What we want in Halo Reach

Okay, so I cannot wait for Halo Reach, and I'm sure others feel the same way. So i figured I'd make a thread where we can talk about what we want in the game. I'll start

Campaign:

- Matchmaking

- 6 players (assuming you play as the 6 person squad)

- 10-15 hour campaign

- Wide weapon variety

- Epic battles with lots of Spartans and Marines against lots of Covenant

- A serious, but not too dark of a theme

-Character we love

Firefight(assuming they include it):

- Matchmaking

- 4+ players

- Less Lag

- Very similar to ODST's

Last but certainly not least Multiplayer:

- Some weapon choice when you start a match, and upgradeable weapons. What I mean by this: BR varieties, such as a full-auto BR with no scope, the 3 shotter one, and a semi-auto one with a scope stronger then the 3's. All Balanced of course, and all upgradeable, like different scopes, extended mags, etc. I would like to see varieties of other standards such as the AR's and Magnums.

-BOTS! I would love to have bots to fill up custom games some times

- 24+ players

- BETTER matchmaking and skill level thingy

- Blood Gulch

- And more weapons

- Much MUCH more armors and ways to customize them

- No EXP penalty for quitting, and let people join mid game. (If someone quits on your team, your pretty screwed.)

Now what do you guys want?!

Not penalizing people for quitting? Bad idea. Haven't you ever played DOTA. People quit left and right because they're not doing well and just leave. Nobody can do anything about it. There has to be a penalty for quitting in the middle of a match.

I want a new game engine. The Halo/Halo2/Halo3/ODST engine is showing its age. Ket with the times Bungie

Not penalizing people for quitting? Bad idea. Haven't you ever played DOTA. People quit left and right because they're not doing well and just leave. Nobody can do anything about it. There has to be a penalty for quitting in the middle of a match.

Soapweed

I want a new game engine. The Halo/Halo2/Halo3/ODST engine is showing its age. Ket with the times Bungie

glesniak

I want a new game engine. The Halo/Halo2/Halo3/ODST engine is showing its age. Ket with the times Bungie

glesniak

But if you get in an unbearably laggy match? Or Halo's skill system conks out and puts you against 50s? Or you have to go? It just bothers to me, because those happen to me often, and if you have mid game join it'll be okay.tehsystemwarior

If you have to go somewhere, playing a game before you go doesn't seem to be a good idea. Here's hoping the better matchmaking you wished for will rectify those other problems since people leave all the time as it is.

I'd like to see weapon variety that's actually worth while. There are too many weapons in Halo 3 multiplayer that are fairly useless and ignored by all players.

I like the engine overhaul idea. I also hope there some squad-based-esq mechanics implemented into the story.

Last but certainly not least Multiplayer:

- Some weapon choice when you start a match, and upgradeable weapons. What I mean by this: BR varieties, such as a full-auto BR with no scope, the 3 shotter one, and a semi-auto one with a scope stronger then the 3's. All Balanced of course, and all upgradeable, like different scopes, extended mags, etc. I would like to see varieties of other standards such as the AR's and Magnums.

tehsystemwarior

stick to the way unbalanced cod mp if u want this

1. Huge epic battles aginst the covenant that make you feel that you are in a war for humanity and that will have lasting impressions.

2. Firefight

3. Flyable pelicans please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4. and better ranking system that rewards you for ranking like cool new armor or skulls or something

if they have that I will be extreamly happy

Yeah I havent really watched any videos of it, nor really kept up with it. I guess it good news that its a new engine.

I was hoping Master Chief was in it, but I guess we're going to have to wait for Halo 4 for that....

Customisable classes for online multiplayer (anything is better than starting with the same crappy weapon then running to pick them up) Co-op matchmaking. [QUOTE="glesniak"]

I want a new game engine. The Halo/Halo2/Halo3/ODST engine is showing its age. Ket with the times Bungie

Next-Gen-Tec

No, please don't.

Everyone would just grab a sniper or rockets and everything would be useless.

I think that they should stop releasing Halo games left and right just because the main series is now over. I mean, seriously... Halo 3 was released in September 2007, then Halo Wars was released in March 2009, then Halo 3: ODST in September 2009, now Halo Reach will be out in 2010. Why so much Halo? I mean Halo 2 came out 3 years after the original Halo, then Halo 3 came out 3 years after Halo 2.... I don't see the need to release all these different Halo spin-offs just because the series is over. They SHOULD release them, just not so close together.

I think that they should stop releasing Halo games left and right just because the main series is now over. I mean, seriously... Halo 3 was released in September 2007, then Halo Wars was released in March 2009, then Halo 3: ODST in September 2009, now Halo Reach will be out in 2010. Why so much Halo? I mean Halo 2 came out 3 years after the original Halo, then Halo 3 came out 3 years after Halo 2.... I don't see the need to release all these different Halo spin-offs just because the series is over. They SHOULD release them, just not so close together.

rawr_xd

Halo Wars had nothing to do with Bungie, so the blame can't be put on them.

ODST was a fan service and well, I think it was created just to ease people into Reach. Since there won't be regenerating shields, and now an actual health system, maybe some people wouldn't have liked it so Bungie wanted to test it out and see how people accepted it.

I think that they should stop releasing Halo games left and right just because the main series is now over. I mean, seriously... Halo 3 was released in September 2007, then Halo Wars was released in March 2009, then Halo 3: ODST in September 2009, now Halo Reach will be out in 2010. Why so much Halo? I mean Halo 2 came out 3 years after the original Halo, then Halo 3 came out 3 years after Halo 2.... I don't see the need to release all these different Halo spin-offs just because the series is over. They SHOULD release them, just not so close together.

rawr_xd

Naw there has to be a penalty. **** happens but the game ain't goin nowhere you can always make up for the lost xp with a late night game sesh or something. But like he said, if you've played DOTA, you'd share the same intelect...it's extremely annoying when noobs just quit..

Naw there has to be a penalty. **** happens but the game ain't goin nowhere you can always make up for the lost xp with a late night game sesh or something. But like he said, if you've played DOTA, you'd share the same intelect...it's extremely annoying when noobs just quit..

jlindsey21

When you join a game online it should be covenant vs humans. It would be way cooler than red vs blue team.

When you join a game online it should be covenant vs humans. It would be way cooler than red vs blue team.

MastaP110

Yeah, if this happens they better fix the hitbox on Elites, because as of now using an Elite puts you at an instant advantage.

Campaign:

- Make Noble Team very fleshed out, and each character unique

- 15 to 20 hour campaign

- DO THE STORY OF REACH JUSTICE(come on. Make the story really good)

- Let us knives. Especially the Noble Team grenadier's knife(Spartan is still unnamed)

Multiplayer:

- A larger penalty for leaving the game

- Customization out the ying-yang(can't believe I said that)

- More weapons

- Actual Spartan IDs(not like in 3 where it was letter digit digit. Do it where it's name-digit digit digit,like Kelly-087 or Frederic-104

Not penalizing people for quitting? Bad idea. Haven't you ever played DOTA. People quit left and right because they're not doing well and just leave. Nobody can do anything about it. There has to be a penalty for quitting in the middle of a match.

Soapweed

losing exp has never affected me leaving a game when one of my friends phones me up to hang out with him/her. i've been floating i think at around major, major 2 and i don't care if it goes up or down makes no difference to the game. also matching people up by their ranks isn't really an effective way of matching skill you eventually climb to a position whether you good or bad at the game. they might as well throw it away completly.

Honestly, I want a completely revamped halo experience. New multiplayer, campaign, everything. I think there is a lot more potential than just more of the same. Give us a squad based halo game! Make it darker and more disturbing. Give us more than just one interesting character. I think they have a chance to reinvent the halo franchise, and they should take the chance.

Honestly, I want a completely revamped halo experience. New multiplayer, campaign, everything. I think there is a lot more potential than just more of the same. Give us a squad based halo game! Make it darker and more disturbing. Give us more than just one interesting character. I think they have a chance to reinvent the halo franchise, and they should take the chance.

gears90

Give us a squad based halo game! Make it darker and more disturbing.

gears90

That's what Reach is.

[QUOTE="gears90"]

Give us a squad based halo game! Make it darker and more disturbing.

Phoenix534

That's what Reach is.

I think it'd be super awesome if there are more aerial combats. And during aerial combats, it should be in a 1st person cockpit view, like Ace Combat or something. That'll be something refreshing for the Halo series.

More weapons, more vehicles, customizable armor, and matchmaking for singleplayer and firefight.

Halo is way too profitable a franchise, I'd love to see Bungie re-invent it but chances are we're going to get a re-re-hashed Halo 3 (re-hashed would be ODST).

Halo is way too profitable a franchise, I'd love to see Bungie re-invent it but chances are we're going to get a re-re-hashed Halo 3 (re-hashed would be ODST).

ApolloV

1. Deeper story

2. Darker and more realistic campaign

3. Humans vs Covenant multiplayer

4. Matchmaking firefight and co-op

Just go back to the roots Halo CE's story was way better than any of the other ones. It flowed better and it wasnt corney as sh*t like ODST was. Leave the lame love story out of violent video games (minus gears of war 2, cause the maria part was intense).

I want a new game engine. The Halo/Halo2/Halo3/ODST engine is showing its age. Ket with the times Bungie

glesniak

I agree! I also hope the gameplay is tweaked so it doesn't still feel like I'm playing Halo... The game is fun but just not as fun as it could be.

As long as the campaign isn't a damn chore to play through like Halo 2/Halo 3 its all fine.

[QUOTE="Soapweed"]

Not penalizing people for quitting? Bad idea. Haven't you ever played DOTA. People quit left and right because they're not doing well and just leave. Nobody can do anything about it. There has to be a penalty for quitting in the middle of a match.

vengeance00

losing exp has never affected me leaving a game when one of my friends phones me up to hang out with him/her. i've been floating i think at around major, major 2 and i don't care if it goes up or down makes no difference to the game. also matching people up by their ranks isn't really an effective way of matching skill you eventually climb to a position whether you good or bad at the game. they might as well throw it away completly.

Not forcing people to buy all the map packs to use all the matchmaking types this time would be cool.

[QUOTE="glesniak"]

I want a new game engine. The Halo/Halo2/Halo3/ODST engine is showing its age. Ket with the times Bungie

tehsystemwarior

[QUOTE="vengeance00"]

[QUOTE="Soapweed"]

Not penalizing people for quitting? Bad idea. Haven't you ever played DOTA. People quit left and right because they're not doing well and just leave. Nobody can do anything about it. There has to be a penalty for quitting in the middle of a match.

chaoscougar1

losing exp has never affected me leaving a game when one of my friends phones me up to hang out with him/her. i've been floating i think at around major, major 2 and i don't care if it goes up or down makes no difference to the game. also matching people up by their ranks isn't really an effective way of matching skill you eventually climb to a position whether you good or bad at the game. they might as well throw it away completly.

Dedicated Servers.

Let us search for a game we want to play. If I want to play Oddball on Guardian, I should be able to. I shouldn't have to hope matchmaking gives it to me.

It serves no other purpose than to allow the developers to use DLC, because then they get to restrict the playlists to map packs only.

[QUOTE="tehsystemwarior"][QUOTE="glesniak"]

I want a new game engine. The Halo/Halo2/Halo3/ODST engine is showing its age. Ket with the times Bungie

a55a55inx

Update the game engine. =-(

I want the ability to sprint.......

Spartans cant run?

I think that they should stop releasing Halo games left and right just because the main series is now over. I mean, seriously... Halo 3 was released in September 2007, then Halo Wars was released in March 2009, then Halo 3: ODST in September 2009, now Halo Reach will be out in 2010. Why so much Halo? I mean Halo 2 came out 3 years after the original Halo, then Halo 3 came out 3 years after Halo 2.... I don't see the need to release all these different Halo spin-offs just because the series is over. They SHOULD release them, just not so close together.

rawr_xd

Halo Wars wasn't Bungie and it was the opposite of a FPS. ODST is the ONLY game to break the Halo/3year rule. Assuming that ODST will be seen in Reach, too.

Penalty for quitting doesn't need to be changed for the minority who lag out, it's only going to cause problems for those who TRY to play whole games.

Weapon variety is a no, otherwise the rest looks fine.

Update the game engine. =-(

Flamecommando

The only thing wrong with the current engine is vehicle physics. What else does it matter, it's a new engine anyhow.

It's using DirectX 11 tesselation where as the 360's card only does DirectX 9, so they're working around the console vs. PC limitations for us.

I feel that Bungie should bring Halo: Reach's players back to when they first began the spartan project and looked throughout galaxies for children. They should let everyone see how John (Masterchief) got discovered and even let you play as a him when he was a child, bringing more of an emotional glimpse to the chief, enabling players to have a better understanding of who John really is. Let players run around as John, tackling other kids as he was playing king-of-the-hill on the playground. This enables more emotion--a touch of roughness too. It would spark curiosity among players who don't know the background of John. After the king-of-the-hill section, skip to a cut-scence showing Dr. Hasley reach into her purse and pulling out a quarter. Show her ask John to play a game where she will flip the coin and he has to guess which side it will land on. Show her flip it, making sure that it flips several times, showing how John watches it very closely. Show how he guesses the correct-side, the Eagle side, enabling players to see how and why they chose John. Not just because he was a tough boy, but because he was also very intelligent and lucky. From this point, Bungie could veer in several different directions--letting players play through John's past experiences while they maintain a story with the other spartans, somehow mixing the whole thing together.

I feel that Bungie should bring Halo: Reach's players back to when they first began the spartan project and looked throughout galaxies for children. They should let everyone see how John (Masterchief) got discovered and even let you play as a him when he was a child, bringing more of an emotional glimpse to the chief, enabling players to have a better understanding of who John really is. Let players run around as John, tackling other kids as he was playing king-of-the-hill on the playground. This enables more emotion--a touch of roughness too. It would spark curiosity among players who don't know the background of John. After the king-of-the-hill section, skip to a cut-scence showing Dr. Hasley reach into her purse and pulling out a quarter. Show her ask John to play a game where she will flip the coin and he has to guess which side it will land on. Show her flip it, making sure that it flips several times, showing how John watches it very closely. Show how he guesses the correct-side, the Eagle side, enabling players to see how and why they chose John. Not just because he was a tough boy, but because he was also very intelligent and lucky. From this point, Bungie could veer in several different directions--letting players play through John's past experiences while they maintain a story with the other spartans, somehow mixing the whole thing together.

ace070590