I saw a post that resonated with me, completely accurate and thorough. This guy should have a job, or at least be a consult… he gets it. That said here’s the post:
This game has a few good things going for it.
-It’s beautiful Visual and Sound wise.
-The campaign is great for the most part.
-Has the potential to be the greatest Halo. maybe.
Now everything that needs to be fixed.
Map glitches, 343i has been pretty good so far for patching glitches such as the complex glitch.
Getting put in games half way over. It is one of the most annoying things in the game.
Can’t get rid of the lobby music (not a big deal but annoying) in HR and H3 you could start a search in MM and then hit B in the countdown to end the lobby music.
The maps are pretty Yoink! unless you are playing big team. Exile, Longbow, Meltdown, and Ragnarok are great maps for dominion and Big Team Slayer. Haven is an ok 4v4 map not the best but ok. Every other map is terrible for almost everything except vortex which is only good for dominion since they made it just for dominion.
Not unzooming when you get shot is by far the worst game breaking thing they could have put in the game. The DMR is broken with this feature I know I maxed out the DMR commendation by the second day of release which is over 1000 kills with it.
Custom Game type options suck worse than Halo 1 settings just saying.
There is no 1 flag for you to make fun customs out of, you can’t change infected weapons so you can’t make that custom game where the zombie snipes and shoots rockets at the humans who drive around this giant ring.
At least CoD stays the same for the most part every year, How do we lose settings every year. Halo got hit by the recession hard.
Theater mode is back to 1 person again. In Halo Reach Bungie said publicly that the theater mode was reduced to 1 person at a time so you could rewind campaign films in the theater. (which is dumb) But now we are reduced to 1 person to even go into theater and you can’t even watch campaign or Spartan Ops.
This game needs an IN GAME SKILL BASED RANKING SYSTEM.
SR-130 is so stupid it’s beyond belief. Can’t change you’re last spec. and 130 is a terrible number to end on.
Forge is worse in a lot of ways, Just visit any Halo 4 Forge Forum and look at how pissed off every forger is. Simple things forge needs Color palettes/non grey Yoink!, precision forging, Flat terrains stop giving up super bumpy or super small areas for us to forge off of. Give us flat different environments we will do the rest. Look what the community did we foundry when it was released.
Waypoint is kind of a useless website for Halo 4.
FIX FILE BROWSING
The Playlist suck
-Slayer Pro is the most boring game type ever, even the MLG community hate that stripped playlist.
-No BigTeamObjective
-Removed Team Snipers for FFA Throwback that isn’t a throwback to any game.
-FFA Throwback is Oddball which I assume is ok haven’t played it yet, and the most broken Hill game in the world. In every other Halo ever, the hill moved on a timer not a point score, and Every person in the Hill got time not just the person who controls the Hill by Himself.
-Regicide is dumb because all you have to do is stay in 2nd until the end and hunt the King. Make it Team Regicide where the best player on each team is a king and killing the other teams King gives a massive point increase and same for defending the King.
-No Team Doubles, probably because 343i can’t make 4v4 maps. Try to remake pit and other great classics (perfect Remakes not blackout to lockout remakes) then give them out as a special gift for not saying F Halo never touching this Franchise again.
-Swat is one of the Best right now, just needs good maps.
-Fix Griffball and make it a playlist right now.
The UI is so so so so so bad. It looks nice but functions like an ink less pen. It’s not really good for anything other than looking at.
At Halo 4’s current state it feels more like a beta, a $60+ beta with a finished game no where in sight.
Take all of that away I still Love Halo that’s why the community and myself are so passionate about this game. I still play it because I love Halo. Already beat solo Legendary and played about 70 hours of Multiplayer.
Stop competing with CoD, Learn from them.
They have a Game that their fans Love and they just polish it up every year and add new features (minus MW3) and even that game had a crazy huge player base.
At least CoD knows what game it is, Halo is so confused as to what it wants to be.
It’s so frustrating because I and many other players can feel the traditional Halo under this broken unfinished game.
PLEASE LISTEN TO THE COMMUNITY AND THEN REACT BY USING OUR ADVICE NOT JUST POSTING THAT YOU ARE LISTENING.