Every series I know of halo has brought something new and different, example: Halo 2 brings multiplayer and new weapons - Halo 3 brings improved multiplayer features and a new forge feature implemented in the game. But Halo 5 has not brought that new “stuff” that every halo game had. You might argue about the smart scope, new game types and the new forge features but those are just improvements. In my opinion I think Halo 5 is just a revamp of Halo 3. Mecahnics are still similar from Halo 3 such as the weapon pick ups from arena or Warzone(similar weapons but different variants and resource mechanics). The weapon balancing is also familiar (343 tried to balance it). Why didn’t you just resume from Halo 4’s route. Halo 4 in my opinion was a great game. They actually gave every weapon a fair balance not “BR everything.” I hate it when the game is forcing you to use the BR just because it’s better. I have the right to use what weapon I want and to use it in a game as it is my right of a player that is part of playing the halo series. There are players out there who want to use the AR but because of the AR’s ineffectiveness compared to other weapons they will have relatively low stats. Even if you are very profound in skill you wouldn’t have as much performance compared to using a BR. The game doesn’t make sense, AR’s are meant to be use in Medium to Long ranges as they have superb accuracy and damn pistols are meant to be use at close range as they have a short barrel so accuracy or bullet velocity won’t allow it to engage at LONG RANGE but it’s OPPOSITE in Halo 5. In any slayer game or warzone it becomes a pistol or BR fiesta. There is little to no diversity or dynamic tactics to any game type involving these weapons because the player will just throw the Assault Rifle… Hey why not COMPLETELY REMOVE IT FROM THE WHOLE HALO SERIES OF THE UPCOMING GAMES LIKE IN HALO 2!?.. No! Can’t you 343 just rebalance the damage and range at least in warzone and remove the level unlock on the loadouts? Or… Make a new gametype returning abilities with the loadouts. By the way, what happened to the abilities? I have no clue to this but Abilities is what made halo different from other shooters such as COD, I don’t know why some people will think if they would return the Halo 4 loadout system they would say it has similarities to COD but most shooters have a damn loadout system of their own. So if even Halo 5 had a loadout system similar to Battlefield or even COD the gameplay and mechanics would still make it completely different from them… So why did you remove abilities and turned it to power ups(another freaken example of Halo 3 revamp). 343 please at least return abilities or at least balance the weapons more fairly.