The Gameplay In Reach it was weird and did not feel right on the spot like halo usually does, the A.I. was improve but there were some errors that makes it a little weird like stupid or suicidal behaviours from supporting characters and the covenant were speaking too much of their language, specially the grunts. I remember in the past halo games where the grunts use to say stupid & funny stuffs and go crazy, these were the days. I think the proper balance was suppose to be half of both languages where they would peak in english and then repeat it in their covenant language so we may learn the language, have some expert linguist develop the covenant language. Another thing is that four mission finish with a switch getting activated which is not that original, once it’s OK, twice maybe, do you see where I’m getting at and most importantly is that we didn’t get to switch player roles and visit some great natural, paradisiacal and ancient places, civilisation and structures in the story just like in Halo 2 where we visit some amazing playground and played as the Arbiter, it would awesome to play as every covenant in the campaign for a mission or a part of a mission, like the elites, the brutes (by the way the brutes were super ugly in reach and should be coming back to the original design like in Halo 3 or specially in the cinematic of Halo Wars where they pretty much nail the design of every covenant and Spartan in the game and they should use the Halo Wars design as a reference for every characters in the Halo universe), the skirmishers, the jackals, the grunts, the prophets, the forerunner, the precursor, the monitors and the flood in future Halos in all of the menus specially the multiplayer. I would love to see a lot of role switching in the upcoming Halo 4 and Halo trilogy where we could play as a forerunner, a precursor, a sentinel colony, the flood also as one or more monitors and would love to see 343 Guilty Spark come back from ashes by the backups of himself he made on the ring & be rebuild more powerful, more intelligent, more performance and ready for more action & so much more!!! I wanna see more side stories of the main characters that are playable in campaign with lots of challenges, mini games and easter eggs. I think in Halo 4 there should be a health bar just like Reach that appears when the player is injured and that gradually get restored to full strength when the suit is injecting the player with a special foam which is the same speed as an elite healing ability (with a special sound of foam injection) then the meter disappears. I think the bloom was so badly implemented in Reach because the bloom is the possible outcome of a bullet coming out of the barrel of a gun and the reticule is suppose to be the maximum outcome of bullet coming out of the barrel of the gun. That’s why I think that the bloom effect wasn’t properly implemented in Reach, it’s because they’ve reverse the role of the bloom to the one of the reticule and it was completely misguiding. Please 343 Don’t make that same mistake and keep the bloom at its maximum circumference inside the reticule to avoid any more confusion, where the reticule stay still and do not expand and the bloom expand inside the reticule, please. I would like to see the team who implement motion captioning do some motion caption on the reload speed of weapons with all of the different customise pieces a weapons, magazine etc… with different reloading speed from normal to very fast and also some simulation of jamming weapon while reloading which happen once in a very long time, I would advise to us the world Guinness Record holder for the caption of weapon reloading. It would be great if the implementation of the reload speed in a gameplay would be in relation with the amount of action being done within a certain time frame, where the more action you do ( reloading weapon, throw a grenade, switch weapon, use a melee attack, shooting a weapon, performing an assassination, performing a neutralisation, performing a brutal assassination, use an accessory, use an airborne attack support, use a remote control weapon, use an armor ability, etc…) the more it will decrease the reloading time from 4 seconds down to half a second and it will resume slowly back to its original reload speed of 4 or 5 seconds if no action is done within a 10 seconds. Also it would be great to see a reloading meter just under weapon magazine count that show the reloading progress in 3 or 4 part in the meter so we can know when to start awe AA on just like Gears of War. It would be awesome also if as Spartan we could access satellite area view so we could see awe position with an extended view all around or access camera surveillance in an area for recon purposes see the outcome of an area in the left side of awe HUD in color just above the new 3D radar and also be able to see what other Spartan are seeing even a few moment after their death if their suit is still working. Also It would be great to have a first person kill cam just after we died to know how we died and by who we died just like in C.O.D. Also in the gameplay it would be cool if we can see the helmet and HUD vibrate when we are running with a little parasite too. Also it would be awesome if we could control grenade throws by holding the button up to 1 second to be able to control the power of the throw so we can throw further or closer if we only tap the button. And in the gameplay there should be polite rating in each game where if someone is too vulgar and is voted many times as being vulgar, the system shutdown his microphone for a relatively long time, like 30 minutes or more than it gets restored just to keep people online polite & respectful. Also it would be great if we could see an analog tachymeter and speedometer on the left bottom of the display when we use a vehicle like the warthog or the mongoose etc… that works and be able to do smoke shows with the vehicle with the handbrake.
Customizations, Accessories & Weapons I wanna see in the upcoming games with more than 3 times the amount of customizations that was in Reach for the armor where the Chief will have more accessories and other blades like the katana in Halo 3 it definitely got to come back, the famous Halo 1 belt with all the pocket in it, multiple daggers, different combat knifes like Rambo styles and other customizable blades, customizable energy sword where each customize energy sword style is related to an elite rank and where the original energy sword design is for the highest elite position and more; much more vehicle customizations airborne and land vehicles, and customise weapons. I wanna see more customizable weapons where all of the human and covenant weapons from past Halo games come back specially the BR, where you can customize the scopes, the magazines, the loader of each weapon specially the covenant ones and a lot more customization just like the game Ghost Recon Future Soldier where you can customize a weapon with Kinect for close quarter combat with a knife attach to it or for long range combat with the sniper that can have customize super long barrel and customize magazine where you can have double magazines attach to each other just like C.O.D. modern warfare 2 or one extra long magazine for special forces. There should be more kinect integration in the upcoming games and there should be all of the previous Halo games gun with more extensive customisation, options to them and new one that are for humans, covenant, brutes, forerunners, precursors and even the flood, there should be brute pistol, a brute sniper, a brute rocket launcher, a brute torrent and a brute semi-automatic rifle, there should be a forerunner, precursor & flood weapon for every category of weapon the human and the covenant has and there should be at least two different types of grenades for each one of them and one human EMP type of grenade that release an EMP blast twice the diameter of a regular frag grenade that act like the EMP blast of the plasma pistol. It would be awesome if you could use remote control weapons like a remote control little warthog that you could direct to a location to remotely explode it or a remote helicopter that could do the same or have a call out for ground support by an airborne turrent that you could deploy! I would like to see more new accessories like the radar jammer, gravity lift, regenerator, power drainer, trip mine and much much much more back in Halo 4 just like Halo 3 because it gave more depth & strategies to the game, I would like to see more different vision available like night vision, enhance vision (in Halo ODST), heat infra red vision, radar vision that utilise an highly sophisticated combination radars to graphically reproduce environments and enemies in 3D that show all every seconds and fades just like a radar would, etc. Movement I would love also to be able to shout out command to fellow Spartan or marines like ‘’ attack, retreat, cover us, go here, guard there and so on, basically the most common command in a real life army combat scenarios. Also movements should be free where you don’t feel restrain because of stupid game parameters, it should feel natural and normal just like Brink the game S.M.A.R.T. movement system where you can jump over things, slide under stuff or slide while shooting someone in the air or jump over someone while shooting down on them or be able to hide behind covers by tapping a button and not feel restrain by that move or be able to perform evade while standing up, we should be able to grab an opponent, neutralize him and use him as a human shield and be able to perform brutal assassinations where we can break their armor at the cost of rewarding bonuses. We should be able to use kinect to activate armor abilities, visions like night vision or infra red heat vision, accessories and use the camera lens of kinect to look right or left while playing the in a game.
Vehicles I think for Halo 4 we should be able to see all of previous Halo games vehicles and new ones from the humans, covenant, brutes, forerunners, precursors and flood that are fully customizable and that has real life sounds like if it were real in front of us with realistic acceleration FX just like the famous ‘‘vrooouummm vrooouummm’’ of an big army jeep (Warthog). Theater In the new theater 2.0 I would like be able to use it like a complete movie editor where I would be able to use all and every score music in the game to make a short or long film where I could save it directly onto my Xbox. I would like to be able save or record a sequence of one player or multiple players movement in actions just by selecting them straight from multiplayer, custom games, campaign etc… and edit them and save them, implement them into a work in progress or be able to create my own sequence of movement & actions where I can create or edit a player’s every moves from head to toes, where I could be able to create gestures like handshakes, hand waving hello, being able to sit, to get down and lay down and so much more. Being able to control a player’s facial expression to match a certain scene or moment, being able to accurately coordinate every facial expression or mouth gesture to a certain dialog or song or emotion at ease and being able to do so to A.I. characters or players, being able to select witch character you want for a certain scene and be able to use squads of A.I. characters to orchestrate a combat scene or a romance scene where you can tell a certain squad to attack, defend a certain position, to show emotions of love, anger, fear etc…, and more and be able to choose the level of their attack for each squad from novice to legendary, and be able to add more member to the squad at any time or remove member throughout the story line and be able to edit the camera movement for the playback and the effect of the camera like sephia effect, vivid, black & white, negative, old film and more where you can control the weather and the skybox effects. It would be awesome also if we could control and edit a vehicle behaviours through a path throughout the movie editor even in the story line. It would be amazing if could select every word, phrase, music, sound FX basically every sound in the game and be able to use it in the new movie editor to make any kind of film, documentary or comedy that professionals and the community alike could use in an super easy user interface.
Forge 3.0 In the forge 3.0 I would love to see a complete map editor from landscape to skybox to texture to theme environment (covenant theme, human theme, forerunner theme, precursor theme, flood theme, brute theme, nature theme, paradisiacal theme, etc…) to weather to natural events (water flood, volcanic eruption, snow avalanche, tornadoes, hurricane, earthquake, quicksand, etc…) to destroyable environment, a complete forge 3.0 experience with at least ten time more budget, forgeable pieces, and stuff at once in the same map, also be able to create awe own forgeable pieces from scratch or from a map. Also I would like to be able to mirror a forge piece and enlarge or shrink it with parameters up to 300% and more, I would love to be able select multiple forge pieces and group them together for group edition or for merging these pieces together to create a new piece, it would be awesome if we could same & name them, put them in awe much much bigger file share and be able to have a search option for new forgeable pieces that have been created by the community where we could download them and use them and also know how many times awe forge pieces have been downloaded. Also I would be super sweeeeeet if we could have a despawning time, this is a must and a special view option mode that we can go into where all the pieces are transparent so we can see all of the forge pieces and see all of their stats info where you could freely navigate through all the forge pieces without being able to move them but just change their stats info like spawn & despawn time, place at start or not, axis x, y, z, parameters and so much more where you could select them in groups, name the groups and edit them as a group within that view and deselect an object from the group or deselect the whole group. This has been my first review of ideas for the upcoming Halo game and Halo trilogy, remember my gamer tag is ‘‘Emmp1’’ and I’ll be doing more review of my opinions and thoughts like this soon. I think that I brought some super exciting ideas to 343 industries and hope that you guys would consider greatly all of my suggestions, I would LOVE to be a certified game consultant at 343 Industries for the Halo Series, can you tell me how I can achieve my goal BS Angel that would be very appreciated , Thank you. Peace!
Also it would be super great if we could have a Firefight Horde style like the Gears of War where we could play as the covenant attacking the human or the Forerunner attacking or the Flood attacking or the precorsor attacking and be able to choose which race we are attackin, let’s call it Firefight Conquerors. And it would be even better if we could have huge Firefight Big Team Battle FFA Style were all the races are there, Humans, Covenants with Brutes, Floods, Forerunners and Precersors in one huge place where there could be close, medium and long range combat with different ranking soldiers and different combat style where you could choose at the begining of the game which race you wanna play, then which infantry you wanna choose, then which loadouts you wanna choose, then which equipments, then which armor abilities and finally which vehicle you wanna start with for that epic battle, let’s call it Firefight Survivor. Also in that game whenever you die you can have all theses options back again for a new style of gameplay with customize weapons, grenades, and visions, that would be mind blowing!
Hey, EMMP 1, just a word of advice, there are a few things about your posts that are bugging me.
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Could you please learn how to use paragraphs and text structuring, its really hard to read your walls of incoherant drone.
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Dont start your posts by saying all that nonsense about “Hey guys, its me, your favorite underdog that you all worship send these ideas to your developer team BS Angel my lovely friend etc.”
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Just state your ideas clearly and be straight to the point.
Please dont take offense, but i think people will like it more if you make your posts better. I stick by these rules and it makes my posts nice to read.
Its hard for anyone to not take offence to your post. Your telling him to “learn how to”, come on. There are better ways to talk to people. And are you one of the officials. Last time I checked this thread was for them so If they had a problem with his wall they could send him a private message. Some people might be new to forums or in some cases just tired and wanting to post while the idea is in there head. I’m just saying. It’s all in how you say it. If that is even your job to do.
> Hey, EMMP 1, just a word of advice, there are a few things about your posts that are bugging me.
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> 1. Could you please learn how to use paragraphs and text structuring, its really hard to read your walls of incoherant drone.
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> 2. Dont start your posts by saying all that nonsense about “Hey guys, its me, your favorite underdog that you all worship send these ideas to your developer team BS Angel my lovely friend etc.”
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> 3. Just state your ideas clearly and be straight to the point.
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> Please dont take offense, but i think people will like it more if you make your posts better. I stick by these rules and it makes my posts nice to read.
We’re almost there 343 ! Title update is really great, thanks for the works 
However, i think that you forgot 2 things to make Reach really better :
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The grenades. Reduce the area of effect, it’s imperative. Bring us back the skill in the grenade … Currently, all the noobs are throwing grenade everywhere and are making kills just because the grenade are nuclear bomb. We want grenade throwing, not grenade bombing. Reward accuracy, please, it’s essential.
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The maps. We are all agreed, as players, to say that the multiplayer maps are far from excellence … 343, give us the right to retire some maps and add some others. Put a community playlist, just like Bungie have done before, and let us vote for the maps we want to take off ( Like Paradisio, Pinnacle, Boardwalk … ) and vote for the maps we want to add between the community maps which are often way better than the basics maps …
Thanks for reading 343, French community is here too <3
take off* some maps, sorry :3
Thank you Npact, I feel the same way, and ElfishEnvelope3, sorry I’ll try to make more paragraph later.
Hello 343 Industries & BS Angel, how you doing? Just wanted to give you some of my ideas on the upcoming Halo 4 & trilogy. And please read all of my previous posts on this thread, thank you very much. PS: Sorry there’s no paragraph!
First its about Cortana, I belive that the whole community will agree with me when I say that she needs to look just the same as in Halo 3 but here is the twist that will make her look Awesome, let her have that -Yoink!- body from H2 because in H3 she looked a little too manly with her big n square shoulders.
Give her that super cute face of H1 more like Dr. Halsey face in the Halo Legend episode ‘‘the package’’ in high Definition specially in a heart shape look, and long & -Yoink!- hair like in H3 with holographic symbols & letters going up and down her body just like in the books. Give her awesome measurments like 36D-24-38 with a smaller shoulder line then her hips line, please!
Secondly, please make the Magnum shots blow stuff up like the real life handgun the ‘’ desert eagle’’ that blow water melons only with one shot because we know the Magnum would be much more powerful in real life than a desert eagle because it pushes the hands of Spartan back at every shots, and because it would be so awesome to blow grunts heads like that, and please 343 give the game more gore, like much more and make music playing available in land vehicle just like the warthog or the mongoose and more just like the red team in the Red vs Blue series, that would be so awesome in multiplayer.
Also, it would be super nice if we could see the suit of Master Chief more like Ironman suit but Halo style where there is no openings in the suit like at the shoulders and where it doesn’t looklike the suit had some kind of armored jacket on like in the H3 model but more slick, stylish and tight look like the Ironman suit, I would advise to get the designers of the Ironman suit to come and help you design the new Master Chief suit, not like I don’t think you guys doesn’t do a great job but I think that it is best to get all the help you can get. PS: I’m not trying to attack your pride or anything, just making some helpful suggestions here.
Thank you 343 Industries, Peace!
Hey 343 & BS Angel, I was thinking it would be awesome to have duel weilding back in the next Trilogy where Spartan could wear up to 5 different weapon, 6 if you count the standard army combat knife and be able to perform awsome new assassination with theses new melee weapons and some brutal ones too.
Let me explain here, 2 small guns one on each side of the hips, 2 long guns on the back and melee weapon like Katana of H3 or the famous Spartan sword that never made it to the games but only in the DVDs specials and lots of new melee weapons from all races, humans, covenant, floods, forerunner, precursor, at least 3 new melee weapons per race, where when we hold the reload button & select a melee weapon that we want with the other joystick that would be amazing.
Also it would be great if there were more turrents where when a Spartan detach a turrent his walking speed would be more like 90% of normal walking speed instead of 50% or 60% because its a Spartan that took the turrent not a regular human, and more specially make normal walking speed 120% of what it is presently because they are Spartan and they are quick not like regular humans or better have variable walking speed where when they go down a ramp their walking speeds up by 10% or so and when they go up a ramp it decrease by 10%, see what I’m trying to say!
Thank you 343 & BS Angel, Peace!
-First up I know like a MILLION other people suggested this already but how about MM voices? Just to add on to that each player should choose 2 voices 1 normal and 1 AI. The Normal would be like Master Chief, Buck, etc. But then you could have an AI voice like Cortana or Serina. Just thought it would spice up gameplay and the voices you already have if you could have a combination of any 2, this way you wouldn’t always hear the same lines over and over forever, maybe sometimes you’d say something and the other time your AI would say something.
-Second MVP. But a little different. First on the top of the game stat screen it shows the winning team in a V formation with maybe a nice background. Then based on how well you do the closer you are to the center. So the MVP would be center with the second best next to him(on his team that is.) Then based on what weapon you got the most kills with that game would be the weapon you’re holding. (If your tool of destruction was a vehicle or w/e then it would choose your 2nd or the standard weapon for that game/Halo 4.) To add more you could select the character by their avatar in their formation to see their specific stats with the losing team having a much less elaborate way to see how they did.
Hey BS Angel & 343, I know I’m gonna ask for a big one here but please give this an enormous consideration to what I’m gonna say here!
It would be great if we could save games with an MP3 track for each team in the game or one single track for FFA types of games so we can get all the excitment of the awesome game that we’ve just play with all the stats with the video. And it would be great to have all the stats that were available in all the previous games, like MVP, and some new ones, like kill per minute, % of shots hitting their targets, % of shots missing their targets, etc…
Also here’s the killer, I would love to see in the new theather a basic multitrack recorder where we could record all the players of custom games and be able to make basic edition on the tracks to create new & professionnal machinima videos for everyone to enjoy. Also it would be great if that multitrack recorder could import awe more professionnal takes from awe computers via a USB Key and it would be awesome to have a vocoder that modifies awe recorded voices and transform them into an Elite, or a Forerunner, or a precursor or a Flood, or a brute, or a grunt etc… it would be great for the community, you never know what the community will come up next!
Thanks 343, BS Angel, take care!
I’m a Halo fanatic and a Kinect lover… but this news is still useless to me as both. Well- not all the news, the Library is still just confusing. The voice commands seem like a total waste of time. As a 10 year vet of the Halo game- my finger is going to twitch to the button 19x faster than it would take me to say it.
If they asked me (which they DID NOT!!!) I would have said make voice commands for grenade TYPES. I hate looking away from the screen to see which little icon is selected while I’m in the middle of a fight.
I would have asked for a command for “Light” to turn on the Chief’s old flashlight.
Perhaps a command for broadcasting voice to all players like “calling blue team- they’re in the back!” or local chat only like “radio off” and then something like “psst- he’s right next to you!” would only be heard by those close enough to your character to hear it (like Halo has done for years and years with proximity voice.
Maybe something like “mark target” and have a waypoint highlight or something like that.
This listing of initial commands are silly stuff that isn’t useful or time/finger swap saving.
But it’s all optional so- no harm done yet.
I just watch a video on the Kinect feature for CEA and I was thinking the commands might mess you up playing co op. What happens if you say to your friends come pic up these grenades, then boom! you throw yours and blow up the ones your looking at in the process.
Here’s a new taught that I had in mind 343 & BS Angel,
It would be cool if we could have weapons, grenades, accessories and armor abilities priority list in the game, let me explain here, have you ever wanted to grab a specific weapon in a pile of weapons that a bunch of dead dude left there only to have yourself picking up 3 or 4 different weapons before you get the right one you need, well with weapon priority it would go by picking up your first weapon on top of your list of weapon priority which would be in the options right under the control options where you could select up to 5 different weapons or so in your weapon priority list so that when ever there’s a pile of weapon somehere you could grab your favorite ones starting from the top of the list before anyones take them for you, of course you could deactivate that function at any time even in mid game and would only work where there’s a pile of weapons.
Also it would be great to have that priority list for grenades so that for example if you prefer to use plasma grenades then frag ones, whenever you would pick up plasma grenades, it would automatically be selected as your primary grenades and even be able to switch to your second best choice of grenade in your list if you’ve use all your plasmas and then switch to the third in the list and so on.
Same here for accessories and armor abilities where you could pick up your favorite armor ability off a pile of dead people and use it right on the ‘’ get go’’.
And one more super important one, I think that the game should allow up to 24 players at once in the upcoming game halo 4 & new Trilogy to make it far more fun and entertaining specially for that Firefight Survivor I’ve been talking about in this thread a few entries above, please!
And one more thing, I wanna hear some suit malfunctioning sound like when the suit gets slightly damage, some little electricity sound and medium damage some electricity with some sparcles and when its heavely damage some weird rusty & breaking metal sounds with lots electricity and sprarcles with pieces of the armor breaking off. Also I wanna hear some slight robotic sound at any condition of the suit, when it moves specially some stomping sound like when a heavy robot is walking around like real heavy cause I remember when I use to watch some robocop back in the 90’s it was kind of scary and you could really feel that he was heavy & powerful, that’s how I wanna hear Master Chief in his new suit.
Thank you 343 and BS Angel for considering my taughts!
Fix your ban system. It has the bad habit of extending your ban without any reason given.
As in my other thread.
I think Juggernaut should get more appreciation in Reach/CEA multiplayer. I mean it’s a fairly fun gametype when everyone goes for the Juggernaut.(Which they normally do). It’s a fast and intense, yet fun when played correctly.
I wish we could get it in more playlists than Rumble pit, especially when it rarely shows up.
Sorry, EMMP1, i guess i didn’t pick my words carefully enough. Thanks for taking my advice, though, i’ve read your posts now and i like the ideas. Keep it up.
My pleasure ElfishEnvelope3!
Hi BS Angel & 343 industries, I wanted to let you know of some amazing new idea I just got and its about infection gametypes. I belive it would be great if there could be different categories of Zombies and humans and with different ranks for each ones where if you killed a lot of zombies, lets say 10 in a row without diying you level up and become a sergeant human where you have better shield & health and so on, same thing for zombies.
Also it would be great to have other category of players, let say for an example a rabbit where both humans and zombies would try to kill. The rabbit would be faster or slower and have better or worst weapons, better or worst shield and healh and would be able to level up in rankings just like the humans & zombies. And that’s just one other category, there could be much more categories customizable by the players so we could play many more types & style of gameplay.
And what if a zombie would have a certain amount of lives where if depleted would become a rabbit and have totally different objective like killing both humans and zombies for example that would be so great, and if the rabbit live were to be depleted, the rabbit would become for example an other category of player, the mouse where everyone would come after him, well of course all the categories of players would be customizable with customizable objectives, accessories, weapons and armor abilities just to name a few. But the main idea here is to have more categories of players and more customizations.
Also I wanted to congradulate you guys for the new forum style, its much more clean & beautiful, plus big up for the forum ranking idea, that’ll push people more to post their ideas in the forums. I was wondering if you guys could super widely promote that this site Halowaypoint.com is the new Bungie.net for all things Halo because I didn’t know this before watching the Halo panels on my Xbox at Halowaypoint, I’m just saying, there might be a lot of people who doesn’t know that this is where they should post their comments & opinions instead of going to Bungie.net. And I was wondering how can we level up in the forums for my profile rankins, thank you.
PS: Sorry for the rabbit & mouse, I didn’t have much imagination!
Thanks BS Angel & 343 Industries! See you starside!