Halo 3: ODST Forum
This topic has moved here: Subject: Do you think Spartans and Elites will be playable in firefight mode?
  • Subject: Do you think Spartans and Elites will be playable in firefight mode?
Subject: Do you think Spartans and Elites will be playable in firefight mode?

I know the game will be great and I am really looking foward to the firefight mode but I was wondering, do you think you will be able to play as a spartan or elite in this mode? It would be cool if you could play as your own spartan or elite in this mode aside from just the multiplayer arenas as that is still the only place in the game were you play as them.

It would be nice I mean if you choose you play as a Spartan or Elite, it would just be survival with the standard gameplay and you could dual wield and hijack again. Just to make the ODSTs stand out, they could be the only ones who could use the silenced+scoped SMG and pistol. Also from the side note, I am sure others saw an ODST holding a HMG and during the demo, the option to pick up a brute shot, normally to heavy for other humans considering you could never let allies hold them in Halo 3. I do not see anything wrong with not including it considering, you have the same exact foes in this mode and since vechicles will be around to, it would be nice to have the ablitiy to hi-jack them in this mode and turn a captured banshee on the poor covies and make them run for cover.

I see no reason to not include it, playing as a spartan, elite, or ODST would make this survial-co-op game one of the best around. Would you guys like to play as spartans and elites as well in this game mode? At least spartans would be nice considering you fight the covenant.

  • 06.01.2009 6:45 PM PDT

"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give EL1TE SUPR3MACY lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"

You do realize that Spartans and Elites are better than ODST, and including them as playable characters in Firefight would provoke players to not play as an ODST to ensure their own survival?

  • 06.01.2009 6:48 PM PDT

You also realize, it would have the standard gameplay, I mean if each wave gets harder, no matter who you play as, it would get insanely hard right?

  • 06.01.2009 6:51 PM PDT

Take No Prisoners
Dead Six Special Operations - Troopers, We Are Green And Very, Very Mean!

yeah id love to be able to play as my spartan, although to make it abit more balanced they would probley have to lose the shields

  • 07.26.2009 3:49 PM PDT

Go Rams and Missouri!

Technically, Sergeant Johnson is a Spartan, so yes.

  • 07.26.2009 3:58 PM PDT
  • gamertag: [none]
  • user homepage:

Gamertag: The U2 RoKKeR
Week 14 Asthetic Artist Interview
Founder of Mythic Photographers
Proud Aberrant Archetype of Aberrant Designs

~RoKKeR~

No, Sgt. Johnson is not a spartan. No matter how bad ass he is, he isn't generically enhanced. So no, he is not a spartan.

Moving on, I don't think this will happen. My reason for this being is that gameplay would not be balanced. Elites and Spartans are much stronger, quicker, and tougher than ODST, and it would make the game feel uneven to have an all powerful player, and then a weeker ODST player.

So I say no. This is Halo 3: ODST, not Halo 3: ODST and more Spartans and Elites.

  • 07.26.2009 4:00 PM PDT
  •  | 
  • Exalted Heroic Member

On the blood of our fathers, on the blood of our sons.

As Much as I love my elites I'm going to say No. The point of ODST is to break people of there Halo 2-3 style of being dependent on that Sheild, To re-add these two would only make people not use ODST. And Yes it will get harder no matter what but the point is, it will all way be a bit EASIER for the people who are spartan/Elite.

[Edited on 07.26.2009 4:02 PM PDT]

  • 07.26.2009 4:02 PM PDT

lll
co
<
O NB.

Yeah they could also give spartans and elites the same stats as ODST's, I mean what's the problem with that? People are always talking about how ODST's and spartans don't fit in the same mode, WTF!?

  • 07.26.2009 4:02 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

For gods sake this is ODST, not Spartans. Get over it

  • 07.26.2009 4:04 PM PDT

lll
co
<
O NB.

Posted by: l Kav l
For gods sake this is ODST, not Spartans. Get over it


I didn't mean it that way. I give a BLAM about spartans in ODST, its just somehow annoying* when evrybody is talking about how they don't fit in the same scenario because of the stats. It's basically just a player- model.

* Sry I didn't mean annoying, I just forgot the word. English ain't my language....

  • 07.26.2009 4:09 PM PDT
  •  | 
  • Exalted Legendary Member

Spartans are from Venus and Elites are from Uranus

No. Bungie already said theres only going to be something like around five playable characters. Theres like five different characters in the ODST squad in the story and theres sergeant Johnson. Bungie already said there wont be any Elites in the game at all and the Master Chief wouldn't be in there either.

So Elites definitely wont be playable and I don't think theres room for a spartan and even if there was it wouldn't make any sense to put one in since Spartans play differently than ODSTs.

  • 07.26.2009 4:14 PM PDT

Armor Lock isn't overpowered. You just suck at Reach :)

Reach isn't bad, you're just a BK :)

For my gamertag, look up "Ghoulishtie"

Already confirmed no spartans/elites in Firefight. Firefight is meant for ODST style gameplay, not "OMG I GOTZ TEH SHIELDS NOW I GO UBBER PWNZ!1!!1!"

  • 07.26.2009 4:15 PM PDT

Not. At. All.

  • 07.26.2009 4:16 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

no now go -blam!- yourself

  • 07.26.2009 4:17 PM PDT

A33 WIL ALWAYS OWN HALO 3!!!!

nope well, most likely not kinda sick of playing those losers haha

[Edited on 07.26.2009 4:20 PM PDT]

  • 07.26.2009 4:20 PM PDT
  •  | 
  • Exalted Heroic Member

On the blood of our fathers, on the blood of our sons.

Posted by: Vashkey
No. Bungie already said theres only going to be something like around five playable characters. Theres like five different characters in the ODST squad in the story and theres sergeant Johnson. Bungie already said there wont be any Elites in the game at all and the Master Chief wouldn't be in there either.

So Elites definitely wont be playable and I don't think theres room for a spartan and even if there was it wouldn't make any sense to put one in since Spartans play differently than ODSTs.


I wish we still fought elites this does take place 2 weeks before halo 3 so some elite still be apart of the covenant you think.

  • 07.26.2009 4:20 PM PDT