Once I heard of the Memories of Reach update I had quite a few of expectations. I thought we were getting at the very least Noble teams’ armor, the falcon, a few Reach weapons, and a few Reach maps.
However, we got most of Noble teams’ armor (why the heck didn’t we get both Kat with her robotic arm and real arm), a gun originating from Halo 2, a gun not useable in Reach, a Phaeton (of all the updates why is now a good time for a different variant), and a bunch of skins that have little to do with Reach.
This update has very little to do Halo Reach. When I remember the good old days of Reach, I think of the Falcon, Forge World, Sword Base, and the Revenant. I am in disbelief that we did not get the Falcon which is one thing above all should have been in the update. We need different vehicles first and foremost not just different variants. Don’t get me wrong I like the different variants and all but we don’t even have them in forge yet. I just want a huge battle with the vehicles we have now with the inclusion of the falcon and revenant. Transport falcon, rocket falcon, regular falcon, and one where the driver can use the turret.
Imagine 343 releasing an update with another Forge World which would give us plenty of areas to forge on. We have very little forge maps Alpine, Glacier and Parallax. Alpine is so small compared to Forge World, Parallax is just an open canvas, and Glacier is small and snowy. We could have done so much with another Forge World.
My ideal vehicle wish list is the elephant, shadow, falcon, hornet, prowler, revenant, and anti-air wrath. So much more teamwork is included with these vehicles. I promised myself if the falcon is not included I would quit Halo forever. I am too big of a Halo fan to do that so I am taking a break until I see what is in Hog Wild. It better have the Transport hog and it would be nice if they included the Halo 1 first person passenger mode. The Halo 1 warthog had a 1st person viewpoint if you were in the passenger seat.
I agree, the hype went for months and the Phaeton reveal was a slap in the face to nostalgic fans. The armor is good at least.
343 wasn’t into the whole asymmetrical look of armor in this game. Maybe it’s easier to render?
Assumptions always lead to disappointments… it’s better to do some research and look at past updates and get a realistic idea of what the update will entail.
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> Assumptions always lead to disappointments… it’s better to do some research and look at past updates and get a realistic idea of what the update will entail.
I don’t remember the update but for a certain update we got 2 new maps, a “new” gun (new to Halo 5), and some vehicles. So I based on that I thought we might get 1 or 2 Reach maps, a “new” weapon, and a “new” vehicle especially when I heard that we are getting skins that were available to us in the past. So they have more time to give us “new” stuff. When I say “new” I mean stuff that was in past Halos but would be new to Halo 5.
My only disappointment so far is that it launched so close to Doom.
Decisions…decisions…
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> My only disappointment so far is that it launched so close to Doom.
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> Decisions…decisions…
Take the jump, Doom is just so much fun. Campaign was surprisingly good and I personally love the multiplayer, just be aware that it’s a shotgunner’s paradise.
Edit: I should mention that I haven’t finished the campaign yet, what I meant is: thus far.
That’s a lot of stuff you were hoping for. Of course you were disappointed; you wanted most of Halo Reach to be ported over.
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> That’s a lot of stuff you were hoping for. Of course you were disappointed; you wanted most of Halo Reach to be ported over.
I expected at the very least the falcon. Everything else was just me wishing but the falcon is long overdue. I’m realistically only disappointed about the lack of the falcon.
I don’t see why the Falcon is a big deal. It’s fundamentally useless in Halo 5 outside of it being a prop in Forge. The second we get it, people will complain about how the passengers are exposed or how everyone keeps shooting it down with the various anti-vehicle weapons.
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> I don’t see why the Falcon is a big deal. It’s fundamentally useless in Halo 5 outside of it being a prop in Forge
Pretty much.
I can’t even get people in a warthog for a flag run. What makes the OP think people are going to go for the Falcon?
Half the time, no one goes for a banshee either on maps like Valhalla, even though it’s simplistic to go and bomb the enemy going for the Spartan Laser.
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> I don’t see why the Falcon is a big deal. It’s fundamentally useless in Halo 5 outside of it being a prop in Forge
Still hoping for 343 to reveal the Falcon as a Forge object and see the community reaction.
“I EXPECTED a Falcon”
Why? Literally why? They never said there would ever be a Falcon. Ever. You set yourself up to fail, and how tremendously you did. You can try to shift the blame, sure. Show how unappreciative you are about them bringing back anything. Hell, I didn’t think we’d see that armor again, but they brought that, and infection back. And that was enough. Apparently though, there are some people in the world that think they just deserve things because they want them. Truly, there are none more disappointed, then those who think they are entitled to everything.
Not once did 343 ever say the Falcon was coming over; your own expectations lead to your disappointment. Besides, this update is great: more awesome Forge updates like stone textures, Infection, really cool maps, post-medal screen, Noble Team armors, UI fixes, et cetera.
I was hoping for the grenade launcher. I loved that thing.
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> I was hoping for the grenade launcher. I loved that thing.
ya it would have been nice to use the grenade launcher in warzone.
I thought this update was ok
Reach had good ol days? I can’t recall any.
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> Once I heard of the Memories of Reach update I had quite a few of expectations. I thought we were getting at the very least Noble teams’ armor, the falcon, a few Reach weapons, and a few Reach maps.
You seriously can’t expect more than one map in a Halo 5 update, it’s ridiculously uncommon and a few weapons is high hopes as well. You kinda set yourself up for disappointment.
I’m satisfied with the armors although I wanted Noble Six’s armor as well. He/she made the ultimate sacrifice too. Not just the original Noble Team. However I dislike the fact that they didn’t make the armors exactly as they were in Halo Reach. Kat’s arm for example.
But yeah, 85% satisfied. I hope they put in some robot arms in the future though. And 6’s armor.
As for maps, Sword Base would be awesome. It’s actually a good map for the new Infection mode.
I’ve played countless of Swat matches on that map. It fits good in almost every gametype.