So I feel there is alot of content in Halo the big problem is everything feels the same ad I think new game modes are needed and yes forge should help that but 343 should bring in new modes themselves to make them official. I could never use forge to create stuff I could not in any of the Halos but would love for 343 to consider new ideas since they do listen to us.
I will first go on the record and swear in February I thought up the whole Rocket Repulsor idea mentioned it a few times on youtube and swear I mentioned it in a post
Although BTB here is a quicky for Rumble Pit. Plasma Kong, it would work well in Streets, Live Fire maybe all the maps but you have 20 or 30 plasma coils scattered throughout the match and you are equipped with just a repulsor and let the mayhem begin.
BTB Game modes
A.I. Confirm
My favorite Game mode in COD is kill confirm so 343 give us A.I. confirm on the BTB maps instead of dog tags you drop the AI bubble instead of just running through it you must press X to retrieve the confirm but not a long press like in Attrition a quick press like it is to level up your weapon in last spartan standing. 50 points for confirms and 50 points for A.I. Deny. first team to reach 100 confirms win.
XMP variant
For you older players do you remember Unreal 2 the Awakening on the O.G. Xbox the multiplayer was so much fun team base type of game with objectives that kept you coming back. i would love to see a variation of that game in BTB which would work with Halos maps
In XMP you have two artifact nodes with 2 artifacts for each team plus 2 generator the goal is to steal the other teams two artifact nodes and place it in your own the generators are what powers your team
in the Halo variant it will be a take on Stockpile where instead of Artifacts you will have power point and 2 power seeds with two more power seed generators to be able to hold 4 all together.
As far as the Generators each team will have 2 on their side of the map now if the other team hacks one generator it makes it so the opposing team respawn takes longer maybe add 3 seconds to respawning. if a team holds all 4 Generators than the opposing team loses power in the way that they lose their shield so now the team holding all four generators will be playing Tactical XMP with tactical rules headshots auto kills and melee auto kill. This goes on until someone can hack at least one generator to bring shields back up. First team to hold all for power seeds win, you can even make it that if you hold all four generators the opposing team loses the ability to respawn. If implemented correctly this could be a fun game mode to play
PvPvE game
I feel this might be an interesting mode, it is a variant of team slayer in BTB now instead of first team to get 100 kills it is a cumulative score of either 5000 or 7500 to win, now the difference is you are not fighting against the other team of Spartans. not sure if 8 on 8 will work if so great if not 6 on 6 because on the other two sides of the maps you will have 8 or 6 elites and 8 or 6 Banish. so it is team slayer against the banish and elite so you do not get points for killing the other team Spartan but to make it interesting although every Elite/Banish kill is 100 points every death is negative 100 points so although you do not get points for killing the other team they loose point for dying
Another idea is if you shoot and hurt an Elite/Banish but your teammate gets the kill you get 50 for an assist but what if you hurt an Elite/Banish but the other team gets the kill than instead it is negative 50 for you receiving a kill steal and if you steal 5 kills in a game it is a medal.
there are other thing you can put int there to make the game go faster like a triple kill 150 an overkill 200 and so on where 10 kill killonaire is 500 points or make it more so it stacks up to a killonaire is 1000 points.
achieving a killing spree can be 200 points on that 5th kill instead of 100, you could even make it 200 per kill until you die and mark the person who is on a killing spree so the opposite team knows to kill him.
I just feel this type of slyer gives you more than just kill each other but compete with each team in taking out some Elite/Banish.
My point is yes forge will help bring in new modes from the community but there are some great ideas out there so 343 to do themselves instead of simply relying on the community to bring back Halo Greatness
I unserstand it might be too early for Infection or Flood firefight but gives us some new flavor while we wait.