Ordinance Drops should have Exclusive Tiers

Games Other Halo
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To avoid ordinances being completely random, you should not be able to get the best power weapons in your first ordinance drop. But some power weapons should only be exclusive to 2nd drop, or 3rd drop.
That way, someone can’t get a Beam rifle drop within 2 minutes of the game, they will need to earn a 2nd drop. This will also make end-game more exciting, when everyone will get stronger weapons as the game progresses.

Tier 1: Needler, Sword, Gravity Hammer, Concussion Rifle, Shotgun, Scattershot, Railgun, Damage Boost, Speed Boost, Grenade pickups, Ammo drop

Tier 2 only: Spartan Laser, Sniper rifle, Beam rifle, SAW, Sticky Launcher, Invisibility, Overshield

Tier 3 only: Binary Rifle, Rocket Launcher, Incineration Cannon

Thoughts?

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That’s sounds a lot like COD.

I can understand what you are aiming for, but I believe it would lead too much to players playing individually to obtain a specific weapon.

The beauty of the current semi random system (there is a correlation between your ordinance and the weapons you used to obtain and I assume 343 has some sort of model to decide which ordinance you get and can overrule it), is that due to its relative inpredicatability you need to think on your feet when receiving the drop.

If the drops become fully predictable you will find players who will die on purpose to get as fast as possible to the tier 3 weapons (since you can’t have two drops without having used the first one)