I have played the beta and I have read several of the posts and comments. And is Halo perfect? No. I personally think that there are only 4 or 5 major issues. one that I rarely see mentioned is that the respawn system is awful.
- I have popped up and immediately died several time.
- The grenades are too strong and the plasma is useless due to being too slow and the explosion is too small.
- The players are too weak. They die way too quickly. A great player should be able to beat 2 awful player. As of right now, people just travel and fight in packs. But I have noticed a difference in the past week.
- I am sort of mixed on the kill cams, but if I had to choose right now, I would just say to get rid of them. I personally do like knowing who killed me, but the kill cams are either horribly inaccurate or the person who kills me is often cheating because often times the replay shows that the person who killed me didn’t hit me with any bullets.
-Controller layout should be completely player mappable. You should be able to make your layout what ever you want it to be.
But the reason I am confused is because of my fellow players. Many are complaining about all of the changes in Halo, but I think many just don’t like change. Do you really expect everything to remain the same? Many people want every Halo to play the same way. I am not saying that Halo should be just like the other games, but Changes need to happen or they could just do updates to the older games. I really liked the multiplayer in Halo 4 because it was very balanced and it was fun. The weapon drops were fine with me. Every weapon was different, yet formidable. What I hated was playing on the same 3 maps even though we purchased the map packs.
I think 343 is doing alright with the series as a whole. Making the Spartans stronger will fix many of the problems in the beta.
My biggest problem with 343 is that their games so far have been massively flawed when it comes to running online. Playing the same maps, community maps lagging severely, and server issues are huge problems. Hopefully these things will be fixed from Halo 4.