In the History of Halo I have always loved the series, I started with Halo 2 and went back to Halo CE both were great games as the years go by the Halo series gets more and more expansive not only that but dynamic in gameplay and story. now I find myself disappointed in the current Halo game, Halo 5 Guardians.
Here are the reasons why: (Campaign problems/issues are in part 2, may contain spoilers)
Warning Wall of Text, if you cannot read this go back to school. lol
Multiplayer-
most of this is from Warzone Gametype.
-2x Frags: in Halo you always spawn with 2x frags and thats fine for Arena combat but What I have noticed is that more people nade spam on warzone game mode, they throw the nades in the bases and hope to get a kill about 60% of my deaths I would say are from one nade knocking off my shields and the second killing me in the armory base.
Fix: give 1x frag to start with and you can pick up two if you find it, this game should be based on skill not on blind luck (only the Master Chief has that)
-No friend markers: how can you tell where your friends are on the game mode Warzone, I know there are ID tags right above there head, but when they get far away it disappears some times I get confused at where my friend are at because all he calls out is “I’m in the caves!” lol (Apex 7) and even if were not on the mike I would still like to see where he is at so I can team up.
Fix: Add a Green marker/tab or something above your friend to indicate where he is. it should only show up with Fireteams.
-Spawns: I have noticed that spawns seem more random the can place you right in front of a enemy base, enemy tank, or even spawn you out in the road to get splattered by a team mate.
Fix: You should spawn in YOUR base and when Enemys get close you spawn behind your base.
-Spartan Bash: sometimes I notice I got one hit spartan bashed from the front and I one hit bash too in the front, it happens too often in the game and it can be game breaking.
Fix: Spartan bash only takes off shields (like an EMP) then it take a regular melee to kill the player. I don’t want this ability to be a cheep-shot.
-AR vs BR: The BR is a great gun I like it, but not that much. The AR seems under powered vs the other weapons it doesn’t have a niche for what it is, you cant out BR someone who is at medium range because if you get hit you get knocked out of smart-link (not so smart after all). example: the Enemy and you both zoom in who ever gets the first hit usually wins.
Fix: For balance issues I suggest that the SMG, AR, SAW, all Sniper Rifles, and the Lightrifle should not de-scope when hit. OR just do it with all guns.
-Radar: The Radar in arena is way too small by the time there is someone behind you your shot dead or assassinated. I could argue that the radar in Warzone is too small for the amount of players that try to kill you.
Fix: make radar a little bit bigger, do some test to see if a group of people like it or not. some Pro players like the small radar some don’t. if you don’t like the radar have the option in the menus to get rid of it completely. (but you would only hinder yourself)
-Stealing Boss Kills: too many times this has happened, our WHOLE team is about to kill the 150 point boss, one lone wolf enemy player gets one BR hit on the Boss in the last second. enemy team wins or gets the kill and then wins. so now were minus a boss kill and minus power weapons because we used them on the boss.
Fix: you divide the points out to each team for how much damage your team does. OR which ever team does the most damage gets the kill.
-No time stamp on videos or custom description: I played five Apex 7 in a row, one is a great game how am I going to tell there is no 00:00:00 time stamp to tell me when I did this. Also when I save a game to theater I cant re-name it to something like “Awesome Worthog Splattacular.”
FIx: Add a time stamp to the videos and have the option to change the name of it and description.
-Base Awareness: how do you know when your armory base is being taken, there is no audio Que to hear if you base is under attack/bring taken. nor is there a visual Que, you have to run back to see the icon to pop up on your HUD and then see if there is some one taking it.
Fix: Audio Que could be a Marine saying something like “we are losing the East/West Armory” or for visual the icons for the bases are always on your HUD but the farther away they are the more faded they can be, or have the icon on the score maker slowly change color like a progression bar.
- Random Weapons: This game is based on skill… right? Shouldn’t we get a reward for working hard? All we get is a random card for something, no risk no reward for accomplishing almost impossible objectives.
Fix: For every good thing you you get a cookie or a medal, then you spend those items at the store to get an item maybe have the random weapon but you select the category eg: Sniper Rifles, BR, Shotguns, Rocket launcher, and other things. or for each commendation you finish you get a token to get that power weapon to unlock the better weapon in that category.
-What does XP do: currently Xp seems to reward you nothing but random items of the same thing or give you crappy packs of 10 mongooses. (in rank packs)
Fix: XP should be for ranking up to unlock a weapon category, and RP should be to purchase Items in that category, it should take more XP to get than RP.
- Shot Around Walls: sometimes I see this happen to me and other players but not often, its not a big issue just wanted to give the heads up.
Fix: maybe improve the connection between server and clients try to connect to a central server so it has somewhat even connection to most players.
-No custom Warzone: I know that the Devs said when Forge comes out Warzone will not be forge-able, that’s ok but what about custom game we cant see the Warzone maps with only friends and we cant practice with clans/groups of people.
Fix: Add Custom Warzone to better ourselfs as a team. plain and simple.
-Map Voting: Voting for your favorite map was a great thing in Halo reach, and in Halo 4. But if you liked the map but didn’t like the game mode your at a loss.
Fix: vote for game mode first then vote for map next. If the Devs don’t like map voting then let us have the option to pick what maps we like to play on and let the matchmaking begin but only with our maps we selected.
-Jet packs: from Halo reach to Halo 4 Jet packs were essential for getting up to high places but now in Halo 5 Jet packs are no more. we have the new thuster pack that allows us to go left, right, back, forward and even down. but no up? why is that devs? all of you maps are vertical maps we have the clamber ability but you cant use it to climb and shoot that was a big thing with the Jet pack. the jet pack was great for vertical gameplay flanking and even escaping that deadly endless pit of death that almost every map has, also the jet pack is great for skyjacking too many players get 20+ kills in the air vehicles and you cant do any thing about it. Also now were are force to run through choke points that are spammed with frags.
Fix: add a unlock-able equipment or perk or something to give players the ability to change the battlefield.
Thank you for reading I hope a Halo dev (343) sees this, and sorry for a huge wall of text but I needed to tell my ideas. If you have anything to add please do as long as it has a fix to it and doesn’t make it OP, over powered. example tactical nuke gun or Rocket Shotgun Launcher, “Pick up the RSL.” lol
