I won’t rant. All I have to say is I’m really enjoying the H5 beta so far. It’s smooth, exciting, and fun. Fun is what matters most to me. Sure there are tweaks that can be made but otherwise it plays great. For those who dislike, or even hate it, because “it isn’t Halo” then I say to you, play the MCC. There is your Halo. Let Halo 5 evolve and 343 do what they want. I think they’re in the right direction and hope they don’t make major changes from the beta. So well done, 343. Well done.
Why is it fun to you, WHAT tweaks are needed.
see this is something that has been bugging me for a while, alot of the negative posts, bring up VALID points, for example i’ll copy pasta my complaints at the end here. meanwhile pretty much ALL of the positive posts are simply “i like it, its fun to me” the present no argument on WHY it’s fun, they are words without substance, and yet if we present substance and are negative WE ar ehte bad guys somehow???
alos here is my beta feedback list thus far.
FLINCH
Why is there still flinch? Weren’t you guys explicit when you said flinch is out, de scope is in? instead we now have BOTH which is not only limited, but shows a lack of honesty on 343 part.RESOLVED-https://twitter.com/JoshingtonState/status/549624652117454848
DESCOPE
Yes we wanted this back, Yes it IS back BUT. now there is a delay on when you can scope back in, the sniper rifle already has a horrible scope time, and furthermore since a single bullet from the ar, which is now a PINPOINT accurate weapon will de scope enjoy getting kicked out of scope the second your in it now.
RECOIL
Why were recoil mechanics added to ALL guns? Did the scientifically enhance super soldiers wearing 1000 pound power armour skip on arm day, and if these weapons recoil for them, they must be IMPOSSIBLE for a non augmented soldier to fire right?
SMARTLINK SCOPE
“Its not ads” Except it IS ads, especially on the ar, which is now a valid threat at all ranges,it’s a starting weapon which is s’posed to be a weapon that will work until you come to a better weapon, right now it is a jack of all trade, master of none, it presents far to good of a threat against all other weapons, including the sniper rifle (giving the pinpoint accuracy and ability to descope on one shot)
NETCODE
The net code for the beta is horrendous, i mean, seriously, it makes battlefield 4 look good, i should not get hit by a single ar shot, and suddenly die in .2 seconds later, Halo has always been a game where skill prevail, where even if you get shot you CAN turn around and present a valid threat to your attacker, right now, you might as well start thinking about your next move if you get shot first, cause you will die.
KILLTIMES
Is it just me, or are kill time SIGNIFICANTLY faster then even halo 4(which had the fastest kill of all halo) this is NOT a good thing, halo has always been fast pace action, but slower pace combat, where combat takes several seconds to complete with non power weapons, this made power weapons all the more important for their ability to instantly kill, it also allowed skills to prevail over reflex, which set it aside from other shooters. While not 100% accurate, i have always classified halo (and other FPS) into two types, Twitch shooters (where first shooter generally win and twitchy caffeine drugged sugar excited children have the advantage) and skill shooters (where a player skill will allow them to overcome all obstacles) halo 5 FEELS like a twitch shooter, and not a skill shooter.
SMART SCOPE +PRECISION WEAPONS
Ok got smart scope out of the way, this is feedback numeral 2, smart scope on precision weapons. Namely the visual obscurity that happens when scope on precision weapons (ala the DMR) and the time to scope on the sniper rifle, the sniper rifle should not take a half a second to scope in, this makes a logical sense if it was a “ADS” first person shooter where they need to bring the scope to the shooter eye, but it’s not its the so called smart scope which is the camera linked to the spartan HUD, when we press the button, the change over should be instant.
HIT MARKERS
Now i asked this back in halo 4, but what is the point of visual hit markers? What purpose does a hit marker serve? Seriously 343 can you answer that? a player should know when they score a hit with a gun, i mean they had to aim the gun at the player and pull the trigger,didn’t they? the ONLY thing i see hit markers doing, is turning explosives into a echo location device ? Allowing you to throw it around blind corners, wait for the explosion and if you get a hit marker, it means there is a enemy behind that corner. I simply don’t understand the fascination with hit markers in this generation of games, and i find they make no sense logically, canonically, and game play wise.
SEARCH TIMES
Game search times are WAY to long 'Nuff said.
LOCKED INTO SEARCH MENU
At no time should a game lock you into the search for player menu, until a game is finalized with two even players, players should be able to back out of that menu.
KICK TO MENU
There are several annoying “kick to menu” errors while searching for a game.
FRIENDLY FIRE
This needs to be enabled, friendly fire has been a staple and game play influence feature since halo 1. It significantly impacts the way halo is played because of the risks associated with mindless grenade spam, and shooting. It needs to come back, do NOT i say again DO NOT continue to hold player hands by giving them no FF, and other noob friendly design as game play decisions.
WEAPON PICKUP DIAGRAMS
Please return weapon pickup diagrams, so we now what weapon we are picking up at a glance, instead of having to read a sentence to find out, already had it where i picked up the WRONG weapon from a enemy kill (he dropped Prophets bane, and a BR, i ran over the sword to get it and ended up getting his stupid br instead)
I don’t need to justify why I like it. I think it’s fun. That is what matters. I imagine it must be hard to be a 343 employee that receives so much hate so I just wanted to quickly say I enjoy it and think they have done a great job.
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> I don’t need to justify why I like it. I think it’s fun. That is what matters. I imagine it must be hard to be a 343 employee that receives so much hate so I just wanted to quickly say I enjoy it and think they have done a great job.
then you are are a part of the problem.
the so called “negative” post you are talking about, are constructive criticism, which is a GOOD thing.
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> I won’t rant. All I have to say is I’m really enjoying the H5 beta so far. It’s smooth, exciting, and fun. Fun is what matters most to me. Sure there are tweaks that can be made but otherwise it plays great. For those who dislike, or even hate it, because “it isn’t Halo” then I say to you, play the MCC. There is your Halo. Let Halo 5 evolve and 343 do what they want. I think they’re in the right direction and hope they don’t make major changes from the beta. So well done, 343. Well done.
I agree I am enjoying the beta. Hoping for BTB by the 3rd week so we can truly test the beta experience.
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> I won’t rant. All I have to say is I’m really enjoying the H5 beta so far. It’s smooth, exciting, and fun. Fun is what matters most to me. Sure there are tweaks that can be made but otherwise it plays great. For those who dislike, or even hate it, because “it isn’t Halo” then I say to you, play the MCC. There is your Halo. Let Halo 5 evolve and 343 do what they want. I think they’re in the right direction and hope they don’t make major changes from the beta. So well done, 343. Well done.
I agree with you. The MCC is there for those that want experiences from the past, and H5 is here for those that want a new take on the franchise we love.
I really enjoy the speed in this game and the mobility. They ditched things I didn’t like from H4, added some classic stuff back, and created a game that to me, is just really fun.
If November hit and the game we got was like this, only extra polished up, I’d be super happy about it.