Lets all face the truth Halo 4 pretty much failed on delivering a good multiplayer experience and a good custom games experience.
///Matchmaking.\
1.First of all matchmaking was just a disaster with ordnance drops making everything really hectic and giving essentialy everybody a powerweapon which made skill in the game essentialy useless.
2.Second thing about multiplayer player is that the Elites were taken out without any hesitation it seems like and that just really sucks, some of the community was sad over that, ya know. :*(
3.Another thing about the matchmaking in H4 that really bothers me is the maps. Sure some of the maps were actually good but the ones that were good were barely shown in the voting lists for the maps. Instead we just got some poorly made maps that were mostly all forged. And the DLC maps? We bareley even got to play any of those in matchmaking before they were taken off.
4.CSR was a joke and needs to be taken out and replaced with some other ranking system, preferably Halo 3’s.
5.The AA’s should be better balanced or just copletly taken out and replaced with something like Halo 3’s equipment system, then they could just have you spawn with 1 piece of equipment or something like that if they really want to.
6.Loadouts should stay, they’ve been in the game for almost a few years now and I feel like they should stay. The thing though is not to have players be able to cusomize their loadouts gun wise, but just have pre-determined ones just like in Reach, but the player will still be able to customize their loadouts only with the AA’s or (like I said earlier takout AA’s and replace them with equipment) equipment only. The only things the play should spawn with is: A close-range weapon(AR for Spartans, Storm rifle for Elites), mid-range weapon(BR for Spartans, Carbines for Elites), and a long-range-ish weapon(DMR for Spartans, some new Covie weapon for Elites).
7.The playlists need more variety, 343i needs to spice them up a bit.
8.Specializations may need to be balanced a bit or taken out. I actually like them a lil, they just need to be perfected a bit more so some of them aren’t cheap.
9.Points should be taken out, and kills brought back in.
10.Instant spawn is a joke and should be taken out. Along with Killcam.
11.Bring back social and ranked playlists.
12.Also competitive playlists for those hardcore players.
13.Grenades should default back to their previous pickup settings from Halo 3 and Reach
///Forge and Customs!\\
- Customs were disappointing this time around and featured less customization then the previous Halo title, things they should bring back for Guardians customs are: Custom power ups, 1-flag CTF, bring back Invasion, bring back custom colors for zombies, and finally where the hell is my RACE gametype? Now I think things they should improve upon in customs is: Allowing you to take sprint off, have flood hold weapons, and just make the options for customs extremely cusomizable.
2.Forge, the pieces still looked very much plain and boring, there were no spaces large enough to forge at, EXAMPLE: Forge World, may have been grey but was still big and open we need more spaces like that. You also in forge mode couldn’t zoom in as the Monitor. You can’t click on crouch to slow yourself down in Halo 4 also. Magnets were kind of a failure( Or maybe that was just me?) To many soft-kill barriers and invisible barriers.
///Other Stuff.\\ - Bring back old weapons like the bruteshot and plasma rifle, spiker, and mauler. And also veichles like the chopper and the hornet and falcon(Wouldn’t that be cool?!)
2.Also bring back regular infection without the flood in it, but flood can still stay in the game with their own models and things.
3.If you do Spartan Ops 343, make it better this time around with levels that aren’t repetitive as hell, OR you can always replace it with Firefight and bring new options to firefight also like the ability to play it on forged maps, and also adding the Flood and Prometheans to it, and also the ability to play as an Elite in Firefight.
4.Campaign needs it’s theater back.
5.Campaign also needs to be much longer than it was in Halo 4, the campaign was good though.
Thank you everybody that has read this wall of text, I hope you take the time to reply back to this thread and add your own input to mine and even criticize some of my points so that 343i can take notice of this thread and take all of mine and your ideas, and makes use of them and puts them put them into Halo 5: Guardians, so they can make it one of the best Halo games ever. With your help, Halo as a game and a community will evolve into something greater and brilliant.
We will all go through this Great Journey together.