I can see the point your trying to make. Then again this is Bungies world where talking about not ours. We gave them 70 dollars so if they can’t take some criticism for changes they decided to make then I say to them suck it up. I DON’T like the condescension they deliver to us either. Bungie has done some awesome things for us but I think they need a reality check. Or a kick in the butt.
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> I can see the point your trying to make. Then again this is Bungies world where talking about not ours. We gave them 70 dollars so if they can’t take some criticism for changes they decided to make then I say to them suck it up. I DON’T like the condescension they deliver to us either. Bungie has done some awesome things for us but I think they need a reality check. Or a kick in the butt.
A lot of people have given Bungie more money than $70, but yeah they really need to realize a lot of people would enjoy this game more if they would listen to their problems.
343, can you (or Bungie) do a Title Update for things like Bloom or Grenade damage? Or better, I know that you can because moddes can do it, but are you going to do it? Have you ever tought to do it? Think, how many problems would it fix?
Sword Block needs to go.
As it stands now, Reach has some big imbalances.
Armor Abilities:
Remove an annoying one? A slightly less annoying one gets abused, i.e squad slayer with camo/jetpack
They need to all have more trade offs, and better balance.
Scoping in with camo should reduce it faster
You should have more bloom and your reticule should shake while jetpacking
There should be a longer weapon draw time after sprinting/evading
Holo I believe is balanced ATM
Drop shield should be Campaign/FF only.
Armor Lock…well there’s plenty of threads on that
Maps:
Sword Base is awful. Nothing can fix that.
Reflection is heavily biased towards red team, same applies for pinnacle, powerhouse, uncaged, the list goes on.
We need balanced asymmetric maps and symmetrical maps WITHOUT DYNAMIC SPAWNS
Weapons: Halo has always been a utility weapon game. Don’t listen to people who say the BR/DMR is OP, etc. Reduce the splash damage on all weapons, especially rockets and frags. It’s impossible to avoid a rocket unless you armor lock.
Reach needs better balancing to become a better game.
I think bloom is fine the way it is. As for grenades, I think that 343 should nerf them slightly to only take down shields (unless our shields are already gone in which case it will kill us) or change the movement speed of the players, making it easier to avoid the damage from grenades.
Don’t really see these as a problem though.
> I think bloom is fine the way it is. As for grenades, I think that 343 should nerf them slightly to only take down shields (unless our shields are already gone in which case it will kill us) or change the movement speed of the players, making it easier to avoid the damage from grenades.
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They are just examples, there are more things that can be implemented or other flaws in the game that I didn’t list, you can easily find them reading some topics in the Multiplayer forum.
> 343, can you (or Bungie) do a Title Update for things like Bloom or Grenade damage? Or better, I know that you can because moddes can do it, but are you going to do it? Have you ever tought to do it? Think, how many problems would it fix?
I remember when video games came out and if there was something wrong with it, you dealt and adapted with it because there was no such thing as a title update.
Bloom is not fine.
So many times, one shot, two shots, three shots, four shots, headshot time, no bloom made the bullet go next to his head. Then the enemy escapes, you can’t kill him. Or with the pistol, it takes a full clip to kill someone without headshots. The bloom is really huge, even at close range. Even if you fire at your enemy, the bullets will go randomly flying somewhere around him. Or you wont even be able to get a good shot due to the reticle being so huge.
Spam the trigger you say? What do you consider spam? Maybe time passes faster for you and you can’t percieve things as much as others do.
Then sprint would have to go as well. Sword block and armor lock are bungies way of offering a counter to sword sprinting. The problem is, your right. It does need to go cuz its just kinda dumb. It also might be linked to why sword combat now consists of parry battles until you both die at once; the sword became easier to parry. Are there even any sword gametypes in matchmaking right now? I don’t think there are.
> > 343, can you (or Bungie) do a Title Update for things like Bloom or Grenade damage? Or better, I know that you can because moddes can do it, but are you going to do it? Have you ever tought to do it? Think, how many problems would it fix?
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I’ve adapted. I just want to know if they’re able to do it/ they’re going to do it.
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> That were times when games were actually balanced and fun. I miss this times.
Then you should go play those games. Halo is one of them and I am sorry you don’t feel that way about it. I can understand when personal expectations haven’t been met for a product made for the masses and how it can make the game feel less balanced and fun for that player. It is unfortunate, yet true. You seem like a smart individual so you would understand where I am coming from, right?
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> That were times when games were actually balanced and fun. I miss this times.
Halo is the most balanced game pretty much ever. No matter what weapon you have you can hold your own.
And I don’t know why people complain about bloom. It makes sense… It makes the guns take more skill to use.
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> And I don’t know why people complain about bloom. It makes sense… It makes the guns take more skill to use.
I don’t know why people say that about bloom, because it doesn’t add skill. Bungie added it as a handicap and nothing more. It makes it take longer to get the kill which is dumb and adds frustration.
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> I don’t know why people say that about bloom, because it doesn’t add skill. Bungie added it as a handicap and nothing more. It makes it take longer to get the kill which is dumb and adds frustration.
well, it does add a LITTLE bit of skill thats for sure. it adds zero depth, however (actually subtracts in that area because you can flail around and spam your shots and still get kills).
what it adds most is a random factor.
when your reticule covers half of the enemy spartan it is actually optimal to spam until their shields pop, then headshot. because of this, aiming skill doesnt really matter because
1.) you are aiming with a watermelon
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2.) player speed is SUPER slow so strafing does almost nothing to get you out of this ‘watermelon’
also, because of this, every DMR-only battle at this range is essentially a coin flip.
oh, and it also adds MYSTERY to the game for new players who dont know the way to shoot their weapon.
Imagine how many problems this would solve in Halo Reach! We could create custom gametypes that perfectly reflect Classic Halo titles. We could balance out vehicles and make the Sniper no longer an anti-vehicle death machine.
We could fine tune Reach to the exact levels, creating incredible gametypes never before seen in Halo before. If nothing else about Reach is fixed THIS MUST BE ADDED INTO REACH IN A TU!!!
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> Halo is the most balanced game pretty much ever.
I’m sorry, I stopped right there and lol’d for a good minute. Halo: Reach (and Halo games in general) is certainly not the most balanced game ever.
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> B) If you ever actually took the time to read Bungie’s messages (BWU), then you would know that they’ve been working on a major multiplayer update for quite some time now.
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Maybe not a mandatory fix, but definitely an update to toggle things we dont like such as:
Falling dmg
Reticle bloom
melee doesnt carry through shields
vehicle resistance to all weapons
AL!!
Scorpion’s domination of Banshee
OLD WEAPONS UPDATE!!
OLD ARMOR UPDATE!!
By the way bloom defenders, we have recoiless rifles here and now, in the present. Do you think that maybe to go with the fiction, 500 years from now that ALL guns would be recoiless?
And you said there was nothing to fix. I want Halo back, not a crossbreed between CoD(bloom,fall dmg,ect) and Halo, designed to increase the population by attracting a bigger variety of players.
I want Halo, a good, run and gun, fun for everyone video game that has been amazing for the past ten years up until now.