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Although I try to actually like this game, it’s far too outrageous to even play this damn thing. One problem after another and lack of of communication between dev’s and community is the reason why this game is DYING.
Yes, I said dying. INB4 GAME ISN’T DYING
I can’t not believe how ignorant most of you are. This game is nearly like Reach’s population yet, you refuse to acknowledge the fact this game is barely reaching 100k?
Now to start with the rest of my rant (didn’t finish the one I had before), those to actually read this… well thank you.
Maps
Most of the maps are eh ok, but could’ve been done a hella lot better. Maps like SHITPLEX are total trash. There’s like no point in staying in the game if the other team is red and has 4-5 people using DMRs. The Crimson map pack is just atrocious, horribly designed and above all else NOT made for 4v4.
Vehicles
I really don’t know what to say. The Vehicles in this game are complete crap, I want to know who the hell actually thought to make them completely useless in any situation. Oh you want a vehicle? Too bad, you’re gonna get DMR’d, EMP’d and Plasma Nade’d.
DMR… Wait that’s not right, I meant DNR as in DESIGNATED NOOB RIFLE.
Why the hell didn’t 343 do ANY testing with these guns? The gun totally outclasses the ASSAULT RIFLE IN IT’S OWN NICHE. What the -Yoink- were you thinking 343? The rate of fire is wayy to fast, by the time I’m on the second burst with the BR, the 2nd shot has already been fired. And for those who say it isn’t all I gotta say to you is… STOP BEING IGNORANT AND OPEN YOUR DAMN EYES this gun practically beats everything.
File Share LOL
Ordinance Drops.
I don’t know what to say, totally random and stupid.
Binary Rifle.
1 shot kill anywhere on the body? REALLY? “But it has a lazerrrr on it” I don’t give a flying -Yoink- whatever it has on it, NOTHING should be a 1 shot EVER (with the exception of Rockets, shotgun etc) 2 shots to body please, oh and people it’s called AIMING FOR THE HEAD. Not hard at all… Amateurs.
PLASMA GRENADES
Hey look a kill for my AR. LOL NOPE YOU JUST GOT STUCCKKK SON. THat is ANNOYING.
I wouldn’t mind it if people DIDN’T spawn with them.
Team balancing.
Big -Yoinking!- LOL. Oh there’s 6 people in this lobby? Would a game of 2v4 be okay?
The legendary Boltshot
NOOOOOBBBBSS. Range better than both Shotgun and Scattershot. Stop saying it’s not OP, it’s ridiculous.
I believe that’s the end of it. Feel free to share your opinions that are legit and not stupid such as the following: “everything is fine” if you actually have proof or evidence that everything is fine, then please share, if not then shut the hell up.
You have listed a few issues there that people have stated over and over again, these will get sorted, but to say the game is dying is yet another boring boring massive exageration!
> You have listed a few issues there that people have stated over and over again, these will get sorted, but to say the game is dying is yet another boring boring massive exageration!
I hope that they get sorted, because if that update doesn’t please the people that gave up on this game, I can honestly predict how Halo 5s sales are gonna be when it’s released. And to be honest I agree with it dying, the population would be higher if it wasn’t. But hopefully this update fixes everything otherwise I’m done with 343.
For me these are only some of the problems i have with halo 4. But yes i agree the franchise I knew and loved has died with halo 4 now we have this hybrid arena style shooter/class based on. Which ultimately appeals to few people.
> For me these are only some of the problems i have with halo 4. But yes i agree the franchise I knew and loved has died with halo 4 now we have this hybrid arena style shooter/class based on. Which ultimately appeals to few people.
Indeed, I was so hyped up day of release. Got home from Baseball and not a moment after was I in a car heading to GameStop. I popped my disc in and blown away with the Campaign. And then I tried Multiplayer, I was excited to see what was implemented. All it took me was 3 games to realize how -Yoink- Matchmaking was, horrible balancing, ordinance drops etc. I felt betrayed.
I agree with you but posts like this will get you banned. I posted a thread halo is dead and was banned for my trouble so I hope the same doesnt happen to you ?
The game has potential to be truely awesome but it needs the skill ranks and a lone wolf 6 players gametype. Halo needs to be halo not call of duty. I hit SR130 a while ago and have just gone back to reach. Halo 4 just holds zero appeal to me now. I really hope the january update changes all this and thats when I will go back to it. Failing that I will still be a halo fan but only play campaign.
I have to agree with your premise pertaining to the Boltshot, DMR and Plasma grenades. The plasma grenade is practically used like martyrdom from the older Call of Duty games. Its a cop out grenade to get a kill at the moment immediately before dying. The DMR and rifles in general really make the multiplayer bland. They completely outclass anything below its caliber, which obviously prompts a need for weapon balancing. The boltshot…lol…I have to admit to using this gun myself. However, I do so, because it seems like everyone has 1000x stronger shields than me. Why do I have this experience?..It is due to the crappy network… Its laggy and I know half of my shots are not being recognized. This forces me to seek out close quarter encounters to make the first shot count, because it is the only shot that gets recognized 90% of the time. This ends up making me sort of rely on the Boltshot more than I really want to. As far as Shotguns…I think they can afford to be nerfed a bit…reducing it to a two shot kill instead of one… Spartans do in fact have…Force fields around their body. It would make a more interesting shotgun fight as is… because your first shot will matter most since you have to break the shields first. This would be more in line with sniper rifles also, which is totally necessary since they have superior firepower in ANY reality you want to imagine here. Realistically, even in this fantasy world… a sniper rifle projectile is way more lethal than the buckshot of a shotgun… The shotgun tears you apart at close range… the sniper rifle tears you apart at…ANY range.
As far as other aspects of the game I think would benefit from improvement, I think the sluggish and rigid physics is ready for change. There is nothing more embarrassing and unnecessary to see a slick elite killing machine we call …“Spartans” bounce of a platform from a bad jump and launch straight up into the air instead of on the platform… Its pretty stupid and should be addressed. They should get rid of low gravity as is. We’re hitting 2013. I think they can revamp the physics by now. They should preserve the jumping potential of Spartans and just remove the exaggerated low gravity…let Spartans be Spartans…“super soldiers”…It would make maps like complex way more dynamic and epic. Essentially, My idea is that they should improve the experience of being a spartan…revamp the physics so the player feels like a damn super soldier…If I’m jumping from a platform to another platform 5-10 yards away…make it a brisk, fast and precise experience. Instead of that jumping taking days…lets reduce it to less than a second… ok? Besides…even in this fantasy universe…what are the odds that EVERY habitable planet …has…low gravity? You have tons of objects remaining on the ground after it gets blasted with fuel rod cannons…yet players get propelled away under the influence of low gravity. Even this fantasy world can benefit from logic 343. I understand it is a signature aspect of the halo product…but even halo can evolve. I also think the ordinance drops can also benefit from logic. Needlers are not that imposing in multiplayer…I don’t think they qualify as a “Drop” or “killstreak” aware by any means. Lets reserve killstreak awards for imposing power weapons like the sniper rifle, rocket launchers, shotguns, railguns and spartan lasers… Alien variations of these weapons should naturally be part of this domain as well.
Finally…matchmaking and the network itself… The halo network is literally the most laggy multiplayer experience I have ever had with any FPS. I feel like I’m playing Halo on a 56k dial up connection when I’m playing. Meanwhile, my speedtest.net rating displays a 18mbps downstream and 2.00mbps upstream connection… Obviously, something is wrong here… Lets be professionals and show integrity behind the halo product by fixing it…ok 343? Its bad enough playing the game on the exaggerated legendary difficulty…where marginal enemies can sometimes take entire clips or more from ANY weapon before they die… If that is going to be the case…Why not…increase ammo…capacity? The enemies will still take forever to kill and nobody has to resort to throwing rocks at them anymore.
Anyhow… that is the end of my rant. I understand a lot of hardcore fans may believe some of my ideas stray from the signature aspects of halo, but this game and franchise itself is in need of huge changes. Halo 4 really does not play that much different from any of the previous halo games. You still have mamby pambyland exaggerated jumps, rigid movement, rigid aiming mechanics and marginal changes to the assortment of weapons. They should really consider modeling the aiming mechanics after Call of Duty…It really wouldn’t take anything away from the game. It will only improve it. Anyway, I’ll end it there… otherwise I’ll go on forever. LoL.
Here is something you can add to your thread about Ordnance, providing you give me credit
We compare this game with Call of Duty for various reasons, one being Ordnance.
Ordnance is much like care packages, they share the same effects on the game. For example you could get 2 equally skilled teams fighting one another for victory, both being in line with one another, then suddenly one of the teams gets a better ordnance drop then the other team, which can then suddenly change who the Victor is. This is a huge problem because the dice throwing essentially throws aside the opposing teams skill. The same can be said when one team is more skilled than the other, the weaker team could get lucky on the weapons and thus brush aside the better teams effort and skill.
It happens in Call of Duty a lot, if I’m on the losing team and I suddenly get a Swarm from a care package, I essentially have won the game for us without any effort, whether it be when the teams are equal or when the teams are different in skill. The dice throwing just isn’t Halo at all.
> 343 defense Force flying on in
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> DMR is fine. I beat it with BR most of the time and I suffer from a constant one sec lag. Get over it, seriously.
I lol’d especially since some kids can’t aim for -Yoink- with the DMR. That gun is faster THAN the BR. Which is obsurd, this gun deserves a -Yoink!- nerf.
BR destroys the DMR at close/medium range if you have skill at all. DMR destroys the BR at long range. Its a long range gun duh. The light rifle destroys both if you’re good with it. Skill overtakes DMR overpoweredness. I do agree the DMR needs slight nerfing, but if you have skill you can beat it.
