As the title states, this is a list of 4 things that 343 can do to improve halo 4. First off let me say that I love halo 4 and think its a fun game, but it has its flaws as every game does. So we are going to try and address these flaws.
1: Playlists. I’m sure I’m not the only one who wants better playlists, where is team doubles? Where is griffball? Where is team snipers? All these classics aren’t in the game when they really should be. Also playlists like action sack, where are they? 343 needs to add playlists like these to improve matchmaking. Also I can’t wait for the infinity challenge garbage to be over, so far we are nearing the end of the tourney with HUNDREDS if not THOUSANDS of boosters still in the lead, its just stupid. The sooner the infinity challenge ends, the sooner we get back to play list rotation.
2: Ranks. Normally I don’t care what rank I am. Rank doesn’t say how we’ll you work with your team, if you focus fire, if you take every opportunity to assist your teams mates. What it does say is " I camp a lot and farm my k/d trololol" . But ranks are useful for having a level playing field. It seems like half of my games my team mates don’t know how their controllers work, while the other team is filled with in stoppable killing machines. It gets really annoying and this is why I really wants ranks, so I can get matched with people of the same skill level as myself.
3: Ordinace. I have mixed feeling about Ordinace. On the one hand, it makes it more fast paced and let’s more people have a shot at getting the cool weapons. On the other hand, random Ordinace dictates to course of the game too much and also destroys map control, what’s the point of taking control of the map, when I can just camp and get free rocket launchers? And when two teams are neck and neck one team gets a binary rifle and the ther gets a freaking needler… Yay. Also, power weapons cease to be powerful when EVERYBODY HAS ONE! In previous halo’s if you had a Shotgun you weren’t scared to go around a corner and meet someone head on, in halo 4 you think " what if he has a shotgun too :O" it makes it kind of pointless to even have power weapons. The simple solution is to create two play lists, classics and infinity slayer. Classic has weapons spawn on the map, AA and sprint while infinity has everything it does now. And team slayer pro if you don’t want the AAs so I guess 3 play lists.
- The boltshot. I can not describe my hatred for the weapon, it has a longer range than ANY shotgun and you spawn with it. Great idea right? Wrong. It makes shotguns even less powerful. It’s also a get out jail free card that you can use whenever you want, get out played and have to back around a corner? No problem! If he chases you, you can just one shot him…with a pistol…yeah. It’s stupid and either needs a major nerf, or to be removed. Yes you should check corners, and yes you shouldn’t just charge in blindly, but the boltshot is just poor design and an even poorer concept. Scrap it.
If these four things are implemted I will be a much happier person, I still enjoy halo 4 but these 4 things would improve it vastly and they are easy to do.