Honestly if 343 and Halo in general spent as much time perfecting the game as they do monitoring their webposts, maybe Halo would be great. Let me say, the multiplayer in Halo 5 is the best since Halo 3. The frame rate is amazing, Arena Seasons are awesome, armor abilities are (finally) gone, aiming down the sights is an overdue feature, free updates make the game always feel fresh and playable without hurting the pocket, REQs are awesome, and this game IS 10x BETTER THAN I EXPECTED IT TO BE. I’m sure many others feel the same. I’ll give 343 credit where it’s due, but a couple things make me have beef with the game.
- 343 feels like a dictator in Halo 5. Things like the ridiculous banhammer, relentless monitors, no social playlists, ect. Truth is, -Yoink- happens (especially if you have to watch the kids). Aside from -Yoink- happening, I don’t quit. But it does happen. 343s common response to any good idea is a monitor shutting people up even if there are some cool ideas people are trying to spread. Cmon man, you’re not even Halo Gods yet, Bungie alone still holds that title, and they listened to us and wanted our opinion.
- Spawn killing seems to happen too often. If you’re good enough to average a 1.0 KD or higher, you know games often have a few spawn kills you get, or spawn kills on you. Even having opponents spawn in the same room as you happens and that’s bad. Hope this is fixed in Halo 6 or I might start playing Call of Duty.
- KDA is dumb. It hardly reflects a number anyone can mathematically figure out. Somehow I have a thousand kills and 500 assists more than deaths but my KDA reads 0.7 KDA. Just do KD and 1.0 means you’re even. Stop being complicated. I feel that’s probably Microsofts input, who’s lately been disappointing in every single way.
- I hope 343 hasn’t planned on this “Crazy Cortana” series to be a long lasting era in Halo. Can we get a bad guy we can truly hate please? It makes the game lack passion as I play it.
- Again with campaign, it feels corny. Go get some veterans to help out with sayings they heard in service, make it funny again. Let the statements throughout campaign have some life. I miss Sgt. Johnson. Give us some -Yoink!-! Some fire! 343 show me your war face! Give me the grit and grime of pushing to kill these Prometheans. Halo truly is the little things.
- Team Snipers. Why do you not do it! Why do you not? Please!
- Want to be creative? Make an all tank warzone variant. Make a huge map, with hills, and let the wraith/scorpion battles begin!
Anyway, if you’re a monitor who’s just going to tell me this or that, how about you pass that up the chain instead?