I have been a diehard halo fan for years starting with halo 1 and became obsessed with halo 2 and continued on to halo 3, and somewhat reach.
The ranking system is not for competitive play styles. Competitive players want a RANK! We want something that puts us above the rest of the community as far as skill and to play with similar skilled players. It worked pretty well in halo 2 (disregarding the cheating) and it worked really well in halo 3. Halo reach lost all competitive nature when it threw people at random into games with different skill levels. They made a system of competition that was basically playing as a lone wolf and doing really well got you gold-onyx in “competitive” play. That doesnt work because you can play really well carrying a team and still lose points because no one has your back or makes call outs that takes away from your score. STRICTLY FOR COMPETITIVE PLAYERS the ranking system was great to show that “oh i am level 47” or “this kid is level 8 with 2k games played in this MM”
I will also note that you should stop trying to make Competitive and non competitive players try to join up together and mix us into 1 pile… You are completely disregarding competitive players and making a worse game by not keeping them seperated. The competitive gameplay is only filled with games where you either 1 get stomped or 2 stomp someone else. I have rarely ever ran into a game where it was just a few points different between winning and losing in reach unlike halo 1, 2, and 3.
Hot swapable players… You are literally taking one of the most despised things in COD by players who want a good competition by having them thrown into a game that is losing 48 to 12. The other team is stacked and already in position and all you can do is DIE. Having a player quit sometimes HELPS a team out, and having someone quit and coming back for a victory is just a -Yoinking!- SWEET feeling.
I get loadouts being added but in my opinion the halo evolution to using armor abilities killed a lot of the play of halo. It transformed from a fast paced shooter to a sit and wait match between armor locks.
I understand that bloom at the very least is greatly diminished which was another HUGE reason that made halo not feel like a halo SKILL game. It became a match of either wait and time your shots or you can do what EVERYONE even MLG pro’s do and spam shots at their head and hope to be the first one to land the last shot. That doesnt take skill nor does it show that someone out gunned someone else.
Weapon purchases that are more than cosmetic… This is just stupid. If i wanted to play Call of duty then I would play call of duty not ask to see more of that in halo.
Sprint at any time addition is the only real positive thing other than greatly reduced bloom that i have heard that is coming out of halo 4.
Instant respawn by default is pretty strange to change to and could give a better sense of quick game play, but at the same time you have to make a GOOD spawn system which halo reach FAILED MISERABLY at.
Random spawns is actually a good idea, but seeing everything else doesnt make the game worth purchasing.
Just a side note i remember someone talking up “oh they are gonna explain WHY it is red vs blue spartains” and then come out and say what EVERY halo players assumption was that it was just training simulation type stuff. Great addition to the story… seriously tho that is just -Yoinking!- lame and stupid to even mention it like it was a big deal in the first place.
Getting rid of fire fight… Good stop wasting time on Gears of war horde mode for halo. It was boring at best unless you had just rediculous loadouts.
I understand that the game needs to evolve so all you people who are just being hippies about the gameplay of the series being rid of saying “no man here is how the game industry works man… you need to let it evolve” Sit the -Yoink- down and shut the -Yoink- up. I have spent THOUSANDS of hours with the halo games and loved every one until halo 3 and was one of the last 100 or so people to play on the halo 2 servers as a farewell (which is -Yoink- cause that was THE BEST halo minus the modders/bridgers/lag switchers) I dont know how many hours i spent just playing with glitches in halo 2 let alone playing the multiplayer every day for hours since release till 2008 or 09.
I have loved this series in the past and was genuinely waiting for 343 to rekindle that love after the dirty rape child that was halo reach disappointed the entire halo compettitive fanbase.
You boys at 343 I desperately ask you 1 favor as a long time halo fan and will let any transgression go without a word. All I ask is you somehow port halo 2 back on to xbox live in either a graphical update or what have you and bring back the halo 2 multiplayer UNTOUCHED. No sprint, bloom, assassination animations, or any of that other -Yoink-. Call of duty releases a graphical update every other year of the EXACT SAME GAME (excluding WAW and MW2) depending on which group you are talking about that makes call of duty.
Might I just suggest if you are going to continue making halo games a good place to start is with moderately symmetrical maps that has bases to spawn in safely even if there are enemies in your base. The most hated maps were usually because bungie thought it would be a good idea to make a pit where people randomly spawn around the place with a terrible spawning system and constatnly die or be stuck in “jail” where the enemy team has easy/quick access to the high ground and lock you into your base where you got team shot if you died/respawn or left the safety of the rock/wall you were hiding behind.
Just give us the maps and the servers to run halo 2 we dont even need a graphical update… Hell ill buy it again from yall if thats what it takes to play halo 2 again even though i still have my old limited edition of h2.
To shut up the comment of “just play it on PC with a controller” the online Halo 2 PC are pretty much lifeless at all hours of the day. Halo 4 was pretty much my last legit excuse to keep my xbox around collecting dust.
So in conclusion. This multiplayer is going further and further away from not only competitive but all the old diehard halo fans have wanted for some time. Not only that but you are gonna lose more halo fan customers making halo a COD wannabe than gain COD players. These are the reasons why you will not be receiving my 59.99, and I will be on Dota 2 or some other game when yall decide to become aware of how to make a halo game and do it.
