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So I just picked up my xbox one the other week, for being on the fence about getting a new console for playing on PC. And Honestly, with Halo 5, I highly regret my choice, thankfully Its not the only halo title I own, but between the campaign being annoying hard, and the Co-op Firefight feeling like its trying to compete, and failing horribly, with Destiny, it feels like Halo forgot what Halo can be. What it isnt, is throwing mass waves of almost impossible to survive odds in your face, its about throwing challenging odds, and using tactics to survive. Its about having JUST enough space to find cover if you need to, without being completely under fire every 5 seconds. Its about enjoying the challange without trying to grind your teeth respawning just because the AI has perfect aim, EVERY time they decide to actually engage you, and being unable to do anything drastic to defend yourself, despite your skill.
Ive been playing Warzone Heroic, Legendary, and even a few Mythic matches, and when I feel it can be good, the possibility is completely thrown out the window with the fact that you need every player each time, KNOWING exactly how to damage a boss, or collective MASS of enemies, and if you don’t you are completely wasting your time. Oh, and then there is the REQ system, while the idea is nice, we should have weapons and vehicles unlocked, at least one of every base unit for each match, instead of having to spend hours praying we can survive long enough to grind enough points to hopefully get something that will actually be useful, with the main issue that most things just arnt really that great because, again, MASS enemies make most things completely useless. And it seems to get anything even remotely useful, you need to pay real money for a billion gold packs. so… lets review, loss of tactical skill play VS run gun, die respawn gameplay… Power weapon pay to win business model that makes Microsoft is asking EA for profiteering advice… and gameplay that just no longer feels like Halo should.
Nothing is special, unique, dramatic even anymore. Spartans are now a dime a dozen, Spartan Ops, a gamemode that offered great possibilities to engage us with the dime a dozen spartan and actually give them there own story, is now replaced with a generic “simulation” mode, with makes any sort of real commitment to win even lower, as its just grindy now without any real reward. Sure you grind for REQ points, but you end up spending more REQ then you get to properly win a match anyway. Hell even some of the weapon names, “Halo 2 Battle Rifle” take even a minor glance of “ok sure, im a spartan in training no problem” immersion right out the window, and thats if you are LUCKY enough to actually unlock one without spending money. Sure, its something minor, but all these minor points adds up, and what good is there, what little good, is just washed away by all the splotches. And all of these splotches, and I didnt even mention the fact that the game itself no mater what gamemode you play, is buggy as hell, TELEPORTING enemies, (NOT JUST THE ROBOT TELEPORTS, Im talking about full on glitch), loading screen crashes, moments of extreme lag. Ive lost so many items due to loading screen crashes its not even funny, let alone countless others from what ive been seeing in the forums. There are also obvious balance issues, mythic ive seen tons of complaints about too, hell, I can even throw a mythic game i played in with level 1 banshee’s, that everyone just got slaughtered to, cause at level 1, we had NOTHING to counter them. Its bad enough on Heroic with them, let alone legendary, but with skulls and God aim, come on, use your heads. Ive beaten every halo title solo legendary on xbox, and 360, and with this title, I dont even wanna waste my time. Between the bugs, extream BS with over complexity, and micro transactions, Halo 6 is prob going to go right on my black list. Its sad to have a game series like this end up like this, but the way game companies keep pushing out crap, it seems Halo and Microsoft is just one more company to add to never trust again. Welcome to a list with EA, Blizzard, Ubisoft, and Activision on it. At least you made “shiny” graphics…
Have fun with your casual income and little kids or parents who dont really care what you guys make, after all, you only now care about the bottom dollar. Not about making art.