To me, I think infected and king modes are classics that need to return. I think the maps need to be better though. FH4’s maps kind of felt like an afterthought, and FH5 wasn’t much better. What made FH2’s maps so good, in my opinion, was that there were lots of usable verticality, jumps, and most importantly, tarmac arenas for road cars. Not having to slide everywhere and having faster acceleration made it more fun.
I like Team King and Team Flag Rush, but prefer solo infected. I think Team Infected never gives you the high of being last man standing, so I’d like to be able to play that again or more frequently. I prefer team flag rush as it feels much more like a traditional CTF mode, compared to the randomness of solo, and Team King is decent as it prevents one player from hogging the king the entire round, which can keep it interesting. A potential addition to this could be a neutral flag, where both teams have to fight over a single flag.
I would like to see improvement to spotting players, in FH5 I felt I was forced to squint my eyes at the minimap for half the time I was playing, so any way to make spotting easier without it being overpowered would be nice.
I think with the introduction of the stadium, car football and car hockey are something I believe a lot of players would enjoy, its a classic fun mode from FM4 and its return would be quite a lot of fun I hope.
Putting Playground Games in Stunt Party is probably the wrong call (The maps are what makes PGG fun, putting it in random spots would suck!!!). I believe Stunt Party should remain a Co-op focused mode, following in the footsteps of NFS Unbounds Link Ups or Burnout Paradise’s freeburn challenges. I think there needs to be more interesting objectives though as in FH5, things like smashing objects or hitting a speedtrap repeatedly arent really much of a skill requirement. I’m yet to play the refreshed stunt party in FH6 so I’ll come back with some feedback afterwards possibly.
I’d also like to suggest other minigames that like ‘Cat and Mouse’, Car Sumo, Demo Derby and possibly a Hot Pursuit mode. A big suite of minigames to choose from would really help relieve the feeling of repetition of these modes since FH3.
Make sure there is working eventlab integration for this mode, custom arenas have huge untapped potential.
There really needs to be a way of voting for modes in multiplayer, like back in FH2 and FH3. (This should be in multiplayer anyway!!!)