That sounds like a great thing to me. There’s lots of people that believe the AR is a strong starting weapon
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Never had an issue with the AR honestly… Well, maybe more so in BTB matches, but that’s not Team Slayer.
All I want is an option to not have BR starts like in MCC, it’s not that crazy of a concept. I’m fine with BR starts in another playlist.
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Honestly, it felt a little too strong to me for a starting weapon. Fully automatic with bonus damage on headshots? No thank you.
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Maybe that’s because its obviously too strong as a starting weapon even relatively to other weapons in the sandbox.
Your comment isn’t anti BR starts. It’s ‘I want AR all the time’.
An actual suggestion instead of ragging on the team (MCC team is smaller than Infinite btw) would be to add a filter to the playlists to allow players to play what they want.
Guess what? Have two playlists, one for you, one for me. It’s not a revolutionary concept. MCC literally had this implemented.
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That’s what I want, a filter instead of starting with a BR. True I like the BR, but as a pickup.
I wouldn’t mind if they took out the AR/SK start in Team Slayer, since in Quick Play you already have slayer with AR/SK-starts… Would make it actually differ.
I was about to make a thread for this, but yeah. I despite BR starts in 4v4. There’s few things more frustrating that being constantly cross-mapped right off the spawn. It has a massive impact on the flow of combat and discourages moving around the map in favor of just setting up a defensive position.
Leave the BR starts for BTB and ranked 4v4. Otherwise, if I have to start dealing with BR starts on a regular basis, I’m going to give up on this game’s MP entirely and go back to the MCC.
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I don’t get cross mapped Br off spawn. I just win the Br battle. I recommend you do some LvL 3 weapon drills to get your reaction time up. Hope this helps.
In classic halo, I preferred AR starts and going to find other weapons on the map. Not all of the AR haters are BR start fanatics. It’s more about what the base starting traits and weapons of your spartan was before vs now when it comes to that argument.
They definitely need to get on top of letting players play the way they want and not forcing us to play playlists based on FOMO and challenges
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I’ve been playing Halo online since early 2005. I have more than enough experience. And it’s not like I’m bad at the game. I have a pretty decent career K/D in every Halo game (1.75 in Team Slayer in Infinite, 1.43 in Halo 5, about 1.8 overall in the MCC). It has nothing to do with being good or bad at it. I just hate BR starts in 4v4 and how it makes the game play. There’s a big difference between one’s skill level at doing something and how much they actually enjoy doing that thing.
I don’t enjoy BR starts and I don’t appreciate it being made compulsory after seven months of it being something that was for hardcore players who wanted to play ranked.
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Amd i just learned it swaps between ar and br starts. I honestly love that! I didnt know that was happening!
I feel that weapon starts should primary focus on the specific maps more then anything.
If the map is more open, then having better ranged options ( battle rifles, commando’s, ect. ) for it would be fine. But if the map is smaller or tigther to were close combat is more ideal, then I feel Assault Rifles + Pistols is just fun.
Brings back horrid memories of Halo 2, when you played an open map with SMG starts… You’re team was just destroyed if they had any decent ranged options because you literally couldn’t fight back properly.
I solo’d entire teams in 8 vs 8 BTB on Coagulations if I got access to both the Sniper Rifle and Rocket Launcher.
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To each his own I suppose.
its not a hardcore weapon. youre just not a fan of a long range weapon start, which is fine
I guess it’s just frustrating because 343 doesn’t get that if it isn’t broke don’t fix it man…
I feel like there should be an option where you can decide if you want to play with the Ar and sidekick or the BR. Or they can just add like “Team slayer Battle rifle” or something like that i dont know in my opinion i think we should just keep the AR and sidekick in team slayer. To be fair BR is already in ranked.
(Please bring back AR and sidekick in team slayer its the only way i have fun in this game :()
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I havent had fun in this game for a while now until they added BR75 to team slayer please remove it its ruining the fun. I am getting so stressed with the gun I am terrible with. I have been practicing with the BR 24/7 because of the battle rife in team slayer so what i am saying is please remove this stupid gun from team slayer or do something where you can pick between team slayer BR or just regular team slayer with the AR and pistol. Halo infinite is my favorite game and I dont want to have to quit so please just do something about it!!!
I still don’t understand why people have such a strong dislike for the BR.
The BR and AR in this game cannot both be starting weapons, everyone will constantly default to AR because its Ease of Use ratio to its potential is wayyy too high, especially in close range.
All this means is that people who try to get better at using a BR is gonna get punished for trying to use it to do other than steal kills or crossmap.
The same applies to the sidekick in terms of why it can’t be a secondary starting gun with the BR.