Halo Reach's Forge system was great. I've made some great maps with it, but I definitely noticed some areas of improvement.
1. Items that could've made maps much much greater, and more appealing, such as the Lights were extremely limited in the amount you could put on the map. I mean extremely limited ( 2 per map? Wtf?).
2. I know this is a huge stretch - and is probably highly unlikely to occur for any Console game - but.. music. Yeah, I know. It sounds impossible and you leave a lot of loopholes for innappropriate content, such as moaning or porn sounds or something like that - which is why the songs or music would be uploaded to a site monitored by 343 staff. I don't know if the copyrights will be violated for the songs but if the staff could choose several albums that could be downloaded and inserted into maps - that would make Halo 4 a groundbreaking game. If you're worried about the huge amount of memory it would take up for the game - don't worry about it. Instead of putting all the songs into the game - don't. Don't have them in the game automatically - make the users download them manually. What I mean by that is: have the users download the songs from the 343 music website (4~6mb) and maybe insert a max limit of 4-5 songs a map? (So maps won't be any larger than 20mb)
Maps would become much more epic and encourage users to use forge more often.
3. FURNITURE!
I can pretty much guarantee that most of the forging community has always wanted this. Chairs, sofas, ******* TV's! Pools, Beach Umbrellas, Beds, Cups, Dishes, Fake food, you ******* name it we want it. We've always wanted to make houses, mansions and apartments; but they mostly always look ****ty.
4. Wall colors. Wall paint. Whatever. Anything to change the colors of the wall completely.. this kind of falls in with what I said above about furniture - even if we did have furniture, the houses/pools/whatever would still look crappy with gray walls or lame colors like that. Some colors would definitely make forge much, much more interesting and maps would become so epic I would never get out of Forge.
5. More nature-y maps. Take forge world for example - it had beaches, grass, trees, a waterfall, an island - and it was perfect. We need more maps like this, and less maps like sword base or reflection that allow no creativity. Maps with huge trees allow for scarier infection maps, maps with shores and lakes or RIVERS would make way more chill maps. SNOWY maps with blizzards going on and Spartan snowmen would be so epic its not even describable.
6. Weather changes. Yup. Its been said over and over again but if you're worried about it slowing down the frame rate, then ******* wait for the xbox 720 and make it perfect. Make Halo 4 Forge a beautiful mode that I can waste the rest of my life on.
Rain - Allow the users to change the rain from a light drizzle to a ******* THUNDERSTORM.
Snow - Allow the users to change the snow from a light flurry to a Blizzard and actually have the snow build up (lol I know the snow building up part is probably imposssible, but it sounds cool.)
Sunlight - Work on the sunlight more in H4! Let the users change the sunlight levels (for example: if you made a cube with 1 window, the sunlight should be able to sneak in and light the cube. This would make graphics x10 better.)
7. Water - I understand that spartans would die instantly if they fell in a lake, since they don't have oxygen tanks or whatever, but how about in H4 you actually let us walk in water? Let water be a forge object. Let us make rivers, and make our maps absolutely ******* crazy.
Well, thanks for reading. Hope H4 becomes great.
- Wolf
