Hey there community.
Do to an uproar of insane complaints and trolls trying to ruin the game, I’d thought I could step in and give my views of the game.
First off, I love Halo 4. For 343’s first game, they did amazing. However there are some things the should be looked at for Halo 5 (campaign wise) or that should be improved to make the multiplayer enjoyable. Keep in mind these are all my opinions and should not be taken seriously.
- Campaign
There wasn’t to much wrong with the campaign, however the only thing 343 needs to work on is the pace of the gameplay. I found that I breezed through the game relatively easily and it could have been a bit longer. Spartan Ops makes up for this. Almost
- Spartan Ops
This is an amazing concept. I have never seen something like this for another video game. However, with the first two episodes out, I noticed the episode 2 had the same maps from episode 1 with just a different objective. Perhaps we’ll see more to come.
- Multiplayer
Now what we’ve all been waiting for…
For one misc. thing: Kill Cams are extremely buggy. They need to be fixed.
Weapons:
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DMR- Yes, I’m about to talk about the DMR. The DMR outmatches everything, even the community beloved BR. It unfortunately seems like it was ripped right from Reach, but without Bloom throwing shots off, the DMR has become so incredibly accurate and powerful that I can’t play my favorite map (Ragnarok) anymore without being spammed cross-map. This needs to be fixed by reducing range and accuracy.
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Boltshot- Although I don’t see many people using this, when exploited it can be a pain in the -Yoink!-. Spawning with a potential one shot kill weapon can be very serious. I’ve seen numerous campers using this tactic (as well as using Active Camo). A potential fix would be to decrease the damage.
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Plasma Pistol- I thought vehicles vs. Armor lock was bad in Reach but now that people can spawn w/ plasma pistols and grenades the fabled “noob combo” just got much worse. On vehicle based maps, I find that at least five people per game will be using this combo. I can’t get into a vehicle without being struck by an EMP that seems to last forever. By the time the EMP wares off, the occupied vehicle is already spammed by plasma grenades and sent to a fiery death. I don’t know how this could be fixed, but it seems to be an exploit nonetheless.
Vehicles:
The Vehicles aren’t as overpowered as they were in Reach, but they still seem to be paper thin. I find that a Mantis can be taken down quite easily with constant DMR and sniper spam just like in Reach. This should not be the case. I believe vehicles health should be buffed up with a minor damage reduction.
- Machinima
Although this doesn’t concern the whole community, it does concern me and a whole community of machinimators I’m a part of. 343 said they wanted to help the machinima community, but unless they have some future plans they basically screwed us over. Let me begin…
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Weapon Lowering: Frankie confirmed there would be weapon lowering over xbox live. Unfortunately this is not the case. Weapon Lowering is only available over system link and local play. I don’t understand how an animation can be exploited like it was back in Halo 2 EIGHT years ago. If there was a patch for that, then would 343 consider it?
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No Elites: Yeah, the Flood are cool and all but you can’t make much story with them. Elites helped make so many machinimas throughout the years and now we’re limited to Spartans and Flood. I can see a lot of zombie machinima’s on the horizon but not much else.
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UNSC Flying Vehicle: Not much to say here, but we were kind of expecting one am I right? (This can also fall under the multiplayer category)
(Can’t really think of much else right now. I’ll update later.)
As of right now this is just my two cents, there’s probably a lot more I could have covered but at least now there’s a thread that has logical explanations and examples unlike most of the things we’ve seen over the days. Remember it hasn’t even been a week since launch, there are plenty of things to fix. Give 343 sometime and don’t blame them for everything.
-solar