You guys are nuts. I have a few things to say to this post but let me start it off by saying your nuts. What would be the point of comming out with a new game, A NEW ONE, and making it the same as halo 3. Halo 2 was different than halo 3. Halo 2 was significantly different than halo 1. I have my gripes about the ranking system. I think there should be something similar to what halo 2 and 3 had but thats something that can be implemented later. I got faith in 343.
1.) The lack of variety. The games been out for like what 4 days? whos to say they wont introduce new playlists perodiocally over time or even something like a weekly playlist. Its hard to say there is a lack of playlists when the games only been out for a few days. Yes they had plenty of time to develop playlists but maybe adding in new ones over time is their plan.
2.)IDK about you but i rarley run out of ammo. my DMR may occasionally come close to being out of ammo but thats only if i have been reckless and was firing rounds at a corner hoping to catch somebody in my croshairs. I use the perk where you can have two primary weapons and so i have a dmr and an assault rifle and that really helps me conserve ammo as i have an effective mid to close range weapon and an effective long range one. Also theres a perk for picking up grenades which i geuss goes hand in hand with your complaint about perks. Yes i think perks are a bit CoD ish but they are pertant to Halo. I mean its really quit silly to compare this game at all to CoD. I have 2 TVs in my living room and my buddy plays CoD and i play halo 4. We switch from time to time and its night and day how insanly different the two games are. I like perks. I think they are neet. I like having the ability to increase the blast size of my nades considering i feel the radius is quit small as of now.
3.) Ya the mantis is pretty brutal. i think it could use some tweaking considering its near impossible to kill with regular guns. Ghosts are everywhere but seriously how easy are they to kill. I agree the mantis and wratih need tweaking. One of a couple points i think ur pretty accurate on.
4.)I didnt play much reach. maybe only one or two times with friends but i did play halo 3 a week before halo 4 release (which was a mistake consideirng they changed all the controls on me). That game was crazy slow paced compared to this. I mean its a bit dull when i have to run across a huge open map at the speed of a normal marine. Shudnt a spartan be a little faster.
5.)i really never noticed i was being slowed down. haha. maybe its just me.
6.) Amen to this. ive been getting really tired of joining a game, schooling some kids in the first 30 seconds, and then sitting and waiting for somebody to fill their spot after they left. they need to "punish" the player like the used to in halo 3. remember that? "do you want to leave" "yes punish me i am a bad teammate" haha i always liked that.
7.)its actually usually a bad option to take the gun every time. Ive noticed that the over shield and the damage enhance are REALLLLYYY awsome. the damage enhance durns the DMR into a dang sniper. just a tip from a guy whos almost 50, dont go the gun every time.
8.)if thats really the case just make ur own custome game you can do the same thing that we used to do in halo 3. the honor system. oh ur dead. go switch teams. find some friends and put together ur own infection game. i think its a really nice change of pace from blowing peoples heads off with the DMR. i play it maybe 1 every 7 games and its nice to have something pretty different. Oddball also helps me in times of playlist boredom.
9.) there are neutral weapon spawns at the beginning of every game. the sniper always spawns in the back of the blue teams base and the top of that building for red teams base in complex. the scatter shot is always downstairs in the center on haven. There is a effeciancy? idk what they are called that u get when u reach 50 where u know when the next weapon spawn is comming and where.
thats all i got. i love the game. i understand some of the points ur putting out there but this game is great fun once u really start to get the hang of it. the shield for example is fantastic. i have made some silly things happen with the quick twitch of my shield. promethean vision. WHAT A DELIGHT on adrift. oh man i cant tell u how many kills thats nabbed me. Its a different game yes, but just give um some time to mold it into the experience that everybody wants. its been not even a week yet.