As someone who is excited and disappointed already for Infinite. Who has been playing Halo since 2004.
I was shocked to see how CoD Zombies (wonder weapon) looking the Cindershot and Disruptor were. Not just how they looked
but the type of projectile, sound, and more… they all just looked and felt like CoD Zombies Wonder Weapons.
The mangler looks nice, but… also, like the Commando, you know? something from Destiny.
I am not mad about it, it could all work… but they just dont feel super “HALO” to me.
I am really excited, cause the game looked really good, played really good, had good flow, and had some remakes of weapons I really liked.
Even the Commando, I really liked that. Really hated the Skewer, but really liked the Commando… more than I thought.
However I am really disappointed right now, I paid 60$ for a Campaign that includes no bonuses, nothing, unless they give us things later…
we have not seen much if anything of SAID campaign… and then the lack of weapons.
Lemme just say this, I do not want Halo to be any other game than Halo… BUT
Far Cry 6 has a LOAD of weapons, CoD has a Load of Weapons, Battlefield has a Load of weapons…
I wish halo had a few more… I mean, like… the LMG from 4/5, the DMR, the SMG… a classic Shotgun and Magnum… (they could put both in with the new and still balance the game, I have made MANY posts about HOW TO, so I wont be doing it again here)
I am thinking as a selling point, since they have bragged about having 23 PvP maps at launch, which was more then CoD Vanguard (which sucks anyway)
but lets put the final nail in that coffin and add some more weapons to the armory! new and remade classics!
As someone who favors Rifleman weapons, (AR, BR, DMR, Commando, Carbine, Plasma repeater, Needle Rifle, ETC)
I would like to see more small arms and rifles like the above mentioned, into the game, more middle man weapons. Cause most of the banished armory … from what I have seen looks like weapons I would classify as Pistols and Specials/Launchers… would love some more SMG and Rifle class weapons, even another sniper or something.
Not only UNSC classics making a return, but some Covenant friends making a return, that would be awesome!
In total there are only 8 UNSC weapons so far, I feel… like that is a few too… well, few. The banished have 13 weapons, and the Forerunners have 1 (the Sentinel Beam)
in total, so far, we know that 22 weapons will be in the game… I would like to see more, especially in the campaign. Which is one of my biggest worries when it comes to Modern FPS games, when they add NEW weapons post-launch and there is NO WAY to use them in the Campaign.
As someone who doesn’t just play PvP (to be clear, I really don’t play it at all anymore). I also talked about a Loadout system for the Campaign previously here on Wwaypoint, but its probably been buried. I think with a loadout system they could add the new, post-launch weapons (assuming they add some and they will have too if they think this game will last 10 years) into the loadout system, so players can take what they want to tackle whatever objectives however they want. It feels like the right concept for a Sandbox/Open World game. I cant think of one without a Loadout system in some capacity (mostly in Halo’s case would be just for guns and grenades). AND it wouldnt be there for everyone, so those who do not want to interact with a Loadout Screen, dont have too and can go around picking up weapons as they please, like in the Old games, and those who want to stick with a certain weapon could use the loadout system. Which could be interacted with at Pelicans or DropShips, and Crates (like UNSC Hard Crates, or Ammo Crates) similar they could do a thing where it limits UNSC weapons and Gear to UNSC Crates and Banished gear to their own crates (and dropships, or whatever else they wanna add it too). This is just an idea of how it could work… in short. I went into more detail about it in a previous post. But, I welcome them just adding the weapons throughout the story, if they do add Post-Launch weapons.
I am also disappointed at how little they have shown us, with the game just being a little over 50 days out, as well as no news for Firefight or Spartan Ops, or anything NEW mode wise. Would be nice to be able to use my own spartan in its own story out side of what, BY LORE, is Training (PvP) which is a simulation or field where spartans are pit against eachother for Training… SO, it would be nice to see my Spartan in other things. Even if they are recycled from the Campaign, hopefully with enough NEW that it would work well. I just wished they had more gear, maps, and modes to see, and a campaign we could actually test out… now that I am feeling a wee-bit skeptical about giving them 60$ for a story. Never felt any story was worth that. But, I love Halo, its been there through a large portion of my life, so, at the very least, itll still be worth 40$ or so, and hopefully be fun to just shoot things.