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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 40.8 hrs on record (2.9 hrs at review time)
Posted: 15 Nov, 2021 @ 3:53pm
Updated: 24 Nov, 2021 @ 10:10am

Halo is back baby!

So far it's only the multiplayer but it's here and it is free-2-play!
It runs great on PC, the IQ is superb and the gunplay, ho boy that gunplay!

Pros:
After Halo 4 and Halo 5, most of the boring Promethean weapons got shelved and Banished weapons took their spots. You have the occasional "Drone Laser" etc. but those feel good as well. The Banished weapons feel powerful yet archaic. Their "Sniper/Rocket Launcher" is a gigantic ass Weapon that shoots one fat bolt of Iron at your Enemy, be it on foot or in a vehicle.

Cons:
Some weapons do lack some punch like the sidekick and the AR is a tad too strong if you ask me and some others feel too weak at the same time. (Shotgun is no instakill anymore, which kinda makes me sad ngl)

I'd assume that is what the beta is for right now, as well as give the team to polish details that only a huge army of sweaty tryhards can find! I am also quit sad to see SWAT not be a ranked game mode. I very much enjoyed SWAT and it was my preferred Ranked game mode but who knows, maybe it will return in a later Season.
The current Season-Pass has his ups and downs:

Pros:
You buy it, you keep it! You can come back to the Season Pass wherever and whenever! Progress on your own pace without the pressure of a clock ticking down the inevitable end of a season!
Many good cosmetics like Kill effects, dying effects, Armor Effects and even whole "Armor Sets", currently all of Noble-Team from Reach, since that's the setting in Season 1.

Cons:
The current progress is very, very, veeeeerrryyyy slow and most people dislike it, me included. It does not award you per game but for completion of challenges. There are "Complete X games" challenges, but the amount of XP needed to advance a single rank is huge, and once you run out of those challenges, you're stuck with things like "Kill X Spartans with Y weapon" or "Kill X enemies on Slayer". And the worst thing is, you cannot check a box that you only want to play Slayer, no, you're stuck with Matchmakings mercy to put you in a Slayer match.
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