I’m a huge Halo fan been playing since CE when my little cousins first purchased the game. No matter the weather or temperature of their badly insulated house I would always no matter what go over to play with them and over years I’ve kept up with this little tradition no matter what but Halo 4 kind of felt different. I love the game I like how 343 has fixed AA’s and made them all fit together but really some of the things they did just didn’t fit that well. While the game does have issues I believe that it can be fixed with some changes which really wouldn’t be that hard to implement, but these changes only have a chance of being implemented if the community not only stops arguing against one another and instead start to try to convene there solutions and opinions like educated individuals. Everyone needs to see that as a game it’s good but as a Halo game the feeling is just not there.
To fix the game I’ve come up with a list of things that from looking from all over the forums from rage posts, praise posts to troll posts with and I Believe I’ve come up with a great list that would appeal to everyone so let’s begin.
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Sprinting - honestly my second most used ability to armor lock (everyone’s used it at least once
) It speeds up the game play and allows for me in Halo 4 to do some pretty cool moves thanks to the extra boost in speed and my favorite AA thruster pack. The problem with this ability is that it takes away the Halo feel like when they added aiming down the sights COD style to gears 3 with the hammerburst it’s like you would expect it to be there if you didn’t know how Halo originally is played but if you do know it just feels weird. My solution to this is to either make it an AA again or just all around get rid of it. -
Load outs - I was optimistic for this I really was and really my experiences with it have been positive since bolts hot users aren’t a problem to me thanks to thruster pack and stuff but really it just not supposed to be there it just takes away from the Halo feel and yes while I’m well aware that COD didn’t do it first I’m going to compare it to COD still because it’s the newest thing out so here goes… IT’S JUST LIKE COD! It shouldn’t be there and if anything the system should just go back to just being able to choose and AA and that’s it or however reach used to be (I had it but traded it in after the population of people playing dropped like the population of humans in Contagion). The way load outs are now there just basically Meg from family guy.
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AA’s - Really AA’s I love them but Camo shouldn’t be an AA. My solution or a solution gathered from other people’s opinions. Make camo equipment / power up in ordinance for its first stage of a reroll system something I will get into after this. It would take care of a lot of problems with camo campers.
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Ordinance - Ordinance I want it in Halo but it needs some major changes, for this gathered people’s ideas from the forums and stuff and basically thought of this. 343 should implement the Reroll system. The reroll system is basically this, imagine you’re on the battlefield with your Spartan you have none of that load outs stuff but you only have your AA of choice (of course no camo) and your only spawn weapons the AR and magnum (gotta love the classics) and the enemy is closing in on you. You manage to get a kill in bringing your streak to about 6 and you’ve unlocked a level 1 ordinance drop which includes one of the sidearm weapons, grenades, and an AR or BR. The enemy is getting close and ally reinforcements have bought you some time so you have 2 choices either call in the level 1 ordinance or Reroll it (already a sort of class perk for specializations) which gives you the choice of risking your level 1 ordinance for a level 2 ordinance same with 2 - 3 which means that if you die after you initiate a Reroll you have to start your ordinance over again.
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MM available game types: from what I’ve seen 343 has been pretty flexible there listening and have even supposedly hired Bravo MLG to help with MM stuff even on top of their playlist preferences thread which from what I’ve seen have been very useful for players that actually go there and ask for the playlist instead of just complaining for the need of it here instead of going directly to the specified place for those kinds of things. The playlist will even out with time (how longs crimson DLC gonna be up there!!!)
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Custom game options and forge - I’m still unaware to what extant forge and stuff has been damaged because I wasn’t that into creating the games and maps just playing on them. I’m still iffy on if the custom games community is just going over board because on the same day people started posting that it’s impossible to do no running in Halo 4 that the Halo MLG guy Saucy posted some custom games game play of him playing basically classic Halo game play no running at all still if updates could be made to implement more stuff then it should be implemented.
Its right here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IrrHbUNP4o
Anyway this is what I believe should be done again this is only my opinion so please comment and add in your opinions of what should be done and how you would like Halo to evolve in general.