ProudDrunkIrish

I'm afraid the just use it approach is what ruins games!! Look what armour lock did to reach.... There is no harm in suggesting possible modifications i.e. keep the 1 HK but make it harder, say less range ar slower to change gun or cool down time thats all.

They need to stop peoples primary weapons from despawining so quick or reinstate standard weapons to the maps, in BTB you have more than a 50% chance of just getting killed looking for ammo or a gun as its played out at long range. Cannot blame the people who do this ending their own spree to stop the enemy getting a kill seems like good team play to me!!!!

Its one of the best things about the game.... when your in a battle with someone and the game ends due to a kill elsewhere you still get to see who would have won. I like to go for assasinations on players after it ends not sure why just for a bit of fun.

I can understand the posters frustration. I have become very fond of the boltshot and use it far more than one should be using a secondary. Its range is much greater than most think and the charge time is not set giving the user a lot of time to aim/get into position for use. Even if you do not the instant kill then it takes away shields which allows for an easy finish off. It is overpowered and leads to camping with invisibility in a lot of games. If anything they should dumb down its range i.e. make it a 1 hit kill when you are right in their face and make it do exponentially less damage the further the enemy is away from the shot. Maybe they could reduce the allowable release time, all the above would make it a little harder and risky to use while maintaining its use. To be honest I like it but i can see a persons frustration when they have a shotgun or sword and someones secondary is able to 1HK them before their power weapon can do the same..

He is not looking for advice he is saying what made halo great and unique has died a little in this game. I for one agree with him, those 1 on 1 BR fights in valhalla for example do not exist anymore as teams just camp and you end up having to take them all on. It is a great pity and IMO its down to the excess of long range weapons that are too easy to use but I still go out and play the old halo way and I also take advantage of the weapons. I believe the only way to describe my feelings are that my favourite game has lost its magic (the extra special bit that made me play Halo 3 for yrs.)

There are enough numbers in the world that one needs to care about but I for one am sure K/D aint one of em lol. Just my opinion, each have every right to their own. I just feel that if you are always worried about some silly no. in the background how can you truly enjoy a game as it becomes more like work where there are requirements!!!

Guardian and the pit.. adn please do not make any little changes to them like was done with ragnarok (Valhalla), they are perfect as they are. WHEN IT AINT BROKE DON'T FIX IT!!!

Just a quick question. Why is it at some deaths I get killcams and at many others I do not??? Always seems that when I would like to see how I died the option is never available..

Think you might be in the wrong thread here lol.. But to answer your query the BR for me and many I know is better medium to short range as it allows more room for error and requires less accuracy, also when you get ''damage boost'' the BR kills faster than the DMR from what i have experienced. The carbine fires fast and thanks to the new feature of feeling the effects of shots when zoomed in you can hit a target fast and basically prevent them from hitting you.

It Kills and it distracts also against other vehicles it is very good except maybe the tank!!! Have to give it credit a good warthog (driver/gunner) can really make the enemy teams life hard especially if the other teammates back it up...

Teamwork is gone in all game modes not sure why??? I was on BTB Exile with a tank in a cosy position and a team mate kept sticking plasma grenades to it and then shooting it???? I managed a 29 kill streak before he managed to damage it so badly all it took was for their sniper to hit me once before I was gone.. Very annoying as the opposition were not great and could not get next to near me. Next round was dominion and here the teams got particaularily annoying.... Myself and 1 other were the only ones capturing bases while our team mates took all the power weapons and camped at the first base we took, inevitably we lost. I even had a look through the medals and hey presto the me and my actual teammate had over 13 base offense medals each while the highest base defense of the rest was a miserable 3. WTF???? Rant over....

Nice to see people adding a few more bits of info.. I have now made a pact never to be gunner unless i know the driver, never have I ever seen such idiocy before. then again the odds are it is some kid or guy to stoned to see straight that is the cause of all my woes. Should have added the rule never carry a passenger, I love people who do it on ragnarok (Igo for spartan most of the time) and they give me the easiest triple kill the game has on offer.

RULE 1: Never stop moving. RULE 2: Warthogs are about the guns not splatters so let the gunner do his work from a range where they cannot plasma pistol of stick you. RULE 3: Do not go for stupid splatters i.e into corners of rocks. RULE 4: Try to watch out for team mates RULE 5: When killing a mantis keep distance between you and it.

They are all playing on my team in BTB.... How are they so bad??????????

The DMR is so easy to use in this game for SWAT that there is no need to remove the BR, hell the high fire rate of the pistol makes it crazy lethal for headshotting. Its fine as it is they just need more maps that give each gun a more distinct place.

The Pit and guardian what epic lvl's, these added would auto make the game so much better. Not sure how the ordinance would fit in with them though????

Forget you KDR and just play, i wish they had never put that screen in this game!! Want to destroy a game make a persons KDR visible lol, got to miss the Halo 3 system where wins were all i saw and all I cared for no matter the cost to KDR and everyone just went all out attack (so much fun)

Yes credit where credit is due, maybe I do not have enough knowledge of the game setup to give a reason so i can only say its very bad 07:00-11:00 GMT, its even worse than the lag in MW3 which is saying a lot. Loving the game so this is just frustrating as it spoils the enjoyment.

I have the exact same problem and it is something that has developed in the game that was not there from the start. BTB games fall apart quite literally, they lag to the point of unplayable and then they often collapse. The last 2 days have been the worst and funny enough it seems to be worst at a time when player numbers are low, approx 07:00-11:00 GMT (UK time), numbers in playlists are fairly low and its late even for america so I cannot understand why the server under less pressure starts to fail. Maybe 343 are doing things around this time that causes the effect is there any rep here who can confirm this one way or the other?

agreed^^^ only tied games have OT which makes sense

I have to say its not a big deal and for those who say its as good as the br short-medium range well it might be if ye stand in front of each other but who does that? With the BR you have more room for error when moving/jumping/strafing, as said before all weapons have to have an advantage over others, the only complaint I would have is that it seems to kill vehicles much faster than it should (this is just my opinion have not tested this properly).. maybe someone else can give their opinion on this or clarify it?

I will say the booting system needs work it needs to be consistent more than anything else, i got betrayed by the same guy in BTB 3 times (kept running into our team with vehicles) and I was not the only one yet nobody got the option to boot him, then playing with a friend next round we were in a wraith and he touched off someone (little more) the guy dies and he got booted, that was the first person he had hit (on our team) and yet the option to boot was given... I do not mind the boot option actually think its a good thing, keeps silly kids from ruining the game, but it needs to be something like you have 1 chance then after that the option to boot will be given to any player you betray.

They made the game a bit more user friendly for those who are not as good, but you have to remember you are not playing COD and KDR does not matter!! Go out and kill what faces you and learn from those who kill you so you cn do the same for others. Have fun.

The flinching is something that annoyed me at the start of this game, prefered the old zoom out, still do. Maybe its just because I am not used to it!! But personally I prefer scope it as it means sniping has to be done far better and a team can negate the enemy sniper (something I liked). Zoom out makes sniping more of an art form and helps you know when someone is hitting you from another angle. That said they cannot really change it in H4 but mazybe they will for H5. Just my thoughts I am sure there are others who prefer the new system.

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