I would really like to see true clan support come to Halo 5. By this I don’t just mean to add a “Clan List” to the game like Halo 2 had. I mean above and beyond that.
Halo has always been at the forefront of Internet browser support. From it’s amazing in-depth statistics to Bungie.net’s ‘groups’. Because of this, and Halo 4’s progress to becoming a better Halo game. I believe Halo 5 can give us the ultimate clan experience.
If you are in a clan, this is an important thread for you. 343i listens to it’s community or else it would not be trying to fix Halo 4. And this thread will be important to giving the clan community exactly what it wants.
The Proposal:
I understand fully that Halo 2’s Clan support, while a step in the right direction, was flawed and exploited as a “second friends list”. But despite that it was still a good thing for those that actually used it for it’s intended purpose. And in that respect it should return, but advanced and evolved.
As opposed to an in-game only clan list. I believe Clans should be fully supported on Halo Waypoint, both the website, and all the Apps. As opposed to simply inviting a player into your Clan in the game, in order to join your clan a member must have or create a Halo Waypoint account, and join your clan’s dedicated page on Halowaypoint.com. This dedicated page must have a private Forum, a Chatbox, and “Rank” support. As well as customization options such as colour palette, and image themes like Bungie.net’s groups. As well, it would be very nice to see a “Clan Stats” page, where average stats among all members of the clan are listed, with a filter you can apply to only games played by the entire clan, or by the entire clan played against an entire clan.
This would mean that all the members of your clan will be on your clan’s ‘webpage’ AND in game clan list. As well as being given all the resources you need in and out of the game.
As well, “Playlist Categories” should make a return, giving us Ranked and Social back, but with a third choice, “Clan Match”. “Clan Match” should include 4v4 and 8v8 slayer and objective playlists with 2 requirements. One requirement is that you can only play with a full party, the other is that every player in the party must be in the same clan list. Games played in these playlists will be ‘linked’ to your clan webpage’s Clan Match history automatically. As well, in Custom Games, it would be beneficial to have a “Clan Match” set of gametypes that also won’t start unless the lobby fills the requirements matching the playlists, which would also upload to the clan webpage.
Halo 5 should also allow a Clan Tag, but not one a player can simply apply. Your Clan Tag will appear in front of your gamertag automatically upon joining a clan on Halo Waypoint. And is set by the administer of your clan’s group page. (It would be nice if Clan Tags also had to be one of a kind, for instance, if the clan “KSI” uses KSI as their clan tag, no other clan has the ability to make their tag the same).
I feel that this kind of support would GREATLY benefit Halo 5 in the eyes of the clan community, and will allow the clan community to grow. I understand some of this thread is hastily written. I will clean it up as the thread grows. Please post in both support and with additional ideas to help make Halo 5 the best clan supporting Halo of all time!
I will update this thread OFTEN. So post-post-post!