Long time Halo fan here, and I have to say I'm extremely disappointed in the multiplayer for this game. I was in love with the past games, but this game just doesn't keep me wanting to play it. Most of these are been talked about pretty often, but let me know what you all think. I know people have had different experiences.
- I cannot stand ordinance drops. I feel as if the weapons have lost the value they once had in the other games. Now, people are able to obtain power weapons any moment based off their points. I played Reach forever, and no matter how much I played that game whenever you came across the sniper rifle or rocket launcher you took it because of it's value. It spawned only so many times and there was usually one or two. Now, I find myself fighting teams with 2-3 rocket launchers and/or incineration cannons in big team. I just feel as if the weapons are too easy to come by and it's starting to fee like Call of Duty because at any given moment someone has those weapons. I wish it would go back to actually working for the weapons instead of them just being handed to you.
- I don't like the load outs either. This isn't Call of Duty and that's why I like Halo. The DMR and BR now have ridiculous range and accuracy. This is up for controversy, but in Reach you couldn't clip a guy halfway across the map with a DMR in 2 seconds. Because of this, teams don't engage each other as much as they did back in Reach and Halo 3. Second, the plasma pistol and sticky grenades can be starting items which I absolutely hate! The plasma pistol was suppose to be terrible until someone on the other team was killing you with vehicles then someone would think critically and get the plasma pistol to take down vehicles. Starting with stickies annoys me too because those are valuable because they CAN stick. Now anyone can start with them and take out vehicles in seconds with a plasma pistol and a sticky. Which leads me to my next thing: vehicles.
- Vehicles lifespans are awful now. Warthogs and Ghosts last what? 30 seconds or less? Because an entire team can spawn with sticky grenades and plasma pistols now. It's amazing how many Warthogs I've destroyed with that combo and you can't avoid it. Vehicles are useless now because anyone can just disabled and throw grenades on it; especially when you are carrying 3 stickies. Lastly, the Mantis. I hate this thing. It's impossible to kill. It hides around corners and when its shields go down it go behind something and regenerates and then comes back and kills 5 more people. It changes the course of everything and it's one of the reasons teams cannot actually have big firefights on maps.
In a nutshell... Teams don't engage, vehicles don't last, load outs are completely awful, people obtain weapons for nothing essentially, and weapons have no value. So, I'm quite disappointed.
Anyone feel same way? Or like it and why?
