Watching the video, a few thoughts:
- Flag return timer is excellent. Thank you guys for finally returning that to the long-range UI, it was dearly missed.
- Banshee seems just as bad as usual. Fuel rod is an abomination, both in a vehicle and as a separate weapon.
- Regen Field radius seems massive, I'm not sure anything's gonna change my mind on this one. Seemed like a bad idea in 3, seems like a bad idea now.
- Dude talks a lot, but at least he's showing us the stuff we want to see.
- Camo looks like it'll be as problematic as Reach's version since it doesn't seem to be changed very much.
- Exile seems like a really good map.
- Jetpack changes seem pretty good, will wait to see how it is used by griefers to pass judgement.
- That guy killed a Warthog with his pistol. Weird.
- Beam Rifle is a welcome return, I always liked the dynamic between the two sniper rifles' behavior.
- Very, very strange that the prebuilt loadouts were all automatic weapons. Hopefully not indicative of matchmaking defaults.
I'm glad that we got to see all of this stuff, it raised as many questions for me as it answered. I still don't think we'll truly know how well this stuff works until a month or so after release, when everybody's got things unlocked and the usual assholes are trying to break the game. Early demo please.