I am a huge Halo fan, I’ve played every Halo game and know the story very well, so here is my advice for Halo: Reach improvements.
The new update for Halo Reach is great, and it really improves the game play (reticule bloom was a good concept, but I must admit I’ve lost quite a few battles because of it). My only concern about the update is disablement of the Energy Sword melee-block ability. I thought this was a great way to balance the sword, and make it so that players could defend themselves from it, but sadly it’s being taken out, and I’m concerned on whether or not this will make players with swords too powerful.
I also think you should add an Elite Slayer playlist to matchmaking. Because I love to play as Elites, but sadly this opinion isn’t shared with most players, so they usually don’t vote for Elite Slayer game types. And with the update in place, Armor Lock will not be quite an issue in Elite Slayer anymore.
I think there should be Drones in FireFight. I don’t understand why not; it would make FireFight much more enjoyable with Drones. I also think Engineers should be in all the FireFight maps, cause they’re cool.
I think Forge should have a ‘undo’ option, so that if you accidentily delete something, you can undo it. And maybe perhaps a less strict budget limit on certain items.
A good idea would also to have a Armory DLC, since it’d be really cool for us to get new armor. But I suspect the helmet in the Defiant Map Pack trailer could be part of a possible Armory DLC, but I can only hope.
Please put back betrayal booting in the Living Dead playlist! I can’t count how many times I’ve been randomly betrayed by random players, it’s really annoying. I know you guys took it out because of a glitch where the human kills a zombie right after he’s infected, but I think that’s a risk we’re just going to have to take, since getting betrayed over and over is much more annoying.
Also, I think it would be a good idea to make it so that every time someone quits a game, they have to wait 10 minutes before going into another Matchmaking game. Hear me out: if they’re quitting a game cause they have to go do something, then they’re probably going to be gone for around 10 minutes, so it shouldn’t be a problem. And if they’re quitting cause they don’t like the map or game type, then they’re just abandoning their team and leaving them to be outnumbered by the enemy. When I go into Matchmaking, it seems like every game, at least one person will quit, and I think we need more strict quitting rules.
For betrayal booting, it needs fixing. There’s been so many times for when I have a good weapon or vehicle, then some noob decides to betray me for it, and I don’t get the option to boot the jerk. Perhaps 343 could make it so that if you betray someone, you immediatly die, which would make it so that a teammate cannot benefit from betraying you.
Another idea for a playlist is Assault Rifle Swat (aka AR SWAT). Sure it takes less skill than a DMR, but I think it would be a very enjoyable game type.
For the playlist Action Sack: please take out Halo Ball. Halo Ball Extreme is okay, but the regular Halo Ball is very boring, and gives the players very few credits.
For Weekly Challenges: please no more LASO! Me and all my friends on Reach hate LASO and would much prefer Weekly Challenges that are not quite as difficult and time consuming.
For multiplayer maps, please don’t fix maps that are okay by themselves. For example, the map Condemned is often changed to it’s altered form, Uplink, which the only noticeable difference are the teleporters and lack of Rocket Launcher. Personally, I don’t think that map needed to be fixed.
In Team Slayer, maybe you could decrease the amount of Forge World maps? Cause whenever I go into that playlist, most of the time it shows Forge World maps that I’ve never heard of before, and I usually prefer to play on non-Forge World maps. Same thing with Big Team Battle, there’s way too many random game types in that playlist, I think Big Team Slayer should be the dominant game type in that playlist. Oh and if you can’t make an Elite Slayer Playlist, please at least make Elite Slayer more common in Matchmaking.
In the DLC playlists, I would prefer if those playlists would exclude all non-DLC maps, since I really don’t think Powerhouse and Zealot should be in Premium Battle, nor Hemmorage in Premium Battle. Cause when I go into those playlists, it’s because I want to play DLC maps.
This is just an idea, but I think when Halo: Anniversary comes out, you should make a Weekly Challenge saying “Play Halo: Anniversary” for 100,000 cR. I just think it’d be a cool treat for those who get Halo Anniversary in the first week, and it might improve profits!
And this is advice for the Halo series in general: please make the Campaigns longer. Ever since Halo 3, all the Halo Campaigns have gotten much shorter, which is unfortunate. Also, personally I think Grunts should have been able to speak English in Reach; I know making the Covenant speak their own language was to make them more ‘alien’ but come on, Grunts? It’s not the same without the little guys shouting hilarious lines of dialogue in squeaky voices.
343 I would just like to say that you’ve done a good job so far as the company now in charge of Halo. Thank you for reading my advice (assuming you read all this) and I hope you will put some thought into these.
PS: Halo Reach is awesome, please ignore those who say it isn’t as good as Halo 3.
