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Spread the word; Halo 3 Survival Mode

So we all love Halo and in about a year and a half there will be a new game in our favorite franchise. All of use probably played Halo 1, 2 and 3 so much that we have enough ideas to make our own Halo game :). Well since that isn't going to happen I would like to start this topic to help Bungie out a little. The idea is to post you're suggestions to improve Halo: Reach and make it the best Halo yet.

I do think however we need some rules to keep this ontopic. Don't post about which Halo game you found the best, but name the elements that you would like to see in Halo: Reach (e.g. I really liked the precision in the Halo 1 pistol). Every post has to contain or a suggestion or feedback to someone else his suggestion. Well I'll start with a few simple suggestions of myself.

Singleplayer

- Make the enemies more realistic. I really loved one of the Brute vidoc's where you saw the Brutes slamming people in walls and flip warthogs. Give the enemies more possibiilties to attack you then just shoot.

- A few more scripted moments arn't bad! I really loved it when this huge covenant cruiser flew right above my head. Make it more epic.

- Speaking about epic, I missed a grand epic battle in Halo 2 and 3. I really loved the gigantic battle in Two Betrayals (Halo 1) where the Flood and Covenant we're fighting and you we're right in between. I would love to see a gigantic battle between humanity and the covenant.

Multiplayer

- I really love forge and all the cool games it has brought so I would really want to see this again. I would love it if you could make you're own survival game. So instead of objects you can place Covenant/Flood whatever. Maybe you can even give them routes and decide which weapon they will wield. It would be really cool to just make a survival gametype where you can decide as much as possible. Like in wave 1 I just want grunts with plasma pistols. In wave 2 I would like grunts and jackals, in wave 50 I want 3 brute chieftains, 6 hunters and 20 elites.

- Love the veto system but it needs improvement. Since it's a democratic system I think you should give people the option to see what they get when they veto. Also I would like to see a "press X to veto map and press B to veto gametype". I really hate it when I have to veto multi flag because it's on sandtrap. I think both ideas are easy to implent and would make match making even better.

- Custom Game list, 'nuff said.



So these are a few suggestions I could think of so fast. If you have any please post them. If they are really good and the people like them I will put them in the OP.

  • 06.02.2009 12:04 PM PDT
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  • 06.02.2009 12:11 PM PDT
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I would like to see more epic stuff in Reach, and yes a better forge system.

  • 06.02.2009 12:20 PM PDT

I am flatterd that you botherd to look at my signature.

we have no idea what halo reach is gona be like... it might not even be your classic halo game it might be something different like a 3rd person shooter or something like battle field bad company with all of the clases... who knows..whell bungie knows.

  • 06.02.2009 12:23 PM PDT
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As previously stated... more large (read: Old XBox sized) battles between AI characters, where the player is caught in the middle.

  • 06.02.2009 12:24 PM PDT

VERY nice suggestion on a separate veto for map or gametype. Killer idea. And Survival Mode too, but in my opinion it should be a Bungie-made thingy that you can't change so they could put achievments in it. Unless they could incorporate that with your idea in some way.

  • 06.02.2009 12:31 PM PDT

;)

Cooler armor for the Elites and some more armor for the Spartans.

  • 06.02.2009 12:32 PM PDT

An untold part of the Halo History.

The flood attacked Reach and there were no survivors, not even the Covenant.
Epic Wars against the flood would make the game awesome.

Nah I'm kidding. I know it can't happen. But I'd Lol if it did.

  • 06.02.2009 12:32 PM PDT

Hmmm....what else? How bout maybe in Matchmaking there would be abilities specific to Armor Classification. An different ability for Spartans, Elites, and maybe throwin ODSTs in Matchmaking as well.

just rough ideas but:
Spartans: move a lil faster
Elites: jump a lil higher
ODSTs: carry extra nades

  • 06.02.2009 12:39 PM PDT

True. Elite's armor pretty much blew in h3. They all look the same to me.

  • 06.02.2009 12:40 PM PDT

Totaly agree!!

I always liked the cutscenes so a couple more than in the other games would be great. And I liked the weapons but a couple more bullet based weapons would be great. my english is bad sorry for that;)

Good luck bungie with making another great game!

[Edited on 06.02.2009 12:46 PM PDT]

  • 06.02.2009 12:44 PM PDT
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Yeah more dramatic effects. Bigger ships which shake the ground and rumble your contoller when they fly over... would be awesome :P Also more posibilities in forge a wider amount of items to be placed ^^

  • 06.02.2009 12:45 PM PDT
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i think they should make forge more user friendly to perfectionists
have like a grid sytem that locks pieces in places and have them line up perfectly
and have stuff float with out having to save and end
you know save some time
i think they should allow 3rd preson to
they should also allow a no armor opition
no helmet no shoulders *but keep the chest and arms and legs
they should also make black an option for armor color
and have leg armor customizable

  • 06.02.2009 12:54 PM PDT

1. A map playlist
You choose some of your maps that you think would be fun to play one after the other, with the same gametype. The scoring would go from map to map so you could play a series and see who is good overall, not just on one map.
eg.1 Cops&Robbers playlist. PLay on a bunch of cops&robbers maps by just selecting the playlist.
eg.2 Race playlist. Play on many different racing maps by just selecting the playlist

Imagine all the Playlists you could make to combine many maps with the same game.
To clarify what I'm saying: You play a game of one-on-one BR's on Guardian. game ends score is 25-21 you lose. Since you selected a playlist you move on to the next map, probably some loading time involved. When you start on the next map the score is now 0-0, but your last score is still there, like a new round but on a different map. and your score on the new map adds to that old score. The game ends 25-17 you win. total score You 46 your opponent 42. You win overall.
Even simpler version. It's like putting a bunch of rounds, but each round is on a new map.


2. Line of Symmetry
You place this forge item and any thing you place on one side of the line appears on the other side, if possible. You can choose to make a mirror version or a version that is the same.
eg. You place the line in the center of a sandbox like map, in the skybubble. Then you build a base on one side, turn around and an exact copy on the other side of the map. Symmetrical forging finished in half the time!

I think these are good ideas that would not be extremely hard to add, except for the Line of Symmetry. But I think that the playlist idea is very good, and should definitely be added. Thank You For Reading What I Have To Say.

  • 06.02.2009 12:58 PM PDT

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This is like saying "i hope that war we havent fought yet is able to be improved upon"

  • 06.02.2009 1:00 PM PDT
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Hmmm....what else? How bout maybe in Matchmaking there would be abilities specific to Armor Classification. An different ability for Spartans, Elites, and maybe throwin ODSTs in Matchmaking as well.

just rough ideas but:
Spartans: move a lil faster
Elites: jump a lil higher
ODSTs: carry extra nades


This would mess the balance up in Halo imo. I really don't want seperate abilities for armors. Soon enough people can play with jackalls and have shields, or worse, people can play like drones x)

[Edited on 06.02.2009 1:20 PM PDT]

  • 06.02.2009 1:19 PM PDT

I'm sure everyone will disagree with me, but abandon the traditional Halo game play. Its gone on almost unchanged for 3 games and 2 systems, its time for something new. Hell, if you want to do a squad based shooter (which I hate) I'd be excited, as long as its different.

Lets go less cartoony, more realistic. Make accuracy change as you move. Give us an iron sights style aiming, no more firing from the hip. Give us the ability to sprint. Remove dual wielding. Don't make melee attacks so powerful, put the focus back on shooting.

Make the atmosphere darker, more dramatic, whatever (take notes from Bioshock). Go back to your roots and tell a compelling story. Look at MGS4 and make a storyline thats long, in depth, and engaging. We might know what happens, assuming it takes the story from Fall of Reach, but that doesn't mean you can't make the story interesting. Give us a LOT more cutscenes, hell even make them pre-rendered to make them look extra sexy. Make some cutscenes based on first-person view to make them more engaging. Introduce new characters we actually care about. Put emotion (but not too much) back into the story. Give us a sense of scale, let us know that this battle is planet wide, and make it feel appropriately large.

Give us a wider variety of environments that are actually fun to look at and play in. Since this is the Halo universe, and not, say, Call of Duty or Rainbow Six or something equally realistic, creative license can be taken. Push the envelope of creativity. I thought the level Cortana on Halo 3 was one of the best levels I've ever seen in a game. Very creative, atmospheric and moody.

I wouldn't necessarily want Bungie to do all these things had I the power to make it happen, these are things I notice when I play other games and go back and try to play Halo.

After taking a break from Halo 3 for a few months and playing other games like Bioshock, Call of Duty, Metal Gear Solid, Killzone 2, ect, I start to see all the things I wish Bungie would've done with Halo 3.

If there's one thing I could ask for, it would be a long, quality campaign. I hate how they've shifted focus from being a single player game with multiplayer tacked on to a multiplayer game with single player tacked on.

I also hate how you took absolutely no chances with the story. It was so simple and derivative it makes me sick...the story of the first game sucked me into the series.

Anyways...

  • 06.02.2009 1:27 PM PDT

Posted by: Surfing Roman
i think they should make forge more user friendly to perfectionists
have like a grid sytem that locks pieces in places and have them line up perfectly
and have stuff float with out having to save and end
you know save some time
i think they should allow 3rd preson to
they should also allow a no armor opition
no helmet no shoulders *but keep the chest and arms and legs
they should also make black an option for armor color
and have leg armor customizable


Ya, I agree with the forge part. I never got into it really cause it was too frustrating.

  • 06.02.2009 1:29 PM PDT

'Sell a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and youv'e wasted a great buissness opportunity': Karl Marx

More of the same with larger battle in single player and maybe more players online. Also make the pelican usable.

  • 06.02.2009 1:42 PM PDT

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we dont even know if its an fps. i can be an rpg for all we know :P

  • 06.02.2009 1:42 PM PDT

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"Ignorance is a plague."

Close, but the plague killed those infected with it, and the ignorant are still alive.
I wish ignorance was a plague.

Well you'll get a survival mode in ODST. (Firefight)

  • 06.02.2009 1:43 PM PDT

Clearly because the desktop uses a 3 prong plug and a laptop uses a 2 prong plug, the microwave will fill your car with tostitos better

CE gameplay and map design with H3 graphics.

  • 06.02.2009 1:47 PM PDT

Good day, sir!

1. dedicated servers
2. dedicated servers
3. and, dedicated servers

  • 06.02.2009 1:56 PM PDT

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