Overall, the game is fun. This is the best 343 outing to date. There is a great foundation here guys.
- Gameplay -
Radar:
There is something off. I am surprised by players who are close to me more than I should be. Small movements (not crouched) don’t show up on radar. I would not say it needs just a range extender, but there is something under the hood that doesn’t seem to work
Melee:
It is a little strong for one. it should not kill a player when their shields are merely half down. Two, the melee exchange feels busted. I am getting downed by players who are dead a second later or so. its strange.
Guns:
Sidekick needs a range drop off nerf. Its the SIDEKICK, not the across the map sniper. Some players are just way better than me, but its no fun getting sniped by 5 pistol shots across the map within 2 seconds. Peoples aim must be crazy, haha. Battle rifle should not lose more often than not to pistols.
The Bulldog is just garbage. Either buff it to act like an actual shotgun, or bring back the Halo 3-like shotgun and have both.
Pulse Carbine needs a buff in either damage when shield are down, or just increase the homing mechanic
I miss the regular elite carbine (not the needle Reach one, but the Halo 3 one)
Sword clashing needs to come back, (atleast I haven’t seen it work anyways)
Assault Rifle needs to also have a drop off for damage at range. Its fun to be able to use it at all. Its a bit too meta.
Vehicles:
The UNSC vehicles need a bit more weight, the warthog is too floaty if we are comparing to other games. If i look at an edge wrong, I flip over.
- Game Modes -
Total Control BTB - Remove it. Period. Its bad. A suggestion is to place more zones to capture at once, and just making it a point tick instead. Look at Battlefield conquest, its not a bad thing.
Stockpile - Fun, very fun. Great addition, Best game mode 343 has ever done.
Oddball- Skull should be more powerful (maybe), also odd ball should reset the skull every minute. The reset would make it so games are not only, hide in corner all match.
- Playlists -
We need other playlists;
Team Slayer only
FFA
Objective Only
Swat
Playlists that cross over with each other should be in the same search pool. Meaning if I do quickplay, and someone else does oddball only, we should be able to possibly match up.
Over all, don’t drip feed and rotate regular game modes. Let us play.
- Battle pass and Cosmetics -
50 XP per match is too low, either increase it or allow for ability-based XP (how you preform per match). We paid for the content, why not let us unlock it a bit faster? 30 days of constant playing to unlock a battle pass seems a bit crazy. ( to be fair, I don’t play too many battle pass games)
Colour shaders should unlock for all armor cores! If you want us to unlock the same colours for different cores, I think that’s okay however at least tell us that we can so we are not miffed. For example, why is the anniversary shader only available to one core?!
HGEC colours should be unlocked to different armor pieces. I think it would make everyone happy.
Some of the pricing seems high for the armor sets/colours. If you lower the prices, the community will spend more. promise. 500 here, 500 there in credits will go longer than, one 2000 credit buy and people won’t purchase again. Give game pass ultimate subs a discount. You’ll benefit.
- Campaign -
If the campaign is going to give us ways to unlock goodies/just give them to us, tell the community! You’ll pull in more people to purchase if you do this.
- Elites -
We want to WORT WORT WORT!!! We need Elite customization and game modes!
I hope you read my feedback 343. I’ve been playing Halo since day 1. We missed Halo, thanks for bringing it back in good way.