First off, i like Halo 4, i find it fun to play…on the most part
343, you guys are awesome, i love every aspect of Halo 4 so far, except Big Team Slayer
i love BTB mostly for vehicles
Halo clicked with me because of the cool vehicles that one could drive
I always pictured BTB with a large focus on vehicular combat and teamwork
In halo 3, a competent Driver and Gunner could be unstoppable, however a good team could either seize power weapons/vehicles to eliminate said warthog, or do some epic team-like stuff, like flaking the hog when it’s distracted, or using a frag to flip the warthog over and take out the crew when they eject
even in Reach, where vehicles were almost made of paper, still some teamwork and know-how was present, people still had to go for power weapons, or they “Team-shot” the enemy vehicle
But in halo 4, one single person can easily take out a warthog
just with a plasma pistol and two Stickies
enemy warthog inbound? no problem, just Zap 'em an stick 'em,
two easy kills
there’s a hostile mantis near you? why should you take cover or find a power weapon if you have the tools to take it out now? just Zap the mantis, and climb onto its back, no biggy, 'cause it can’t fight back anyway
Hostile Scorpion? same as before, just zap it, and stick it/board it, the main gun can’t be used, so what’s the worry?
is there a gunner on that scorpion? Just stick him, and Zap the tank again!
it completely eliminates any need for teamwork, and destroys any reason to use most vehicles in the first place
i mean, we already have personal power weapon drops from ordnance, why should a driver have to worry about every SINGLE PLAYER being a fatal threat to their vehicle?
in past halo games, i could get my gunner 15+ kills easily, now i struggle to get more than three
the warthog itself is not that much of the problem, a good driver can allow his/her gunner to take care of targets withe ease
i’ve played a few games where almost no one used stickies, and i could easily get my gunner 10 or more kills in a LAAG warthog, and it was a really fun game for me
but in most games, i find myself getting blown up no longer than 30 seconds after i find a gunner
and yes, i know what i’m doing
i’m not the 90% of all drivers that just make a beeline for the enemy as a driver
and i don’t try and farm Road Trips either
i think a good solution is to make Sticky Grenades an Ordnance-only weapon
i know, they already are, but who actually calls them in? Very few people
why?
Because you can already spawn in with them
and the guys with Frag or pulse Grenades don’t want to call in them because they chose the grenades they want to use,they really don’t need more
it only takes two of them to blow a warthog up,
call me crazy, but those seem like stats for a reliable power weapon
and in normal Team Slayer/FFA, how many times have you come across the guy that you’re winning against, and you’ve almost killed, and all of a sudden, he just starts chucking his Plasmas at you? Much too often i assume
it can happen a lot less frequently if Stickies are an Ordnance-Only weapon
Now i move on to the Plasma Pistol:
i somewhat like the fact that you can spawn with one,
it prevents good vehicle pilots from dominating the entire team
like, for example, that Cardboard Dragon we like to refer to as the Banshee
however, the EMP time is ridiculous, and the homing projectile is annoying
In a warthog, if i’m EMP’d… it’s not too much of a problem, my gunner is usually already engaging the EMPer, so not too bad there, but it gets annoying when i can’t move more than five feet at a time without getting EMP’d
In a Scorpion, if i get EMP’d my main gun goes offline, so i can’t defend myself
even if i have a gunner, the enemy might just snipe him out/board through the rear
and if i get out, it’s just a free tank for them, because i get annihilated by gunfire as soon as i exit the vehicle
In the Mantis, the thing gets stalled so long via EMP, i can go to my kitchen, get a glass of water, drink half of it, and sit back down before i get un-frozen (i’d know, i’ve tried it once)
quite simply, it needs a MUCH shorter EMP time, and a much less agile Homing ability
now i’ll move on to the DMR
i find that it is not a problem to deal with on any other gametype, but since BTB takes place on very open maps, the DMR dominates over any other gun, a majority of the time
it’s not a huge problem for me, since i usually stick to vehicles, but when i DO go on foot, it gets me before i can properly retaliate
would a simple Rate-of-fire Nerf be acceptable?
in Lore, War games is training for Spartans
BTB i assume, trains Spartans abilities to drive, and eliminate vehicles
why should they make it so easy to take out the vehicles, and an Uber pain in the -Yoink- for one to Use a vehicle?
this training is supposed to encourage Spartans to work as a team, and to be versatile,tactical,and intelligent on the battlefield
it should not be teaching them how to rely on their weapons to do all the work for them.
