So i’ve been thinking about how you, 343, can earn your redemption. If we can have the majority of these things implemented and show us you actually care about the veterans opinions, i will have no issue playing H5 and supporting you throughout your video game industry conquest. If i miss anything, or you’d like an idea added that MAKES SENSE, i will add it. If you want armor lock back sorry you’re in the minority and S.O.L. 343, you have messed up, pretty badly i must say but here’s what you can do.
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Extend the deadline to the date of the last patch update for all of the people who should get ODST and a month of gold for free. The game was in no way in a launchable state and wasn’t close to being fixed. The way microsoft / 343 / 343 / microsoft made it sound is that MCC was fixed, so go out and buy that and the xbox one for christmas. Everyone who got it for christmas, got a broken console (yes the xbox one is very malfunctioning) and a broken game.
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Take out ALL, and i cannot stress ALL enough. Take out ALL perks, all armor abilities, jetpack or whatever it was renamed to, and take out the option to create a class. Halo is not call of duty, it’s an arena shooter. Stop trying to get cod kids to conform and come play. It’s not happening. They don’t have the skill level to spend time taking one kid on, when they can go into a room and take on the whole opposing team by themselves.
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Add a proper ranking system. Unlike cod players where it’s fun to steamroll and utterly obliterate the opposing team who doesn’t have thumbsticks, us Halo players like a challenge. It IS NOT fun looking around an entire map looking for guests, sleepovers etc and once we find them destroying them. Their is no joy in bagging the face of a kid who has never had a 50 in his life, nor good at the game. A proper ranking system would separate the bad, from the average to good to great. This also means you should reimplement a social playlist as well as a ranked.
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Keeping armor abilities in campaign is FINE. I don’t care what you keep in campaign. I would actually rather you have jetpack and armor abilities in campaign. It’d be cool to have to assassinate an elite aboard Jul 'Mdama’s ship, steal his camo and have to sneak past every dino. And if you alert them, well be prepared for Hell. All this just adds coolness to the campaign. Personally Halo 4 campaign was fun. Especially when the Didact made Chief his bish lmao. Was good to know you weren’t an “all powerful” ‘machine’ with no opposition except a few grunts and brute chieftains.
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Bring back firefight to ODST on MCC. Not putting firefight into ODST is the equivalent of porting H2Vista with no multiplayer. Sure the campaign was cool, but battling wave after wave in firefight with friends trying to get the vidmasters with your friends (even though you died a -Yoink- ton), was still fun. Far more replay value in firefight than campaign.
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If you’re not willing to do what is in point 2, make a separate playlist that plays just like Halo 2 / Halo 3. No armor abilities, no jetpack, no groundpound ffs, no sprint NONE OF THAT. This is the only time it’s acceptable to copy call of duty. Cough cough Advanced Warfare cough cough.
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Make an MLG / EGL / HCS playlist that is RANKED. Nothing, and i repeat NOTHING but pure gunskill. No equipment. Just guns, and customs should be on these maps. Bullet damage at 110%, No radar etc.
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Proper Voting system. MCC’s voting system is absolute atrocity. How if 2 maps get tied, it’s the map on the left that gets picked? It needs to be if 2 maps get tied, it drops the map with the least amount of votes. Then, the voting restarts inbetween the 2 maps that were picked. This way, the people who voted for the lesser voted map can vote between the 2 maps. Having to play 1 of the 2 maps you didn’t get to vote for isn’t fair.
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Remake Fan favorites. Remake iconic Halo maps, not maps that are the easiest / been remade before. I could name one, but i’ll chose not to :Kappa:.
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Bring back armor that is unlocked through achieving feats, not by just playing the game. Their was nothing more fun than that of achievement hunting for armor in Halo 3. Having certain armor (particularly Scout, Recon etc) showed what you could achieve, compared to other players. If you had Recon in Halo 3 prior to 343 giving it out, you were the man. People would spam you with your strategy, and whom you played them with and even offered to pay you microsoft points to help get them recon. Certain achievements unlocking armor is the way to go. It gives you something to work for and in my opinion getting achievements AND armor is far better than just playing (not even winning) and unlocking armor.
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Don’t RELEASE H5 until it is perfect. Turn on your servers, test your game on LAN. Bring in beta testers to test the game. Do whatever it takes to not mess this up. If you release a game that is broken, you will have ruined the game forever. What i mean by that is your shot at a good steady global population has went out the window and there is no way to fix that if you release a broken game. If something does happen, get every team whether it be the DLC team, the H6 team etc onboard and halt all future development of EVERYTHING, and fix the ship before it sinks.