343, If you guys are not keen on making a Halo Wars 2, why not work on an enhanced remake of Halo Wars? Similar to the idea behind Combat Evolved Anniversary. Wouldn’t take as much work as an all new title. -Yoink!- up the graphics, add new maps. Perhaps add some new leaders and units. If you wanted to make us all really happy, how about some new teams - flood and prometheans (Would hard to balance check all this, but go for it!) A new campaign that includes a bit of every team. Maybe you could choose from a few base layouts when building a new base, 9 building plots and no turrets or three building plots and a mega turret for turtling.
Just an idea. Would be wise to get at least some of the Ensembles team on it though, no offence. But don’t try and change too much. One thing that bothers me in Halo Wars is trying to move units past each other, they get all confused and stuck… but this is also used as an advantage to block off opponents so be careful how you fix this.
Anybody got any other ideas? What leaders and teams would you want to see? What advantages would each have? How should they play - Like the covenants leader power or the UNSCs menu… or something new altogether? What units and buildings would they have?
Few ideas from me…
New UNSC leaders could be MC himself and/or Ghost in the prototype suit. Maybe both these leaders could be played on the field like the covenant leaders. Ghost could boost into things and chief could just be his usual all out hero.
Flood leader - gravemind. Spores could infect infantry like spartans jack vehicles… but this make prometheans a good counter. Floods vehicles, turrets and air would need to be organic but im not wrong in thinking some of these are already programed into the game 
> 343, If you guys are not keen on making a Halo Wars 2, why not work on an enhanced remake of Halo Wars? Similar to the idea behind Combat Evolved Anniversary. Wouldn’t take as much work as an all new title. -Yoink!- up the graphics, add new maps. Perhaps add some new leaders and units. If you wanted to make us all really happy, how about some new teams - flood and prometheans (Would hard to balance check all this, but go for it!) A new campaign that includes a bit of every team. Maybe you could choose from a few base layouts when building a new base, 9 building plots and no turrets or three building plots and a mega turret for turtling.
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> Just an idea. Would be wise to get at least some of the Ensembles team on it though, no offence. But don’t try and change too much. One thing that bothers me in Halo Wars is trying to move units past each other, they get all confused and stuck… but this is also used as an advantage to block off opponents so be careful how you fix this.
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> Anybody got any other ideas? What leaders and teams would you want to see? What advantages would each have? How should they play - Like the covenants leader power or the UNSCs menu… or something new altogether? What units and buildings would they have?
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> Few ideas from me…
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> New UNSC leaders could be MC himself and/or Ghost in the prototype suit. Maybe both these leaders could be played on the field like the covenant leaders. Ghost could boost into things and chief could just be his usual all out hero.
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> Flood leader - gravemind. Spores could infect infantry like spartans jack vehicles… but this make prometheans a good counter. Floods vehicles, turrets and air would need to be organic but im not wrong in thinking some of these are already programed into the game
This is the kind of post that just shows how out of touch and clueless people are about game developing in general. First of there is no more Ensemble studios. They’ve moved on to other companies and the remnants are now Robot. You say you want an enhanced version yet want to add in new leaders and, if i’m reading you poorly worded post correctly, a new race with the Gravemind as a leader. Yeah you may as well make a whole new game if you’re going to add that much in. All that needs to be done is fix the bugs, tweak numbers so certain units like Cobras and Cyclops and EHG aren’t useless and put it all in a patch to download.
I am aware of Ensembles status. I meant get some of the individuals from the old company on the team. But to be honest I don’t keep up with the news on every games company… you got me.
I’m not saying all these ideas need adding in, It was a quick brainstorm, calm down. I’m not applying for a job here. The flood is already in the game so those units and bases may just need a little tweaking to be usable as a playable team. Would freshen it up.
A patch won’t pay. They may not want to make a Wars 2. So enhancing the graphics and adding a little content (Fixing some balance and bugs) could be enough to excuse it as a re-release That may generate profit and keep the Wars fans happy.
You have nothing positive to contribute?
The idea of a patch is a little more complex than you might think. We don’t know what game engine/programming language Halo Wars is written in, and it’d take a team of competent dedicated people quite some time to actually write a simple “patch”. As in, tweaking and modification. What you are asking for is more like a brand new game. We don’t even have access to whatever god-awful janitor’s closet the Halo Wars servers were shunted in to, so have fun trying to get through Microsoft/343i PR with a fan-made patch.
Sorry to be negative, but that’s just how things are. You need to understand the complexity of making a game, and the fact that that there are really only about 6,000 or so people that have touched this game since 2010.
The engine is “Bang!”
It was an engine developed by Ensemble Studios so unfortunately there are few people with experience.
I like the idea’s of adding new leaders to play as, I had a few good ideas my self if you go check out my forum post there is a big list of idea’s 
as for the idea of a remastered version I think it would be more simple to just make a new game. They really just new to change the way an RTS like this is played with what console gaming has become I’m sure they could come up with something that would bring gamers from all genres to Halo Wars. Don’t listen to the negative things of what people say there just grumpy because they can’t get a new halo wars, keep your hopes up things like this start with a dream.