The first two fixes that I suggest are easy to agree with (in my opinion) and would also be extremely simple for the dev. team.
1). Warthog Drivers should earn an assist along with the wheelman medal for every spartan kill their gunner and passengers score.
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2). Reqs. in a player’s collection under the power weapons and vehicles tabs should have the option to be sold in bulk. Example: Oni Gungoose 50
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3). The third fix I suggest is probably not as popular of an opinion, but I believe that snipers should be removed from warzone. The reason I believe this is because there are simply too many lines of sight in warzone maps where the sniper is the only weapon that has the precision and range to be effective. Couple this with the massive aim assist and bullet magnetism on snipers and you end up with situations where the only weapon that can effectively counter a decent sniper is a sniper.
Bonus: The Oni Gungoose could earn its “Oni” title by removing the bouncing effect and increasing the value of the shot’s blast radius. I’m not sure how easy this would be to do, but the biggest weakness in the gungoose that also hurts its intended functionality is that many times the splash damage on shots will only take your targets shields down. This can happen even with some very close proximity explosions.
Yeah that would be helpful especially for arena-only players.
Getting to use a sniper is how I have the most fun in this game and if they did remove snipers from warzone I would probably stop playing it. One of the few weapons that help you play a support role while staying safe without using a vehicle which I don’t enjoy as much.
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> 2. Yeah that would be helpful especially for arena-only players.
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> 3. Getting to use a sniper is how I have the most fun in this game and if they did remove snipers from warzone I would probably stop playing it. One of the few weapons that help you play a support role while staying safe without using a vehicle which I don’t enjoy as much.
they dont count as assist in your KD/KDA
agreed
need snipes in warzone. in arena too many ppl compete over them and they are limited to certain maps
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> > 3. Getting to use a sniper is how I have the most fun in this game and if they did remove snipers from warzone I would probably stop playing it. One of the few weapons that help you play a support role while staying safe without using a vehicle which I don’t enjoy as much.
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> 1) they dont count as assist in your KD/KDA
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> 3) need snipes in warzone. in arena too many ppl compete over them and they are limited to certain maps
This, I’ve driven many hogs and have gotten many wheelman medals from it. They’re not counted as assists. Which is pretty lousy, and probably why nobody ever bothers picking up a hog in Arena.
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> This, I’ve driven many hogs and have gotten many wheelman medals from it. They’re not counted as assists. Which is pretty lousy, and probably why nobody ever bothers picking up a hog in Arena.
Well, it doesn’t help that this Warthog is really weird, in my opinion. It seems way too open, too easy to kill the gunner and the driver. It is really weak in my opinion.
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> > > > 3. Getting to use a sniper is how I have the most fun in this game and if they did remove snipers from warzone I would probably stop playing it. One of the few weapons that help you play a support role while staying safe without using a vehicle which I don’t enjoy as much.
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> Well, it doesn’t help that this Warthog is really weird, in my opinion. It seems way too open, too easy to kill the gunner and the driver. It is really weak in my opinion.
i dont see how being easy or hard to kill the ppl in the warthog having any bearing on why the wheelman does not count as assist. i mean we ALL know the difference between a good and bad driver is getting 1 or less kills or going on a rampage
You’re 2nd statement is great. I assume you mean if you have 50 Mongoose then you should be able to sell all of them at the same time. It would great.
The 3rd statement you made is kind of dumb. The sniper is useful on a few maps, and they can only snipe in certain locations. The sniper isn’t the only weapon that can fire across a map, a Sentinel DMR has 2x Zoom. It is very affective in Warzone for cross mapping people.
Snipers honestly aren’t a problem for me. Out of anything, maybe move them up a REQ but it’s not needed. I’m actually starting to love sniping after being super bitter in the beginning
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> i dont see how being easy or hard to kill the ppl in the warthog having any bearing on why the wheelman does not count as assist. i mean we ALL know the difference between a good and bad driver is getting 1 or less kills or going on a rampage
Well, who would want to get into a death trap? Nobody wants to get into the deathtrap, means nobody will drive, which means nobody will get Wheelman medals, which means nobody would care if Wheelman gets fixed. Or that is how I see it.
Ok, I hit my 2 forum post limit yesterday before I could reply to any of these so I’ll try to address some. First, the format for my post changed after I submitted it, so the second fix I suggested doesn’t look right at all. It seems like everyone understood what I was suggesting (being able to sell multiple of the same req at a time.)
Skip the next paragraph if you don’t care about why I think snipers are unbalanced in warzone.
I still have the same standing on snipers being unbalanced for warzone due to the possibilities of hiding, quickly changing location, headglitching, and ultimately the fact that in order to counter a sniper you have to spawn a req of equal or greater level value. The railgun is somewhat of an exception, but the bright light, no aim assist on a railgun, and the fact that most of the time you hit someone from a very long distance it will only take their shields down due to a large reticle make it very easy to beat with a sniper. All other high reqs (correct me if you can think of exceptions) have counters that take a much lower req level to spawn. For example:all vehicles can be made ineffective with a plasma pistol, rockets and incineration cannons are only effective in medium to close quarters where the user can be brought down easily during reload or a missed shot, railguns have the same weakness as the rocket launchers, but can be used at close, medium, and long ranges etc… An exception to this would be whiplash. Whiplash has a reload time thats way too forgiving and I don’t think it belongs in warzone as is. The point on the sentinel DMR was a good point on it being an effective counter for a sniper. I don’t personally have a sentinel DMR even though I’m almost level 100, but I can see where it would be a good counter for those who have it. While It still falls into the category of being a higher level than a sniper, but being a counter, I think the fact that it’s a loadout weapon overrides that. If everyone had the sentinel DMR, then sniper would be balanced IMO.
Overall though, You all have brought up the point that the sniper rifle is pretty fun in warzone. Does it give more fun to the user than it takes away from those on the receiving end? Probably, so I’m going to just change my fix suggestions to giving warthog drivers assists for passenger kills, being able to bulk sell reqs, and changing the oni gungoose projectiles to a larger AOE damage instead of bouncing.
I agree mostly. The snipers need to stay but they need to lower bullet magnatism or something. Halo 5 has the easiest sniping in any Halo. My friends and I needed to no scope in Duck Hunt because no one would miss a shot, even if they were bad at sniping in other Halos. Even with no scoping it was pretty easy.
