This game at its core is very very good. The movement speed, guns, and AA’s are perfectly fine. But, the way 343 set everything else up is absolutely pitiful. Here is a list of their shortcomings so far. If they are going to fix these things please update us. We all have bad memories of the title updates that never happened on reach. This game has potential. It could be great if they would get it together. Don’t make another reach.
There are only two maps that I would consider competitive 4v4 maps. Those are adrift and haven. The rest of the maps might as well be btb maps. There was no thought put towards making them competitive maps its embarrassing.
The playlists are a joke. You give oddball, flag, and king there own playlists and leave doubles, snipers, and swat out of the original hopper. Then you take snipers away? People don’t get excited to wait to play there favorite playlists. They just get mad.
NO skill based ranking system is also ridiculous. Going up levels just for playing loses its value after a day or too. It is just armor it doesn’t entertain me much.
The map pack is a joke it is more of the same 343. You let mlg players test out your game and then you give us giant maps that play god awful. No true halo player actually likes to sit in one of ten buildings and shoot unaware players in the back with a DMR
I agree with this post 95%. The core is very good, but yeah, there’s so many outstanding issues that out of all the games I’ve purchased this year, I regret buying Halo 4 the most. Although the 14 day XBL trial got me playing ME3’s MP again so it wasn’t a total loss.
I think like Reach, in a year this game will be better. Consolidated playlists, optimized settings, a larger variety of maps via Forge, title updates, etc.
I still insist the DMR should be a power weapon rather than a starter weapon too. The range it has really hurts gameplay. The BR forces you to seek your enemy and not hide and shoot them in the back. The only other solution is smaller maps. Then you take away its huge advantage.
I don’t feel like they are screwing over the fans. I just feel like they need to put a major focus on what made halo…halo. Ranks and COMPETITIVE gameplay. Like I said, halo 4 has good core gameplay. You have to have casual/fun playlists and the super competitive ones. Stop trying to imitate call of duty on that aspect. Nobody can out social call of duty. Bring hardcore/ fight to the death gameplay back and halo’s population will spike. I don’t get why you can’t have the casuals and hardcore gamers happy. Those terms aren’t an insult either.