The Halo 4 Wish List On Customs, Forge, And Miscellaneous

Games Other Halo
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Forge;
A true sandbox, where you can alter everything, from elevation to weather to time of day.

A variety of different environmental maps. (i.e. Snows, Swampy, Desert, Forest, Forerunner, etc.)

More lights.

Allow to change textures of items, such as sheet-metal or stone walls.

Doors and Switches.

Add forgeable doors/windows that can be repaired when broken. Also for infection game types.

In forge I would love to have a mass amount of UNSC and Covenant scenery. I don’t like how half the maps don’t have cool items (Remember Computers?). I want be able to make cool scenarios but I can’t due to the huge lack in scenery items.

The ability to anchor items to destroy-able items, so if the item was destroyed the anchored item would then fall.
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Forgeable Trees

A fourth item type, Cutting; Like phasing, but instead of merging into the landscape, it would dig into the landscape and other objects.

Stretch Blocks, change size for 1,1,1 to 3,4,8 or 1,10,10
And Hollow option.

Gondile has a great post here.

Custom Games;
Keep armor abilities.

The ability to choose how long an armor ability use is.

The ability to choose species per team.

The ability to negate or choose abilities for select teams (i.e. Jet-team vs. sprint-team).

The ability to choose varying strengths of different body parts, like setting head resistance at 1-2 while keeping main body normal.

The ability to either create Loadouts with different traits.

The ability to spawn certain loadouts at certain places.

The ability to spawn without weapons, but still assassinate.

Generic Pickup-able items like flags.

D-Pad Use;
Up; Put away weapon

Down; Lower weapon

Vehicles;
The Elephant must return and be a forgeable vehicle

Flyable and forgeable pelicans

More Falcon seats.

Transport Hog, with working back seats.

All other useable vehicles from past games.

Armor;
Customization has room for improvement, like that attachment and like that helmet, you should be able to combine the two. Want it on the other side, or pointing the wrong way? why not. Heck, Want that knife on your leg? Go ahead. Attachments are attachments and should have to right to be any where.
But doesn’t that mess-up hit boxes? Just have the bullets go through.

A real neat feature would be the ability to change sheen of your armor. There are those who want to draw attention, to be the ones in the fight, and want everybody to be looking at them. I feel it would more accommodating AND more realistic if you could affect your armors condition. These suit of epic incarnate are, in the most basic of terms, metal. Metal shines, metal gleams, and metal rusts. The armor should be able to follow suit. Though being purely cosmetic, the armor should be able to have chosen varying conditions. Those who want to show their experience can have a rusted, grizzled appearance, where those who favor practicality can have theirs looking fresh-off the line with a fresh coat of teflon. It’s ALL about the ascetics.

Add detail options to the body, (i.e. radio on belt, Ammo belts, or a katana on your hip, etc.)
(Radios, knives, bags, cameras, computers, and anything that can be thought of.)

Multi-Layered Armors. (Ammo belts,(detail) over this or that. And yes that would allow someone to cover themselves in junk.

Take all of the variants that were in Reach and set them as the free initial armory in Halo 4. This would let all of your hard work from Reach be carried-over to Halo 4. And, the rest of Halo 4’s armory would be 343’s ideas, which means even more stuff.

New coloration options; at least 5 colors and choices as to what part it what. Hey you could even look like Voltron if you wanted to.
And while I’m on colors, can we get a real Black instead of just “Steel”.

Upgrades;
The ability to adjustment of text size. (to accommodate the fact of varying TV sizes)

The ability to select brightness, color, and opacity for the HUD and aiming reticule.

Gravity should make sense. Explosions should move things bigger than cones.

Games;

Invasion;
Keep it in.

Infection;
Allow all weapons to be used in a headshot. (i.e. rockets that hit the head count as head-shots)

VIP
Bring back and then some.

Juggernaut
Fix Please.

Maps;
If you have a map with extra land (i.e. the other side of Powerhouse’s broken bridge) let us go there; it could have many uses (i.e. Custom Games, Machinimas, and safe havens).

“The Infinity map from Halo CE”

Matchmaking;
The playlists should be broken up more but offer the same options.

1)Reach, with armor abilities
2)Original, Think classic with many sub-options
3)Ranked, Mix of Reach and Original with sub-options
4)Other, a place for a mix for things like action sack and mini games

Contributers;
weird stealth

Feel free to post any comments/ideas.

Thank You for reading, I hope my thoughts helped even in the smallest way.

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> Forge;
> A true sandbox, where you can alter everything, from elevation to weather to time of day.
>
> A variety of different environmental maps. (i.e. Snows, Swampy, Desert, Forest, Forerunner, etc.)
>
> More lights.
>
> Allow to change textures of items, such as sheet-metal or stone walls.
>
> Doors and Switches.
>
> Add forgeable doors/windows that can be repaired when broken. Also for infection game types.
>
> In forge I would love to have a mass amount of UNSC and Covenant scenery. I don’t like how half the maps don’t have cool items (Remember Computers?). I want be able to make cool scenarios but I can’t due to the huge lack in scenery items.
>
> The ability to anchor items to destroy-able items, so if the item was destroyed the anchored item would then fall.

Here’s the thing, being able to alter elevation, weather, and time of day, kind of goes from a being a in game sandbox map editor, to a full blown Sandbox editor. The other things like more lights, more variety environmental maps, texture changing, doors and switchs would be cool. Also, to add to the list, Trees, we got rocks and stuff, why not give us trees.

> Custom Games;
> Keep armor abilities.
>
> The ability to choose how long an armor ability use is.
>
> The ability to choose species per team.
>
> The ability to negate or choose abilities for select teams (i.e. Jet-team vs. sprint-team).
>
> The ability to choose varying strengths of different body parts, like setting head resistance at 1-2 while keeping main body normal.
>
> The ability to either create Loadouts with different traits.
>
> The ability to spawn certain loadouts at certain places.
>
> The ability to spawn without weapons, but still assassinate.
>
> D-Pad Use;
> Up; Put away weapon
>
> Down; Lower weapon

Armor abilities haven’t been really welcome lately, too many people don’t like it. But I can see some of the current armor abilities that can be still be in the game and be an equipment, like drop shield and camo, and instead of starting with it, have it be something you have to pick up.
Also droping weapon, I would love to see it come back for online MP.

> Vehicles;
> The Elephant must return and be a forgeable vehicle
>
> Flyable and forgeable pelicans
>
> More Falcon seats.
>
> Transport Hog, with working back seats.
>
> All other useable vehicles from past games.

Move falcon seats and transport hog would be GREAT for team based MP, but I can see people not liking them cause you can’t fire weapons from those extra seats.

> Armor;
> Make all additions available to helmets to every helmet. Same with all armor.
>
> A real neat feature would be the ability to change sheen of your armor. There are those who want to draw attention, to be the ones in the fight, and want everybody to be looking at them. I feel it would more accommodating AND more realistic if you could affect your armors condition. These suit of epic incarnate are, in the most basic of terms, metal. Metal shines, metal gleams, and metal rusts. The armor should be able to follow suit. Though being purely cosmetic, the armor should be able to have chosen varying conditions. Those who want to show their experience can have a rusted, grizzled appearance, where those who favor practicality can have theirs looking fresh-off the line with a fresh coat of teflon. It’s ALL about the ascetics.
>
> Add detail options to the body, (i.e. radio on belt, Ammo belts, or a katana on your hip, etc.)
>
> Multi-Layered Armors. (Ammo belts,(detail) over this and that.
>
> Take all of the variants that were in Reach and set them as the free initial armory in Halo 4. This would let all of your hard work from Reach be carried-over to Halo 4. And, the rest of Halo 4’s armory would be 343’s ideas, which means even more stuff.

that whole quote is full of win, being able to pick if your armor is shiny, or worn and rusty, that would be great, because you’ll be able to spot all of the people who want to stick out like a sore thumb with their big bulky armor and their flaming heads. I remember a thread talking about an idea for you to be able to pick the color pattern on your armor, that would kind of go in hand with your idea.

> Upgrades;
> The ability to adjustment of text size. (to accommodate the fact of varying TV sizes)
>
> The ability to select brightness, color, and opacity for the HUD and aiming reticule.
>
> Gravity should make sense. Explosions should move things bigger than cones.

I like the idea of adjusting the text size, because the text size is set for people who site at lest 5 feet or more away from the screen, but I use a computer screen as my xbox screen, so I’m like 4 feet away from my screen at the most, so I would love to down size the text so I can see other things. Changing the color of the HUD, that would be cool, Crysis 1 and Warhead had that, they had a select number of color options but you could change the color of the HUD, and in split screen, changing the color of the HUD would make things easier to tell which screen was for who based on the color of the HUD.

> Maps;
> If you have a map with extra land (i.e. the other side of Powerhouse’s broken bridge) let us go there; it could have many uses (i.e. Custom Games, Machinimas, and safe havens).

Yes, and I want to see the Infinity map from Halo CE come back, that map is great for racing, and CTF, I wonder how it would play as a invasion game type.

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Right, this is something that would ultimately sell it for Halo 4(in saying that, not that I would not buy it anyway), would be the ability to search for custom games. And here is why, back when Halo 3 first came out, there was no Xbox party system, to talk with your friend meant you would also talk with your teamates(assuming they had a mike and you hadn’t muted them), now that would mean, occasionally, you would get to talking to them, it could be silly jokes, or talking about the game in progress. This would lead to getting custom game invites, usually infection games(not always) with fun, amusing and a lot of the time, impressive varients. Over time you would gain a list of people that would be searching for new game types and they would have a list if people doing the same thing and it would mean that no matter when, or if your friends were online, you could join one of these strangers and find yourself in one of these games. What Xbox party has done is that if your friends are online, you simply join their party, and there is no socialising outside of this group, now the party system is not necessarily bad, in fact it is quite handy, but it has had an adverse effect on randomly finding yourself in these custom games, this is why I find myself not playing Halo Reach as much as I did Halo 3, so please 343, add this simple feature, make it possible to search for open custom games, you will not regret it.

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okay I really want to be able to lower my weapon or drop it even just for fun…
second, I really want a MOTORCYCLE!!!.. forget the mongoose, im too cool for that…
okay third… I wanna play as an ODST! just for fun… oh and I hope armor customization like reach is in h4 as well…

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I agree with all of this and this would make one of the greatest halo experiences but you’re also leaving out VIP as a gametype. Playing the president gametype in Sandbox definitely made for some good times.

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> I agree with all of this and this would make one of the greatest halo experiences but you’re also leaving out VIP as a gametype. Playing the president gametype in Sandbox definitely made for some good times.

I didn’t have that?
Will be added shortly.
Feel free to think of other missing stuff.

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You just posted EVERYTHING I had in mind but was too lazy to type up :slight_smile: I agree and think that most of what you said will be the improvements upon halo 4 great job thanks :wink:

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I hope that 343 gives us different types of “forge worlds” and that we can change the settings in game, like when you bring up the forge menu by hitting the X button and have the options to make it rain, or snow or hail or be nite or make it swampey or with covenat setting or flood infected stuff like having flood tenticals and be able to spawn breakible objects like in the anniversity map pack, like the wooden pallets but have more of them. and insted of having money and limited objects, having a object limit to where you have like 500 objects that you can spawn. plus have unlimited objects untill you hit the limit then it says “object limit reached if you want to continue, your game will lag” or something like that :slight_smile: