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With the upcoming Halo Wars 2 DLC it brought me back into firefight enough to go play reach just to play firefight, and I don’t even like reach that much.
It was a lot of fun honestly there weren’t restrictions. Depending on the game mode you could use any gun without feeling like you parted with something and you could get ammo for it, for free.Now this is where I want to complain about halo 5 and it’s firefight. While I didn’t expect to have a perfect firefight dlc back when it came out, I was pretty disappointed with what we were given. The ideas that were put in though were great, objectives, bosses, unique enemies. But they did them horribly.
Halo 5’s horrible firefight
Objectives are boring: You get lost when you kill a bunch of guys in one spot then the next group spawns across the map, it leads to people just going around in ghosts for a whole minute until they find them. The defend objectives are even worse, when you get the base secured enemies start spawning inside killing most people, then you spawn across the map. Then there are the protect objectives these are unbelievable. First, they are almost always forerunner. Second, they can and will get destroyed before your team even gets to it. Third, enemy spam, I don’t care if they are elites or any Minor enemy, but the knight spam/ elite general spam is ridiculous. Then when you die, you have to run across the map again.
Bosses are fun, bullet sponges are not: Their bosses are not really unique either. Every boss basically doesn’t take damage from any handhold weapon (excluding the spartan laser), they can only be killed with vehicles, not saying that all weapondshould do a lot of damage to bosses, but I should feel like I am helping when I have tier 3 rockets or something. Then there is nothing really unique about the bosses they all do the same stuff as theur non boss counter parts. Excluding of course the warden and especially the grunt goblin. Then guess what if you die you spawn across the map.
The maps are too big: It results in these really boring moments of running across the map to get to objectives or to get back to objectives. Multiplayer map are not firefight maps.
Spawning is horrible in every which way: First, when you die more than likely you will have to run across them map to get back to where you were. Second, spawn times, there is nothing more immersion breaking and monotonous than dieing and watching a thirty second timer go down.
All the enemies have godly damage and range: The range of this AI , you cannot take cover in most cases because enemies get this laser focus on you and don’t stop shooting until you have made behind a wall across the map, if you even make it that far. Then vehicles if you get a banshee light rifles start shooting from every which direction, you can avoid these guys. Damage I can work with but in some cases it is down right wrong. All I can say are “Phantoms”.
Weapons and the lack of a life system: This where we exit the realm of halo 5 sort of, not really. I want to have fun in firefight and use weapons besides the basic loadout. I should not have to be worried if i am going to be effective against enemies whenever I use something like a sword, grenade launcher, or hell even a plasma rifle. Some weapons shold be free to use, better firefigh should have loadouts again. It’s dumb that I am scared to use anything but a BR/AR. A life system should come back in place of this horrible spawning system. There is nothing else to say about that, waiting long times to spawn is not good.
Firefight should be its own thing again. Single player or matchmaking. Even if it is integrated with a -Yoink- microtransactions system. What it shouldn’t be is the half–Yoinked!- version we got in halo 5. This should probably get moved to halo 5 forum