This post is an extension to “QUESTIONS FOR FRANK AND A LOT LOT MORE” because is exceeded the max character limit.
Firefight blows, Sorry, but it’s boring, even with the customization, the customization is boring because it takes 30 minutes to set up a game and then theres no surprises at all. It needs a BIG overall, Pleas consider the following:
In-game money you earn from kills.
The ability to spend this money on barriers, turrets, upgrades and weapons
A weapon purchasing machine where you buy new weapons with this in game money and ammo
FLOOD. Nuff said.
ALL maps can be used for firefight, and ALL firefight maps can be used for anything else.
A separate ranking system in Firefight, like MW3’s survival.
CUSTOMIZABLE SPACE VEHICLES AND SPACE MAPS.
FIREFIGHT PLAYER LIMIT INCREASED TO 5.
A story behind every firefight mission.
On to FORGE.
Forge was an amazing idea, and amazing add-on for Halo, the ability to add to the map is cool, but what about the ability to take away? In Halo reach we saw “Forge World”, An awesome forge map, but forgeworld had many obstacles like rocks and trees that the player couldn’t remove, this got very, very annoying and ruined map ideas sometimes. I think it’s HIGHLY critical that a new tool be introduced that allows the player to shape the land, Forge world had a lot of hills and sometimes this was cool, but most the time ruined a lot of map ideas, the ability to flatten the land, or raise it, or shape it however you want would be nice. As an extension to that idea, I think there would be nothing better then to be able to make tunnels in the ground and mountains. Let me explain this idea, I realize theres nothing actually below the surface on Forgeworld, and probably nothing behind the mountains, they’re hollow, but what if the sides of the tunnels appeared AS the player was digging/carving? This would allow the player to create things below the water, into mountains, and under the ground. It would open up a lot of customization for maps.
Reach was weird, the objects that you guys gave us to force with were simply weird, and many unusable, especially true with the pre-made buildings. They either had to many doors, to many holes, they were to short or to tall or to big or what ever, I tried time and time again to find a way to implement them into my maps, but failed to come up with a satisfying design. I believe the structures and actually ALL the forge objects should be changeable, for example, the Colosseum wall, It’s huge, and I like this, but sometimes it’s to big, sometimes I wish I could delete a small part of it to make a door, what if players could “erase” certain parts of an object to change them? or fill other parts in? like windows or doors they don’t want.
Forge, really, really needs interactive objects, like REAL elevators and REAL opening doors, Lifts, beams of light, motion sensors and cameras. What if you could set up a camera in one tunnel you dug into the ground and had a TV (What the hell are they going to call them 500 years into the future?) in another room to watch the camera? That would be cool, Cameras and TVs could be linked on channels just like telaporters, along with motion sensors. So you could have a motion sensor, a camera, and a Tv all on the same channel, when the motion sensor picks up movement the camera could “track” it and the Tv would instantly change to that camera view. Think about it.
Onto maps.
In the past we have seen some really cool maps, and it actually really sucks that these maps, ALL of these maps weren’t carried into the next games. I wish Halo 4, and ALL of the future halo games would come with 2 disc, the second disc is full of every single map that has every been made for the halo universe, carried on with the new graphics. These maps could be carried on from game to game, and give players truly massive selections of maps. You would download this second disc to your hard drive. Can’t you guys get a team of 5-6 people to go back to every halo game and slowly start pulling them forward? This is just a dream of mine I guess… sigh.
That’s it for now, But i wish I could directly speak to you. My head has been buzzing with ideas since I started playing halo all those years ago…