Let me start by saying I am enjoying the gameplay so far. I haven’t had a game I can just sit down and enjoy by myself for awhile. but its far from perfect but its not anywhere near awful either. I have a few points that definitely should be looked into. So I hope this will be taken into serious thought.
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Ranking System
Its should be no surprise that this is my number one spot. The game definitely needs one and I’m not talking silly SR1,2,3…etc ranks I’m talking proper ranks like FNJ, Private, LCpl, Cpl, Sgt… etc. The Battle pass is not a ranking system, I repeat not. A ranking system is there for players to feel good about their time playing the game and to show off the amount of time they have put into the game. The game has already been about a day and I have a friend who has finished the battle pass as he paid to finish it… thats fine but now he will lord it over people as he has the best stuff. If there was a ranking system in play, you can part the pay to win players from the hard working ones and you don’t even need to add rewards to each ranking. just having the rank is something to work towards in itself. Its not exactly rewarding finishing games at the moment and only earning exp from challenges as to me that’s just not enough. In some games where I get 25 kills and 10 deaths I feel great until I realise it doesn’t mean anything as it did go towards anything. -
Weapons Tuning
The weapons are great, the UNSC weapons look amazing, feel good to use and sound good to fire… the only issue is they don’t do enough damage and not just the unsc weapons.
The Battle Rifle 75 takes forever to takes shields down, it should be a 4 bursts to the head not 5.
The MA40 Assault Rifle feels good but its damage fall off feels like its a bit sudden.
The M41 SPNKR needs abit more AOE radius and AOE Damage. I have shot many rockets near the enemies and never does it seem to cause any damage, I find it hard to believe a rocket exploding near someone isn’t even causing shield damage.
The bulldog is good, i actually find it very balanced for a Semi-Auto Shotgun, I does sadden me not to see a return of the classic pump action shotgun but I’m sure you’ll add it in the future.
The Sniper Rifle again feels balanced as it still the classic one to the head, two to the body.
The MK50 Sidekick now does have an issue with the HUD Iron sight as even when the shields on my enemy are broken and I’m aiming at the head, I seem to be firing three or four shots to finish them and I assume that they are hitting the body. I feel its accuracy needs tweaking.
The VK78 Commando needs its damage output slightly raised as I am finding it rather slow at taking down shields. I find its a very slow weapon to kill with.
The MLRS - 2 Hydra is not worth grabbing. The Claim that its a power weapon is laughable as it does not do enough damage. its slow rate of fire and low damage output gets me out gunned by MA40s and MK50 Sidekicks all the time.
I would add my thoughts on the banished weapons but I have found no reason to use them, I have picked them up from time to time but they too often have low damage output or slow rates of fire. I find there is no reason to switch out my MA40 and MK50 for any other guns as these two seem to be the only two worth using if you want to win the matches.
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Earning Experience
Now I know this kind of ties in to the ranking system I talk about but at the same time for the battle pass does not feel rewarding enough. take OG Halo reach and MCC at the end of a match you are flooded with your experience, with it showing you what you earned, how you earned and how much CR or Exp you unlocked from that match. It made the player feel good and made them feel a drive to keep playing for another match or two or three into the late hours of the night and early hours of the morning. But after a match on Infinite at the moment, the match ends, im brought to a screen with my match stats and If I am lucky I might get shown my progress to a challenge that I need to actually get any Exp and with some of the challenges being locked into certain game modes brings me onto my next point. -
Game modes
I don’t understand why all the game modes are bunched into three playlists. In 4v4 quick play I find myself playing Odd ball… alot… and I don’t really like odd ball as it take me away from the game.
I personally love playing Slayer or BTB and I actually love all the BTB modes but when I want to do a challenge for strongholds and its a 1/10 chance ill get that game mode… its really frustrating.
I’m sure there are a few other things I had I wanted to bring up but for now I feel this is a good chunk of feedback for now.
I really do hope this gets seen and read and most importantly considered.
My final note will be that if anyone these are to be sorted, I feel 1 and 2 should be first as a ranking system and weapon tuning should be key to any game