The new Halo 5 multiplayer is absolutely fantastic, bringing back old memories from Halos past and mixing in new ones all together. One of these prime examples is Warzone, now a huge favorite among many players. Although super fun and offering a challenging twist on Halo multiplayer, one thing bothers me when I compare this new game type to familiar control like variations in other first person shooters. The HUD. One flawed feature of Warzone is that I have noticed it is extremely difficult to keep tabs on your captured control points or ones you are about to lose. Often times when in buildings the capture point reticules wont pop up or are located in a hard to see location, creating difficulty in determining whether you should pursue a boss, or a control point, or hold down where you are. In a lot of my games before I even notice that my team is losing a capture point, I’m greeted with a “enemy captured ______.” and then its too late to prevent a capture. What I would like to see added is an update to the warzone HUD that provides a constant on screen view of the control points and their gain/loss progress. Games like “Battlefield” or “Destiny” in their control game variants have a permanent on-screen view of your control points and whether they are being taken or captured. I think this would be a super useful tool for warzone and would make the games even more intense, by giving that extra edge to make people decide if they want to capture, hold, or eliminate an enemy. What do you think? Any suggestions?
The same could be said about teammate indicators or waypoints…
It’s very difficult to coordinate strategy, tactics, or really much of anything when you can’t tell where your teammates are, relative to you…
Especially your direct fireteam members…
It’s nigh impossible for me to find anyone or see where a majority of the team is… you need to be like within Motion Tracker range or some crap to even notice they’re there.
Can’t tell you how many times I’ve shot at a teammate from a good distance, thinking they were the enemy, particularly when they were in vehicles and I couldn’t see their armor color…
It’s rather problematic for me, 343i, please make it easier to see teammate positions or waypoints!
Totally agree with you on the indicators for teammates. Too many times have I shot my teammates because I just couldn’t make out the color. All warzone needs is some HUD updates to the indicators and it would be amazing.
I really like the idea of better friendly indicators on the HUD and perhaps a setting to keep it off for those who like things the way they are. I just want to find someone to get in my warthog! Lol.
I strongly agree that the HUD needs to be updated. There’s ample room next to the score meters to show the status of all three bases as well as a Core HP meter for when you or the enemy captueres all three of them and you’re on Core Defense/Attack. It’s be nice to now exactly how fast my core’s HP is being depleted rather than having the core destroyed faster than Palmer can say all the percentages.
Spartans have these super high tech VISRs that, in-story, feed them a ton of tactical info. Shouldn’t the games do a little bit more to reflect that?