THE OFFICIAL HALO FEEDBACK THREAD

Community General Discussion
1524

Hello 343i, keep it lock on high gear!

I know that you keep it a secret by now about the new threat but I saw it in the Making Halo 4 First Look video, I don’t know if the community saw it too but its really difficult to see it.

In other news, I had a gameplay that sure is going to be a killer in mlg playlist, its called Predator Slayer, it a precision weapon type slayer where there is two teams (perhaps more) and each player at the start & each respawn have 15 seconds to engage in a combat or they die (for MLG playlist) or start to loose all shield without the possibility of recharge (for Social playlist), (its not necessary to kill the opponent, just engage in a fight by shooting an ennemy), then after he started his encounter he would have only 1 min. to make a kill or he would die without no points drawn from the scoreboard for social playlist & -1 point for mlg playlist and the countdown would restart at 1 min. after each kill & each respawn time would be 1 second. Predator slayer would be for team of 4 to 8 players where each player would have 5 or 6 lifes and would gain one life for each 2 kill he would do without dying, the winning score would be double what you would have in normal slayer which is 50 for small teams & 100 for large teams, everything else would be like normal slayer or mlg slayer. That would bring slayer to a whole new competitive level!

OK, now 343i, I’m more than tired of having really long reloads in crucial & threatening times like in an encounter or an epic team vs team shootout, actually it should be faster in live encounters, now I would like to see only those long and amaizing reloads for non-threatening circumstances that would be awesome, I also would love to be able to create my own face through facials tools for the cinematics and MM encounters that would be epic also one more thing, I would love to be able to customise covenant & forunner weapons and mix them together with the different features and accessories that they have with the human weapons to create my own and unique weapons of choice that would be stunning & mind blowing, Ty!

PS: Don’t forget to keep the seperated sensitivity controls with decimals & have the auto reflex controls also! Oh, and did I said how much I would freaking love to have the Mark IV armor chest piece & shoulder pads in Halo 4, cause its super amaizing! :wink: Thanks

Keep making Halo the best game in the univers! XD

1525

Hi BS Angel & 343i, I know that your in your final stage of making halo 4 but if you could do these things it would be super awesome for the community!

I would like to see much more intelligence from the AIs where they’ll have the possibility to learn from our movement & gameplay and perhaps you could do a community update for the AIs by watching how we play each month and I would like to have the AI characters do much more assassinations, hijacks, take cover & watching his surroundings, evade and strafe while attacking, that would be epic. Also I would like to have the ability to meele as a driver by meeleing in the directiong that I’m looking at. Also in the HUD, like in this page, I would love to see the reserve ammunitions count (93 number in the picture) be about 3 or 4 times bigger for easy reading same for the grenade count and any other count & please group the active ammunition (the little bars under the BR logo) by 6 for semi-automatic weapons and by 4 for automatic weapons by spacing the groups of ammunitions by one little bar so that we can estimate our remaining ammunition easier.

Also I would like to see the medals go back to their original place just above the radar for easier feel & less distraction, I would so much like to see a 3D radar where everything would be a miniature representation the ratio size of the dot or slightly larger in a 3rd person view for easier view, also I would like to see a teammate monitoring system just like in the Books where we could see 4 or 5 names of our top K/D ratio or BPR teammates (where around their names would be a shield meter that is and act just like the real one & showing in real time their evolution just like in Reach with the rebels names at the right side of the radar.) also I would like to see the return of the warning sign in the empty shield meter cause its awesome! Also I would like to be able to throw grenades like in Halo 1 which is really really far (because I’m a Spartan) & equipments just as far! Also I would like to see grenades, weapons & equipments that have been drop by dead players stay much longer on the ground before despawning and make sure that the pickup radius for each one is much more larger kind alike slightly larger than H3 and make sure that whenever we’re inside the radius size of a frag grenade exlosion of any pickup items that their despawning clock reset to 15 seconds!

And I would like to see the red threat arrow that shows us where the incoming fire comes from be in 3D where the arrow can point on 3 axis the location of the threat, basically I would like the same red arrow but in 3D and please keep the grenade layout in the HUD horizontal intead of vertical because in Reach it was aweful, and with the same H3 logo style at the left side of the HUD just like H3 (its just a question of habit!) with at least 5 grenades types that we can carry on ourselves, that would be fantastic. Also I would like that all Faction have a light aircraft & a large aircraft and also a little land vehicle, a medium & large land vehicle with a tank and to finish it all have faster reload time on all encounters & long reloads for safe moments. And its epicly important that Sprint & Evade be movements not armor abilities where we can Sprint for at least 12 to 15 sec. & Evade at least 3 times in a row both using the joystick kind alike COD! Also it would be super awesome to be able to switch weapon with a teammate and duelweild meele weapons like swords, machattes, combat knifes etc, and small weapons like pistols, needlers, SMG again and I would love to be able to drop one or all weapons on me in a real game for example if the weapon I carry get stuck even if its in my back, I would like to be able to drop them before the explosion, I was thinking of tapping the back button & the right bumper for dropping one weapon and holding it for all weapons.

PS: Please bring all Mark 4 armor pieces, keep seperated sensitivity controls with decimals for the X & Y axis & have the auto reflex controls with decimals, also don’t forget the U-turn ‘‘Back’’ button, the much more manoeuvrable Banshee & classical Tank controls from H3 & the same H3 Battle Riffle reticule with much more ammunitions for each weapons as upgades, have the possibility to die or loose significant shield by fast splattering bodie & be able to push them away by walking towards them, with the Flood firefight GOW beast mode style and the Survivor & Predator Slayer gametype that I was talking about. Specially make sure sure sure that the Assault Riffle make a kill with only 16 bullets not more not less. Also at the end of each match it would be super awesome not to put the statistic chart but instead have an option to show it and please leave the HUD as it is for those last seconds kill and make sure that the turrents are as powerful as in H3! Also how much great it would be to have our name right above the shield meter just like the Halo Reach trailer ‘‘Deliver Hope’’.

PPS: Please make sure that whenever we carry a turrent or the oddball & the flag etc. that we can see both weapon that we carry in the HUD for future reference because it happen way too many time that I forgot what second weapon that I was carrying and end up dead because of that, also make sure that whenever we’re in 3rd person that we can see both weapons on our back as an X formation for the same previous reasons & the grenades and equipments too at all time on our thighs, lower back & behind just like the figurines, And make sure that every faction have the equivatent for the pistol, sniper rifle, BR, AR, DMR, shotgun, grenade launcher, rocket launcher, missile pod launcher, turrent, Spartan Laser, Spartan machette & combat knifes, sticky grenades, incendiary grenades & frag grenades, etc and make sure that the plasma repeater is as powerful as the shotgun like it was in the Reach Beta! Also it is very important to have the lights on the suit shine brither as the shield drop out in any encounter in matchmaking and it would be great to have custom secondary colors in matchmaking just like H2 & H3 just to make it awesome again, I was thinking about the gray lines everywhere on the suit that makes it look cool as custom colors to differentiate people and it would be super cool to create our own custom color for our spartan, thanks!

To be continued!

1526

for me the only problem i have is the banning system i was banned a few months ago for not getting enough kills in the games i was playing it was a temp ban from earning cr but the problem is the guidelines are too strict if i bring my girlfriend on as a guest and she doesnt get enough kills my console is banned how are new people supposed to get better if they get banned? not to mention it took me days to find out why i was banned i called customer support they sent me to bungie who sent me bact to customer support finaly someone told me to go here an find a forum about banning the information for new people is very dificult to find an takes determanation if you can put a screen on my tv telling me my acount an console are banned why cant you also say why i was banned an where i can go to apeal if i feel it was un fair i know alot of people that just stoped playing halo altogether because they didnt know what they did wrong and couldnt see paying for online service that they couldnt use
right now i know a email adress to contact microsoft for fileing complaints took me 2 months to get through customer service and other routs i would apreciate a response as to any way to contact for friends that have recieved banns an dont know why they were banned i realy enjoy halo i have been playing it for many years and i love playing it with my friends but from not knowing why they were banned they are talking about leaving xbox altogether i dont want them to do that so i figured if you had a way to contact to find out exactly what they did wrong they wouldnt be afraid of it happening again
please message me with information in my inbox if anyone knows where to find out difinatively why you were banned and for how long and the guidelines for what will get you banned playing halo reach online thank you

1527

Here’s the continuation!

PPPS: Also It would be fantastic to have over the radar the showing of who killed who by light color codes where the person who killed the opponent be in light green and the person who died as light red and have in the middle what killed him as a medal like john (in light green) splattered (the splattering medal) Steve (in light red) etc, and please use abreviations for long names so that it might not leak in vital spaces. Also I would like in the heroic & legendary difficulty for the campaign that the AI doesn’t have better health, shielding system except when skulls are activated or perfect aim, but instead they should have a near perfect aim with better evading capabilities, strafe with much more offenssive abilities & strategies (like throw grenades while jumping away or evading and throw grenades to shieldout then attacking), where they hide & take cover and call for reinforcements, pickup better weapons & grenades, use a vehicle and try to splatter us if we come too close, (also, they wouldn’t have unlimited grenades and would try to look for more grenades except when skulls are activated) & more etc!

Thank you so much for listening to me and long live Halo! And please keep having an eye on me quite often cause I update my post quite often, thanks!

1528

> EDIT: 1
> New item ideas:
> Portal-like Teleporters:
> Would function similar to the portals that are in the game Portal. Would work nicely when trying to get from one side to the other.

Teleporters that you can pick up and move would be totally amazing.

1529

Please change the following for >2 split-screen playing - move the updates (who killed who) out of the MIDDLE of each individual screen!

These updates make playing multiplayer Halo with more than one friend on the same console incredibly frustrating. This frustration is further amplified by the fact that regular team slayer is unplayable if you have more than two local players, forcing me to play my second favorite playlist (which is playable) SWAT. The thing is, to have a chance at SWAT you actually need to somehow focus beyond the camoflauge of words that are presented upon your enemies for their benefit throughout the game.

How easy would it have been to just move those updates down a few inches or even better to the bottom of the screen… right in the middle??? Come on… did you really pay someone to design this interface?

1530

Hi 343i, it been a long time since I wrote something,

Basically I’m just asking for the basic of what should be in Halo 4! Now basically there is 5 different faction in Halo, human, covenant, brute, forunner, Flood and with that I just want in every faction there would be the equivalent for the pistol, sniper rifle, BR, AR, DMR, shotgun, grenade launcher, rocket launcher, missile pod launcher, turrent, Spartan Laser, Spartan machette & combat knifes, sticky grenades, incendiary grenades & frag grenades with much more equipments like Halo 3 & being able to customise the weapons. And with that I would like also the equivalent for every faction of a light aircrat, a large aircraft with a little land vehicle, a medium & large land vehicle, a tank and a mobile base like in Halo 3! Running for 15 sec. and evading 3 times before a 2 seconds pause would define the whole game as a whole and seperated sensitivity controls for the X & y axis with the auto-reflex control that we can adjust up to 100% for a 3 to 4 sensitivity gain when we are attacked and a 3D Radar & the original BR reticule & the Halo 3 classic tank controls would be all I really want above all!

PS: And how epic it would be to be able to run and evade right after then climb on top of things, this is more important than you know, and don’t forget about my practice mode that I was talking about, thanks.

Thank you 343i!

1531

Hi 343i,

I know what I’m gonna ask is a bit much but I would like a mode where we could recall any and every audio in the game by category & names (like music, sound FX, dialog, weapons, vehicles, explosions, nature, scenery, etc.) so we could do our machinimas, like that the Halo community would grow exponentially, same for the visuals!

Thanks for considering my idea!

1532

hi 343i, how you been?

I’ve been better because I’m so freaking tired (sorry there) of having the statistic chart come up to my face whenever I’m in an encounter and the game end and its super frustrating because your trying to finish the kill, perhaps your last kill and try to go to the next one before the screen goes black where everybody goes rampant on everyone and there is a statistic chart that appears in front of your eye to disrupt your last fun, I tell you its highly fustrating. Instead there should be an option like hold x for 2 seconds to show the statistic chart and it should appears at the bottom of the screen, I think thats how it should be to keep the community on your side!

PS: Make it an option, please!

Thanks 343i!

1533

Hello.

I have a rather splendid idea for an EXP system that i really do hope you at lease skim through:

> When you win a match, you get lets say 100 EXP:
> - Plus performance in match bonus EXP (Ranging from -100 EXP if teamkill negative scores etc, to 100 bonus if done really really exceptionally well and best in match)
> - Times overall performance of career ( only small change, ranging from x1.00[no score] to x2.00[high score] in small increments so extremely unlikely to get x2.00)
> - Different bonus for objective games
> - assists should be like the system in BF3 that to what degree you help is shown in the score. If this is not so, assists should count as half of a regular kill in terms of score.
> - Medals, commendations, challenges or any other feature like that that is in Halo 4 should have its effect.
>
> If you lose, 0 points initially are given but performance and other bonuses still apply.
>
> This way, let me show two scenarios:
> A guy plays a game of team slayer. His team wins, he does pretty well. He is on the top half of his team’s leaderboard, who are a fairly average team. He also got a few assists as well, hes a team player. He has done rather good he thinks overall in his while playing Halo 4, but definitely nowhere near as good as the pros (so its a Mod of 1.15 for eases sake) There are challenges for H4 and he gets 40 extra EXP for his efforts.
> In total, he got: 223.25 which is rounded down to 223 EXP for that match.
>
> The next guy is in a game of capture the flag. His team loses. Hes done well by capturing one flag but that was the only flag they got. He got a few kills, but they’re no good for EXP, after all the objective is a flag not kills. They only helped his team move up. He is a skilled player usually (1.2 bonus :D). At the end of the match, he finished a certain difficult challenge, getting him 50 extra EXP.
> His score equalled up to: 95.6, which when you round up, gets him a total EXP of 96.
>
> So with this system, good work and playing the objective is rewarded and encouraged, while idleness and trolling isnt.
>
> You can also unlock stuff in the armory with this EXP although it doesnt change your progression, lets say you get an equal amount of armory points as you get EXP and they’re separate.
>
> Do like my idea?

1534

Hiyo there, anyways, i would like to make a few miscelaneous siggestions:

First person deaths and driving (Toggle)

Armor Black color

allow transparency on emblems

Allow OST reproduction during Multiplayer

1535

Hi 343i, how r u doing?

I was thinking about the ‘‘Populate Halo 3’’ movement on Saturday April 7 2012 where all that the community have to do is play Halo 3 matchmaking and I would like to ask you to do a big service announcement on your site about that movement and specially have an in game announcement update to get everyone attention about that movement where everyone that support that movement will have to change their emblem to the number ‘‘3’’ as primary emblem and the ‘‘display’’ as secondary emblem and have the ‘‘Cobalt’’ color as primary emblem color & ‘‘blue’’ as secondary & third emblem color so we can live Halo 3 days again, thanks!

Thanks 343i & BS Angel, we’ll see you in Halo 3!

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http://halo.xbox.com/Forums/yaf_postst69473_Corky-creations---halo-jewelry--coming-soon.aspx

1537

Even though this isn’t a suggestion, but an actual feedback. I gotta say that removing Uncaged from SWAT was a God send. Thank you so very much for taking out that map.

1538

Hi 343i,

Now I’ve seen the leak and know that you will have a whole lot more weapons, that awesome, with a new gamemode called regicide which is awesome too, then there is the Spartan Ops which I think is a brilliant idea, the Spartan points and being able to customize & upgrade your character is super sweeet too. And by the way Cortana is soo mind blowing, she is exactly how I would picture her and better, so much better where she’s an high-definition version of the Halo 1 Cortana with a cute face, a round & heart shaped face which is amazing, and the super -Yoink!- body, wooooow we salute you Kenneth Scott team for such brilliant performance on Cortana! Now for the part that I like less, I’ve seen the elites, wooaaah, they are super Ugly like a super power, they look like a skinny ugly grandpa in a terminal cancer phase with critical skin diseases and you base them on the Halo 3 Elites which is even worst, now the skin type was awesome for grunts but not Elites really.

Frankly, you should have enhance the Halo Reach Elites with more muscular legs instead of the chicken legs they had, then had a little more structure & proportion to the upper body with a lot more muscles (like a bit more muscular then the Arbiter in Halo Wars, because that Elite looked almost Perfect) and for the faces you should have gone with the Reach faces with the Halo Legend ‘‘the Dual’’ facial features & structure with a large bottom lip & a more round & cuter face with big & large teeth like vampires and four claw like teeth at the end of each jaw extremity that fold back into their mouth inside of their gum like the Elites in the Halo legends Origin part 2, with flawless grayish dark cream skin tone with really tall bodies like 8 to 12 foot of height, then you would have a perfect Elite! Please gave some life back to the Elites like I’ve just said Kenneth Scott & his team because we look forward for the Elites & specially the Arbiter and his armor (please make it like the Halo wars Arbiter armor with lots of details, Ty) and its been going around everywhere specially in the forums all over the internet that the new Elites are super Ugly, if you could do two things for the Elites it would be to give them the flawless skin that they always had and leave the bumps for the grunts and make them really muscular because they are honorable soldiers!

They should be more like this, and also like this one too!

Remember Halo 4 is what’s going to sell you out!

1539

Just a note… Squad DLC seems to be completely missing from the Stats section of the webpage and instead there is the exceptionally old version of squad slayer that no longer exists.

On a similar note I’m really hoping for a better more organized webpage soon.

Thanks.

1540

Where did the Halo Waypoint website suggestion thread go? Oh well. I’ll just drop this here then.

It is probably in the coding for the forums, but I really don’t like being constantly told that I have a new message in my inbox. I don’t mind being alerted when I first arrive to the site, but to constantly remind me when I refresh the page can be bothersome sometimes.

1541

you cant turn halo into call of duty please dont the idea is good but its not halo i have friends who dont want the game now because of how similar it is going to be to call of duty, please dont make it like that…also keep elites as playable characters please i mean u already dont see them enough in reach just keep them in halo 4

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> you cant turn halo into call of duty please dont the idea is good but its not halo i have friends who dont want the game now because of how similar it is going to be to call of duty, please dont make it like that…also keep elites as playable characters please i mean u already dont see them enough in reach just keep them in halo 4

I disagree, COD the crap out of it. Add whatever broken gimmicky mechanics you like, the more outrageous the better.

Just make sure you make the custom game options just as outrageous and add classic Halo gametypes and playlists to matchmaking. I don’t want Halo to be any one thing I want there to be a place for everyone. Halo 3 was great because you could play MLG, Fat man customs, Griffball, Rocket Race. There were even competitive style modes in Social playlists so you can play some good balanced Halo without worrying about rank.

Reach was all Casual and had minimal custom game options, that affected the Competitive community and the custom game community really negatively. Add as much as you like 343, just give us the tools to change things to suit our own tastes so that we can all play together rather than just a few of us.

1543

Hi 343i, how is it going these days,

I wanted to talk about halo 4 up until now, I would like to see the Battle Riffle sound much more visceral & aggressive where there is more Boom for your buck like in the Halo 4 Field Audio Recording video a mix of the gun sound that we hear at 43 seconds and the amaizing shot that we ear while the reload of the machine gun at 24 seconds with a little bit of the sound of the machine gun at 20 seconds cause the BR that I hear at the end of the video of Conan O’Brien’s “Halo 4” Voiceover Remote - CONAN on TBS did not sound very BRish to me even though it was authentic in sound quality because I want a little more lethal sound, thanks. Also I would love to see the ‘‘Killing spree’’ announcements and any other announcements be put at the bottom of the screen for less distractions, thank you!

Also I find that the BR logo at the top right is quite invisible with the blueish background, I would like to see the outlines of the gun in lightish blue just like the Grenades at the left side that would be perfect same for the rest of the guns and it would be cool that it would turn light orange or red when its depleted it would be number 1 same for any weapon, grenade, equipment etc. I would like also to see the weapon, grenade, equipment count number be in light blue and almost the same size as the weapon & grenades, that would be awesome plus group the active amnunitions (the little bars under the weapon logo) by 6 for semi-automatic weapons like the BR, DMR, etc and by 4 for Automatic weapons like the AR, SMG, etc. for easy viewing estimation, try it!

I wanted to talk about the zoom in scopes, it awesome that you made them inside the HUD instead of having them seperated where in zoom we can see the shield meter with the radar etc., my only concern would be that outside the scope is way too dark I mean its worst than having shades on, so please take off all that darkness, its not halowe, in my opinon it should be very slightly lighter than how it was in Halo 3 where the we could still see the radar enough. I also wanted to let you know that the grenade layout in Halo 3 was perfect and very simple, I even belive that the grenade logos there we the very best ones to date so please bring back the same logos where when they are selected they are just enlarged in their place, that would be all.

PS: Please, pretty please, let one row of little bars end before the second one finishes in our active ammunition counts because its so confusing when both row deplete at the same time, you cannot estimate how much ammunitions are left in our magazine count with certitude, thanks.

Great job on Halo 4 Thanks 343i!:slight_smile: