: + Feels familiar
: - hard to break old habits for controls
: +Feels like they are really pushing for unit diversity. Infantry are more
: important to capture and hold nodes.
: - Why don't the UNSC sniper look like snipers? They look like Nimrod from the
: X-men
: + Resource management is more important
: - Resource management feels more complicated
: + Haven't been steamrolled by 50 tanks. Complimentary units seem more
: complimentary
: - Controls don't feel snappy and smooth like Halo Wars 1. Camera seems
: sluggish.
: - My controller is an original Xbone one, therefore it sucks. Bumpers are
: TERRIBLE and you NEED them for this game sooooo much.

: - hard to break old unit habits. Took me forever to realize that my scout hog
: could not pick up resources.
: - wtf is a JackRabbit? A better unit for this class would be Mongoose. It's
: upgrade path should be a passenger with rockets. DONE.
: - Why don't all my units have secondary abilities? They should. It changes
: the tide of battle
: - I CAN'T QUE UP MY UNITS TO MOVE BY HOLDING THE X BUTTON AND IT'S KILLING
: ME. In Halo Wars 1, I could hold 'X' on a pile of resources and then
: repeat that on resources somewhere else on the map and my hog would then
: QUE UP to go from spot to spot, so I wouldn't have to watch it. I could do
: this with any unit. This was great for scouting. Can't do it here so far.
: No bueno.

: Aside from that, it has strengths and weaknesses. I would rather spend time
: messing with units and their powers by playing an AI. Just having it MP
: only is not good.

: The art style looks mostly good. Only a little of the weird 343 forerunner
: aesthetic that I hate so far. Hoping there is a 3rd playable race, flood
: or forerunner.

: Don't like the leader power upgrade thing so far. Have not gotten the hang of
: it. I liked the old version way better, because I knew who had what. This
: model seems like it is supposed to encourage variety but ultimately feels
: clunky to me.

: The ability to create custom battle groups is nice, and I know people really
: wanted that in the first game.

: Aside from that I would agree with the sentiment that it feels more
: complicated in many areas, when it should not be since this is supposed to
: be a simpler stripped down RTS. Yet, some other things feel more simple
: like upgrading units.

: I'm not sure what I want out of Halo Wars 2.... but I will say that it needs
: to feel more like Halo Wars 1 than it does now. New maps and units are a
: good thing, but if it wasn't broke, please don't fix it. Halo Wars 1
: suffered from a lack of support and unit balancing towards the end of the
: game, aside from that it was surprisingly balanced in all other areas.

The fact that they've got turrets on the initial base now pretty much kills the cheesy rush options of yesteryear, so on that score I'm immensely happy.