Yes…I did just get done listening to the THC livesteam from Social Skirmish and I actually found myself agreeing with everything…
First off. 343 we know you took the license to Halo, to develop your Halo game. But please remember that it’s not only your Halo, its the communitys Halo, it’s the Halofans, Halo.
You made an attempt at adopting COD aspects of a game, and they can be polished 100% Just make more of an attempt at it. You removed the final kill-cam, ok, but that doesn’t make up for the other buggy -Yoink- kill-cams that are in the game now does it? You adopted JiP but it’s broken to where it puts you into games that are 10-20 kills away from being done. That’s the same issue COD had, and it can be fixed, it can be polished to work with Halo. Sprint, I don’t mind, but please realize it doesn’t work in some gametypes. It shouldn’t take you 5 whole seconds to come out of Sprint to shoot. You could immediatly shoot upon coming out of Sprint in COD. That need to be polished more.
The playlists should have been better from the start. -Yoink- the August update for Reach. BTB Objective should have been in from the start, FFA should. Most of the most played playlists SHOULD have been in Halo 4 from the very start. You all know what happened to the matchmaking forums after the August update, it made the Aniversary DLC barely playable. It made people who had CEA and not Reach by even be able to play all the Aniversary playlists.
Ordinace weapons shouldn’t despawn quicker then normal weapons should. It’s the same weapon, should brought into the map a different way makes so difference. There shouldn’t have been a lack of Forge World specific objects besides all the regular objects, and that CA’s blame. You don’t know if you’re playing against a full party which you should be able to see, which hell if I know why that was taken out in Reach. You changed the scroll button for the players to the D-Pad which was completely not needed. The audio in the pre-game lobby, 343 not everyone likes Halo music to be played in their lobby. Some like it perfectly silent. So have an option to lower or mute the pre-game lobby music while your searching for a match. You can’t even set the number of players in a custom game, you have to do it before you start the game which is completely wrong. You were able to do that in Halo 3.
Halo 4 can be refined to be an immensely good Halo title, possibly even demolish Black Ops 2, which is what some of us do want, for Halo to be on top again like Halo 2 and Halo 3 were regardless of what competition it has now. 343, you wanted to make a Halo 3/Reach hybrid, I get that. You should have put the successful Halo 3 mechanics in, then put the successful Reach mechanics in, polish those to where they’ll work, then slap what COD aspects you wanted on top, polish those so that they will WORK better with Halo then in COD which is clearly what you were attempting to do. Then you’d have a good Halo that the fans want, and that is playable. If you wanted a Halo 3/Reach hybrid, MAKE it that way and POLISH it that way. I hope this TU is worth it 343, I seriously do because after watching that episode of THC. I didn’t even realize, how much issues were with this game.
Also, I think if you were to put the Progression System in as a Social Playlist, and bring back 1-50 as a Ranked playlist. It would cater to both crowds more.
Doesn’t mean I won’t stop playing it however.