Sentient Grandma původně napsal:

I agree with most of these criticisms, especially the prowler. Still really fun (borderline OP) when you use it, but an absolute chore to fight against. Cool concept with the giant spike, though.

I think the damage for the BR is fine, maybe just restore the fire rate back to vanilla? Feels a bit too slow as is.

I think replacing the beam rifle with the focus rifle is fine in theory, though it would probably help a lot if you were able to make it more unique from the sentinel beam. Importing the sound, model, and animations from Reach would probably work well. As I understand it, you'd have to make a unique projectile from scratch, which is obviously more work, but still. In terms of unique functionality, not sure. Maybe it could do chip damage to vehicles?

Good mod though, I also agree with most of the praise in this post. I especially liked how dual wielding isn't useless anymore.

Dornam původně napsal:

I quite like the changes to the AI, as they definitely seem more active than in vanilla, though the reviver AIs teleporting with their vehicles can sometimes cause problems. I've had a moment where the red elite teleported a wraith past an entrance door to a tunnel that it couldn't fit. It teleported to the exit door where you get all the rocket mongooses for the first scarab fight area, and almost blocked it. They also often seem to teleport their vehicle into the ground, which instantly blows up the vehicle.

I found it quite hilarious that the arbiter decided to pick up my flamer after I dropped it on floodgate, and definitely in character, since you see him grabbing one at the end of level cutscene as well as when he shows up in cortana. I appreciate the meme of it being arby's favorite weapon if that was done intentionally.

There definitely is an overabundance of enemies at some points of the campaign, and I had to turn it down from legendary to heroic due to the sheer number of enemies that just pelt you the moment you step out of cover, and make it frustrating to even try fighting them. They're almost always tougher than your allies in any given situation, leading to you having to let your marines/elites sacrifice themselves while your shield recharges. This repeats as you try to snipe a couple of them down before having to take cover for shield recharging. Eventually it leads to you being completely outnumbered because all your allies died, and having no more distractions for the enemies, and they all focus on you and you die.

This lead to several frustrating experiences of getting stuck at certain places due to the sheer numbers of enemies, especially brutes, since their shields are often times very hard to strip, since damage vs thin shields have been nerfed on a large part of the weapons sandbox, and there's not as many plasma weapons available when killing brutes, as they tend to have brute weapons. In particular on Tsavo Highway, there were a number of spots that I was getting absolutely swarmed by brutes and repeatedly dying due to the overwhelming numbers of enemies.

Most of the weapons changes are decent, but the beam/focus rifle is pretty garbage. It was never good in reach, and it's still not good here. You have to spend something like 5 seconds shooting it to drain even lower rank brute shields, and you just CAN'T chew through hp on basically any enemy with it. Even killing grunts with it takes 5 seconds or so.

The only time I felt like it was useful was when I had a sniper and focus rifle and alternated stripping shields with the focus rifle, and then headshotting with the sniper, but I've only managed to have both of those weapons at the same time once. Even then, all it's doing is saving me a single sniper bullet, because the sniper could just strip their shields with an extra shot.

I get what you were trying to do, differentiating it from the human sniper, but it already had a decent niche with being the stronger shield stripping sniper, and it having overheat mechanics instead of requiring reloading. If you know what you're doing with it, you can get off a lot of consecutive shots with the vanilla beam rifle without overheating it.

I'm not sure what to think about the abundance of hunters, as they do seem to lose a bit of their special-ness with how often you've placed them in the campaign. I think the hunters in level 2's hanger was an interesting encounter, though they were accompanied by a bit too many enemies to be a fair fight, as your allies die really easily to hunter fire already.

Flapjaw původně napsal:

I don't like the idea of enemy snipers having dinky focus rifles instead of beam rifles, but I'm not so fussed about the rest of the changes.