Halo 4 Weapon Tuning Update

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I don’t like it the weapon tuning update.
I felt that the game was balanced enough before the update, the Mantis Chain Gun needed a bit of a beef up, but everything else was fine. Now I’m getting destroyed left right and centre.

Battle Rifle is a superior weapon compared to a DMR due to no bloom, SAWs kill in an instant it takes you to blink, Beam Rifles are spawning practically as soon as the previous one is drained, Assault Rifles are still too overpowered-the apparent decrease in aim assist feels non-existent.

And the fact that games still lag (which i know you can’t fix) makes dying even easier. I played a game where an opponent came out around the corner with a Beam Rifle and from my point of view he killed me before he even saw me.

I feel that 343 has completely taken away the skill component of Halo now, its become the COD basis of first see first kill-and if my weapon is better than yours i win.

Oh, and thanks for taking all the Scoprion tanks out, it’s not like I was going for that Commendation or anything

I can’t be the only one that feels this way?

2

The BR and the DMR are extremely balanced now. The DMR could beat the BR at close range every time before. Now it loses at close and low-mid range and wins at high-mid to long range, as it should.

I haven’t touched the automatic weapons yet, but the SAW does feel a little bit strong.

“I feel that 343 has completely taken away the skill component of Halo now, its become the COD basis of first see first kill-and if my weapon is better than yours i win.”

Halo has always had fast kill-times. That’s just how the game is. The precision weapons are balanced now so there really isn’t a case of “my weapon is better,” anymore. It’s a case of the DMR not being the best weapon for all ranges.

Everyone should be playing the game with this in mind. “What weapon would give me the best advantage for the distance I’m using it at?”

I completely agree with the lag issue though. I felt like games were extra laggy today. Also the lag compensation is terrible because I am always getting stuck by phantom Plasma grenades a second after I have already killed someone.

3

shield recharge rate needs to be decreased.

revert the maps back to the way they were because the new weapon and vehicle spawns are infuriating. Power weapons like snipers on abandon and adrift and the splaser and saw on ragnorok spawn almost right after you take them, the vehicles on exile are so much worse without the scorpion and ghosts on every map spawn way too often too.

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Lag is the thing they should have done something about first, the weapons could have waited.
BR needs its ROF slowed a bit more, it destroys any other weapon with the lag/latency, the lightrifle was perfectly fine the way it was before, now its the new pocket sniper…

And we didn’t need 110% movement speed either…

The wraith and hog on Vortex been replaced with mantis, banshee and gauss seems a good idea though.

Did they really take the scorpion out of Exile…?

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> shield recharge rate needs to be decreased.
>
> revert the maps back to the way they were because the new weapon and vehicle spawns are infuriating. Power weapons like snipers on abandon and adrift and the splaser and saw on ragnorok spawn almost right after you take them, the vehicles on exile are so much worse without the scorpion and ghosts on every map spawn way too often too.

There is a thread on the shield issue, so I’m sure that will be fixed soon. I did notice that some power weapons and vehicles are respawning really quickly. I love everything else about the update though.

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> I don’t like it the weapon tuning update.
> I felt that the game was balanced enough before the update, the Mantis Chain Gun needed a bit of a beef up, but everything else was fine. Now I’m getting destroyed left right and centre.
>
> Battle Rifle is a superior weapon compared to a DMR due to no bloom, SAWs kill in an instant it takes you to blink, Beam Rifles are spawning practically as soon as the previous one is drained, Assault Rifles are still too overpowered-the apparent decrease in aim assist feels non-existent.
>
> And the fact that games still lag (which i know you can’t fix) makes dying even easier. I played a game where an opponent came out around the corner with a Beam Rifle and from my point of view he killed me before he even saw me.
>
> I feel that 343 has completely taken away the skill component of Halo now, its become the COD basis of first see first kill-and if my weapon is better than yours i win.
>
> Oh, and thanks for taking all the Scoprion tanks out, it’s not like I was going for that Commendation or anything
>
> I can’t be the only one that feels this way?

I felt that way as well. But these new changes have made the game much better.

  1. how can you compare the 2 when neither have been in the same game? A single shot DMR with no bloom would most certainly beat a BR with spread almost anyday.

  2. The SAW before was decent. But anyone half decent with an AR or DMR beat it all the time. Now at mid range you can still deal with the SAW user from time to time but now if your in close your dead. That is a good thing.

  3. They didn’t tweak the map weapons spawn times.

  4. I barely use automatics and i notice the difference mid range which is where the magnitism reduce counts. It’s still good close which is as it should.

  5. I find your COD comment hilarious. Because none of these guns kill faster then what we have had in the past. The game feels much faster because we have sprint coupled with instant spawns. But if we removed just one of those elements the game would feel much slower. Also i have turned on plenty of people today and won. So it’s still not shoot first and win.

  6. the last point is the only one i agree with. removing the tanks and wraiths are a legit issue.