Alright first off I had a lot of fun with the beta, the gun play was very good, movement was nice, and maps were done pretty well. Now there were some things that I think should be tweaked or outright changed. These are just my thoughts, be rational about things people.
- Zoom speed.- Now in previous Halo titles when you click the right thumb stick or whatever was your personal zoom button you would zoom almost instantly. Instead it now takes a little longer, the BR seems like the zoom is fine, but the sniper, rocket, DMR, and lightrifle have a delay.- I would suggest making the zoom speed equal for all weapons as its been for previous Halos.- 2.Thruster pack.- Fun to use.- But I feel like there should be a slight penalty for it as well, for instance instead of its recharge time being 4 seconds make it 6 to 7 seconds. Or when your shields are down and you thrust away the delay on your shields is increased by 50% or the recharge speed is delayed 50%.- 3. Hit marker, hit marker ping.
- No hit marker, or ping when shooting someone.- leave in ping when you get a kill.4. Clamber
- very useful if you miss a ledge by an inch.- While there was a slight delay after clambering I feel that adding another second on the delay would be best. 5. SMG, and AR damage and range.
- SMG damage and range should be reduced at long ranges.- AR damage should be reduced at long ranges.
- BR, DMR, LR, Magnum.- BR, DMR, LR feel like they should.- The magnum however might need some tweaking, I’ve heard from a few friends that its rate of rife is a bit ridiculous and that its rate of fire should be knocked down and more like the magnum in Halo CE.7. Ground pound.- fun but difficult to use.- charge time should be increased to a full 3 seconds.- move ground pound button to the sprint button in mid air to allow crouch jumping.
- Shields.- Shield delay time is good.- shield recharge should be increased to 3 or 3.5 seconds9. Maps.- maps felt very well done with good layout, weapon placement, and flow.- The map sizes however feel a little too big. Empire, Regret, Cross fire, and Trench feel pretty good.- While Truth and Eden feel kinda large, by no means are they bad maps but I feel that the size of them should be reduced a bit.- Pegasus, and Orion in my opinion are not all that great, they feel as though you need to have sprint and clamber in order to get around the map properly.10. Announcer, Medals, and fireteam leader.- No announcement of game objective, only game type.- assist, Spree, multikill, legendary tier medals should show on screen during gameplay not every kill you get. other medals should be in carnage report.- No announcement from A.I spartan when power weapons spawn. Or when your team or the other team has the power weapons.11. Power weapons.- no hologram for power weapons.- no timer for power weapons
- Sprint.
Sprint in H5:G feels nice, the fact that it now affects your shields is a great way to balance it but I feel that there needs to be another addition to balance it more.- While playing the beta after I would pop someones shields they would start to sprint away, and I would continue to shoot them until they ran around a corner and survive.- I would say along with the shields being linked to sprint, I would say that when you’re shot while sprinting you’re thrown out of sprint, like descoping. It will force players to run away less and less people will play cat and mouse.Alright, these are my thoughts on the beta and some things I think need to be tweaked. Now I know that everyone will have a different opinion but lets be Rational and civil about things.