I’ve been playing halo since Halo: CE came out and I’ve always been a big fan. I have started to dislike the game and I think I might have figured out why and how to fix it. I think the playlists should be divided into social AND ranked matches. For example, a social swat playlist, AND a ranked swat playlist. The reason for this being that the social playlists would be for players who don’t really care about winning, they are just there to play the game that they love with friends or whatever, and ranked could be for more “hardcore” players that are trying hard to win and play with and against the same type of player. I enjoy playing both ways, but it’s annoying when other players around you aren’t on the same page as you. The way Halo 3’s playlist were set up was good, but I think it would have been better with all the same playlists, but the option to either play hard or to just mess around for fun.
Also, I have to say the background music is the most annoying thing I’ve ever had to deal with. Every time I’m sitting in the lobby, I have to mute my TV to stop the music. There should really be an option to turn that off. It’s terrible.
And what’s with the one person theatre thing? We used to use the theatre so much in Halo 3 when we could bring in our whole party. Now it’s just too much of a hassle to either save the film, and save it for later, or tell your friends to wait for you while you go make it, then they all have to split up when they wanna watch it.
And the whole searching for matches thing is terrible now. People popping in and out of games, some people stay till the vote ends and then back out, and you still have to play the game cuz you voted on the map that everyone else just backed out on. There should be some locking point on the players in a pre-game lobby. Plus this isn’t call of duty, the whole joining into games thing doesn’t work as well. You kind of need more than 8 players in a game to play that way. Halo used to be a lot more fun when it wasn’t trying to be like call of duty. Actually, Halo used to be more fun when it was just Halo 3. Before reach came out. Don’t even get me started on the sprinting and jet packs and promethean vision and all that stuff. That’s why the playlists need to be separate. I HATE running around with a BR and I only get shot by needlers and boltshots. Leave that stuff to social. Ranked should just be weapons like the BR, DMR, Sniper rifle, pistol… leave all the fun weapons to the people who are just playin for fun. I want a playlist I can go into where everyone is all just trying to win and play as a team. And I also want a playlist that I can go into to have fun, and not have my teammates yelling at me to stop goofing off. There are two kinds of players in this game, and there should be 2 different playlist to supports those types of players. It’s a valid suggestion that would make everyone happy. I hope you consider at least this one. To be honest, if the game doesn’t change for the better, I’ll probably be done with it for good. I don’t want to hate this game, but it’s not really giving me any reason to love it like I used to. Please change back to more like halo 3 and less like COD.
