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I’m going back to Reach. Just figured I’d let you know why I’m leaving.
First of all I love the campaign. Great work on that, really gave the franchise new life.
Second, my complaints:
The multiplayer absolutely sucks. It so much like COD it’s sickening.
A) Killcams. Who needs em? Thought that’s what the theater was for.
B) “X to respawn”? Really? A DIRECT ripoff from COD.
C) Loadouts? Cool, but I’d rather have it the old way, you know, with weapons
on the map.
D) Gameplay is directly comparable to COD. Take away shields and armor
abilities and all the sudden you have COD. With better maps and weapons, but
still.
E) Level system goes by way too quickly. Even without double XP, it’s still too
fast. I could easily get 20 in a matter of 2 days. For good measure I let my
brother play, he’s already level 4 after only 20 minutes of play time.
Other issues with multiplayer:
F) Daily XP Cap, I don’t even know what to think of it at this point. I mean,
if you take into account the short leveling system it almost seems worth it
but still to deny players the experience they earned? Not cool guys.
G) Lack of playlists on launch. Enough said.
H) Lack of new forge items. Pretty much just ripped everything from Reach.
Without putting in a new “Forge World” or “Factory” type map, aside from
Impact, which is decent, but the point remains the same.
Even with all this, it would be a simple fix:
Create a new, FREE map made specifically for forging, with new items to
build with.
Create a “Social” type playlist with the feel of Reach and 3. Not this
run & gun theme going on now. Playlist should include original slayer
and other classic gamemodes w/o armor abilities, loadouts, killcams, or
Ordinance Drops, and no “X to respawn”.
Repeat #2 except with a ranked playlist featuring same items. Note when I
say ranked I don’t mean XP-based, I mean you get ranked according to your
skill.
Do this 343, and you will have my respect. I know you guys put a lot of hard work into the multiplayer as well, but the thing is if I wanted to play COD I would have just saved my money and bought BO2 this Tuesday. You did so good on the campaign, now lets make the multiplayer even better!
> Second, my complaints:
>
> The multiplayer absolutely sucks. It so much like COD it’s sickening.
>
> A) Killcams. Who needs em? Thought that’s what the theater was for.
>
> B) “X to respawn”? Really? A DIRECT ripoff from COD.
>
> C) Loadouts? Cool, but I’d rather have it the old way, you know, with weapons
> on the map.
>
> D) Gameplay is directly comparable to COD. Take away shields and armor
> abilities and all the sudden you have COD. With better maps and weapons, but
> still.
>
> E) Level system goes by way too quickly. Even without double XP, it’s still too
> fast. I could easily get 20 in a matter of 2 days. For good measure I let my
> brother play, he’s already level 4 after only 20 minutes of play time.
A) I appreciate having immediate feedback on what got me killed. Helps me to avoid that situation in the future.
B) Just because the feature is in another game, doesn’t mean it’s automatically bad. I like being able to jump right back into the action. Do you prefer the fixed timers? May just be a personal preference thing.
c) There are weapons on the map, but granted, I wish there were more.
D) I’ve only played MW3, and Black Ops, and even then not much so maybe I’m not super informed on this issue. However, I really didn’t like playing CoD multiplayer except the zombie and wave modes, but Halo 4 is amazing to me.
E) Leveling is really fast at first, but slows down a lot at higher ranks. I’m ranked 24 and I feel like the time spent getting here was pretty fair.
Though, when it comes to ranks/leveling in games in general I’m always in favor of making it slower lol(avid WoW player here ;))
My anger is over the fact every slayer game starts off with precision weapons. There used to be a choice via votes or veto. Now everyone is put at distance like it or not. A prop per classic list would be cool. Keep the physics but add weapons to maps and standardize loadouts.
Why are you stupid? The next “Omgzzz theiyy made HALO COD because they added respawning and sprinting and all dis other stuffz Omg” I’m gonna poop on. Sorry if they chose X as a respawn button. If they changed it to B would that make you happier? The entire flow of Halo is different from COD. Open you’re eyes and try to use that noggin of yours.
Even though there are some things that are like Call of Duty this game is more like a Halo game than Reach was.
A) Killcams no big deal. I like them and pressing X skips them.
B) Pressing X to spawn again isn’t that big a deal and COD isn’t the only game that has that feature.
C) Loadouts in Halo 4 are way better then they were in Reach.
D) MW3 had terrible maps and are no where near as good as Halo 4 maps. I LOVE the fact that you can finally run without it being a loadout in a Halo game. It never made sense that you were a super soldier that couple jump super high but couldn’t sprint. 343 did a great job adding this to the game.
E) I’ll give you this one and add the fact that I hate the fact that I have to unlock the emblem that I’ve used since Halo 3. The fact that you have to unlock emblems at all annoy me. That being said quick leveling and emblem unlocks aren’t game breakers.
I’ve been enjoying this game more than I ever enjoyed Halo: Reach and I think 343 did an amazing job. Are there things to fix? Sure and I’m sure they will in the future.