(there might be some mistakes with my english)
Hello Halo fans!
the first stage of the Halo 5 Guardians Beta is almost over, I’m giving my personal feedback weekly on this thread, please reply your feedbacks using the same scheme I use
First stage beta feedback (02 January 2015)
GAMEPLAY
-Sprint: it’s perfect, the idea of balancing it by not allowing player’s shields to recharge during the sprint is great, do not modify/remove it.
-Clambing: Great feature, I always wanted it in Halo since Halo 3 
do not modify/remove it.
-Smart Scope: I had some problems in this feature in the first matches, then I learned to use it, it doesn’t change from the old zoom we’re used to, it’s great, the return
of descope is also great, I just want flinching to be removed.
-Ground Pound: It’s ok, I like it, it’s not so Over Power as everybody thought, most of the time I use it I die in bad ways XD do not modify/remove it.
-Spartan Charge: Same of “Ground Pound”.
-Air Stabilize: I don’t use it, but to me it is the same if this feauture will be or not in the final product. If a spartan is using it, it will be easier for me to kill him.
-Slide: it’s kinda cool, and sometimes useful, I like it.
-Thruster Pack: it adds pepper to the game! it’s awesome how this game is fast, and this is thanks to the thruster pack! I LOVE IT! do not modify/remove it.
-Kill Cam: awful, why the hell you try to get this into Halo every time??? it’s awful! Absolutely remove the Kill Cam. And do never retry to get that into Halo.
-Respawn: sometimes I spawn in front of the enemies, that should not happen. fix it.
-Keep friendly fire off in matchmaking (you could give us an option to activate it in custom games)
AUDIO
-Hit Detection Sound: give us an option to remove it. it covers the awesome weapons sounds…
-Italian Dubbing (VERY IMPORTANT):
-Power Weapons-
1)at the start of the match the speaker calls them “armi energetiche” (“energy weapons”? really?)
2)in the game description they are called “armi potenziate” (“powered up weapons”, wrong transation again)
3)when the spartans say that power weapons are spawend they are called “armi potenti” (“powerful weapons”,
wrong again… and this is very weird in italian)
you must re-dub “Power Weapons” as “Armi Speciali”, please, it’s very important.
-Energy Sword-
In Halo 2/3/Reach/4 the energy sword is always been translated as “Lama Energetica” that is very ionic and cool
for italian Halo fans. when spartans speak of it they call it “spada”… it’s awful
you must re-dub “Energy Sword” as “Lama Energetica” for Spartan Chatter, VERY VERY IMPORTANT.
-Spartan Chatter: It’s great, keep it as it is. more voices needed. and maybe an option to choose the voice other players will hear.
-General opinion: the audio system is stunning, wonderful for both weapons/granades and spartan voices, and both near/ far of the player. GJ!
VIDEO
-Lightning: very well done, but some shadows are serrated, I’m looking forward for the final product’s lights!
-Weapons icons: absolutely necessary: when you could grab a weapon from the ground in the past games there was an icon representing that weapon, we need that
back.
-Match Intro/Outro: it’s awesome, absoulutely keep it. (maybe some different animation versions? )
-General Opinion: although the beta runs on 720p it looks amazing. and some textures are not finished I guess. I want so much to see how the game will look in the
final version!
MATCHMAKING
-sometimes in the lobby it is impossible to turn off the voices of the other players, but you can still turn them off later in game,
it would be preferable to a “mute all” option in the lobby.
-today my brother tryed to play but the beta said something like “servers offline” he retryed half an hour later and the game worked, he’s playing right now.
-it is very fast, and the last update fixed the bugs it had. Perfect.
WEAPONS
-SMG: maybe it is too powerful XD you should slightly nerf its damage. -edit- (my mistake, don’t nerf it)
-Pistol’s Scoping: I’d like a slightly higher zoom and a slightly bigger “sight” (?)
-Prophet’s Bane: it’s too shiny, I can’t see very well the map.
OTHERS
-K/D Ratio: it is wrong, it should be total kills/total deaths
-Spartan Customization: we need a red that is RED! not PINK!
-Physics: maybe the best physics I’ve ever seen in a videogame!
BUGS
-(not sure of this) maybe sometimes when you zoom with the sniper rifle the visual goes into the rifle’s 3D model for a very very short period of time before becoming the real
aiming
-sometimes HUD disappears for short time (maybe this was because the lag)
-it looks like pelicans and phantoms have a lower fps ratio
-sometimes the victory/defeat outro is obscured (the screen turns black)
-some shadows have to be corrected: check this link
-when a player is in the after-match lobby there is this bug: check this link
-physics bug for dead bodies: check this link
-another bug for dead bodies: check this link
the game looks amazing, see you next week for the next stage feedback!