Okay, so I have been playing multiplayer and I have to admit I was so upset I did not want to play anymore. I am a huge fan of Halo 2 and 3 and i thought of Reach as a learning experience ? Then after everyone goes and gives you feedback on what should be done 343 goes and looks the other way like "OMG call of duty is selling so many games lets go ahead and make a ****ty copy of it and call it Halo". If I wanted to play call of duty I would go and play call of duty. call of duty is a 3 console game so stop trying to compete with it.
So here's a list of things me and I am sure thousands of others would agree with:
Armour Abilities : I guess it was a nice try but like I said earlier, if they failed in reach why put them in again. Promethean vision is the worst thing ever what were you thinking. That could possibly be the cheapest thing ever why would you create that.
DMR vs BR : so I think its pretty obvious by now that the DMR dominates over the BR. I think you should pick one or the other and not create this unbalanced competition. I am not sure if you made the BR so much less powerful then the DMR to make a point of why it was not in Reach and how the DMR is the better choice and that the DMR will beat out the BR every time even with the same amount of skill on both ends. Also when I am scoped in and i get shot my cross hairs go all over the place.
Health : I honestly forget i'm playing Halo because I die in 2 seconds and then spend half my time running back to where I died. You have no chance to move anywhere because if you come out of cover the assault rifle will hit me from across the map because apparently its so amazing now it can take away all shields in a matter of a few seconds from a solid distance. I don't like how you LITERALLY have no choice in a 2v1 and no one can say differently unless the two people are blind and you have an incineration cannon. their no chance to be clutch or do anything because you die so fast and from so far away if I wanted to get kills from across the map in halo 3 I would pick up a BR or a sniper now I just switch to my pistol that has crazy distance, accuracy and damage from across the map. That's just ridiculous it takes away the point of long range weapons.
Grenades: I cant quite pinpoint whats wrong with the grenades but their different and I don't like it and the poor plasma grenade, what have you done to it because it misses the stick and the Promethean grenade is like a power drain ?
Weapons on Map : I do not like at all how the weapons spawn on the map and show up for everyone to see. Why couldn't you keep it like it was and leave them spawning normally. Part of the game was getting weapon respawn times down and controlling the power weapons, Now they just pop up inconveniently and often are useless for what I need to accomplish. How do I kill a banshee with the newly spawned shotgun ( Hint you don't ). also Weapons disappear so fast you have to sprint your ass to were you died if you have any hope of picking up your sniper rifle or such. Also i want to be able to pick up grenades from people I have killed without having to have a dumb perk selected and it was part of the games to take your enemies things to use them against the next opponent.
Vehicles : why did you have to get rid of vehicles like the hornet or the falcon for team based drops in and out of a location. Now I have a mantis which has so much health its impossible to kill and once your team is dead you lose almost all map control if the mantis driver isn't slow in his dome. Vehicles also should not die from gunfire like they do. When I am driving a banshee I don't want to have to worry about getting hit by a sniper rifle and losing half my health and watching as part of my plane blows off. I get that weapons should damage vehicles but not completely decimate them. A good team shot can absolutely destroy a banshee or any other vehicle before it gets a chance to make an impact on the game.
Forge : cool I can have shadows let me just pause the game in an annoying fashion for everyone playing making anything impossible to create because no one has the patience to watch that happen 1000 times.
Last part of the campaign : I am not going to spoil anything but call of duty copy cat, I think yes.
Ranking system : if I wanted to suck at a game but get higher ranks I would play call of duty all day I want the old halo 3 skill based ranking system back. Also I would much rather have a symbol rank such as general or brigadier then a number because for me it just adds a little something extra.
medals : medals used to mean something and now I get one for dieing 3 times and getting a kill ? like gee that was necessary how about you give me a medal every time I spawn or reload my weapon ( sarcastic). medals used to mean something and when I get 5 medals in one kill I have no idea what I just did and no perfection medal? I didn't realize I wasn't playing halo anymore.
Beat downs: there is barely any lunge and when their is its not accurate its clumsy and often takes multiple tries to hit them twice, maybe its just me. the lunge is also very inconsistent on what it takes to connect a hit or miss and look like an idiot.
Spawn times : its so dumb that you can press X and spawn immediately because it doesn't give the team that had the skill to kill you to move any place because the minute they move you spawn back and gun them down because you die so easy in this game and this just creates minimal movement and mass camping.
Drop in Drop Out : I wouldn't mind a 2V3 in games like Halo 3 but now its so uneven one person usually means a boring spawn trap and its annoying joining these games losing and knowing power weapons will probably never spawn again because odds of them cycling all the way around these dumb drops is next to zero besides maybe the sniper on Ragnarok spawning constantly.
Lobby : I don't like how there is no countdown or lobby and often ill be looking at my new Armour and a game will start without me even knowing it was time to vote for a map.
Game types : no doubles, swat, snipers, grifball... I hope these will be added
Do I really have to unlock emblems really 343 ?
Shield regen. time: this should not take 7 seconds especially with how fast paced the game has become. I win a gun fight and have no health because even though the other person is awful, weapons are so powerful then I cant do anything because my shields go away and I either get murdered because you cant defend yourself for more then a second or I sit back useless.
Ordinance: The drop is not even close to you at all and I know i'm going to die in 1 second if I call it in because it drops 50 feet away from me and I have no chance if I'm not behind cover.
Maps : they all feel the same and there's to many levels to them for my liking. People are always running behind this unnecessary cover you have put every where or falling through 3 different levels often leading to a goose chase and ring around the Rosie too if the person is above or below you. They feel very one sided as well giving one team a huge advantage over the other.
Call of duty comparisons : pretty much feels like I have perks I can run around the map mindless dieing like its my job. I get these load out things that give me these over powered weapons that I can then use to get one kill and then die with them again. I will never win an uneven gun fight even a little bit. I also get a grenade indicator because we aren't like Call of Duty? Well that's what 343 said.
Side note : Campaign was very short to me but it was very well done and couldn't of asked for a better play through.
Sincerely,
please fix your ****** up game
