So what does everyone think about the Halo 4 multiplayer announcement...

that it will have customizable loadouts and unlockable weapons. I think it's going to be very difficult for them to balance that out. The best thing about Halo is everyone has basically the same starting weapons so it's more even.

The thing with COD and Battlefield and those MP games is you die so quickly the gun you have isn't all that important. But with Halo it's a different story.

Explain how it's diffrent.

Explain how it's diffrent.

driftingsilvia

I really hate power weapon drops around the map, Ive hated it since playing Quake online in 96, and I still hate it now. I was hoping that customizing your loadout would elimnate that.

I know I shall become addicted, and pull lots of All nighters in Halo 4 Muliplayer.

very very disliking. It's turning into a normal FPS. pick your wep class ect then go into battle. TO me halo was about everyone is the same and If you wanted something better you had to fight for it on the battlefield. This is why i disliked halo reach.(AR's, load outs, armor abilitys.) NOT kidding i use to go on there play 1-2 games be done with it. Once they added the classic game mode. i could play 1-2 hours

AR is a huge no no and still don't understand why they did that. Made it starter and made it sound crappy and look crappy. SHOOT i think everyone can agree we would liked the odst smg or just smg back.

I will give halo one more chance. If it disappoints. I am done with it.

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Explain how it's diffrent.

Sparky04

very very disliking. It's turning into a normal FPS. pick your wep class ect then go into battle. TO me halo was about everyone is the same and If you wanted something better you had to fight for it on the battlefield. This is why i disliked halo reach.(AR's, load outs, armor abilitys.) NOT kidding i use to go on there play 1-2 games be done with it. Once they added the classic game mode. i could play 1-2 hours

AR is a huge no no and still don't understand why they did that. Made it starter and made it sound crappy and look crappy. SHOOT i think everyone can agree we would liked the odst smg or just smg back.

I will give halo one more chance. If it disappoints. I am done with it.

k2theswiss

I think customizable loadouts and unlockable weapons would be a good thing. I've never seen a multiplayer game where they were really used poorly.

I'll stick to COD. Halo never appealed to me, and now with this "forerunner vision" it sounds too ridiculous for me to give it another shot now.

I guess I just feel that if you have to earn weapons, you'll have more of a reason to play rather then just wanting to play.

I'll stick to COD. Halo never appealed to me, and now with this "forerunner vision" is sounds too ridiculous for me to give it another shot now.

Vari3ty

Now I can understand them in saying that custom load outs gives more guns possibly more use, but I'm not sure it really applies to Halo. I mean it doesn't apply to Halo if they didn't give everyone one of the best guns from the start. I remember in Halo when you started with an smg even in the huge maps. That required you to actually pick up weapons and not end up using the BR every singe second of every game unless you had a power weapon (of course they changed that later).

I am cool with unlocks, but quite heavily against unlocks such as weapons or even perks (in this case armor abilities). They haven't gone into detail on what exactly will be locked, but locking that stuff is quite silly to me. I quite love playing sneakily and having everything that contributes to being sneaky locked until half way to max level is quite possibly one of the most annoying things in the world.

Course they could just take the Black Ops route and let you unlock what you want when you want it. I am just saying the weapons can be completely balanced unfortunately weapons tend to play towards play style so no matter how balanced a gun is to another if you are forced to use a gun that is completely against your play style you are bound to be not as good. Now I was hoping they were going to change up Halo, being a new developer and all, but I would rather have seen a return to Halo roots rather than shifting towards being a tad bit more Call of Duty. If I wanted Call of Duty I would buy that or any other shooter out now since they all have decided to use elements from Call of Duty.

I guess I just feel that if you have to earn weapons, you'll have more of a reason to play rather then just wanting to play.driftingsilvia

I hate when the only reason I want to play a game is because I just enjoy simply playing... That is the worst. I really need this entirely pointless achievement or other sort of "progression" otherwise there is just truly no reason to play video games. Where did the want to better ones self at the game go? Did everyone decide that unlocking weapons and skills equates to that now a days.

I really wish games didn't give achievements or unlocks because it truly does hurt games that don't. There certainly is a nice feeling leveling up and unlocking a gun, but as many people know sitting max level of Call of Duty makes the game incredibly boring which is sad because I used to like playing games and that has become harder to do.

Course they could just take the Black Ops route and let you unlock what you want when you want it. I am just saying the weapons can be completely balanced unfortunately weapons tend to play towards play style so no matter how balanced a gun is to another if you are forced to use a gun that is completely against your play style you are bound to be not as good. Now I was hoping they were going to change up Halo, being a new developer and all, but I would rather have seen a return to Halo roots rather than shifting towards being a tad bit more Call of Duty. If I wanted Call of Duty I would buy that or any other shooter out now since they all have decided to use elements from Call of Duty.

Agent_Kaliaver

I think alot of my time will be based around the Halo 4 multiplayer, I can tell that an addiction will rage out over that, for me.

that it will have customizable loadouts and unlockable weapons. I think it's going to be very difficult for them to balance that out. The best thing about Halo is everyone has basically the same starting weapons so it's more even.

The thing with COD and Battlefield and those MP games is you die so quickly the gun you have isn't all that important. But with Halo it's a different story.

firefox59

Well I just read the clarification 343 put on Gamespot so now I'm cautiously optimistic. There are still set spawns for power weapons for the beginning of the map, then set spots will get weapon drops, so there still could be a good sense of map control. The no respawn sounds nice for slayer game types, and there still is a timed respawn for objective games. I still don't like the idea of loadouts simply because not all guns are equal in Halo, but if it's just going to be weapons like the shotgun, smg, plasma rifle, and other standard fare then I don't see much of a problem. Also have they mentioned whether or not dual wielding is back in? Cause I miss that.

Well I just read the clarification 343 put on Gamespot so now I'm cautiously optimistic. There are still set spawns for power weapons for the beginning of the map, then set spots will get weapon drops, so there still could be a good sense of map control. The no respawn sounds nice for slayer game types, and there still is a timed respawn for objective games. I still don't like the idea of loadouts simply because not all guns are equal in Halo, but if it's just going to be weapons like the shotgun, smg, plasma rifle, and other standard fare then I don't see much of a problem. Also have they mentioned whether or not dual wielding is back in? Cause I miss that.

Sparky04

that it will have customizable loadouts and unlockable weapons. I think it's going to be very difficult for them to balance that out. The best thing about Halo is everyone has basically the same starting weapons so it's more even.

The thing with COD and Battlefield and those MP games is you die so quickly the gun you have isn't all that important. But with Halo it's a different story.

firefox59

I agree with you TC, we'll have to see how it works out, but fighting for power weapons is a pivotal part of game play and competitive game play, not sure how I feel about somebody being just given them.Strider_91

[QUOTE="Sparky04"]

Well I just read the clarification 343 put on Gamespot so now I'm cautiously optimistic. There are still set spawns for power weapons for the beginning of the map, then set spots will get weapon drops, so there still could be a good sense of map control. The no respawn sounds nice for slayer game types, and there still is a timed respawn for objective games. I still don't like the idea of loadouts simply because not all guns are equal in Halo, but if it's just going to be weapons like the shotgun, smg, plasma rifle, and other standard fare then I don't see much of a problem. Also have they mentioned whether or not dual wielding is back in? Cause I miss that.

firefox59