Bloom vs Zero Bloom

I would agree

I played a lot of original reach myself and I knew the dmr kinda sucked because of it but I swear mcc reach is nothing like how it used to be (or maybe I'm just not remembering correctly). You can't shoot the broad side of a barn in mcc reach despite looking right at it. I swear everytime you're just dumping your entire clip on someone without doing any damage. I played the hardcore mode and holy crap was that so much more enjoyable.

I don't think there should be zero bloom across the board, though. I think infection should stay untouched. I would say for the rest of the game they should copy hardcore settings, enable motion sensors/ armor abilities, replace armor lock with drop shield and set bloom to be maybe 0- 10% of what it is now.

A lack of bloom would make it too easy for anyone to score kills. A slight bloom increases the skill gap and encourages better shot placement.

I think TU honestly fits social games the best. Bloom doesn't ruin everything on TU, but you can't laser someone across the map with DMR that way as if it was a power weapon. Social games is there just to have fun and it should stay that way, even if armor lock is the massive parasite it is, if people wanna play that way, let them. Skilled players on social games will still be able to kill from a good distance on TU, but won't be absolute monsters to the point of frustrating newer players, which can help ease the playing field for everyone more.

KH Foofoo14 wrote:

A lack of bloom would make it too easy for anyone to score kills. A slight bloom increases the skill gap and encourages better shot placement.

You can have an opinion on what you prefer but bloom does not increase the skill gap....bloom makes shooting random and certainly does not encourage better shot placement. If it did make the skill gap greater why did MLG introduce zero bloom in the first place?? MLG introduced zero bloom as it takes out the randomness and inconsistency when shooting thus increasing the skill gap. Not sure why people have this idea that increasing the bullet spread and randomised shots increases the skill gap. Its quite the opposite as it introduces randomness (luck aint skill) and increases the time to kill allowing for players to make mistakes without being punished much like armour lock.

I really want to see the Zero Bloom change put into more playlists than just a single or a few HCS-styled Hardcore playlists. I appreciate the improvement to the game's gun-play under the Zero Bloom setting, but I also want to be able to use a variety of weapons, have radar, and sprint. I can fully get behind Zero Bloom being administered to regular 4v4 & 2v2 playlists. The two primary exceptions would be BTB & Invasion. BTB should use the TU settings in order to minimize cross-map effectiveness while Invasion probably should use the original settings.

I would also add that I was never a fan of the optional loadout choices which undermine the balanced start aspect that Halo had been known for prior to Reach. Also, I vehemently disagree with particular Armor Abilities such as Armor Lock and Active Camo. I'd prefer that the vast majority of playlists (minus Invasion) restrict players to a single loadout that contained a mobility related ability (either Sprint, Evade, or Jet Pack) so that everyone has the same basic ability at the start of a match while allowing one Hologram and/or Drop Shield ability to be picked-up on the map as a potential optional replacement. My personal preference is that Active Camo always be treated as a Power Up instead of an Armor Ability and that Armor Lock basically be treated as if it never existed or I suppose it could exist as a single optional pick-up for BTB maps (only). IMO, Armor Lock has no business being on any 4v4 or 2v2 map.

SolidMantis3854 wrote:

I agree. I also didn't care as much about bloom back when reach was out. It's not fun going back to reach with bloom now though. I played in the reach xbox multiplayer flight recently and the hardcore playlist was a lot of fun. Mainly because there was no bloom. The dmr was accurate and fun to use. I also played social in the flight test, but I became bored of it fast because of bloom. I would like to be able to play hardcore and regular 4 v 4 with no bloom.

Agreed. I liked how the hardcore settings played. I stopped playing reach back in the day, because I felt it was unfair someone would win the DMR fight while he was spamming and I was pacing. I do feel the DMR would be OP long range if it didn't have damage drop off or whatever.

Outside of Invasion, I'm at the point where zero bloom should really be the standard.

Aside from the Magnum getting a boost(which is the reason I don't think it would work in Invasion) nothing else really changes. The Needle Rifle is already effectively zero bloom even at the the TU 85% bloom and the DMR's bloom was never punishing enough to make a difference at close range.

Some folks will try and say that this makes the DMR "overpowered" particularly at range, but this just isn't the case. The DMR's "blistering" 1.6s TTK is already painfully slow by most Halo standards already outclassed the bullet hose auto weapons even with bloom, so nothing changes without it. That 1.6s TTK also isn't fast enough to moving in the open a death sentence like some folks make it out to be. We have had other hitscan weapons that are just as accurate with a shorter TTK without the games devolving into stalemates. Stale, passive gameplay is the fault of bad map design not accurate weapons and it doesn't get better just because you throw in bloom and slower long range killtimes.

Long story short, aside from Invasion there are no good reasons not to use zero bloom across the board.

I agree with you. I can’t stand bloom in Reach. TU settings are fine, but I prefer no bloom at all.

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only noobs would complain about bloom hey why don't you complain about armour lock oh because its a noob ability and we love it

If u knew me I complained about armour lock plenty enough back in the day. I ain’t going to ask for it to be removed in 2019 as I’m not stupid (it’s not getting removed 9 years later derrr). Bloom on the other hand could be changed given how it plays into MCC as a whole and hasnt aged well since the OG game. Armour lock is only a minor issue in comparison. And lets be honest, ppl who use armour lock aren’t that great anyway lol so I couldn’t care less.

Bloom is a problem for newer players since usually, newer players won't know about it, like with the Halo 3 shot leading situation, so they'll just spam their full DMR clip into someone but not do any damage at all because B L O O M