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 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 all playlists except BTB & Invasion. BTB should use the TU settings in order to minimize cross-map effectiveness while Invasion uses the original settings because I suppose it would give fans of it a location to go to for that particular experience.

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 restrict players to a single loadout that contained a mobility related ability (either Sprint, Evade, or Jet Pack) so that everyone had 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. I suppose it could exist as a single optional pick-up for BTB maps (only). IMO, it has no business being on any 4v4 maps.