Hi I'm a long term Halo fan so obviously I've been looking forward to this game for a while. I immediately jumped right into matchmaking and discovered that (unless some kind of a patch comes out) the game is ruined.
1) What is this thrust thing that keeps happening!?
Why is it that every time I try and melee someone I get this bizarre rocket-boost bull**** where instead of hitting them I just fly past them at breakneck speed and completely lose my bearings and spatial awareness. Absolutely awful feature of the game and needs an immediate outright removal. Why make the game so complicated? The great thing about Halo 3 is that we knew what out buttons would do when we press them. Now I'm scared to melee anyone because I know I'll probably just get teleported 5 feet in front of me instead.
2) Recon controls have been totally abandoned
I've been playing since Halo 3 and if there is one thing I HATE it is having to use the bumper to melee people. I use 'B' to melee and I always have. The problem is now that the 'down the sights' thing has been introduced at left trigger, you can switch to recon without having an awful 'down the sights' thing at right thumbstick instead. I absolutely hate this and just can't get used to it at all.
3) Maps are boring and no weapons on any of them
Where are the weapons?! The first 5 games I played the only weapon I managed to pick up was a plasma pistol? What about the snipers? The energy swords? The rocket launchers? Where is everything!?
4) Playlists are awful
I despise 4v4 team slayer but I'm basically forced to play it now because there is no alternative. Where is the big team battle? I used to love that playlist because you could sample all the vehicles and weapons and just have fun. And no I'm not talking about that war zone crap where nine tenths of the enemies are 'easy' difficult AI and you can barely even find anyone on the other team.
That's my evaluation of the game so far. I hope it gets fixed and I understand it's only day one so there is no point being too negative, it's just unbelievably upsetting when a game you look forward to for so long turns out to be garbage.
