What do you think about the fact that armor abilities are Back.
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GOD YOINKING DAMED
the only good one that wasn’t really a gameplay changer was sprint. Just a quicker way around the map. As long as that’s back it’s all I will use.
Other armour abilties were all abused especially armour lock.
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I am glad to see them return. People complain about copying CoD. This is copying Halo. Like it or not, Reach is Halo. I am also glad that Armor Lock will not be among them, and that Sprint will apparently be separate and buit-in.
Considering Armor lock is out, Im prett good
Do they not hear the endless complaining from the fans about Halo Reach? Do they not understand Halo Reach has AA’s and it killed Halo. No one plays it MLG is leaving it and some idiot at 343 thinks its a good idea to copy it. I just don’t understand the logic. Not to mention we dont know about all the crap AA’s that they will come up with to be in the game. We could get somthing hated more the armor lock.
I’m fine with it. I like the AA’s except for Armor Lock. They all work very well for non-competitive play, and the reasons Reach lost most Halo’s competitive crowd have nothing to do with AA’s.
They’re also nothing like perks in CoD. Perks = passive traits, AA’s = abilities you activate for a duration of time
I’m fine with it! Hopefully they are at least a little different, in terms of mechanics, than Reach.
It sucks, in my opinion. AAs spelled the death of Halo for me when I played Reach. The fact they are coming back leads to believe that they really don’t care for Halo’s “roots”. It’s just another marketing slogan.
People do not understand that jet packs broke the game just as much as armor lock. It boke maps and maps had to be made to accomadate. Take them out and halo 4 will be ok.
Why did they add armor abilities? why D: …
Why not replace armor abilities with equipments.
Dosen’t really bother me all they need to do is implement them right and also the only bad one is jetpack.(thank god armor lock is not back!)
Other than Sprint being default for all to use, I hope the rest are like Halo 3 Equipment in that they have to be sought after and picked up in-game to be used… then I hope they are implemented so that they run out of energy and get discarded. This would require the player to seek out the ability again when it re-spawns to further make use of any benefit it provides.
Anther thing if you think AA’s are as crap as I do. Just imagine taking every AA and adding sprint to it. So i can be camo and run around? wtf 343
I’m happy there back. I’m really glad 343 didn’t listen to the noobs who complain just because they lost a few games in mm. Like really its a game get over it. Although I hope there will be a halo with all of its past features and still be able to be bring new things to the table. To me halo’s core strength is variety and I really think a lot of the fans even bungie lost sight of that when halo 3 was made.
After playing hours upon hours of Firefight I found Evade the most useful armor ability against the ramped up Ai. Cloak is utterly useless against the Covenant other not getting one shotted by their Drop Ship cannons in Reach, you might want to buff the Ai detection in the player’s favor. Sprint has it uses and Armor Lock seemed only good for fuel in rage quits and Message board debates. I’m not a fan per say of Halo 3 equipment, but i’d rather see them re-imagined and deployed as specialized grenades. Example: seeing teammates getting sniped: I toss an equivalent of a Medic Bubble Shield at them protecting them, or say tossing one at an enemy trying to get a bead on a me. The shield encases the assailant preventing the shot.
A grenade that acts like a Heavy Man Cannon would be a interesting gimmick. Though I doubt any Halo fan would condone it unless it was repackaged as an equipment option since that was a former game mechanic.
I think Armor Abilities will be more of headache for the developer if they the (AAs) are made a larger part of the Multiplayer. Their fine in Firefight and Campaign, but you’ll run into a lot of vocal oppositions if they are not balanced for MM. You need only look to the former developer’s message board to see the debates on their merits since you’re repeating or carrying the process over to 4.
Personally I’d hate to give up my Evade Ability if Limited was returned in Spartan Ops and we’re facing over powered White Armored Elites.
I’m not too depressed by their return. The worst one (Armor Lock) was removed. I had hoped that the jet-pack would work like a thruster. I would have also preferred that the camo be a power-up, not AA, but I’m no too upset.