Hey, look, I’m enjoying the hell out of the Beta, and it is, indeed, a Beta. Some things are incomplete. There are some bugs, there are some balancing issues and your default control scheme is… eh. But regardless that’s not what I’m talking about.
Where are the open maps
This was the thing that Halo always did better than its competitors. Blood Gulch, Valhalla, the one with the turbine thing. Big open maps with vehicles to drive. That was something you should have included in the Beta
Where are the covenant weapons
I know all these problems probably only exist because the assets are incomplete or something, but where is my lovely lovely Carbine? Plasma weaponry? You have the swords, I grant you, but we need more.
Some more new stuff would have been nice too
You have the Hydra so I won’t complain here, but I would have liked to see a new forerunner or covenant weapon in the mix.
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> Hey, look, I’m enjoying the hell out of the Beta, and it is, indeed, a Beta. Some things are incomplete. There are some bugs, there are some balancing issues and your default control scheme is… eh. But regardless that’s not what I’m talking about.
> Where are the open maps
> This was the thing that Halo always did better than its competitors. Blood Gulch, Valhalla, the one with the turbine thing. Big open maps with vehicles to drive. That was something you should have included in the Beta
> Where are the covenant weapons
> I know all these problems probably only exist because the assets are incomplete or something, but where is my lovely lovely Carbine? Plasma weaponry? You have the swords, I grant you, but we need more.
> Some more new stuff would have been nice too
> You have the Hydra so I won’t complain here, but I would have liked to see a new forerunner or covenant weapon in the mix.
This Beta is called “Arena Multiplayer” for a reason…
But i agree with your last two points. This beta doesnt really make sense if they really want balance feedback etc when they keep out a lot of weapons.
I can already see Balance issues in the full game when they have more Promethean and Covenant weapons…
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> Hey, look, I’m enjoying the hell out of the Beta, and it is, indeed, a Beta. Some things are incomplete. There are some bugs, there are some balancing issues and your default control scheme is… eh. But regardless that’s not what I’m talking about.
> Where are the open maps
> This was the thing that Halo always did better than its competitors. Blood Gulch, Valhalla, the one with the turbine thing. Big open maps with vehicles to drive. That was something you should have included in the Beta
> Where are the covenant weapons
> I know all these problems probably only exist because the assets are incomplete or something, but where is my lovely lovely Carbine? Plasma weaponry? You have the swords, I grant you, but we need more.
> Some more new stuff would have been nice too
> You have the Hydra so I won’t complain here, but I would have liked to see a new forerunner or covenant weapon in the mix.
Arena beta that’s why there’s no open maps
cant tell you why there’s no covie weapons
save the new stuff for the game i think.
All of these things are absent because it’s a beta. Covenant weapons aren’t often used and are usually similar enough to human ones, so they aren’t a priority for balancing. Hence they are not in the beta. Likewise, this is an Arena beta, so big, open maps aren’t necessary or really useful.
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> All of these things are absent because it’s a beta. Covenant weapons aren’t often used and are usually similar enough to human ones, so they aren’t a priority for balancing. Hence they are not in the beta. Likewise, this is an Arena beta, so big, open maps aren’t necessary or really useful.
People need to stop using this “its a beta” excuse…
A Beta most likely should contain almost all weapons. Even if they are only Block outs or unfinised. Really doesnt matter. And Arena or not doesnt mean that we wont see any Covenant Weapons in Arena mode. There most likely will be Covenant weapons in every mode.
The Halo 3 Beta had a unfinished Version of the Mauler Halo 3 Beta - Excavator (Mauler) - YouTube but this was never used for testing.
Alpha: Game is very unfinished, and not all content has been added. The content does not fully work yet.
Beta: The game’s content is done, at this point it is mostly polishing (fixing bugs, balancing), a new features may be added or removed though, based on what suits the product the best.
Release Candidate: Almost done and ready to go into certification process:
Gold: The game is done. The game may still need to be distributed though. In some cases, the game is still tested for more bugs and as a result, day 1 patches can occur.
Release: The game is made available for public.
Halo 5s production most likely only has 9 months to go. If they want a November release again (which is likely) then the game has to be gold in October.
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> I can already see Balance issues in the full game when they have more Promethean and Covenant weapons…
Probably not. We have the BR the DMR and the LR in the beta… The only mid range weapon which will be added is likely the carbine, which never had serious balancing issues in its history.
Those 4 are the most important weapons to be balanced what else can possibly happen? A few more auto weapons won’t cause serious balancing issues, and 343 is smart enough to not reintroduce the boltie.
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> > I can already see Balance issues in the full game when they have more Promethean and Covenant weapons…
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> Probably not. We have the BR the DMR and the LR in the beta… The only mid range weapon which will be added is likely the carbine, which never had serious balancing issues in its history.
> Those 4 are the most important weapons to be balanced what else can possibly happen? A few more auto weapons won’t cause serious balancing issues, and 343 is smart enough to not reintroduce the boltie.
I don’t mind if the boltshot returns, as long as they place it inside a kill ball with a active camo. for some of the noob players from halo 4. hell throw in armor lock too.