Anyone else here play this game? This is a review/critique of the game in a forum where the moderators dont ban you for saying things that arent praising the game (bungie/343 forums).
Warzone. Very cool concept, however there are drastic improvements that are needed. I would even go so far as to say that Halo 5 is what should be the beta version of the game. The campaign is short, there are only 3 true warzone maps, and there are a lot of mechanics that are off.
You see my title: Battle Rifle 5. This gun. This gun. I can't even begin to describe how much i loathe that weapon's existence without dropping near infinite curse words mixed in with crushing stuff with a sledgehammer while burning down a city and dropping nukes all over the world simultaneously.
Negatives:
-No consistency, can die from 2 bursts, can die from 4 bursts, who knows.
-Has the accuracy of the DMR at long range
-Can outgun the SMG and Assault Rifle at short range, sometimes even the SAW.
Positives(?):
-It can kill anyone, anything, anywhere.
If you are playing online and watching the kill listings you will see 90% (minimum) of the game that the kills come from battle rifles. There is little to no variety in weapon usage in the game except for the Battle Rifle, power weapons, or vehicles. I don't know about you, but I have seen complete misses kill, shots go through walls, shots go around corners, and single burst kills. This gun is out of control. The SMG should be king at very short range, the Assault Rifle should be tough at short to medium, and the DMR should own long range. But, why use any of them? The Battle Rifle kills faster than all specialty weapons in those range brackets.
Some say that it takes more skill to use the Battle Rifle. Let's break it down. The weapon forces bursts, bursts are easier to control than an automatic weapon such as the SMG, Assault Rifle, or SAW. The weapon makes it so one can rapidly hit the trigger without burning through an entire magazine. The weapon has auto aim that is ungodly.
Compared to the SMG, Assault Rifle, and even the SAW one must manually control the bursts to get accurate rounds on target. From this we can establish that the Battle Rifle requires far less manual control. Far less manual control paired with completely inconsistent bullet damage and auto aim that makes bullets turn in the air gives us the obvious conclusion: It is a broken gun. It is completely out of place.
What would removing the gun even do?
It would give the games some variety. People would be using other weapons. We would see the Assault Rifle, pistol, SMG, Carbine, Storm Rifle, DMR, etc. etc. far more. The firefights would actually be random.
This gun was implemented in Halo2 and it has been a curse ever since. It thought it was bad in Halo 4, it is exponentially worse now. As a player who wants to have variety in the game, this weapon is horrendously overpowered. If all you want is to get easy kills, then i guess its for you.
Grenade Spam. Wow, these things are mini nukes if I have ever seen one. If your shield has even been nicked in the last 10 minutes you will die from a single grenade. On top of that, everyone spawns with 2. The entire battlefield would be craters if the ground could be destroyed.
Finally, no one talks. Seriously, its annoying. I remember way back when Halo 2 came out everyone talked, communicated, laughed, joked, raged, and now, nothing. There is next to no teamwork at all.
This has led to the trend most multiplayer games are taking. There is no staying power. One kill, one death. You cant wade into a firefight and use skill to get more than 2 kills max before you are blown up or shot by a stray battle rifle shot. There are times when you can get away with it, but it is in no way even comparable to the norm. Same with all the call of duty games. kill, die, respawn, sprint to the fight. It's an annoying trend in most games.
The campaign is cool, definitely not long or big enough for the advertising campaign they gave us. The Locke character is completely unnecessary. He is a weak leader in all the fiction. Master Chief should have been the focus and while in a way he was, 3 missions as Blue Team now that they are finally in a game is reallllllly disappointing. I was expecting a campaign at least twice as long and battlefields the size of the battle (that should have been) in Halo: Reach before you go off on the side missions to destroy the spires.
Although it is very satisfying that wayyyyy back on the bungie forums all the fanbois were livid with me when I was telling them there were other Spartan IIs alive between Halo 2 and 3. They hated me for saying that, and here we are, 3 others are in Chief's team. hahaha. It is also satisfying seeing that Cortana is in the game. No one believed me when I said that she would be back.
Neat game, but definitely not a final product.
