Personally, I’ve been enjoying my time with the multiplayer. Though there are a few things my friends and I have ran into, that sully the fun gameplay.
Firstly the grenade spam has bogged down an otherwise fun push in the game. Spawning with grenades in a fruitful valley of pick-ups creates an overwhelming headache of no shields and instant deaths when rejoining your team for firefights.
Secondly the D-sync problems. Granted this might just be my team of friends and I. But we’ve found when sniping and using select guns there seems to be D-sync with shots that should land then enemies suddenly zipping forward as though their spartan just slid on butter.
Thirdly (this one is minor in some ways) We felt as though it’s silly to split your party amongst other fire teams in BTB. As well as the dragged-out armor unlocks in the battle pass. Unlocking one shoulder piece at a time seems redundant and tedious. Halo has always been fun to customize your spartan, though the locked color pallets and pay to customize seem’s very shoe horned in. Don’t get me wrong I totally understand 343 needs to make money somewhere when the multiplayer is free. I definitely don’t mind buying armors here and there. Only having one set to choose from, and having to either grind for months to unlock a new shoulder piece is a bit much.
Fourthly the battle pass progression seems to be a slog and earning things keeps us motivated to continue playing. Although having to complete specific challenges to earn the slightest progression seems to constrict your play style. If we could add some sort of round bonus for our medals earned in a match, that’d just encourage us to want to earn more XP towards the pass, instead of forcing us to use guns, and abilities we might find to be lacklustre.
All in all, I’m having a ton of fun. I haven’t enjoyed Halo since Bunjie left, although 343 might have found a way to get me back playing again. Hopefully, this is taken as constructive feedback and not griping.
What are your thoughts?