Hello everyone,
I figured since this is supposed to be feed back on the game I’d post my entire experience.
The flight started off incredibly rough, it took me approximately 6 hours to get my steam key because Waypoint just kept crashing over and over. I know this is due to a high volume of people all trying to do the same but it was a grueling experience where I had 4 windows open refreshing every 5 minutes to finally get there.
Once the download was finished I launched the game and for some reason it wouldn’t connect online, a simple restart solved the problem but this happened on multiple occasions where I would attempt to join and lobby and it just wouldn’t start the search.
Throughout the UI as a whole I feel as though it was not aimed towards the PC community. Prime example when I went to the weapon drills for the first time I didn’t know what the weapons were because they have never had these names before. I hover over them and the image doesn’t change so I can see it, but if I click on it then I get put into the drill even though I just wanted to see what the weapon was. Another example is with the battle pass as you hover over the items it doesn’t say what they are you have to click them which brings you to a completely separate page, which is just cumbersome. I feel like the UI as a whole had a lot of unnecessary actions needed to navigate it, the customization is a great example. When I hover over a piece of armor and click it I feel like that should equip it, but no it takes me to another screen and then still even if I click it nothing happens I have to press f or hit the equip button. I know this is a small thing but as a PC player I found it super annoying, and seemed very clunky.
The shop as a whole seemed empty as there were supposed to be daily items that would change but never did, and the same items remained available the entire flight. That being said I’m sure at launch that will be dramatically different, even so you only had access to 4 items in the shop for customization to purchase that either needs to rotate fast or there needs to be more in my opinion.
Customization in this game is pretty awesome but I have one gripe; in EVERY halo prior to now we’ve been able to use our own color schemes, why are you limiting that now? I don’t think the palettes are a bad idea but I do think that we should be able to use a basic palette with basic colors if we choose to, and make the color palettes we earn be really cool and dramatically better or just different from what we can choose in our basic little palette. Another thing to note I wasn’t a fan of the Maltese weapon skins they just seemed so basic, loved the red though. Last thing and I’ll move on I didn’t really feel the presence of my AI all that much maybe I wasn’t doing something right but I just feel like I barely heard my AI for that customization to even matter.
Gameplay. Man… for the most part y’all nailed the game play. I had two friends come over and they asked to play; one of them a long time halo fan (knows the whole halo timeline by heart including the offshoot games) and one who thought the older games weren’t fun (blasphemous I know). BOTH of them thoroughly enjoyed the game, and were impressed with the overall gameplay. I will note that they both played with controller on my PC and two things spawned from this; 1. It reset my key binds on mouse and keyboard (I ended up spending a whole match almost afk trying to fix it), and 2. they felt that the sensitivity and general over all feel of playing on controller via PC felt mushy or clunky. I don’t know I never played on controller. The only complaints I have are
- Sidekick feels too weak, it takes like two mags to kill someone. - The Commando rifle (I think that’s right), also WAY too weak takes almost a full mag up close to kill someone, and even with headshots. - Grav Hammer feels awful, I literally had a bot kill me before I could swing down to kill it, and there’s like no lunge whatsoever. - Sprinting feels bad, it just doesn’t feel like you are moving hardly any faster at all its only good for sliding. - The newly added map (Can’t remember the name) made the Bulldog and AR feel really bad because the map felt like it was setup for long range engagement. - The open mic thing, but I’m sure that’s gonna get a fixThat’s it.
Overall while there were some frustrating bits for the most part I had a lot of fun. Your ODST bots murder. The game feels good. I look forward to hopefully flighting again in the future.
EDIT: I forgot to mention a bug I found, if you set the scoreboard key to a key and then press it it caused me to crash. I tested it 3 times in a row to verify it was repeatable and it was.