I’m really enjoying the new equipment and I think there should be equipment more geared to the person carrying it. But where is the neutral equipment like the bubble shield, Regenerator, mine and gravity lift. It was fun how everyone could take advantage of an equipment drop even if the enemy threw it down. Things like the bubble shield really spiced things up. It allowed for situations where a person could throw down a bubble shield think there covered and then boom you throw down a gravity lift and there bubble shield fly’s away. What I mean is there should be more neutral equipment that can be taken advantage of not just by the person who uses it but everyone around it to.
It would be great if all those equipment’s came back but its alright if they don’t. I just think the game would be more fun with the addition of neutral equipment.
I share your sentiment but since Halo Infinite isn’t built around static pop and drop equipment that lingers and affects the environment it is deployed in, we don’t know how having such things will affect the sandbox and balance.
Alot of us do want the Bubble Shield back as well, but it seems that 343 has opted for making Equipment entirely beneficial to the user, over potentially backfiring or beneficial to all who take advantage of it like H3 equipment.
It’s more fair to think Infinite equipments as Armor Abilities that have limited usage so as to not allow a player to have a powerful built in ability at their disposal. On the flipside, H3 equipment can be seen more as “Environmental obstructions” because your placements of the equipments either deny, protect or alter the area it is deployed in.
Bubble shield was very disruptive to the flow of combat. I’m happy with the drop wall as a replacement, even if it does feel a little weak.
The grav lift could be fun, but grapple kinda serves the same propose, unless you like to put tanks where they don’t belong.