A few things for halo 5
Campaign:
1- keep your weapons between missions, it would be kinda nice for those back-to-back, no resupply missions,or to be able to choose your starting weapons for a mission.
2- Explore the various factions fates, how did Humanity return to power, what are the Sangeheli doing, The fate of the Covenant Loyalists
3-Space warfare, fighting in starships, and in space battles, maybe have a mission where you leave your dying starship and jump over and turn enemies ships guns against them
4- Dynamic choices- example choose between taking out AA or vehicle support, which can affect weather you have to face wraiths later, or you can get Pelican resupply. Gives campaign replayability, different choices new mission every play-through.
5- Maybe see action as a normal soldier, or ODST against the URF insurectionests (rebels)
6- Infiltration missions (where detection= failure)
7- A point where your gun jams/becomes useless, and you have to fight hand-to-hand or improvise
Enemies:
1- Bring back the covenant Loyalists
2- Human Rebels (from the books)
Weapons:
1- Dual Wielding- I know its hard to code but its sooooo coool, and fun to use!
2- SMG Bring-it-back
3- Plasma Rifle- theres a reason it was in every EVERY halo game until 4 ( its Iconic)
4- Weapon customization (your on the right path with re-skins) but keep it original
Vehicles:
1- UNSC air vehicle
2- a UNSC ghost like vehicle
3- destructable weapon hardpoints (because removing a scorpions cannon is so amusing)
Other:
1- weapon dropping walk with it down
2- Possibly unarmed/ knife/ meele only combat (maybe a button pressing till one player screws up)
3- Arbiter, and the elites, and other characters for multi-player use.
4- Keep working on armor customization- bring back Reach armor add-ons
5- open custom game playlists, join-able from matchmaking in-progress.
6- FORGE WORLD!
7- bringing back firefight is a good idea
8- keep things realistic adding armor flashligts or night vision or infared needing maps
9- more of those little real world things (reaching out and pressing a button, tripping, ect)
10- more assassination types and animations
11- keep adding on to forge make it bigger, better, if you think its impossible, Halo finds a way