Everyone and their mom has noticed it, and hopefully 343i will deliver. I am 23 and been playing Halo since it first released on the original xbox. I have recently fallen off the Halo crowd due to some flaws and lack of interest.
Thing Halo 5 needs:
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Ranking System: (everyone has said it) 1-50 ranking play style. I kept coming back to Halo 2 and 3 due to wanting to get a 50 in a playlist. Halo Reach and 4 do not provide this. Halo Reach high rank means you have just played alot of the game, a Halo 3 50 ment you were pretty good in that playlist. Halo 3 knocked the nail right on the head. You had social playlist, ranked playlist and than special playlist of the month like Griffball or Bungie Day. You could play all social if you wanted, but if you wanted your rank to go up to a general you HAD to play ranked. Some people did not care about achieving that. I did, getting a 50 in Team Slayer and MLG was a big accomplishment for me and kept me very interested in the game. Nothing like having a game come down to the wire to determine if you would drop down to a 48 or finally get that 50 to show off to people. This has been covered many times, reach and halo 4 are pretty much all social play types. The one I never got was a 5 star general, but I do love the individual ranking and the playlist ranking for example. I had a 50 in MLG with over 1000 EXP in the playlist showing I was a veteran of it and loved playing MLG.
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Custom load outs/armor abilities removed: 343 dropped the ball on this one, this isnt Call of duty, I like change dont get me wrong. I dont want them to pull the same old COD crap and have the same game come out every single year just switching maps. I also dont think we need to copy COD, custom load outs isnt Halo nor is armor abilities. Think about playing in game when weapons spawned on the same part of the map and people would say “im going for rockets…im going for snipe” and you actually had to time (or go back and check) to see if the snipe and rockets, power drains, etc had dropped. Everyone having camo is a bad idea, fighting over the Camo spawn to pick it up and have that guy grab rockets too was a tactical part of the game to kill the other team. I think sprint, promethian vision, all those are not fun to the game. EVERYONE has them, I loved playing Gaurdian and noticing the camo had been taken and thinking to myself “oh crap guys gotta be careful”.
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Events: Whatever happened to these? Bungie Day, 7 on 7th, griffball weekend, etc. Remember when bungie used to play with the community and if you saw that amazing flaming recon armor people would lose their minds?! Maybe I havent played Halo 4 in a long time but I havent seen a 343i employee or event since the game has started. Is there even a special armor that 343i employees get?!. I remember the playlist where (I cant remember the name) but if you can into bungie employees and beat them in a game you were awarded recon armor…ya that playlist had like 100,000 people on it for 24 straight hours and only a few people got Recon. Mainly anyone who played the playlist for the full 24 hours or had the most sticky kills, or actually ran into Bungie employees, etc.
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More colorful environment: Seriously…play some Halo 4 and go back to Halo 3 and tell me the Halo 3 maps dont look more colorful and interesting than the plain dull colors of ALL of H4 maps? I miss looking at the map and seeing bright orange dirt or a blue sky etc. Maps looked AMAZING, and were fit to the play style. You didnt have HUGE 4v4 maps that took 10 minutes to get from one side to the other.
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Unique Items: Like I said Recon Armor, one thing that kept alot of people interested in the game, employees had it and a few people who won it or wouldnt tell you how it was obtained, first time I saw someone with the armor before everyone could get it and the whole lobby FLIPPED. Rare, unique, made the game fun and was interesting to read how to get it. Also EXP unlocked certain armor items but so did achievements. The mongoose one to unlock armor took me a couple hours, these were fun to try and get!
What im getting at is I can move on from the past, but Halo took the wrong direction with custom loadouts, armor abilities, no events, boring gameplay, no ranking system for competitive people (hence H4 not being in MLG anymore or even having a playlist). I was a fan of H2 and H3, recently…feels like im playing the game for social and not having fun. We need a playlist ranked so people who are amazing at the game arent getting paired up against people who just bought the game.
Halo needs to be revived or its gonna die out, and I dont want to see that happen. Give your thoughts people let the voice of the Halo Community be heard. Check out my youtube channel at www.youtube.com/ib1iz