first of all I want to excuse myself to all of you for my bad English I’m from Germany but I’ll try my best.
the last days I read a lot of threads about what happened to halo or its franchise…
to be honest I was really disappointed when the MCC releases because of its failure of a multiplayer… I played halo 4 but only because I didn’t like call of duty at all and I enjoyed halo for a long time. Halo 4 felt too easy with its aim assist and bullet magnetism. I even played reach for a time… Don’t liked that game at all. And to clarify yes I played since halo 2 at all. But the main reason every halo needs new things is I can’t play the same things for 8 years straight. I want changes. That doesn’t mean I want things like sprint or any other Spartan ability all I wanted was still the same chances for everyone. And to be honest halo 5 brings that back!
Everyone has the same chances at the same time! You get punished for the faults you made not because someone had a better load out than you… You get rewarded for your accuracy while shooting because you aimed it that way not because the game did it for you. The Spartan abilitys are ok . I think the thruster pack is one of the useful ones like the ground pound! I even like the sprint in halo 5 because it’s connected to your shield and it punishes you if you run straight into your opponents. The dash is somehow useless but creates somehow funny kill moments. But at all there is no ability that is overpowered! The ground pound is a good addition to punish bad players that chases you to death! It is not overpowered cause first if you do the ground pound - everyone on the map will hear you because you are really that loud! Then you have to hit the opponent directly with the ground pound to insta kill him! And as I stated before it’s easy to avoid because you could hear it! Or still thruster away then the guy who did the ground pound should be 2 -3 BR rounds down and an easy kill anyway! The stabilize feature feels fresh and somehow a good feature if you use it well.
You finally need more skill to shoot cause the aim assist were set down. That’s what I wanted for halo since h4 came out. In halo 5 you get punished for almost every mistake you make and that is what halo made. I think all of us remembered that doubleshot by walshy on sanc in halo 2 back in the days… The spawns can be predicted through the maps are more likely to be symmetric. The kill time is ok at all. Sometimes the pistol feels a little to fast at all but it’s still ok. The descope is back and we are all happy about that! I even think the smart scope feels somehow wrong for me first but after 10 games you don’t think about that anyways. Congratulation to 343i for the button layout that all abilities fit in. I play on bumper jumper in the beta and everything feels right where it is. And for everyone I think halo 5 is the game that is futuristic at the moment it is the only game that gives you the ability to use 6 abilities beside the normal control settings on one controller! The I game callouts are a good thing but if you play with a team of 4 it should be disabled.
Finally we have a spectator mode and that is a huge thing that it works for online tournaments as well! Someone can commentate and it might get more money for them in cause of sponsors watching by…
The only thing I don’t like at the moment is the long zoom time for the sniper rifle smart scope. It is sometimes to long you cannot really quickscope anymore…
And please the assassination move should be only made if you press the button for 2 seconds.
A cool advice I would give?
When the Spartan do their bro thing at the end of every game.
Why don’t 343 implement kinect for that that everyone could do their own dance to celebrate the win? Sounds somehow dumb but it would be something different between the same animation over and over again…
again I want to apologize for my bad English.
sG MaLaaan