Been playing halo since 2 and loved every second of it. Wanted to make a pros and cons list from things I noticed in the flight. Granted a lot of these things have already been mentioned but hey, more voices are louder. Also happy to say that I feel a lot of these issues can be fixed pretty easily.
Cons
-I know it’s been said a lot already but aiming on a controller is near impossible with default settings. I say default because you can easily tweak it in the settings to make it much easier. But why should you have to do that to begin with? An easily solution would simply change the default settings to make it easier. For example setting the dead zones to 0 instead of 12 which is what they were at before I believe. As well as upping the sensitivity by a bit. This is in my opinion the biggest issue in the game as of right now. But also thankfully I thinks it’s also one of the easiest to fix.
-Even aiming with a mouse feels off slightly. Not nearly as bad as controller but just in general aiming need the biggest overhaul at this moment.
-This game need player collision. Multiple times I have blown my self up with he rocket launcher because my teammate wandered in front of me.
-Add in friendly fire Since there’s no friendly fire there’s no punishment for grenade spamming or wandering in front of a teammate.
-I don’t know if it’s just me but I feel the sidekick needs to be nerfed slightly. Every match I played seemed to eventually become a sidekick fest by the end of the game. The gun is insanely accurate and has a super fast reload so you can easily end up spamming it.
-The same could also be said for the AR but in that case I don’t think it’s as overpowered as people think.
-There’s an exploit where if you hit the melee button and switch weapon in quick succession you melee much much faster. Like blink of the eye fast.
-No grenade knockback. This kind of goes hand ion hand with grenade spam and friendly fire. But without grenade knockback the grenades don’t do a whole lot in tactics. I wanna grenade jump again!
-The flag melee should be an instant kill. Has been in all the other games to balance out that the carrier can’t move as fast or fight back as much.
Pros
-The new weapons like the ravager, skewer and bulldog all feel fantastic and fill their own respective niches.
-Armor customization is amazing. Even with the sneak peak we got I’m super excited for it.
-Vehicles feel really awesome to use. Especially the mongoose and warthog.
-Music as per usual with the series sounds perfect in every way.
-To me, most importantly. This game feels like Halo. It feels like a modernized and evolved Halo 3, and I’m all here for it.
-The map selection we had(while very small) was really enjoyable. Only map I found not enjoying as much was live fire. But even then it was a decent map.
-Over all felt the gameplay was really enjoyable and when I was paired with people my level it felt really fun. Rather then being placed with people who seemed like pro players. Or maybe I’m just not as good as I thought lol.