Hey Folks!
I’d love to see complete personalized and customizable controller layouts. Meaning I can take my controller layout and strip it down and make it my own.
I see a lot of layouts in the series, specifically in halo 5, and none really match what I’d like to have in my layout. So I’d love to be able to reconfigure it to my own settings, like in Star Wars: Battlefront 1 and 2. And also be able to allow dual functions on my buttons and sticks. Like RS, for me, is Smart-Link/Zoom. When I play the Crysis series I double click Y to switch to my grenades. Y is also switch weapons. So I’d like to be able to put crouch on my LS and have Sprint on LS as well, maybe as a “hold to” feature or a double click feature.
I have an elite controller but the main problem is that when I change the button functions for Halo, it changes them for every menu and game as well.
Example: I use bumper jumper, but don’t like X as my thruster pack, or B as my action/reload. So on my elite controller I switcher the functions, so now my X=B and B=X. For everything else as well when I only want them switched for Halo. And it gets super annoying.
I think this feature is key to allow every player a chance to customize their game for them, instead having to choose between 5 or 6 different layouts and they only want to change one or two things.
And allow dual functions, like combining 2 ‘similar’ functions onto one button, eg: Smart-Link/Zoom. I’d love to have a Sprint/Hold to Crouch or Crouch/Double-Click to Sprint on my LS.
I think it’d be awesome to have in and it allows everyone even the players who don’t have an elite controller, nor the money to buy an elite controller, to have even more customization for themselves.
My dream Layout would be this:
LS: Crouch/Double-Click or Hold to sprint
RS: Smart-Link(ADS)/Zoom
L-Analog: Move (hence why I’d want crouch and sprint on LS)
R-Analog: Aim
A: Jump/Clamber(or LB)
B: Mêlée
X: Action/Reload
Y: Switch Weapons
RB: VISR (be awesome if they brought this back) or Flashlight
LB: Thruster Pack
RT: Fire Weapon
LT: Throw Grenade
: Campaign could be visr
: Campaign team function
: Switch Grenade
: Switch Grenade
I call this Layout The Duke
Second Topic: Health and Health Packs
I’d love to see these back. It allows some good balancing in terms of weapons and camping. The worst is when I play Btb and, now Warzone, and i hurt the guy camping with the sniper who then just hides away everytime he gets hurt and heals. Then I have to start all over again and it gets super boring. Makes the game slower and it takes less skill to stay alive.
Having health packs again will also allow more map control. Instead of only power ups and power weapons, a good team would also control the health packs on the maps. I would only add 2 or maybe 3 for arena maps and 4 or 5 for the Btb maps, warzone maps would just have one or two for every base. The packs would also be on high timers, maybe higher than power -ups, but that’s up for discussion, unlike in reach.
Health packs would also slow the gameplay down a bit. With sprint in the game, which shouldn’t be removed, and the other added abilities that make verticality to gameplay and speed, health and health packs will slow down the combat as well as make it so the players will have to be more careful when rushing in or engaging as well as know when to disengage and help teammates respawn.
This will also allow sprint to recharge shields, like in reach, and unlike halo 4. Which I believe is the heart of the problem, because people didn’t like halo 4 or anything with halo 4.
With health packs and health back players could runaway and gain all their health back, they can’t now. It also makes it so players have to move around the map more to both stay alive and kill opponents. So good teams are required to control the map, not just the callout spots. Though you’d have to maintain those as well, that won’t change lol.
I’d lovd to see health packs and balance back in the series. And also this allows us to have good weapon balancing. Meaning automatics ca be more useful and more accurate and allow paper head shots in. Halo has such great precision weapon gameplay, but not so good automatic. I’d love to see a great overall gunplay system with a more accurate gunplay and way less aim assist and bullet mag, like in all the betas.
Third Topic: Thruster Pack stops shields rechargeing.
This is a way better option than sprint not recharging shields. It also makes way more sense lore wise as well, but oh well.
This works best if health packs and health were back. So when you use thruster it’ll just stop/halt the shields from recharging. Right now, when I sprint, or even if I accidentally press the sprint button, it completely restarts the shield cool down. I would just have it halt the cooldown with the thruster pack. So if it’s halfway down, and I use thruster pack it stay halfway down until about 3 seconds into the 4 or 5 second thruster pack cooldown.
I think this makes a lot more sense as I use thruster pack more than sprint to evade and escape gunfights and grenades more so than sprint. I never found sprint that bad and even if I’m sprinting away I still get killed before my shields would even start to recharge, and if there’s 2 people, I rarely get the chance to turn and run. But I can evade with thruster.
I think these bring more balance to the game than what’s currently in the game now. It also allows for people to focus on other important things. And I think this is a good way of balancing a lot of issues the community is having without removing anything. Just tweaking things.
All these allow for better gunplay as well. More accurate gunplay. Weapons would have to be more accurate, and with less aim assist and bullet mag(especially on precision weapons, it’s very noticeable still). And have good bloom. On all the weapons. You’d have to really aim every gun to get the headshots and it’ll show more skill in players.
Anyways let’s vote on some of this stuff. Mostly the customizable controller layouts and health packs. The Controller layouts firstly hahaha.
Anyways, thanks for reading this far and Keep it Real.