- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
You know, I think if Bungie put some work into this (which might delay game so make it downloadable from Xbox Live or something) they might be able to balance things out. Firstly, lets be real, who wants to be a Grunt from more than just laughs... *crickets* yeah I thought so. A way to balance this out might be to allow only so many of one thing. Like since theres only 1 MC in Halo theres only one MC in this. And then for ODST's there would be 1 for every 2 people who are HP's (human players) but one of those has to be a Marine. I know what your thinking: DUDE, Marines are just fodder dude. Well if they got to start out with a specific human weapon of choice then it might balance. They might carry the rocket launcher or Sniper rifle into battle while ODST's and the MC doing more of the charging in stuff.
Since few, if any, are going to want to be a grunt. Maybe make them bots, you know just to fill up the fodder rank, or just say "good day" to them. Brutes could be the main stream for covies, since they dont got a shield. This makes them somewhat even with basic Marines. Then have 1 Elite for every two CP's (covie players); one of them having to be a Brute, 1 Jackel for every 3 CP's; 2 having to be Brute/Elite, and 1 Hunter for every 5 CP's; 4 of them having to be Brute/Elite/Jackle. Jackels would only be able to use the PR, P. Pistol, and Needeler, one handers. Since, Jackels didn't have a melee attack, or at least I never saw it I just got pointed at... you couldn't see it on the outside but it hurt :(, they might be able to move their shield around in some way instead. Brutes would have to carry their gun at all times, only allowing for one variable weapon. Elites would have to be put on par with ODST's. Now of course just like in the game, Covies would have to work together to really be successful. Doing this covers the short comings of their friends.
Another idea: Make it so that Humans can only use human weapons and Covies can only use covie weapons. I know that in Halo sometimes, Specificly on Truth and Rec, Marines used covies weapons but for the sake of atmosphere lets say only MC knows how to use them. This basicly makes MC one of the better guys to be, but you could always have a Golden Elite who is on par with MC, who can even use human weapons, what a hereitic.
I covered all the balance problems I could think of, post criticisms (plz don't just rant/flame me I'm fargile) and I'll try to work them out. And then, maybe, jjjuuust maybe Bungie might do it if I send them an E-Mail or something. This might just turn out to be a fun game type that we see in the future... but i doubt that highly.
[Edited on 4/18/2004 4:39:18 AM]