… In one of the Halo Bulletins soon! Sorry, didn’t have the space to write in the full title.
One thing that has gotten zero attention so far from you folks at 343 is the status of Custom Games. With pictures of playlists that don’t have certain gametypes to distant murmurings of even darker things… The custom games community sure could use some re-assuring before Halo 4 hits shelves.
I don’t think it’s too much to ask to dedicate some bulletin time to Custom Games at least once. It wouldn’t have to be much, just some Gametype Options spreadsheets or something… But I feel that since pretty much every other enthusiast group (Competitives, Forgers, MLG fans) have all gotten some kind of information dump in their direction, it’s only fair that we do as well.
If you need some questions or something, I know plenty of people ready to ask!
Just consider it?
The reason I posted this on the forums is so people can show their support. I know there are a lot of custom gamers out there with a lot of questions about Halo 4, and we’d like to go to the official source rather than some… Well… Other means =)
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Start posting questions. I’ll gather any relevant ones and put them here in the OP. I’ll start us off, and you guys can keep the ball rolling.
By relevant, I don’t mean “Whether I like it or not”. I will only screen out previously-answered questions (Such as Flag dropping. Answer’s no by the way, can’t change it.), or stuff like “Is Grifball in Matchmaking?” that has nothing to do with Customs.
> - Is VIP in Halo 4? If it isn’t, what were your reasons for not bringing it back?
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> - Duplicate the above question for Race, Assault, and Juggernaut.
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> - Can we change the appearance of the Flood back to Spartans in Flood mode?
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> - Is the “% of Flood/Zombies” back as an option for “Number of Starting Flood/Zombies” in Flood mode?
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> - Are Havens returning for Flood mode?
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> - Can we fully edit Flood traits (weapons, speed, AAs, etc.), or are things like AA modifications and Flood Arm hard-coded?
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> - Are we going to see more gametypes added to Halo 4 in the future, much like we saw with Reach? Could we possibly see any previously-removed gametypes come back?
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> - Can you give us some details on the Forge pallet of the non-Forge maps (Haven, Longbow, Exile, etc.)?
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> - Can Player Trait zones be applied to weapons, vehicles, and other Forge objects? (This was possible with objective zones in Reach.)
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> - (If VIP is not returning)Are there any gametypes that support Influence traits? This was a huge feature that was widely-used in Halo 3’s VIP mode.
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> - Can we set players to start with power weapons such as the SAW, Incineration Cannon, and Binary Rifle? Are they able to be placed in Forge? (We have only seen these weapons in Ordinance drops so far.)
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> - Were many of Reach’s odd glitches fixed, like not being able to force an AAs through traits, being unable to use certain AAs with objective objects, or being unable to pick up objectives if weapon pickup was turned off?
That’s all I got for now. I’ll add more if I think of em.
