If you just magically became a 343 employee out of the clear blue, what would your job title be, and what suggestions would you send up the ladder to fix or make Halo 4 better?
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Title: LEAD EXECUTIVE SENIOR MANAGER YOINK!
Job Description: Getting yelled at by kids who think they can make Halo 4 better.
I would shut down the forums.
Nothing constructive happens, no one discusses anything other than how the game is “broken” or “can’t compete with [insert game here]” or how it “just isn’t Halo anymore”
Nothing but entitled fools who think THEY should be running the show.
If not that, being a bug tester would be pretty sweet. shrug
> If not that, being a bug tester would be pretty sweet. shrug
I think this is one of the worst jobs ever. I remember watching a video for H3 and them saying something like we had to jump in the same place a thousand times to see if the game broke 
CEO baby
I would bring out Halo 2: AE as soon as possible.
I would try to encourage them to interact with their community more, and I’d make sure that any complaint threads that aren’t structured in a constructive and polite way get locked. The unrelenting whiners on this forum are starting to really annoy me.
CEO.
I would Pay SnickerDoodle and Bs Angel more money. Send them to Tahiti and then tell them they gotta be the face of 343 on the message board along with Chuck from IT dept who can answer all the really intense game mechanic issues ( I suspect that’s Moa). Greenskull would have an office with a water slide.
Secondly I would release the Spec codes right down the board. But remember kids once you hit 130… well you best hope we can squeeze in some new content in but if not your playing for fun. This LE and SE garbage would be gone in Halo 5.
TU my main project. Firefight squeezed out of Spartan Ops so people have something to hold them over till the next Season releases. Throw out the gold on Spartan Op and release a pass to silver players because the 47% needs to hear egghead over and over again…This would be gone from Halo 5.
Ravine if I can open it up more in the TU for forgers alongside some simple things like being able to zoom. Basic fileshare and customs would be a priority but I would goto the community and say expect it after January due to the initial TU. But it’s in the hopper and not forgotten. Have a cookie.
Carbine and BR buffed. Magnum buffed to CE levels cause screw you guys and just for fun the SAW can be purchased as a loadout. HA!
Mantis can run. The Scorpion can chase it. The Warthogs are safe from the Plasma Pistols. The Banshee can break dance in the sky.
Halo 4 is now… ruined… I mean complete till January. I’m now officially on vacation and heading to Catalina and my favorite bars.
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I would fire the enitre motherfuckin staff and call Bungie to replace them. That’s shows them how lazy they are.
I would do the job I was educated in and was employed to do.
This thread already reeks of dev-bashing. Change the tune or don’t expect the thread to last much longer.
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> Ravine if I can open it up more in the TU for forgers alongside some simple things like being able to zoom. Basic fileshare and customs would be a priority but I would goto the community and say expect it after January due to the initial TU. But it’s in the hopper and not forgotten. Have a cookie.
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> Halo 4 is now… ruined… I mean complete till January. I’m now officially on vacation and heading to Catalina and my favorite bars.
Pay them…I wouldn’t pay them a single cent. Let them rot in the street like the homeless.
I would never make a random, unbalanced, noob friendly, crazy power weapon game like Halo 4 again.
If I worked in the MP section I would encourage listening to their forums. Then I would suggest monthly updates instead of weekly ones, because 343 has obviously bit off more than they can chew. And after the TU I would introduce new maps and gametypes for free. Add assault, fix CTF to its classic settings, get rid of gametype playlists (save for Infection, in which I would make it so you can be your own color), and add more custom game options. There’s a lot more I would do but I don’t feel like typing it all right now.
And if I had any influence on the story Pulls out fanfiction Well…
> Pay them…I wouldn’t**…**
I’ve been on this board since it was Beta. Snickerdoddle and BS Angel have never been unfair to me and I’ve enjoyed their banter from time to time so I would pay them a bonus just for your nastiness. How else can you expect anyone to endure this abuse without a steady stream of Crate and Barrel cash.
Recall the game, apologize to the community, tell them that the money they spent will be put towards the refined Halo 4 version to be REreleased and those who purchased it will get the game at no extra cost, try and hire as many of the H2 staff that would be available today, redo Halo 4, PUT OUT A F’N BETA…, revise, revise, revise, RErelease H4, fire the entire 343 staff the day after like a boss, and put a bullet in my brain leaving a voice message saying “BOOM, HEADSHOT…”
That’s what I would do. Like a boss…
But seriously, it’s not up to us. It’s up to 343 how they want to profit from this game. And I guarantee that whether it’d be with gimmick or legit gameplay, they’re going to go the less expensive route. That’s what industries do. Make a product for the most cheap available price. Now what WE get could be a masterpiece or in this case a polished, glazed pile of dung.
I’d sit on a toilet and play on my phone. (Like I’m doing now)
Then I’d get back to WORK as I’m not being PAID to sit on my butt. I would the WORK on what I’m TOLD to WORK on. I would voice opinion when and where possible though.
When I get home il post some lines of code and ask the community to fix it. Ill then apply the fixes to see how good the armchair developers are in the community. From what I read they are godly.
Hmmm what would I do…
I guess I would start by taking working features, and either break them, or remove them.
I would then gut the custom game options severely.
I’d implement a join in progress feature. Hmmm should I do it optional, so players can choose for themselves if they just want to wait the minutes? Nah, options are never good, I’ll force the players to use it.
Should I bother putting limitations? Such as players don’t join a match where the enemy team only needs 2 kills to win? Nah that would be dumb.
I would make it that if you joined the losing team, and they lost within 3 seconds, it will still count towards your WL record. I’d even make it so on occassion the next game starts insanely quick, even if you may not want to play anymore. Then if you quit out of a game you never wanted to play, while in the lobby and the game hasn’t even started yet, we’ll count that towards your WL as well.
I’d add in a game mode called Spartan Ops. The content will already be on your disk the moment you purchase it, but we’ll make you wait weeks to use it! Then we’ll take the maps from the first set of missions, and reuse them on the second missions. Now, we don’t want people to realize we’re doing this, so we’re going to fool them by running the mission BACKWARDS. They’re idiots, so they’ll never realize they’re actually playing the same map multiple times!
I wouldn’t put any extra ammo on the maps for widely used weapons like BRs and DMRs. Then I’ll make sure that they have a ridiculously low amount of starting ammo. Real life soldiers can only carry so much because of the weight. The weight should hardly be an issue for a spartan who can flip a tank, but let’s give them sparce ammo anyway.
I would remove the penalty for quitting matches, so as soon as your team is losing, you can quit without penalty.
I would make it so matches could start 4v1. After all there is JIP so the team with 1 player will be filled virtually instantly right? RIGHT?
I would make a loadout CQC weapon available on spawn, and give it a better range than the power CQC weapons.
I’d remove scope out, so that supressing an opponent becomes virtually impossible.
I’d hype up this one vehicle to be a killing maching, though in actual field use it is later revealed to be an assist machine.
I’d put in unbalanced maps, where Red MIGHT get a Scorpion, and Blue is guaranteed the far superior Guass Hog.
Actually, lets make the BTB maps so terrible, that when given a choice, players would rather vote for an old map from years ago. Then when the majority of the community favors said map, we’ll give them the ol -Yoink- you by decreasing the weighting on it.
I’d piss off Forgers by releasing a half -Yoinked!- forge with no forgeworld/sandbox type map. All the things we’ve been asked for? Screw them, we’re adding in Magnets, that’s some next level -Yoink- right there.
Next lets piss off the machinima makers. You want UNSC aerial vehicles in forge/customs? Nope, piss off. You want the ability to play as Elites, or even Prometheans? Nope, double piss off.
I’d then put in some inconsistencies. If you’re carrying a flag in one hand, you should be able to fire your pistol in the other. If you’re carrying an oddball in one hand…well obviously you wouldn’t be able to fire a pistol while you were carrying an oddball, that would be dumb!
I would bring back the covenant Beam Rifle, then leave it out of Team Snipers.
Actually as long as we’re on the topic of Team Snipers, lets have rotational playlists who nobody is in favor of! You want to play Snipers? Sorry, those guys in Oddball have a low population count. So you guys who like the popular snipers and doubles playlists? -Yoink- you guys, you get to go add numbers to the BS playlists. Why couldn’t I remove the less popular playlist instead, and have them join others in Doubles and Snipers? Well um…it wouldn’t be fair you see. If THEY lost THEIR playlist, it wouldn’t be fair, so we’ll just take away the playlist which YOU love.
Hmmm starting to run out of ideas here, and I really want to make Halo 4 amazing. I know! I’ll just take what the competition is doing and copy that! That’s it, I’ll take stale ideas which FPS games have had for years, throw them into Halo 4, and call it INNOVATION! The fanboys will love it! After all, ALL change is GOOD change right fanboys?
Lets start with loadouts. Hmmmm they seem to constantly reset. Well -Yoink- it I’m sure we’ll get the other things which we copy right…
Now we’ll do killcams. Hmmmmm these don’t seem to work either. Pretty sure that guy didn’t actually kill his opponent while facing the other direction as him…oh well we’ll get the next thing right!
Alright kill streaks! Hmmm that’s too blatant a ripoff, okay Ordnance Drops! There we go. Now we want to give casual players a chance to kill higher skilled players, and we don’t want higher skilled players dominating…so when somebody is doing piss poor, we’ll give them a free Binary. When somebody is doing amazing…hmm let’s give them a choice between Speed Boost and Needlers. After all real competition means giving the losers a chance to catch up.
Hmmm should I give players something which PC players have had for over a decade, fully remappable controls? After all it would be a tremendous benefit to physically handicapped gamers, and we can’t honestly say that it is too hard to do since Borderlands 2 will be released months before and will be included in it.
Hmmmm, no -Yoink- handicapped gamers. People should just learn how to play with our -Yoink- presets.
Last but not least…oh who am I kidding of course they’re least! International players. Now of course with the massive fanbase and massive revenue we have for this major title, we could easily afford servers, but -Yoink- it. Again why would we bother giving 360 players something which PC players have had for decades? No, those international players will just have to suck a -Yoink- and deal with lag while we Americans pull host every time.
Yep that about does it, that’s everything I would’ve added in for Halo 4. I’ve made sure to piss off or neglect every demographic in Halo except for the casuals. It is too bad 343 didn’t hire me when they had the chance, they could’ve done all those things which only a genius could think of.
Plays Halo 4
Oh, looks like they did take my brilliant ideas after all. Yo 343 can I get some royalties?
Also, if you’re hiring for Halo 5, I’d be more than happy to apply. You guys clearly value the ability to -Yoink- things up, and I’m an MLG pro at that, so come on and hire me!
I’d take over as head of everything. Fire the lazy…Well… Nothing derogatory… that:
Put kill barriers in every corner of all forge maps…
Put buttons EVERYWHERE in the Campaign
Took out almost all options in Custom Games
Made Forge almost as bad as Halo 3(With the same edit-cord as Halo Reach and same items)
Created the female Spartans… They look like crackheads in armor…
Decided it was a great idea to add a useless kill cam…
Forgot to get FileShare working…
Replaced Firefight with Spartan Ops… Should have added both.
Took out weapons loading on maps… Really? Once you run out of ammo, you have to either die… Or pick up the one of many power weapons that drop from the sky.
Thought it was a good idea to FORCE us to play only Spartans… Halo Reach Elites were scary… Especially when I played in a full lobby on a Dark infection map… When they had Energy swords and were black… Wow.
Honestly, Halo 4 is a good game… And if they’d just “Fix” the Custom Games… I would NEVER complain again. Campaign, Forge andCustom Games = The only reason I actually buy Halo.
I’d also fire Kiki Wolfkill.
add every existing vehicle into H4
somehow
that’s the only thing i’d do