I would love to see Flashlight making its return to Halo 4. But here’s some Ideas for it:
When using weapon that holds Flashlight attachment, you would use the weapons Flashlight. [Ex. from Battlefield 3 style: *Tactical Flashlight] Instead of using the Flashlight what is on your armour. & And when you are using weapon what wont have the FL attached to it, you would use your armours FL.
Why on weapons? I think it would be nice feature.
I would like to see also that FL should be strong and useful in dark. Also I think that it should be enabled in Matchmaking to add depth for dark maps. Just think about it.
It’s Night you’re playing ex. Infection & you really want to see in dark where Zombie is coming, it would reveal you at cost of seeing better. Or using it to confuse enemies. Using it on machinimas to give somekind of feeling.
And FL in Halo 4 would make sense canonically too. In Halo 3 Chief has FL, not Nightvision or VISR. Also Flashlight in Chief’s helmet is seen in Halo 4 E3 trailer.
<em>Here is example what it would look like when wielding: Handheld flashlight & gun Picture is from Alan Wake, I do not own any rights to the picture</em>
& Wielding HH FL and singlehanded weapon on the other hand is just idea!
Or then having them using mounted flashlight ex. pistol, like from ODST.
Here are some ideas for Halo 4 Flashlight ideas & opinions :
> "The Flashlight should be able to be dual wielded with any single handed weapon. Chief always has it and can pull it out any time he has a free hand.
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> While the Flashlight is equipped melee attacks are performed with it instead of your gun.
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> Meleeing with the Flashlight in a dark area would cause you to loose the light for a second while you swung the Flashlight. This would add some scare value to Flood battles. For example: You are moving along and see a single Flood form. You run up and melee it with your Flashlight. The light goes out for a second and when it comes back there is a whole horde of Flood in front of you.
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> Multiplayer could use dark areas as path deterrents because you can only use single handed weapons while your Flashlight is equipped and you give away your position with the Flashlight beam to an enemy camping in the dark waiting for your to pass by. Using your Flashlight stops you from using a power weapon at the same time. Do you want to see or to have your power weapon out?
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> The strength of a Flashlight melee should be weaker than a normal melee but you can fire your weapon while you melee."
> “A combination. The Halo 3 torch went out too quickly, it should stay on until turned off in like in CE but have unlimited battery life like in Halo 3.”
> “I’d like it if Halo CE’s flashlight came back… It was pretty much weapon-based, as in it flipped around with your gun, and limited battery power too!”
> "Using a Flashlight has many advantages over night vision. Night vision will allow you to see over the whole screen. A Flashlight will only light up the middle of the screen. This gives a more immersive feeling IMO.
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> Swinging the Flashlight, when you melee, would make the room go dark for a second. This would add some risk to meleeing in the dark.
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> Forcing your Spartan to hold a Flashlight in one hand means he can only use single handed weapons. This forces the player to make decisions on whether he would rather have a more powerful weapon or the ability to see in the dark.
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> If the devs wanted the player to be able to use a two handed weapon and the Flashlight they could make a special variant of the weapon that has a underbarrel Flashlight."
> "What I ment was that unless they do more changes to the armor then the flashlight is mostly likly coming back. Attached to the helmet.
> I would like to see some guns have the ablity to have flashlight attachments for infection.
> It would be way cool to have to be in a completly dark room with only your flashlight and gun to defend you against whats hiding in the dark. I also wouldn’t mind if nightvision makes a comeback as well.
> Hopefully they’ll give you more reason to use it then what Reach did. 
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> "HALO: THE RETURN OF THE FLASH LIGHT
> THUMBS UP
> this makes sense for whoever watched halo 3 ending and the halo 4 trailer"
