One of the few good things that came from Reach was the addition of Commendations. These gave the player a goal to drive for, besides that of ranking up. But at times, even the best of us can get stuck on a certain rank for an upsettingly long amount of time, and feel a lack of accomplishment from being deprived of any reward for their playtime. This is where commendations fit in quite nicely, because once you got to those high ranks (Eclipse, Nova, etc.) it could take up to months at a time to rank up. Commendations awarded you off to the side, and gave you a sense of “Hey, I did something worthwhile!” as you played. I feel that constant rewards for achievements is a good thing, and will constantly keep the player feeling enticed to the game. In Reach, once you’d gotten to a high rank with a multitude of Onyx commendations, you were rewarded extremely seldom. I feel that this can be improved upon, to make the Halo 4 multiplayer experience, the most addicting in the series.
Commendations were great, and I don’t know why anybody would want to ditch them, but some improvements can still be made. The two main changes I would like to see are:
-Different types (Supercombines, sticks, vehicle kills, flag captures, etc.)
-More than just 5 stages (Iron, Bronze, Steel, Gold, Onyx)
About the stages, I also think that each stage should have its own tier, or grade. Say for instance you start on the Iron stage for flag captures. Over the course of playing multiple games of CTF, you’ve gotten quite a few captures, and have increased your total number of captures to 10. You will rank up to Iron Gr. I. Get 15 captures and you will rank up to Iron Gr.2, and so on and so forth. Each stage will have 5 tiers until it advances to the next stage, so the player is constantly rewarded with new commendations.
That’s it in a nutshell.
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