What Halo 6 NEEDS To Have...

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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So as most people are aware, Halo 5 had a slight flop…
However, I am SURE that Halo 6 will be a success…if done right.
Here’s a list of what Halo 5 did wrong and what Halo 6 NEEDS.
Story

Halo 5’s story started out well…
but as you play it feels like it slows down.
Don’t get me wrong, it was great…but not all of it.
We need more writers to think carefully about Halo 6…make it better and more fun.
Chief missions…
Halo 5’s campaign had ‘15’ missions…really it was on 12… Out of those 12, 3 are played as Chief.
We do need more of him, yes…it is fun to play as Locke…and it’s not like Chief is the only aspect of the game…but we need more of him.
Let’s also mention that 343 kinda trashed Halo Spartan Ops’ story…
Halo Spartan Ops ended with Jul M’dama getting away with Halsey.
So what happens in the first mission of Halo 5?
They kill him off! Instantly!
Why?..
Just…Why?
We get it, Osiris is strong, but don’t build up a story only to go 10 steps back…
-side note, are the covenant still an ‘official’ thing?..their leader died…soo…are they a thing? -/side note

Social!
Where to get started…
On launch and 1 month into the game…there are still no social playlists…we have FFA rockets…on…Arena?
We need social playlists, we shouldn’t feel forced to tryhard, it should just be fun.
We need things like: Griffball, Action Sack…or even Flood / Infection!
Without these, something is just…missing…

Forge…
We need it on launch
Yes, it may be coming soon…however, really we should have had it on launch.
I still don’t understand why we don’t…
I mean…they had forge maps in the Beta of the game…we can clearly see that they have at least 2 giant worlds to forge in…
So why isn’t it out yet? We’ve seen footage on The Sprint of it working fine!

Weapon Balancing
Smaller issue, but still there.
Magnum is too strong, shouldn’t out-gun the DMR…
And the AR has too much range…sorry but it does.
Make magnum a 6 or 7 shot and not a 5…then make the AR less range
(Again, smaller issue but still there.)

Split-Screen (I won’t rant)
So as we all know, there isn’t SS in Halo 5.
I am aware that this is due to console limitations, as of right now…
However, even if by the time Halo 6 comes out, there can be no 60fps SS…
Can’t they make the game to 30fps for SS?..
I mean…I personally don’t play with friends IRL…but a lot of people do…and I feel like this may have actually made Halo 5’s sales fall quite a bit…

Hunt The Truth Trailers
Need to say, there were cool…
…but… although they were actually showing HtT and not the game, it made a false image of the game…
So can we have some proper trailers?..that don’t show things that don’t happen? I mean sure…
there was th Chief V Locke fight on like…the 5th mission or something…but that was it…they never fought again…
Also, the rest of Blue Team and Osiris did nothing in the fight…they all just…stood there…or weren’t there.

How About A ‘Classic’ Playlist?
No sprint, Spartan Abilities and BR starts.
This would be great for some people!
Those who don’t like how the series has gone in some ways, can play this instead of everything else.
It could / would work!

REQs Should Only Unlock Warzone Items.
I get it, there’s the luck/RNG thing…
But…I do think armor and visors should be unlocked through credits, ranking up…or achievements**
I like how REQs unlock things in warzone and weapon skins, I really do.
But Halo Reach’s armour unlocking was far better (in my opinion)

**Achievement Unlocks?
There weren’t any…
Congrats, you got all the skulls…have 40G…that’s it?
No special ‘skull collector’ armor or anything?
No REQ packs / points?
C’mon!
Same for mission intel…they should do something…

Warden -Yoink-ing Eternal
He was ‘OK’ at best…
I did like fighting him…the first time…
It was fun…the first time…
But then when you had to keep fighting him and fighting him…He got more and more annoying.
Don’t forget, mission 14 either! 3 Wardens at once! When I first went on Legendary I didn’t know you could skip that bit…such a pain, was a task, not fun,

Scarab?
Small one, again.
I personally like the scarab…but…they’ve disappeared!
With Halo Reach…there were (I believe) 2 scarabs on PoA…which you didn’t fight.
Those scarabs sat there.
The last time we got to fight them, was Halo 3.
Why? I loved fighting them!
You, a single soldier, boarding this giant alien ship made of lekgolo worms…
It’s not like the worms don’t exist…there’s many parts in Campaign where we see the worms separate, they were also in Halo Nightfall…
But no scarabs?..it’s been 8 years since we fought them (I believe) (Ex. Halo 2A)

Team Arena
(Another small thing)
Remove breakout from it…(and maybe slayer).
Team Arena was about working as a team, and having an Objective.
Breakout…you get shot in the back? You’re dead in seconds.
Slayer…meh…it can stay.

Pro Slayer
It isn’t there!
Where’s the old no radar and BR slayer…
You had to watch your back, you couldn’t rely on your radar…
(Although you can’t rely on it that much RN with it being 18m…)

The Game Feels Like It Is For New Players
It’s true…
It feels like there is too much focus on new players…
But I really think, if 343 add a ‘classic’ playlist, with no Sprint or other Spartan abilities, then get map re-makes…it would bring player back.
We want map re-makes and new maps.***

***Why So Many Forge Maps?
We get it, they’re cool…
But…we want actual maps and not just Forge maps…
We want map re-makes (Truth may be like midship but then that’s only 1 map)
Yes, the forge maps are remakes…but…they’re forge maps…not actual maps…
So, why so many forge maps?

Character Development
So…there wasn’t any.
There was a severe lack in character development…the only character that I feel like are worth of this, are Rookie and Noble 6.
They were shells for you to be.
But Locke, Vale and Tanaka? Even most (if not all) of Blue Team?
Yes, Locke had Nightfall…but that was it…nothing in the game.
If you want to know where Vale and Tanaka are from, you need to read escalation.
Buck? Need to play ODST.
Personally, I thought that some events from Halo New Blood and escalation would happen in Halo 5.
I thought we’d see longer missions, starting with a solo Master Chief, before he was re-united in game with Blue Team…but he wasn’t.
With Osiris, it went from black screen to BAM…this is your team.
We NEED character development…

Firefight / Spartan Ops.
We need this.
Whether or not you (343) realized, we want SO or FF.
There was something to do after Campaign, something else to play.
Halo 4’s SO was named Spartan Ops Series 1.
But there was never to be a second series.
Why not add this to Halo 5?..
Some team travel back to Meridian or something? Just after Locke leaves?
Or how about you just get a different story!
Just…something!
Firefight was playable for hours, wave after wave people fought through, alone or in teams.
Spartan Ops, people got together to ‘rifle through’ enemies and get to their location.
It was fun…and it was missing from Halo 5.

Final Thoughts.
Halo is not dead.
As a series and a franchise, it is not dead.
With Wars 2 coming out to both Xbox One and Win 10…Halo may get backup.
But, if 343 make the same mistakes they made on Halo 5 with Halo 6.
It may likely die.
I personally LOVE Halo 5…but many others don’t.
I’m both nervous and looking forward to the future of Halo…

See you all on the battlefield…

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I want to fight the Flood again. Imagine a four-way battle, Humans vs Covenant vs Prometheans vs Flood.

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I mean…Technically the trailers said it was the biggest hunt in gaming history. Technically they are still hunting Cortana down. Just sayin. The trailers were about misdirection. They could have lead to this.

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They said this would be the darkest halo to date, but I didn’t see that. At all. Not even close. The cortana thing I guess was supposed to be the dark part. But still, wasn’t what I was expecting as “dark”.

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> I mean…Technically the trailers said it was the biggest hunt in gaming history. Technically they are still hunting Cortana down. Just sayin. The trailers were about misdirection. They could have lead to this.

Also, the launch trailer said this was “…the beginning of the greatest hunt…” So the hunt isn’t over if you ask me. Whatever it is we’re hunting. Whether it be cortana or a solution to cortana

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> > I mean…Technically the trailers said it was the biggest hunt in gaming history. Technically they are still hunting Cortana down. Just sayin. The trailers were about misdirection. They could have lead to this.
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> Also, the launch trailer said this was “…the beginning of the greatest hunt…” So the hunt isn’t over if you ask me. Whatever it is we’re hunting. Whether it be cortana or a solution to cortana

Or is it Cortana Hunting THEM?

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> I want to fight the Flood again. Imagine a four-way battle, Humans vs Covenant vs Prometheans vs Flood.

Would be so damn fun! And when you consider Arby, Blue Team, Osiris and Halsey are together…a lot could happen.

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> I mean…Technically the trailers said it was the biggest hunt in gaming history. Technically they are still hunting Cortana down. Just sayin. The trailers were about misdirection. They could have lead to this.

Plot twist, the trailers didn’t lie, we just didn’t understand

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> They said this would be the darkest halo to date, but I didn’t see that. At all. Not even close. The cortana thing I guess was supposed to be the dark part. But still, wasn’t what I was expecting as “dark”.

It was dark though. The destruction of several colonies from the Guardians. Warden’s onslaught of the Covenant on Genesis. Chief having to go up against someone he once considered (and likely still does) a friend. And A.I. all across the galaxy betraying humanity and all other life.

We’re backed against the corner and under a dictatorship. We don’t really know if or how it’ll even be possible for the heroes to get through this. But, of course, it’s 343i’s job to figure that part out and make it convincing enough to us, the players.

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> > They said this would be the darkest halo to date, but I didn’t see that. At all. Not even close. The cortana thing I guess was supposed to be the dark part. But still, wasn’t what I was expecting as “dark”.
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> It was dark though. The destruction of several colonies from the Guardians. Warden’s onslaught of the Covenant on Genesis. Chief having to go up against someone he once considered (and likely still does) a friend. And A.I. all across the galaxy betraying humanity and all other life.
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> We’re backed against the corner and under a dictatorship. We don’t really know if or how it’ll even be possible for the heroes to get through this. But, of course, it’s 343i’s job to figure that part out and make it convincing enough to us, the players.

I just hope that 343 don’t make Halo 6 flop.
Halo 4 had its ups and downs, but they have corrected, yet made more, many ups and downs
The main one: no more ordnance.

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> > > They said this would be the darkest halo to date, but I didn’t see that. At all. Not even close. The cortana thing I guess was supposed to be the dark part. But still, wasn’t what I was expecting as “dark”.
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> > It was dark though. The destruction of several colonies from the Guardians. Warden’s onslaught of the Covenant on Genesis. Chief having to go up against someone he once considered (and likely still does) a friend. And A.I. all across the galaxy betraying humanity and all other life.
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> > We’re backed against the corner and under a dictatorship. We don’t really know if or how it’ll even be possible for the heroes to get through this. But, of course, it’s 343i’s job to figure that part out and make it convincing enough to us, the players.
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> I just hope that 343 don’t make Halo 6 flop.
> Halo 4 had its ups and downs, but they have corrected, yet made more, many ups and downs
> The main one: no more ordnance.

As far as campaign goes, they really need to make Halo 6 feel focused, well paced, and not have too many moving pieces or trash missions. Halo 4 was relatively good in that regard, but Halo 5 just feels slow and monotonous after the second mission. Not really what one expects from part 2 of what should have been an epic adventure.

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> > > > They said this would be the darkest halo to date, but I didn’t see that. At all. Not even close. The cortana thing I guess was supposed to be the dark part. But still, wasn’t what I was expecting as “dark”.
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> > > We’re backed against the corner and under a dictatorship. We don’t really know if or how it’ll even be possible for the heroes to get through this. But, of course, it’s 343i’s job to figure that part out and make it convincing enough to us, the players.
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> > I just hope that 343 don’t make Halo 6 flop.
> > Halo 4 had its ups and downs, but they have corrected, yet made more, many ups and downs
> > The main one: no more ordnance.
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> As far as campaign goes, they really need to make Halo 6 feel focused, well paced, and not have too many moving pieces or trash missions. Halo 4 was relatively good in that regard, but Halo 5 just feels slow and monotonous after the second mission. Not really what one expects from part 2 of what should have been an epic adventure.

And also the 3 ‘exploring’ missions…they were just…boring.
Some parts were great…like evacuation was fun…reminded me of the end of Halo 3.
Speaking of…I hope Halo 6 ends how CE and 3 did…driving for your life…y’know…explosions everywhere.

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If they focused on Master Chief and his character development after the loss of cortana, i believe the game could have been amazing. Experiencing how blue team handles with master chiefs distress and getting to know them would have been great. If you wanted a bring a new face into the franchise, why not bring the team from spartan ops, we got to know them a bit. Or you could have had spartan ops 2 in this game focusing on fireteam osiris. This way we got to know them. Or even have so that you release paid dlc for a 1 act story with 5 chapters about them and their missions. Gears of war 3 did an great job with RAAM shadows dlc where you go back to when the locust just came up to the surface. We already knew some of the characters and got to know the newer ones a bit better and the older one even more. We saw how they worked as a team and the character development of each one.

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> If they focused on Master Chief and his character development after the loss of cortana, i believe the game could have been amazing. Experiencing how blue team handles with master chiefs distress and getting to know them would have been great. If you wanted a bring a new face into the franchise, why not bring the team from spartan ops, we got to know them a bit. Or you could have had spartan ops 2 in this game focusing on fireteam osiris. This way we got to know them. Or even have so that you release paid dlc for a 1 act story with 5 chapters about them and their missions. Gears of war 3 did an great job with RAAM shadows dlc where you go back to when the locust just came up to the surface. We already knew some of the characters and got to know the newer ones a bit better and the older one even more. We saw how they worked as a team and the character development of each one.

My thoughts exactly. If anything, this game might as well be titled Halo: Guardians and just have focused on just Osiris. 343i’s attempt at making a Halo 2 failed on the campaign front.

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As long as they ditch the sprinting and the clamber, I won’t be too concerned with whatever else happens.

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> If they focused on Master Chief and his character development after the loss of cortana, i believe the game could have been amazing. Experiencing how blue team handles with master chiefs distress and getting to know them would have been great. If you wanted a bring a new face into the franchise, why not bring the team from spartan ops, we got to know them a bit. Or you could have had spartan ops 2 in this game focusing on fireteam osiris. This way we got to know them. Or even have so that you release paid dlc for a 1 act story with 5 chapters about them and their missions. Gears of war 3 did an great job with RAAM shadows dlc where you go back to when the locust just came up to the surface. We already knew some of the characters and got to know the newer ones a bit better and the older one even more. We saw how they worked as a team and the character development of each one.

Thinking about how you talk about DLC in other games…
One thing that makes me wonder…
Why is the game called ‘Halo 5**: Guardians**’
Why not just ‘Halo 5’.
Are there other Halo 5 titles to come?..more development?

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It needs 4 player split screen…

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> It needs 4 player split screen…

I mentioned this.

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> > If they focused on Master Chief and his character development after the loss of cortana, i believe the game could have been amazing. Experiencing how blue team handles with master chiefs distress and getting to know them would have been great. If you wanted a bring a new face into the franchise, why not bring the team from spartan ops, we got to know them a bit. Or you could have had spartan ops 2 in this game focusing on fireteam osiris. This way we got to know them. Or even have so that you release paid dlc for a 1 act story with 5 chapters about them and their missions. Gears of war 3 did an great job with RAAM shadows dlc where you go back to when the locust just came up to the surface. We already knew some of the characters and got to know the newer ones a bit better and the older one even more. We saw how they worked as a team and the character development of each one.
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> Thinking about how you talk about DLC in other games…
> One thing that makes me wonder…
> Why is the game called ‘Halo 5**: Guardians**’
> Why not just ‘Halo 5’.
> Are there other Halo 5 titles to come?..more development?

The subtitle is just 343i slowly beginning to move away from numbered titles.

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> > > If they focused on Master Chief and his character development after the loss of cortana, i believe the game could have been amazing. Experiencing how blue team handles with master chiefs distress and getting to know them would have been great. If you wanted a bring a new face into the franchise, why not bring the team from spartan ops, we got to know them a bit. Or you could have had spartan ops 2 in this game focusing on fireteam osiris. This way we got to know them. Or even have so that you release paid dlc for a 1 act story with 5 chapters about them and their missions. Gears of war 3 did an great job with RAAM shadows dlc where you go back to when the locust just came up to the surface. We already knew some of the characters and got to know the newer ones a bit better and the older one even more. We saw how they worked as a team and the character development of each one.
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> > Thinking about how you talk about DLC in other games…
> > One thing that makes me wonder…
> > Why is the game called ‘Halo 5**: Guardians**’
> > Why not just ‘Halo 5’.
> > Are there other Halo 5 titles to come?..more development?
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> The subtitle is just 343i slowly beginning to move away from numbered titles.

Kay den.

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Really dumb talking about Halo 6 now. Play the game for a year or two, then I’ll read your thread.