So I was thinking about Halo 4 and how some things could probably be changed for the game to seem more fun in my opinion. While thinking about mechanics that I consider broken I wondered what events lead up to all of these drastic gameplay changed and I came up with this.
The first thing they did was no doubt think of Ordinance. Why not give players weapons on the map to prevent skilled teams from holding map and weapon control. Why not let a player get a power weapon and change the situation on the map. As they play tested more and more they realized that it’s odd that things can pop out of nowhere and decided to make it cannon thus War games. Well this was all fine and good but they wondered how the player is supposed to get ordinance to begin with and thus Infinity Slayer was born. Things were going great until they noticed since there are so many power weapons now they kept accidently killing team mates this was gonna be a big issue so they turned that off as well. Suddenly realizing that the ordinance impacts gameplay too much with Existing weapons on the map so they gave the weapons a 3 seconds respawn time and removed most naturally spawning weapons. Well darn they thought as they removed the weapons from the map. How is a player who doesn’t have ordinance supposed to kill a skilled vehicle? So they thought and they thought and soon they came out with the idea of customizable loadouts. Now we won’t have to worry about people complaining they want BR/DRM/AR starts when they can just choose themselves and we can also give them stickies and plasma pistols to take care of skilled drivers they thought as they took down that pesky warthog.
They then took a break from Matchmaking and focused on forge. Okay 343 said as they remember what people didn’t like in Reach. The community was really upset with Bungie because the majority of the maps are all made from forgeworld. Let’s get rid of forgeworld and start improving forge. But how do we tie forge with the rest of the cannon? Well lets reskin every item from Halo Reach into UNSC themed items. It doesn’t matter if they don’t necessary fit with the map or stand out like a sore thumb. The players will be too happy to use the new magnets. Heck 343 thought with these flawless magnets they don’t even need precision forge anymore.
Satisfied with Forge 343 moved back to matchmaking and decided to improve some more things. I really like unlocking things as I level up like Emblems and Backgrounds. Why don’t we have every emblem unlock able and just remove the other ones we don’t have time for? 343 was so proud of this they decided to remove some more stuff like custom game options and the ability to modify gametypes extensively. We made infection so cool with flood character models and screen effects no one will want to change settings and create classic infection. I mean why would they when the flood have jet packs. 343 was now glowing with pride.
Hmmm what shall we do about playlists. The community obviously doesn’t want the same playlists they offered in the past Halo games and surely doesn’t want the ones they begged bungie for so let’s make the playlists mostly our new improved gametypes and release the other ones as the community asks for some. I mean so what if we forget to add a few classic gametypes and playlists. When a person goes into a game they don’t want to pick a gametype and a map they just want to pick a map on a gametype we decide.
I really could keep going but I’ll sum this up with 343 look at the forums. I understand you are doing what you can to try to improve Halo but you can’t just abandon the Halo’s of past. Please add some classic playlists and update some of the options in forge/customs. Pls.