People are always asking what you would like in the new Halo game, whether it be more customization or bigger maps ect, but doesn’t it all seem a bit much.
Maybe discussing what we would like changed or simply taken out would be a bigger help, yes? It would easier to identify customer wants and what the Halo fans actually dislike in previous games.
Me for example would like the custom loadouts taken out.
Now it’s your turn community, what don’t you want in the next Halo title?
Actually, I think it’s the other way around. We talk about removing stuff all the time. Then people try to post ideas and they get shot down for the same reasons people want to remove stuff. In my experience, a good discussion on things to add is pretty rare.
Anyways- Less content than previous games.
- Quick time events. The QTEs in Halo 4 felt…awkward.
- Any maps from Reach (not the remakes). I hated them. Everyone of them. Especially Sword Base. I just hated them.
- Binary Rifle in the multiplayer. A one-shot-kill sniper rifle is even more annoying than a bush wookie who suddenly appears with his trusty rocket launcher. Or with energy sword.
- No personal ordnance. I want to fight for power weapons, not “earn” them.
- No custom loadouts, or at least not being forced to play the game just to unlock the equipment.
- The new Spartan and Covenant design. Spartans look like ugly versions of Power Rangers, while the Covenant forces look laughable. They look like evil versions of Godzilla and Predator without the coolness.
- Higher difficulty increasing the health of the enemies. It’s not fun, just annoying. Please don’t even consider this, 343. Thanks.
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Points for every darn thing. If they exist, it should be behind the scenes for ranking/scoring purposes only, and it should stay on the critical path only.
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Personal ordinance. Nice try, but no cigar.
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Completely slipshod rank/commendation/challenge system. Connect them up: Ranks like Halo 3, challenges/commendations like Reach.
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Spartan Ops. Nice try, but it was memorable for the cutscenes only. I’d rather variants of Firefight than SpOps again.
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Weapons sandbox. More halo 3 and more Reach, less Halo 4.
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Armor. My Spartans lost some of the essence of being Spartans with this pastel-colored armor-interchangeable Power Ranger kit. Think Reach, or even Halo 3. Not 4.
I don’t want 343i to continue venturing on the path of Halo 4. That means no perks, personal ordnance drops or on-map random ordnance. No flinch, no Sprint, no spawning with armour abilities. Halo needs to go back to being Halo.
I also don’t want Halo 4-style power ranger armour. Let the walking tanks actually look like walking tanks again. See Halo Reach for what I mean.
Get rid of the pastel team colours too. Halo 1-Reach had this down right. Dark red and dark blue just look so much better than baby blue and pinkish red.
I also don’t want Cortana to come back. She died, and it’s very sad, but bringing her back would remove any meaning to her death.
That’s probably true that more people discuss what they don’t want, I personally haven’t seen much but that’s just me.
Also, thanks for everyone’s input on this topic, it sure is helping me see what people don’t want.
> That’s probably true that more people discuss what they don’t want, I personally haven’t seen much but that’s just me.
> Also, thanks for everyone’s input on this topic, it sure is helping me see what people don’t want.
I think because at this point its generally been said to death. People dont see a lot of point making a new thread for it again. A lot of threads are instead someone either with a new idea or someone trying to make a more ‘reasonable’ version of something people just wanted remove.
That said, a lot of “I want lists” i find are often more lists of what they don’t want, or want from previous games instead.
I would like less medals. Medals are supposed to be special whats so special about getting a “generic kill” All these constant rewards were supposed to keep people interested in playing but it seems the complete opposite is true.
Also the dude who says all the stuff, “ricochet” “skulls on” “flag captured” yeah he has a cool voice but hearing it every 10 seconds is a little redundant and distracting.
The point system. Scoring should go back to how it was in halo 1- reach.
the ranks. SR 50 is boring. Much rather be called a legend or a nova or a reclaimer.
the speed at which you rank up
armour being unlocked by completing commendations. Especially when they remove the gametypes for the commendations like they did for King of the hill (my favourite) early on.
the ugly ugly ugly armour. Trust me, less is more. And make it look realistic to what you’d expect a UNSC spartan to wear.
Get rid of most of the weapons and give the pistol a buff please and thank you. I don’t see the need for having 4 weapons that all share very similar functions.
smaller maps like in Halo CE.
game mechanics
- sprint
- flinch
- Armour abilities
- perks
- weapon spawn indicators
- Join in progress
- kill cams
- personal ordnance
Edit: can’t believe I forgot loadouts and instant respawn.
I’ll make it simple:
Personal Ordnance
What I don’t want:
-Marines with Paintball gear
-Power Ranger Spartans
-Plasma Grenades in Loadouts
-Valhalla or Blood Gulch (enough is enough)
-Bullet Sponge Knights
-Vehicles made of Paper
Not very long 
List of things to boot:
-Sprint
-Personal and Random Ordnance
-Custom Loadouts (Or if they cannot be abolished trim them to the bone.)
-Flinch
-Perks
-Instant Respawn
-JIP
-Grind Systems (E.g. 1-130, Recruit-Inheritor. Replace with 1-50 esque skill system with a social slayer EXP system.)
-Terrible and indistinguishable armor designs. Follow Reach’s design philosophy.
-Sticky Detonator. Please give us back Reach’s “Pro-pipe”.
-Overwhelming amount of re-skinned weapons. Make sure each weapon has a unique function or playstyle involved in it’s use. (But keep the current BR/CC relationship for just those weapons for the purpose of Invasion.)
List of Things to Add:
-Open and explorable campaigns.
-Engaging narrative and other in-game easter eggs and media. (E.g. Halo Wars’ timeline.)
-In-game visible Worldwide leaderboards for each MP gametype.
-Readdition of every single gametype that has existed within the franchise.
-Increase player count to 24 or 32, and give us 3 big maps with bigger vehicles to use. Give it a whirl, it’d be a way to experiment somewhat safely with BTB.
-Clan Playlist. Another thing to at least give a try, if nothing else I’m sure the Halo clan community would thrive once more with a place to deck things out officially.
-Ranked/Social Split
-Spartan Ops that are more objective focused and include the PvP Reach tried to include with it’s Versus mode. Essentially present as something similar to MW2/3 ops or as a traditional successor to Invasion.
-Full map editor. Potential is literally limitless. Halo Customs would be the mention of the decade again.
-Powerful sidearms. I don’t like the concept of weakening a weapon because it’s classified as a sidearm.
-Stronger Vehicles.
-More unique Forerunner weapons such as Darkrain’s “Molten Rifle”. (Dude, that was a cool concept.)
-Equipment with multiple but not infinite uses. (Replace AA’s.)
Any changes to armor abilities. Put them on the map instead of spawn. That’s all people should get from their complaints.
Also I agree this forum is more about what people don’t want at this point. The community has become so critical that people are arguing about stuff to be removed that has absolutely no impact on the gameplay or anything important. Like the users who say they want less medals or less armor or less asthetics.
I bet you guys we’ll hit a critical point right before E3 where someone will say, “Guys the color of the kill ball is really bothering me. I CAN’T BELIEVE 343i WOULD MAKE IT THIS WAY YOU GUYS NEED TO CHANGE THIS.”
I’ll bet you guys. We already have stuff that comes close.
Most people have said a lot of things I don’t want already… i’ll add this… Less one shot kill weapons!!! Halo 4 added 6 one shot kill weapons… Railgun, Sticky Detonator, Binary Rifle, boltshot, Incineration Cannon and Scattershot…heck you might as well make it 7 and call the saw one shot kill too lol. Halo 4 had the most one shot kill weapons of any halo. I do not want this many in halo 5.
Also I REALLY hate halo 4 scoring system… go back to how it was in halo 1-3. 25 kills to win, 50 kills etc etc
What I don’t want this year:
Halo 2 Anniversary
I’ll care about what’s actually in the game when it gets here. Sorry to all the H2A supporters out there, I’m not too keen on that subject. (Though it is very possible.) We don’t need to have another copy of a Halo game that’s already been out there, IMO. A H2 remake map pack for Halo 4 or even Halo 5 will do.
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> What I don’t want this year:
> Halo 2 Anniversary
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> I’ll care about what’s actually in the game when it gets here. Sorry to all the H2A supporters out there, I’m not too keen on that subject. (Though it is very possible.) We don’t need to have another copy of a Halo game that’s already been out there, IMO. A H2 remake map pack for Halo 4 or even Halo 5 will do.
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> Popularity levels for Comic drop 50%
51% now. lol
> What I don’t want this year:
> Halo 2 Anniversary
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> I’ll care about what’s actually in the game when it gets here. Sorry to all the H2A supporters out there, I’m not too keen on that subject. (Though it is very possible.) We don’t need to have another copy of a Halo game that’s already been out there, IMO. A H2 remake map pack for Halo 4 or even Halo 5 will do.
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> Popularity levels for Comic drop 50%
A Halo 2 remake map pack would be utterly terrible. Since Halo 4 does not play anywhere remotely like Halo 2, the maps wouldn’t have the same magic by any means. Imagine trying to play a tiny map like Warlock in Halo 4, which has Sprint and POD? It would be cramped and hectic.
NO support upgrades or any perks at all in games. You should be able to pick up grenades without some silly “support upgrade” and you certainly shouldn’t be able to increase grenade radius. No maps at all from Reach and some from 4 (Complex). Also no more score point systems either just go back to the “get 50 kills to win”, not “600 points”.
I dont want
-Loadouts
-AA’s
-Ordinance
and Flinch. Geeze cant believe i forgot that.
I really don’t want to see the Mantis in MM anymore. I rather want to see a nice UNSC air vehicle.