How to Fix Everything Wrong with Halo 4

Fire whoever is in charge of marketing. There has been some serious problems surrounding Halo 4 and most of them are due to incompetence on the marketing end.

  • Specialization codes (Sending late/Not Sending/None for European players/People getting ‘early access’ even though they didn’t reach SR50 by 11/20)
  • The Buy and Play Crimson that was never advertized
  • Map pack vs Limited Edition Map pack
  • Digital version of Forward Unto Dawn instead of DVD in LE
  • Confusion between armor sets and armor skins during pre-release.
  • Still waiting on any armor being released via marketplace.

Fix Menu Navigation if possible.

Get File Share at least on par with Bungie’s version.

Campaign:
Matchmaking feature should be added like it was in Reach. It was a small touch, but it encouraged players to play the campaign if they had a challenge to complete and didn’t want to jump in by themselves. An option for difficulty should be a voting option at the start of the game for all the players in the lobby. They could search by being able to choose any of the campaign levels, like in Spartan Ops.

War Games:
Certain playlists should have objective and slayer gametypes, like BTB and MLG.

Bring back double exp weekends.

Ammo should be available around the maps for primary weapons. Maybe just an ammo crate for whatever primary weapon you are carrying. Similar to Spartan Ops.

Warthogs and Banshee should be buffed because too many people on maps have power weapons with ordinance drops, or improve ordance drops. Have them happen every 8 kills, or 5 if you get them more frequently. Let us customize our ordance drops to a nade choice, an armor ability choice and a speed boost/damage boost choice. Put power weapons around the map only.

You should rank up faster if you win more, maybe offer a flat 1000 exp if you win, and you lose 1000 exp if you quit. That could encourage players to win and not quit.

Join in Progress needs to be fixed entirely. If you join in a game late, you shouldn’t have that loss, or win count on your service record. Don’t start games without a full lobby.

Allow us to view party details so we don’t join a queue just to find out your friends’ game just started.

Dedicated servers, the franchise has made enough money at this point.

Spartan Ops:
Difficulty should be a voting option at the start of the game for all players in the lobby.

Theater:
This feature seems to suffer with every new Halo game. Theater should be perfected and left alone. You should have direct access to your recent films from the Theater lobby. Allow us to watch any and all recent game play, in campaign, Spartan Ops, customs and matchmaking. Perhaps have a quick option at the end of any game that reminds you to save a film would be nice. At least 4 players should be able to watch a film and/or a film clip together.

Bring back the Community Spotlight and 343 Favorites. Allow us to access files from Waypoint and this website. Have films rendered automatically as part of the upload process. Sharing files made in Theater could be amazing.

You might want to copy and paste this on Neo Gaf or the Halo Council, You’ll really need to condense it for Twitter simply because 343 can’t be bothered to use it’s own bloody forums.

I think that Ordnance drops should be balanced before any vehicles are buffed. I also think that the can be balanced, it just requires sacrificing the personal drops to encourage map movement, and some icons to show where stuff drops.

Although, I agree with most of the stuff I could actually talk about, I’m not that much into discussing weapon balance.

> You might want to copy and paste this on Neo Gaf or the Halo Council, You’ll really need to condense it for Twitter simply because 343 can’t be bothered to use it’s own bloody forums.

I’m not active on those sites, but feel free to copy and paste yourself if you feel as strongly as I do. This game can be fixed!

I stopped reading after the “BR being a 4 shot”.
You might have a point, but most of these sound from the mouth of a 12 year old. Put some thought into them and discuss your reasons with us. Things like adding ammo boxes makes no sense.

Instant respawn should be removed across all playlists. I’m sick of killing someone and having them respawn close to my right, run over and attack me in under 10 seconds. It’s frustrating and annoying that players even ignore objectives just to get revenge.

At least the cool down will give them time to think, cool down and allow player movement.

> - Digital version of Forward Unto Dawn instead of DVD in LE

Limited Edition didn’t get a dvd version of Forward unto Dawn we got a code to watch it on waypoint. i wish there was a dvd but nope

> I stopped reading after the “BR being a 4 shot”.
> You might have a point, but most of these sound from the mouth of a 12 year old. Put some thought into them and discuss your reasons with us. Things like adding ammo boxes makes no sense.

You must know some intelligent 12 year olds. I posted a lot of fixes, so I wanted to keep the original post as easy to read as possible. I don’t expect everyone to agree with me, but everything I posted would fix this game.

When you actually are able to survive longer than 20 seconds in game, you will realize that ammo is an issue. With all the primary weapon options in Halo 4, having an ammo crate or two on each side of the maps could be effective. Instead of cluttering the map with classic Halo weapon spawns, or only being able to pick up dropped ammo, this could embrace the new direction of Halo. It would need some limitations of course and proper placement as well.

Your response is ironic considering you didn’t elaborate on why you don’t agree with the “BR being a 4 shot”.

This can all be condensed to one sentence.
“cut the CODesque crap out of the game and return to classical Halo roots”
inb4codwasntfirst

> BR should be 4 shot.

I’m really sick of reading this. It’s as if people WANT there to be two overpowered Weapons. This game is focused on balance. It wasn’t intended to be (though it turned out to) a one-gun-game anymore. All the primary weapons (yes, including the BR) other than the DMR are balanced as intended.

The BR is hitscan, and shoots faster than ever before. It’s fine as it is. If it was to be 4 shot it, it would be blatantly overpowered. The DMR is the only issue with the primary weapon balance. Nerf the DMR. Problem solved.

Awefully long original post, I would’ve just put “Give the game back to Bungie”

> > BR should be 4 shot.
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> I’m really sick of reading this. It’s as if people WANT there to be two overpowered Weapons. This game is focused on balance. It wasn’t intended to be (though it turned out to) a one-gun-game anymore. All the primary weapons (yes, including the BR) other than the DMR are balanced as intended.
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> The BR is hitscan, and shoots faster than ever before. It’s fine as it is. If it was to be 4 shot it, it would be blatantly overpowered. The DMR is the only issue with the primary weapon balance. Nerf the DMR. Problem solved.

Buffing the BR would be better than nerfing the DMR. Just my opinion.

Now bans are being handed out to some players that downloaded the Crimson maps for free. I am not the least bit surprised. This just reinforces everything I said in the OP.

“The BR is hitscan, and shoots faster than ever before. It’s fine as it is. If it was to be 4 shot it, it would be blatantly overpowered. The DMR is the only issue with the primary weapon balance. Nerf the DMR. Problem solved”.

Agreed. Buffing the BR would make the game even faster and four shots would just be flat ridiculous, to be honest.

I just want to feel equally as confident with a DMR as I am with a BR. Nerfing the DMR is not the answer. I need one weapon to dominate with.

Forward Unto Dawn DVDs WERE supposed to be included in the LE? I had originally pre-ordered the SE but upgraded when a buddy pointed out you got FUD on DVD. I was gutted when i found the content code. He felt guilty when i told him and we both assumed he had misread the LE content information.

Guess I should go tell him he’s not at fault.

i don’t know about you guys but i loved the campaign. i have never felt closer to cortana and chief

> i don’t know about you guys but i loved the campaign. i have never felt closer to cortana and chief

Pushing all those buttons really pushed my buttons. I enjoyed it otherwise.