I screwed up gaf, first time playing halo since combat evolved back in the day. i bought into the hype, thought i would enjoy the multiplayer but i really, really didnt like it takes too many bullets to kill.
Outside of the Pistol in CE, everything else still too many bullets. Even then its now 4 shot BR or 5 shot pistol. So I am not sure what you want in 5. The TTK is so fast, that ultimately the number of bullets does not matter.
I'm not even mad... But after a few more games I have decided Halo 5 is very mechanically sound. But I'm having zero fun. I haven't driven a warthog once; in seven hours of playing. That was my favorite thing to do in Halo. Always has been.
I'm playing the same two playlists I even kind of enjoy on the same two maps over and over and over. I hate Slayer. Breakout isn't for me. Like I said, I wanted BTB. Didn't get it. Okay, then I want CTF and Assault. Didn't get it. Okay, I just want objective. I get it sometimes - but again, with no vehicles at all. I love vehicles. I love teamwork. Arena as it is isn't for me.
I took it out and will trade it in tomorrow. I'm done with this series, I think. Unfortunate.
Not trying to take away from anyone else's enjoyment. Again, the actual core gameplay is very tight - a beautiful return to form for the series. I applaud 343 for that - it controls extremely well. But they've stripped away all the things that made me enjoy the series so much.
EDIT: I lied. I'll at least play the campaign... Kind of forgot about that. I stopped caring after 3, to be honest (though I thought Reach was okay). But should at least give the SP a fair shot.
I'm starting to get bothered by the extreme abundance of grenades. Slayer is feeling more and more like frag fest than an actual gunfight. There's nothing fun about getting spammed at with grenades. Why are they so plentiful?
BTB means Big Team Battle. It's the 8v8 playlist previous Halo games had. It didn't play anything like Warzone, it was more your traditional slayer & objective gametypes.
It's really disappointing that after all these years, there is still nothing to help this situation. If I'm down teammates, I would love an option to end early without penalty. This has been plaguing Halo matchmaking for years and nothing's been done about it aside from Join In Progress, but that proved to bring other issues of its own.
ONI Hog is fucking god-tier awesome. Took THREE fucking Scorpion hits before I died in one. Killed TWO enemy Scorpions with that one Hog. Fucking amazing.
Weapon and vehicle variants are so much more fun than I ever imagined. Getting stuff like the ONI Hog from a Random Vehicle REQ is pretty sweet.
The only time I 'think' the game has aiming issues is when zoomed in. But even that was only after everyone else started to complain, I started to pay more attention.
It's funny, on that mission with the miners I decided to attack some soldiers that we were fighting alongside.
They don't do anything! they just sit there and take it.
One of my favorite things was how the soldiers would fight back after killing one of them in halo. Your spartan buddies don't even care either, they just stand there and let you shotgun them in the face or stand on a grenade, or melee them off a elevator into lava hundreds of feet below.
Was probably the most fun i've had with the campaign so far.
They are generally useless except for spouting obnoxious lines about "STOP JUMPING AROUND LIKE A DAMN SKITTERBUG"
Maybe there will be less quitters later on, but still, almost every match has a quitter. So dumb.
I started with gold packs but was never really getting much, so I switched to silver and instantly started to get alot more, I get a new gun/vehicle certification each pack, I've unlocked more armour/visors etc from silver than I ever did with gold.
I'll probably stick with silver until I've unlocked all certifications
I screwed up gaf, first time playing halo since combat evolved back in the day. i bought into the hype, thought i would enjoy the multiplayer but i really, really didnt like it takes too many bullets to kill.
Jul killed in a cutscene. It wouldn't have been hard to make a small arena battle with Jul as a stronger elite. I'm assuming that's what you're saying too.
Jul killed in a cutscene. It wouldn't have been hard to make a small arena battle with Jul as a stronger elite. I'm assuming that's what you're saying too.
ONI Hog is fucking god-tier awesome. Took THREE fucking Scorpion hits before I died in one. Killed TWO enemy Scorpions with that one Hog. Fucking amazing.
Weapon and vehicle variants are so much more fun than I ever imagined. Getting stuff like the ONI Hog from a Random Vehicle REQ is pretty sweet.
Oh yeah, I totally thought "I want to play it" during that scene, you're right. I still have three missions to do, though, so I won't comment on the all game just yet.
Jul killed in a cutscene. It wouldn't have been hard to make a small arena battle with Jul as a stronger elite. I'm assuming that's what you're saying too.
Dat feel when you drive a hog all the way to the enemies core by yourself, get into the room with enemies shooting you... hit A to swing up onto the turret and destroy it with seconds to spare.
Right so I haven't completed the game yet (Mission 8 so far), but I get the feeling they made a wrong move by moving the narrative between Osiris and Blue Team. I think they should have just stuck to one team to flesh out the Spartans a lot more? Don't get me wrong I really like all the Spartans, especially Buck and Tanaka but it feels like the story between the 2 teams has been spread thin no?
Jul killed in a cutscene. It wouldn't have been hard to make a small arena battle with Jul as a stronger elite. I'm assuming that's what you're saying too.
Locke is such a boring character. I shouldn't be surprised though, it's not as if he was any good in the terrible Nightfall either.
Buck was the only decent thing to come out of Osiris. Hopefully we see more of him.
It was funny during the first mission Tanaka or Vale (I honestly don't know which is which) starts going off on one about why she learned Sangheili. I mean, really? That's your attempt to add depth to these cardboard cutouts? It was so out of place.
Right so I haven't completed the game yet (Mission 8 so far), but I get the feeling they made a wrong move by moving the narrative between Osiris and Blue Team. I think they should have just stuck to one team to flesh out the Spartans a lot more? Don't get me wrong I really like all the Spartans, especially Buck and Tanaka but it feels like the story between the 2 teams has been spread thin no?
I don't the fact that there's two teams is really the issue. As a whole 343i failed on giving any of the characters any sort of depth or motivation and I don't think that would have changed at all with one less team to focus on. Especially since (sort of spoilery, but not super)
Blue Team is only the focus of 3 of the missions
. It's just one of many storytelling failings with this game. :\
Locke is such a boring character. I shouldn't be surprised though, it's not as if he was any good in the terrible Nightfall either.
Buck was the only decent thing to come out of Osiris. Hopefully we see more of him.
It was funny during the first mission Tanaka or Vale (I honestly don't know which is which) starts going off on one about why she learned Sangheili. I mean, really? That's your attempt to add depth to these cardboard cutouts? It was so out of place.
It was Vale. I actually noticed that basically every character had one or two brief lines/exchanges summing up what we know about them from the books/comics/past games.
I don't the fact that there's two teams is really the issue. As a whole 343i failed on giving any of the characters any sort of depth or motivation and I don't think that would have changed at all with one less team to focus on. Especially since (sort of spoilery, but not super)
Blue Team is only the focus of 3 of the missions
. It's just one of many storytelling failings with this game. :\
It was Vale. I actually noticed that basically every character had one or two brief lines/exchanges summing up what we know about them from the books/comics/past games.
I actually like the little touches they do to flesh out the newer characters, but they didn't go far enough to make them interesting, out of the 7 new characters the only ones that have extensive character moments are Buck and Locke with their conversations, the entire blue team, Tanaka and Vale are basically non-existent.
For those of you who really don't like the maps like me
What do you feel breaks the game more?
Clamber or sprint?
On one hand sprint isn't needed and makes the maps wider along with the difficult jumps mostly just being more spread out which kind of takes away from shooting and encounters in various ways
Camber just adds some strange high or long ranged jumps that also take away shooting and from the game play that I enjoy. makes the developers design a lot of walk ways and jumps that are out of reach to actually "jump on" which I really really hate, designing the maps to force a clamber between a wide space just urks me all kind of the wrong ways. Miss my skill jumps so much from halo. Now people only hold clamber every damn time they jump and eventually they will rely on it like a crutch to whre they won't even feel they like skill jumps anymore.
There is no doubt both break the flow of traditional gameplay and i don't feel the running speed is that fast , not that much faster than the standard full speed.
I have one question for developers though
What exactly is an analog stick to you? Mario 64 showed us what it was from crawl to full speed, why do we need "a button" to run super fast when we have up to 256 speeds on the control stick. I just don't get this copy this game mentality in these entertainment industry. Do your own thing...
For those of you who really don't like the maps like me
What do you feel breaks the game more?
Clamber or sprint?
On one hand sprint isn't needed and makes the maps wider along with the difficult jumps mostly just being more spread out which kind of takes away from shooting and encounters in various ways
Camber just adds some strange high or long ranged jumps that also take away shooting and from the game play that I enjoy.
There is no doubt both break the flow of traditional gameplay and i don't feel the running speed is that fast , not that much faster than the standard full speed.
I have one question for developers tough
What exactly is an analog stick to you? Mario 64 showed us what it was from crawl to full speed, why do we need "a button" to run super fast when we have up to 256 speeds on the control stick. I just don't get this copy this game mentality in these entertainment industry. Do your own thing...
takes too many bullets to kill.
