Thank you, 343i, for having us play this weekend! Its so cool to finally play what you have been working on. Now, some of what you will read below you already know. But again, these are just from my hours of playing on my own or with people.
- Flickering white screen… okay that’s annoying. I’m sure you have a fix for this.
- Menu music studdering. A lot.
- Menu UI looks pretty great. Nice shapes, colors. However, We don’t need three separate menu screens to press play when searching for Slayer.
- Jittery weapon models and screen shake in the Academy. Its rough.
- Ravager venting sound needs to be louder to match the heft of the gun.
- Medals need to be larger. Keep the animated circles… those are neat. but can we have the old medal animations where they grow big, then small as each comes on screen?
- No de-cope takes time to get used to for most guns. It actually works, since Zooming in isn’t that substantial. Sniper de-scope is fine.
- Sidekick is great, but please… slow it down a tad bit. Having it be slower will help the multiplayer bots not be so easy to be killed by. They are insanely accurate.
- Reduce the post-rock music for when matches are much closer in score, like 10-12 kills. Not every game needs to have raised tension halfway through.
- TTK for the small arms and full auto arms ought to be raised a tiny bit. Let us savor each match, not rush through it.
- Sprint… wow… needs a slight speed buff. 2-45 percent only. I feel like the animation wants to go faster than it goes. Its near perfectly designed!
- Its fun to play as a female spartan for the heck of it, as a guy. Rather have the options to play as female or male back, together with the current options.
- Skewer kicks butt! Sounds awesome… except for the sound for racking it. It sounds intentionally hollow. Give it some weight, some oomfph!
- Need more action in the outer lanes of maps.
- Gameplay is tight. Its an improvement over Halo 4 and 5. So far so good!