THIS IS NOT A RANT PLEASE READ ALL BEFORE COMMENTING IN A CALM VOICE.



They may not listen to competitive players but man every change in the game was there to make a contender with counter strike. In the process, they lost all their fun playlists, introduced a micro transaction system to give us free maps which are just forge maps like wtf, ruined the lighting and shading which was in the beta cause people were -Yoinking!- they could not see someone in a corner which I personally had no problems with, shipped a lackluster campaign putting it kindly, added stupid gimicks like spartan charge and ground pound, made maps small and boring, gun models for the br are crap (heavy opinion), no Br start just looks dumb when you fire a pistol as your utility weapon, made automatics really strong for some reason. It took them forever to get big team as a map and milk money from the community. The progression is heavily in favor of firefight players because of the rng system. No splitscreen to play with my friend. Lack of social playlists to play with buddies that come over and want to play as guest accounts.



What i am saying here, is that the game never and will never be a complete package like the previous iterations of the game. Every halo game delivered all those aspects as they were introduced. You may hate armor lock from reach and bloom but you can't say the game was not a full package full of content. Halo 5 shows just how much of a shell of a game it is compared to other halos and other games in general. Maps are just not fun in multiplayer to be competitive. Same thing happened to destiny 2 now with its neew 4v4 competitive streak they are trying to do. The fun aspects of the game suffer. Halo 5 took no step forwards in any category.



Now i don't want a halo 2,3,reach clone. I don't mind changes, but don't change the core of the game like in 4 or strip down only to the core like they did in 5 and added some dumb gimicks on top of that. Make your maps look good and amazing. Limit rng, have certain armor be obtained by feats like reaching diamond, onyx, platinum, etc. Or getting x amount of kills with weapon. Make sure all playlists are there at launch and work. Don't over use forge maps for dlc. Make the game graphically and visually look good. And for the love of god do the little stuff right. Black under suits, more customization of different armor pieces. WE dont need100's of armor reskins through rng. 343 you know what to do at this point. And i really do feel for op because i felt the same way. I put stupid amounts of horus in halo 5 hoping for updates to the game. But they just arent coming. All i can do is hope for halo 6 to be good.