I’ve played Halo online since '04; good old Halo 2, how I miss you. With that said, this game has the potential to be as good as any of the Halos before it - Halo 3 and Halo 2 specifically - but there’s one issue among a myriad that stands out to me most: the ability to auto spawn.
For all the talk about Ordinance drops, hit-box/hit detection, and playlists, auto-spawn stands out to me because it ruins how you play Halo. Along with sprinting, allowing auto-spawn just turns legitimate winners in a firefight into losers 3 seconds later. There’s often times - note that it’s not always - where you will kill a couple enemies and while waiting for a shield charge, you get pelted with grenades and enemy fire.
Who the hell was that!?
The person you just killed, that’s who.
I hate to bring up Call of Duty here, but that’s the vibe I get when the aforementioned happens. When I get that comparison in my head, I tend to become even more frustrated with Halo 4. It has great promise, but borrowing too much from CoD is not a good thing.
Remember, Halo is the game that put console FPS on the map; it’s the game that other console FPS aimed to beat and emulate. Halo has a strong enough fan base to survive without the small gimmicks pulled straight from rival Call of Duty. I’m not asking for a complete overhaul here. I’m just asking for the removal of something that is simply not Halo.
Oh, and I don’t mind Ordinance, but they definitely need to fix when rewards are given. What do you think? This is my first post here, and I didn’t notice a search feature before posting; sorry in advance.