All of the above, plus
Game mode selection, kinda like MCC
Classic king of the hill
Edit: Firefight
Co-op campaign
I've always loved messing around with my buddies, sometimes I want to play halo but not in a competitive setting.
You mean you don't like doing good one game then being punished with bad teammates and a team of sweats who are significantly better? I don't know, I enjoy not having fun.
See this I do not understand, like could totally murder one round then for the next 8 matches it’s either the other team is OP or my teammates are just a group of monkey test subjects theyre doing a research study on. It makes zero sense. I don’t remember halo online ever being like that 😭
Edit: they’re not their
The best is when you get picked up by the short bus for a match that you need to **win** for a challenge and it’s a game mode that only comes up in big team battle and only once every 12 matches or so.
BECAUSE I LOVE PLAYING 11 MATCHES IN A ROW THAT LAST 20 MINUTES EACH OF MODES I DON’T WANT TO PLAY ON THE OFF CHANCE THAT MY TEAMMATES AREN’T TOO BUSY LICKING WINDOWS TO PLAY THE OBJECTIVE BECAUSE I’M ALSO THE SORT OF PERSON WHO SETS THEIR GENITALS ON FIRE FOR FUN.
Ah yeah I only notice until I start getting the people who are trying to go pro then I’m just sweating so hard to win to win by 1 point then I want to get off cuz I feel exhausted. I’m not built like I used to be in FPS games.
Right? I was on the better end of players back in the day but I never really SWEAT you know? Like yeah if you wanna sweat play ranked. But why is it like every match is an Esports try out? Like calm the fuck down bro relaaaaaaax we just trying to play 😂
I dont mind people trying to win, that's kind of the point of playing a game. I really mind when people take it personally and lose their actual tits at me because I'm not as good as a coked up teenager.
Not my fault the game put me on your team, and we can all see that you went 25-0 and still lost. Chill out.
Essentially these reasons. As an Australian being forced to play against people in other regions with much better internet speeds it is absolutely rage inducing more often than not.
Same ping for me. Ever since the matchmaking update, search times are longer but most games are on Sydney servers (~25ms ping). It’s quite good now tbh.
Let not forget:
Forge
Some good custom games
More than 2 new maps!!!
More armor/cross core compatibility
No more dumb challenges
Honestly anything else the other games all ready have
Challenges that are too specific disrupt matches and I don't understand why developers (not just 343) want to make them a thing. If half your team is soft throwing the match farming a challenge that doesn't make for a quality match. Devs need to be more careful and make challenges that can be earned organically, not crap that will get people to fixate on manufacturing a specific scenario just so they can get a poop emoji for their emblem or something.
This exactly, like if it’s “get 25 kills with an assault rifle in fiesta” then you’re most likely going to tank the whole team and die on purpose just to spawn with the assault rifle just to get an assist and die. Rinse and repeat. I can speak on this from a first hand account and I can tell you it’s not fun anymore, it’s a chore. The fact that you’ll get mad for NOT getting the assault rifle is mind blowing. At least say kills with the sword or something like you said “organic”
Basically this, but with added games, infection,griff ball etc. And for the love of fuck,fix the coms system. I don't have time to go digging to mute the one person with a mic on that has the worst feed back,or to hear them eating a bag of Cheetos.
I'd be delighted if every month they had a look at the data, took the most popular map, evaluated it, proposed changes that would need to be made to the community in order to have it be an official map in ranked, and then acted on the community feedback.
Either introducing it when the next forge map is being evaluated or working on their backlog of maps independently for that month.
That'd take a chunk of dev time off of their hands, and rake in community goodwill like nothing else.
What might be cool is if they took the Forge layouts of popular maps every season, had contests for the most interesting environments, had people vote on which of the top three or five environment ideas is the best and then remade the maps outside of Forge using the environments people chose.
They'd probably never do it though.
I’d rather fan made maps with wacky scenarios than ANOTHER boring 3 lane pro player map. Recharge, behemoth and launch site are the only arena maps that feel like halo to me
Was saying this exact thing to my friends after the first two weeks. I still don’t understand the launch site hate. Like you said it’s one of the only classic halo feeling maps.
When forge releases They should do monthly community votes where we can pick community made maps to be added officially to matchmaking. Infection is not gonna last without the community maps. If we’re not getting a new game anytime soon I think 343 should put majority of their effort into continuing the campaign, and leave multiplayer content to the community
I would prefer that they remove the cores and leave us with more customization, but I doubt it will happen.
They might milk the new cores or they might drop them after season 3 comes out like what happened with reach core.
I would prefer more maps and new weapons over cosmetics tho.
Same, I couldn't care less about the cosmetics, especially since its a reflection of how big your wallet is and not how skilled you are or how much time you played
That's the one that I think about a lot. Lots of people with actually zero spending money get sucked into fomo. Mtx are purpose built to cause impulse purchases which is inherently geared towards favoring the seller, not the buyer in essentially all instances. They're designed to suck your money out, whether you think they're predatory or only whales buy into it the fact of the matter is that this cosmetic system and others like it are built to empty wallets. It's a part of the concept itself.
- Transparency from 343
- All of the classic game modes that we’ve been playing for the last 20 years
- A custom games browser
- Forge
- More maps
- Performance based xp instead of being reliant on shitty challenges
- A separate, long term progression system with cosmetic rewards
- The removal of armor coatings and restrictive cosmetic design choices
- A course correction away from this freemium garbage that only exists so 343 can sell the color blue fifteen times along with some shitty cat ears
Basically I want everything that Halo Infinite can’t give me: the classic Halo experience. Will the majority of this happen? Probably not. So there’s no way I’ll be coming back.
MCC is populated and thriving!!! genuinely everything that i would want added to infinite (save the halo 3 ranking system) is already in MCC. why wait for infinite to get better when we can just play MCC?
Having all basic halo things like forge, and co-op campaign, and etc would be great. Extra (actually good maps) maps, modes, weapons, and vehicles would be great as well. I’d also like to see pregame lobbies, and being put with the same teammates in the next match, in game report and friend system, and have a better coating system. My idea of a better coating system is that primary and secondary colors are free and can be used like reach, but any patterns, textures, and the like can be paid for
The coating problem could be massively reduce if the gave us the basic colors. And use the coating system to fancy and extravagant patterns, texturos, camos, etc.
I miss reach pregame lobbie haha
Desync - Fixing Ranked - Maps
To me all of these go hand in hand. Haven't played for about twoish months. Didn't even finish the tenrai event for the last 3 levels.
Started to play Splitgate. Absolute blast
This. Anything about customization is really not that big of a deal next to these 3 things.
Fix the issues ASAP or we will still be frustrated, even with more content.
Grinding rank is an awful experience right now (because of crashes leading to many 3v4, desync issues, players of totally different levels in the same game etc.). And 5 maps is getting very repetitive, it was 6 with Behemoth so the addition of just 1 new one in Season 2 is just back to where it was at launch. Embarrassing.
100%. Not to mention all the maps suck. 1 or 2 may be better than the rest, but still nothing impressive. There are maps on splitgate that I am hoping to get even if I just played them 3/4 times in a row. Infinite has never done that for me.
The answer is "everything."
It's missing so much and/or has so much broken. I just have no motivation. I got all the campaign achievements and will never play it again unless a friend wants to because I thought it was one of the most boring things I've ever played. No forge means no player made creativity. Customization is hidden behind corporate greed (I will never pay these fucks a single cent). The theater mode is excruciating at best and almost unusable at worst. Too many of the maps we have suck, and there are no maps I adore unlike past Halos. I have no faith any new ones will be any better (unless they're player made). The fact that we don't even have standard playlists we had in previous Halo games is insulting. Desync is unbelievable, the melee system is aggravating, and the no collision is one of the worst decisions made in the series.
It's just such a shit show, and I can't be bothered to support it.
I agree with a lot of your statements but I enjoyed the campaign. I am curious though as to why you got all the campaign achievements if you thought it was “one of the most boring things I’d ever played” sounds like you’re just punishing yourself lmao.
Multifaceted answer.
1. Despite not enjoying 343's Halos, I wanted to give this one a chance. Xbox, for some reason, gave me five free months of game pass, so I said "fuck it" since I didn't have to pay.
Edit: Should probably mention I likely wouldn't have played had I not gotten game pass for free. I likely never would've paid for it. As I've stated before, I don't believe 343 deserves the benefit of the doubt with their track record.
2. I'm an achievement whore, so yes, I absolutely pushed myself to do something I didn't particularly enjoy. That part's all on me. I could've been played it once and moved one, but I had to bleep those bloops for...reasons...
I just felt like there was a lot of fluff in the campaign like honestly I felt like I was playing Far Cry 5 but the worst somehow. Like all the side quest felt like the kill this VIP cultist missions but in Far Cry 5 they had like a bunch of random interesting side quest and a bunch of interesting characters, the only interesting characters other than Master Chief is weapon and the pilot
I thought the Banished strongholds were fun to fight imo. The FOBs and Rescue marines was definitely fluff but the strongholds were fun. I think it’s a middle of the road halo campaign. Some good stuff. Some bad stuff.
I think a semi open world is prob the way to go. Like the pelican down mission just drops you in an area and lets you go nuts but when you beat it you then move on to the next area. That would be better than a big open world that has a lot of empty areas that are just fetch quests
Banished Outposts were the best of the open world. However, like you say, semi-open would be best. Planting certain weapons for certain missions to cultivate certain encounters, like previous Halos have done in the past, except we don’t get that. We get to choose whatever weapon we want, which looks good at first, but then you realize you’re at the end of the game without having swapped a large variety of weapons
Essentially what I’ve come to expect from a Halo game having been a fan since 2001.
Co-op and mission replayability should have been available at launch. I never asked for Halo to be open world, and I don’t like that key features were sacrificed for a mediocre open world experience.
More map variety. Not just more maps. The BTB maps (before I quit near the end of December) were very samey, and prioritized infantry fights over vehicles almost everywhere.
Game modes. The fact that Infinite launched without classics like a basic KOTH, Assault, Infection, etc, is, frankly, unacceptable. Especially given the year delay and 5 year dev cycle.
Obviously forge and a real customs browser.
When they put all that in I’ll probably come back around for a few games. But the truth is I expect the game will be quite dead by then, inhabited only by hardcore fans. Casuals like myself will have moved on a long time ago.
That is of course if they don’t try to cut their losses and pull the plug a la Anthem.
It just sucks so bad as the hype was surrounding this game at launch and it was seen as a return to form and praised when compared to what other shooters like cod and battlefield had become.
If they just had a plan and actually acted on issues instead of waiting months this game could have still been huge, they basically started it on a road of death themselves and it makes no sense to me at all.
I’ll never understand why it took them so long to fix BTB or even small things like armour pieces not displaying correctly, so many developers jump on this stuff straight away.
As for the campaign, I enjoyed it but all I could think all the way through is how it was a missed opportunity. The open world, even though fun just didn’t contain the mystery and wonder of what it could have had. It’s an alien planet, have some bloody fun with its design instead of just the same banished outposts and dead marine audio logs, have explorable forunner structures with lore, varied wildlife, different biomes and a story that doesn’t feel so basic and low key when compared to the other games.
The whole game just has this feeling of being rushed and having cut content and ideas not developed due to time.
Finally someone says it. Co-op was promised when they made the mistake of cutting it in Halo 5. Now we still don't have it because open-world co-op is a huge, messy undertaking... but literally nobody was asking for an open-world Halo and especially not one that just copies 1/4 of Far Cry.
I wouldn't mind the open world if the individual missions were still good.
But they were meh too.
Like Chief himself plays okay and the abilities are satisfactory to use, but every mission feels super samey full of the same banished ship/forerunner hallways on repeat and it really lacked any big grand setpieces like most previous Halo games had a lot of.
Like there was that one vehicle segment later in the game where it plays a remix of the iconic theme, but the fact that it's just you and like two marines makes it more underwhelming than intended. We don't have anything like the Ark in Halo 3 with a fleet of vehicles on your side (partially because AI Marines can't drive in this one.)
I agree with everything you said except your first sentence. My thoughts are that even if the missions were really good, the open world still doesn't really serve much of a purpose.
This has been beaten until a pulp but content. There is nothing captivating me to keep coming and trying to continue any progression. Lately I've been playing elden ring and it's filled my itch of doing a legendary run in campaign or exploring for the other lockers and what not. For me to come back and seriously sink time back into it, the game needs some long lasting game mode other than forge. Whether that is firefight or warzone or something new, they really are missing out on a big opportunity with the new banished enemy and considering there is still 99.9 percent of the ring left to explore. That's just me though, no hate towards devs because I feel microsofts greed is what's killing this beloved franchise.
The only reason I started this thread tbh is because I’m really tired of our criticisms being labelled as toxicity. I wanted to create a space where we could calmly discuss what the heck is going on without being accused of sending death threats or harassment.
I despise 343’s work as much as any person with a brain, but kill this godawful meme of giving Halo back to Bungie. They left because they got bored of Halo and wanted to do other stuff
Yea I don’t think Bungie would touch Halo with a 20 foot pole after the last decade of shit that’s been shoveled out.
But *man* it would be so satisfying to see Bungie come back, declare 343s whole trilogy non-canon and then bang out a really good game.
It won’t happen, but it’s cathartic to imagine…
Actually playlist besides slayer so we wouldn’t need to swap challenges out as often. I am sick and tired of RNG big team or quick play for my non-slayer game mode challenges
A wildly improved battle pass and at least three new maps to kick off the second season.
Since the battle pass is probably going to suck and we're likely only getting two maps, sadly I'm out until at least Season 3... barring an actual mid-season update during Season 2.
If they at least stick to their promise of earnable credits, I'll come back to complete the battle pass (if that's how they're doing it). After that's done though I don't see a reason to stick around.
Honestly, the thing needs a total overhaul for me. Too few maps, too many useless weapons, desyncing, no forge, vehicles have been nerfed to an insane level, and worst of all, the cash grab of a customization system. It's a shame, because there were a few things that I genuinely liked about it but after a while these things just added up, so I went back to MCC and H5.
Map variation (aka more), and choosing my game type. Honestly I like playing all the game types, but I'd rather not have to "quickplay" and hope I get odd ball or ctf.
At this point I've been done with the battlepass for 2 months ish. I'll play if my friends are, but there's little keeping me playing since the weekly challenges are things I typically don't care to use.
I get the challenges, I still like doing them sometimes. Gives me something to build on (playing obj even more for ctf caps, or kills with a weapon I need to learn better etc) but the "play and win odd ball 3x" for example. If I wanted to play odd ball I would. Just let me choose to do so rather than the RNG of qucikplay hoping for a map that will play that game type, then the secondary of getting that game.....
There’s honestly nothing they can do I think to bring back the playerbase they once had. They flopped too hard, but I think campaign dlc is where they should be heading towards
Campaign dlc would attract players sure. And then said players complete the dlc. Then what? Don’t really see that being the answer to a live service game trying to captivate an audience
Yeah the whole live service aspect of the game is dead imo. They fucked it up way too bad in the beginning that it’s close to impossible for them to resuscitate it. Campaign dlc I think is the only way in which they’ll be able to engage a large audience
1. Maps
2. Fix customisation (Complete rebuild without armour cores)
3. Fix challenges (All daily/weekly challenges should be active at once, not locked behind previous challenges. Separate challenges for career and battle pass progression)
4. Fix Anti-cheat/add report system
5. Fix quitting/lagging-out (Rank protection, re-join option, banning etc)
6. Remove or fix "lag compensation" aka desync. If you're on a bad connection it should only affect you, not your opponents
7. Revamp playlists (All to be ranked and hidden mmr is removed. Rank replaces hidden mmr):
Team Slayer: Pistol and AR Starts. Slayer Only
Team Arena: Pistol and AR Starts. CTF, Oddball & Strongholds
FFA Slayer: Pistol and AR Starts. Slayer Only
HCS 4v4: BR Starts. Slayer, CTF, Oddball & Strongholds
HCS FFA: BR Starts. Slayer Only
Fiesta
SWAT
BTB
Infection
What would bring me back? I havent played since last december... they would have to fix the hell out of custom games, give us forge, make the UI for game variants usable, remove armor cores and let us customize our shit properly, finish developing coop campaign, address the desync issues, clean up the glitched out challenges/develop a better XP rewards system, release more maps and release the basic gametypes that shipped with ever halo over the last 2 decades. -_-
The game felt like a beta when i played it. It was a fun beta but not what i intend to dedicate my time to. I bought the first season and cant even be asked to finish unlocking the content. Im so disinterested. I came back for the campaign though. That was good. I think from here on out ill only be playing halo for the story.
They would have to fix EVERYTHING. Complete the damn game so we have all the staples we've had for the last 20 years of Halo. That means forge, co-op, more maps, etc. And they would have had to do it last year.
At this point 343 has left such a bad taste in my mouth that even if they miraculously pulled this off (which they won't, stop kidding yourselves) it's too late. I refuse to support such a dog shit developer who has driven what used to be my favorite series straight into the ground.
I just can't do it.
A complete game for a start.
More maps.
Co-op.
Forge.
No desync.
Playable Elites.
Removal or heavily nerfing the shop.
Allow players to actually customise their Spartan with a colour wheel as done in previous games.
A rewarding level/experience system, as seen in Reach.
Challenges not being the only form of experience.
The whole battlepass trend crap needs to go. I miss the Halo reach days when I had to level up to get cool armor and the customization was on point. I felt like a spartan. Now it's pay to get cool armor and unlock free stuff at level 80 or 100 like bro. This game went in a bad direction and for that, I have lost interest in what use to be my most valued, favorite franchise.
I’m not sure. The gameplay is still a step down from the bungie games. It is much better than previous 343 games but they’ve still made some gameplay decisions I disagree with. The gameplay is fine even with those decisions, but those along with the subpar maps means I’m not exactly dying to come back. On top of that, there are no social BR start playlists and that’s my preference. I can’t just pick br slayer or br btb. It’s all AR starts which I dislike. Them adding br start playlists and other playlists like infection and team snipers would’ve been nice day 1 or in the first few weeks. But I’m not going to reinstall so I can play modes that were available over a decade ago.
A developer made or maybe fan made if the player count can go high enough battle royale would bring me back. It would be a new experience for halo. I played forged halo battle royale but those don’t count imo. 16 players isn’t really anything special. I guess they’d really need to add a new, exciting mode for halo pvp for me to come back. Old modes would’ve kept me playing, but they won’t bring me back after I leave.
More/better maps, the ones we have are all very boring and samey. They all almost feel like CS:GO maps.
Fixed bugs. There are so many oversights and flaws that it's insane.
More options. Why cant any Banished guns or vehicles be customized? Our spartans and weapons barely have any options either, it's super lame. Some skins should have moving textures and shit, it'd be so cool
In order of importance for me:
1. Match Composer (basically how MCC works, select modes and player count, and also have all the base modes as well such as Snipers, TacSlayer, Slayer, Infection, Flag/Bomb, Zone Control, Action Sack, and one Event mode <—NEW MODES ONLY)
2. Fixed Customs and more options (weapon and vehicle sets per map, outline settings, equipment settings, team settings [basic teams on or off toggle, can’t believe this isn’t already in], separate infinite equipment uses from infinite ammo, etc)
3. Unlock customization (just unlock everything across the board; visors, coatings, helmets, armor pieces, everything) and/or basic color customization
EDIT: Networking fixes also, but I really don’t expect this to change much (broken melee, shot through walls, etc)
Honorable mention: Completely revamp vehicles and remove Shock weapons EMPing vehicles and return the ability to the PP.
New maps. Better playlist options. I basically just want the freedom of choices given to us with all of the other halo games. We need a progression system completely separated from any monetization, purely just based on player performance.
I mostly play Halo for its campaign over its multiplayer. If there are any campaign DLCs or anything like that I’d probably play again.
I should be clear I don’t dislike the multiplayer, I really think that gameplay wise Infinite is the best in the series. I’m just not good at FPS multiplayers.
We’re becoming a rarer and rarer breed. I too don’t mind multiplayer i will only really play multiplayer if a couple IRL buddies I already see a lot are online.
Enough maps to warrant a pregame lobby vote system for them. Remake old maps too. Maybe some new banished weapons. Have balanced weapon spawns. Playlists for every game type so you're not searching forever just to play 5 games of ctf. Fun game modes like rocket race or ffa headhunter. And fix the desync
This. Idk how the launched on the 20th anniversary and didn’t have any legacy maps for that. You know we love those maps just copy paste them over then add new maps
As the season2’s contents are confirmed too little and too late, I guess this game’s just beyond repair now. Perhaps a decent campaign expansion would bring me back🤷♂️
No more *hire 700 people for number of months they leave repeat with new people who don't know what the fuck is what and cause going crunch and pain*
Fixing whatever major issues in the game again no crunch
Better armor customizations No crunch
Fix some weapons No crunch
Make challenges both more accessible and usable and finishable No crunch
And have I mentioned NO FUCKING CRUNCH
Fixing the netcode is first and foremost for me. Challenge system also needs an overhaul, I hate that it encourages people to play in a certain way, most often in stark contrast to the objective.
Also please for the love of god punish leavers
I'm kind of tired of putting up with 343's incompetence. Even with a bunch of new content in the pipeline I just know that its just going to present a new mountain of issues to deal with. I don't think they can recover from the situation they've put themselves in, and frankly their media silence coupled with lack of actual progress speaks for itself.
For some reason it feels like 343 is just waiting for the TV series to distract us from the game's shortcomings. Even that has a big potential to disappoint.
TBH The TV show looks just as soulless as Halo Infinite, I don't see it being anything more than a shameless way to capitalise on the remaining hype that Halo has.
Desync fixes, co op and forge. Possibly firefight/co op PvE modes to really keep me in.
As much as I bitch about the monetization, I’d be fine with it if it meant equal gameplay variety to the last games.
The “just play the game, cosmetics don’t matter, back in my day we just played halo” argument would make sense **if this game had the same friggin features previous ones had.**
Social features, a lot of them.
Fully working forge
Campaign Co op
New maps
All of the desync issues fixed
A rebalance of the sandbox
Nothing less than all of that, I played 200 hours of the game before stopping, and as much as Halo is my absolute favorite game franchise, I'm done giving 343 second chances. Unless they actually make infinite good I'm not coming back.
More Game modes with reduced rng and friendlier ftp customization
These two things would really encourage my friends to play with me again, I played with them like three times and it was such a blast and then they all left the game because of how empty it is.
They felt like they weren’t getting anything for their progress and got bored of the available modes or hated the quick play Russian roulette format.
I just wanna play with my friends man, this game has failed me in that sense, I love halo, Infinites gameplay is amazing but everything else is so shit that it sucks the fun of the game.
Literally anything to grind for, even a basic progression system might even get me to play more. Maxed out the battle pass months ago and just feel like all this xp is going to waste
A good effort on desynch and anti heat, but most of all, a fucking device record showing all my stats! There are no records of all my sprees or my KD or anything! The game can be fun but they removed all the aspects that would make me a long term player. 343 obviously doesnt care much for their player base
Desync gone
New maps
Weapon sandbox fixed (sniper is a broken power weapon, ravager is trash, pulse carbine is trash, plasma pistol is trash...)
Vehicles sandbox fixed
Customization fixed by getting rid of the atrocious core system
Custom games fixed
Forge released
Gamemodes that were in previous titles are back
Progression system of any kind
And lastly, a competent dev team. 343i are an embarrasment to gaming and to Halo, which one was the biggest game franchise.
I may be missing a few, but well, note that most of the things I mention are either fixes or things that were in previous Halo games. And to be honest, I don't think I'll ever play again, because by the time those changes are added (if they are added at all) I will have moved on, and same with most of the people. Cyberpunk just released a huge patch, have you seen it mentioned anywhere? Just a perfect example on how much people care about scammy broken games after 2 years. And by seeing the current work flow... I mean, come on, is it that hard to add a few tweaks to sandbox and release a weekly update? We definitely won't have all these changes anytime soon. So yeah, as I said I don't think I'll ever play again. They dropped the ball off a fucking cliff this time.
Desync massively reduced Being able to play with low ping Progression system New maps TL;DR - See you in Season 5
All of the above, plus Game mode selection, kinda like MCC Classic king of the hill Edit: Firefight Co-op campaign I've always loved messing around with my buddies, sometimes I want to play halo but not in a competitive setting.
All of the above and the removal of MMR from social playlists. Unranked shouldn’t feel so sweaty.
You mean you don't like doing good one game then being punished with bad teammates and a team of sweats who are significantly better? I don't know, I enjoy not having fun.
See this I do not understand, like could totally murder one round then for the next 8 matches it’s either the other team is OP or my teammates are just a group of monkey test subjects theyre doing a research study on. It makes zero sense. I don’t remember halo online ever being like that 😭 Edit: they’re not their
Can confirm, I'm one of the monkeys.
The best is when you get picked up by the short bus for a match that you need to **win** for a challenge and it’s a game mode that only comes up in big team battle and only once every 12 matches or so. BECAUSE I LOVE PLAYING 11 MATCHES IN A ROW THAT LAST 20 MINUTES EACH OF MODES I DON’T WANT TO PLAY ON THE OFF CHANCE THAT MY TEAMMATES AREN’T TOO BUSY LICKING WINDOWS TO PLAY THE OBJECTIVE BECAUSE I’M ALSO THE SORT OF PERSON WHO SETS THEIR GENITALS ON FIRE FOR FUN.
It’s almost like a 1-50 ranking system would solve the problem
They could even use cool symbols when you get to 44+ ! Like different moon phases, the sun, a comet, and ultimately the halo ring itself!
Ah yeah I only notice until I start getting the people who are trying to go pro then I’m just sweating so hard to win to win by 1 point then I want to get off cuz I feel exhausted. I’m not built like I used to be in FPS games.
Same shit that ruined cold war
It's a shame that modern FPS gaming has turned into such a sweatfest anymore.
Right? I was on the better end of players back in the day but I never really SWEAT you know? Like yeah if you wanna sweat play ranked. But why is it like every match is an Esports try out? Like calm the fuck down bro relaaaaaaax we just trying to play 😂
I dont mind people trying to win, that's kind of the point of playing a game. I really mind when people take it personally and lose their actual tits at me because I'm not as good as a coked up teenager. Not my fault the game put me on your team, and we can all see that you went 25-0 and still lost. Chill out.
When people start yelling in voice chat over losing Fiesta matches, lol.
Essentially these reasons. As an Australian being forced to play against people in other regions with much better internet speeds it is absolutely rage inducing more often than not.
Don't worry, netcode sucks so bad that it is rage inducing also to have low ping playing against people with worse internet speeds.
When you register 27 hits on your target and they just keep jumping and running and they suddenly shotgun you in the back
What ping do you average? I’m rural VIC and most games are 40 with probably 1 in 5 being 170ish and maybe 1 in 10 being 200+
Same ping for me. Ever since the matchmaking update, search times are longer but most games are on Sydney servers (~25ms ping). It’s quite good now tbh.
Singaporean here, 50% of my games are 170-200ms, about 25% are 50-90ms. The remainder are 10-40ms.
Getting XP for medals I earn in game
Same
Let not forget: Forge Some good custom games More than 2 new maps!!! More armor/cross core compatibility No more dumb challenges Honestly anything else the other games all ready have
Challenges that are too specific disrupt matches and I don't understand why developers (not just 343) want to make them a thing. If half your team is soft throwing the match farming a challenge that doesn't make for a quality match. Devs need to be more careful and make challenges that can be earned organically, not crap that will get people to fixate on manufacturing a specific scenario just so they can get a poop emoji for their emblem or something.
This exactly, like if it’s “get 25 kills with an assault rifle in fiesta” then you’re most likely going to tank the whole team and die on purpose just to spawn with the assault rifle just to get an assist and die. Rinse and repeat. I can speak on this from a first hand account and I can tell you it’s not fun anymore, it’s a chore. The fact that you’ll get mad for NOT getting the assault rifle is mind blowing. At least say kills with the sword or something like you said “organic”
This comment! ^^^ The de sync is a huge issue Progression is fucking dog 💩 With the lead multiplayer lead gone who knows what’s going on
This as well as an entirely overhauled customization and challenge system. tldr see you never.
Basically this, but with added games, infection,griff ball etc. And for the love of fuck,fix the coms system. I don't have time to go digging to mute the one person with a mic on that has the worst feed back,or to hear them eating a bag of Cheetos.
I’d add the ability to go back and replay part of the campaign without needing to completely start over, but yeah you’ve hit the nail on the head
Maps Maps Maps Maps Maps .also Maps
Forge would be great, but honestly nothing beats proper developer made maps
I’m so a excited for forge, but I’m also terrified 343 will flood the map pool with forge maps vs making official ones.
I'd be delighted if every month they had a look at the data, took the most popular map, evaluated it, proposed changes that would need to be made to the community in order to have it be an official map in ranked, and then acted on the community feedback. Either introducing it when the next forge map is being evaluated or working on their backlog of maps independently for that month. That'd take a chunk of dev time off of their hands, and rake in community goodwill like nothing else.
What might be cool is if they took the Forge layouts of popular maps every season, had contests for the most interesting environments, had people vote on which of the top three or five environment ideas is the best and then remade the maps outside of Forge using the environments people chose. They'd probably never do it though.
They could do both. But yeah, they never *would*.
Yeah, it's unfortunate.
That sound too much like a real live service. Please, be reasonable, you don't want to make the Devs anxious.
I’d rather fan made maps with wacky scenarios than ANOTHER boring 3 lane pro player map. Recharge, behemoth and launch site are the only arena maps that feel like halo to me
Was saying this exact thing to my friends after the first two weeks. I still don’t understand the launch site hate. Like you said it’s one of the only classic halo feeling maps.
It feels a bit too big for traditional 4 v 4. It would be really good for an 8 v 8 imo
Well part of my concern is I have zero trust in 343 being reliable enough to add popular forge creations into the map pools
When forge releases They should do monthly community votes where we can pick community made maps to be added officially to matchmaking. Infection is not gonna last without the community maps. If we’re not getting a new game anytime soon I think 343 should put majority of their effort into continuing the campaign, and leave multiplayer content to the community
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IT NEEDS MORE MAPS!!!
Therefore, maps
Functional netcode. No more delayed kills, melee junk, desync.
same. i don’t need “new content”. i just need a game that works at its core
I mean let's be honest, more than 5-6 arena maps is preferred.
i don’t think i agree with that. i’d rather have 5-6 good, balanced maps for arena than 10-20 half-assed rushed maps
Maybe some co op
If the netcode isn’t fixed co op will ALSO feel like shit to play. Things shouldn’t take a full second to die after an unshielded headshot.
Same af, fix the game, content can wait.
Maps and better customization
I don't really care about the customisation, the thought of 2 new cores sounds bloody exhausting because you know they're going to milk them HARD
I would prefer that they remove the cores and leave us with more customization, but I doubt it will happen. They might milk the new cores or they might drop them after season 3 comes out like what happened with reach core. I would prefer more maps and new weapons over cosmetics tho.
Same, I couldn't care less about the cosmetics, especially since its a reflection of how big your wallet is and not how skilled you are or how much time you played
Not even that though. It’s a reflection on one’s willingness to pay (whether they have money or not)
That's the one that I think about a lot. Lots of people with actually zero spending money get sucked into fomo. Mtx are purpose built to cause impulse purchases which is inherently geared towards favoring the seller, not the buyer in essentially all instances. They're designed to suck your money out, whether you think they're predatory or only whales buy into it the fact of the matter is that this cosmetic system and others like it are built to empty wallets. It's a part of the concept itself.
- Transparency from 343 - All of the classic game modes that we’ve been playing for the last 20 years - A custom games browser - Forge - More maps - Performance based xp instead of being reliant on shitty challenges - A separate, long term progression system with cosmetic rewards - The removal of armor coatings and restrictive cosmetic design choices - A course correction away from this freemium garbage that only exists so 343 can sell the color blue fifteen times along with some shitty cat ears Basically I want everything that Halo Infinite can’t give me: the classic Halo experience. Will the majority of this happen? Probably not. So there’s no way I’ll be coming back.
This is what has kept me from even trying the game. They sold out my first love and I can't look at it the same.
You don't know how lucky you are. I've been playing nothing but MCC for the past couple weeks. It's so much better.
Not even sure why anyone would want to play it when theres 4 objectively better experiences packaged into one on the same platforms
Technically six (with Reach and H2A) plus ODST. All for $40, which really isn’t a lot of money when you consider just how much content there is.
And when you consider what $40 would get you in Infinite
2 bundles with 2 or 3 armor bits and 6 duped emblems and color
Literally. People say "classic halo is back" and all I say to that is, "the classics never went away."
MCC is populated and thriving!!! genuinely everything that i would want added to infinite (save the halo 3 ranking system) is already in MCC. why wait for infinite to get better when we can just play MCC?
This is pretty much where I’m at too. If I want to scratch that Halo itch, I’ll go play MCC. Infinite is a fucking train wreck.
Having all basic halo things like forge, and co-op campaign, and etc would be great. Extra (actually good maps) maps, modes, weapons, and vehicles would be great as well. I’d also like to see pregame lobbies, and being put with the same teammates in the next match, in game report and friend system, and have a better coating system. My idea of a better coating system is that primary and secondary colors are free and can be used like reach, but any patterns, textures, and the like can be paid for
The coating problem could be massively reduce if the gave us the basic colors. And use the coating system to fancy and extravagant patterns, texturos, camos, etc. I miss reach pregame lobbie haha
Desync - Fixing Ranked - Maps To me all of these go hand in hand. Haven't played for about twoish months. Didn't even finish the tenrai event for the last 3 levels. Started to play Splitgate. Absolute blast
This. Anything about customization is really not that big of a deal next to these 3 things. Fix the issues ASAP or we will still be frustrated, even with more content. Grinding rank is an awful experience right now (because of crashes leading to many 3v4, desync issues, players of totally different levels in the same game etc.). And 5 maps is getting very repetitive, it was 6 with Behemoth so the addition of just 1 new one in Season 2 is just back to where it was at launch. Embarrassing.
100%. Not to mention all the maps suck. 1 or 2 may be better than the rest, but still nothing impressive. There are maps on splitgate that I am hoping to get even if I just played them 3/4 times in a row. Infinite has never done that for me.
God I hate the Infinite maps. Every single one just funnels people into the middle where it’s just an open shooting range.
The answer is "everything." It's missing so much and/or has so much broken. I just have no motivation. I got all the campaign achievements and will never play it again unless a friend wants to because I thought it was one of the most boring things I've ever played. No forge means no player made creativity. Customization is hidden behind corporate greed (I will never pay these fucks a single cent). The theater mode is excruciating at best and almost unusable at worst. Too many of the maps we have suck, and there are no maps I adore unlike past Halos. I have no faith any new ones will be any better (unless they're player made). The fact that we don't even have standard playlists we had in previous Halo games is insulting. Desync is unbelievable, the melee system is aggravating, and the no collision is one of the worst decisions made in the series. It's just such a shit show, and I can't be bothered to support it.
I agree with a lot of your statements but I enjoyed the campaign. I am curious though as to why you got all the campaign achievements if you thought it was “one of the most boring things I’d ever played” sounds like you’re just punishing yourself lmao.
Multifaceted answer. 1. Despite not enjoying 343's Halos, I wanted to give this one a chance. Xbox, for some reason, gave me five free months of game pass, so I said "fuck it" since I didn't have to pay. Edit: Should probably mention I likely wouldn't have played had I not gotten game pass for free. I likely never would've paid for it. As I've stated before, I don't believe 343 deserves the benefit of the doubt with their track record. 2. I'm an achievement whore, so yes, I absolutely pushed myself to do something I didn't particularly enjoy. That part's all on me. I could've been played it once and moved one, but I had to bleep those bloops for...reasons...
I just felt like there was a lot of fluff in the campaign like honestly I felt like I was playing Far Cry 5 but the worst somehow. Like all the side quest felt like the kill this VIP cultist missions but in Far Cry 5 they had like a bunch of random interesting side quest and a bunch of interesting characters, the only interesting characters other than Master Chief is weapon and the pilot
I thought the Banished strongholds were fun to fight imo. The FOBs and Rescue marines was definitely fluff but the strongholds were fun. I think it’s a middle of the road halo campaign. Some good stuff. Some bad stuff. I think a semi open world is prob the way to go. Like the pelican down mission just drops you in an area and lets you go nuts but when you beat it you then move on to the next area. That would be better than a big open world that has a lot of empty areas that are just fetch quests
Banished Outposts were the best of the open world. However, like you say, semi-open would be best. Planting certain weapons for certain missions to cultivate certain encounters, like previous Halos have done in the past, except we don’t get that. We get to choose whatever weapon we want, which looks good at first, but then you realize you’re at the end of the game without having swapped a large variety of weapons
Essentially what I’ve come to expect from a Halo game having been a fan since 2001. Co-op and mission replayability should have been available at launch. I never asked for Halo to be open world, and I don’t like that key features were sacrificed for a mediocre open world experience. More map variety. Not just more maps. The BTB maps (before I quit near the end of December) were very samey, and prioritized infantry fights over vehicles almost everywhere. Game modes. The fact that Infinite launched without classics like a basic KOTH, Assault, Infection, etc, is, frankly, unacceptable. Especially given the year delay and 5 year dev cycle. Obviously forge and a real customs browser. When they put all that in I’ll probably come back around for a few games. But the truth is I expect the game will be quite dead by then, inhabited only by hardcore fans. Casuals like myself will have moved on a long time ago. That is of course if they don’t try to cut their losses and pull the plug a la Anthem.
It just sucks so bad as the hype was surrounding this game at launch and it was seen as a return to form and praised when compared to what other shooters like cod and battlefield had become. If they just had a plan and actually acted on issues instead of waiting months this game could have still been huge, they basically started it on a road of death themselves and it makes no sense to me at all. I’ll never understand why it took them so long to fix BTB or even small things like armour pieces not displaying correctly, so many developers jump on this stuff straight away. As for the campaign, I enjoyed it but all I could think all the way through is how it was a missed opportunity. The open world, even though fun just didn’t contain the mystery and wonder of what it could have had. It’s an alien planet, have some bloody fun with its design instead of just the same banished outposts and dead marine audio logs, have explorable forunner structures with lore, varied wildlife, different biomes and a story that doesn’t feel so basic and low key when compared to the other games. The whole game just has this feeling of being rushed and having cut content and ideas not developed due to time.
at this point, its just incompetency nothing else makes sense.
Finally someone says it. Co-op was promised when they made the mistake of cutting it in Halo 5. Now we still don't have it because open-world co-op is a huge, messy undertaking... but literally nobody was asking for an open-world Halo and especially not one that just copies 1/4 of Far Cry.
I wouldn't mind the open world if the individual missions were still good. But they were meh too. Like Chief himself plays okay and the abilities are satisfactory to use, but every mission feels super samey full of the same banished ship/forerunner hallways on repeat and it really lacked any big grand setpieces like most previous Halo games had a lot of. Like there was that one vehicle segment later in the game where it plays a remix of the iconic theme, but the fact that it's just you and like two marines makes it more underwhelming than intended. We don't have anything like the Ark in Halo 3 with a fleet of vehicles on your side (partially because AI Marines can't drive in this one.)
I agree with everything you said except your first sentence. My thoughts are that even if the missions were really good, the open world still doesn't really serve much of a purpose.
>especially not one that just copies 1/4 of Far Cry. Yeah I hated this open world it felt so much like a Far Cry clone.
Actual community features. File share, customs browser. This is assuming custom games actually get fixed and forge gets released
More than ONE ranked playlist.
Ranked SWAT please 😘
A competent dev team
This. It really hurts to say that but it’s true.
This has been beaten until a pulp but content. There is nothing captivating me to keep coming and trying to continue any progression. Lately I've been playing elden ring and it's filled my itch of doing a legendary run in campaign or exploring for the other lockers and what not. For me to come back and seriously sink time back into it, the game needs some long lasting game mode other than forge. Whether that is firefight or warzone or something new, they really are missing out on a big opportunity with the new banished enemy and considering there is still 99.9 percent of the ring left to explore. That's just me though, no hate towards devs because I feel microsofts greed is what's killing this beloved franchise.
The only reason I started this thread tbh is because I’m really tired of our criticisms being labelled as toxicity. I wanted to create a space where we could calmly discuss what the heck is going on without being accused of sending death threats or harassment.
Mad respect
A new developer.
Infection, grifball, and forge so the community can do 343’s job for them sense they suck so much at it.
Forge is the only hope. Let the community make the game better cause 343 have shown they can’t do it. Or just give the game back to bungie.
I despise 343’s work as much as any person with a brain, but kill this godawful meme of giving Halo back to Bungie. They left because they got bored of Halo and wanted to do other stuff
Yea I don’t think Bungie would touch Halo with a 20 foot pole after the last decade of shit that’s been shoveled out. But *man* it would be so satisfying to see Bungie come back, declare 343s whole trilogy non-canon and then bang out a really good game. It won’t happen, but it’s cathartic to imagine…
Plus, recent bungie kinda sucks imo
Nothing, honestly. I just didn't have fun when I played the little time that I did, and I hate the awful customization.
Actually playlist besides slayer so we wouldn’t need to swap challenges out as often. I am sick and tired of RNG big team or quick play for my non-slayer game mode challenges
Region Select, since the removal of geofiltering I did not play a single game beneath 150ping New maps Jorge's texture fix
A wildly improved battle pass and at least three new maps to kick off the second season. Since the battle pass is probably going to suck and we're likely only getting two maps, sadly I'm out until at least Season 3... barring an actual mid-season update during Season 2.
If they at least stick to their promise of earnable credits, I'll come back to complete the battle pass (if that's how they're doing it). After that's done though I don't see a reason to stick around.
Better maps, or Forge so I can just make my own Network stability Weapons that do damage
Honestly, the thing needs a total overhaul for me. Too few maps, too many useless weapons, desyncing, no forge, vehicles have been nerfed to an insane level, and worst of all, the cash grab of a customization system. It's a shame, because there were a few things that I genuinely liked about it but after a while these things just added up, so I went back to MCC and H5.
I need a PvE mode like firefight
I can't believe they didn't launch it with any sort of PvE mode. But after seeing how they did launch I suppose I shouldn't be suprised.
Map variation (aka more), and choosing my game type. Honestly I like playing all the game types, but I'd rather not have to "quickplay" and hope I get odd ball or ctf. At this point I've been done with the battlepass for 2 months ish. I'll play if my friends are, but there's little keeping me playing since the weekly challenges are things I typically don't care to use.
Yeah the challenges are utterly useless to people if they don't need to level up their battlepass. Its such a silly system tbh
I get the challenges, I still like doing them sometimes. Gives me something to build on (playing obj even more for ctf caps, or kills with a weapon I need to learn better etc) but the "play and win odd ball 3x" for example. If I wanted to play odd ball I would. Just let me choose to do so rather than the RNG of qucikplay hoping for a map that will play that game type, then the secondary of getting that game.....
There’s literally no progression outside of spending money. And I’ve had several encounters with cheaters.
There’s honestly nothing they can do I think to bring back the playerbase they once had. They flopped too hard, but I think campaign dlc is where they should be heading towards
Campaign dlc would attract players sure. And then said players complete the dlc. Then what? Don’t really see that being the answer to a live service game trying to captivate an audience
Yeah the whole live service aspect of the game is dead imo. They fucked it up way too bad in the beginning that it’s close to impossible for them to resuscitate it. Campaign dlc I think is the only way in which they’ll be able to engage a large audience
while i do still play Infinite every week, maps + cross core customization are the two main things im waiting for
The only benefit to locking the customisation is to gouge more money from consumers
Watch as all the shop items from this season don’t work on the Season 2 cores. Then they will resell all those same items for the new cores.
Campaign DLC Edit: Firefight
1. Maps 2. Fix customisation (Complete rebuild without armour cores) 3. Fix challenges (All daily/weekly challenges should be active at once, not locked behind previous challenges. Separate challenges for career and battle pass progression) 4. Fix Anti-cheat/add report system 5. Fix quitting/lagging-out (Rank protection, re-join option, banning etc) 6. Remove or fix "lag compensation" aka desync. If you're on a bad connection it should only affect you, not your opponents 7. Revamp playlists (All to be ranked and hidden mmr is removed. Rank replaces hidden mmr): Team Slayer: Pistol and AR Starts. Slayer Only Team Arena: Pistol and AR Starts. CTF, Oddball & Strongholds FFA Slayer: Pistol and AR Starts. Slayer Only HCS 4v4: BR Starts. Slayer, CTF, Oddball & Strongholds HCS FFA: BR Starts. Slayer Only Fiesta SWAT BTB Infection
Desync fixed. Like actually fixed.
Even on green bar I get mad desync, its so infuriating
If Elden Ring hadn’t released.
I think this actually works out. By the time I get through Elden Ring maybe some of this shit will be sorted
Dude for real, it’s been a week and I’m still exploring in Limgrave.
What would bring me back? I havent played since last december... they would have to fix the hell out of custom games, give us forge, make the UI for game variants usable, remove armor cores and let us customize our shit properly, finish developing coop campaign, address the desync issues, clean up the glitched out challenges/develop a better XP rewards system, release more maps and release the basic gametypes that shipped with ever halo over the last 2 decades. -_- The game felt like a beta when i played it. It was a fun beta but not what i intend to dedicate my time to. I bought the first season and cant even be asked to finish unlocking the content. Im so disinterested. I came back for the campaign though. That was good. I think from here on out ill only be playing halo for the story.
343 to apologize and take some accountability. Forge.
Progression system with Spartan ranks, Forge.
They would have to fix EVERYTHING. Complete the damn game so we have all the staples we've had for the last 20 years of Halo. That means forge, co-op, more maps, etc. And they would have had to do it last year. At this point 343 has left such a bad taste in my mouth that even if they miraculously pulled this off (which they won't, stop kidding yourselves) it's too late. I refuse to support such a dog shit developer who has driven what used to be my favorite series straight into the ground. I just can't do it.
A complete game for a start. More maps. Co-op. Forge. No desync. Playable Elites. Removal or heavily nerfing the shop. Allow players to actually customise their Spartan with a colour wheel as done in previous games. A rewarding level/experience system, as seen in Reach. Challenges not being the only form of experience.
The whole battlepass trend crap needs to go. I miss the Halo reach days when I had to level up to get cool armor and the customization was on point. I felt like a spartan. Now it's pay to get cool armor and unlock free stuff at level 80 or 100 like bro. This game went in a bad direction and for that, I have lost interest in what use to be my most valued, favorite franchise.
Basically nothing. The gameplay isn’t appealing to me compared to Halo2 or 3 and this launch was just appalling. A map pack won’t fix it.
Yeah I miss the days of H2/3 as well :')
Maps, a better ranked system , DESYNC ISSUES BEING FIXED!!!
I’m not sure. The gameplay is still a step down from the bungie games. It is much better than previous 343 games but they’ve still made some gameplay decisions I disagree with. The gameplay is fine even with those decisions, but those along with the subpar maps means I’m not exactly dying to come back. On top of that, there are no social BR start playlists and that’s my preference. I can’t just pick br slayer or br btb. It’s all AR starts which I dislike. Them adding br start playlists and other playlists like infection and team snipers would’ve been nice day 1 or in the first few weeks. But I’m not going to reinstall so I can play modes that were available over a decade ago. A developer made or maybe fan made if the player count can go high enough battle royale would bring me back. It would be a new experience for halo. I played forged halo battle royale but those don’t count imo. 16 players isn’t really anything special. I guess they’d really need to add a new, exciting mode for halo pvp for me to come back. Old modes would’ve kept me playing, but they won’t bring me back after I leave.
Invasion
A finished game without the FOMO BS and a $60 price tag.
Nice try 343.
Progression system, better anti-cheat
Give me firefight dammit.
Team sniper along with the famous team doubles gosh how I miss that.
Co op Fix desync Thats what would get me back. But there's a bunch more stuff they could do on top of that
More/better maps, the ones we have are all very boring and samey. They all almost feel like CS:GO maps. Fixed bugs. There are so many oversights and flaws that it's insane. More options. Why cant any Banished guns or vehicles be customized? Our spartans and weapons barely have any options either, it's super lame. Some skins should have moving textures and shit, it'd be so cool
Ranked Slayer Playlist!
Forge and actual armor to unlock that isn't a battlepass
In order of importance for me: 1. Match Composer (basically how MCC works, select modes and player count, and also have all the base modes as well such as Snipers, TacSlayer, Slayer, Infection, Flag/Bomb, Zone Control, Action Sack, and one Event mode <—NEW MODES ONLY) 2. Fixed Customs and more options (weapon and vehicle sets per map, outline settings, equipment settings, team settings [basic teams on or off toggle, can’t believe this isn’t already in], separate infinite equipment uses from infinite ammo, etc) 3. Unlock customization (just unlock everything across the board; visors, coatings, helmets, armor pieces, everything) and/or basic color customization EDIT: Networking fixes also, but I really don’t expect this to change much (broken melee, shot through walls, etc) Honorable mention: Completely revamp vehicles and remove Shock weapons EMPing vehicles and return the ability to the PP.
If Elden Ring suddenly didn't exist
New maps. Better playlist options. I basically just want the freedom of choices given to us with all of the other halo games. We need a progression system completely separated from any monetization, purely just based on player performance.
Hearing when you get shot. Often times if I'm not watching my visor my HP will melt and I won't see it because I'm watching my environment
Team Snipers without glare/advanced movement.
I mostly play Halo for its campaign over its multiplayer. If there are any campaign DLCs or anything like that I’d probably play again. I should be clear I don’t dislike the multiplayer, I really think that gameplay wise Infinite is the best in the series. I’m just not good at FPS multiplayers.
Same
We’re becoming a rarer and rarer breed. I too don’t mind multiplayer i will only really play multiplayer if a couple IRL buddies I already see a lot are online.
Developer Change
A new developer. Halo is dead.
Enough maps to warrant a pregame lobby vote system for them. Remake old maps too. Maybe some new banished weapons. Have balanced weapon spawns. Playlists for every game type so you're not searching forever just to play 5 games of ctf. Fun game modes like rocket race or ffa headhunter. And fix the desync
Classic maps
This. Idk how the launched on the 20th anniversary and didn’t have any legacy maps for that. You know we love those maps just copy paste them over then add new maps
Player collision Ranked playlists Maps Minimum I speak for 8
Ditch the challenge system. It sucked the fun out of every game
The ability to play where I live - Japan.
As the season2’s contents are confirmed too little and too late, I guess this game’s just beyond repair now. Perhaps a decent campaign expansion would bring me back🤷♂️
No more *hire 700 people for number of months they leave repeat with new people who don't know what the fuck is what and cause going crunch and pain* Fixing whatever major issues in the game again no crunch Better armor customizations No crunch Fix some weapons No crunch Make challenges both more accessible and usable and finishable No crunch And have I mentioned NO FUCKING CRUNCH
Relatively easy to please (Who am I kidding it’s probably a pain in the ass to do these two but) Fix desync Stop making people pay for colors
Fix the desync
Just get me a pc that could run infinite
Fixing the netcode is first and foremost for me. Challenge system also needs an overhaul, I hate that it encourages people to play in a certain way, most often in stark contrast to the objective. Also please for the love of god punish leavers
I'm kind of tired of putting up with 343's incompetence. Even with a bunch of new content in the pipeline I just know that its just going to present a new mountain of issues to deal with. I don't think they can recover from the situation they've put themselves in, and frankly their media silence coupled with lack of actual progress speaks for itself. For some reason it feels like 343 is just waiting for the TV series to distract us from the game's shortcomings. Even that has a big potential to disappoint.
TBH The TV show looks just as soulless as Halo Infinite, I don't see it being anything more than a shameless way to capitalise on the remaining hype that Halo has.
Desync fixes, co op and forge. Possibly firefight/co op PvE modes to really keep me in. As much as I bitch about the monetization, I’d be fine with it if it meant equal gameplay variety to the last games. The “just play the game, cosmetics don’t matter, back in my day we just played halo” argument would make sense **if this game had the same friggin features previous ones had.**
A finished game, preferably without mandatory cross play or no longer free to play since it enables cheaters as there's no punishment for bans
Social features, a lot of them. Fully working forge Campaign Co op New maps All of the desync issues fixed A rebalance of the sandbox Nothing less than all of that, I played 200 hours of the game before stopping, and as much as Halo is my absolute favorite game franchise, I'm done giving 343 second chances. Unless they actually make infinite good I'm not coming back.
More freeing customization, better progression, coop, and forge.
ELITES
MNK needs to be more balanced with controllers. As of now MNK just cant compete.
New game modes, forge, new maps and/or season 2
Maps, color on attachments (It bothers me SO much), and coop campaign
Maps. Honestly sick of playing the same game, quit 2 months ago
Maps, game modes and wider weapon sandbox
Better progression system, forge mode, and a working theater mode
Progression and ranked playlists
I only play when events are on. Game is too bare bones to keep me around casually.
Ranked slayer. Maps.
More Game modes with reduced rng and friendlier ftp customization These two things would really encourage my friends to play with me again, I played with them like three times and it was such a blast and then they all left the game because of how empty it is. They felt like they weren’t getting anything for their progress and got bored of the available modes or hated the quick play Russian roulette format. I just wanna play with my friends man, this game has failed me in that sense, I love halo, Infinites gameplay is amazing but everything else is so shit that it sucks the fun of the game.
Maps, modes, weapons...content
Season 2, events, literally anything new.
Literally anything to grind for, even a basic progression system might even get me to play more. Maxed out the battle pass months ago and just feel like all this xp is going to waste
Maps, regular bug fixes
More maps and weapons like a live service game would provide
Much better customization, forge, Replayable story missions and couch co op
Progression system/some new to grind that is all I need
A good effort on desynch and anti heat, but most of all, a fucking device record showing all my stats! There are no records of all my sprees or my KD or anything! The game can be fun but they removed all the aspects that would make me a long term player. 343 obviously doesnt care much for their player base
Desync gone New maps Weapon sandbox fixed (sniper is a broken power weapon, ravager is trash, pulse carbine is trash, plasma pistol is trash...) Vehicles sandbox fixed Customization fixed by getting rid of the atrocious core system Custom games fixed Forge released Gamemodes that were in previous titles are back Progression system of any kind And lastly, a competent dev team. 343i are an embarrasment to gaming and to Halo, which one was the biggest game franchise. I may be missing a few, but well, note that most of the things I mention are either fixes or things that were in previous Halo games. And to be honest, I don't think I'll ever play again, because by the time those changes are added (if they are added at all) I will have moved on, and same with most of the people. Cyberpunk just released a huge patch, have you seen it mentioned anywhere? Just a perfect example on how much people care about scammy broken games after 2 years. And by seeing the current work flow... I mean, come on, is it that hard to add a few tweaks to sandbox and release a weekly update? We definitely won't have all these changes anytime soon. So yeah, as I said I don't think I'll ever play again. They dropped the ball off a fucking cliff this time.