So no one says I’m a blind hater I will start with what I like about this update:
Oddball is fun and competitive. (I would like either longer game time, so comebacks won’t ever be mathematically impossible, and also increase score to win to 250)
Nades are improved idk if I quite like the guaranteed half shield damage though.
Automatics are better but I still don’t want them in the HCS.
Now on to the bad stuff.
The BR simply is not consistent enough and does not have a fast enough kill time with all these abilities against good players. It actually might be a good gun if we didn’t have all the spartan abilities. And I know it has the same spread as older brs but you have to realize that maps are bigger now to account for sprint so mid range fights now feel weird. So the BR either needs to be removed or changed to have a faster ttk and less spread. Make the aa and bullet magnetism low so its harder to aim. Or if there isn’t time for that, just go back to pistol starts. Please do not force us to play with it how it is.
The DMR is cool but the total lack of aa at close and midrange feels really weird. I think you could raise it a tad and just keep bullet mag low.
Overgrowth and mercy are just bad. I don’t care about the b/r win rates or quit rates. They are not fun to compete on and the maps are not competitive. Short sightlines and choke points make the game horrible. We wanted forge maps, not bad maps we have vetoed 100 times.
I know you are trying to combine the HCS and TA playlists but this is not the way to do it unless you want to lose all of the competitive community.
Please just improve the BR or put it all back to pistol starts, give us forge maps, and oddball, mixed with a little MLG partnership ( Kappa) and we could have an awesome season of Halo for Worlds 2018.
Thanks for reading.