Hello everybody, as we all should already know, in less than a few months, 343’s Title Update will arrive, and it will bring some cool changes which I am very pumped for : ), and I thought to myself the new possibilities this TU can bring one of which I am pumped the most for is the 0% bloom in certain playlists, this can bring Halo to an all new level in my eyes, it can even become competitive again, and make the skill gap to be easily noticed, which I deeply wish and I can’t wait for (if you haven’t noticed yet).
I started to think about the current playlists that are “competitive” such as MLG and The Arena, and I was wondering if 343 can implement the 0% bloom in these playlists because if they do, these playlists will become competitive for the first time.
The possibilities are endless, I really hope that the changes become universal on all playlists, but one can’t have it all, so if the changes from the TU are added to these two playlists, I will be as happy as a little kid in Christmas!
Most playlists will likely have 85% bloom, as 343 seems to favor these settings.
0% bloom will likely have its own playlist, or will be an option in many playlists. Zero bloom will likely never take over playlists such as MLG and arena though. This is because zero bloom means that the DMR and NR become extremely powerful, so there will never be a need to use anything else.
> Most playlists will likely have 85% bloom, as 343 seems to favor these settings.
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> 0% bloom will likely have its own playlist, or will be an option in many playlists. Zero bloom will likely never take over playlists such as MLG and arena though. This is because zero bloom means that the DMR and NR become extremely powerful, so there will never be a need to use anything else.
And you know this how?
In any case i will not be using any bloom weapons in halo ever again.
I believe at Halo Fest they announced that the TU won’t be implemented into the actual game until the beta hoppers will be live in october, even then the updates will be exclusive to those playlists and certain gametypes for a limited time, then they will be used in certain lists, the whole experince or won’t be used in the game at all.
And how does removing bloom from the weapons all of the sudden make the game more competitive if I may ask?
Bloom is a mechanic that (in my opinion) slows the pace of the gun play down and makes it more skill based then whoever can whip there controls around as fast as possible and mash the trigger. As far as I’m concerned 0% bloom outside the CE gametypes is like adding auto aim.
But I’m sure they will only use the new tools in the appropriate playlists.
> > This is because zero bloom means that the DMR and NR become extremely powerful, so there will never be a need to use anything else.
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> Welcome to MLG. The land of the God Guns.
> …Zero bloom will likely never take over playlists such as MLG and arena though. This is because zero bloom means that the DMR and NR become extremely powerful, so there will never be a need to use anything else.
yep. you would absolutely never ever, ever see people pick up crappy weapons like snipe, rockets,grenade launchers, swords, shotty, focus rifles or nades. it would be silly to use one of those when you could just ask them to stand perfectly still for 2 seconds straight so you can kill them with dmr headshots.
> Most playlists will likely have 85% bloom, as 343 seems to favor these settings.
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> 0% bloom will likely have its own playlist, or will be an option in many playlists. Zero bloom will likely never take over playlists such as MLG and arena though. This is because zero bloom means that the DMR and NR become extremely powerful, so there will never be a need to use anything else.
I could see MLG going zero bloom but probably not arena. The most likely place you will see it is in Anniversary Playlists and they will probably post Zero Bloom gametypes to use for customs.
My question is how they are going to deliver on this promise that Reach gameplay will stay intact for those who like it the way it is(I am not one of them). I’m guessing some slayer gametypes and maybe Invasion… anything else will probably be changed with the TU updates.
> Bloom is a mechanic that (in my opinion) slows the pace of the gun play down and makes it more skill based then whoever can whip there controls around as fast as possible and mash the trigger. As far as I’m concerned 0% bloom outside the CE gametypes is like adding auto aim.
why don’t they just slow the rate of fire? Slow it by like 50-75% current max rate of fire and I see 0% bloom being pretty balanced. And to burry the B.net immaturity, this is only my opinion.
not to be a downer, but 0 % bloom will suck, 85% is a great climate for competitive halo but 0% will be very broken and spammy (deaths will come out of no where and NR will be a god gun)
> not to be a downer, but 0 % bloom will suck, 85% is a great climate for competitive halo but 0% will be very broken and spammy (deaths will come out of no where and NR will be a god gun)
343i already said they are toning back the NR, and spammy? The optimum RoF would be mas, there would not be spamming.
I personally would love one small thing changed perhaps in the BTB playlist for both objective and slayer gametypes. I would just like to have Evade removed… So many DMR/NR duels ruined from this stupid AA.
> > This is because zero bloom means that the DMR and NR become extremely powerful, so there will never be a need to use anything else.
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> Anyone who thinks this is kidding themselves.
QFT
Especially with the removal of sword block and AL nerf. Power weapons will remain powerfull.
> > > This is because zero bloom means that the DMR and NR become extremely powerful, so there will never be a need to use anything else.
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> > Anyone who thinks this is kidding themselves.
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> QFT
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> Especially with the removal of sword block and AL nerf. Power weapons will remain powerfull.
Agreed,
So what weapons get left out.
lolAR, lolSpiker,
Everything else to me seems to have a use. or I just need sleep.