Random stuff that pissed me off today:

I'm starting to miss Halo 3. I don't like the new vehicle health system. And double melees. And the lack of proper teammate indicators in Invasion. Or lack of good HUD indicators in general. Or the fact that you can't choose to spawn at the same location as other fireteams when on offense in Invasion. And tanks and revenants in Hemmorage. And drop shield in oddball.

I hate how jumpy Elites are (nothing like the Halo 1/2 Elites). Same with skirmishers. The proportion of high-level Elites compared to low level Elites is way too high. I think I've seen few blue/minor Elites than any other type. They have way too much health/shields, too, and their shields recharge ridiculously quickly.

You can't get too close to Elites because they'll 1-hit kill you with a melee, and even if you can avoid it, it's not like any of your close-range weapons will have much of an effect. You can't stick them because they jump around so much. Even if you do stick them, they have so much health that they'll shrug it off. Good luck trying to kill them with a needler. Your choices of dealing with them end up being DMR from a distance or PP overcharge to DMR closer up. Compelling. At least with the Brutes, you can use a variety of weapons against them effectively. Bungie can call them Elites, but they're nothing like what I fought in Halo 1 and 2, and not nearly as enjoyable to fight.

There are also far too many 1-hit kills in the game. Elite and Brute melees are almost always 1-hit kills. The 1-hit kill fuel rod is also a pain in the ass. What were you thinking, Bungie? Giving the enemy a rapid-fire rocket launcher? Most of my deaths to the FRG end up feeling cheap and unfair.

Hunters are absolutely awful to fight because they can kill you in one hit with a melee or with their fuel rod. You can try getting in close and circling them with a shotgun, but they seem to have a certain melee attack that you can't really dodge, so you have to hope they don't use it. Oh, and since they're two hunters as a time, you really can't have a CQC battle with them like you could in every other game. Slowy whittling down their health from a distance is not compelling gameplay.

I also hate how useless camo is. If a covie is anywhere within three feet of you, he will invariably turn around and melee you to death, even if you were crouch-walking the whole time.

And whose idea was it to make the Grunts not speak english? And why even have the Gutas, Engineers, Drones, or Scarabs in the game? You hardly did anything with them, Bungie!

The game is fun, sure, but just tweaking a few damage variables and such could have made the game so much more fun and so much less frustrating.

Also Spire is terrible in every gametype. And Zealot. And Countdown is pretty bad too. And Paradiso.