343i, please hear the community out on this one. It is absolutely imperative that custom games options are fixed in time for the release of Forge.
What does “Fix” mean?
Its not that its broken, its more or less missing all the options that let us create the fun and memorable games in Halo 3 and Reach. Without many of these key options, Halo 5’s Forge will be nothing but a complex map editor.
From the top of my head, here’s some of what needs to be added:
-Random weapons
-Bottomless clip
-Loadouts
-Classic gametypes (infection, assault, koth, etc.)
-Grenade replenish
Guys, please feel free to list more options that are missing, as I’m sure there’s some more important ones I can’t think of at the moment.
We want Halo 5’s forge to be the best to date, that means delivering the most fun experience possible. We need an expansion of game options if we want to make any use of this upgraded map editor.
Possible can’t remove spartan shields although I didn’t try more than once. Also the gametype description can’t be changed, last time I checked anyway.
There was a mega thread during Halo 4’s days about the missing options. It’s shame to see things getting worse.
Here is a link to an ap that showed all the missing options and gametypes from Halo 4. It may help to highlight other missing options.
Respawn and Leader Traits, Bonuses/Penalties for various medals (Assassinations, for example), Vehicle options (Warthogs Only, No Vehicles, etc.), Overtime Traits and Rules, Custom Powerups (always liked making custom powerups in Halo 3), Juggernaut, Invasion, VIP and Race
Also, bring some new features to some gametypes:
For Slayer, give us the ability to change the score with a bar so we can make a tug-of-war style Slayer game where you win by depleting the other team’s “morale bar”.
For Capture the Flag, give us more variations, such as a variation where you capture multiple neutral flags and can take them from enemy bases and the team with the most flags at the end wins.
There’s a lot of people who will be completely turned away from the game if infection is missing. It is arguably one of the most fun gametypes and served as the basis for many custom games. If what the mod said about Assault is true, we can expect infection, though a link of confirmation is needed.
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> There’s a lot of people who will be completely turned away from the game if infection is missing. It is arguably one of the most fun gametypes and served as the basis for many custom games. If what the mod said about Assault is true, we can expect infection, though a link of confirmation is needed.
Hope it is true. Having said that, Overgrowth looks like it could be a decent Infection map. Maybe it’s a hint?
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> Thought I was the only one who cared!
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> - Can’t set secondary weapon to none.
> - No leader/Respawn traits.
> - No bonus point scoring.
> - No vehicle use settings.
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> Possible can’t remove spartan shields although I didn’t try more than once. Also the gametype description can’t be changed, last time I checked anyway.
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> There was a mega thread during Halo 4’s days about the missing options. It’s shame to see things getting worse.
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> Here is a link to an ap that showed all the missing options and gametypes from Halo 4. It may help to highlight other missing options.
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> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31455487/halo-4/custom-game-option-browser/latest.html#!/root/Gametypes
Can only help you with one thing, I found that setting the secondary weapon to the same weapon as your primary cancels the secondary weapon. I don’t remember if it gave me more ammo or not. Example; primary weapon is the Battle Rifle, and secondary weapon is also the Battle Rifle.
Even if infection does come, it will need the little option tweaks. I remember in Halo 4 we couldn’t set the initial flood count as a percentage for example, which men’t changing it accordingly for each game and even that was limited. Little things like that are needed.
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> > Well I seen in another thread that Griffball has been confirmed by a MOD so there is assault and 1 bomb
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> It it coming with forge?
No mention of this just said its coming I would imagine it would be with forge
The ability to disable weapon drop. This is something I wish there was, picking up zombies’ swords always dumbed down the infection experience in my opinion…
I haven’t seen the disabling headshot option anywhere, that’s a problem for me. Also in Infection (which needs to be brought back) there should be a percentage of zombies, just like Halo 3 had.
I am surprised about the reduction of options and gametypes, as 343’s own statistics showed custom games had a clear lead on most played modes during Reach/4.
Forge is looking great and dedicated servers is awesome. It’s a shame to tarnish this with neglect in the game mode department.
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> > Great that I’m not the only one making threads about this.
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> > Special Weapons from Warzone should be in there too
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> ^this is a fantastic idea