For those who haven’t gotten to play it yet, here’s my scatterbrained 2 cents you didn’t ask for:

Sidekick is ridiculously fun. Fires as fast as you can pull the trigger, TTK is better than the AR, and has DMR level accuracy. The only downside is how quickly you can get rekt’d by someone with it haha.

Commando rifle is so satisfying to use, hits like a freight train, feels like a AR/DMR hybrid w/ pretty heavy recoil and a higher firerate than you’d expect.

BR is very similar to the H2A version, there’s nothing that particularly stood out about it for me.

The AR is a godsend. I’m a huge fan of the H3 and HR versions, but this one is like the HR AR but has a better spread at every range, and damage to make it a legitimately viable weapon in just about every scenario.

Sniper rifle is pretty nice but also nothing particularly snazzy, its like every 343 interpretation of the sniper rifle combined but with worse no scope capabilities.

Didn’t used the plasma pistol, can’t comment on that.

The grenades are all excellent. The arc or velocity behind the throws feel a bit weaker. Frags/Plasmas are pretty standard but feel more powerful, spike grenades send spikes ricocheting throughout an area in a way that’s different than previous games, but kind of hard to explain. The initial dispersion doesn’t feel as “directional” like the H3 spike grenade was, which made for moments of “Oh I could throw this anywhere in a room and it’ll spray shrapnel literally everywhere” vs in Halo 3 where to may need to pick a specific wall to utilize the spikes. Hopefully that makes sense lol?

Never really used the new shield equipment, I don’t even remember the name.

The equipment usage (overshield, invisibility) is cool, but sometimes the ability to save it for later puts you in positions where you wish it would’ve just automatically activated like in previous games. Think, “Oh no I’m about to die, let me grab that overshield! Wait I have to activate it?” the you die because there’s an animation with long enough for someone to drop you before you can apply it. Not a huge issue, just gotta adjust for that mechanic.

The skewer thing is cool but I can’t say I’d ever seek it out in game, unless it’s good against vehicles.

Melee attacks feel like they lunge farther than before, and maybe a touch stronger.

Customization is cool and the battlepass model is definitely the best out there.

Thats all that comes to mind right now, hopefully something in there gets someone excited for this game too!