Everybody has ideas about what Halo 5 should be like but the ideas change from person to person and the community isn't fairly represented as a whole, which is terrible for feedback. The following is a list of things I would like to see in a future Halo game.
1) First of all: Gore. I think every Halo game so far has been rated Mature, so there's no reason to not have gore in it. I'm not saying make it so violent you're practically drowning in blood, but when people get shot they bleed, it seems reasonable to have blood spurt out when your character gets shot, doesn't it?
2) Despite the opinions of some people there seems to be a 50/50 split on whether or not sprint should stay. I personally believe that sprint has turned halo from a run and gun shooter to a run OR gun shooter, but it shouldn't be taken out. They should add hip fire while you sprint so the running and gunning can continue. Your retical would disappear but you could still shoot, if they put this in the beta of Halo 5 the community would know for sure if it could work or not.
3) Halo Reach had barrel rolls for Elites and sprint for Spartans, what if you could hold A while moving to barrel roll and you'd tap A to jump?
4) Keep armor abilities, make new ones, improve old ones, maybe have two armor abilities per loadout. If nothing else keep the jet-packs!
5) Bring back Firefight, and make it so you can play as ODST's in firefight.
6) Bring back Elites with more customization then ever. Make them closer to Reach style Elites rather then Halo 4 Elites, I liked how large they were in Reach's multiplayer, it made them intimidating as hell. Also Halo 2 Elite Guard armor, look at this and tell me it's not badass:
7) Halo Reach style customization and Spartans that resemble a mix of halo 3, reach, and 4.
Weapon attachments but not in a way that mirrors Call of Duty. Too many people think that anything even remotely similar to Call of Duty is bad, to those people I say: Stop being stupid. Here's a Youtube video that properly explains how this would work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_raoO_nNWI
9) Duel wieldable energy swords, 'nough said.
10) Halo Reach's entire health system.
11) (Totally new idea) Getting arms cut/shot off. Imagine: fighting someone with an energy sword when suddenly your arm gets cut right the **** off! Your health would slowly degenerate until you bled out, unless you found a health pack in time. In addition to slower reloads, the retical would shake making fighting one armed harder. If you could manage to kill two people with only one arm, you'd get an ordnance drop with a robot arm.
12) New Vehicles/ Old Vehicles:
Locusts (from Halo Wars)
Scarabs
Gremlins (from Halo Wars)
Shadow (from Halo 2)
Hawk (from Halo Reach)
Covenant Mantis equivalent
13) Weapons: (Make all customizeable)
SMG
Elite Spears (from Halo 2) Instead of throwing grenades you can throw the spear and kill people as well as use it as a melee attack
In Halo Legends: The Duel, one of the Elites has an epic sword. (Shown at about 13:00 into the video to the end)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLd7t04H7BM
that sword needs to be in the game
flamethrower
Bruteshot
Grenade Launcher
Needler Rifle
These Guns:
14) VISR toggle from Halo ODST
15) Customizeable controls or atleast halo 3 controller settings
Looking at other wishlists, I feel I should add armor effects to the list, they were cool as hell. Bring 'em back and add in new ones too.