So they’ve announced the major changes that can be applied to some of the new playlists that will arrive after the TU, and its all looking pretty good. But i’m a bit worried about one thing.
Its about RoF or Rate of Fire.
I haven’t seen them mention being able to change the RoF in anything i’ve read or seen.
Without bloom and with the speed certain weapons like the DMR or especially the pistol can fire, they could become very overpowered, If you take bloom out of the equation you can kill someone at medium range with a pistol with very little effort in under a second.
So i thought i’d put this to the forum and see if anybody knows more about this, or just hear everybodies thoughts.
They haven’t removed bloom per se. Sure it’s going to be tested out but 343 can adjust the options of bloom and what not on a whim. So if the community feels that a weapon is OP or too weak, it will get the appropriate tweaks. This includes bloom.
This is the entire point of the upcoming Beta Hoppers playlists, to fix Reach and make it worthy of the name Halo.
Instead of reducing the ROF which shrinks the skill gap, they should either make the weapons more difficult to fire by decreasing auto aim, or by increasing strafe speed.
That is, of course, if the weapons are ACTUALLY overpowered which is definitely debatable. I have a feeling they’ll be fine. Let’s wait for the beta.
> Instead of reducing the ROF which shrinks the skill gap, they should either make the weapons more difficult to fire by decreasing auto aim, or by increasing strafe speed.
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> That is, of course, if the weapons are ACTUALLY overpowered which is definitely debatable. I have a feeling they’ll be fine. Let’s wait for the beta.
Yes, thats why the CE pistol was awesome it was difficult to TSK, strafes/movement was quick and responsive,power-ups/power weapons created complex chokepoints and changed the dynamics of the game, and the rest of the CE sandbox was super powerful and fun to use creating unpredictable and heat-pounding gameplay with a insane skill gap.
They seem to be removing bloom from a lot of the anniversary playlists to get that halo 1 feel. But if they don’t drop the RoF for the pistol to the speed from halo 1 then… who’ll need power weapons 
If it’s classic CE the pistol will be full auto. Its supposed to be OP. The pistol is amazing.
> If it’s classic CE the pistol will be full auto. Its supposed to be OP. The pistol is amazing.
I though the pistol from halo 1 had a slower rate of fire than the one in reach!?
Which one is faster?