First off I am a huge Halo fan, I bought every game, even Halo Wars and the latest Halo Anniversary.
Now I play alot of Reach and I enjoy it but there are way too few maps. Anniversary fixed the issue a bit but I have suffered with the bland grey and blue Forge maps for too long and hope that 343 will fix this issue with Halo 4.
Bungie did a great job with Reach, including many features but the fact of the matter is that by including all these they spread themselves too thin and matchmaking suffered. When 4 out of every 5 games takes place on a community made map there is something wrong.
I hope that 343 has noticed this issue and will do something about it for Halo 4. A few changes I hope they will make is:
at least 14 maps at launch dedicated to MM
take MM maps and use them for firefight so there will be more variety
make forge more customizable with different skins and colour options for pieces and perhaps time of day or seasonal effects for forge as well.
Just a few suggestions. Any other ideas or comments anyone?
The sheer number of maps is irrelevant. What matters is the quality of each map. If every last one of them is a masterpiece of modern game-design, then I’d be content. But having a whole bunch of maps that feel self-similar and rushed would ring quite hollow.
In addition to more maps I really would like to see Halo 4 support 4 person split screen. Something missing from halo reach is the ability to get a bunch of your friends and play social slayer(or even ranked) with all four people viewing the same screen. With the advancements in TV’s its truly a wonder why they disabled this feature. It creates such an awesome environment, being able to see everyone’s reactions talking to your friends about strategy face to face, etc. I was really disappointed to hear they weren’t bringing this back for Anniversary.
The main source of frustration on my part was mostly in part by the fact that most of the maps in Reach were either community maps, and the fact that the base maps (The map in general) were nothing more than copy and pasted segments of campaign. I could understand firefight maps doing such a thing, but its not really acceptable in multiplayer.
> In addition to more maps I really would like to see Halo 4 support 4 person split screen. Something missing from halo reach is the ability to get a bunch of your friends and play social slayer(or even ranked) with all four people viewing the same screen. With the advancements in TV’s its truly a wonder why they disabled this feature. It creates such an awesome environment, being able to see everyone’s reactions talking to your friends about strategy face to face, etc. I was really disappointed to hear they weren’t bringing this back for Anniversary.
This. It pisses me off so much that developers neglect split screen so much these days. Online multiplayer will never be as fun as actually having your friends in the room.
I think 10 maps is ok and 3-4 extra maps made in forge will be enough as long as they all are well made.
And I really hope there is more veriaty in the objects for forge. The same orange blocks from Sandbox and the same grey blocks from ForgeWorld got really boring.