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Anyone here played it? I've played a bit on Heroic and while it broadly feels like a sidegrade-at-best, some levels (the Library in particular) feel much better with the newer level and encounter design.

I do wish they had stuck with the Slipspace engine and used more of Halo Infinite's animations and AI. The Reach animations feel.... weird at their worst. And the Hunters fucking suck to fight.

I just finished the main original campaign, haven’t touched the new levels. I have a lot of thoughts lmao. I keep on saying I miss a lot of Halo 5’s gunplay and I don’t know lack of multiplayer whatsoever just feels wrong

A lot of the cutscenes are a bit all over the place. 343i seemed a bit too eager to put cutscenes where CE and CEA had opted to just let Cortana say her thing. The opening cutscene for Installation 04 was particularly egregious in feeling like if you asked the Borderlands Devs to make a cutscene. But yeah some of these felt as if they had their emotional depth stripped away.

Gunplay wise, I'd argue that kill markers, replacing the health system with that of Halo 2/3, and introducing the SMG was fine. Elites feel like they got nerfed while obviously Hunters got faster and Grunts feel like they now got an amazing throwing arm.

Aesthetically the flood missions are very well done though I know some people who are still annoyed by the color palette changes from 2001.

Sprint was a lot less disruptive than I thought it was. Honestly I only ended up using it a few times during the Maw, though it's kinda annoying that you have to find a skull just to disable it.

Uhh... adding Pure Forms was certainly a choice but fairly decently balanced all things considered, very surprised they didn't let them transform.

It was probably for difficulty reasons but slightly disappointed with the lack of some of a high definition reimagining macabre flood infections. I do think the Flood has introduced a new challenge in allowing 2/3's concept of revival which does make you have to play a bit more management with the popcorns

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I agree with a lot of this; honestly I forgot sprint was in the game with how little I used it lmao. The Flood missions were almost entirely an upgrade over the OG though. Especially the Library.

I really liked fighting the Flood true forms, surprisingly! Fighting the Flood as a whole was really fun, especially since you can shoot off their limbs and tear them to bits, its very reactive in a way the original couldn't be. The shotgun in CE was already one of my favorite weapons and, honestly, it's better in CEv.

The Pillar of Autumn ending cutscene was the worst in the main campaign, objectively. I don't know what drugs they were on when they made it -- the pacing is weird, the blocking is weirder, it's just... Not Good, and it feels almost AI-assisted in how weird it is.

I haven't played too much of the additional campaign missions yet, but while the environments look fine the encounters feel really weirdly balanced and the story/cutscenes is.... I can tell Troy Denning wrote it. That's the nicest thing I can say for it. I don't like making the 343-designed Covvies genetic experiments, it feels weirdly disrespectful to the people who designed them and how Lt. Williams changes to respecting Chief after two encounters; the ODST-Spartan rivalry runs deeper than that, and it probably should've taken longer.

I don't know who was doing the voice direction for this game but they should've been fired last year lmao.