Now that I’ve played Halo 4 for almost 2 weeks, I decided I should share my thoughts on how they could make this game great. Some of these ideas might not be possible, but I’m optimistic about the future of the series. They want feedback, it’s their first attempt. They even plan on updating the game regularly, so it’s important that not every thread is a mere complaint. I offer solutions!
Campaign:
Matchmaking feature should be added like it was in Reach. It was a small touch, but it encouraged players to play the campaign if they had a challenge to complete and didn’t want to jump in by themselves. An option for difficulty should be a voting option at the start of the game for all the players in the lobby. They could search by being able to choose any of the campaign levels, like in Spartan Ops.
War Games:
Playlists should have a veto option.
Certain playlists should have objective and slayer gametypes, like BTB and MLG.
Bring back double exp weekends.
Ammo should be available around the maps for primary weapons. Maybe just an ammo crate for whatever primary weapon you are carrying. Similar to Spartan Ops.
BR should be 4 shot.
AR, Warthogs and Banshee should all be buffed because too many people on maps have power weapons with ordenance drops.
Incineration cannon should be have slightly less range.
The ghost should be slightly weaker.
You should rank up faster if you win more, maybe offer a flat 1000 exp if you win, and you lose 1000 exp if you quit. That could encourage players to win and not quit.
Join in Progress needs to be fixed entirely. If you join in a game late, you shouldn’t have that loss, or win count on your service record. Don’t start games without a full lobby.
Allow us to view party details so we don’t join a queue just to find out your friends’ game just started.
Dedicated servers, the franchise has made enough money at this point.
Spartan Ops:
Difficulty should be a voting option at the start of the game for all players in the lobby. When they are done releasing each episode, they could cycle through the episodes by starting with episode one again. If they had all chapters/episodes all available at once, matchmaking might suffer. I didn’t anticipate they would do that anyway. I do expect future episodes beyond 5 however.
Theater:
This feature seems to suffer with every new Halo game. Theater should be perfected and left alone. You should have direct access to your recent films from the Theater lobby. Allow us to watch any and all recent game play, in campaign, Spartan Ops, customs and matchmaking. Perhaps have a quick option at the end of any game that reminds you to save a film would be nice. At least 4 players should be able to watch a film and/or a film clip together.
Bring back the Community Spotlight and 343 Favorites. Allow us to access files from Waypoint and this website. Have films rendered automatically as part of the upload process. Sharing files made in Theater could be amazing.
Overall fix menu navigation. I haven’t spent enough time with Forge or Custom Games to offer any solutions for making those better. So any input you guys have on those features would be great!