Let’s suppose that you worked at 343 industries, and the team went to you and asked how to improve Halo 5. What would you change? Assume that there are no limits. Feel free to read my suggestions or just post your ideas.
Instead of Arena and Warzone, I would have Arena and Social. The Social category would have casual playlists such as social slayer, infection, action sack, and of course warzone. I would boost the radar’s range from 18 to 25 in small-scale games, and from 25 to 40 in BTB and Warzone. I’d also make quite a few changes to warzone. I’d change the way points are assigned for taking down legendary bosses (100 for dealing 50% or more damage, 50 for the final shot) and I’d also hide the legendary bosses’ health bars. I’d also add spawn protection so you don’t die immediately after getting a shiny new weapon, and make spawn locations more accurate. (I want to spawn AT the East Armory, not half a mile away from it) Someone else on here (can’t remember their name but they thought of this good idea) suggested that AI covenant and prometheans should occasionally attack player held bases and capture them back if they could, I’d add this in too. Lastly, and this is the most important change I’d make, I’d make it so that Grunt Birthday Party is active in every Warzone map.
EDIT: I’d also either slightly nerf grenade damage and radius, or limit starting grenades to 1.
Adding larger maps to Arena with vehicles. Small maps are fun, but so were the larger maps in Halo 2 and Halo 3 in Team Slayer and Objective game modes. Bring back vehicle gameplay in Arena.
I don’t care about social playlists much, it might be nice to have an action sack one but whatever. I honestly want to see KOTH and team oddball in team arena. And more maps across the board, especially for warzone. I hope they put out the urban map and maybe a lava/meridian themed one in december. And I definitely disagree with your last sentence, why make the game more cartoony than it already is?
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> Adding larger maps to Arena with vehicles. Small maps are fun, but so were the larger maps in Halo 2 and Halo 3 in Team Slayer and Objective game modes. Bring back vehicle gameplay in Arena.
One of my favourite maps on Halo 3 was standoff purely because the Warthogs could be so influential to the game
I would add either a dedicated objective game type playlists: king of the hill, capture the flag, odd ball etc. - Add a Social playlist to have the ridiculous yet fun map/game type combos. - Big team is a definite must.Gameplay
Something needs to be done with the rampant overuse of crouching in this game. I have footage of multiple games where entire teams crouch walk the majority of the time. - The radar range also needs improvement to offset the crouch-walking. - Map rotation: its improved from the beginning which is a good thing, but i still needs improvement. - Larger, vehicle based maps in the arena are needed. Personally, warzone isn’t fun and having all the larger maps on this mode isn’t helping.
Demolish the REQ system. Micro transactions do not belong in Halo. Make earning cosmetics skill based or achievement based like 3 and Reach - Try not to blatantly lie in the pre-launch marketing: “campaign is twice as long” or “The whole game is about Locke hunting Chief” - Re-insert split screen. I don’t care what the BS excuse about graphics is, it’s really just a ploy to boost sales. - Remove the 3 talking “missions” and insert them as cutscenes. - I wouldn’t have designed the online to focus on MLG players so much. Truth is the vast, vast majority of us aren’t MLG and don’t play like it. Because of this we’re stuck with ridiculously short radar, only small maps without vehicles, and no social playlists. Halo can be competitive,but it should be fun too. - Don’t use the Warden 6-7 times as a boss. It cheapens it by having to kill it every other level. - All this free DLC is nice but some of it really should have been included with the launch. (Forge, more game types) - This whole squad thing is worthless. especially since none are given any sort of development in game. This game was too lore-centric for my tastes. I feel like I shouldn’t have to read ALL the outside material just to understand what’s happening story wise.I know some people rush to defend 343, but I believe that is wrong. I’ve been playing halo for over a decade and I just want the series to thrive. Yes, I am disappointed by Guardians, but I only point out these errors in the hope 343 will take note and make an even better game next time around. If people just accept things like this we end up paying for each individual helmet in Halo 6 or there are 6 talking missions instead of 3.
PS please add infection soon. Notice I say INFECTION not FLOOD.
I actually think this is an amazing forum topic. Not to completely bash 343i, but to more or less get feedback from players. Whether you see these forums or not, thank you for creating a fun game for us to play 343i.
Social Playlists - It’s nice to have a playlist where your only focus is to have a good time. It’s perfect for the gamers who want to warm up or party up with friends of all different skill levels.
Ranked - I think the system in place now is a pretty good one. BUT I feel like it’s still pretty imbalanced. I am very competitive and I feel like the games are inconsistent when it comes to balanced teams. If it were somehow possible to integrate your KDA into each game and impact on whether you go up or down in rank. (High KD + Win = minimal increase up in rank vs High KD + Loss = minimal decrease in rank.) Competition is what makes Halo fun for a lot of players. Looking back to Halo 3 there were
hundreds of thousands that played the game. Halo was the Superior game. I dont feel like it has the same status that it used to.
Maps and DLC. Also maybe some BR start gametypes.
Lastly I would like to see the old armor come back as well. I know that I haven’t unlocked it all and I guess it could very well be there, the only helmet that I’ve liked has been the Default Mark V helmet.
Once again. All just my opinion. Tell me what you think. I want to hear suggestions as well!
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> Let’s suppose that you worked at 343 industries, and the team went to you and asked how to improve Halo 5. What would you change? Assume that there are no limits. Feel free to read my suggestions or just post your ideas.
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> Instead of Arena and Warzone, I would have Arena and Social. The Social category would have casual playlists such as social slayer, infection, action sack, and of course warzone. I would boost the radar’s range from 18 to 25 in small-scale games, and from 25 to 40 in BTB and Warzone. I’d also make quite a few changes to warzone. I’d change the way points are assigned for taking down legendary bosses (100 for dealing 50% or more damage, 50 for the final shot) and I’d also hide the legendary bosses’ health bars. I’d also add spawn protection so you don’t die immediately after getting a shiny new weapon, and make spawn locations more accurate. (I want to spawn AT the East Armory, not half a mile away from it) Someone else on here (can’t remember their name but they thought of this good idea) suggested that AI covenant and prometheans should occasionally attack player held bases and capture them back if they could, I’d add this in too. Lastly, and this is the most important change I’d make, I’d make it so that Grunt Birthday Party is active in every Warzone map.
Just wanted to say that this is probably the best Topic I’ve seen. It’s nice to see what people want in their Halo experience.
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> BR start playlist, 25m radar, no fuel rod, no rockets, no hydra, no plasma caster.
the fuel rod got so nerfed that it’s basically useless in h5 on larger maps. Anyone who played solace on h4 knows what i’m talking about (no that wasn’t good either)