After reading the recent Game Informer article about Halo 4 I am feeling optimistic that H4 has the potential to be a great game. That being said, the article left out pretty much all detail about us being able to customize the multiplayer experience in custom games. I really hope 343 does not go Bungie’s route with trying to force their idea of what Halo should be, and instead let the community decide by giving them as many customization options as possible for custom games.
Here are a couple of things that came to mind after reading the article:
Necessary:
- Allow us to switch between allowing custom loadouts or having a single starting loadout
- If custom loadouts are enabled, allow us to put restrictions on what can be chosen for abilities, weapons, etc.
- Allow us to control game changing mechanics like weapon bloom, sprint (enabled, speed, length), and armor abilities
- Allow more fine grained control over modifiers like weapon damage. Why not give us the ability to change it by any percent rather than huge jumps like 10% and 15%? Allow us to set it for individual weapons(if this is feasible from a coding perspective).
- Allow for us to set respawn times rather than spam x to get back into the game.
- A forge world that does not lag horribly on split screen
Suggestions:
5. Allow us the option to do loadout selection similar to how America’s Army does it, where only a certain number of weapons/abilities are allowed to be chosen before other people are not able to select them ( 4 sniper rifles every game will get old fast )
6. In matchmaking have some playlists implement suggestion 5, and allow higher ranked/whatever players choose first
Also, for the love of god bring back a ranked matchmaking experience. It’s the number one reason I don’t play reach right now.