hard but not ridiculously hard it feels like typical legendary Halo! But no CO-OP, I know you’re working on that. But we need to see a 4 player CO-OP experience, maybe spartan ops 2.0 taking place 6 months prior to Chief’s story. Open world Halo with buddies sounds awesome to me. And large scale battles! They were missing from this Halo, and I feel like a destiny styled open world. With events, Story Missions, Collectables, Outposts (random gened maybe??), Fobs to defend etc. That would be an amazing experience, with lots of replayability which is currently missing.
PVP the free to play aspect of your game and most important is broken. I have a decent PC, and I’ve played on an og xbox one. I feel like you have patched the Melee, as it used to be chancy and not register. And I swear i experienced player collision, which were two things I was seriously concerned about. but a major bug I’ve noticed, Bullet magnetization (seems that if a kill shot is detected the bullet, will kill no matter what) And overall the weapons feel wonky, I feel some need to be analyzed more thoroughly.
SPNKR(bigger blast radious) ,Hydra(higher velocity homing is useless,) Plasma Pistol(Needs to still emp vehicles), Disruptor(buff feels useless), Pulse Carbine(major buff is useless). Sometimes the weapons in general just seem to do the same damage input consistently. I’ll do really well with a weapon, then do the same thing on another player and it takes an extra shot etc. I’m not E sports level, but I’ve been playing Halo for 20 years now. I’m an average Halo player at worst and an above average at best. But for new people to jump in, It needs to be smoother. they wont be used to the swaying and standard competitive Halo gameplay. And Halo has always been a skilled based game, with fair loadouts and power weapons to obtain. but some of these weapons don’t feel like power weapons, and they need some pvp tweaking to smoothen everything out more.
Vehicles are way too weak. Personally not a fan of self destruct, but it could be implemented better with an activation button. Vehicle play has always been huge to Halo, so it makes no sense as to why a tank feels like a toy. Every vehicle except the ghost in my opinion need a major buff.
Overall, you guys are succeeding but failing at the same time. We need to fix the customization. The price cuts are a start, but still this weeks store has nothing for Mark V armor, in the multiplayer trailer you guys stated the “most” expansive customization. All the tools are there, but the coatings and core’s ruin the customization. I understand you need to sell skins, I’m not saying eliminate them. But make it where you unlock those colors to use in other coatings patterns. The current layout is perfect, for a free to play title. Keep this layout for anyone who doesn’t have the game, gamepass, battlepass whatever you want to do. But give battlepass owners the option to switch colors on the coatings with colors unlocked from that pass etc. Cores are a cool idea, but almost everything free is for Mark VI as well as store items. Why did I even buy the battlepass? If I got the colors to change between all the coatings in the battlepass for every armor type I will gladly buy cosmetics.
The formula for a good game is here, I just don’t want to see too much non cannon stuff and more serious looking armors. Warzone in 5 was great, it needs to return but bigger and better. Attrition shows your work on battle royal, and I’m not for it. The attrition mode is great but please don’t focus on a battle royal, focus on what makes Halo unique. I’m done posting on your forums, I only do this because I am concerned. I’ve been a fan since the beginning and your last two games were… something. 4 I hated but spartan ops was cool, 5 worse storyline ever, but my fondest multiplayer experience of last gen. Just please let us pick our colors clans kept halo 5 and mcc alive, you are essentially killing that aspect of your game. In 8 years we’ll be the ones still playing, not Faze not streamers us the community.