Broken Servers = Good Halo

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First off I just want to say that I love playing Halo 4. It is my FPS of choice, however due to so much randomness in most game modes even I get frustrated at times.

Yesterday the servers for xbox live went down so basically everyone that did get into a match was set to SR-1. We had a choice of 2 load outs total, and do you know what, it was incredibly fun. Even Infinity Slayer played a lot better IMO.

343 you really need to take a look at what happened yesterday to the servers as a blessing in disguise. The Forums lit up with people saying they liked it a lot, and were going to hop right back on for some more Halo action.

Honestly the game just felt more balanced overall. For example in one match I played a Sword appeared on the map and it was a battle to get it(which I won by the way). The point is that it was incredibly fun to have to fight for that power weapon. To the victor goes the spoils.

I do like the Infinity game type but, it is like a piece of cake. The cake is very tasty, but you don’t want to make it your main meal day after day. We need our meat and potatoes, which in the realm of Halo is the classic settings.

Before someone suggest to me, “Go play Team Throwdown then.” I love playing Team Throwdown, but it is so plagued by quitters it makes it hard to have a good match.

This is what I suggest:

Create a new playlist and call it “Slayer”, and a second one and call it “Social”.

In the social playlist you can place all your Infinity game types, plus some other random just for fun games like Rockets, shotty’s etc…

Take all the other playlist and allow only set load outs as well. I was thinking an AR, and BR load out.

Remove all personal ordnance, and random drops. Initial ones for power weapons are fine IMO if they too are placed on set resupply timers.

Place the other weapons like the DMR, Carbine, LR, etc… on the maps as pick ups only. I would even be fine with Pre patch Bolt shot if it was pick up only weapon.

Remove instant respawn. There really needs to be a penalty for dieing.

subtract points for betrayals, and suicides in the relevant game types.

Place AA’s on the map as pick ups as well.

Well these are my thoughts. I do hope you take some of them to heart and really look at what happened with the servers yesterday as a good indicator to what the Halo fans want.

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The “Take advantage of the nostalgia” thread I made is seeming more and more relevant…

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Meh, I started playing BO2 instead. Did anyone notices it’s double XP in there? If I was for conspiracy theories…

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> Meh, I started playing BO2 instead. Did anyone notices it’s double XP in there? If I was for conspiracy theories…

meh, I only play BO2 when I have friends online. BO2 is the last CoD I will ever purchase. I would rather play on a broken Halo server than a fully operational, zero lagging, always hosting games of BO2.

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NOSTALGIA Sparkle Sparkle*

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if ordinance is only used as a way to deliver AA’s to the spartans on the battle field everything else just needs to revert back to Halo 1-3’s style also AAs will be spawned on the map but they will be specific to said maps like equipment. Running will probably have to stay its not much of an issue in gamemodes with no insta respawn. I’m working on a gamemode that mimics this What do you guys think ?

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> if ordinance is only used as a way to deliver AA’s to the spartans on the battle field everything else just needs to revert back to Halo 1-3’s style also AAs will be spawned on the map but they will be specific to said maps like equipment. Running will probably have to stay its not much of an issue in gamemodes with no insta respawn. I’m working on a gamemode that mimics this What do you guys think ?

Just from your brief description I would like it.

Don’t forget 1 kill = 1 point. I don’t understand the point of adding a zero.

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> > if ordinance is only used as a way to deliver AA’s to the spartans on the battle field everything else just needs to revert back to Halo 1-3’s style also AAs will be spawned on the map but they will be specific to said maps like equipment. Running will probably have to stay its not much of an issue in gamemodes with no insta respawn. I’m working on a gamemode that mimics this What do you guys think ?
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> Just from your brief description I would like it.
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> Don’t forget 1 kill = 1 point. I don’t understand the point of adding a zero.

Thanks ive been trying since the COD release to try and come up with an idea that while keeping the classic appeal keeps the good additions of Halo 4 thats left out because of the classic communities disgust. Sadly im constantly ignored when im just trying to help. I belive that if we get a large enough community members asking and spreading acceptable settings that everyone would love then we could get 343’s attention and possibly get it implemented before the next TU hits. Will you spread these settings around or work on them to improve them ?

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> > if ordinance is only used as a way to deliver AA’s to the spartans on the battle field everything else just needs to revert back to Halo 1-3’s style also AAs will be spawned on the map but they will be specific to said maps like equipment. Running will probably have to stay its not much of an issue in gamemodes with no insta respawn. I’m working on a gamemode that mimics this What do you guys think ?
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> Just from your brief description I would like it.
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> Don’t forget 1 kill = 1 point. I don’t understand the point of adding a zero.

A kill equals 10 points so that an assist can equal five. It would be pretty stupid to make an assist worth 0.5 points.

Use some logic.

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Why don’t you just pop your HALO 3 disk and play. Seriously.

I still do. Because it’s old, doesn’t mean it sucks. It’s fantastic.

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> Why don’t you just pop your HALO 3 disk and play. Seriously.
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> I still do. Because it’s old, doesn’t mean it sucks. It’s fantastic.

H3 is one of the best parts of my childhood so far, and I’m only 17.

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> Why don’t you just pop your HALO 3 disk and play. Seriously.
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> I still do. Because it’s old, doesn’t mean it sucks. It’s fantastic.

I do sometimes but it takes a long time to get a full team. 343 is heading in the right direction but, it seems to be taking longer than it should.