Halo 5 Multiplayer & Firefight - The RZI Guy

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Halo 5 Multiplayer & Firefight - What it Needs
Made by The RZI Guy

All of these are the changes I made to the list, if you have any other suggestions, and if I like them, I will update it and give you credit for your awesome ideas. So if you like it and even if you don’t like it, or want a few changes, please give me your thoughts so we can possibly make Halo 5 the best it can be. One person does not make a game, one Company does not make a game, it is a collaberation of many great minds who work out there thoughts and visions for something and make it into reality.

[Thanks to Pureeey for some of his ideas, and corrections for what Halo 5 Multiplayer should be.]

Thel’ Vadamee Returns

Not even a Multiplayer idea, but please bring Thel’ Vadam The Arbiter back in Halo 5’s Campaign and give him a role instead of being there for “just” the love of the fans! Halo: Escalation will be coming out in 1 month and that might be there way of bringing Arby into Halo 5. Lets hope so.

Halo 2 Anniversary

I think that after they make and release Halo 5 next year, they should make a Campaign DLC add on. Think about it, Halo 5 is coming out 10 years after Halo 2, so what if 343 actually made a Halo 2 Anniversary Campaign DLC for Halo 5, there would no multiplayer like they did with Halo: Anniversary, just a Full HD remake Halo 2’s Campaign, this will bring Hundreds of Thousands of Halo Players back to Halo 5 to relive the glory days of Halo 2.

Multiplayer Gameplay

Halo 5 on the Xbox One has both Social and Ranked Playlists make a return with Custom Loadouts being in the Social Playlist. Both Custom Loadouts, like Halo 4 but “without armor abilities or perks” and also have Equipment being scattered around the map return. Preset Loadouts like with Halo: Reach but without armor abilities and instead having Equipment scattered across the map will also be in Halo 5. The Social Playlist will have Sprint and it would be a default ability like in Halo 4. Some of the Equipment are the old equipment from Halo 3, while some of them are old Armor Abilities that have been turned into an Equipment you pick up, instead of starting with it like an Armor Ability. I’ll explain it later.

In the Ranked Playlist, it will have a Halo 3-like set up with everyone spawning with the same Primary, secondary, grenade type and having Equipment scattered across the Map. Sprint “will not” be in the Ranked Playlist. Satisfying both players that like or hate Sprint. Both Social and Ranked will have Duel Wielding. Resupply becomes avaliable to everyone in both the Ranked and Social Playlists like it should have been in Halo 4.

[Having resupply become a perk in Halo 4 and not being avaliable to everyone like its always been from Halo CE to Reach is rediculous.]

[I would like to have Sprint, Evade and a new addition Slide from Destiny and Cod: Ghosts into Halo 5, but I don’t know how to balance it out, or make it work out. I would like to have it all in one gametype somehow so if anyone has any idea of how to make it work, please comment and of course I will give you credit for this idea and any other idea you may have.]

In Halo 4, When you are scoped in and someone shoots at you, you could still shoot at them while scoped. I loved that addition in Halo 4 as it would get annoying in other Halo games to have keep getting in and out of scope. That will also return. Players can join in midgame, but only in the first few minutes of the Game. Hitmarkers returns, but No Grenade Indicators.

Weapon Skins will return in the few Playlists in Social that have Custom Loadouts, and Firefight
(343 said they have no plans for Spartan Ops Season 2 so there will be no Spartan Ops in Halo 5). Another idea is that maybe we could choose different designs for each weapon. Like being able to choose between the Halo: Reach and Halo 4 Assault Rifle designs or the Halo 3 and Halo 4 Battle Rifle. There would be no difference in gameplay other than having a different layout of the weapon and also having a Weapon Skin along with whichever weapon design you choose, giving the player a ton of varietiy and customization.

[Thanks to Wangtim3 for the idea of different weapon models, or at least that’s where I got the idea.]

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Halo 5 Equipment

Like I said earlier, Halo 3 Equipment returns but some of them are some of the old armor abilities from Reach and Halo 4. The Armor Abilities that are returning are no longer Armor Abilities but are now as Equipment like Halo 3 had it. The Bubble Shield, Jet Pack, Active Camoflage, Radar Jammer, Regeneration Field, Thruster Pack, Flare and Power Drain all return. The Regeneration Field, Bubble Shield, Power Drain, Active Camo, Radar Jammer, and Flair will be like in Halo 3, it will only be used once. The Jet Pack can be used only for a limited time before it breaks, it will not break if you dont use it. the Thruster Pack will be usable until the player dies in which another player can pick it up.

Custom Game Matchmaking

Halo 5 could have a feature that lets you choose what map and what gametype you want to play and searches other players that want the same map and gametype. There would be two playlists for this.
• 1) it would only be default Maps and default Gametypes giving you XP for playing it as it normally would.
• 2) it would be for Custom Made Maps and Gametypes and you would get no XP as it would be for players that want to have Custom Games and want to find other players to play those custom games as it can be hard to find enough people to play Custom Games. Plus there would be people that purposly try to rig the map so they win, so again, you would not get any XP so there wouldn’t be a reason to cheat or rig the map. This would help solve both finding people for your custom games and others players that try to cheat.

Destructible Environments

Halo 5 Multiplayer should also have destructible Environments, wall panals can fall of, certain man cannons can be destroyed. No buildings can be destroyed in multiplayer. Halo 5 should feature some player-triggered environmental hazards like floors that can be electricized like in Vertigo in Halo 4, another good example is High Ground from Halo 3. Another thing is that in the Halo 4 Campaign level Infinity, when driving the Mantis, you could destroy some bridges above the player. Perhapes something similar could be seen in Halo 5 Multiplayer.

Ist Person Driving

When driving a vehicle, air or ground, by pressing the thumbstick you can switch between 1st Person or 3rd Person when Driving a vehicle like in Battlefield 3. Creating a whole new driving experience in Halo. The same can be done when holding the Flamethrower or any Covenant or UNSC Turret, by pressing the thumbstick, you can switch between 1st and 3rd Person.

Custom Emblems

Like in Cod: Black Ops, you should be able to create and customize your own emblem. Now of course, there will be people who will make sexual pictures or anything else that is innapropriate, so while you can make your own emblem, anyone who makes an innapropriate emblem in Halo 5 will lose there ability to do so and will go back to Halo’s original way of making a Halo emblem. You can choose to have the classic way of making an emblem if you choose to do so.

Duel Weilding Returns

Duel Wielding returns better than Ever! You can sprint when duel wielding without dropping your weapons.

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Armor Customization

In Halo 5, I would like to transfer my Halo 4 armor configuration into Halo 5. Like how you could transfer your Mass Effect Character from Mass Effect to Mass Effect 2 and 2 to 3. The Armor configuration you have in Halo 4 would transfer over and only that armor set would transfer, no other armor set would transfer over so you have to choose wisely as to what armor that you liked in Halo 4 to bring over to Halo 5. Although this idea of transfering you’re armor to Halo 5 is probably just me, which I understand if some people don’t like the idea.

To unlock armor in Halo 5 you should have to do Vidmasters Achievements which I think need to return and also make more Vidmaster Challanges than Bungie did with Halo 3 and ODST, playing the Campaign Solo on Legendary, finding Skulls and Terminals in the Campaign and any other Campaign Achievements. Now some armor could be unlocked in Multiplayer, but they need to take time and real effort to try to unlock them. In Halo 4 it was too easy, in Halo 5, it needs to have a challange trying to get the Armor you want, so you actually have a reason to play multiplayer. Also many of the old Armor from Halo 3 and Halo: Reach that were forgotten in Halo 4 needs to make a return

These Armor Confingurations need to return.

Halo 3 Armor Returning

Mark VI
Mark V
EVA (Halo 3 Design)
CQB
EOD
Hayabusa [Definetly!]
ODST Helmet (Halo 3 Design)
Marathon Helmet
Rogue Helmet

Halo: Reach Armor Returning

Recon
CQC
Hazop
Operator
Scout (Reach Design)
Commando
JFO
Grenadier
Sniper Sholders
Jump Jet

Halo 4 Armor Returning

Recruit
Warrior
Air Assault
Soldier
Aviator
Defender
EVA (Halo 4 Design)
War Master
Orbital
EOD (Halo 4 Design)
Pathfinder
Rogue
C.I.O
Venator
Raider
Scanner
Strider
Mark V (Halo 4 Design)
ODST (Halo 4 Design)
Prefect
Ricochet
Vanguard

All Halo 4 Forearms, legs and all Visor Colors.

Keep in mind, I think they should keep multiple designs for some of these Armor configurations like Scout, Mark V, ODST, EOD, EVA etc to satisfy players that like one one armor design from one game over another [Example me prefering the Halo 4 Scout Helmet over the Reach Scout Helmet]

Elites Epic Return

Elites Return in Halo 5 Multiplayer with Customizable Armor and are Playable with Spartans in Team Games like in Halo 3 with no difference except size, so playing as an Elite is your own choice and your own risk. You can also choose to play as a Spartan or an Elite at the Beginning of the Game, like choosing a side in Star Wars Battlefront, instead of having to switch between Spartans and Elites before the Game like in Halo 3, you can choose before you first spawn.

When the Elites are teaming with Spartans like in Halo 3, the Elites start off with the same weapon as then, except for a few gametypes in which they can start with a Storm Rifle, Plasma Rifle, Covenant Carbine etc. I also want to have the Plasma Repeater from Halo: Reach to return, but it is now a Covenant LMG.

When the Elites get the Thruster Pack, they get the Evade Ability instead, but both would have to be balanced equally with the same distance and recharge time. Elites also have the default ability to Sprint if they are in the Social Playlist but will not be able to sprint in the Ranked Playlist as there will be no sprint in the Ranked Playlist. Elites are in both Ranked and Social Playlists. Also an Elite Playlist would be a choice in the Social Playlist Gametypes for everyone who wants to play as an Elite.

Medals

Weapon spree medals were given a significant overhaul in Halo: Reach. While in previous games they were only awarded for consecutive kills with the same weapon, in Halo: Reach, the player needed to only accumulate the number of kills without dying. Halo: Reach had the best Medal System in any Halo Game. Halo 5 needs to have another overhaul bigger than that. Having" all" the Gameplay Medals in Halo: Reach and all the new objective and other new medals that were added in Halo 4. No stupid medals like “Generic Kill” from Halo 4.

(New Medals)

Vengence - kill the opponent who just ended your killing spree

Also please tell me what new medals you would like to see in Halo 5 Multiplayer.

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These Multiplayer Gametypes should make a return in Halo 5

  1. Dominion - Halo 4
  2. Extraction - Halo 4
  3. Headhunter - Halo: Reach
  4. Infection and Flood - Halo 3 & 4
  5. Invasion/Invasion Slayer - Halo: Reach
  6. Race - Halo: Reach
  7. Regicide - Halo 4
  8. Stockpile - Halo: Reach
  9. Conquest - Battlefield
  10. Gun Game - Halo 4 Mod
  11. Hostage Rescue - Halo 4 Mod
  12. Space Battle - Battlefront II
  13. Search and Destroy - CoD
  14. King of the Hill
  15. Assault
  16. Capture the Flag/One Flag CTF
  17. Elite Slayer
  18. Griffball
  19. Generater Defense
  20. Juggernaut
  21. King of the Hill
  22. Oddball
  23. Silenced Slayer
  24. SWAT
  25. Team Snipers
  26. Territory
  27. VIP

Cature the Flag

Capture the Flag obviously returns in Halo 5. you still hold a pistol when carrying the flag like in Halo 4, but now returns the ability to drop the flag whenever you want like all Halo games before Halo 4. In a few varients of CTF, you cannot drop the flag, for those that like that change in Halo 4. You can have those settings in custom gametypes as well.

Multiplayer Space Battles

Much like Star Wars: Battlefront II, Halo 5 should have Space battles. Each team have 4 seperate hangers, 2 players in each of them. It will be 8v8, each team spawns in a hanger, gets into a Pelican, Broadsword etc and has to destroy parts of the enemy ship, and kill other players on the other team.

It can be UNSC vs. Covenant Space Battle, Red vs. Blue Spartans Space Battles with two UNSC Frigate Ships and/or it could be Red vs. Blue Elites Space Battles with two Covenant Ships. Capture the Flag and Assault would also be available in Space Battles. Also have some other gametypes like trying to download data from the enemy teams ship and returning it to your ship, or have a Hostage Rescue gametype. When playing CTF you would have to take the flag in a Pelican and have someone drive you back to you’re ship, promoting more teamwork in CTF.

Silenced Slayer

Silenced Slayer is regular Team Slayer where every weapon has a silencer attached to it. Except Rocket Launcher, Spartan Laser, Rail Gun and Sticky Detonator. No Covenant Weapons. Everyone Spawns with a Silenced SMG and No duel Wielding in this gametype.

True Skill Ranking System

Halo 3’s True Skill ranking system for its matchmaking on a per-playlist basis. A linear measure of a player’s experience with the matchmade portion of the game and each particular playlist is also tracked (denoted as EXP), but make it as or even more difficult than it was in Halo 2 and 3.

Active Roster Returns to show you who is online, what they are doing and join them if avaliable

Firefight

Firefight would return in Halo 5 like its always been, with no major difference. You could fight against the Covenant like before, but you could finally fight the Flood in firefight and now you could also fight against the Promeatheans and even the Innsurectionists from the Halo Novels. If you want, you can play as an Elite and fight against another Spartan like in Halo: Reach’s Firefight. You could also play as any other Covenant, Flood or Promeathean in Firefight against Spartans. Kind of like Horde Mode from Gears of War. So if you want to play as a Grunt or Jackel, you can finally do that. If you want to play as a Covenant against a Spartan, but don’t have anyone to play with or don’t have Xbox Live, the Spartans would also be an AI to play against making it easy or hard to fight, choosing the difficulty settings you want for it. You can also Forge your own map and play a Firefight on it, but only in custom games but it could make it into firefight matchmaking if 343 approves it.

Space Firefight

In Halo 5, they should bring back Firefight, but bring it back with a bang. Bring back Firefight on the ground and in Space. You would start in a hanger and would be able to choose if you want to fly a Pelican, Longsword, Broadsword or any other UNSC Flying Vehicle in Space Firefight to fight against the Covenant, “or” you could play as a Covenant and you could fly in a Phantom, Seraph, Space Banshee from Reach or any other Covenant Flying Vehicle against the UNSC.

in Halo 4, storyline wise, Multiplayer is a simulation aboard the UNSC Infinity, Firefight and Space Firefight would also be a simulation aboard the Infinity to show other players how long the Player could last against the Covenant, Promeatheans or the Flood etc

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Halo 5 Multiplayer Map Packs

Halo 5 should have 4 or even 5 Map Packs. Each Map Pack has 3 New maps, 1 Map Remake from a past Halo Game and 1 brand New Firefight Map.

Halo 5 should have 5 Forge Worlds

  1. Forge World (Bigger) - Reach
  2. Impact (Bigger) - Halo 4
  3. A Lava filled Forge World
  4. A Snowy Forge World
  5. A Desert Forge World
    And other Huge Maps for Forge. Possibly twice or even 3 times as big as Forge world.

Please watch these 2 videos

Halo 5’s Forge needs this! Civilian Vehicles and all.

Out of all the Multiplayer Maps, I want

  1. Waterworks from Halo 2
  2. Breakneck from Halo 2 and Halo: Reach/Anniversary
  3. Coagulation from Halo 2
  4. Last Resort from Halo 3
  • All to return sometime in Halo 5

Halo 5 Weapons

U.N.S.C.

Assault Rifle
Battle Rifle
Designated Marksman Rifle [DMR]
SMG (Duel Wield)
Magnum (Duel Wield)
Shotgun
Rocket Launcher
Sniper Rifle (Halo: Reach Updated Design)
Sparan Laser
Railgun
SAW
Sticky Detonator
Flamethrower
Machine Gun Turret
Frag Grenade

Covenant

Storm Rifle
Covenant Carbine
Plasma Rifle (Duel Wield)
Plasma Repeater (New Covenant LMG)
Plasma Pistol (Duel Wield)
Brute Plasma Rifle (Duel Wield)
Brute Spiker (Duel Wield)
Brute Shot
Gravity Hammer
Energy Sword
Needler
Concussion Rifle
Beam Rifle
Fuel Rod Cannon
Plasma Turret
Plasma Grenade
Fire Grenade (from Halo 3)

Forerunner / Promethean

Light Rifle
Suppressor
Bolt Shot
Scattershot
Binary Rifle
Incineration Cannon
Sentinel Beam (finally returns)
Pulse Grenade

New Forerunner SMG, other new Forerunner Weapons and a new Promethean Turret

Vehicles

U.N.S.C

Warthog (Default, Guass & Rocket)
Troop Transport Warthog
Mongoose
Falcon (Modified Version)
Scorpion Tank
Mantis (Weaker Version)
Pelican Dropship
Broadsword

Covenant

Ghost
Banshee
Spectre (Returns)
Wraith
Chopper (Returns)
Scarab (Certain Gametype)
Seraph
Phantom Dropship
Lich

Thanks for reading and if any member 343 Industries saw and read all this, please take it all into consideration.

Now some people may think that having all this may be impossible, but we can’t really say that yet. Halo 5 will be on a brand new Engine, at 60 frames per second, and a dedicated servers. Now Thanks to everyone for that has taken the time to read all of this, and please leave a comment about what you want in Halo 5, and if I like it, I will update my list and of course give you credit for you’re ideas. also comment on what you thought about all of this, rather it be positive or negative. Together we can possibly change Halo 5 to be the best Halo it can possibly be. Thank you for your time, you guys are awesome!