List your top 5 changes you'd make to Halo 4

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Just as the topic suggests. List your top 5 changes that you would like to see come to fruition in Halo 4.

This is kind of like a study to see if the Halo community can come to a general consensus and not be all over the board.

If you have none or don’t have five, just list what you have and stop, but no more than five.

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  1. Less switches in campaign
  2. Spartans being serious and respecting chain of command
  3. Better armors (ODST :’( RIP)
  4. Nerf incineration cannon (i don’t like being spammed while on legendary)
  5. Rank system out sooner
    Edit:Just thought of this!
  6. Warthog chase at the end instead of the CoD style spam RT to go kill someone
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  1. Nothing
  2. Nothing
  3. Nothing
  4. Nothing
  5. Nothing

Need I say more?

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  1. Hornet
  2. Selectable <mark>ALLIED</mark> difficulty ( i for one do not like watching squads of marines get pulverized by a single Grunt)
  3. Falcon
  4. Cobra
  5. Minigun-style mounted machine gun turrets (halo 3 style)
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Ideal Changes:

[/li]- Add visible Ranks that apply only to “Ranked” playlists (for example Ranked Team Slayer, Ranked Team Doubles, etc.)

  • Add smaller maps (1v1-4v4 sized maps)
  • Appeal to the community’s wishes for custom game options
  • Be more transparent as an organization and communicate with the community
  • Spectator mode
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  1. More Custom Game options. (Things like 1-flag and zombie settings in flood)
  2. Forge World (Doesn’t have to be as big as it was in Reach just something like Sandbox)
  3. Different games in playlists. (Multiple game variants per playlist, like hot potato in oddball.)
  4. Hornets/Falcons
  5. Background music settings in Forge. (I know this is probably impossible but I can’t be the only person who has been wanting this. The soundtrack for the game is so good it would be amazing to actually play the music in a game. The game is just so quiet sometimes when there is only a few people in it.)
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  1. Reduce aim assist and bullet magnetism.
  2. Bring back de-scoping.
  3. Remove Instant Respawn from any War Games playlist.
  4. Make Active Camouflage a Personal Ordnance drop.
  5. Add an old Halo style playlist with weapons on the map, so you aren’t forced to use the armor mod Ammo. And with that, remove armor mods all together in that playlist, AA’s are fine though.

I just want to say that I love the game, the only things that bother me are mainly the first four points on this list. They just make the game way too easy and obviously people who are better at the game are enjoying it less thanks to these things, while lesser players enjoy it more…

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1.Bring back falcon, hornet, and the peligan, scarab, mammoth in forge (at least)

  1. Bring back the old voice and sounf of the grunts and chainguns on the warthogs.

  2. Bring back duel weiding and the SMG

  3. More weapons and vehicles

  4. Better looking armor in multiplayer. Master Chief though looks BA

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  1. Remove instant respawn
  2. Remove loadouts
  3. Remove join in progress
  4. Add smaller maps
  5. Remove kill cams (this one is just because I can’t think of anything else and kill cams are pointless in this game)
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  1. Fix Forge by making a Forge World/ Sandbox hybrid, getting rid of the kill barriers that we can’t delete, and bringing back precision editing and zooming while in editing mode.

  2. Add more custom options and bring back classic options and game types.

  3. Bring back Firefight.

  4. Every game mode should be able to be played back in Theater.

  5. Add skulls to Spartan Ops.

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5 changes i would make to halo.

  1. the removal of certain loadout weapons, namely weapons which serve alternative functions, or are powerful enough to deem the be on the map and not loadout (boltshot/plasmapistol/grenades/dmr)

  2. the removal of aiming flinch, and removal of any recoil affects, namely br.

  3. removal of personal ordinance power weapons only, change to powerup(including active camo powerup not aa), new grenades, and a new armor ability.

  4. addition of preset location and timers for power weapons on the map, plus the addition of normal weapons being on the map, dmr and boltshots, and light rifles and such will al be avaiable on the map IN LIMITED QAUNTITIES

5.the addition of a flashback map pack, containing 11 multiplayer maps taken from each previous halo (2 maps from ce, 2 maps from halo 2, 2 maps from halo 3, 2 maps from halo custom edition, and 2 maps from reach) and a new improved forgeworld canvas map, since prefabricated structures on the new forge maps are a blimey joke.

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  • Add a classic Halo playlist (No loadouts, fixed weapon starts, no personal ordnance, weapons already on map)
  • Add a Reach-style playlist (Fixed loadouts, no personal ordnance, weapons already on map)
  • Add campaign scoring and theater
  • Fix the bug with the Boltshot that allows for rapid-fire overcharged shots
  • Ability to choose whether Sprinting is enabled in the gametype
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  1. Fix or remove JIP system

  2. Fix or remove JIP system

  3. Fix or remove JIP system

  4. Fix or remove JIP system

  5. Make team Regicide a permanent play list.

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So far, there seems to be answers all over the board for what people consider their top 5. While this thread goes on, consider how difficult it would be to be a developer to attempt to address each of these concerns, and then see if they are worth changing without breaking other parts of the game. Most of these top 5s list unique things.

How do we, as a community, decide what gets changed first, if we as a whole don’t agree upon what should be changed first, if anything?

Continue…

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  1. Human Flying Vehicles! (Hornet, Falcon, both, or a whole new one)
  2. Tone down the boltshot just a hair. It shouldn’t be able to beat a shotgun range wise.
  3. Medals active in Spartan Ops, not just at the end. This is a no brainer.
  4. Different game modes in playlist. (Swat Magnums, Swatguns, 1 Flag, Hot Potato)
  5. Make the Jetpack stronger. Duration time is fine, but it takes too much energy to lift off at all. Reach is superior in this regard.
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  1. Removal of the JIP…replace it with a Regional/Good Connection option

  2. Make it so I don’t have to use the Directional pad to move up and down when I want to Mute a player. For crying out loud how did that even happen. I can’t use the right thumbstick? genius

  3. Remove plasma grenades from loadouts. It makes it too easy to take down Warthogs/Ghost, etc. Either that or buff the Warthog/Ghost to with stand more than 2 plasma nades… Mind you I’m referring to the gatling-gun warthog NOT the Gauss-hog. Gauss should go down with 2 nades to balance it out. It’s WAY overpowered as it is.

  4. Put another Tank on Vortex and remove the Gausshog OR remove the Tank and Gausshog and replace them with 2 Mantis’s. 1 for each side similar to Ragnarok.

  5. Make it possible to actually earn a power weapon by DOING SOMETHING other than “assisting”. Like getting 10K’s without dying or CTF.

Well these will probably never see the light of day but it’s worth a shot.

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  • Bring back traditional halo playlists to matchmaking on a permanent basis. We should have Team Snipers, Lone Wolf, SWAT, Doubles, and MLG permanently. The weekly playlists should be creative, and fun custom gametypes to break the monotony.

  • Give each playlist an assortment of game types within each category to vote on! (Objective within BTB, Pistol SWAT, etc.)

  • Integrate a ranking system that’s visible in game.

  • Swap the uber-fast weapon despawns from map weapons over to personal ordinance. There’s far too many power weapons in play.

  • Let us earn something cool looking for playing the game. (All the cool armor is rewarded for spending $$$) Reach had the hologram skull helmet, flaming helmets, lightning, and other cool stuff. Surely 343 can do something along these lines…

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  1. Visible rank system at launch.
  2. Red X over dead teammates
  3. Better custom game options
  4. Removal of JIP
  5. Unscope when shot

There’s more I could list but those are the biggest changes I’d make.

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1: The boltshot!!! Reduce to 4 metters the one shot kill instead of 9m and increase the time charging.
2: the maps
3: Ranked playlist exactly like halo 3.
4: More option for custom games, the most important to me: removing sprint.
5: Switch SO for Firefight.