Hopefully, they are adding more to the customization to your multiplayer character, but how about some sort of customization to your weapon.
My idea is nothing to extreme, but mealy changing the aesthetics of it. Some what again, like Gears of War 3 where you can change it to different colors and camouflage patterns. If you notice on the Mastercheif screenshot, you can see that that there is a new sort of UNSC emblem at the stock of the rifle. What if you could change that to your own custom emblem?
I know its nothing special, but little things like this is always a fun feature to have.
Also, If the Halo 4 online lobby is somewhat like Halo Reach’s (Where you can view other players characters in the online lobby), then perhaps having the ability to change what weapon your character is holding buy adding TOUGH challenges to unlocking them.
Example - Your sat in an online lobby, and you view a players service record and their character is holding a Rocket Launcher. You know that they have had to do a tough challenge with that rocket launcher (like earn an overkill with 1 rocket) to unlock it.
If so, the sort of TOUGH challenges to have could go something like this;
BR - Successfully out BR an opponent 20 times in a row (they shoot you first)
Sniper Rifle - Earn a head shot with ALL 8 rounds
Pistol - Pistol whip 100 enemies (Shoot an opponent until their shield is depleted and beat them down)
Energy Sword - Win 100 sword fights
Again, its nothing extreme but its just another fun feature of customization to have that we haven’t seen before in Halo. What do you guys think?
> Hopefully, they are adding more to the customization to your multiplayer character, but how about some sort of customization to your weapon.
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> My idea is nothing to extreme, but mealy changing the aesthetics of it. Some what again, like Gears of War 3 where you can change it to different colors and camouflage patterns. If you notice on the Mastercheif screenshot, you can see that that there is a new sort of UNSC emblem at the stock of the rifle. What if you could change that to your own custom emblem?
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> I know its nothing special, but little things like this is always a fun feature to have.
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> Also, If the Halo 4 online lobby is somewhat like Halo Reach’s (Where you can view other players characters in the online lobby), then perhaps having the ability to change what weapon your character is holding buy adding TOUGH challenges to unlocking them.
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> Example - Your sat in an online lobby, and you view a players service record and their character is holding a Rocket Launcher. You know that they have had to do a tough challenge with that rocket launcher (like earn an overkill with 1 rocket) to unlock it.
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> If so, the sort of TOUGH challenges to have could go something like this;
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> - BR - Successfully out BR an opponent 20 times in a row (they shoot you first)
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> - Sniper Rifle - Earn a head shot with ALL 8 rounds
>
> - Pistol - Pistol whip 100 enemies (Shoot an opponent until their shield is depleted and beat them down)
>
> - Energy Sword - Win 100 sword fights
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> Again, its nothing extreme but its just another fun feature of customization to have that we haven’t seen before in Halo. What do you guys think?
Dont get me wrong, i like every idea you posted. However a lot of people are going to -Yoink- about it being WWWAAAAYYYY to much like cod if the happens.
> Hopefully, they are adding more to the customization to your multiplayer character, but how about some sort of customization to your weapon.
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> My idea is nothing to extreme, but mealy changing the aesthetics of it. Some what again, like Gears of War 3 where you can change it to different colors and camouflage patterns. If you notice on the Mastercheif screenshot, you can see that that there is a new sort of UNSC emblem at the stock of the rifle. What if you could change that to your own custom emblem?
>
> I know its nothing special, but little things like this is always a fun feature to have.
>
> Also, If the Halo 4 online lobby is somewhat like Halo Reach’s (Where you can view other players characters in the online lobby), then perhaps having the ability to change what weapon your character is holding buy adding TOUGH challenges to unlocking them.
>
> Example - Your sat in an online lobby, and you view a players service record and their character is holding a Rocket Launcher. You know that they have had to do a tough challenge with that rocket launcher (like earn an overkill with 1 rocket) to unlock it.
>
> If so, the sort of TOUGH challenges to have could go something like this;
>
> - BR - Successfully out BR an opponent 20 times in a row (they shoot you first)
>
> - Sniper Rifle - Earn a head shot with ALL 8 rounds
>
> - Pistol - Pistol whip 100 enemies (Shoot an opponent until their shield is depleted and beat them down)
>
> - Energy Sword - Win 100 sword fights
>
> Again, its nothing extreme but its just another fun feature of customization to have that we haven’t seen before in Halo. What do you guys think?
Sounds cool but…When ever i pick up a good weapon (sniper comes to mind…) I get betrayed for it.
I don’t know about the emblem on your weapon thing. Having the emblem pop up on every weapon you pick and and disappear when you drop it might cause a miniature of latency issues or something. That, and a colourful smiley-face clued as a sticker to your gun would look silly.
I really like the “weapon-stances for Achievements” idea, though.
I liked the idea of the thread, “This is my gun, there are many like this, but this one is MINE!” where everyone has a different design of each rifle. However, an idea that differs is that I think we should choose it in the armory, then the gun will appear as normal on the ground, yet be yours in your hand.
> I like the idea.
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> I don’t know about the emblem on your weapon thing. Having the emblem pop up on every weapon you pick and and disappear when you drop it might cause a miniature of latency issues or something. That, and a colourful smiley-face clued as a sticker to your gun would look silly.
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> I really like the “weapon-stances for Achievements” idea, though.
I was more going for the idea where your emblem is on your primary starting weapon only.
> I liked the idea of the thread, “This is my gun, there are many like this, but this one is MINE!” where everyone has a different design of each rifle. However, an idea that differs is that I think we should choose it in the armory, then the gun will appear as normal on the ground, yet be yours in your hand.
That wouldn’t work well. If the weapon changes once you touch it, people can’t identify your weaponry before you shoot at them. And if it only changed on your screen, it’d just feel less like a serious game and more like modded skins in Counter Strike. Character customization that only you yourself can see in a First Person Shooter is just silly.
I disagree with the whole “Customize my own weapon” idea, because it just doesn’t feel right in the Halo world, i want the ORIGINAL colors and the ORIGINAL look.
I have nothing wrong with weapons appearance customization, so long as it is small things, like giving your BR a few stripes of your team’s color, or something, and it only applies to Starting weapons.
If Custom loadouts are in, I HOPE they do it Gears of War 3-style. Where your primary must ALWAYS be a Utility, and secondary must ALWAYS be an automatic.
So your options are BR/Carbine/DMR/NR/Magnum for Primary, and AR/PR/Repeater/Spiker/SMG for secondary, with mild appearance based customization options for each.
A few other light customizations I wouldn’t mind are the ability to change both the shape and appearance of your Utility weapon’s scope, and the ability to change your Goggle scope (for non-scoped weapons)
> I have nothing wrong with weapons appearance customization, so long as it is small things, like giving your BR a few stripes of your team’s color, or something, and it only applies to Starting weapons.
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> If Custom loadouts are in, I HOPE they do it Gears of War 3-style. Where your primary must ALWAYS be a Utility, and secondary must ALWAYS be an automatic.
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> So your options are BR/Carbine/DMR/NR/Magnum for Primary, and AR/PR/Repeater/Spiker/SMG for secondary, with mild appearance based customization options for each.
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> A few other light customizations I wouldn’t mind are the ability to change both the shape and appearance of your Utility weapon’s scope, and the ability to change your Goggle scope (for non-scoped weapons)
I like your idea about the load outs. Just so long as power weapons stay spawning on the map, not in your hands, I will be happy.
