A Few Crucial Community Wants

Games Other Halo
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Knowing that 343i is going back to its H2/H3 roots, I have full faith in Halo 4’s greatness. There are just a few thing that I think 343 should consider if they havent already.

Campaign:

-New Skulls
In H2 especially, if you collected all the white skulls, you felt like a badass, falcon punching grunts everywhere. We need crazier white skulls.

-Easter Eggs
Self explanatory. Board random Pelicans. Bring back the Scarab Gun!

-No Boundaries
H2 again. You could walk along rooftops, and go outta the map. Added HOURS of fun and harmless exploration.

-Weapon Carry-Over
An option that lets you take weapons from previous levels into the next ones.

-Scarier Enemies
In H2 PC, there were places where you could find cells that held the unkillable Flood Juggernauts. Those things were scary as hell.

Multiplayer:

-No Boundaries
Same as above

-RAG DOLL EFFECT(Custom Games Option)
Power weapons will send targets across the map like a Spartan throwing a baseball.

-Custom Games Options Galore
Combine H2’s options and Reach’s options. Essentially create gametypes. ex: Assault, but kills=points.

-New GT Idea: Hero Slayer
Slayer, but there are multiple skulls around the map, each giving you a special ability. Like Headhunter, you have to kill a skull holder to take the skull. Collect all the skulls to win.

-Armory
Reach’s armory was near perfect. Just give elites equal customization. New pieces like Red Visor, Auroas, Camoflage, ect. ULTIMATE ATTACHMENT CUSTOMIZATION, Backpacks(like the packs Jorge, Jun, Carter has, the Package). Custom Assassinations, custom held weapons(other than DMR). Death Voice Customizer.

Forge:

-Interactive Objects
Elevators, Doors, Energy Bridges, ect

-Time of Day and Weather Effects
Rain, Snow, Fog, Lightning, Rubble Rain, Sandstorm

-Terrain Editor(maybe for H5, as this may be tougher to add with their given time)
Like this. This wont take sales away from the Map Pack DLCs, since they’d only use their own maps in ranked MM.

Gampeplay:

-Gauss Rifle
I think there should be a counterpart to the turret. Basically a scoped Rocket Launcher without a blast radius. Less damage against vehicles.

-Elephant
Self-explanatory

-Pelican, Phantom, Scarab
Self-explanatory

That’s all I can think of. I know 343 knows what to do.

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I agree with all you said exept boundries, personaly I think that all MM maps should have boundries if needed (not just death barriers but landmines like in sandtrap to add some variety) the reason I think this because without boundries dozens of people are going to float off the map and rain death from above with a sniper or vehicle but I am fine with all boundries being removable via forge so you can get hours of exploration and I can get a balnced MM

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I think that we’ll probably get “weapon carry over” considering the task that lies ahead of John-117 and Cortana. It would only make sense given the exploration we’ll likely be doing across this “world.”

As for a Gauss Rifle and the M313 Elephant, it all depends on what the Forward Unto Dawn didn’t put into battle against the Covenant on the Ark. The gauss rifle could be a possibility considering Naval Special Warfare units (such as Spartans and Marine Shock Troops) are known to use the M99 SASR “Stanchion,” though the last was built in 2521. The M313 Elephant would be tricky considering there isn’t much room left in the ship for the Marine contingent’s kit, and would most likely have to be deployed by a UNSC unit down the line in the story.

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> -Terrain Editor(maybe for H5, as this may be tougher to add with their given time)
> Like this. This wont take sales away from the Map Pack DLCs, since they’d only use their own maps in ranked MM.

A Terrain editor can not be put into Forge, it’d have to be it’s own program, just to show you what I mean, Look at Gerry’s Mod for Half Life 2, it’s basically the forge game of the Half Life 2 games, you can not edit the terrain in Gmod, you have to use the Source Map editor to edit the terrain. If Halo ever made it’s way back to the PC side of Gaming, it does open up a little bit more map editing options, like Terrain editing.

Don’t think I don’t agree with your ideas, The idea of adding a terrain editor for Halo would mean people who made custom maps would expand the amount of maps people can play on, and if 343i was nice, even add those maps into match making. You open up the ability to edit and make custom maps like that, you see the side of the community that not many people know about, because those people are on the PC, playing games with those features, and making maps that not only make the popular in the community, but some times lands them jobs in Game Developer teams.