As we all know 343i has taken over from Bungie and is currently working on the Halo 4 video game. 343i needs to get the multiplayer aspects of this game right. This is a long thread I know but bear with me on this. I will first start off with the ranking system. In Halo 2 and Halo 3 the ranking system was based on your skill and performance, which overall agreed with the community, and the armor progressions and unlocks in Halo 3 were not just based on your rank. However, in Halo Reach, the ranking system was drastically changed and was just based on how many hours you have logged into the game. The armor progression was also based on that, no achievements(with exception of CBQ and Security) to unlock your armor. In this case, to rank up and get new armor everyone spent their time in matchmaking. This took away time for well built forge maps and fun custom games. Now a days when I join a custom game it’s a 5 year-old running it with his “forge map” if you could even call it that. Back in Halo 3, without the distraction of ranks, the community blossomed through custom, campaign, and forge games. Now a good portion of that community has moved on due to Bungie’s mistakes.
Armor Abilities. Yes I’m sure those of you reading this either love them or wish for them to get removed, but let’s face fact here. Armor Abilities would have been out to the community for 2 years by the time Halo 4 releases. So, I assume anyways, they are not just going to remove them. There are several possibilities.
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They alter them, dumb them down so they are just something extra in gameplay, not something you relay on.
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They change the selection for armor abilities, exclude the ones from Reach and add in new ones.
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They keep them as they are.
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They keep them as they are, but instead of Armor Abilities, they are more like equipment.
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They remove them completely and start fresh.
These are just some examples of many.
Playlists. I don’t know about you, but I want some changes from Reach. First off, Infection or Living Dead, they need to be changed.
I don’t want my zombies to be able to charge at me, or want the humans to swiftly run off due to our incapability to work as a team. I think we should return the Halo 3 type of infection but with some upgrades. Feel free to post your opinion on this below.
Crazy Playlists. They aren’t so much as action sack, but just fun games. They could actually be just games themselves, like Halo Ball is. Action Sack has these mixed in with regular combat games. So why not just make a Playlist of community games? I mean grif ball has its own.
Thanks for reading, all i have for now.