Yes! I heavily dislike spawning with AR and pistol.
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My 20 years of playing Halo says BR starts are by far the most boring, no one is exploring the map and different weapons and lot less close action. Definitely a big no for that. There’s all kind of players enjoying social and I’d assume most don’t enjoy being constantly killed from distance with a BR by sweats. Now there’s a lot more decent options. Go play ranked bro.
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In my experience people demanding the BR start for BTB are only demanding it so they don’t have to go looking for it. If ranked is anything to go by if you have BR starts in BTB, most wont bother getting another gun.
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Nah, I’m honestly really enjoying the AR starts, it’s really refreshing to actually have combat that isn’t just peaking and shooting over distance.
Don’t get me wrong, I loved BTB in Halo 3 and what not but Infinite is taking the cake for me at the moment.
It’s just fun, I’ll easily take fun over competitiveness.
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I haven’t seen the bTB for infinite, but if it’s like H5 where the maps were literally designed for magnum starts then no, the BR isn’t needed. I know a lot of people just like the gun without actually thinking on how having it can negatively impact a map not designed for it to be a starting weapon.
Halo 5 btb suffered because it did have BR starts, and because it was forgers who made the maps and even spoke out that their maps weren’t designed for BR starts, 343 probably learned their lesson this time but again, I haven’t seen the btb maps in infinite to know for myself.
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NONONONONONONO
I DISAGREE HEAVILY
I hate starting with a BR in halo as it is one if the best weapons and then you NEVER swapes weapons and all everybody used is the BR…. It was bery annoying and i hate it. I really like this AR and Sidekick start, then you swap your guns more often and i think it is more fun and more casual.
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Yea I just drop the sidekick for the first BR commando I find - which there’s like 6+ per base so there’s almost always one on my way to run toward the middle…
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I just think BTB is unplayable without precision start. Loaded it up, played a few and closed the game. Spawning in and running into 6 people spraying AR’s or occasionally picking a firework up off the wall and using that just got really old after like 2 games.
The “eXPloRinG ThE SanDBox” argument is ridiculous given you spawn with a firework display stuck to the walls 5 foot steps in front of you.
Honestly, they should make a ranked version of BTB. It should stick to the more classic feel, precision start, non-flippable spawns and all vehicles already spawned in.
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You do know the MA5 is extremely powerful right?
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I think there’s a solution for this. Let us select game types in MCC. You can pick the AR or BR start option. Problem solved. There should be enough of a population on a new game to find lots of matches.
I REALLY hope they let us pick game types like on MCC. If it’s like Halo 5 where it forces you to play whatever game type with randoms (especially CTF), I don’t see myself playing as much as I did on MCC.
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It would be nice to have the option, but not having it kind of sucks.
BR starts works for objective game types, but for slayer, it needs to stick to AR to have people move to get weapons.
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No its not. Looking across a map at a guy and not being able to shoot is frustrating and breaks the flow. BTB NEEDS br spawn.
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I honestly don’t feel that way. Whenever you spawn you’re only a quick walk away from a commando or BR. There are plenty of closed in areas of the BTB maps where the AR and wingman are fine.
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Yeah no because it’ll just become a sniping contest then. Its honestly fine as is and actually encourages to engage up close over cross mapping each other.
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And this was an issue in the older games as well. When you started with BR’s there was no point in picking up anything else outside of the rocket launcher/sword.
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no, we saw how this played out on the halo reach pc launch. its perfect as is
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I disagree entirely, I think AR starts are the way to go in Infinite. However, I think they should have an option to select which playlist you want that way everyone is happy like in MCC
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The AR is powerful and all, but in BTB it can’t fight off long range snipers/precision rifles from spawn trapping.
You know what can? The BR. And with so many spawning in and around each team’s base, it wouldn’t be that much of a radical step to place one in the player’s hands when spawning.
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Seems like they did a 180 with this game’s sandbox
H5: busted BR (before nerf) but the pistol was still decent enough for people to be ok with AR/magnum starts
Infinite: Pistol is so off putting to use that people would rather use the BR or whatever they find on the rack. I’ve seen people drop the pistol for rockets, the bulldog, etc, whilst keeping the AR
Either give us back the old pistol in a future update and start us with that instead of the side kick (a good middle ground compromise in my opinion.) or just give us a BR so we can at least have more of those mid-range engagements.
At the end of the day, the side kick is just not fun to use as a pistol, as it feels more downgraded than the H3 pistol
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