(Skipping the map, customization, and exp complaints since they’ve been done to death.)
I know it’s beta, but it feels like a COD beta, not a Halo beta:
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I don’t feel like a Spartan, I feel like a random marine cosplaying as a Spartan. At least in halo 5 when we were also a bunch of volunteers we still felt big, heavy, and strong.
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The hand-holding player outlines don’t feel like halo.
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The ui in general looks way more like battlefield or cod.
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The menu music — this rock stuff — it sounds cool but definitely not like Halo music. Plus, while a good-sounding song, it gets old real quick; I already have music muted.
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The score screen — why is it toggle? It was good in halo 5, why change it now?
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Okay I lied. I won’t skip customization because it’s really that important. Why, after 20 years of being able to choose colors, are we suddenly railroaded into these coatings? People have been -Yoink!- about coatings for like a year now — I’m shocked they still made it into the game in this state.
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I do like that player collision was removed, but a toggle option in customs would be good.
Basically, in my opinion, the game plays very nice, it looks polished, it feels relatively balanced (BR could use a rate of fire buff) but it just feels the least “halo” of all the titles so far, and that’s really disappointing.