Can we get some kind of update to Halo Anniversary so it’s supports the 4:3 aspect ratio on SD TVs.
Don’t like how I paid $40 to only be able to see 60% of my screen.
The anniversary classic sub-playlist is absolutely amazing. The only complaint I had is it feels like you’re wearing lead boots when you jump. You barely go that high up and quickly fall back down.
As a general Anniversary playlist suggestion, The TU features should be added to their own DLC playlist, or really anywhere else but the anniversary playlist, and the current sub-playlists that aren’t exclusively classic should become so (so Anniversary BTB would become Anniversary classic BTB [this excludes the anniversary firefight for obvious reasons]). If I’m in the anniversary playlist, I’d prefer to play a matchmaking like CE, not have the risk of playing matchmaking with TU settings instead. It really ruins the experience because they play like polar opposites. I hope you understand where I’m coming from with this and at least consider it.
When playing halo cea co-op, the person playing on the client experiences considerable lag. Is this going to be addressed in a patch as it ruins what should be a very fun experience.
CEA:
What a difference 10 years has made.
The lighting effects create so much depth to everything I see. Though there are still some lovely moments to see on the old engine, the new one really shows off the leaps that have been made. I can’t go back. It just doesn’t feel right to do so 
Swapping between old and new on the PR is great to see how the old tricks could fool us and how the new tricks are just freaking awesome. The old looks great with the lighting effects, the new even better with the octagonal-grown crystal looking structures that make up the skin.
The sound, love me 
The PR’s hum as it’s pulled out, as with the discharge and overheat, all reflect the detail to the visual side of the weapon. And that touch is given to every weapon.
The Sniper’s sound, PERFECT.
And the score. I can hear the percussionist(s) having fun and it rubs off on the rest of the orchestra.
The sombre moments, though few so far, are captured very well once the tribal beat tones down. The touch given to the strings is always soft for Skywalker Symphony Orchestra. I am eager to get farther in for more.
Lucky me, I’ve only just started Truth, my Covenant Dance is coming oh so soon. After some sweet, sweet sniping.
It’s as natural as riding a bike. It took about 3 seconds to require old habits under the new controls. I like it
Though I’d prefer many of the old habits to never return, as said, it’s natural and fun to relive it all under “better” lighting.
Hi BS Angel & 343, its been a lot of days since I’ve posted a Halo review & comment in here so here’s my reviews & comments.
I would like to see the signature move of the plasma riffle back where it push people away at every shot and here the twist that will make it perfect keep it throughout all the other Halo games, I would love to see people get blown away when they die from shotguns, rockets, needlers, needle riffle and any explosive types of weapons, & grenades. I would like to see also more thruster effects with lots of smoke, fire & lingthing from engines of airial vehicles specially the covenant & UNSC vehicles. I would love to see greater and more impressive skybox where you could have local effect on a side of the sky and have different effect on another (like realistic rain, lightning, sunsets, snowing, etc…). I would like to see much more structures & vehicles like the ones that were in Halo Wars specially on the covenant side.
I would like to see much more coordinated attack from all ennemies and allies for the AI characters where it doesn’t look like a computer generated AI but more like real humans, elites, grunts, etc… that act and go to battle where they can hide and take cover, evade multiple times to dodge a grenade etc… and even be able to use cover for their attack & take better weapons that lay there on the ground for their purposes. When a main character is injurded I wanna hear their heart beat get progressivly louder, faster & irregular as they get more and more injurded and vice versa when the get gradually healed, like the elites or spartans in their mark VI armor or higher. I would want to be able to -Yoink!- my ride from airial to land vehicles like the -Yoink!- my ride show with Xzibit, where I could even customise the inner parts like most popular car & racing video games with spinners.
I got a big one here, I would love to see the reticule stay opaque and here’s the twist that will make it perfect, keep it like that throughout all the next games. Here’s a biggy, I would like to be able to hold the fire of my spartan laser as much as I want by holding the trigger and have the spartan laser fire for half a second and be able to fire it 10 to 15 times and I would like to be able to change its battery pack when its depleted and be able to carry multiple battery pack, it would make that weapon perfect Just Like in This Video! and please make the reload time go from 2,5 sec to only 2 second it would add more fun to this weapon.
I would like to see multiples reload animation for any weapons where in a full animation you could, 1 take out the empty clip, 2 toss it away, 3 get a new clip, 4 put in into the gun and 5 reload your gun, sometimes you could for get to tossing or the gun reloding in two different animation and even have those animation break down into reloading sequences where the game engines can decide which combination it wants to use depending on the situation or that action to reload I’ve been bragging about and perhaps have a 6th sequence where the gun get jam up a little while before it can finish its reload, it may happen each 75 to 100 times we reload, just like in this video.
I want to use every scope in all weapons that we could not be able to use before and even have multiple new scopes for each weapon and even be able to use two scopes for a weapon, one for close range and one for long range were you you fold it on or off the original scope and even be able to use three scopes for a weapons and I would love to have scope options where you could have night view, infrared heat vision etc… on the different scopes etc… and I would want to be able to use them COD Modern Warfare style where you see the scope & the weapon and Halo style where it is smart linked where the reticule & scope appear in you HUD, put it in an option in the menu, that would be awesome.
Also Use the World Guinnes Record weapon Reloader for the animations on the different reloading, just like in this video! Also please copy the exact pathern of the Halo CE off the engine for the pistol so it may have the same firing, bloom effect & range, thanks!
I also would like to see the thruster pack of spartans engage whenever they launch in mid air for a melee or a sword launch and make melee range for ennemies a bit longer just like Halo CE. I wanna play other race characters in the campaign specially like Halo 2, a lot more of them. I wanna see a lot more different hijack animations where you could beat the driver before exiting them from the vehicles, or even assassinate them, throwing them out and take the vehicles, you could break it down to sequences of hijacks just like the reloads ones, also I would like that the diver could sometimes reject the hijacker just like a sword launch on syncronise occasions where the driver is looking at the hijacker and block his blows and even sometimes reject him by hitting the B button.
Bring back some old fan favorite weapons like the BR, AR Ma5 (Halo 3), carbine, mauler, brute shot, beam riffle, sentinel, and keep some new ones like the plasma reapeter (please make it as slightly better the the beta where it was as good as the shotgun because it is its equivalant for the covenant elite side but reduce a bit its battery), the concussion riffle, the focus riffle (please make it as it was in the beta reduce a bit its battery) and grenade launcher but make a new one slightly more powerful but with two tubes, the needle riffle but make it so that it take 1 or 2 shot less to deplete a spartan shield. I would like also to see troopers cheer with great cheering gestures Just like in Halo CE in vehicles & everywhere.
I would like to see the range of entering vehicles get significantly increase so that we could launch to get in vehicles in movement like the Awesome days of CE in 3rd person. And I would like to be able to recharge my almost empty overshield with an overshield so that the game keep getting interresting. I would like to be able to use evade three times in a row and I would love to see the tank crush anything it rolls on and have a boost system that keeps the boosting effect even after the boost is over. I would like to be able to drive a land vehicle in manual where the ‘‘LB’’ & ‘‘RB’’ would be the upshift and downshift and the X button would serve for exiting the vehicle & B button would be for meleeing an opponant with a punch or a kick even if your driving. And one more thing, please DON’T make campaign skulls dissapear when they are unlock please, because we love to go on the chase to find them again, Ty!
The one thing that will make the next Halo Games a succes is not only the campaign but specially the multiplayer and greatly Super fast gameplay where everything is 1,75 times faster & totally realistic than usual.
Thank you so much for listening to me, dont forget to read all my previous entries on this thread and Long Live Halo! X-)
Weapons Feedback
Have hierarchy of weapons preset customization for the player when weapons get picked up. The player can customize based on their strategic techniques and situational advantages. This adds an intuitive addition to gameplay when the player gets stuck in a pile of weapons trying to pick up the power weapon on top of the ARs, DMRs, Needlers, Pistols, etc.
The customizable weapon hierarchy of weapons fixes this and the first weapon that says “Hold ‘X’ to pick up” will be the weapon highest on the player’s weapon hierarchy list. I would also suggest adding a toggle option to automatically pick up weapons, or manual pick-up weapons.
I really wish I could mute in game Music, it’s wonderful and all, but Reach’s main menu music can get loud, and I like to watch movies and listen to music when I play in match making.
> I really wish I could mute in game Music, it’s wonderful and all, but Reach’s main menu music can get loud, and I like to watch movies and listen to music when I play in match making.
Good idea!
I would also suggest the UI to skip tracks on top of the main menu as well as mute. Almost like its own jukebox feature or sub menu. Sometimes I sit in the main menu just to listen to a particular moment in the reel. I love Halo music.
> I would also suggest the UI to skip tracks on top of the main menu as well as mute. Almost like its own jukebox feature or sub menu. Sometimes I sit in the main menu just to listen to a particular moment in the reel. I love Halo music.
Crysis 2 had something like that, but you could only listen to the music in the extras menu, it’d be nice if you could unlock tracks as you play the campaign and the music in the main menu would change to fit the level you unlocked, and you can change the tracks.
Also, a friend of mine had an idea for Fire Fight, instead of the game just ending, why can’t a drop ship come and pick you up, or a transport hog.
Another idea for fire fight, have the friendly AI respawn like ODSTs should, they should fall from the sky, and I would love to see the warthog be dropped off by a drop ship.
Edit: I was just reminded of something. In the books spartans can view the health read outs of their fellow spartans, so in Halo 4 CoOp, can there be a HUD element that shows the health of the other CoOp players?
343 plz put the juggernaut flood [not invincible] in a remake of halo 2 if you are making one after halo 4.
> 343 plz put the juggernaut flood [not invincible] in a remake of halo 2 if you are making one after halo 4.
That most likely wont happen, cause that would me they’d have to change the game play.
Halo forums need polls. I tend to ask lots of questions to the community and I think it would save peoples time.
Oh and it would be great if 343 Industries had a contact E-mail. Like every big game studio out there.
General Feedback
- Online credit limit is pointless.
- Ranking doesn’t mean anything if it’s not global in the game.
> Halo forums need polls. I tend to ask lots of questions to the community and I think it would save peoples time.
>
> Oh and it would be great if 343 Industries had a contact E-mail. Like every big game studio out there.
Um, wrong thread for Forum related feed back, but you’re close.
Hi BS Angel & 343, how is your day today, mine’s great, I had some worries about the game and I would like to share them with you.
I would love to have in the menu option the possibility to have a jukebox where you could not only select the music that you want to hear but the theme sound effects that you want for the menus, campaign, multiplayer, custom games and other menus that you’ll do where you can select the songs that you want to hear and unselect the ones that you don’t want to hear throughout the whole game and even have a button that you can use anywhere in the game to skip the actual music playing and go to the next, also I would like to have individual volume levels for music, sound FXs, Senery, engines, weapons, explosions, foosteps, etc… and even have the ability to mute all music, etc… from menus, games, campaign, multiplayer, custom games, etc… also I would love to be able to play my own music in to the game whenever I want instead of the halo music, not that the Halo music isn’t great but at the 250 time listening to it, I would love to hear something else, that would be super awesome!
Also one other super anoying thing in reach is that whenever we run on stairs either up or down we cannot jump at all and its super frustrating, I remember the amount of time that I could have been alive instead of dead just by jumping while running away from a grenade on the stairs, its like not even funny! I would love to have the same range, reticule, bloom, power and signature move of the original Halo game for many weapons like the plasma riffle, the plasma pistol, AR, Magnum, shotgun, and I would «LOVE» to be able overload my plasma pistol for the EMP blast as fast and not loose my battery life as I hold the EMP trigger as in Halo 1. I would looooooove to be able to use my AR with both the AR Ma5 Magazine and the SMG/Halo 1 AR Magazine so it can be like the Halo 1 AR that would bring back so many halo fans to their root of Halo 1.
I wanna see the banshee lights on each wings again just like in Halo CEA, I definitly wanna have the perfect same Halo 1 throw and even have the ability to throw even further when holding the trigger for long throws. I wanna play the warthog manually just like any other land vehicle by entering the vehicle with the bumper and exiting with the X button where while Im in the vehicle I could use the left bumper to shift down and the right bumper to ship up and vice versa for the lefties, that would be sooo awesome! Please bring back the Halo 2 Wraith mortar firing system because in Reach it doesn’t fire fast enough and tone down slightly its power but enlarge slightly its radius so that it feel more like the Halo 3 Wraith that was so awesome and also please bring back the Halo 3 controls for the Tank because in Reach it feels so weird driving the Tank & uncontrollable!
Please bring back the three playlist from Halo 3 where there was a rank playlist, a social playlist and a community/Bungie but now 343 playlist, you would put a huge smile in the face of the community by doing that, Ty.
I would like to see stabiliser expand off the boots of Master Chief when magnetic boots are activated, bring back 4 person split screen & also 3D in all future games for coop campaing etc…, multiplayer, custom games, etc…, ty. Also I Freaking looooove what you did with Halo CEA where you’ve put soooooo much more button layouts for the players, mine is « Hero » which is the closest to Halo 3 and I think that you guys should consider this layout as your main button layout for all Future Games just like the one in Halo 3 which is a classic, please continue to give us a lot more button layouts 343, thanks.
I have enough of that perfect aim of ennemies AI, I would love to see a new system of sight detection field of vision to reaction where the ennemies AI can only detect us if we are in their particular eye field of detection sight where each ennemies have a different eye fiel of detection, and then have a different reaction to the situation whether if its slow for low rank infantries or slodiers to fast & more accurate for high ranking leader ennemies (not perfect aim or perfect reaction but different aim & reaction that evolve to the situation or combat environment), that would bring much more life to the gameplay, also I would love to see the side step with the head lowring motion that Elites use to do in Halo 1, that would bring so much more flavor to the game with many more signatures like that, like when the high ranking Elite use to hide behind cover or even command lower grade elites or grunts to attack like in Halo 1, also the way elites would melee, and much more, not only in Halo 1 but all Halos, I would want to see all signature for everything going from characters, to vehicles, weapons, grenades, equipments, armor abilities, allies, ennemies, etc… come back in Halo 4. And I would love to see armors have a slight difference in your endurance where bigger & better armor pieces give you a slightly better advantage & endurance in the battlefield than others, that would be so Amazing!
And one more thing, I would love not only to have multiple scopes on one gun but be able to have different vision in the scope too, like night vision, infra red heat vision, and I would love to see many different gun in many different categories also it would be soooooo freaking sweeet to have a gun with a grenade laucher, also a gun with a missile launcher and the missile could have a lock on targeting system or heat seeking system or even better a timer or remote control detonation in it. I would love to see much more equipments where you could install a remote control machine gun to protect you, a laser detection bomb, much more trip mine types, a remote control airial or land mini vehicles that can be detonate from distance, a remote control sniper that can be control and sends out vision of its target through its own camera via smart link, a more envolving hologram that can act as an AI character depending on what profile the player select whether its defence, offence, bait, etc… and the player could change its profile in real time where ever the Hologram might be and so much more different, evolving and customizable equipments in real time.
Thaks again for listening to me BS Angel & 343, have an awesome week and don’t forget to read all my previous entries in this thread, thank you and Long Live Halo! X-)
please make halo competitive again. i and a lot of people don’t play nearly as much as I/we used to because of the lack of competitiveness that halo reach has. i realize your working on halo 4 and that is a huge project but possibly helping out reach a little with this would be a great thing for halo. put zero bloom in arena, show your arena rank in all playlists so i actually know how good the person i am playing with/against is. thank you
Hi BS Angel & 343, how’s your day, mine is awesome!
I would like to bring to your attention some urgent matter!
I would like to have in the forums a FAQ section where the most ask question could be answered, also I would love to have & see you post more responses to the main forums that you monitor like the official forums with Great visual effects & response that shows that its you guys that answer the call, also I would like that you could have a direct 24h response service where we could fill a ticket question that you could answer in 24h in the FAQ section for your fans and even release video responses in the FAQ section to your fans.
I would FREAKING LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE TO HEAR CORTANA SAY A LOT MORE SARCASM JUST LIKE in Halo CE the level truth & reconciliation where she said after that she’ll try to open the door in the cargot bay in the covenant ship, and I quote «I’d like to see you try decrypting a 128 000 modulating bit encryption key!» that blew me away and I FREAKING LOVED IT to say the least. So I would love to hear much more sarcasm please from Cortana.
And one more thing, I am getting sick of grenade that blows in my face due to another grenade blast, let me clarify here, Im tired that for example some grenade that was on the ground got blown away by another grenade blast and decide to blow exactly at the place where I was covered like a ricocheted blast like the grenade knew excactly where I was parked, that is just silly, why can’t it blow excatly where it was, and it doesn’t have to be all the grenade that was on the ground that blows up because of one well place grenade blow, it could be 75% of them blowing up! I’m just saying that ricocheted grenades due to another grenade blast should not happen that often, it should only happen upon stick or landing on the ground.
I would also want faster plays, much faster warthog, faster Banshee, ALL VEHICLES MUCH FASTER, faster reloads, faster & longer Armor Abilities, faster equipments deployment, MUCH FASTER GAMEPLAY ENJOYMENT IN GENERAL, TY
THANKS AGAIN 343 INDUSTRIES, AND I KNOW THAT THE NEXT GAME WILL BE A AWESOME SUCCES!
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You guys really need to raise the offline credit restrictions. Most game modes give you nothing and the most you can earn is sixty credits, no matter how long or well you play. Seriously, that’s ridiculous.
This seems like the right place to post this…
Over the past month, I’ve replaced my router, simplified my network, and installed wired lines directly to my Xbox. I’ve set my router to expose my Xbox directly to the internet via DMZ, which means my NAT is open and I have the best possible connection for my area (I have DSL). I say all this to forego the standard “Open your NAT” and “Port Forward” advice, as I’ve already taken care of these things (I am an IT graduate…).
What I don’t understand, however, is why I can only play one or two games at a time in Matchmaking before having to shut down my Xbox, powercycle my networking equipment, and then wait a couple minutes before booting up Reach again just to have access to challenges and my service record. Essentially, I will randomly start seeing issues crop up (listed at the end of this post as “Symptoms”) and unless I powercycle my networking equipment and Xbox they don’t seem to fix themselves.
As far as I can tell, I’ve only run into this issue when playing Halo: Reach and not while playing other games, though once it has occurred it affects my other games and services until I reset my equipment. Is there something else I can be doing that I’m just overlooking, or is there an issue on your end, 343i?
Also, in a web browser, unless I’m signed in to my Windows Live account already, such as through Bungie.net, I can’t connect to halo.xbox.com due to an improper redirect that never resolves unless I delete all my cookies. You may want to look into this as well.
SYMPTOMS
- In the lobby, my nameplate color goes to the default black/steel color, and my rank shows recruit. If I go to the armory, my correct rank, color, and armor configuration is still there.
- When I press start, “Challenges” are greyed out and I cannot access them or make progress on them.
- I will typically get the “Halo Reach servers are unavailable” message when I try to go into matchmaking (including score attack firefight).
- I will also be unable to connect to the Waypoint servers if I try to go to Waypoint, and other services also suffer (Netflix fails, for example) but I can still be in an Xbox LIVE party with friends and send and receive messages.
ADDENDUM: I redid my network around the same time the Title Update was rolled out to us for specific playlists. This may or may not be related to my problem