NEW STUFF you wanna see in H4

Games Other Halo
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I think Halo 4 should include a load of new things, here are my ideas.

-Armory Updates
Im talking about an armory 343 can update. I want armor DLC to be possible, and it should be set up in a way where even if you dont buy or unlock a helmet that’s on the marketplace, you can still see others who have.

-New Armory Options
For example:
•Player Model Weapon(the weapon your character holds when you look at stats[in Reach, itd be DMR]. New weapons are purchased)
•Player Model Stance(specific stances to each weapon, purchase from armory)
•Assassinations(pick from a list of assassinations for non-melee weapons)
•Voice(pitch and sound of character’s voice when sprinting, dieing, falling, ect)

-New Armor
Like the Black Smoke AE**,** Red Visor, GRD Helmet, MAYBE the return of Hayabusa, or a remake that resembles it to capture the same feel without copyright issues.

-Bring back DUAL WIELDING!!
It was totally awesome in H2, and H3. I loved it. And I think Dual Energy Swords is overdue

-Arsenal of Weapons
Give us EVERYTHING. I want all 3 pistols(H2, H3, and Reach, CE’s was WAAAAY overpowering). I want both Assault Rifles(there are like 2 types but I dont remember the names). And every other weapon from the series.

-Hand-to-Hand Combat
I dunno how theyd do it, but I think gameplay would be more dynamic if there was fist fighting.

-Weapon Attachments/Mods
Before you go yelling about “this isnt CoD” just think about it. Scopes, Bayonets(increase lunge and melee damage), Shotguns, Night Vision, maybe a Flashlight. All these would by unlocked, or purchased from the armory or marketplace. Some would be specific to certain weapons(for example, an Overheater Mod that you can ONLY using on some Covenant Weapons, which changes projectile color, and fire rate, but overheating rate as well)

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I LOVE most of these ideas with a few glaring exceptions.

The armor updates, the character model weapon display, even the weapon attachments. I know alot of people are griping about attachments, but it adds flavor, and if CoD can barrow it’s entire game play from halo, halo should be equaliy adaptable and take the only good feature that game has.

Duelweilding…ahh no. It might be in the next game and if it is, I will still buy it. But I think getting rid of duelwiedling was a solid idea. Halo has always been very basic game play, shoot, punch, gernade. When you add a second gun, you remove 2 of those and the gameplay changes for what I don’t think is the better. Some may argue AA’s do the same, but they don’t take away and of the three basic things. DW was sweet at some points, like holding a rappid fire pistol and the plasma rifle, that was just a super fun combo, but I think we loose mree than we gain with it.

pretty much everything else I agree with here and would like to add one 2 more things

For the love of god, please allow people to join into games in progress. When you are playing a game and 75% of yoru opposing team quits int he first 30 seconds it makes for a super long game. EVERY other mainstream fps allows for randoms to join and fill the gaps, why oh why can’t halo?

A custom game lobby. Doesn’t even have to be fair, who ever makes the room is in charge and calls all the shots. But some way to list current lobbys, possibely by pop, with a 1 or 2 person group at the bottom with the 12 and 15 person groups right up top. Do this, please please please do this.

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For the weapon attachments, maybe in custom games, but not by ranking up or buying. Halo is Halo because everyone starts out more or less equal. Everyone should have equal chances of killing an enemy, unless one player is more skilled than the other. Weapons attachments would make new players feel like they have a disadvantage.

A custom game matchmaking feature is a must.

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I love your ideas!

I definitely agree with your armory ideas. I think it should be a mix between H3 and Halo reaches armory unlocks. I think you should see some basic stuff in the armory, but some pieces need you to do certain things to get them like get a certain achievement or some kind of random whacky challenge like beat level 8 without changing weapons or something, but still require credits or whatever (I liked credits as they kept things fresh or at least until my next point.

After a certain point (half way through the ranks) in reach, you unlocked everything, and by the time you are max rank, you have enough credits to buy everything twice. This is a little stupid because you have to progress through half the ranks for no reward, I think armor should be spread out evenly, but still be a lot of variety.

One thing I would also like to see is deeper customization in the armor like for example; putting attachments on the body, and adding features to your shin armor or something. Maybe even like spray painted symbols like flames on the legs of your spartan or big shoes. Maybe even the color or your shields when you get hit could be customized. One last thing is the size for your spartan. In HR, the Spartans were kind of dull in the sense when their bodies died or fell off a cliff their bodies fell into boring stupid poses or went into a T formation while falling to death.

I don’t think your weapons mod thing would work as you have to pick up stuff in the map on matchmaking, but it’s not a bad idea. Maybe make it so in custom games and some game types you can enhance/handicap certain traits of weapons like rate of fire and such.

Also hand to hand combat is something I have always wanted in the franchise! An example would be like red vs blue season 9 fight scenes, which I thought were amazing. Maybe holding the melee button down lets you switch to “no weapon” where you can use your hands for quick melee’s.

Maybe these ideas are farfetched, but you never know :slight_smile:

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I want to see a big Forerunner yacht in Multiplayer. A massive slow-moving barge that floats above/through the battlefield. I could get specific, but it should be something like a flying Elephant from Halo 3. Also a hotter female Spartan. With hooters haha

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I simply want Halo to evolve. The game will die out if its flavor doesn’t change soon. That doesn’t mean abandon what has made it a great game over the past years, that means in with the new and keep the old.

Most hardcore Halo players here will flame you for suggesting weapon attachments, they will flame you for changing anything about the game. What most don’t realize is that you can keep the old gameplay as well as make the game for interesting and fun.

First of all, I believe Halo should evolve to include MASSIVE multiplayer games (same as Battlefield is). They should include large vehicles and maybe even involve gametypes around them (ie: Pelican’s, Scarabs). If the battlefield becomes large maybe include scopes for all guns, excluding weapons where it wouldn’t make sense (ie: pistol, shotty). Maybe we could get weapon attachments to fit into Halo somehow, who knows.

Alongside that we could then include a Ranked playlist that plays like every past Halo game, and is extremely competitive. The Ranked playlist would NOT include any of the changes made in the social gameplay.

You see, a developer can often give players the best of both worlds, what most people don’t realize on these forums is just that.

Halo already has taken the place of different types of games. Halo can be a racer, an FPS, or a sports game. Halo dominates all! But the people who don’t want change prohibit that. What we need is change, but good change. Along with that we need to keep the old mechanics, and this way both sides are happy.

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Weapon attatchments are a big no, they would ruin the balance of the weapon sandbox in Halo. Hand to hand combat seems pointless. I don’t see how the game could benefit from it other than making you look cooler. It seems like it could slow down the gameplay flow a lot. I have nothing against any of the other ideas.

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Matchmaking search restriction: No Guests

Edit: Dual swords would serve absolutely no gameplay purpose. It’s already a one hit kill, and I’m sure Bungie thought about it when they were making Halo 2 and decided against it.

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CoD mostly i hate the thought of having pre-selected weapons and the idea of Weapon Attachments. Keep that stuff out of Halo and to some other series please!! Halo is all about balance!

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Just a New weapon sandbox, If I see a magnum/BR + Sniper and rockets again then Halo is dead to me now matter how much I love it.

Everyone Bashes Call of Duty for not changing but you guys are complaining that Reach wasn’t similar enough to the previous Halo title?

New sandbox Plox.

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There should be loads of different type of guns For the pistol-H2,H3 and Reach and Rifles-BR-DMR-FAR(fully automatic rifle) Assault rifle-Assault rifle. Machine guns-Mounted machine gun,LMG,HMG. Sniper rifle- Sniper rifle,Anti material rife(Anti vehical) Rocket launcher- Rocket launcher,Heat seaking launcher.

And Improved Rocket hog, Reaches rocket hog is way under powered.

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> There should be loads of different type of guns For the pistol-H2,H3 and Reach and Rifles-BR-DMR-FAR(fully automatic rifle) Assault rifle-Assault rifle. Machine guns-Mounted machine gun,LMG,HMG. Sniper rifle- Sniper rifle,Anti material rife(Anti vehical) Rocket launcher- Rocket launcher,Heat seaking launcher.
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> And Improved Rocket hog, Reaches rocket hog is way under powered.

Possibly bring back the HaloPC rocket hog. That was pretty awesome, but still needs a little work done.

Though, in H4, i want everything we got now improved, i want Forge 2.5 or 3.0 and also i’d like there to be civilian vehicles and the pelican, phantom and possibly the spirit.

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> -Weapon Attachments/Mods
> Before you go yelling about “this isnt CoD” just think about it. Scopes, Bayonets(increase lunge and melee damage), Shotguns, Night Vision, maybe a Flashlight. All these would by unlocked, or purchased from the armory or marketplace. Some would be specific to certain weapons.

Ok, now can I yell “This isn’t CoD”? Base weapons already have scopes, and spartans don’t use them, they use their HUD which is much more acurate, they don’t ever look down the scope of a weapon, shotguns and bayonets would be pointless additions that just take the usefullness away from the normal shotgun and sword. Night vision wouldn’t be an attatchment, and you could just turn up the brightness on your screen, the flashlight is pretty much the only thing I can see bieng a good idea.

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But the nightvision, and or flashlight should and are (odst reach for nv and the rest for flash) already default parts of the armor. So you want to take away that and make it an unlockable?