Just saying, morale is already at an all-time low for Halo fans and this whole side of the forums just seems to be a venting area. Just for 343i to cast away with the fans ideas. Without a shadow of a doubt none of these things will be implemented into Halo 5.
What has 343i said about these forums, at least some sort of update should be implemented. Without some sense of an update this forum is just as useless everyone talking out their issues with their friends.
So if there has been any news can someone please share it with me because I’ve just gotten back on Halo 4 after months and yeah its fun, very few video games aren’t but it just doesn’t seem right. Halo 4’s story was just near useless and would of been far better told coming from a book about Cortana going Insane and MC not being able to do anything about it rather than trying to focus a game around something like that in the middle of a crisis.
My Tips for 343i aka Big Rant Incoming.
- Elites are battle hardened combatants capable of taking on Spartan II’s the most powerful solider we humans have ever made, make them seem like an actually threat. Same thing for the Knights, when i expected to fight the Knights i thought they would be like fighting extremely flexible hunters. IF any AI needed to ever be a cheating AI it was the Prometehans because they are the pinnacle of the Forerunner soldier and yet MC kills them by the dozen.
( We know you love Spartans 343i but not single Spartan was shown dying in all of Halo 4. We hear about Castle and are left to assume about others, but none of those people we cared for at all.)
- Have only one goal. Each halo has had 1 goal, at different points.
(Which do you think was the goal of Halo 4, to stop Didact or get save Cortana. It was to stop Didact, the Cortana dying was therefor random tension and the game could of had the same out come without her dying.)
- Make the threat intelligent. In Halo 4 didact never did a single intelligent thing.
He could of let the Covenant in at any point to free him, if they needed a human in anyway he would of informed them, he clearly had much influence on things outside of Requiem.
apon taking control of the Knights(which is a major flaw when you think about it, all he had to do was kill MC right there. He held him in the air, if 343 Guilty Spark could easily know about MC’s armor with scanning it so could Didact after watching MC battle for hours. He would of already known that Cortana was powerful and smart enough to run Forerunner systems and killed him there ending any type of hostility towards him.
He destroyed a part of Requiem for no reason, doing more bad than good.
After Seeing MC was alive, he didn’t alert Covenant Forces of his location or kill him on his own by using the Cryptum as a mallet.
Not destroying all the weapons on the Infinity after disabling the ship and noticing that the guns where coming back on but not after he knew that MC was turning the tide because he ordered the Knights to hold him off.
Not destroying the Infinity because all he needed was the location of Earth and he could of easily gotten the info from an unprepared home fleet rather than the most powerful ship we have every made with a crew of 17,00 of the UNSC’s best personal.
Not shielding the particle beam bases or not telling more Covenant ships than 1 to hold the area.
When the Infinity isn’t doing anything as Del Rio questions MC move in all Covenant Ships for attack. The Ship had no more useless but to warn Earth of its oncoming doom. Sending all of Jul’s Ships to attack and Didact using his own ship The Mantle’s Approach to assist the Covenant vessels.
Not getting the Mantle’s Approach Right after being defeated by the Infinity.
Not using every possible free Promethean to Defend the Commcs towers who power up your shields. Nothing good comes out from not sending Covenant Cruisers to guard those two towers along with -Yoink- tons of Prometheans and any Spec Ops available, really, what else would the spec ops elites be doing at the moment. Such as the Invisible Hand. I bet you an entire team of Spec Ops elties with Promethan Knights would of killed MC.
I don’t know exactly how the Composer works but Didact said he was going to personally look at MC’s DNA to understand him, so that means he must know who gets composed and who is alive, after not seeing that MC was turned into ash he should of sent a detachment of troops to pick him up, and not grunts, i meant Knights who just teleport in and teleport him back into a holding cell in one of the Covenant ships.
Not using his Ships slip space core to its best benefit. Like moving to the other side of the planet after seeing that the home Fleet was there or moving closer to Earth so he could just wipe out an city quick and move on, or started a ground invasion diverting the fleet. He could of easily started a ground invasion with the ships Jul had at his disposal. Oh, yeah for someone reason the Fleet that was with him when he left Requiem pulled back to the planet instead of going with him.
Taking hte time to float behind MC than to just turn off the bridge right as he got on it, if he couldn’t do that because Cortana was too powerful he could of did that force grip thing again but puncture MC’s suit and let him die,not play around and fully push him off the edge, fly away when Cortana began to attack him or just take the Nuke and throw it into deep space.
4.Show some love, with your characters. Gek was the Darth Maul of this game, a cool nice badass who never really got his time to shine and died when he could of become a great foe in the later years.
Dr. Glassman, for no reason was beaten by elites and forced to wear a leash with enough bombs to level the room…for some reason. There was no need for Glassman to have those bombs on, any elite would be able to catch up to him in moments if he were to run,not only can grunts and jackals smell us humans out but there would be plenty of guards watching out. At most all he needed was a threat every now and again.
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Stop making human weapons the most dominant weapons. I can understand that power weapons are different, but there should never be a person choosing a DMR over a Lightrifle in Campaign. Thats when it is clear you have done wrong.
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Allow squad commands for marines. No real downside to this, it makes it so the players feel more comfortable with Jacob C Honeyloo than, the guy with the red visor. Make the marines fight harder like in Halo CE. In CE they actually felt like they wanted to win the war.
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Maps have to flow and work well with different types of gametypes and modes. There can be maps where if you had a JP you would rule and others where it is the worst mistake in the history of mankind. Figuring out how to properly make a map is hard but those maps will become the stuff of legends. They always do, and if you need to make it so that certain objects can’t be used on certain maps. Such as if you knew the JP would be to OP on a map, make it so it doesn’t spawn or can’t be used on that map and is replaced.
All i have to say for awhile probably. Good Luck to 343i and the rest of us all.