Okay, so while I certainly don’t think Halo 5 is a bad game I just think it’s losing the Halo “feel” that I literally hold near and dear to my heart. There are lots of small things that bug me, but only a few that I think are the essential problem. 343 whenever you make your next game please take this into consideration:
SHIELDS
Now this is a big one for me, hence why I have it first. The weapons need to be nerfed plain and simple or shields need to be increased or a combination of both. Boltshot requires zero skill and is a four shot kill…instantly. Light rifle is a 3 shot. BR and DMR are four shot. Pistol is 5. Storm rifle and SMG are instant death machines and shotgun and scattershot and ESPECIALLY the sword have what feels like infinite range. This isn’t call of duty where you should be dying so fast and games never reach the 12 minute mark. That’s what made Halo 3 amazing. You had your perfect blend between power weapons (sniper, rockets)and your starter, second tier weapons like BR and assault rifle. This to me, and a lot of people I’ve talked to is a HUGE problem. I miss getting into battles where my shields would drop, but I still had a chance to get the out BR if they missed some shots and I out strafed them. I miss the matches that were tied 44-44 with only 1 minute left. The shields need to be stronger and the weapons need nerfed. You don’t need 50 power weapons to choose from on a map. Also, does anyone else depise the forerunner/promethian weapons?
MAPS
Since when did Halo maps have so much crap on them and become so big and complex. Keep it simple. Even your midship remake is MASSIVE! There doesn’t need to be such a cluster of boxes and pillars, and 500 ways in and out of an area. Halo 2 and 3 maps and even CE were great about this and then sometime around Reach, 4 and 5 it’s gotten awful. Please make some simpler, more arena style maps with smaller amounts of random -Yoink- thrown in everywhere.
PLAYLISTS
In the main arena lobby there should be two categories. Ranked and Social. That’s it. If you made it this way I PROMISE you that you will see a turnaround in games played and popularity. The following are must haves!
RANKED
Team Slayer
Team Arena (I like the good mix of objective and slayer, but please bring back oddball and classic King of the Hill)
Lone Wolves/Rumble Pit (mix in some oddball, and king of the hill though maybe keep those gametypes in the 20-30% range)
Team Doubles!!
Team Snipers
Hardcore (NO FRIGGIN RADARS, NO WEAPON PADS! People need to remember the times spawns, it’s not hard, and the big indicator just seems to childish for me personally)
SOCIAL
Slayer
Big Team Battle
MULTI TEAM!!
Action Sack
Rumble Pit
Griffball
COMMUNITY
This would be a GREAT addition as there are certain community made maps out there that are great! Maybe a ranked and social playlist. Split evenly with Slayer and objective. Also, a playlist for remakes of Halo1,2,3, Reach remakes.
OTHER
LOOK DOWN SIGHTS
Maybe this is me being picky, but why are all the weapon ridicules so small and why is there a look down sight for every weapon now??. Even the warthog gunner sights are wierd and tiny. This feels too Call of Dutyish to me and is a huge pet peeve I have with the game.
RANKING
1-50. Thats it. It’s that simple of a fix. It was amazing, it’s been begged for to be brough back and we still haven’t seen it, other then MCC, which is messed up because you always match people way below or way higher. I loved Halo 3s ranking system and would be the happiest man alive to see it brought back.
FILE SHARE
What a beautiful thing this was in 3 and Reach. I loved playing someone really good and then downloading there films to take away certain things they did that I could try and implement. I loved saving funny screenshots and downloading them. Please make this happen!
MEDALS, TOOL OF DESTRUCTION, AND KILLED MOST AND KILLED MOST BY POST-GAME STATS
Please bring these back. Me.and my friends would always laugh if someone was the lone guy to get killed by the guy on the other team with only one kill. We always loved looking at what weapon we used the most, and who doesn’t love seeing everyone’s medals afterwards. I love the KDA and damage dealt stats, they are huge indicators of how well someone actually played as well as the objective stats (flag grabs, strongholds defended, etc.)so definitely keep that.
Now, I know I just did a whole lot of complaining. I don’t like to do that but this is something I’ve been wanting to write since Halo 4 and I just had to let you guys know. I absolutely love what you guys have done with Forge and Theatre. Maybe add the ability to record clips to upload into the file share. Anyways, I’d love to hear back from the community on this to see if me and my small group of friends are just stuck in the past with all of this but I really think it’d help the state of the franchise and would bring it back to its glory days. 343, you guys hold the power of one of my most beloved franchise and I trust you guys will do it right. You guys have done much better at listening to the community lately and that is the single most important thing to the survival of the franchise.
Thanks