We’ve all seen the latest H5 gameplay footage, and quite honestly I think it looks like it’s going to be the best Halo yet. Some of you obviously might have a different opinion, but I see H5 as a hybrid of old and new gameplay styles/mechanics, and I see that as something that’s going to be great. There is something I’d like brought back from Halo Reach though, and that’d be Firefight mode.
Why Firefight, do you ask?
Well, for starters (and again, this is my own opinion) I’ll just be frank here, Spartan Ops sucked.
Though it kinda sorta expanded the H4 story, I felt like it didn’t add anything fun to the table, rather it put in scripted short missions that you could play with friends, which to me at least didn’t feel nearly at all as fun as fighting off waves of enemies.
While it can be fun every once and awhile to fight through enemies with your friends in a campaign mission, or even finding a skull, I think it’d be better if the option returned for choosing a multiplayer map, then blowing up wave after wave of enemies with your friends. I’ve had some of the best experiences with my friends in Halo Reach Firefight and I’d love to see it brought back.
Though I haven’t suggested anything new to bring to Firefight, do you think it should make a return in H5?
I don’t mind spartan ops, but honestly, It was not a replacement. it was a completely different thing all together. I think they should have Spartan Ops, and Firefight.
The concept of firefights is one of my favorite parts of past Halo games. Spartan Assault gave me the firefight vibes often. It was especially cool to fight the flood again in SA, and it would be even cooler to do it in first person with new abilities.
I hope firefight returns. But if it does, there should be more incentive to play such as unlocking map areas as you go, have a round counter visible, stuff like that. Maybe don’t start us in the most defensive point, make us fight to get there. Also, no more reach firefight, it was child’s play, make it challenging again.