Ok I gave the game a try and I am SR42 but I have to say I am not pleased with this game at all. Don’t misunderstand me for bashing on this game as I am a huge Halo fan but this game just feels incomplete to me and I think 343 needs to do a little work to complete it. I have always been a pretty good Halo player but this Halo I have to say I am not very good at. My KD is positive but I still feel I am bad at this game which maybe the cause for my displeasure but if I am good at one I should be good at the other.
1: I can not see my deaths in game which is VERY important to any FPS game because strategy depends on it. Lets say someone on my team is dying a lot, well I need to tell him to hide or I need to stay with him to watch out for him.
2: The kill cam is so horrible, if I watch how I was killed it shows the other player not even shooting at me.
3: Grenades are just down right different and weird. The fuse time takes to long and players can lob them way to far. The grenades blast radius is horrible as well.
In the old Halo’s if someone was shooting me from behind I could bounce a grenade off a wall or ground to hit them and turn around for the head shot. In Halo 4 I can not do that because I am either dead before the grenade explodes or it does not do enough damage.
4: You released a game without the true ranking skill which is what separates Halo from COD. To me this indicates a rushes game released AKA beta.
5: Not sure what is different in snipers but I cant hit anything. I was always great at snipers, I was a 49 in Halo 3 and a 38 in Halo 2 but Halo 4 I can’t hit anything. Strange enough I get hit in the head quite often but yet I cant hit anything despite being good at the old Halo snipers. I even put in Halo 3 and played snipers to see if it was the game or me and yet I went 25 and 7 on H3, yet I am 5 and 15 on H4.
6: Not enough maps to play on. I know more maps will come but at what price! I mean if you release a game, make sure to put plenty of starting maps. Halo 4 was released with few maps which seems more like a plan to force us to buy more maps. I don’t mind paying for maps but I feel they should give more maps to start with considering people pay 65$ for a game.
7: I feel like this game has copied COD, although I do understand the need to make change in a game but come up with your own changes. I think this game and Reach have turned into something that is not Halo and may push players away. Before Black Ops 2 came out I had 15 friends playing Halo 4 online but now I see 1 maybe 2 and the rest playing COD.
8: Their is no lag time in the bullet anymore and players no longer need to follow their target. This is a bit odd considering the range weapons now fire but yet even across the map bullets hit their target almost instantly.
9: Its nearly impossible to out BR/DMR a assault rifle unless the target is just bad at aiming. In the old Halo’s 4 perfect shots would kill a players but now its 5 which is a big differences when up against a assault rifle. Spray an prey should never win against skill.
10: The end game stats has downgraded from before. Head shots no longer count although their is headcase. MVP is no longer there. Accuracy and shot fires is no longer visible. A good feature to add would be last kill kill cam. People love to see the last kill in a match.
11: I can no longer talk trash to the enemy after death. What better way to relive stress then to pretend I have turrets for a moment.