Dear 343, Customs, Forge and Theater.

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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  1. Remove the online only.
    So, if I’m stuck offline due to connection issues of any type, sure…I can play campaign.
    But after you’ve fought Warden 100 times from Campaign and another 100 times from Warzone, it gets boring.
    Customs and forge can be playable for a long time, with no connection. Please, allow us to play them offline.

  2. Pre-made forge structures.
    So as I said, forge is fun.
    But it is also difficult. Personally, I would rather spend 20 mins messing about with structures rather than 3 hours messing around with blocks and walls.
    Can we have pre-mad structures? I don’t see why we don’t.
    We had them in Halo Reach. We had them in Halo 4. And we had them in Halo 2 Anniversary.
    So why remove them?
    I liked forge cause I could mess around with it. Not because I spent hours making brilliant maps.
    I mean, even on my old Xbox 360, there are a bunch of forge maps, which are terrible, but I had so much fun playing them and making them.
    Why? Take some buildings, stitch them together and then play.
    It was fun. Add them back, please.

  3. “Host” Traits for customs.
    So, I have seen this slightly mentioned already.
    But what happened to Host / Leader Traits?
    Set host to have 3 times health and faster movement and shield recharge, then make 2 to 4 people fight him / her.
    Personal training!
    (And also trolling which I did a lot during Halo Reach, Tee Hee)
    But yeah, I’d like to see these back too.

  4. An Idea for Forge. “Basic” and “Advanced”.
    So, I’ve had this idea for a while and have seen similar things.
    Basically, Advanced Forge would be everything we currently have.
    And Basic, would be what we have in Halo Reach / Halo 4 / Halo 2 A? (Without scripting possibly)
    This would be changeable in game, press start and there would be an option called “Mode” or something similar.
    Click it, select Basic or Advanced. Only host can do this and it causes the map to re-load.
    Or, it can be done before the game starts.

  5. File Share.
    Let us pick what we want others to be able to download.
    Oh, you spent 5 days on a forge map? Well someone can download that, change a single thing (or nothing) then save it as their own.
    Change this, please.
    Why can’t we have a file share like we did in Halo Reach?
    For customs gametypes and forge maps (and theater videos)

  6. Speaking of theater videos.
    Why did you remove the ability to edit videos within the game then save them in the game?
    So, yeah Xbox One has its own recording system. But, Halo’s inbuilt one was easier.
    Also, why is there still no theater for campaign? Or custom games? Or forge?
    Why are we slowly losing theater? Please don’t let it slip away.

Even if these changes, for whatever reason, cannot be made to Halo 5.
Please, if you’re already working on Halo 6 (which you possibliy are!), get these things to work properly or better.
Work on the game as soon as you can so it CAN be a success and you don’t need to delay any “major” features to the game as free DLC.

Side note: I like the REQ system, but please, can we not have it so the REQ system only does Warzone things and some armor things?
And have ranking up / a credit system to unlock other armor pieces like in Halo Reach or Halo 4?

Another Side note: What happened to customization? Give us more options like in Halo 4. And let us actually pick emblem colors.

Ok I’m done now.
Tell me your opinions.

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Few Extra points added.

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The things you have brought up are acceptable to change! Good to hear constructive points from someone for once. I can’t really argue with your points LOL I agree about the spartan rank system. I do personally believe some armor should be unlockable at every 10 levels. Cause I have noticed that emblems are unlocked at every 10 levels. Not only that, have emblems on our spartans. This has always been in Halo and I loved seeing my delta emblem on my shoulder. It had drastically made other players different from others. (WHERE IS THE DELTA EMBLEM D:< )

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> 2535409103705542;3:
> The things you have brought up are acceptable to change! Good to hear constructive points from someone for once. I can’t really argue with your points LOL I agree about the spartan rank system. I do personally believe some armor should be unlockable at every 10 levels. Cause I have noticed that emblems are unlocked at every 10 levels. Not only that, have emblems on our spartans. This has always been in Halo and I loved seeing my delta emblem on my shoulder. It had drastically made other players different from others. (WHERE IS THE DELTA EMBLEM D:< )

It’s just, I like the REQ system.
But, I play a lot of Warzone too.
I can easily imagen that those who don’t play warzone HATE the REQ system.
It is too focused on Warzone. Which would be ok, if you could unlock armor in other ways.

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#1 Not possible, won’t ever happen. The dedicated servers do a lot of the processing when forging, and uses upwards of 250MB per hour. It’s not forced online just 'cuz.

#2 I believe Tom French confirmed on Twitter that pre-fab structures are coming.

#3 What? No.

#4 This should be considered. The learning curve is extremely steep right now.

#5 This enfuriates me. I’ve already had people trying to claim my map as their own to try and get a YouTube feature. Fortunately I knew the YouTuber and he knew they were lying. The fix is unbelievably simple. Only allow people to view our bookmarked maps. Remove the option in the UI that lets people access all files. Original/Modified Author fields need to be added as well.

#6 Theater was terrible in MCC, and is still bad in H5.

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> #1 Not possible, won’t ever happen. The dedicated servers do a lot of the processing when forging, and uses upwards of 250MB per hour. It’s not forced online just 'cuz.
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> #2 I believe Tom French confirmed on Twitter that pre-fab structures are coming.
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> #3 What? No.
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> #4 This should be considered. The learning curve is extremely steep right now.
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> #5 This enfuriates me. I’ve already had people trying to claim my map as their own to try and get a YouTube feature. Fortunately I knew the YouTuber and he knew they were lying. The fix is unbelievably simple. Only allow people to view our bookmarked maps. Remove the option in the UI that lets people access all files. Original/Modified Author fields need to be added as well.
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> #6 Theater was terrible in MCC, and is still bad in H5.

  1. Ugh
  2. Good
  3. Why not? They were there before, why not add them back…
  4. Learning curve IS indeed too steep…I myself am stuck on it.
  5. Yup, knew it would happen.
  6. Theater was fine in Halo Reach. Reach was when it was perfect…been slipping ever since (IMO)