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Hello Halo community. After a couple months after the release of H5G I just wanted to share my likes and dislikes of the game. Feel free to also share your likes and dislikes.
Likes in the Campaign:
- Loved the new vehicle designs such as the ghost, wraith, phantom, banshee.
- They brought the spirit dropship back. Not a big deal but it is nice to see it back as it also adds more variety
- Loved the designs of the planets. Sanghelios was beautiful. The rocky landscape followed by the battle of Sunion was awesome. The forerunner underground part of Meridian was beautiful with the lava and all that. Genesis had to be the most beautiful.
- Old characters were back such as Buck, Arbiter, Fred, Kelly, Linda, and Halsey.
- The Warden Eternal was an awesome enemy to fight and an interesting character. I can’t wait to see how his character has an impact in the future games and books.
- 031 Exuberant Witness was an awesome character. I hope there is still more story for the monitor and on Genesis.
- There are like 30 guardians. If you count them all on the last mission I believe there are between 20 and 30.
- I’m glad there was no flood like everyone wanted. It is still too early for them to be back, The longer we wait for them the better it will be.
Dislikes of the Campaign:
- The surface of the planet Meridian was ugly IMO
- Cortana being back the way she is.
- I’m not a fan of the whole “created taking the mantle” approach.
- There were 3 blue team missions. COME ON!!! They are much more interesting than fireteam osiris even when osiris has Buck. Imagine if they used Thorne like they were originally gonna.
- The TV ads lied to us. Locke was never out to kill chief. Good trailers but not factual. I do believe the original script got cut from development.
- Halo 4, Halo Escalation, and Spartan ops have nothing to do with Halo 5. Remember the Librarian and her speech she gave to 117? You don’t need to. Remember the fight for the janus key in spartan ops and escalation? You don’t need to. Remember the didact from halo 4 and escalation? You don’t need to.
- Some cutscenes felt out of place. Like in the first blue team mission it starts with Osiris delivering Halsey and it was unnecessary to have at that point in time.
- Jul died. He had so much potential!
- The new ship classes the covenant used I didn’t like. For Jul’s covenant i didn’t care since they use older tech but for the arbiters covenant…that bugged me a little.
- no character development. Need i say more?
Likes in multiplayer:
- Sprint, clamber, and ground pound are awesome. I love the movement system. Try going back to MCC is hard.
- Maps visually are amazing IMO. The amount of detail that went into them is amazing.
- Smart link is awesome IMO. I don’t know why but i like it more.
- Weapons are nice and balanced IMO
- I love the armor in H5G. The designs are so nice.
Dislikes in multiplayer:
- Warzone. Just terrible IMO. REQs were fine, but the maps are bad. I always feel like i am dying and i’m not a bad player. Spawn. Die. Respawn. Die quicker. Also the amount of AI there are is ridiculously small. A phantom drops 1 elite and 3 grunts. Pathetic. There is also the Boss kill stealing thing that pisses me off. I’m always so close to killing Warden!!! Team’s also aren’t big enough for maps IMO.
- No classic firefight. 343i doesn’t understand that not everyone is a MLG try hard competetive pro. Some people don’t like playing with others or killing spartans all the time. If you can’t make the campaign replayable than there has to be a PvE. Not warzone firefight
- map remixes. Too similar to the originals
- lack of playlists. Don’t need to say anything else.
- non-original BTB maps. They’re all built from forge! Come on 343i
- no split screen