The "Fun" of the Sandbox and Gravity

The game has some cool weapons and vehicles and equipment. BUT, the older interactivity we used to have and balancing is just gone. Grenades are annoying due to no explosive knockback and no team damage. The Gravity hammer has no gravity making it not so fun to use and will make custom games boring (If that’s fixed). The gravity hammer has a bit of a delay which isn’t terrible for regular games but for Grifball and such it will suck. Also, it doesn’t throw objects and makes enemies fly. You can’t double jump by using it aiming at the ground anymore. You can’t grenade jump or rocket jump. These subtle but nice Classic Halo experiences are gone. Player collision on teammates will eliminate custom games and just realism to the game, along with the terrible vehicle team killing we have. The vehicles hitting your teammates are basically a dead-zone, similar to Halo Ce. They gave us the grapple hook and the repulsor to make up for it but it’s just too linear and also creates REAL Gameplay problems like the grenades and vehicles. Halo is a SyFy game but it still had realism when it comes to the environment. Everything was always interactable. Now that stuff is gone, man. I just want the fun stuff back.

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Also I hope custom games will allow you to carry more than one equipment.

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I swear I saw the gravity hammer deflect a rocket once, but I could be wrong. In any case though, these were really fun physics and I’d like to see them again.

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Yes Im glad they have added some cool stuff which is great, but with the new and old combined it would be amazing.

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Im not tryna dog on 343. But the thing is that the game is basically done and they are mostlikely are going to work on new maps and new weapons/vehicles and equipment. So the orignal stuff will be forgotten.

Unlikely that 343 will return any of these features but it would be nice to have them back, especially player collision and grenade pushback.

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I like your input, but please break it up into paragraphs at least. Bullet points for extra points.

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It does. It happened to me once in fiesta when trying to shoot a dude with the gravity hammer. I actually forgot that was a thing before and was kinda shocked for a bit haha

Agreed. And I also think friendly fire should return to the quickplay/social games, even if there’s a return of team kills for not letting a tryhard have the sniper haha.

I would like to see the collision/object physics return for the grav hammer and grenades. And I think it would be best if dialed back the kill zone range on the hammer because it is so ridiculously far right now. On a non related note, I hope they bring back the one shot shotgun too!