Xbox one s:
1: During the whole flight I couldn’t hear any voices. Only Ambiental sounds (guns, grenades, spartan grunts, footsteps, punches etc.), as well, I had some ambiental sound issues too.
2: The menu interface is really buggy and is not that easy to navigate on. Also, I think is to saturated. To me, the menu should be intuitive, quick, clean, and easy to use.
3: The Heatwave should be a little more powerful (is kind a difficult for me to shoot), an augment on the damage could be good. The plasma weapon is also a little hard to use when using the charge shot, improving the tracking projectile could be a solution. The drop shield is really weak and slow to be activated; improving the resistance and how fast appears would be better. I feel a little indifference with the Skewer, is really hard for me to shoot and to actually hit an enemy, but I guess that’s just a “my” problem. I believe that the gravity hammer is great, but I don´t see the big impact on the “gravity” side of things; the physics when using this weapon should be crazy, like launching a Spartan to oblivion, not just pushing him to one side…
4: The game runs on 30 to 25 Fps, which I think is okay, but playing a Halo with a such low frame rate is odd; hope that the Fps on Xbox one fat/s be better.
5: There is a ton of visual glitches, (for example when looking on the edge of the screen and moving the camara around, you can see a lot of popping).
6: Sometimes when starting the multiplayer intro, you would stay stuck watching the map show off in loop for like 25 seconds, before the match starts (with no Spartan intro), which is a little annoying and takes the cool presentation of the map away, also sometimes you wouldn’t watch the intro and the match ending of the Spartans, leaving only a black screen with the multiplayer music. That’s something that happened to my lots of times.
7: The aim assist is odd, which makes that aiming in general be a bit difficult.
8: The effects of the frag grenades, plasma, SPNKR, are good, but I think they are too small (I would love to see more particles, smoke, lights etc.) and they don’t make a great interaction with the map, for example, the SPNKR only leaves a small mark where it exploded, I mean, literally a rocket just exploded there, and the map looks totally normal, with almost no interaction.
9: The bots are amazing, with little exceptions like forgetting the players, when using the camo they completely don’t see you, and that makes that kill them be very easy, when they pick a weapon they take a lot time to react, you can trigger the action of the bot trying to punch you when you use the drop shield (another advantage), the difference between ODST and SPARTAN aren’t so different, sure they are hard, but predictable. Same as me, they don’t know how to use the Skewer. They use in extreme frequency the drop shield, sometimes they go all together and then go “crazy”. And that’s it.
I loved this flight, and I hope I can see more.
Thanks, 343i, and good first step.