I’m not going to be long winded about this. This is going to be short and bitter…although, I will be updating this as things go on so it could become not so short.
First and foremost, I don’t like your controller layouts. Bumper Jumper could be better if you swapped some buttons around. Make left trigger Zoom/Smart-link (Since every FPS hates hip fire these days), this needs to be in a better position since you re-added the “knockout of zoom when hit” BS. Make the Left Stick Click be Sprint (that should be the default location for it for every FPS in my opinion.) Make the Right Stick Click be Crouch, and change “A” button to Grenade. Or on your default setting swap the grenade and jump and that would be a great layout too. I really just want to be able to customize my controller layout in game! I don’t know why we can’t have it… I have been playing with the Bumper Jumper layout with a Scuf controller( remapping the left paddle to be Thrust and the right paddle to be Sprint). This seems to be working for me now. I blame my previous inability to play with the controls the way they are on the MCC issues to date, leaving me unable play any form of Halo. (A BS excuse…I know, but I forgot how to play Halo, and MCC wouldn’t let me do anything, it would move the cursor/selector back to it’s previous position anytime I moved it.)
There is currently no option to back out of a search once it’s at least one player. If a player goes to dashboard and closes the beta, anyone left in that search will be stuck searching without finding a match(I sat there for a few minutes and it never added anyone to the search).
The AR does way too much damage per bullet. In the same time it takes to fire two shots of the BR, the AR will take you down to no shields. Maybe it’s designed that way, but it just seems a little over powered at a distance. The AR beats the magnum at long range, that can’t be right.
I currently can’t search for a game with anyone, I can only search solo. Not fun for a team game. <em>*I’ve been able to search with a party, but the wait time is long (always waiting on one player), or it doesn’t connect at all and I get an error message and booted to the menu.</em>
It seems like you jumped on the FPS hip-fire hate train, or there are plenty of latency issues. Both are a possibility at this point. <strong>*There are some serious issues with the hit boxes/connection issues. People that aren’t playing, AFK people, can take 6-9 shots from a BR. I’m guessing it’s connection issues, but the hit boxes might need tweaking as well.</strong>
The Shoulder Charge & Ground Pound seem pointless to me. With the shoulder charge you’re stunned just as long as them and it does the same damage as a regular melee, so I see no point to it. And the ground pound is suicide. Unless these two mechanics were introduced for something we haven’t seen yet, I honestly don’t know why you would waste the time reminding the player they can do the same exact things in Destiny ( Where it was executed better, and there aren’t a lot of things I’d say Destiny did well).
I’m not a fan of the inability to sprint when getting shot. That’s just a personal opinion.
Spectating a friends game has caused it to lag the game horribly.
The Killcam needs to start earlier, moments prior to being hit with the kill shot. I’d like to see how I died, not where my killer went 2 seconds after my death.
Your Skill system is questionable at best! I had a game where I went 10-1 and only got +2 skill points?!? What is that? A 4.5 KDA game gave me +18. Both games were wins, I had plenty of assists, but two very different skill point rewards. I was in a lobby with a Gold Tier ranked player with a .3 KDA, and I was a Bronze Tier ranked player with a 6.1 KDA, I don’t understand your logic!
You can’t see Post game stats after exiting them while still in the lobby.
Audio options are needed. Voice, Sound effects, music, some way to adjust them.
Hydra is terrible. No impact, no splash, no damage, the reload seems too long. Seriously, it seems like a nerf version of the Brute Shot from Halo 3 and that thing couldn’t kill anyone either.