In matchmaking, I would like to see an extra few points for you when you kill the player that is in first place on the other team and earn a medal which adds to a commendation which will unlock a cool looking armour set. I think Destiny will be doing something like this and it seems like a great idea. What do you guys think?
As long as the points go towards your individual score and not the overall teams points, then I see no harm in it. Sound like a viable addition, and there is something similar in CoD Ghosts for killing 1st and 2nd place enemies. Even if it doesn’t give extra point, and has just a medal and attached commendation, it would still work OK.
You mean like Regicide? Personally I would rather they not. I shouldn’t be punished for being first, the last thing I want is half the enemy team chasing me just for some extra points whether they go to the overall score or individual.
Perhaps just the medal and commendation then? I don’t see any harm in that.
We do however continue to flood matches with yet more medals, they somehow seem less significant than they used to when you can earn like six in one kill.
Perhaps we could see something like battlefield where there’s ribbons and medals, but I would suggest that ribbons do not build up to medals (since we have commendations), just have two tiers:
Medals = Perfection, Killionare, Unfrigginbelievable, etc.
Ribbons = Reload this, First strike, [whatever this medal will be called], etc.
Commendations = x ammount or ribbons.
There’s actually always been an option for that (not sure when they first introduced it). I was thinking of creating a new gametype for Halo: Reach where killing the leader earns more points.
It’s basically VIP.
if they do decide to add something like this i think it should be the opposite and give incentive to be first especially for objective games. that way it will encourage more people to try and win opposed encouraging a better k/d, but whatever they add should have no impact on the score of the match maybe just a medal or something.
I think cod ghosts has this feature too I know what you mean.
People shouldn’t get extra rewards and perks, keep halo like halo. Or, like it was.
I don’t see the point of doing this. The next Halo needs to cut the fat when it comes to medals and points because it’s already absurd that every meaningless thing you do in Halo 4 is rewarded with some dumb medal. Though I would like to see the VIP gametype return.
We already have a killjoy medal. That’s enough.
Halo has far too many useless medals already. They need to go back to H3 style medals, where they are rewards for doing something above average like sniper sprees, winning by 20 kills, perfections, etc.
You should have about 30% more kills than medals, not 200% more medals than kills.
Get rid of pointless “gold star” medals, things like headcase, avenger, comeback kill, rocket kill, headshot…and “generic kill” (wtf really?) should not be medals. Bring back perfection too. In an actual military, medals are given out for performing above the standard, not for underperformance.
They should remove some medals before thought of additional ones.
> You mean like Regicide? Personally I would rather they not. I shouldn’t be punished for being first, the last thing I want is half the enemy team chasing me just for some extra points whether they go to the overall score or individual.
i don’t mean to have a marker above first place, I just mean if you do happen to kill the leader of the other team, you get a few extra points towards yourself =)
I would like to get a medal for getting medals 
Extra xp would be perfect, score towards winning a game not so much.
I see absolutely zero reason for this, except to give unskilled players a false sense of equality with the more skilled players. There’s nothing wrong with not being as good as someone else–why are people so easily ashamed and embarrassed?
> I see absolutely zero reason for this, except to give unskilled players a false sense of equality with the more skilled players. There’s nothing wrong with not being as good as someone else–why are people so easily ashamed and embarrassed?
You are right. But this kind of thing while not necessary adds a little bit of depth. No one needs to level up either to be able to feel good about themselves but it’s there for added depth (and replayability).