Campaign:
Better characters
Well scripted + acted characters that aren’t your cliché, stereotypes or
unnecessarily stupid.
Spartans should behave like Spartans should. Eric Nyland knows.
No more corridors! If you’re going to have corridors, don’t make them so
tight! Spartans are adaptive, let us decide/ discover the best/ different
ways of completing missions.
Meta scoring and skulls for replay.
4 player co-op, nothing wrong with everyone being chief, specially if
we’re competing for points! Its fun to play together! Specially the Vid
Master challenges from Halo 3.
Multiplayer:
Strict segregation of unranked and ranked playlists. SKILL RANK VISIBLE,
what’s the point of earning these numbers if you can’t brag about it.
Strict control over ranked playlists, so maps and rules can remain fixed
and unchanged for the sake of competition.
Fewer hoppers, as not to fracture/ segregate the online population.
Weekends hoppers for special gametypes. Who remembers double xp weekends?
1 Xp = 1 win
xp doesn’t mean anything if the numbers are arbitrary
No armour unlocks, just give all the armour!
Fun gameplay and competition is the only legitimate reason to continue
playing a game, grinding for meta goals is a boring chore.
Firefight:
Limited lives
limited ammo
co-op
vehicle specific maps (eg. only scarabs on this certain map)
enemy specific maps (eg. only flood waves on this certain map)
Ally support/ wave bonuses
earn ammo/ vehicle drops/ ai support/ air support etc. when you achieve
certain conditions in a wave (eg. complete 5 waves without losing a life
to earn a Longsword airstrike)
Boss waves, like chieftains at the end of a set, diversify the challenge
with new enemies. Rampant forerunner monitor? Prometheans ( not
Promethean Knights)
Custom:
for all modes custom, there’s a totally separate menu system to keep the experience it’s own.
Custom campaign, custom firefight, custom mutliplayer.
Any content the if player modified goes in the custom menu.
Custom campaign, imagine editing the campaign so that you can make unique play throughs (just because you can) Level 1 you can spawn with a scarab, lets see what happens, broke the game? Oh well try something else, but it might be pretty awesome to see.
Machinama + mocap:
Video + audio editing tools built in to allow the community to make its content. Including using the kinect to mocap and make animations to use for woteva machinamation
Forge:
I’m probably not the person to suggest forge improvements, but I know one that I’d like to see.
An actual standalone Forge that you can use on other devices, where you can use maybe a mouse and keyboard to make for easier editing and designing of forged content. Or even for touch devices.
Theatre:
4 player spectate across all modes (campaign/ multiplayer/ firefight etc.)
screenshots/ video etc. the usual