I swear it wasn't this hard 15 years ago
I would chalk it up to being er but I can still jump into a random game of Gears of War and do okay, so who knows. I guess the skill ceiling in the old Halos is just much higher due to the battle-hardened diehard audience left playing them?
I struggled a lot when I first picked it up but if you commit it'll all start coming back to you. Unless you've decided to play Halo 1, then you don't stand a chance against their godly tech and game knowledge.
I wonder if my issues are made worse by the fact that I'm on mouse and keyboard. I feel like my headshot weapons are not hitting anything and the giant reticles feel kind of awful on mouse and keyboard paired with no aim assist. I try to put the giant crosshairs over my enemies' heads and it feels like my shots are landing all over inside the circle. Meanwhile I'm getting perfectly fourshotted constantly![kitty-cri kitty-cri](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/82f8d044-cfac-47a0-934d-259e562013c4.png)
The Halo 3 Battle Rifle feels especially terrible on PC in 2023 where it felt pretty snappy way back when. To be fair, I've never been an accurate shot and the reason I do better at Gears might be because it's mostly about dashing right up to someone's face or back and gibbing them with a hip fired shotgun
I've personally had the best luck with controller, aim assist is cracked in MCC.
I don't think I can acclimate back to controller. It's a shame the aim assist is what it is since mouse and keyboard feel so good in Campaign and Firefight.
It's also weird to me that of the two Xbox franchises I used to play, it's Gears of War that's easier to play on mouse and keyboard when one is a standard FPS and the other a third person shooter with quirky movement mechanics revolving around animation cancels