First off, I want to say that I absolutely LOVED the beta and thought it was a step in the right direction from Halo 4. With that original E3 2013 “Walk in the Desert” trailer, I had high hopes that Halo 5 would bring back all or most of the elements of the Halo universe I missed in Halo 4. While we’re getting Buck, Blue Team, and the Arbiter, we are NOT getting a whole lot of things we’ve all been asking to have for many years now:
- NO Flood confirmed (even though they were teased in Escalation)
- NO Playable Elites (we’ve been asking about them for years)
- NO UNSC Air Vehicle
- NO Split Screen
- LIMITED Armor Customization
- Arbiter’s Elites in Campaign have Jul’s designs (I would have liked to see classic style Elites vs. Jul Elites like in Escalation)
- Jul’s faction is simply called “The Covenant”. For the sake of Lore fans everywhere, please call them the “STORM Covenant”.
- NO Invasion/Firefight (Warzone looks decent, but it will be nowhere near the level of the former game modes)
- NO disc in Limited Collector’s edition
These are the main gripes that I have. Honestly, 343 says most of these things are due to limited resources. If that is the case, Forge and Custom Games had better be a step up from what we remember.