Thankfully, there are only two of them. 343 has done an amazing job on the balancing in this game. However, a couple niggling issues put flaws in the experience for me.
The biggest one is the lack of weapons on the map. Yes, there are ordnance drops, but what happened to there being small arms in certain sections of the map? There were extra BRs in the middle of Valhalla in the event that you needed more ammo, there were plasma pistols in bases, and other smaller, unimportant weapons scattered across maps. This allowed you to ditch your initial gun and adapt to something else. This can’t really happen in H4 at the moment, because most people spawn with BRs and ARs anyway, and you won’t end up picking something unusual up like a Storm Rifle or Plasma Pistol. I’d be a very happy man if 343 added these spawns, and it’s not like it would take a great deal of work. You would just need to add them in in Forge, and I can’t see it ruining the balance at all given that everybody starts with whatever they want initially. I’m just tired of running out of ammo and simply picking up more ammo and instead of picking up the first thing I see, having to use a boring old DMR or AR. Also you obviously don’t need to add power weapons as they’ve already been added to the maps in the form of ordnance drops. This would add a lot to the game in my opinion.
The second issue I have is that the SAW is slightly overpowered. It is tremendously powerful at all but long ranges. While the damage is perfect and I don’t think it needs changing, I think it needs a slight boost to bloom, just to ensure that it is limited at greater ranges. I think it is far too accurate as it stands.
Thirdly I am concerned about small arms and the damage they can inflict on vehicles. It’s not a huge concern but it’s a bit of a worry when I see a Mantis being taken down by a BR.
Thanks for listening if you do, 343. I think it would improve the game a great deal if you took some of these into account.