First I’m gonna say I am really enjoying Warzone. I am terrible at K/D and never really get to contribute in Halo MP because of it. Now with Warzone at least I can help in other ways so for me that helps the enjoyment a lot. There are a few things though that 343 could do to make the gametype even better. These are just ideas and so of course they may not really work when it comes down to all the mechanics in place but things I think that could help the mode become even more dynamic or streamlined from what we have.
- Color difference for fireteams on hud. Light blue is just a terrible color anyway for hud elements but I would like my friends names to be green when we are in a fireteam.
- Base symbols need to be somewhere on the hud at all times. There are times I can’t see one base on my hud to see if its captured or not. With how important that is it should be available to the player at all times.
- Instead of giving all 150 pts to a team for the legendary boss kills they need to either go by the team that does the most damage gets the points or have a points per amount of damage over time per team tracking ability. So if you do 80 percent of damage as blue team and red team does 20 percent but gets the kill shot red team still receives 20 percent of the points plus a kill bonus while blue team receives 80 percent of available points. I have just seen way too many times where the team who does most the damage loses the kill to one last fuel rod or rocket shot to steal the kill. Again with the mode depending on those fights so much there needs to be a better way to make the fight more worth it for both sides. (saying this I understand 1000 points are a lot and may be why they did it the way they did but I still feel like balance is more important.)
- The req system is trying something new and I like how it kinda balances the start of the match but I do think there needs to be starting vehicles at each homebase with no respawns to start the match. Help kick things off and also the maps are kinda large so it would be nice to have that. I know there are mongooses on some maps but I would like warthogs and one tank or something as well.
- They need to have one color as your team all the time. What I mean is you always are blue team no matter what and you always see enemy as red team. The other team would see themselves as Blue and us as Red. The reason I say this is with how much you are switching between teams in maps I hesitate all the time before I shoot because I’m on a new team and I have to check my hand to see whats up. I know that sounds stupid but it happens to everyone I play with all the time. Its not a major thing since it is the player responsibility to track that but it would just be nice.
- They really really need to release a Bloodgulch Warzone map. There are some other classics that would work really well with Warzone too but that is the biggest one I can think of right now.
Any ideas that you guys have had? How do you guys like it so far?