So… we are all in agreement that most of the guns feel kind of useless?
I mean, the BR, pistol and AR seem to be all you need in most situations. The rocket launcher is of course as great as ever, the needler can be pretty useful in close-mid range, the sniper is still beast as long as you have a good shot… but other than that?
-The pulse carbine is hit and miss for me,
-the VK78 feels underpowered and a little unwieldy,
-the shock rifle is only useful if there are multiple enemies around,
-the mangler feels underpowered,
-the plasma pistol is only good for vehicles (the tracking SUCKS on it now),
-the disruptor is pure garbage,
-the bulldog feels underpowered (although I agree with this one, bc shotgun could be OP sometimes),
-the heatwave isn’t bad but again it’s just doesn’t take down enemies as fast as a BR or AR so why bother,
-sentinel beam is laughably bad (seriously that recoil is hilarious, so unwieldy and useless),
-the stalker rifle is pretty great but still takes 3 or 4 shots (usually 4 unless you are extremely accurate) so again might as well use a BR,
-the skewer is good but it’s one shot so if you miss and they see you you’re fucked (again, I’ll take my chances with the BR if it’s a shoot out),
-cinder shot is cool but weird and again only useful if there are multiple enemies,
-the ravager is one of the worst guns I’ve used in a halo game hands down no contest (that thing is utterly useless),
-the hydras lock on is janky and weird and the rockets alone just aren’t that powerful.
i dunno, it’s good and bad. The good thing is people love the BR and it’s extremely useful in any situation, but the bad thing is it feels like every other weapon has taken a back seat to it and I just feel much less compelled to go after those power weapons if I already have a BR (which is every ranked game so…).
I think a lot of the usefulness of these new weapons will be seen in campaign and other MP variants we haven’t seen yet (not to mention custom games shenanigans) but overall a think the could still do a tiny bit of tweaking to make some of those guns more useful in regular games of arena slayer and whatnot
Maybe im wrong I’m not a games dev, just my .02