No. This is not Call of Duty or Battlefield.
When I say âmake the game mainstreamâ, I mean the addition of popular common features in other competing fps games like this person is suggesting in the thread, which happen in H4 and the series was in decline for a long time after that unfortunate.y.
I think this is the worst take Iâve seen on Waypoint so far
No way. Too much like COD. I donât like loadouts at all. Make everyone go the OP rifle of the week. Halo classes was battle rifle galore. The maps arenât designed for it, youâd walk into open space and get wrecked by 4 different battle rifle bursts and die in 2 steps. No thanks.
Iâm all for a playlist with loadouts, but the quintessential experience of Halo is fair start and map control. If you feel bored by the game then donât play it then? Itâs fine.
OP doesnât understand what an arena shooter is.
Adding loadouts to default game modes would completely unbalance the maps. There is a lot more science to it than you think and for the most part youâre also talking about an IP that has 20+ years experience doing this (blunders and all)
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I would be careful to make any of these causative inferences that the loadouts themselves are the root cause of the issues. The main reasoning for this is that the existence of loadouts isnât an excuse for making the sandbox boring and there do also exist few more successful examples with loadouts in video games. If we limit ourselves to the Halo franchise, Halo Reach, Halo 4, Halo 2A and Halo (Warzone) uses a loadout system to at least some extent and there do also exist many examples outside Halo with varous degrees of success.
In addition to this, the loadout system in Halo 4 has also been to a large degree optional and it was possible to play multiplayer without using loadouts. If the loadouts was the cause of the issues, the same complaints wouldnât exist in the modes where the loadouts werenât present.
I want custom loadouts back. Halo Reach was a decent start while Halo 4 improved it with user-made customizations.
But if they do bring back custom loadouts there has to be the ability to play matches that dictate them; some playlists allow player-made custom loadouts, some limit them to fixed sets, and others disallow them entirely and stick to defaults.
Variety and player-freedom is everything.
Variety and player-freedom is everything.
false, player freedom is not everything. Halo is not a player freedom game, you start with the same gear as everyone else and fight for whatâs on the map. Variety is not âI pick my favorite gun and use only that for the rest of the gameâ, Halo 4 failed for a variety of reasons and loadouts was one of the biggest so please refrain from trying to turn everything into COD.
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I wasnât trying to and donât be rude.
Then why suggest something that clearly doesnât work and clearly is hated by the majority of players and the core players?
Because I personally liked it and I was just giving my two-cents on the subject (is it really illegal?).
No, BUT it should be an option for custom games for sure. In fact, I literally need loadouts for some of my custom games to work. For regular play though? Absolutely not. If youâre not good with the AR/Pistol, the solution isâŚwait for itâŚpractice lmao, the AR especially isnât remotely hard to use.
Reach had loadouts, but it was for certain game modes. How loadouts were handled in that game was different from Halo 4, and it was more like picking your starting gun than a full change. Whatever weapon that was available to start with was depending on the match settings unlike Halo 4, which meant everyone got the same loadouts. You could not customize your loadout during a match in Reach, and the only way to customize the loadouts for your game mode was in custom games. It wasnât like Halo 4 or CoD.
The whole point of Halo is fighting for controlling the weapons you want in the map. Do you want to have a Bulldog /BR combo instead of AR/Sidekick? Well, actually thatâs very easy, barelly an inconvinience: learn where they spawn in the map and go get them. Has someone already got it? Take it away from his cold corpse â as long as heâs not an ally, betrayal is a big no-no.
halo 5 didnât have loadouts. that was only in warzone and you were limited based on how you play during each match.
if that is what you want, youâre playing in the wrong franchise, friend.
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incorrect. this is already the most popular shooter this year. larger player base right now than CoD or BF 2042. check out most played xbox game right now.
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Absolutely not.
No.
Donât do it.
Absolutely not.
Customs, sure.
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Nope⌠Nope. No. Nope
This person has clearly not played a halo game before
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