After playing the flight, and using the waypoint app I can say I am very hopeful for the future of this game. It seems they are finally taking a strong step in the right direction with the gameplay and presentation. Starting off I’m glad halo is such an amazingly optimized game that runs even on my very old xbox one, and im happy to know that i am not being left behind by a game series that I’ve played since i was younger. Gameplay wise its fun to not worry about boosters and such, I enjoy the feeling of just running around as fast I can (and occasionally grappling around). I think that weapons can probably get buffed at least a little with DMG they deal, but that’s just me not used to the game yet probably. Customization wise the modular style of customizing is interesting and I cant wait to see more appear in the game (really hoping that the operator gen1 makes a comeback as it is my favorite helmet). The coating system while cool, could be switched out with a painting system perhaps where we can choose the color for all the parts of our armors. Of course the coating could come with the armor kits that have yet to be released to really help make a look stick out but all in all I’d love to be able to make my spartan unique to me for both the reasons of roleplay and also just feeling more like I have control to express my personality while playing the game. The A.I we get is fun, and adds a nice change of pace from all the grunting and groaning of your spartan in previous games. I hope that more come out with diverse personalities again for both roleplay and enjoyment reasons, while talking about voices I am hoping that we can customize the voice lines used by our spartan to help make them our own. The maps where fun and seemed balanced other than some respawns that put you directly in front of enemies and flow wise itll be fun to learn said maps for ranked gameplay.
The waypoint app seems really nice as well with some errors loading things and invisible things but of course this is a flight and its to be expected for things to not work. I hope that when it comes out it functions all the way as I am excited to be able to switch my gear around and look at my stats on the go.