Ok I want to start off by saying what a wonderful game 343 has made for all of us. The graphics are gorgeous, the campaign is while short still incredible and the game is without a doubt the best looking on Xbox. I'd like to thank 343 for daring to innovate in a stagnant game industry and changing the mold of game. I dearly want to see Halo 4 take back the throne of The Best FPS on console however there are some flaws that I believe are holding it back. However everything I see wrong with Halo is not a mechanical issue but could be fixed with some minor balance changes and playlist updates.
TLDR: Halo 4 is a incredible game, it has flaws, but they're fixable flaws.
I don't speak for all Halo fans but I believe these following things would make Halo allot more enjoyable to play.
-Minor quirk, when you enter wargames it ask you if you want to find a game or create one.. I believe you should go back to the Halo 3/Reach/Cod way of being able to see everyone in your game, and the tab opens up all the playlist.
-Make 2 playlist for Halo 4; one ranked and one social.
Ranked: Make it simple, No custom classes, starting with sprint or armor abilities(Pickups?), ordinances, random weapin spawns, make weapon spawns like Reach and Halo 4, maybe some power-ups(invisibility, over-shields) and maybe reduce the rate of fire of the Battle Rifle and nerf the assault rifle.. Some more shields/health to make the fights last a little longer.
Social: Everything I said to not have in ranked put in Social, everything goes!! Except maybe random weapon spawns, I think controlling power weapon spawns is a integral part of Halo, and when there is nothing to fight for control of we just run around.
-Make some new playlists, Team Swat, Team Doubles, Invasion, Action sack. Do Double xp weekends.. Bring back shotty snipers, team shotguns, team swords, team rockets, all in the social playlist. I can't remember what it was called but it was a race and you were on mongooses with rocket launchers and it was incredibly fun.
-Ranked play like Halo 2, 1-50..
-Balance weapons, you can either nerf weapon damage or buff health, maybe slow the game down a little bit by nerfing sprint in social playlists.
-If you really want your fans to love you, you'd take a page from Treyarch and remake popular maps, while they only had one decent map(nuketown) you have a plethora to pick from. Some of my favorites: Guardian, The Pit, Last Resort, Sword Base, Ghost town,Foundry"(add more of your favorites). If you made a dlc with remakes I'd defintely buy!!
If you can think of anything else please add, we need 343 to see this. I want Halo 4 to be the best again, it'd due time.. We owe it to Master Chief//