Here’s a little background huge halo3 fan played it for years, only stopped when host became invinceable. Halo reach came out with the beta and it was a disappointment so I went to the forums and noticed this huge fight, one side said its the most amazing game ever the other said its not halo it sucks.
Next came halo4, played it, didn’t like it came to forums and same exact argument, best game ever love it, halo needs to advance and you cant deal with change vs. its not halo, its not competitive, change is ok if it doesn’t effect core gameplay.
Now comes halo5, this to me is worse than reach and halo4 combined. So time to come to the forums and shocker the same exact fight. So instead of repeating what has been posted since reach’s beta came out lm going to try a different approach. Ultimately if you love this game & you don’t want 1 thing to change, three months after release there won’t be enough people online to play with and history will repeat itself for the third time.
Reality is 95% of gamers will not give feedback, if its fun they’ll play it, if not they move to the next new game. This beta needs a questionnaire right on the mcc selection menu to get true feedback from the majority.
The rest is just my opion so read or don’t, whatever. Halo was great for reasons most people can’t understand and nor did I until one day when I decided I wanted to be good at it, it didnt make sense how people could just steam roll an entire team, besides faster reflexes how could they be that much better. So everytime I played a 50 I went back and watched the game videos, and to my surprise they play this game like its a game of chess, with ridiculous amount of strategy and in time of practice and learning I started to get better & better. Halo has always had skill gaps but most never understood that, your ranked skill level was the type of skill gap/player you are, example 1-20 = assault riffle agressive run & gun 20-30 assault riffle, shotgun a little campy more reserved/smarter 30-35 assault, br, some power weapons, 35-40 br, power weapons, 40-45 br, grenades, pw, map control, power ups, 50 deadly with any weapon, great teamwork, calm & confident. So you may be a runner & gunner from halo2 & 3 days play halo 5 & think it still plays like halo while a mlg guy says wtf this doesn’t feel anything like halo and both would be correct. Because of the ranking system you always played with people that played just like you do so you dont understand when a lvl 50 says halo5 sucks because you dont understand that they play halo completly different than you. Halo reach, halo4,&5 they have completly killed the competitiveness the higher ranked players loved about halo. A good comparison 1-3 was like chess, reach,4,&5 is like checkers. Me personally if 5 doesn’t change I won’t be purchasing, fool me once 343 shame on you fool me twice shame on me.