Hey Waypointers, I consider myself a competitive Halo player. While I don’t go to events or actually “compete,” I have been keeping up with the pro Halo scene and being a matchmaking tryhard since '06. With that said, I believe default Halo 5 contains the best out of box default settings we have had since Halo 1(if you ignore plasma pistol starts…). Halo 2 SMG starts, and H3 and Reach AR starts were terrible IMO. I’m ignoring Halo 4 completely. However, one thing that sometimes irks me in Halo 5 is the overabundance of automatic weapons on the map coupled with radar. Don’t get me wrong, I’m fine with weapon variety, but when I play Empire and get killed my Storm Rifles and SMGs 85% of the time by people crouching around corners, that just isn’t fun. The way I see it, radar makes autos terrible. If radar was off, players would actually have to be aware of where the enemies are. As of now, as soon as a red dot appears on the radar, people switch to their overpowered storm rifles.
in general, I do think this is a weapon layout problem. Put a MAX of 1 or 2 storm rifles/SMGs on maps, don’t just gift teams with 1 of each whenever they spawn. But for the sake of testing it out, I’d like to see a weekend playlist that features no radar and no automatics on the maps. We could still spawn with ARs as they will be less of a nuisance due to no radar. Make it al of the Team Arena gametypes just without radar and autos on maps. Thoughts?