I’m really tired of everyone complaining about this game without any real gameplay videos(except for the 5 seconds of gameplay in the vidoc), so i decided to make a thread defending these things but i DO NOT AGREE WITH ALL OF THEM i just want to show how it could be beneficial.
Random weapon spawns: this prevents people from camping for 3 minutes waiting for a power weapon and then continuing to own everybody with the same weapon for the entire match, i have played dozens of matches on hemorrhage and have been mowed down by the same guy with the sniper for the entire match, then i kill him for once, the he camps and gets the sniper AGAIN it really saps the fun out of the match for everybody else. Same happens with the banshee on pretty much any map with one(i’m guilty of doing this too) it’s very frustrating.
spartan ops: no one’s been complaining about this luckily because it sounds amazing.
Custom loadouts: First of all i want to say YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SPAWN WITH A ROCKET LAUNCHER 343 isn’t stupid enough to do this. You will just be able to choose between similar small weapons like AR or plasma rifle, magnum or plasma pistol, BR or DMR or carbine or needle rifle, sniper or beam rifle(in sniping playlist),plasma grenade or frags, you won’t be able to have an overpowered weapon, these loadouts will just add more variation and customability to the game.
Joining sessions in progress: People are mostly mad at this because you could join a match at the end, but there will probably be an option to start a game with the traditional system. But this is actually a really good idea. I can’t tell you how many times i’ve started a match of invasion and then ONE guy quits on my team(that’s all it takes) and we get our -Yoinks!- kicked. It’s extremely annoying, also if everyone quits on the other team you get barely any kills because you have to hunt down one guy for 10 minutes, it sucks.
Spartan points: this is pretty much the same thing as credits, i don’t know why it gets hate.
Forerunner vision: Hey at least armor locks out right? But seriously, this won’t be that bad. Chances are it will only work for a limited time(it is an armor ability after all) so it won’t be overpowered, it will mainly be used to take out campers and to feel like superman, so it sounds good to me.
Progression system: These unlocks will give people something to shoot for so they continue to play the game. If you play for 500 hours you should have something to show for it besides a rank. If your aiming for something your more likely to keep playing, which is what 343 wants and what hardcore players should want. They should want to actually feel like badasses for being so dedicated to the game and feel like their getting somewhere when they play and have the noobs be in awe of their awesome armor, that’s what i want. It’s also unlikely that the unlocks will be overpowered, 343 will make them balanced and you will probably have to go a long ways to get a good edge over someone. I don’t see why hardcore players are complaining about this, we’ll be the ones dominating!
Instant respawns: First of all, 343 has confirmed that this won’t be happening in CTF and gametypes like it, it will probably be just in ffa and “regicide” and it will make the game more fast paced and exciting and you can probably play slayer gametypes without it too.
No elites: Are elites really necessary? In halo 3 i rarely see anyone playing as an elite and i never see anyone have their basic player model in reach be an elite. I’m betting 90% of the people complaining about this don’t even play as elites,they just want to criticize anyway they can. Also 343 would have to make a whole new progression system for elites(which would take time out of making more important features) or they could make them have a really crappy half–Yoinked!- progression system like in reach and nobody would use them.
I think i covered everything. I really hope people start to try to see the good in some of these things and stop complaining without any real evidence that they will be bad. and for people saying that it’s copying cod, cod didn’t invent most of these things, bf2 and rainbow 6 had customizable weapons, loadouts and stuff like that before cod. cod really hasn’t invented anything besides “prestiging” lol. and lets not forget that cod took regenerative health, matchmaking,two gun system,separate melee button, theater system and many more from halo.