Hello everyone, I am fan of Halo Wars and I enjoy many RTS games such as this one. To help the creators and game designers make Halo Wars 2 a success, I am writing a review about my experience with the beta. I hope my review will be of use to the creators in making the game for everyone who likes Halo Wars and RTS games.
This review is mainly focusing on things that need to be fixed or changed, as well as some opinions on how to make improvements.
- Bugs/Things that don’t work:
- Freezes/crashes:
- Every time I load up the game, I reach the start menu/main menu. I always have to wait a few seconds or wait for the image to change before trying to find a game. If I don’t the game freezes and I have to restart the game. Happens every time I load up the game!
- My game crashed once, but I have no information to back that up and I believe you fixed with an update.
- Balancing between Resources and Electricity?!:
- The Electricity and Resources are not balanced to my satisfaction because in the beginning of the game, I have to create 3 Generators and capture at least 1 more on the map to produce enough electricity to build up my army and Tech Level/base level. Then, for some reason as you start to build units you need more resources than electricity. This is my opinion, but I was thinking that you might have made it that way on purpose?!
- Domination Game mode:
- Truth is I didn’t like it at first, but I am kind of liking it a bit more now. But, I think you need to make the game a bit longer, because assuming you are tied 2 flags for both teams and maybe both teams are fighting for A flag. The game has 5,000 Tickets, if both teams have two flags, the game is going last a max of 28 minutes. By the time people normally start battling for their 3rd flag, about 18-22 minutes of the game has gone by building up your economy and armies. I think you should increase the tickets to 7,500 giving the team a chance of maybe coming back if they are losing or enjoying the battles. By the way, the battles look amazing and the quality of the troops and explosions are amazing; create more action in the game!
- Troops:
- Heroes/leaders/special unit:
The special units and some other units special ability don’t work. I was the alien and I got the special unit that has the hammer thing. When I click Y (Xbox one) to use the special ability it did not work, he only attacked like they said when you upgrade them. But other units that need to be deployed down works fine, like the artillery thing the human has against infantry.
That’s it for Part 1, I will make a Part 2 after June 20th, and I will review the new game mode releasing June 17-20th. It will not be as long as this one!
Also, if any creators or game designers or anyone involved in making Halo Wars 2 are reading my review, thank you for reading my review and I hope it will be useful for you guys at 343.