- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Wow, I was kinda waiting all week to hear their reasons for catering to the uber-sniping community. Hey, I got a great idea! Next update, just turn the shields off, and give everyone nothing but sniper rifles. I really don't see the difference. This game used to be about variety. I'm excellent with a battle rifle, but my friends have different skills. But now they all have to be expert snipers too in order to have any fun. And to be quite frank, I'm not in love with the tactic. Despite my skill in it, it's easily my most hated portion of the game. But I don't get to enjoy other aspects of the game anymore. The most chance I have in achieving fun is a game on Midship or Warlock with my friends, but I don't dare use any weapon other than the BR, and if I die ONCE during that game, our team is screwed with BR spawn camping. The game really isn't fun for me anymore. It just isn't Halo anymore. Increase grenade throwing? great. Increase melee attack damage? Awesome. Make the game sniper-heaven? Ridiculously stupid. I don't know how that was supposed to take away the problems of the past. To be quite honest, I don't remember getting spawn raped more than I was after the update. 75% of my friends list doesn't play this game anymore. They had a few games, and they're done. I try to bring myself to give it "another go", because I keep thinking MAYBE, just MAYBE I'm overreacting to the situation, but no, I'm not. This game is Ghost Recon without the good parts of Ghost Recon. I play Ghost Recon on the PC, because the mouse and the keyboard is undisputably the best FPS control today.
There was a reason why you guys made shields when you were on the original drawing boards for Halo. From the looks of things, you obviously forgot all about it. You guys turned back time for some key points of Halo, so that you could go back to the roots of what made the game great. And then you completely destroyed a different root: The shields. They're useless now. Completely and utterly useless. Sure, they protect you, but that wasn't the point of them. The point of shields was to give both parties a fraction of a second to adjust their aiming mid-battle while the shields were depleting. Then when they were gone, the two parties were on equal terms aim-wise. Now I'm going up against people that were born with the stick in their hands, and they don't need to adjust. Call them skilled, call them talented. I'd agree with either one 100%. But I'd also call it ridiculous to give them an edge when the controls I am given are undeniably less precise than my keyboard and mouse. I have been punished for versatility long enough by Bungie this week. What is done is done. I only hope and pray that Bungie looks at this as a mistake instead of a standard for Halo 3....