Halo 4 Thoughts (Yes another one)

[Broadband]

Oh boy, where do I even begin...

Custom loadouts first off do not belong in Halo under any circumstances. People are no longer on equal footing with custom loadouts. At least in Halo: Reach EVERYONE had the SAME EXACT 5 (or 4, can't remember the max) or less classes they had to choose from. The balance is atrocious; the DMR is a god gun, almost worthy of being a power weapon. The Boltshot is better than the Scattershot and Shotgun, and you can spawn with it! And that's not even mentioning the utterly UP weapons, or the ridiculous perks they decided to add.

The maps aren't bad per se (except Complex, that map sucks), but the universal complaint most people have are THEY'RE FUCKING GIGANTIC. The maps on the disc are a vast majority Big Team Battle maps; I think there are 2 maps that don't support vehicles? That's just plain ridiculous. And the Crimson Map Pack only adds more BTB maps. Unacceptable. Halo is an arena shooter, not Battlefield.

Vehicles are powerful? With the exception of the Ghost, they are all horrendously weak. The DMR literally shreds vehicles (including the Ghost). The Warthog is such a disgrace compared to its older brothers in past Halos. Banshee evasion maneuvers are way too slow, thus rendering it highly vulnerable.

The menus suck, agreed there.

Forge isn't bad, but the maps to forge on aren't big enough, and like you said the removal of precision editing! WTF!

JIP needs to GTFO. Let's just leave it at that. Netcode is horrible; I've never noticed host advantage being this good in Halo before. And the ridiculous bullet magnetism coupled with the lag makes this game really frustrating.

They can do away with this whole system for all I care. It was executed horribly, and it doesn't belong in Halo. I'll just save you the effort; DMR, Boltshot, Plasmas, Promethean Vision, Grenadier, and Explosives. You can thank me later.

Oh, mini spoiler alert perhaps, but the campaign is hella short and Spartan Ops is the same tedious, repetitive crap over and over again.

[tiesieman]

lol this is the second game removing a sabotagish gametype

everyone hates you it seems

[Z3R0FLAME]

Custom Loadouts: Yes, the balance isn't golden, but I could imagine how much worse it could be. I still like the variety factor involved, which you can't really factor in from a technical standpoint. There are issues sure, but I could spend an hour writing everything wrong about them.

Vehicles: Mongooses are beyond useless when there are ghosts afoot. Common vehicles can get shocked and blow up with two plasma grenades, which everyone carries around. Make EVERYTHING more durable. At least 4 plasma grenades would be better. Wheelman seems to do little in regards to explosive resistance, although I can notice some bullet and obviously shock resistance.

Game flow: THIS is why I don't play BO2. Rarely can I argue a death that was unfair. Everything seems balanced to me when I'm playing, and (for the most part) my teammates can at least get a better understanding of the objective compared to K/D whoring CoD players (not making a generalization)

Maps: Unless it's big-team or moving objective, they're too big. Give us smaller maps in the other two map packs.
Infinity slayer incorporating maps like Complex and *shudder*
HARVEST (REALLY?!?) was not smart. Remove those and include smaller maps in the rotation for that gametype. Players are scarce and too far between.
CTF doesn't work well one some larger maps without Warthogs, like Complex. The odds are too slim to play offense, and too easy to play defense. Oddball is also plagued by this issue because the spawning is too safe for the oddball-holding team.
I do have to give them a slap on the back for Dominion. God, I love that game type. And why the hell don't they have KOTH, Team Snipers or Extraction in the main playlists? Three game types that are actually flawless and they're not there.

Menus: Ditto. If this was on an iPhone, it would work. Unnecessary large and not concise on console.

Forge: Minor improvements... at least they didn't make it worse. Next game I expect Far Cry 3 forging. You have no idea how mad it makes me that we can't make a simple smooth HILL.

Playability: JiP has to go. The game stops for two minutes while it finds some clueless, ordinance-less dumb ass who'll just get himself killed. Also, make penalties for leaving similar to Reach. The Reach system worked just fine compared to this, I could say it easily was at least three time effective preventing quitting.

"Why?": All the things Mousey listed, except I'm going to say that the Campaign and Spartan Ops are direct replacements in terms of functionality. If you want drawn-out, varied gameplay with a long-term story, choose Campaign. Spartan Ops is just like Firefight - vent your anger on hundreds of opponents, or gang up on them with your friends for cooperation. It's still pointless and is really only good for XP or impulsive killing.

[Broadband]

I didn't mean the Ghost was powerful, but that it's the only vehicle that doesn't completely suck.

I don't have any stat sheets, but it's a known fact that the DMR kills faster than the BR, has NO recoil, and has more generous bullet magnetism.

[jaedrik]

Jan 1, 2013 14:58:53 GMT -5 Mousey said:

I wanna add to this and say that it's impossible to make any creative gametypes in this. If you want to play custom game scrimages, then that's fine. You want neat twists or mini-game esque gametypes, just go back to reach.

This also made me incredibly sad, and I thought the bridge from 3 to Reach in custom games was bad =(
At least competetive/multiplayer has some. . . interesting flavor.