Halo 4 is a great game but it is missing many things that I hoped for would be in the game. But since it is not in Halo 4 and a new Halo game is announced for 2014 I want to start a discussion about things that should be in this new Halo game by simply making one or two lists of things that I personaly would love to see in the next game. I hope that someone at 343Industries will notice this.
First of all comes a list of things for the next Halo game that should be brought back. Things that were in previous Halo games but not in Halo 4. This list will be bit long. Sorry for that.
- Duel Wielding. What is more badass than using two guns at the same time? Duel wielding in Halo 2 and 3 gave the gameplay an interesting aspect of weapon useage both in the campagn and in Multiplayer.
-Of course there should be weapons in the game that fits well for duelwielding like the good old SMGs and the Plasmarifles from previous games. the Magnum and the plasma pistol. But don’t let the Boltshot be able to duel wield. This gun is stron enough.
- Hornet/Falcon. The Falcon in Reach was a good teambase air vehicle that would be very usefull in Halo 5 Big Team Battles. Or the Hornet as a counterpart of the banshee.
-Firefight. Everyone wants firefight back. Spartan Ops is great and should also be in the new Halo game but fighting endless waves of enemies was very funnt to do in ODST and Reach. Please bring it back to the new Halo game with all enemy types in the game.
-The Flood. This enemy always was a cool part in Halo CE ,2 and 3. Fighting a completly different kind of enemies than the Covenant was gave those games a special gameplay experience. Fighting against the Flood was always a bit different than fighting the Covenant and would also probably be completly different than fighting Prometheans.
- Other Enemy Types like the Skirmisher from Reach. That kind of a jackel was something new in the franchise that was refreshing Jackal as an enemy type
-Gametypes like Invasion from Reach should definitive come back. With the next gen console there could be many great battles online.
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Being able to play as Elites in Multiplayer and Firefight and costumize your Elite too.
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The Players Leveling system from Reach. This ranking system where you can rank up in millitary ranks from Privat to sergant to Captain up to Genereal and so on in Halo Reach surely was not perfect. It lacked a little bit of understanding about how a player can get as much cR points as possible from a game when you played Firefight , the Campaign or Multiplayer ,BUT it had something that mostly only RPG games have. This addicting leveling up feeling.
I remember that i have played hundreds of hours in the Halo Reach Campagne for reaching Commander just for unlocking a helmet that looked badass. The countless hours that I spend both online and offline in this game is unimaginable. Collecting cR points and ranking up never became really boring thanks to the gameplay and the big varity of options a player had to gain those points. And the ranking should last a much longer time than Halo 4 did. Reachin SR130 was really easy in my opinion and way to fast to accomplish.
- (This one is really just my wish) Bring back cR points in a more logical, RPG-game-like points system. " Buying" your Armour pieces had a more rewarding feeling when you finaly put your new armour on your Spartan than it had in Halo 4 or in Halo 3. But Players should have two options to unlock new armour pieces before they can “buy” it. Either they reach a certain rank in the game or the finish a challenge specialy made for the armour pieces.
-Badass armour pieces. Halo 4 has some really cool looking armour pieces but did not match the badass levels of the Halo Reach armour pieces. They Don’t look that much different in Reach than they look like in Halo 4 but the players always had options for giving his/her Spartan cool details like a very big knive on a shoulder armour piece or some grenades on your chest or a little camera on the helmet.
That’s everthing that in my opionion should be brought back into the Halo Franchise.
But bringing only old game and gameplay elements back would be kind of boring so I have some new Ideas for the next Halo Game that could be considered being in the games. This time the list will be shorter. (except for the first and seconde one…)
-Mixing Firefight with Multiplayer an Multiplyer gamemodes. A concept Idea for this is that classic teams ( Red vs. Blue) have to fullfill an objective normaly , but instead of fighting against the enemy team , they have to fight against bot enemies. For example Capture the Flag. Main objective is to get the enemy flag from the enemy and bring it back to the own base faster than the other team do. this happens parallell
-A silenced Weapon only for Campaign and Spartan Ops. This weapon could be a strong SMG like the SMG from Halo 3 ODST or it could be a completly new weapon. It could be used for playing more stealthier in certain Campaign missions or in Spartan Ops missions and increase the options in the gameplay a player can have in. But keep it out of multiplayer. This gun would be unessecary in there.
-A huge amount of mini challenges that make it possible to rank up fast your ranks
-An editor that gives us the options for customizing each individuel armour piece. Like putting some bullets on them, a big knive on the shoulder , etc.
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An Emblem Editor. Making our own personel emblems would be cool.
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Remove the Budget from Forge or increase the amount of Money for it.
-Just an cosmetic extra. Being able to buy different Knives for your Spartan that shows different Assassinations depending on which knife you have.
- More generel Cosmetic options for costimazing your own Spartan as much as you want.
That is everything that comes in my mind that could be considered in the new Halo Game. Please don’t forget that those few Ideas are just an Idea of a single person. The main Idea of this Forum Post is not to bring MY personel Ideas and wishes into the new Halo Game for 2014 but for starting discussions that are meant to give the Developers of this game Ideas and tipps already now of what they should do for making this game as awesome and as Halo Like as possilbe. And since it is announces at E3 on Juny the 10th 2013 they have plenty of time to see our ideas and work with those ideas. Feel free to write your own ideas in this Post or make your own posts.
The more people help 343Industries to go the right way with Halo desto better for them and especially for us! 
Thank you for your Attention.