Halo 5 beta thoughts

[KingShadows]

So as the beta comes to a close, id like to know everyone's thoughts and opinions.
Whats your favorite power weapon?
What do you think about the hydra?
What was your favorite and least favorite map?
how did you feel about the new game type breakout?
How did the game run overall?

[Zeta Crossfire]

I really like the Breakout mode but the regular Team Slayer I'm pretty down on. Guess Halo has just changed to much for me, always MCC! Oh wait...

[Drth spartan]

Love every aspect of this game Even the servers were great

[KazuhLLL]

With BR starts I'd rate it at about an 8.5/10. AR starts is only like a 5-6/10 IMO. If they took out the zoom and the headshot bonus on the AR it would probably go up to at least a 7 for me though.

[Jam Cliché]

Once I learned a few cool tricks with the sword, I fell in love. It's hands down my favorite power weapon.
The Hydra is awful. I'd prefer a Plasma Launcher or a Missile Pod. Also Rockets feel wrong.
Favorite Map was Eden, with Truth as a close second. Orion was my least favorite, though it's growing on me.
I hated Breakout at first. I'm still not a huge fan, but I like blowing off steam playing it.

Overall, I'm super fucking excited. This game is incredible. A few things I feel critical about, though:
Grenades are NUUUUUKES! Blast radius down, my lord.
Sniper zoom is SLOOOOOW! Less clunky sniping, please.
The shield recharge timer is annoying. It keeps shields down longer than I would think was intended. Perhaps if sprinting didn't immediately reset it, but instead slowly filled it back to full if you engage sprinting. I like the drawback to sprint as a shield drain, but it simply lasts too long, unreasonably so.
The smartscope feels totally at home here, and I'm glad, but automatic weapon fights are just goddamn silly with it. Both players are constantly descoping each other and then rescoping. You just hold both triggers and pray. I actually think this is why the sniper scope is slow - they slowed it because if you're holding the left trigger, you'll rescope automatically after getting descoped. Something about this needs tweaking, but I cannot pinpoint what little thing could be changed to make the most sense.
The problem with Spartan Charge is that, since you're sprinting, you probably have less health than the guy you're about to hit. So when he hits you back, you feel like a little shithead. I don't want charge to be an instant kill, but perhaps if it knocked a player back out of melee range, that'd be cool.

[KazuhLLL]

Overall, I'm super fucking excited. This game is incredible. A few things I feel critical about, though:


Grenades need to either have a radius adjustment or we should spawn with only one of them.
The snipe zoom definitely feels clunky but testing has shown (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-id4gnLEBd4) it's almost exactly like the H3 sniper. The fact that the animation has has a huge delay after you're able to fire is the reason, I think.
The Hydra seems to have some potential (link (http://www.xboxdvr.com/Deez/dbc6338b-38ad-47ed-8550-a18b7cb33aa5)) so I think it's just ill-suited to small maps like Regret.
AR smartscope is dumb. I can live with it on the SMG though since it's a map pickup (outside of Breakout).
Rocket Launcher probably needs a radius boost since everyone can pretty easily thuster-pack out of the way.

[Jam Cliché]

The fact that the animation has a huge delay after you're able to fire is the reason, I think. Could you clarify or rephrase this? Are you saying that the sniper is umable to fire during or for a period of time after it zooms? Or something else? I got used to the sniper eventually and cannot recall any fine points of the "clunkiness" anymore.

[KazuhLLL]

Could you clarify or rephrase this? Are you saying that the sniper is umable to fire during or for a period of time after it zooms? Or something else? I got used to the sniper eventually and cannot recall any fine points of the "clunkiness" anymore.

There's basically two animations with the sniper. The first is the animation where it's actually zooming in, followed by the animation where the edges fade to black. The sniper felt really clunky at first (to me) because it feels like you can't shoot while animations are happening, but you can in fact shoot before the second animation finishes. By now I've gotten used to it, but it took a while.

Perhaps I over-exaggerated when I said it was a "huge" difference, where I really should have just said that it was noticeable.

[Jam Cliché]

Ahh. You mean when the zoomed HUD snaps into place, essentially. I never made many attempts to overcome the clunkiness. Instead I relied on the hover technique to catch players off guard so I had an extra moment to fire before they could adjust their aim. XD

[Drth spartan]

There's basically two animations with the sniper. The first is the animation where it's actually zooming in, followed by the animation where the edges fade to black. The sniper felt really clunky at first (to me) because it feels like you can't shoot while animations are happening, but you can in fact shoot before the second animation finishes. By now I've gotten used to it, but it took a while.

Perhaps I over-exaggerated when I said it was a "huge" difference, where I really should have just said that it was noticeable.

That is why i play bumper jumper it takes almost all the zoom animation away

[NervyDestroyer]

Grenades are NUUUUUKES! Blast radius down, my lord.


They feel like how it feels when you shoot a mini-nuke out of a fatman in Fallout 3