Alex Hamilton

The vast majority of my points below equate to: Why have you shipped a half finished game? Why did you change something that worked well to something rubbish? The answer to 1. is fairly straight forward, and endlessly disappointing. A cynical decision was made to gate content available from the start in previous titles, behind a long, randomly resulting grind, OR let people skip that with microtran$action$. This is also clearly the reason one of the most popular game modes – Big Team Battle (BTB) – wasn’t released to begin with, because then nobody would spend additional money to unlock access to weapons and vehicles in the shite that is Warzone. The company might as well be rebranded to £4£ Industries Hurry the -Yoink- up and release BTB and have access to weapons and vehicles as standard on the maps, not behind the req system. The req system itself works fine ‘within’ a match. I like the idea of the more kills you get unlocking more powerful kit. I don’t like that I can’t then use that kit without having previously spent money or points on crappy booster packs. Radar – what separated Halo from sprayfests like CoD was tactical radar use. The current incarnation of radar is a joke. People appear behind you from nowhere, and with no time to react before dying I might as well play CoD. Not being able to save up for specific unlocks. Given I’ve already slated the concept of req booster packs, I understand given the money involved they are unlikely to go away, but at least put in a system of being able to spend your req points on specific items. Infection, King of the Hill, Oddball – PUT THEM IN ALREADY Terrible spawning – spawning in the middle of a firefight, or in front on the enemy team is not cool. PvE in PvP - sucks balls, remove it. NO ONE wants to be killing crappy AI bosses in the middle of a fast paced FPS fight. This isn’t Alterac Valley. Split screen – I’ve extensively played and owned every single Halo title (except ODST). A large amount of the fun I had was multiplayer campaign, and PvP in the same room with friends. I’ve not even entered campaign mode on Halo 5 because of its removal. The matchmaking lobby – why have you removed all the functionality from previous Halos?! WHY?! I want to be able to browse the other players, their achievements, see what armour they are wearing, and which ones are using a mic! Achievements – on the note of achievements, at least let them unlock some cool stuff (oh no, that might reduce microtransaction sales…) Carnage report – let me see the damn medals I got! Service tag – I’ve used the same three letter service tag since they first came out. WHY?!?!?! Have you locked them to four characters?!?! Make it three or four. Asymmetric battlegrounds suck – you should attack AND defend in sequence, as part of a single battle.