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anyone have any idea how that's going to work out? like, if you have to be Elite on blue, or what? i think each team should have a specific race.. like, you get to pick at the beginning who are the elites and who are the spartans, and what color each is.

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  • 06.08.2004 11:07 AM PDT
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Well theres a screen of a gold elite boarding a tan spartan. I think all your team mates will have to be the same because it would be weird having spartans and covies unite..

Im pretty sure this elite thing is to bring more of a story and believable purpose to the multiplayer modes although I dont see why theyre risking there necks to bring a piece of fabric back to base...

  • 06.08.2004 11:10 AM PDT
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I think they made it that either team can have spartans or elites in the E3 demo... AKA: Elites and Spartans on the same team...

Mutliplayer has nothing to do really with the single player... No FPS game has had one that was suppost to be 100% like that except for Retrun To Castle Wolfenstein (I believe)... I could careless if teams were mixed anyway...

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  • 06.08.2004 11:16 AM PDT
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i'd care.. it'd be stupid seeing a Spartan and an Elite together. but it'd also allow people to be what they want.. so who knows..

  • 06.08.2004 11:20 AM PDT
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Posted by: Vizzer
i'd care.. it'd be stupid seeing a Spartan and an Elite together. but it'd also allow people to be what they want.. so who knows..


What reason would you have to back up why you'd care... I'm curious =O
Like I said, multiplayer will most likely have nothing to do with single player (that's a straight shot at saying the storyline in singleplayer won't have anything to do with multiplayer)

  • 06.08.2004 11:24 AM PDT
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but didn't you hear the conference thing? they said that all the levels from Multiplayer have to do with something in Single Player. like Zanzibar is a place in Africa that the Covenant landed.

  • 06.08.2004 11:32 AM PDT
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I think you'll be able to choose Spartan or Elite in certain gametypes (gold elite vs tan spartan was probably just a slayer of that type). However, I think most of the combat will be Spartan on Spartan, especially if there is any difference between the two races in multiplayer (which I doubt).

  • 06.08.2004 11:36 AM PDT
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Posted by: Vizzer
i'd care.. it'd be stupid seeing a Spartan and an Elite together. but it'd also allow people to be what they want.. so who knows..


What reason would you have to back up why you'd care... I'm curious =O
Like I said, multiplayer will most likely have nothing to do with single player (that's a straight shot at saying the storyline in singleplayer won't have anything to do with multiplayer)


Errrm...I believe an article mentioned that the multiplayer MAPS were connected to the single player in some way but bungie werent letting info slip...

Imagine it. "Oh by the way sir! A squad of elites have taken over the power station at zanzibar" "Oh my god! Send some spartans there immediately"

I bet I'm way off but something to do with the multiplayer maps WILL occur iin the campaign mode I assure you.

  • 06.08.2004 11:38 AM PDT
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And the fact that there are 16 spartans (possible 32 if they can pull it off) in single player? no... These little facts are what tell you that Multiplayer has nothing to do with singleplayer or the storyline...

They just made that little speech up about the history of Zanzibar(sp?) so they could kindive explain what happened to it... It doesn't mean it has anything to single player...

I'd say if they wanted it to be more like singleplayer, the Elites wouldn't even be playable, since who says I'll attack the other team, maybe I'd rather like to team kill and be a might elite for other side...

No "Elite" would think like this, but you know some idiot will... Now does that sound very singleplayer to you?

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  • 06.08.2004 11:40 AM PDT
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i don't know why everyone wants to be the Spartan's anyway.. i'd much rather be an Elite. they're scarier. :D

  • 06.08.2004 11:41 AM PDT
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Im pretty sure this is right in FFA you can be what you want to be Elite or spratan but in MP there is an Elite team and a Spartan team

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  • 06.08.2004 1:00 PM PDT
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Posted by: General Fox
And the fact that there are 16 spartans (possible 32 if they can pull it off) in single player? no... These little facts are what tell you that Multiplayer has nothing to do with singleplayer or the storyline...

They just made that little speech up about the history of Zanzibar(sp?) so they could kindive explain what happened to it... It doesn't mean it has anything to single player...

I'd say if they wanted it to be more like singleplayer, the Elites wouldn't even be playable, since who says I'll attack the other team, maybe I'd rather like to team kill and be a might elite for other side...

No "Elite" would think like this, but you know some idiot will... Now does that sound very singleplayer to you?


But there MIGHT be more spartans in halo2. Im just saying what I've heard about the maps and there significance in the campaign mode. Elites vs. Spartans? It sounds more to-do-with-the-story than Spartans vs. Spartans. Im not saying that it has to do DIRECTLY with the story, I'm just saying it will be linked in some way.

This is what Ive merely heard so you might be right, I dont know, but from what Ive HEARD, the story has some impact over what multiplayer is like...

  • 06.08.2004 1:06 PM PDT
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It's ture, bits and pieces can be linked to each other I guess...

But, what I really wany to know is this... Since Spartans and Elites have no real differences.. Why would bungie want to go and say "you may like the elites and want to always be them, but this is how it's gonna be... You are going to be a Spartan, and that's final"... I'd be rather depressed if I were told I couldn't be what I wanted to be, even though it has no real differences in gameplay since we'll beable to tell who's a teammate and who's not, and other reasons as well...

  • 06.08.2004 1:24 PM PDT