People need an incentive to play and be extremely competitive - Ranks.
People need to play whatever they want, whenever they want without being forced to play the same playlists offered in matchmaking and without needing to go through the hassle of finding people to make customs with - Custom Games Browser.
THIS^ THIS right here is Halo’s salvation. Everything else will fall right into place and I guarantee Halo will be at the top of its game if this is done. Halo Reach under the altered settings and things the TU brought plays just like and even better than “classic” Halo in many occasions. Halo 3 was sluggish, bottom line. Reach with faster movement speed and tighter/zero bloom plays way better than Halo 3 but what’s the point in being competitive if you can’t play similar skills and have a goal in a ranking system? What’s the point in sandbagging and having fun if it takes 7 years to find people to add to your buddy list, to gather people on at the same time just to play custom games?
> XBL Public (Custom Games Browser that was announced prior to Halo 3’s release) was supposed to come out but that was scrapped. Mistake. (You guys seriously need to do research and read that link with XBL Public. This has been a huge issue since Halo 3 was released that not many people know about…)
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> Instead of refining the 1-50 ranking system, they scrapped it and made the Arena. Mistake.
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> Instead of speeding the game up and making consistent or faster kill times, they made the movement more sluggish as Halo progressed and made it longer to kill people not only by it requiring more skills to kill, but giving the players more options to run away from fights. Mistake.
I can go on and on with these mistakes, but the bottom line is this: –>1-50 Ranks (refined) and Searchable Custom Games are what will bring Halo above and beyond what it’s ever been.
> I agree they need to bring back something like a highest skill system. And yes, a custom game search option would be good.
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> However Halo 3 was not sluggish and bottom line, and the fact that kills require skill is exactly what makes Halo Halo and not CoD.
Halo 3 was the most sluggish Halo of them all, what are you talking about lol
I honestly think they should have a ranking system like H2 or H3, and if the credit system returns then that is simply for buying stuff. The problem with ranking is that people cheat for it, so it would be combined with an honor system.
Honor system would be simple. You’d have a second rank or a prefix to your military rank. So for instance; Heroic General, Guilty Brigadier and so on. The military rank being your main 1-50 level and the prefix reflecting your honor level. Having a higher honor level would allow you access to certain armors, and perhaps even certain playlists. I for one would love a playlist where I know everyone else will play fairly and seriously.
Honor levels could be taken from a variety of types of data. Betrayals, quits, saving teammates, AFKs and anything else related. If you play fairly your honor level will go up, you start griefing or anything like that then it goes down.
