Disclaimer: I myself am not that big of a BR fan, and I am assuming most people on the forums aren’t either, I just understand that it MAY be needed to keep halo relevant, so it should be discussed and considered.
In Fayvn’s video, How Battle Royale Could Work in Halo Infinite*, he pretty much says that Halo fan’s are scared of BR in Infinite because it is a change to the modern trend, which hasn’t worked YET for 343. For example, when they tried to speed up the movement in H5 like a more modern game, it wasn’t taken very well. Anyway, he mentions that when firefight came into ODST, that was another big gameplay change with the current trend of wave survival game types (i.e. cod zombies). It ended up doing very well though. Favyn says that we can’t be afraid of all change because it has failed in the past, or we will never have good change. All of this leads me to my ideas of future halo having BR.
In my mind, I see 343 doing what bungie did with ODST, a short campaign, and a new mode to the franchise that is the main focus.
One problem that I had until I thought of my idea was BR doesn’t make sense with the lore, which is so important to halo. Sure other shooters have stories, but no other (dare I say) fandom is so interested in the lore. I myself am not a big campaign or lore guy, but I wouldn’t want 343 to throw in BR and not have it make any sense. There has to be a little bit of a story, right? And playing as a spartan wouldn’t make much sense in a battle royale to me. SO, my proposition is that we need another ODST game.
Like I said earlier, the short campaign and new gameplay mode was an ODST thing, and it should be again. Also, it would make more sense. A spartan wouldn’t have to pick up armour off the ground, but an ODST might. Also, orbital DROP shock troopers. ODST’s dropping into a BR map makes way more sense then spartans.
This was kind of hard for me to write and try to get my points across the way I imagine it cuz I suck at writing (just ask my teachers) but lemme know what you think.