Halo 4 infection needs more customization

Games Other Halo
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Hello I would like to start this thread on the new and “improved” infection. As much as I’d like to say that I like this new infection, I do not. Back in Halo 3 Infection was a game type that many people made glorius and fun game types with for Custom Games by giving the Infected certain Weapons or Abilities. But in Halo 4’s Flood Infection, you cannot. I was excited to recreate some of the most popular game types and maps from Halo 3 to play with my friends. I recreated the School map for Teacher, with all the weapons set up around the school and vehicles in place. I made a slightly bigger version, but my friends thought it looked very good. Next came… making the gametype. I was ready to start off Infection Custom Games with my buds, we were waiting till I got done creating the game type Teacher for the School map I made, but then horror struck.

We could not customize the Infected’s loadout. We looked in all categories of the Flood menu but were unable to find one evident location to change the Infected’s loadouts. Because of the new Infected appearance I can assume, We cannot give them the necessary weapons and abilities they need to make the game type function correctly. We were saddened by this, if not a little mad. When we tried the game without the customization, none of the weapons set on the map would spawn, only the vehicles, which brought upon more negative enforcement to the Flood mode.

Which is why I actually logged into this website today to create this post, I’m sure I am not the only one who wants this kind of customizing back in infection, as some of the most absurd and hilarious game types are made from infection, some may be a bit Crass but were enjoyable nonetheless. Which is why I hope this post may see to fruition that Infection might be customizable again. Here is a list of some of the Infection games made and played back in Halo 3 to remind some of you how fun Infection was made to be:

  • Micheal Jackson
  • Bull Run
  • Fat Kid
  • Assassin
  • Predator
  • Bull Run
  • Ghostbusters
  • Smear the -Yoink- (offensive name, but fun gametype)
  • Apocalypse
  • Ice Cream Man
  • Duck Hunt
  • Halo Ring
  • Cops and Robbers
  • Jenga
  • And many more that have been forgotten over the time Infection hiccuped.

All of these were frequently played on Halo 3 on Infection, but most cannot be done without the proper customization. I just hope that some can actually read this thread and maybe get the word out that Infection needs to live again. My only hope is that Infection (Flood) can be fully customizable and have weapons appear on the maps like in Halo 3. Without these options, Infection is as dead as the Flood players in it.

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I agree, they seem to have spent a lot of time making stupid stuff like button-pressing animations and the fugly flood player models rather than considering what the community actually wanted.

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I know. At most, all we can do is recreate only a small portion of Infection Gametypes into Halo 4 again. I hold Halo 3 Infection so closely to my heart I can remember every Infection Map’s layout and gametype sepcifications. I’m on a mission to recreate each map, and gametype. But cannot do them all without full customization and weapon placement for the gametype. I want Halo to be more than just Matchmaking. I want it to be a community of those who play interesting custom games tailored by the customizable game types. Infection Customization was so varied that many game types flourished from it. But without it, most games cannot be made.

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Bump

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I agree completely

Halo 4 is defiantly lacking some customization options

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I’m glad I am not the only one who feels this way. Hopefully we can keep this thread alive long enough for someone to take notice.

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Bumpity bump

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Clogged Toilet Revamp from Reach could be made, but the fun part was the random secondary.

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Ah yes I remember Clogged Toilet. Very fun and random that was. Always had a laugh at the Alpha because everyone would camp at the toilet hole. Nice to see another Infection player.

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Survivor: Peeks into hole(The map with the circular hole that was large, not the maps with the tiny square hole in the middle.)“Where is he?!”
Alpha Infected: “Boom! Headshot” Sniper kill.

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Ha… yeah. We recently wanted to recreate a custom game from reach as well… I guess we were lucky in that we tried to create the gametype first and the map second.

Here’s to hoping that they have the power and will to make it better.