Starting this post off with a collection of issues I think the community has discovered.
- Aiming-yes its an issue even if you have not witnessed it yourself there’s enough forum and social media posts. Its an issue 343!
- PC Fullscreen mode-not having this as an option is hurting performance. (mainly for lower spec)
3, TTK pretty sure everyone can agree the TTK in this build is insane its to the point that I cant tell if Im playing in a SWAT match or what. - Weapon balance- Sure 343 is going to work on this but as it stand the AR and sidekick are just the meta you are actually hurt by picking up anything else. The sidekick should not be able to be spam shot and perfect kill from one side of the map to the other.
- The steam keys and xbox log in issues. This is still an on going problem for many people. This is unacceptable. Granted it is a test and its stuff like this that need to be fixed.
Gameplay in general (Opinion based)
Here is where I think we will see a huge disagreement. First off I want to say that the game itself if running correctly feels smooth and up to date with other main line FPS. I couldn’t find any sort of phasing issues or places to “break” the game. Granted I’m sure someone did I’m not a professional bug smasher just someone that looks for these things. Secondly 343 stated several times they want new players getting in to Halo its the whole reason for the academy range and bots. There is absolutely no way that the way this game is set up its for “new” players getting in to Halo. What it is set up for is existing Apex and twitch based shooters to come in for a few months until they move on to something else. The build that I am playing and have watched people play feels and looks like its a halo skin put on to something like Apex( I use apex as its a pretty common shooter). I personally I’m very worried. For testing sake I let my wife play a few games in the test preview, she is not a gamer at all but she will from time to time play MMC with me and even will jump on H5 just to mess around. She straight up said after playing if thats the way the game is she will never play at all. After seeing alot of forum posts I feel this is the sentiment for a lot of folks. Granted if you are one of the try hard sweats I’m happy for you but I have a question for you. Didn’t 343 already try that with H5 and look how that game turned out. I am purely asking for Infinite to bring back the days of Halo being the game everyone is playing and talking about. But if all it is going to be is sprint sliding and spam shots from across spawns then I have a hard time seeing how this game will last longer than a year let alone ten. Again this is all my opinion so take it with a grain of salt but I just don’t see this build as being a halo game at all. Yes it has the look but the gameplay does not feel like any halo at all.