I have been enjoying what I have seen from the technical preview so far, especially the way that sprint has been balanced. It seems like a happy medium and I enjoy it as a classic movement fan. Similarly, I enjoyed the compromise made on ADS. I like the Soft 1.4x Zoom on weapons with no scope to use as it does not really seem to add any additional accuracy, recoil control, and is simply just a zoom. I think it is much better than the classic binoculars that were just useless. However, I noticed that this soft zoom does not have descope… which is a little concerning to me. On the one hand I realize that it is not a significant accuracy benefit, but at the same time Halo has always been about extending the length of gunfights by descoping your opponents and making it more difficult to land shots. The absence of descope for this zoom mechanic just feels very strange to me, and it is especially worrisome when someone is burst firing you with the Assault Rifle from long to mid range, descoping your BR while you can’t even do the same to them. What are your thoughts on this guys?
You make very good points. If you have a BR and your opponent an AR, you can’t descope them, but they can descope you. In that way, it’s kind of unbalanced. But Infinite’s zooming mechanic seems to be less like a zoom or scoping mechanic and functions more like your weapon offset is closer, and you are closer to the enemy. In that way, I’m fine with how it’s currently implemented because it is functionally no different than hip-firing the AR, at least for me. Hopefully we can tweak it in customs
even if the zoom for scope-less weapons isnt as strong, you may as well have it held down 100% of the time in every engagement. its wack.
Yeah descope needs to happen on soft zoom. I’m not sure what soft zoom exactly does (does it still increase accuracy, red reticle range, magnetism?), it felt way easier to hit and kill enemies at long range with the AR and Sidekick than if I wasn’t using soft zoom.
I think that scoped precision weapons are accurate enough to not need zoom to perform well at range against say, someone zooming in with an AR.
ADS only improved RRR and not accuracy and magnetism so precision weapons still have the upper hand but it does help you in trying to finish runners. Using it does however impact your FOV and UI (no radar etc) so the no de scope with only some RRR assist feels balanced.
Great next step going from the ADS in H5 in my opinion.
I think I’m fine with the way it is currently. For the Ar to continuously de scope a BR user they’d have to be close enough to where you wouldn’t be zooming your BR anyways.
Though my mind may change after I get some time pvp.