My View and Opinions on the new supposed leak conformation and believe most of this is must be untrue
Here is the link but I am sure all of you have by known already heard what has been mentioned.
I think a lot of this has to be false or a big mistake for 343 and here is my view on them. Bare with me it is a lot and if it is TL;DR then please don’t respond I only want constructive criticism. I colored the topics in colors to describe the situation and how serious it is and if it is good or bad for 343 for Halo 4
Spartan Points: I know its kinda like cR in Reach and it sounds cool but here is a big mistake 343. A lot of what is said of what this will do will slow down gameplay. Having to run a check book in a game is not that entertaining. And if I have to buy armor abilities, an in-game feature, will result in slower gameplay. If I have to stop what I am doing to bring out a circle wheel and select my buy will be a bad idea. Anything that is slowing a gamer down in a match and making have to make long decisions is asking for a bad rep. you should start with sprint but have to pick up the other cool armor abilities just like power weapons.
Spartan Ops: Here is a huge failure. This is similar to Mass Effect 3’s co-op G@W I don’t get what is up with you developers do you really think you can’t trust us? You are saying that there is a mission every month that we have to do or if we miss out on it and its going to be a huge failure on us if we don’t do so it forces us to keep playing Halo? Even as a fan I need a break once in a while. I don’t know about you but im tired of this thing that is starting where they are no longer giving us treats for buying there game but instead threatening us if we aren’t on every single day of the entire year. ME3 started something bad and now Halo? Do you really think we are going to get bored with halo permanently and this is your solution? The whole reason the lot of us are buying Halo is we love it just like how I loved ME 1 and 2. I don’t need % taken away like ME3 for every day I don’t play to keep me playing G@W or have this were I have to be on every month and play.
Also I am hoping this is not in any way like MW’s Spec Ops because that MW’s thing. Every game dev has their own creativity and goes with the game. Spec Ops works for MW like horde works for Gears of War. Trying to use another game’s type of play would be a really bad situation because halo is not like cod so doing so just isn’t right for it. When you say “hey that company did it and it was a huge success. Let’s copy the idea and alter it to our own” it doesn’t work out as sweet as you may have thought. There are other names out there so why go with something with “Ops”? There are other names out there trust me on this there are other things you can call it. “Oni Missions” I’m just saying that name sounds like a copy.
Why Reds Fight Blues: You stated in the Interview vidoc so I don’t know why this was even necessary. In the book they explained this like Ghost of Onyx so I don’t think its necessary that is was a big deal besides we all know red vs blue, GOW does the same thing I don’t think this is a necessary big deal nor does it need much mentioning. I just didn’t think people needed an explanation for this.
Sprint: This I don’t get why this was necessary I thought this was already confirmed but that’s okay and I’m fine with this or the W.R.F.B.
Forerunner Vision: If what I am hearing correctly then 343 listen up please!!! If this is Xray vision this is a really bad idea. I’m not sure if you have played Blacklight Tango Down but they have something similar called the HRV and it was game breaking. I was a limited short range wall hack xray but unable to fire but people found ways to glitch and make it a perma wall hack while shooting and no matter how many update patches they did there was always another way. If this is xray its not going to discourage camping its going to encourage as no matter how much you test it someone is going to find a way to make it still work even with professional game testers, Betas, and more patches then Black Ops. This will get past so please don’t let this be x-ray because people sat around corners the entire game seeing the enemy ahead of time and were camping it out and just ruined anyone from playing the objects when everyone had close range weapons and hid in corners and saw prey coming around the corner. So this will increase, not decrease, camping. Take Blacklight Tango down as an example 343 it’s a really bad idea. Its making a glitch act as a hack for everyone to use.
Returning Armor Abilities: I don’t have much problem with this. I actually love a lot of the original ways of Aas like AL. I know yes I loved it and I think people are noobs if they didn’t know how to use evade to fight an AL noob. Hopefully there are more like Thruster packs and jet packs both like Star Wars Battlefront style. TP shoots you with a quick thrust and you don’t hover or change dirrections it just get you to point A to B quick. And JP allows you the upper advantage of flying and hovering in mid air longer.
Also 343 do not listen to cry babies and people whining if they get killed by someone who was using AAs smartly. Because look what happened to Reach. First AL then the other Aas feel in line with the same excuse for complainers. “Noobs use AL because its OP” the “Noobs use Active Cameo to camp” “Noobs use drop shields then not get killed” “Hologram is for nooby players who are too scared to go around a corner to get shot in the face with my shotgun” “Evade is for noobs that try the runaway” “Sprint is for noobs so they can run away” “Jetpack is for noobs so they can get over buildings to escape gun fire” I have heard it all. There is always going to be noobs in every game. And there will always be one AA that will be the more nooby use AA but if you get rid of that then something else will replace it. Take a pie chart of people complaining which AA is the noobiest then take that way then show the pie chart again and then people will complain about something else. In the end there will always be complainers. Unless its game breaking huge then you can do something about it otherwise the complaining is out of hand. So 343 people don’t start fixing an AA the second someone complain OP (overpowered) that is always the majority excuse for just lacking skill. The drop shield in Team oddball was true game breaking that was excusable but just because you die doesn’t mean its “OP”. Captain Anderson: I got my -Yoink- handed to me over the year but I sucked it up and got back on my feet.
Elites Not Returning to Multiplayer: I think this sound a lot like a shortcut 343 it sounds like you guys are going to use the HR engine modified but just like HR you are going to simply keep it Spartans rather then bring back the Elite fun in halo. I very much disagree with this sorry. Also why who the Covies be more like sideline allies in Halo 4 but still not be in the MP? Btw I did see the new covie designs on the Interview Vidoc just like on Reach I proved people wrong that there would be Brutes, Drones, and Engineers in Reach but people didn’t believe me just cuz they weren’t in Halo 1 but in the HR vidoc I caught it and this time I saw your grunt design and some of the new weapons, interesting btw what I saw on the sides I know very few people noticed easter eggs. But please for those dino lovers out there make Elites for MP back. Having them only for Custom game or special matchmaking was not that fun for Reach. I know why you Bungie had to because they had different health systems but since Regen Health is coming back with I think we should bring back Elites to MP games equaling like Halo 2 and Halo 3 had it. I didn’t like the segregation, I felt like I was in the 1960s. Elites gameplay over here Spartans only matches.
Grenades: Not a whole lot here since it looks like the same Halo 3 4 grenade style which is a + for 343 it will speed up gameplay. More Explosions = more fun
Firefight: I hope to see big improvements but I still feel that Forgeable FF will still be a no like it was for Halo Reach when people screamed for it and earlier on the forums here but I hope whatever you are doing is something good. But please for Halo 5 makes it a priority please to make FFF one of the cool new things if it’s not going to happen for Halo 4.
Regicide: Sounds fun I just hope no one is losing any points I hope. If we are buying stuff I hope this isn’t like BO’s gambling that required paying money to play I want an only progressive way to play.
Distraction and Revenge Medals: I find this actually cool. I always want a Revenge medal and now distraction too! That’s interesting I never thought I’d get a medal for distracting the player but indeed a + for 343. Even if someone gets reward by accident still it doesn’t matter because you did distract the player from watching his side or back even if you didn’t notice because he was in fact “distracted”.
No More Weapon Camping: This is a negative. I can tell you after what I have seen in other halo games this has to be false. How can you drop in pods with weapons on closed maps? Like the Infinity map? Also I can see people raging like care packages falling on them and killing someone and then the 2 sec rage quit as a result. Also yeah weapon camping was somewhat bad it was too much if a huge deal unless the power weapon was the thing that really dominated the map. The placed weapons did in fact divided good players from bad players and required them to learn to play the game. Now instead we get these results. Drop pod gets in and veteran player gets to it after fighting tons of enemies and only gets a plasma pistol out of it. Then a noob just sitting there a pod lands next to him and now her has a RL. Can you see the problems? What made halo fun was the constant moving. I remember on the Pit I was moving in circles and that was how pros played it because if you stayed in one spot you would get destroyed. You go for RL and camo and you get the upper advantage if you know how to use it correctly or just end up getting yourself killed and weighing down your teammates. Then you grab a SG and tear through CQC. If we have this it’s going to have a bad impact as I can see people avoiding the fight to wait for weapons to land. And also people will be hiding more often in roofed areas to avoid those 1 in a mil chance they get hit by a pod. Just like all games no one pro or noob knows where the weapons are on the map when they first play. You have to learn and adapt and not handicap the noobs into not learn how each map is played. Complete randomness = complete random result gameplay rather than reward the skilled players for adapting quicker.
No More Respawn Delay: I see this is more negative than positive. I think certain gameplays should do this but others like objective need to have it longer respawn. If people can instantly respawn then how are they supposed to deliver the bomb or retrieve the flag out of the base of the enemy? Like another person said “A skilled player out BRs/DMRs/whatever a unskilled player. Now that unskilled player can immediately respawn and find you before your shields even regenerate!” I know it would speed up gameplay with massive killing but them it could also result in spawn killing too and boosting methods. So yes + for speeding up gameplay but higher – for it will result in unable to play objectives and spawn kill and boost.
Joining In-Progress Games: Lastly this is a really really bad idea 343. This will not “solve the quitting problem” in fact this will do the opposite and increase quitting. It will only solve a lot of people’s complaints of people quitting and then getting outnumbered. But what I hated about COD was joining matches that were losing and getting destroyed. That is the thing. The winning team no one wants to leave because they get better rewards while the losing team is raging and quitting. So more likely than not you will be joining the losing team 90% of the time. Also if this is to be made it should only be for Social, not one game mode should be for Ranked. Also we should be able to decide when we join matches so we don’t join games that are almost over or if we want to only join matches where the game has to start from the lobby. So be able to choose to only join no in game matches.
So overall I feel a lot of the things you doing are negative and similar to COD, which I know is what a lot of people are saying but it seems like it. You are doing some good things but overall this is mostly bad and not a good start.
I would love some input on if you agree with me or not anyone. Constructive criticism is welcome just dont be rude. i know its alot but i hope you enjoy reading it and even an admin or a dev response like Franky would be nice.