I am disappointed after reading the outcomes report 2 that some of the things I and people I have talked to are concerned about are not being changed that will affect gameplay and the “Halo feel”. Namely player collision, flag melee and btb vehicle spawns.
1.Flag melee-in older halos the flag being a one hit kill gives the carrier an advantage at close range while the enemy has an advantage at long range. Removing this gives the enemy an advantage at long range with no disadvantage at close range resulting in less tactical gameplay and less incentive to pick up the flag.
Btb vehicle spawns- Heavy vehicles spawn too late into the match resulting in them not affecting matches much. In the flight I only got to use the banshee, wasp and tank once each out of 20-30 matches. They often only spawned with less than a minute left in the match. Heavy vehicles should start spawning halfway through a match. People play btb for the crazy vehicle chaos an as it is there isn’t much.
Player collision- Having no player collision is a big negative for me. I honestly thought it was a bug in the flights that would be fixed by launch. No player collision negatively impacts immersion and gameplay. Being able to walk through people makes it seem like they aren’t really in the same game as you. This coupled with no friendly fire in social means you don’t have an impact on your teammates and makes you feel disconnected from them. More importantly no collision promotes bad and lazy gameplay. 343 wants to avoid bumping and door blocking but if you aren’t aware of where your teammates are that’s your fault for having bad map positioning and teammate awareness. The game shouldn’t be changed because of poor awareness and teamplay. Another negative is if you’re about to kill someone they can just back through a fully shielded teammates and escape. I can see this being a common occurrence and it would be more frustrating than occasional bumping into teammates. Also teammates can phase through you as yo are shooting resulting in wasted shots or killing yourself with rockets or other explosives.
These were things I wished would be changed for launch and it’s disappointing that they aren’t, I just hope they are at some point as I think these changes would greatly improve gameplay and the feel of the game.