Halo 4 Changelist Wishlist :3

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Here is what I think should happen to Halo 4’s matchmaking.

Gameplay Changes

  • DMR - Reduce auto-aim and Rate of fire
  • Change 2 plasma per loadout to 1
  • Slightly Buff Chain Warthog HP
  • Remove all Random Ordnance on Map and use Initial, Respawning Ordnance (I will elaborate)
  • Buff Carbine
  • Reduce Flinch, Stability removes flinch entirely

Playlist Additions + Changes

  • Infnity Slayer - Remove Instant Respawn, Weaken Personal Ordnance to the following weapons - Scattershot

  • SAW

  • Concussion Rifle

  • Sticky Detenator

  • Railgun

  • Needler
    Increase PO requirement points to 100

  • Remove Regicide, Add Rumble Pit (6 Man FFA): Gametypes include Infinity Rumble, Rumble Pro, and Regicide. Infinity Rumble has same changes as Infinity Slayer. Radar on all gametypes.

  • Keep CTF - It is popular enough to be its own playlist. Reduce to 4v4.
    Maps: Abandon, Solace, Adrift, Simplex, Dispatch, Skyline, Monolith, Harvest

  • Team Objective - Add 1 Site Extraction

  • Big Team Battle - Add BTB CTF on All 7 Maps

  • SWAT - Remove Instant Respawn

  • Doubles - Remain the Same

  • Throwdown - Remain the same

  • Flood - add many more maps, Wreckage, Exile, Monolith I could all see working for 10 player flood

  • Map Fixes*

  • Keep in mind random ordnance has been removed

  • Haven - Scattershot 3 minute timer, Needler replaced with OS on 2 minute timer, Sticky det on 2 minute timer

  • Complex - Works with Random Ord

  • Solace - Snipers on 2 minute timers, not sure about side power weapons

  • Abandon - Match Throwdown Ordnances

  • Adrift - Rockets on static timer top mid (using random ords) Sticky and Scatter on never respawn

  • Skyline - Remove all ordnance except ones closest to ramps near top mid. Make one Railgun, Make one Sticky Det

  • Monolith - Remove Random Ordnance. DONE

  • Landfall Works with Random Ordnance, don’t change

  • Harvest - Rockets top mid, snipers on 3 minute timers

  • BTB maps work with Random Ordnance

  • Will add more soon. Stay tuned. What’ya think?*

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Add in “remove Flinch and bring back Decoding” and it’s perfect for me.

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> Here is what I think should happen to Halo 4’s matchmaking.
>
> Gameplay Changes
> - DMR - Increase Bloom to about Pistol intensity, Reduce auto-aim
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I singled these part out right away, and this is not how the DMR should be balanced at all. If you balance it like so, it would play more like a CC or a magnum.
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> The problem with the DMR currently is it’s rate of fire (RoF), right now it can actually shoot faster than the player can control causing bloom. Which also makes pacing and increasing accuracy and precision optional on this gun. Which nullifies the DMR’s ability to be a niche weapon and makes it OP.
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> So rather, give it a RoF nerf as that would force pacing by making it so that the gun can only fire at the point it would have maximum accuracy and would extend the killtime by .25-.3 seconds. This way it becomes the go to mid-long range weapon while no longer being the all range wonder gun.

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The fact that people are asking for more bloom now, is unbelievably ironic. Pre-Halo 4 release for the entirety of Reach’s lifespan, people did nothing but ask for no bloom.

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> The fact that people are asking for more bloom now, is unbelievably ironic. Pre-Halo 4 release for the entirety of Reach’s lifespan, people did nothing but ask for no bloom.

and when they got it they didn’t play it, to the point it was shoved into another playlist.
Really makes you think…

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You guys are right. A ROF reduction would help out better than my ideas for the DMR. What do you think about the rest of the changes?

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I think changing Stickies to 1 per loadout is crucial for BTB to continue in HALO.
People AVOID vehicles because of the 6-8 players with plasma pistals and stickies.

The community using these forums generally all agree the DMR needs a RoF reduction. I hope 343 will take our advise as they did with the boltshot’s previously rediculus range. (Thanks 343)

I do not think nearly every map should have a rocket and sniper ordinace duo. I find the game very repetitive that way. That said I do like having a few with them.

Random ordinace makes every game different. Map ordinace ATM is too uncommon on many maps. We need more frequent ordinance drops on non-dlc maps.

I personally think personal ordance primairly only serves to help the winning team win faster. When the people already winning get power weapons as personal rewards, it makes a comback very rare. That said I do not support death-rewards, so I am nutral on the subject.

The Overall gameplay of HALO 4 is my favorite of the franchise. The pace is great. The things pulling Halo down are the little things that can be fixed with changes that the great-majority of the players will agree with.

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> People AVOID vehicles because of the 6-8 players with plasma pistals and stickies.

No I don’t…

> I personally think personal ordance primairly only serves to help the winning team win faster.

This is the theme of Halo 4, and Dominion’s last stand phase epitomizes this design goal.

> I do not think nearly every map should have a rocket and sniper ordinace duo.

I sort of think that if you give someone a ROD forge object that they focus on how to “fill in the slots” with weapons rather than focus on which weapons belong on the map in the first place. I know that happened to me initially.

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all I want is to stop with their infinity slayer crap… and go back to halo

no instant respawn
No PV and Camo on loadouts (move them to ordinances
take out OP weapons on ordinances
No killcam
Take out boltshot from loadout (move to ordinance)
take out plasma pistol from loadout in BTB

I’ll be more than happywith the first 2… and I’ll forgive the rest

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> all I want is to stop with their infinity slayer crap… and go back to halo
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> no instant respawn
> No PV and Camo on loadouts (move them to ordinances
> take out OP weapons on ordinances
> No killcam
> Take out boltshot from loadout (move to ordinance)
> take out plasma pistol from loadout in BTB
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>
> I’ll be more than happywith the first 2… and I’ll forgive the rest

No instant respawn - Yes
No PV and Camo - I personally think they are balanced, however Camo could use a shorter usage time, perhaps a sudden burst of camo with no radar jam that only lasts like 3 seconds, so you can quickly stealth attack someone or get away. Strong Camo that lasts only like 3 seconds. I like PV, I think it works.
Take out OP weapons in PODs - Yes, the 6 weapons I said in my OP should be the only ones
No killcam, meh, we have the option to skip it if IR is off and I like it, it doesn’t malfunction for me anymore.
Boltshot works now because of the nerf.
Plasma pistol is fine, just reduce auto aim (maybe take auto aim off for vehicles, like your crosshair cannot turn red and heat seek a vehicle)

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I edited my post to update it to some new personal ordnance ideas. I’ve playtested them for 4v4’s AND for FFA’s and they work very well.

Left: Sticky Det + Speed Boost
Middle: OS + Concussion Rifle
Right: Damage Boost + Needler

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