Man oh man that halo 5 footage,
At first glance I got hyped, but the more I watched and thought about some of the new additions the more I thought about some of the fundamental changes this could have to the core of halo. So I’ll just cut straight to the chase:
I like how they’re trying to nerf sprint (despite the fact that it’s still unlimited!) but I still think it’ll do more harm than good - however i like the majority of spartan abilities. So my suggestion to 343 would be to maybe tie the slide, melee tackle with the thruster? In my mind how it could operate is if you crouch whilst thrusting on the ground you slide and likewise if you melee you tackle.
That way they could still ‘evolve’ the base gameplay whilst not fundamentally having a feature that makes halo stray a bit too far from it’s core.
Admittedly we all need hands on time with the beta first but unlimited sprint, ground pound and hover(?) are my only concerns gameplay wise.
Also i have no problem with the reskinned scope generally but i do think the BR should not have a red dot scope (sorry if I’m wrong here it seemed that way) as the last thing we want is for the BR to be able to consistently pull of DMR like head shots at long range. It’s a mid range weapon no? I just hope weapons don’t generally become TOO effective out of their intended range!
Peace