Hey Everyone,
I’ve seen a lot of people saying verbatim, in a lot of posts, what I am about to. The Gameplay is unbelievably slick, feels great. Gunplay is tight and fairly balanced, but here are the things I have noticed.
Menus
- When going from the Search for Game button up to boosts it on occasion skips the boosts option and goes right up to gametypes.
- Gametypes included screen has very ugly low res placeholder images.
- Please allow for more selection when searching, let the people who only want to play slayer play it. Otherwise you can get stomped because of teammates not playing the objective. (possible fix, give XP for kills in slayer. But only XP for objectives in objective gametypes)
- When resuming on xbox series X I usually need to restart the game fully or I cannot search for a game.
- The header for “Self-Destructions” is badly placed. right now it says “Self-Descr itions” with how it is spaced
In Game/Balance Feedback
- The Disrupter is inconsistent with its shock damage, sometimes it applies sometimes its doesn’t.
- Vehicles need a lower center of gravity, hitting a ledge or rock right now always flips the vehicles and makes driving discouraging.
- I have had zones in Total Control stop working, where neither team can gain anything in progress bar, makes scoring points impossible
- Commando should have less bloom, the AR overpowers it at range
- Bot backfills are worse than no backfill. They always get wrecked and cause you too lose faster. Up their difficulty.
- Fix Squads, Maybe allow custom squad name/emblems, associated with Clans? Like how rocket league handles it.
- I’ve played over 10 hours in game and just hit level 10. I used challenge swaps and double xp to hit this (note I nearly completed weeklies twice. Once before reset and once after during this first week). 1 hour to unlock a challenge swap is stupid. You said you wanted people to not feel like this is a grind. Well it is a grind and we all don’t like it. You guys need to make money we know, but if we buy a battle pass then you already have our money, making it this slow is well. Bad.
Working as Intended?
- Store is grossly overpriced and limited. Needs Major Rework to be fair, sell single items for much less.
- Waypoint App allows from cross core use (but broken to enable). I shouldn’t have to unlock the same color/emblem/helmet multiple times. That’s just poor design.
- BRING BACK POST GAME LOBBIES/REQUEUE WITH TEAM, HALO IS A SOCIAL GAME. THIS RUINS THE SOCIAL ASPECT AND MAKES THE GAME SEEM DESOLATE.
- Because of the way the intros are limited to 4x people you don’t get to show off the “player expression” that we want. Maybe show 2x spartans at a time?
- Pregame lobby should populate the player names and show the Spartans you have matched with.
- Player collision. Whoever said they like to keep it out has never played an actual match. Phasing through enemies during melee and having a teammate walkthrough you when shooting a rocket/grenades greatly outweighs the advantages (is it a server tick issue so its enabled to alleviate it? Just tell us the reasoning why.)
- Post Game Carnage Report. Should show whole team overview, I want to see how i did compared to my friends/teammates right away, I can view my stats on that screen already. This doesn’t cause saltiness. If someone has an issue with how they are being spoken too that’s what mute/player feedback is for. We don’t need to be babysat.
- Vehicles need more durability against non power weapons, additionally the damage they show is pretty subpar. I have ran up to a ghost on the field not knowing it is blown up until I can’t get it in.
General Questions/Soap Box Time
- Are we going to be able to customize covenant equipment? This seems like a huge miss, and including those skins in the current live battlepass would help a lot of peoples frustrations.
- Jeff… we know he’s coming back, but when?
- Possible fix for XP per game - Add backend challenges for medals, End of game awards XP for said Challenges. This would be in addition to weeklies (IE. Perfection = 10xp, Backsmack 10xp, Overkill 20xp etc. etc.).
- I’m bored of the 4x possible animations shown during the intro now, let us customize them.
- EVERYONE has reported issues with aiming on Controller, this is very much related to the default settings in the menu, default deadzones are WAY to high. I have a 3 year old elite controller and 2.0 for the deadzone is perfect and shows no drift (this is subjective obviously, but the default shouldn’t make the game feel laggy).
- Please give us Service Records and SR Ranks in game. Right now I don’t know my win percentage… KDA… Even games played. People NEED progression to stay engaged in social, its s fun little competition to beat your friends to max level.