343 nailed to two extremes with these first two flights. The first flight felt great for casual play. The second felt more MLG/sweaty. If they can keep the weapon tuning, radars, etc… Separate for social and ranked they will expand their audience or find a happy middle ground. I don’t know what under the hood changes were made but it felt different with each flight.
Does anyone understand why in the second flight the precision weapons felt pin point accurate yet unforgiving,and the melee lunge range was so insane? It felt they belonged to two different games.
It was MLG sweaty for the first one as well for the brief time PVP was up. The reason précision weapons felt useless and unforgiving was 1) one of the alternatives the commando to the Br is a complete joke on console 2) there is no bullet magnetism and the aim assist is almost nonexistent on console. 3) people at higher tiers of play know how to strafe around bullets and make you miss ur shots as compared to the bots that are a little more predictable.
They have made changes but main reason it was mostly Vs bots and they were really easy, even on Spartan difficulty.
I think if the Spartan bots were in the first flight like they are now, a lot of players would have been losing games to them.
The game uses skill base matchmaking from what I can tell so everyone is effectively playing ranked games, they might be using the ranked algorithm to pair us which is why no matter what your skill is games feel pretty difficult and close. At least most were when I played.
Vs bot in the two flights had different results too. In the first flight most games against the bots, they would score between 10-20 kills/points per match. In flight 2 they would only score 0-5 kills/points. I found in flight 2 I could stand in the middle of Recharge or Bazaar an get kills for the whole match and maybe die once and get a dozen or more kills I couldn’t do that in the first flight.
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> Vs bot in the two flights had different results too. In the first flight most games against the bots, they would score between 10-20 kills/points per match. In flight 2 they would only score 0-5 kills/points. I found in flight 2 I could stand in the middle of Recharge or Bazaar an get kills for the whole match and maybe die once and get a dozen or more kills I couldn’t do that in the first flight.
They tweaked the bots because the bots weren’t operating as intended. Even Vs Spartan bots most games I played ended 50-5.
The Spartan bots are much more deadly now. All the bots are performing differently.