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  • Poll [34 votes]: Do you think playable covenant would be a good addition to firefight
Subject: Playable Covenant in firefight

ARH

Poll: Do you think playable covenant would be a good addition to firefight  [closed]
I would trade sliced bread for that:  29%
(10 Votes)
yes:  18%
(6 Votes)
meh:  12%
(4 Votes)
no:  32%
(11 Votes)
i'd rather drink cold sick:  9%
(3 Votes)
Total Votes: 34

basically the idea comes from L4D, i.e 4 ODST's with 4 other players as covenant, so you could get to know much more intemitly how scary it is to be a grunt facing those mean guys who killed the flipiest yap you knew or how great it is to smash someone with a two ton shield on your arm etc

Any gameplay suggestions as units?

[Edited on 06.11.2009 11:38 AM PDT]

  • 06.11.2009 11:28 AM PDT
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I had this thought too. As in, give people a new game mode via DLC later on in the dev cycle.

  • 06.11.2009 11:31 AM PDT

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Hell yeah! id love to hobble around as a grunt!

  • 06.11.2009 11:33 AM PDT

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yah, seeing as L4D seems like a mini game it self it would be good DLC

and you could give each unit it's own attribute, stealth for jackles and charging with your buds as a grunt, or even ordering grunts as a brute, and the rage/beserk use when your low on health would be cool.

any ideas that you have would be cool too

[Edited on 06.11.2009 11:36 AM PDT]

  • 06.11.2009 11:34 AM PDT

Playing as a brute would be something different and hopefully be a good thing and attracts other xbox user's to buy this game

  • 06.11.2009 11:37 AM PDT

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hmm.. sounds good.. it sounds like your only chance to play as a hunter... lol

  • 06.11.2009 11:37 AM PDT

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"I would have been your daddy, but the dog beat me over the fence."

Oh yes of course. Imagine the market line:

Fight as the covenenant against a total of TWO different enemies including the crafty ODST's and the unrelelntless hoard of Marines. This is action at its most extreme and unvaried!

In other words...

FAIL THREAD IS FAILING!!!

  • 06.11.2009 11:38 AM PDT

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So what if the saxophone is black?
it has better tone the the gold one.
damn straight i play Jazz.

i voted for cold sick because it made me laugh

  • 06.11.2009 11:39 AM PDT

" I will seek vengeance upon those who have betrayed my family, and uncover a conspiracy bigger that I could have imagined. I am Ezio Auditore di Firenze. I am an Assassin"

I like the idea but it's too confusing. Say you are playing with a bunch of rookies. They don't know how to tell a team mate apart. You charge head first into battle in you Shiny new Grunt Armor. They don't know if your a threat so they shoot at you. You die and the team loses because lifes are all team based.

  • 06.11.2009 11:41 AM PDT

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I see Firefight more like Horde mode in GoW2, than L4D.
Firefight: It's wave after wave of Covenant enemies.
GoW2 Horde: Wave after wave of Locust enemies.
L4D: Lots of zombies going after you as you retreat and locate better positions.

I vote no, because then it would devolve into "Oh I want to play as hunters, because that's what next round will probably be."

  • 06.11.2009 11:42 AM PDT

Death to rank junkies.

Hunters=Tank
Jackal Sniper=Smoker
Drones=Hunter(ish)
Brute=spartan/Elite
Suicidal Grunt=Boomer

  • 06.11.2009 11:42 AM PDT

ARH

Posted by: BurntBiscuits
Oh yes of course. Imagine the market line:

Fight as the covenenant against a total of TWO different enemies including the crafty ODST's and the unrelelntless hoard of Marines. This is action at its most extreme and unvaried!

In other words...

FAIL THREAD IS FAILING!!!


How is that different to any other game, i.e COD, argh a terrorist, omg another terrorist. or Resi argh a zombie omg another zombie.

so as you can see argh and ODST omg another ODST would be fun. especialy as it wouldn't be the same old A.I but new humans always playing and it coulld give a unique twist to the Covvies being human controled for the ODST's in firefight

plus it could be competitive i.e a round each as each then combine scores to see who wins

thx for the input anyway pal

  • 06.11.2009 11:43 AM PDT

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2 problems.

1. It would push back the release date.

2. You can only have 4 players in Firefight and you said 4 ODST's and 4 Covenant.

  • 06.11.2009 11:43 AM PDT

ARH

Posted by: Karl2177
I see Firefight more like Horde mode in GoW2, than L4D.
Firefight: It's wave after wave of Covenant enemies.
GoW2 Horde: Wave after wave of Locust enemies.
L4D: Lots of zombies going after you as you retreat and locate better positions.

I vote no, because then it would devolve into "Oh I want to play as hunters, because that's what next round will probably be."


not if selection was random like L4D so you might end up as a grunt 3 times in a row then a brute then a jackal depending what the firefight decides to drop off, you might even get a wraith or ghost

  • 06.11.2009 11:45 AM PDT
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Nah, too much work and wouldn't be practical.

I still would like to be able to play as a Grunt. With a Active Camo.

  • 06.11.2009 11:46 AM PDT

ARH

Posted by: ODST Mickey
2 problems.

1. It would push back the release date.

2. You can only have 4 players in Firefight and you said 4 ODST's and 4 Covenant.


DLC for the future then, and patch it

  • 06.11.2009 11:46 AM PDT

ARH

Drones = hunter

thats great i hadn't even considerd drones that would be cool to latch on and rip em to shreds

[Edited on 06.11.2009 11:48 AM PDT]

  • 06.11.2009 11:47 AM PDT

ARH

phoenix: voted for cold sick because it made me laugh

but thats cheating, secretly i want everyone to vote positive. but im completly unbiased (shifty eyes)



[Edited on 06.11.2009 12:43 PM PDT]

  • 06.11.2009 12:42 PM PDT