The bottom line is that Halo 4 is a good game, just not a great game. I will honestly say though that a lot of things have been done right in this game, but the weight of the issues are keeping many from wanting to play.
The Good?
Quick/crisp movement speed and jump height
Weapons feel great in combat
Vehicle mechanics and handling are superb
AA’s are very well balanced and not over-powering
Tactical and Support packages add a nice change to the game
Overall a closer “Halo” feel than Reach
The Bad?
Playlists
Auto-aim on the DMR
Mantis in-balancing on maps
Vehicle resistance to stickies
Bolt-Shot charge time
Lag/latency in Matchmaking
Verdict?
Halo 4 is a good halo game like I said before, but there are a lot of people that have stopped playing it. I know personally this game grew stale very fast with no dedicated Objective or BTB playlist (without Infinity Slayer).
I do want to touch on a few points I brought up though. First off the DMR is a very power-full weapon and I’m not looking that to change. But the auto-aim for the weapon is ridiculous. The gun with this and limited bloom makes it a very easy weapon to use. I’d like to see a set ROF and no bloom personally. Give it it’s proper niche as a ranged weapon with a slower ROF, about the time it takes for bloom to reset fully.
Also another issue is with vehicles resistance to Stickies. Two stickies will destroy a Mongoose as well as a Warthog, how is that right? This should be increased to 4 or more stickies since players are able to equip them in their Loadouts.
Thanks for listening. Just one more fan trying to help this game get back on top.
Agreed, you’ve got it all spot on.
This game can still be a great game, just fix the boltshot so you have to charge it completely to get the 1hk cause you can charge it till the 3 rings pop up and bam k0, actually update the playlists weekly like they said they would. And yeah, stickies shouldn’t even be in loadout period. You know how many times I’ve died being king in regicide and some level 27 comes rushing me and throws two stickies at me sticking me, sacrificing himself… and he still comes out on top? It’s kinda funny really. But yeah, like I say in practically every post I make on these forums the game has major balancing issues. A simple beta would have prevented that
Seriously though, one of the biggest anticipated games to be released and they don’t even release a beta? Come on 343 thats not cool…
Played 3 games, left 1. I just keep playing less and less of this game =\
I personally think 343i should have had a beta, like Reach did, instead of testing and working out all these problems while we play. All the problems are suffocating the population. More people would play if there weren’t so many problems to solve. The problems are annoying and get in the way. If there would have been a beta, there would be less problems and higher population.
Obviously there’s not much they can do about that now, but these problems really need to be fixed. I’m not necessarily agreeing with all of OP’s problems, but I do agree with some of them and I would like to see 343i working harder to get them fixed. I’m sure they could have a majority of these problems fixed by the end of the month.
Only reason I am not playing as much is due to waiting for the TU… oh and the weather (bad weather affects my disability).
I like Halo 4… just hate the -Yoink!- glitches that seem to happen EVERY match.
Couldn’t even be bothered to play last night - i’m now board of all the issues. I decided to torment fanboi’s on this forum and watch a cheeseball Nicholas Cage movie that was on the telly - thats right Nicolas Cage is now more entertaining then a 1 month old game (and he’s a terrible actor).
The Good
better movement speed
Weapons feel great in combat
AA’s are very well balanced and not over-powering
Tactical and Support packages add a nice change to the game
closer “Halo” feel than Reach in some areas
great story
The Bad
low jump height
Vehicle mechanics and handling are still atrocious
severely limited out of map exploration in campaign
no campaign theater
marines are still far from supportive
weapons disappearing too quickly
long shield recharge wait time
short campaign
underwhelming moments in campaign
underwhelming easter eggs
The Ugly
QTEs
> Couldn’t even be bothered to play last night - i’m now board of all the issues. I decided to torment fanboi’s on this forum and watch a cheeseball Nicholas Cage movie that was on the telly - thats right Nicolas Cage is now more entertaining then a 1 month old game.
Hey, leave Nicholas Cage out of this, he’s a fine actor :))
Yikes… yesterday the population didn’t break 100,000.