No ranking system. Why take out a system that was one of the best points in halo 2 and halo 3? Why are they using a failure of a game called Reach to model their multiplayer? I'll buy the game for the campaign, but from a multiplayer/competitive standpoint this game will be awful. I don't understand why they dont implement a ranked system. Casual players can be happy with social and get their XP, while having another ranked system, exactly like H2 and H3.
They also put bloom back into the game. I can't understand why they would do this in any way. Halo 2 and 3 had some of the most perfect gameplay in a game. Why change it? Bloom killed reach for me, what's the skill in 4-shotting someone when there's a factor of randomness involved. I'm sure it will kill Halo 4 for me.
Multiplayer will be awful for competitive players; no ranking system, no motivation to try and win besides XP that anyone can get just by playing 1000 hours even though they still may be trash; still have bloom. 343 why not just model your game based of the 2 most succesful games in the history of video games? Unless MLG comes out with some perfect game variant that resembles the old gameplay, I'll be playing online Blops 2.
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