I swear 343 if you’ve forgone using forge maps in your playlists and restricted the amount of levels in each playlist (think of how many levels are on disc but aren’t used in playlists) in order to push people to buying your -Yoink- map packs I will write lots of angry letters.
Seriously remember how pointless map packs where in Reach?
Doesn’t it seem logical from a financial stand point for 343 to “fix” this “issue”?
We’re on to you 343, you better put the rest of the on disc maps into the playlists AND allow comunity forge maps to be put into the playlists or else!
And while your at fixing things what about give the bolt shot the same damage as the covenant carbine (there are 10 rounds in a mag and it takes all 10 to drop shield…), increase its bloom effect, make the mag size 12 rounds, and make the charged shot fire all the remaining rounds in the mag (at a non increase in damage) but at the max spread that can be induced by bloom.
This would make it quite the skillful marksman’s weapon and would be a lot more interesting to use than it is now.
The current problem is the bolt shot is only really useful for its charge shot and that means its only useful up close, so what we have is a secondary weapon which is basically just a slow rate of fire shotgun (CoD anyone?).
Another problem in my opinin is the 1 ton spartans being slowed down by bullets to the point where your spritning speed seems the same as walking (what is this them being scared, Yoinking! themselves and then having their -Yoink- hinder their leg movement? Because the momentum of a bullet is super tiny).
All this does is prevent melee weapons from being as useful and cause people which venture out to die due to not physially being able to make it back to cover.
So this inadvertantly promotes camping; honestly what were you thinking?
The only upside to this is melee weapons not being overly annoying, but if you simply bring back parrying of melee weapons than this would help solve it, and parrying is certainly more skillful and interesting than spraying your gun at someone running towards you making it physically impossible for them to reach you before they die.
Also the br is just not as great as the dmr, I stil like using just because it’s 3 round burst CAN be useful at times but honestly it is not as good; The dmr is just as good as the br at any range but you can kill people with it at extreme ranges where as the br is unable to.
Simple fix?
Make the wait time between bursts shorter in duration so that its dps is on par with, or maybe a bit less than, the scoped light rifle.
Oh and it would be cool if the light rifle was automatic from the hip but had the same overall firerate as it does now from the hip (or maybe a bit more), it would make it a very interesting weapon to use.
Random rant over.