There are no spawn weapons on the maps to resupply your ammo. The only way to resupply your ammo is off of dead players. If you’re using an exotic spawn weapon like the promethean repeater or the carbine and nobody else in the game is, you’re screwed.
Im predicting that a few weeks after launch a huge portion of the player base will be using BRs or ARs all the time while the other weapons will be left unused. Why? Because if you’re using the same weapon most people in the game are you’re at an advantage. You will have ammo all over the map to pick up. If 7 of the 8 people in the game are using BRs, you’re essentially forced to use it as well.
Just imagine you went into a game of Reach right now and you spawned with a DMR and there were no DMR pick ups on the map and nobody else in the game was using a DMR. You’d be constantly running out of ammo.
> > “Adapt, -Yoink!-”
> > - Stinkles
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> Yes, people will adapt. By using the same weapon everyone else is…
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> That’s the entire point of this thread
Or people will spawn with the weapons the want/like and if/when they run out, they’ll pick up something else. Kind of like people do now when you can’t always find a DMR or whatever.
I really don’t think it’s going to be as big an issue as you think it will be.
If you run out of ammo with your “Exotic” Carbine or Light Rifle, just PICK A BR UP.
It’s not like it’s any more difficult to swap your weapon than it is to snag a new gun off a corpse. Plasma Weapon users have done that from day 1 in Halo CE.
> > > “Adapt, -Yoink!-”
> > > - Stinkles
> >
> > Yes, people will adapt. By using the same weapon everyone else is…
> >
> > That’s the entire point of this thread
>
> Or people will spawn with the weapons the want/like and if/when they run out, they’ll pick up something else. Kind of like people do now when you can’t always find a DMR or whatever.
>
> I really don’t think it’s going to be as big an issue as you think it will be.
So people will use exotic weapons for a short amount of time before they use a BR like everyone else. So there will be a little bit of weapon variety instead of none.
I promise you that ammo will not effect what weapons people use. This is a faster pace game and the amount of time you stay alive is reduced. If you are good you will be able to adapt to every weapon. This prediction of yours is rather rediculous. In my opinion.
> I promise you that ammo will not effect what weapons people use. This is a faster pace game and the amount of time you stay alive is reduced. If you are good you will be able to adapt to every weapon. This prediction of yours is rather rediculous. In my opinion.
Im sorry to pick this one thing out of your post but it bothers me. Why do people spell ridiculous wrong so often? Same thing with lose and loose. People get that wrong all the time on this forum.
Anyways. I don’t see how it will not be an issue. The reason you don’t notice this in prior games is because there are spawn weapons lying EVERYWHERE. You’re constantly walking over them. Seriously go into a H3 custom on heretic(a fast playing map) and make it so you can’t pick up ammo. You’l run out all the time.
> > > “Adapt, -Yoink!-”
> > > - Stinkles
> >
> > Yes, people will adapt. By using the same weapon everyone else is…
> >
> > That’s the entire point of this thread
>
> Or people will spawn with the weapons the want/like and if/when they run out, they’ll pick up something else. Kind of like people do now when you can’t always find a DMR or whatever.
>
> I really don’t think it’s going to be as big an issue as you think it will be.
Completely agree here, this isn’t as big of a deal as you think!
I can’t always find the DMR so I grab what I can and you get better at all the weapons.
I think people expect they can stay alive forever… Plus OP its not like other Halos your bound to get a power weapon/pickup much sooner, so think of the starter weapons as a means of getting to the better weapons.
Well if any other games with customizable loadouts are any indicator, I think people will find a loadout setup that they like and then stick with it for a long time if not forever. I do worry that everyone’s setup will be a precision rifle (DMR, Light Rifle, BR) and a magnum or AR.
> > I promise you that ammo will not effect what weapons people use. This is a faster pace game and the amount of time you stay alive is reduced. If you are good you will be able to adapt to every weapon. This prediction of yours is rather rediculous. In my opinion.
>
> Im sorry to pick this one thing out of your post but it bothers me. Why do people spell ridiculous wrong so often? Same thing with lose and loose. People get that wrong all the time on this forum.
>
> Anyways. I don’t see how it will not be an issue. The reason you don’t notice this in prior games is because there are spawn weapons lying EVERYWHERE. You’re constantly walking over them. Seriously go into a H3 custom on heretic(a fast playing map) and make it so you can’t pick up ammo. You’l run out all the time.
Honestly I think it’s from my auto correct on my phone. I wasn’t paying attention to how I spelt it. You can’t compare halo 4 to halo 3. If it was a issue 343 would have fixed it.
I don’t know how it’ll affect weapon variety.
But I agree that there should be weapons on the maps other than power weapons, that is a defining feature of an Arena shooter to me. I didn’t want to trade my map weapons in favour of custom classes, I was hoping we could have both.
I hope Halo doesn’t suffer like most class-based shooters do, where certain weapons and specialisations will be left to rot in the loadout screen, while people use the same 5 starter weapons.