Yesterday I made a post on Halo Reddit and part of that post talked about my suggestions on how Warzone could be ‘improved’ when looking at how the weapon and vehicle variants affect the game. I just wanted to know how people feel about these ideas and if you like or dislike them or if you had any better ideas.
original link here https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/77uy8n/how_to_improve_halos_req_system_and_warzone/
I believe that if Warzone is around for Halo 6 it needs to have a big reform and should look at becoming a much more balanced game mode. To help achieve this would most likely mean removing all the weapon variants and making them map pickups while doing various other things. I am aware however that a lot of people in this community do enjoy the variants and it also helps populate the rec pool so to come to a conclusion that would hopefully satisfy everyone this is what I propose.
We integrate Warzone truly into Halo, with this Forge, custom games and whatever other features that are in the next Halo game would all interact with each other. We should all be able to forge Warzone maps and then also be able to play them in custom games and hopefully, with all the talented forgers out there we could eventually see some really creative maps make it to matchmaking. Having Forgeable warzone maps could be a really good solution as now much more of enjoyment and fun would then come from the creative map design rather than the weapon variants. For other improvements, I think The Act Man did a great video that looked at creating a new game mode that I think could join with the existing Warzone mode to create something better. (Link here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkRkDLMAgYw). There is a lot more I could get into on how Warzone should function as a game mode but that is another discussion.
However, I still don’t think that this would be enough to satisfy everyone that liked the weapon variants so I believe that perhaps we add a new feature to Halo that allows you to customise weapons and vehicles in Forge. If a system like this gets a lot of effort put into its development we could have a system that could change the properties of guns and be able to give weapons attachments. For example, you could make an assault rifle that has a slower rate of fire and then give it a battle rifle scope, or for vehicles have a Falcon and then add a chain gun attachment for the pilot and then change how much health it has. This system would essentially be exactly the same as having a variety of different variants but now instead of having the weapons and vehicles preset for you, you would now have more creative control in creating your own variants and then having them balanced on the maps as there aren’t 100 different variants that can be accessed throughout a match creating a chaotic experience.
Doing warzone this way would help give it more structure and now gives us an opportunity to make ‘action sack’ type gamemodes where we can create insane weapon and vehicle variants where people can play a more classic warzone experience.