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Subject: Sniff Sniff, I smell a class system!

Why use guns when you can just nuke it?

A class system in Halo?! It can't be so!

Well it is possible, and looking at the first image it seems like a possibility. I always thought this was a good idea since I played COD4 (I am the anti-Christ, sorry), and it would be awesome for the campaign. It could also work for MP but that would be too clique.

What do you think? What class would you want to be?

....Or is it just a bad idea.

  • 06.01.2009 8:48 PM PDT

This would be a good time to point out that the US Government seriously did consider nuking the moon during the Cold War as a show of force. Project A119.

"A large explosion on the Terminator line would put the sun behind the mushroom cloud, making the explosion visible with the naked eye from Earth."

Then the US decided they'd just send in Neil Armstrong to land on it. Neil Armstrong - the one man on the earth that was considered a suitable replacement for a nuclear missile.

Wait, you mean like sniper, machine gunner, etc?

Probably a sniper or light infantry.

  • 06.01.2009 8:52 PM PDT
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I'd be a suicide grunt.

  • 06.01.2009 8:53 PM PDT
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Argumentum ad populum

Not everyone has to become a Call of Duty clone in order to be good.

And it would take away from the fun in the game. No more fighting for power weapons. And more likely than not most people would spawn with three diffrent weapons the entire game and there would be no diversity. And part of the fun with class system is unlocking new weapons. There's only one sniper in halo. One shotty, One sub-machine gun.

  • 06.01.2009 8:54 PM PDT

The picture sure does make it look that way.

  • 06.01.2009 8:56 PM PDT
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HEAVY CLASS
----moves slow with heavy MG and pistol-----
Sniper
-------sniper rifle and pistol-------
Recon
--------silenced SMG and pistol-------
Scout
--------semi auto BR and magnum-----
lol just thought of a few some arent good.

  • 06.01.2009 8:56 PM PDT
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A class system woould destroy the fun in halo. I like finding the weapons on the map and everybody running around with snipers and rockets would start to get annoying. Call of duty is set up so you can kill anyone with any gun. Halo has power weapons that overpower the weaker guns like the AR. In halo everybody would just use the same gun (Rockets) but in Cod everybody uses a diversity of weapons.

  • 06.01.2009 8:57 PM PDT

Why use guns when you can just nuke it?

Posted by: napster851
Not everyone has to become a Call of Duty clone in order to be good.

And it would take away from the fun in the game. No more fighting for power weapons. And more likely than not most people would spawn with three diffrent weapons the entire game and there would be no diversity. And part of the fun with class system is unlocking new weapons. There's only one sniper in halo. One shotty, One sub-machine gun.


Aye but there are different types of weapons in the canon. And like I said previously, the class system would be cool in the campaign from a story perspective of different Spartans having different roles. Adding a class system in MP would be ok, but it has been done before obviously.

Oww and I just thought about how cool it would be to see all the different weapons that they talk about in the books.

[Edited on 06.01.2009 9:02 PM PDT]

  • 06.01.2009 9:00 PM PDT

Hopefully they are slightly more original than that if they do implement a class system.

I mean, I'm sure there won't be a medic type class, since we all have regenerating shields.

I could see a close quarter combat class, a sniper class, anti-armor class... nuclear football class...

  • 06.01.2009 9:01 PM PDT
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that would be really cool like one side would be the covenant and one side would be the ODST.

  • 06.01.2009 9:02 PM PDT

I don't think it would, a Team fortress style game would be fun and give halo another style of online play. I love team fortress but theres no updates and not many other games like.

  • 06.01.2009 9:02 PM PDT

Why use guns when you can just nuke it?

Posted by: Hylebos
... nuclear football class...


Haha so like a grenade...but more oval shaped and "flashy."

  • 06.01.2009 9:03 PM PDT

Posted by: Catariain
Posted by: Hylebos
... nuclear football class...


Haha so like a grenade...but more oval shaped and "flashy."

If you have read Fall of Reach, you know what I am talking about.

Quite destructive and best used when thrown from a banshee.

  • 06.01.2009 9:04 PM PDT

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I would hate that.

  • 06.01.2009 9:19 PM PDT

I think it's gonna have a class system.

  • 06.01.2009 9:22 PM PDT

ISU Cyclones!

I hope they just add a squad based gameplay element kinda like in Republic Commando.

That game pulled it off really well and with the weapon variety in Halo you could have your SPARTAN allies picking up and dropping weapons as needed to help the player out.

  • 06.01.2009 9:22 PM PDT
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Maybe there are new Gametypes like:
Classic Halo (standard) and Squad Halo (with differtent classes)

  • 06.01.2009 9:49 PM PDT