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REMOVE THE MUTE BAN!!!
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Fix Armor Lock
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Remove Bloom. Don’t “fix” it, just remove it altogether.
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Visible 1-50 ranking system
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Flag running brought back
We need to have bloom removed from Reach. Halo has always been the most fun and competitive game but bloom has ruined the franchise.
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Fix Bloom
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Armor Lock
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Ranking system
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Fix Bloom
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Fix Bloom
> I would first like to acknowledge 343 studios before giving my stance on the changes I feel Halo Reach needs.
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> Dear 343,
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> I have been an avid Halo player for nearly 7 years of my life, logging countless hours of gameplay on Halo 2 and Halo 3. To me, no other game could come close to the level of fun and competitiveness that Halo offered and I owned an Xbox 360 purely for this franchise. It was easy to come home and spend hours on Halo, playing into the hours of the early morning but this all changed for me when Halo Reach was released.
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> In my opinion the Halo franchise has been going downhill since Halo 2 and you now have the opportunity to revive a franchise that is losing its long time supporters to games such as Call of Duty and Gears of War. I hope that you take this post to heart and realize that you have the ability to bring the excitement and thrill back to Halo which has been lost now for far too long. I can’t force myself to play Halo Reach for more than an hour these days, the bloom is ridiculous, causing randomness in gun battles and lack of skill. This, in my honest opinion, is what has ruined this game for myself and many gamers alike. When I play this game, I don’t feel like i’m playing Halo at all, and the pointless gimmicks ruin the gameplay. The Halo franchise has been one of the most popular games, if not the most popular, since 2001 and it never needed bloom to be a great game. My question to you, is does it need it now? And my answer is No. Let Call of Duty have its bloom, we don’t need it or want it, Halo was never designed to be a lifelike game anyway, and I doubt anyone will miss it. I hope you take this post to heart and realize the true potential that Halo Reach could have with a few minor tweaks that I will list below.
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> 1) I would like to see Bloom removed from Reach completely, however, I feel the very least that the title update should do is give us the option to toggle bloom on or off in custom games and settings. After all, not everyone wants bloom gone, but I would say a fair majority want the classic halo feel broughtback according to the posts throughout this thread. In my eyes, the only way to bring that classic Halo feel back is by giving us the option to remove bloom.
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> 2) A ranking system from 1-50 just as we had in Halo 2 and Halo 3. The reason that many gamers spend hours upon hours on a game is a ranking system that gives them something to work toward and achieve. In Halo 2 and Halo 3 everyone was trying their hardest to obtain that level 50 and the feeling of obtaining that level is something that gave a feeling of accomplishment, it made you feel as though all the hard work you invested in the game wasn’t meaningless. I must note however that a new system should be based on Win/Loss and not individual stats like Call of Duty.
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> The Reach ranking system gives the player no incentive to continue playing and I feel as though the a return of the old ranking system will benefit not only your studio, but the Halo franchise as a whole by bringing in more gamers and keeping them for prolonged periods of time.
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> The previous ranking systems were also superior because they made the gaming experience as friendly as possible for all levels of players, this friendly experience should be important to you as a gaming studio because it allows for a retention of players. In Halo 2 and Halo 3 you were matched with players who were generally within your skill range and it allowed for you to have fun while making the games as competitive as possible, this is what i believe made the previous Halo games so addicting and fun to play.
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> In Reach, howver, we do not have this system and it creates gameplay that is either too hard or too easy for the player, and as a result the gamer is left with an unexciting experience.
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> These are honestly my only two complaints against Halo Reach. I know that this game has the potential to be fun and whether you choose to unlock this potential is up to you. If that day ever comes, I can see myself becoming an avid fan of the game as I once was.
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> There was a time when I owned no other game than the current Halo and I want more than anything for a time like that to return. Hopefully after this update I can see myself spending more than 1 hour at a time on this game but if nothing is changed I just don’t see that happening.
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> We have faith in you 343, show us that you care about the community more than Bungie.
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> Thank You, Kyle
ATTENTION! PARTY NUMBERS!
One thing people forget about when they include the Match Making system is the TEAM BASED NUMBERS. No one going into match making by them self want to play a Team Of Four. Prior to the Halo 3 and 2 Match Making system, If you were going into match making by yourself you would find other people searching 1’s and sometimes a Party of Two. This is a post I haven’t seen yet about the Party numbers you search in reach. Just to sum it up
Party of 4’s should not be matched against Parties of 1 and 2’s or 3’s
Party of 4’s should be matched against other teams of 4’s
Party of 3’s should match against other Parties of 3’s and find TWO Parties of 1 Or be a 3V3
Party of 2’s should match against other parties of 2’s and or Parties of 1
Party of 1’s should match against other parties of 1’s or Parties of 2’s
Here’s mine…
- Nerf Armor Lock, or remove from all playlists.
- Bring custom power-ups back! Get rid of Active Camo if you have too!
- Bring 1-50 ranks for all playlists back, Halo 3 style.
4… Scoping on any weapon while using Active Camo should make you visible. Not if the cloak power-up were brought back though. - Increase Plasma Repeater power or replace all Repeaters with traditional Plasma Rifles.
Please consider these suggestions 343! 
> > i am very annoyed by seeing some of these responses by people who say tweak bloom. i want bloom completely gone, it has no place in halo. waiting to shoot does not take skill. it slows the game down especially since we already have shields in the game.
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> > 1. please remove bloom completely
> > 2. bring black bleed through
> > 3. faster movement speed
> > 4. higher jump height
> > 5. tweek armour abilities (sprint for longer to compensate for faster movement, no health regen when in armour lock)
> > 6. 1-50 rank
> > 7. no health packs (this is not 2001, health packs have no place in a competitive multiplayer game)
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> > i know you said top 5 but there is so much wrong with the game i just had it get it all out. Frankie please sort halo reach out because i really love halo but i cant play reach in the current state its in.
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> you sir are god amongst men. that is a solid list but i would like to add a few more thing so listen out 343 i made a account just for this.
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> 1. i want dual wielding back
> 2. guns damaging vehicle is absurd
> 3. forge match making
> 4. more colour for forge (im tired of seeing that grey)
> 5. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REMOVE BLOOM
lol thanks dude, i have been reading some of the other ideas and i really like the following:
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party numbers, its hard to play against a party of 4 when you are with 3 randoms so please implement a system like this
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when you come out of armour lock you are a one shot kill, this will eliminate the frustration
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scoping in with camo makes you more visible, this is a brilliant idea
343 please dont listen to those saying tweek bloom, they are the same people who will abandon the game when the next call of duty comes out. remove bloom and adjust the weapons accordingly. bloom isnt fun, pacing shots isnt fun in halo please get rid of bloom it has completely destroyed the halo experience.
1) Bloom toggle: Weapon bloom needs a on/off option. Spamming works more than it doesn’t…shouldn’t be that way.
2) 1 - 50 ranking system: Add the 1-50 back. Every hardcore player from Halo that got a high rank like a 50 or 40 in Halo knows that in Halo Reach the matchmaking system has no balance on who you place against or with. Plus the 1-50 system lets each player have something to go for. We all know Arena blows due to it’s population to other playlist…the ranked community left in Halo 3 is bigger…that’s not good, not at all. Social playlist can still exist as well but please just give the hardcore gamers a more balanced ranking system. Also, something like a cR per playlist wouldn’t hurt either… for example, in Halo 3 players could get a general in each playlist by getting 500 exp. Why not have something like this in reach, for example 8,000,000 cR per playlist = inheritor.
3) Fix theater: Make theater have at least a max party of four. One player just isn’t as fun when it comes down to showing your friends how sick that no-scope you just got was if they all have to download it just to see it.
4) Power-ups need to be fixed: Camo and Oversheild in Halo Reach are so messed up. Camo should make you invisible like it did in H3, no more crouching to have full camo. Oversheild needs a visual effect to show how much overshield they have left. Not just flaming feat or a forced color that doesn’t change.
5) Bleed thru: Here is a example of this…Player A shoots Player B 3 times with the Dmr. They both melee each other twice resulting in a neutral (both players kill each other). We all know Player A should of won that fight…It’s like those 3 shots didn’t even exist. Halo 3 had it right.
I hope I’m not to late to get a say in this but here it goes. This is the most important post in this thread. I have read other post and I agree with most of what people have stated. But with reading what people have posted, they simply don’t understand you can only do so much with a patch. People post and say fix that and this but they don’t state on how to fix a certain issue, so I will do it for them. I will state what is the most important issues that need patching, and will make it short as possible.
1) Fix/Remove the Bloom.
The statement above is pretty obvious. Now there are two things you could do for this issue. 1. you can make the bloom have a faster reset time. 2. Just remove the bloom totally with no DMR side effects. By “side effects” I mean, no bullet deviation, the bullet simply shoots where the player aims at. Out of these two, I want to see #2.
2) Fix the Grenades. (Explode Time)
Now I will not just say “Make them weaker” this will not fix the issue at hand. These people who say this don’t understand FPS multiplayer games in general. People say that these grenades are too powerful but there are two reasons why it seems like it. 1. The player movement speed is too slow to get away from these grenades. 2. These grenades explode instantly, making them the most frustrating weapon to deal with while playing. How to fix the grenades…, Give the grenades a delay time/fuse time, make it 3 - 4 seconds long before they explode. This will make the player able to get away from the grenades. This will solve every complaint you will ever here about this topic.
3) Fix the Melee System. (Remove Lunge)
Again people will just say “Fix the melee system” then they don’t state how. It’s so simple in fact that I believe those bungie employees who made the melee system for H3 and HR has a intelligence of a 4th grader. But those who made the melee system for H:CE and H2 did a very good job. Now granted H:CE had better melee system because it had no lunge. So, in order to fix the melee system you must take out the lunge. By doing this you will solve many other complaints associated with this problem.
4) Fix Assassination Animation (Toggle On/Off)
Fixing the assassination animation is the second most important issue dealing with halo reach. I have died some many times when I didn’t even mean to hold the melee button. Needing to fight another guy by me but I was in assassin mode so I couldn’t defend myself. Lets face it, this feature is completely broken, and is far more important than most issues.
5) Add Foot step sounds (walking and sprint)
This is the most important issue dealing with halo reach. I have never been assassinated so much in this game verses any other FPS game I have ever played. This is absolutely ridiculous, I can’t hear people when they’re approaching me. So add walking foot steps sounds and increase the sound of someone sprinting. Increase the sound enough where you hear other players easily.
Now there are some many other problems with reach, so I only stated the five main complaints. These five topics above need to be addressed and dealt with in future halo titles.
1) Remove Bloom - It ruins Halo.
2) Take out no bleed-though - It is a huge imbalance in the game.
3) Make Grenade fuse longer - Having a short fuse and large damage is imbalanced; long fuse and high damage like CE, or short fuse and medium damage like H2/3 is how it should be.
4) Aim Acceleration On/Off option - It makes aiming sluggish and having an option to turn it off would only please those who dislike it. No problems here.
5) Option to choose host - Sometimes capped players pull host and it is just stupid, other times players pull host when they don’t want it (don’t want to use too much bandwidth on gaming). In custom games the party leader should always get host when the Nats allow it.
- Option to toggle off bloom.
- Slider option for weapon damage/melee damage/gravity/speed/jump height
- Able to view file shares while loading maps. File Shares are almost useless if you can’t see it while waiting in a lobby to start a game.
- Halo 2 or Halo 3 melee system.
- Grenades nerf.
- Reduce kill times
- Fix bloom or add a toggle function for it, if you keep bloom them punish spammers a lot more!
- Bring back ranked playlists 1-100, maybe starcraft style ranking system with each level having 1-50
- Fix screen lag and host selection!!!
- Add individual weapon traits i.e. weapon damage, kill times, clip size etc etc.
All of these are essential for the revival of the halo community, or halo will be dead by the end of the year gauranteed. I have already seen so many good players and friends quit halo because reach was such a massive failure.
I hope to god this gets fixed.
Top 5:
1.Fix grenades
2.Remove quit ban(constantly comes up during gameplay)and punishes players by forcing them to stay in game 4 on 1.
3.Fix bloom on all bloom weapons.
4.fix recharge rate on some AA’s
5.Fix weapon respawn and despawn times.
Others:
6.More vehicle health or weaken the dmr against them.
7.Jump height
8.Host advantage and host migration.
9.Add color to forge world(all maps look to gray)
10.Buff covie weapons.Session data
i have made a thread about this but just in case 343 dont see it here it is:
i think people should be awarded for assignations in multiplayer with the opponents dogtag. this will work like the knifing system in bad company 2. it will add a nice risk and reward element to assignations and not just the visual effect
you should also add the ability to customize our individual dogtag with unlockables as we level up or complete daily challenges . please include this in the title update
- Remove Bloom completely
- Bring halo 2’s ranking system back
- Bring halo 3’s melee system back
- Ban armor abilities from all ranked playlists.
- nerf the grenades.
LOWER THE GUNS FOR CUSTOM GAMES
Top 5
- Toggle bloom on/off in options
- Remove no-bleed through damage
- Remove armor lock
- Fix grenade damage/radius
- BETTER MAPS!!!
- Toggle Bloom on and off in options.
- A Ranking System 1-50 please.
- Map remakes. Like lockout and all the maps we loved.
- More expensive armor. Something that costs like 100 mil.
- PAY ATTENTION THAT WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO TURN BLOOM OFF
What are my top 5 hopeful changes for the Title update…
- Option to remove bloom in custom settings; The end result would possibly affect the MLG ladder.
- Individual weapon changes in custom settings. ie, tweaking damage by percentages so one could configure a DMR (example) to be 4 shot kills by itself. another example of this would be the RoF and ammo amount.
- Option to change shields, so that if a damage of certain type breaks the shield, it does the leftover damage to the person. ie When a persons shield breaks of headshot damage, they take the headshot bonus damage and are sent to the respawn screen.
- Option to turn off aim smoothing; The game slows down your turning rate if you try to turn too quickly, I would like to be able to turn 180 as fast as my sensitivity settings allow me to.
- remove armor lock.
- An important part of removing bloom is to lower the magnetism that is inherent to all weapons, there is a possibility that by removing the bloom that weapons like the DMR become so easy to fire that it becomes counterproductive; To account for that, lowering the magnetism so that it is harder to shoot someone. an example of this is trying to shoot a teammate, it is incredibly hard to shoot them, obviously the magnetism doesn’t need to be lowered by that much.
> 1. Remove Bloom completely
> 2. Bring halo 2’s ranking system back
> 3. Bring halo 3’s melee system back
> 4. Ban armor abilities from all ranked playlists.
> 5. nerf the grenades.
Simple, yet nails it with just five suggestions.
- Remove bloom.
- Make it take 3 melees to kill, or go back to melee bleedthrough.
- Deduce the grenade damage.
- Remove noob lock (AL).
- No fall damage.
Pretty please 343 industries 