I have been a long time halo player for years, usually on the competitive side. I really like this game, it feels like a halo game, when I join regular games with my buddies, I can start with a DMR. When I play with my more serious friends, I get slayer pro (I’m assuming MLG is working on a playlist).
I’ll put *’s next to the biggest issues that need to prioritized first.
Generics:
*When a game is created and starts, the teams need to be even. Period. I can’t even play CTF if I don’t have a team of 5 because the game will end up being a 4v5 for the ENTIRE GAME. I just played one where the other team won simply because they had one more team mate for the entire game. Sometimes when I am playing a 4v5, I’ll spend my in game time to find a friend to come fill the spot. When I do find one, they can’t even join the game, they sit in the lobby as if our game is full.
Medals really need to be cleaned up, they are a joke right now, you get a MEDAL for a generic kill. I shouldn’t be spawning, getting one kill, and seeing 4 medals pop up on my screen. It completely takes away the actual reward for doing something great. In the postgame top medals section, the medals need to be sorted, right now my rampages are being hidden by my generic kills and my overkills are being covered up by my headshots.
Armor Unlocks: The Stars are all backwards, a star pops up when a new piece of armor is revealed, not when you actually unlock one. I randomly get pieces of armor but I don’t know why or when since the only time stars pop up is when they are revealed.
Spartan ID: When it says New ID’s unlocked, you scroll through them to see what you unlocked, this doesn’t mean you want to change your current emblem, so if you press B it should go back to what it was, right now it just goes to whatever you left it on.
Boltshot: This secondary weapon that people spawn with should not be a one shot kill, one shot plus melee, I’m fine with but it’s too powerful.
*There needs to be a ranking system ASAP, I know it’s coming soon but it needs to be SOON, this is what killed Reach for a lot of players and what kept people around for YEARS on Halo 2 and Halo 3.
Game Modes:
Regicide: Let people play real FFA, I don’t want 5 people running at me and team shooting me the entire game just because I have a crown above my head.
*CTF: One HUGE problem is not being able to drop the flag. It’s a huge problem and has been game ruining(single game) for me. I understand not wanting people to struggle picking up the flag in those close situations with vehicles/weapons on the ground. You might not want people to juggle/pass the flag, but there’s other ways to prevent that and not allowing flag drops is a huge flaw in the gametype.
*CTF: Another huge problem with CTF is that you are rewarded for suiciding your way across the map, returning the flag is very hard to due since it’s a 30 second return time. It should be at MOST 15-20 seconds if not standing on it for 5 seconds should return it (yes even in casual games). Maps like complex make suiciding for a flag a viable strategy, especially since you don’t even have to hold X to pick it up, it just automatically goes into your hands.
*Oddball: The maps are extremely unbalanced, the ball isn’t even placed in the middle of both teams, ontop of that, on complex for example, someone who spawns on the upper side gets a huge advantage of not only being closer to the ball, but having time to setup and sit back and shoot while someone else can go and grab the ball and just throw it back if they are about to die.
*Slayer Pro: It’s the closest thing you have to competitive matchmaking right now. There’s no excuse to have instant respawns and assault rifles involved. I don’t think instant respawns should be ANYWHERE in this game, but if that’s not an option, at least take them out of this.
Oddball, KoTH, CTF need to be in one playlist, Team Objective used to be one of the most solid playlists.
Big Team Slayer should just be Big Team Battle and include CTF and maybe some other gametypes, but mainly CTF.
There really isn’t a solid playlist yet (the most consistent being Flood), all of them have flaws and none are consistently fun. Examples from previous games are Griffball, Team Snipers(NO -Yoinking!- SHOTGUNS), MLG, and a few others.
Like I said, this game has massive potential but there are a few tweaks that in my opinion are necessary.