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Frankie has announced the you CAN be the Elite in at least 1 MP mode. i'm wondering, will other covenant be able to join the fray? like the grunt, the Hunter, or the brute? Bungie would obviously have to find a way to compansate with the health thing. or there could be a special feature that allows you to turn on/off each species special abilities (i.e. the brute could knock people out of Warthogs, doing damage, the elites could throw grenades really far, and the spartain could hijack a ghost, E3-style, and the Hunter could be really tough to kill, but the weak spot is still there. it would just be harder to hit because it would be Human controlled)

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-Mooman1014

  • 04.18.2004 6:56 AM PDT

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An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.

Maybe they could give Grunts a third-person view. This way Grunt Pimps can somewhat cheat and peek around corners. :p It could somewhat make up for the lack of shields, but in the end, everyone will still want to be a SPARTAN... But they could have Grunt Scoreboards.

  • 04.18.2004 7:02 AM PDT
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The third person would be a good idea but there would have to be alot more grunts than SPARTANs

  • 04.18.2004 7:14 AM PDT
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Maybe they could pull some awesome thing with each type of enemy you play as. In each map, you could choose your "class," like in Day of Defeat or Renegade, and choose which enemy to ply as.

Grunts, you'd die and respawn as another, like the guards in Perfect Dark.

Jackals, the same.

Elites would be a bit beefier, and a little more rare.

Hunters, you'd get just as many chances as there were Hunters on the map, then choose a diff class.

Now, what worries me is Frankie said you'd be able to play as an Elite in one Multiplayer MODE. This leads me to believe that Counter-Ops will not take place along the STORYLINE, like Perfect Dark, but in seperate Multiplayer Maps, taking, say, Blood Gulch and making one base all Covie B/S.

Either way, It's still gonna kick MAJOR ASS.

  • 04.18.2004 7:22 AM PDT
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I think you will only be able to play as a Spartan or an Elite. But what game mode exactly will you be able to play as an elite. My guess would be CTF.

  • 04.18.2004 7:40 AM PDT
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I think it'll have to be something better than that. We all can wield Covie weapons as a SPARTAN, but Covies just stick to their own weapons-ours are filth. The gametype is gonna have to be something Race-specific, with some wacky objective a little bit beyond CTF of Slayer.

  • 04.18.2004 7:44 AM PDT

Posted by: Mooman1014
(i.e. the brute could knock people out of Warthogs, doing damage ... and the spartain could hijack a ghost)


All characters can knock people out of warthogs (well, I suppose grunts probably couldn't. And hunters probably wouldn't be able to jump on a moving warthog); this was demonstrated when he hijacked the ghost in the E3 demo. So that's not a "special ability" for either the brutes or the Spartans. Elites could do it too, and possibly those other aliens that haven't been revealed yet.

- Reiginko

  • 04.18.2004 7:48 AM PDT
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Yeah, that's a good point. I'm not sure how Bungie is going to work it, specficially, but I do have faith that they'll make it awesome. One thing I heard, though, is that there is going to be an emphasis on campaign-style battles in multiplayer. So, perhaps the 'mode' we're all talking about, would be something like two teams, on XBox Live obviously, one Human, one Covie. And then you fight, have to complete objectives, hold checkpoints, etc on a campaignish map. They'll probabbly have respawns connected to your character type. So whoever is the Master Chief might only get one life, but ODST's and marines can come back a few times - the ODST's probabbly less, though. Then with the covies, the grunts can come back 20 times, let's say, but the Hunters only once, etc. That might work, and would definately be really cool.

  • 04.18.2004 7:53 AM PDT
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i got an idea, u would have two bases, one covie, one human. each base would be outfitted with the varient wepon of that base aka fuel rod at covie, rocket at human. but i think it would only be elites vs MCs becuase grunts hunters and jackles would only have like one weapon and they would die easily.

  • 04.18.2004 7:53 AM PDT