Halo 4 constructive criticism

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My goal of this post is not to hate on halo 4, I think it’s a great game and its my 3rd favorite halo. I want to point out halo 4s flaws so that they can be fixed for halo 5. Feel free to comment about what you don’t like constructively. This is jut what I thought of off the top of my head.

Campaign issues

1.The ending(gameplay wise)
Halo 4s ending from a gameplay standpoint was probably the worst in the series, halo 1 had an epic warthog race,h2 had a boss fight,3 also had a warthog race,reach had the lone wolf survival and 4 had you killing hordes of the same enemies in the same boring environments while trying to flip switches all culminating in a quick time event, really? This would have been boring as an average level let alone the end of the game.

Suggestions for halo 5
Make it more epic, a warthog escape would be great, or if they had just put the broadsword flight at the end of the level even that would be better. The end needs to be more fast paced and action packed.

2.Battle scenes
There was nothing in the game on the level of the ark and covenant battles on 3 or metropolis on 2, 343 has a near unlimited budget, can’t they afford to put in something a little bigger, it’s been 5 years and nothing has come close to being as cool as the dual scarab fight in 3, why can’t there be something like that?

Suggestions
Have us fight some giant promethean scarab like thing, or getting to drive a scarab(yes I know they’re just giant hunters but if Johnson can drive one we can too!) or frigate. If that can’t be done just have some giant vehicle battle. Halo 4 had very few quality large scale fights.

3.Linearity
Despite what 343 said this game felt way more linear than the first 3.

Suggestions
More wide open areas with objectives we can take down in different orders Example: here’s a large area, take down the covenant ship and the scarab and then remove the anti air guns, in any order and with any strategy.

4.Prometheans
They will soon become boring if not changed.

Suggestions
More types like a hunter type also promethean vehicles, and more unique weapons.

Multiplayer

1.bring back social
I personally don’t like the highest skill system, when I get better I get paired up with great people and then I get destroyed and sent back to a low highest skill then I do better and the loop continues, I never seem to have a good match or bad match because I’m always playing people of my skill lvl, I know some like this system but I want more unpredictability in the matches instead of a getting a 1.2-1.4 kd every single time.

Suggestions
Like halo 3 have ranked and social. I believe it’s all ranked in halo 4(invisible highest skill) and reach was all social, have both!

2.Balance
Binary rifle, incineration cannon, boltshot overpowered, pulse grenades suck.

Suggestions
Nerf boltshot, boltshot noobs are the new noob combo noobs.

4.not being able to drop the flag is idiotic, not much else to say.

5.spartan ops
The story is mediocre, the level design is boring, objective are boring.

Suggestions
Scrap it for halo 5, it’s a waste of budget, nothing so far has been vey entertaining at all and it would cost too much and hurt the campaign to make it entertaining. Bet don’t bring back firefight, make something new and original.

Overall

1.vehicles
Vehicles were a huge letdown, least added for any main halo game, can’t drive mammoth, pelican was boring and no promethean vehicles.

Suggestions
Promethean vehicles, something big driveable like a scarab or mammoth.

2.promethean weapons
They’re pretty unoriginal, most feel like orange versions of their unsc counterparts

Suggestions
More things like the needled when it comes to originality.

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Campaign:

  1. The Broadsword part wasn’t epic enough for you? That was probably one of the most epic parts in the whole series. From all the dialogue to the visuals (like when you’re flying and then you see Earth pop up above you, and traveling through that tunnel and popping out at the power thing). And the showdown with the Didact was incredible. I don’t know what game you played.

  2. I thought that the part with the Scorpion tank was good, and the Mammoth was awesome. Fighting with the Spartan IV’s was cool, too. And fighting in the Pelican wasn’t notable? The first real time we get to pilot one?

  3. I don’t feel it was any more linear than Halo 3 was, but it was a tad linear.

  4. I have to agree, Prometheans need some new variants.

Multiplayer:

  1. I really don’t care either way.

  2. The Binary Rifle and Incineration Cannon are VERY rare. And the Boltshot isn’t OP; you have to be within melee distance for it to be a OHK. After you CHARGE it, that is. So it’s not like it’s an instant deal. It requires some thinking ahead.

  3. I agree, you need to be able to drop the flag.

  4. I also have to agree. The missions are just the same maps rescripted. It’s very underwhelming.

Overall:

  1. I sort of agree. The Mantis is an awesome addition. But the lack of a Hornet/Falcon is a major letdown, but the Pelican was awesome.

  2. Scattershot is a semi-auto shotgun, rather than the UNSC pump, Scattershot is the highest capacity assault rifle, Boltshot is awesome, Binary Rifle is a two-shot killing machine, Incineration Cannon shoots really cool and unique projectiles, and the Lightrifle is like a Battle Rifle/DMR mix. These weapons are all fine.

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I think the DMR & the BR should take the same amount of shots to kill someone in the head in order to encourage variety.

The Boltshot should be nerfed.
Grenades need a bit of a nerf, and remove the extra bounce from them. Why does a plasma grenade bounce off the ground anyway? Never really understood that one.

The sprint recovery time should be decreased.
Has anyone else noticed that, if you’re being shot while sprinting, you’ll slow down, sometimes to the point where you won’t move at all? Yea, that should be removed.
Complex should be removed from every gametype 'cept for BTB (that would be hectic fun).
Vahalla shouldn’t be in any rotation other than BTB.
Matchmaking should be by rank. It’s insanely unfair that I’m at SR30 and I get pit against an SR4, 16, 15, and 12.
Add classic game modes that eliminate perks and armor abilities, and only allow the BR, AR, pistol, and original grenades, and other original weapons.

(Captain Obvious rant) Improve the horrendous lag and hit-detection…seriously, fix the -Yoinking!- lag. /rant

OH!! One more thing. Can you re-make Lockout? I LOVE that map.

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My criticisms
-Final battle was interesting, but could have been a bit more fun than 3 switches.
-No Scarabs?

Addressing other people’s criticisms
-I believe MP balances by K/D, as when I party with low/K/D friends, the skill of the enemy seems to go down whereas when I play solo, I play against enemies about my skill level.