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  • Subject: Another Halo: Reach Wishlist *UPDATE 3*
Subject: Another Halo: Reach Wishlist *UPDATE 3*

Why is his gamertag thatlolguy?

Campaign
Lengthy Campaign... 15 missions at the least.
I'm all for an open world campaign but an interesting twist could be the open world with the actual levels strewn across it but when you delve into the linear missions there is more variety in the paths you take. Similar to some parts in Gears of War. AND NO I DON'T WANT HALO TO BE EXACTLY LIKE GEARS BEFORE ANYONE STARTS FLAMING.
Immersive actions like those seen in the ODST ViDocs.
I don't know why I'm worrying about this but an intriguing storyline.
Once passing the UNSC Campaign you unlock a smaller yet somewhat lengthy Covenant Campaign.
Boss Battles. Like a much harder Scarab or something like Tartarus or The Heretic Leader.

Co-Op
5 Player Co-Op
Firefight
A heavy emphasis on co-op actions. Like in the linear missions when you have to split up and take different ways then you have to help each other from different parts of the level.

Firefight
Instead of being specified characters in Firefight you have your player models from Multi-Player.
Brutes and Drones... For all you people who don't want them in the campaign this is non-cannon and can help match up to the Spartans Strength.
Classes. A lot of you say that this wouldn't work in Multi-Player but I think that incorporating it into Firefight can help make it a lot harder. Like... Say that you're screwed if your medic dies then you have to heavily rely on teamwork to survive till the next set. But when I say classes I don't mean that you all spawn with different weapons. Just that each class has different bonuses.
A Covenant Cruiser that you actually have to destroy from the inside.
Scarab.
An objective based map where you have to advance through a map and destroy a Super Scarab at the end.

Social Matchmaking
All of your regular Social Playlists
Custom Game Finder
Firefight Game Finder

Ranked Matchmaking
Team Slayer
Team Flag
Team Assault
Lone Wolves
Hardcore Firefight (In which you will get exp for different variants of kills and number of kills.)

Hardcore
MLG (Don't get me wrong I hate some of the stuck up a-holes but I like playing these variants every once and a while)
Team Snipers
Team SWAT
Game coded so that you can only be Spartans wearing Mk V or IV or VI whichever they choose to incorporate.

Gametypes
* Slayer
* Capture the Flag
* King of the Hill
* Oddball
* Assault
* Territories
* Juggernaut
* Infection
* VIP

New Gametypes
Survival: A two player co-operative gametype that takes place on any multi-player map where you fight off continuous hordes of Flood with every wave getting progressively difficuilt.

Forge
Quick Options for unlimited respawns on items
Every Weapon Available on every map

Other Multiplayer
Armour Customization Features
Spartan or Elite.
Helmet
Left+Right Shoulders
Left+Right Forearms
Fists
Torso
Belt
Legs
NONE OF THIS AFFECTS GAMEPLAY

Armour Detail
Battle Detail: Add gash's and cut's into different parts of your armour
Colours: Colouring for different parts of your helmet.
Accessory: Say that every piece of armour has something special. Like how the Security helm gives you the antenna. Just something minor like that to make you feel more unique in multi-player... And for some of you out there... Yes you can haz teh Katana.
Service Tag: This time also shows on your shoulder.
Emblem: You can choose where your emblem is placed. Preferably Left or Right shoulder and the chest.

Ranking
The same ranking system as Halo 3 except no loosing your highest skill... That's extremely annoying. And a cool system would be that it has your rank imprinted on your chest plate.

The Classics
Maps
Blood Gulch
Boarding Action
Chiron TL-34
Hang em High
Battle Creek
Orbital
Headlong

Weapons
The good ol' MA5B Assualt Rifle
This will bring back memories! The M6D Pistol
Remember the one with the Night Vision? Well... I present to you the Sniper Rifle System 99C-S2 Anti-Matériel
The M90 Mk I Although they should make it so that it's not as long ranged as I remember being able to kill enemies from all the way across Boarding Action.
M7S Caseless Sub-Machine Gun
M7/Caseless Submachine Gun
The Type-1 Energy Weapon/Sword ,maybe without the failsafe though.
The classic Fuel Rod Gun
The almighty M7057/Defoliant Projector
The M19 SSM Rocket Launcher, maybe even with the lock on... Because personally I don't like the Missile Pod.


New Stuff
Weapons
The MA5K Assualt Rifle. Basically it's almost a cross between the Assualt Rifle and Battle Rifle. It either fires single fire accurate shot's or you can go guns blazing. I think that this would be a very good strategic starting weapon in multi-player that is extremely versatile.
The Combat Knife
Prototype BR-55 Battle Rifle. The Difference could be that it's weaker and apparently it had a 60 round magazine which could screw up gameplay a bit coz I know that there are a lot of BR haters out there. But I know that Bungie could balance it out.
Maybe just as a badass weapon you could have the Honour Guard Stave as a weapon. I could see it working if it took a third of your shield down with each hit.
And this sounds like a weapon that could be balanced out to sort gameplay. Listen to this... An Energy Cutlass is a Kig-Yar melee weapon. It is a shard of glass-like crystal and is pink in color. The Jackals use them primarily to dispatch enemies in close-quarters fights, especially when boarding an enemy ship. They are similar to the UNSC Combat Knife. These blades house a complex chemical mixture within them that causes the knife to explode into shards when embedded into a soft target, similar to a Needler round. These blades may be relics from an earlier time for the Kig-Yar culture or simply outdated Covenant weaponry that has since been removed or replaced by new weaponry.


Gameplay Features
An immersive melee system that does something a little different a lot of the time. Like smacking an Elite in the face with a punch that looks like it really impacted on it. Or uppercutting it or something like that. Something to make you feel like "Mhmhm I just whipped yo ass"
More Control Systems. For example take the base on Zanzibar/Last Resort. It had that cool opening gate. The only thing that peeved me off... Was that you couldn't close it. So say your on a map that's meant to be fairly wide open and there's this chasm. You gap it and try and make your way across the chasm through a bridge. You're just about there when somebody deactivates the bridge and sends you tumbling down to your death. Just something that mix's gameplay up a bit.
Your armour becoming battered and broken as you traverse through war torn plains. Imagine being cut with a plasma sword and being seen with your biofome leaking forth from a gaping wound.

The subject of blood and gore
I have seen this topic flamed a lot in the past. But I came up with a fairly good solution. Now in Reach I do NOT want to see limbs flying everywhere. But what I do want to see is some gore that is honorable enough to achieve Halo's M rating (Or R16 over here in NZ)

Does anyone remember the scene from Combat Evolved where the Elite had it's chest opened up. That's along the lines of where I want to see the gore. So when I blast someone in the chest with a Shot Gun you can see some but not all of their innards.

Another thing. When I melee enemies. I don't want them to just roar or cry in pane. I want to hear their bones shatter a crunch after a swift blow to the ribs. When I get shot in my visor I want my visor to crack and shatter and either leak blood or ooze out with biofoam.

I want it to be gory... But not too gory.


DLC
New Gametypes... Halo Wars did it so why can't Reach.
New Multi-Player Maps
New Firefight Maps
New Weapons
Forge Kits (Containing new items for certain maps)
Small Sidestory Campaigns. Even some that are set in the future. I mean... You could add weapons and stuff in to fit the style of play in the time frame.

[Edited on 09.01.2009 12:53 AM PDT]

  • 08.08.2009 4:56 PM PDT

Why is his gamertag thatlolguy?

Achievements
Now as some of you may be thinking some of the achievements coming out for Halo 3 are a little easy. And I do realise that Halo isn't all about gamerscore but it's just fun to get something that you know is really hard to get. So I've come up with a couple of achievements that are within achievable boundaries.

Are you happy?-35G, Complete Campaign on the Normal Difficulty Setting
Hero-50G, Complete Campaign on the Heroic Difficulty Setting
Legendary Warrior-75G, Complete Campaign on the Legendary Difficulty Setting and unlocked the Mythic Difficulty
Mythic Trooper-100G, Complete Campaign on the Mythic Difficulty Setting
Invincible-25G, Kill 10 Enemies in a Legendary/Mythic Campaign or Multiplayer without being hit once
Pick Up-5G, Destroy a Warthog with 3 passengers in it with a Plasma Grenade.

Those are just a few examples

Soundtrack
With the epicness of Halo CE's and the quality of Halo 3. But I want some new music that still keeps that Halo feel.

Clans
Remember this from Halo 2? Well I know me and some others of you out there want it too. The Dashboard just doesn't cut it.

Veto
X to veto map
Y to veto Gametype
Nuff Said

Character Interaction
I want to see the relationships that are described between characters in the book's. I wanna hear the fellow Spartans shouting out stuff to each other across the map. I want the Marines to be intimidated yet friendly towards you at the same time. And I want the ODST's to treat you like dirt. Say that there's an award ceremony and then as you're standing waiting to see the person be awarded an ODST walk's up next to you and pushes you to the side a bit. Or murmurs something like freak.

The Moments that make you Laugh out Loud... Laughing :P
Just like this

Fall Damage
I've seen much of a debate about this. But personally I would like to see it. And for a couple of reasons. For one, it makes chronological sense. Two, It will put some strategy back into the game. Three, if it helps bring back memories from Halo CE I'm all for it.

Intensity
When a Grenade blows up by you I want to see dirt fly everywhere. If it blow's up in front of you I want a little bit to land on your visor. If you're caught in the the explosion I want the visor to flicker. I want environments to be charred and beaten by the horror of the mass genocide that was carried out on this planet.

Skulls
Gold Skulls littered throughout the open world (If there is one) and Silver Skulls in the linear levels. And besides... What Halo game nowadays is complete without the awesome collectibles. And I wanna have to do insane thing's to get em like in Halo 2.

Legendary?
More like Heroic with more enemies spammed at you. For this game I want Legendary to be insane like it was in Halo: Combat Evolved. As for Mythic Difficulty? I'm hoping for something other than all skulls. My definition for Mythic on this game is Legendary but when you die you get reverted to the beginning of the level. You die within a matter of shots so you need to use strategy and the trick that always got me in Halo 2... The Jackals with Beam Rifles... The little bastards killed me whenever I got somewhere significant.

A.I
The enemy A.I in Halo 3 was good don't get me wrong... But one thing I was heavily dissapointed with was the Allied A.I... Now all or most of you have to agree with me here because it was terrible. I know Bungie tried there best but the game may have been rushed and they didn't have enough time to improve it. Just please Bungie make the allies a worthwhile addition.

Map Packs
Should go under DLC but it won't let me enter anything. Map Packs should at least be 4-5 maps in total and should have a good variety including Map Theme and Map Size. We should at least get a Big Team Battle Map, A close quarters free for all map, a more open space vehicle orientated map and a regular team slayer map. (or a forge based map.) I think this would keep the gameplay fresh as there would be one new map for every gametype every time.

Dance Off's
Only kidding... Just in case any of you were getting bored :P

Two Disks + One extra for Mythic Edition (Just in case there is one)
Disk One:
Campaign
Theater
Extra's Menu

Disk Two:
Matchmaking
Custom Games
Forge
Firefight
Theater

Disk 3:
Making of the Game
Vidoc's
All of the past games cutscenes+commentary
A special segmant with Bungie employee's bringing back memories of working on all of the Halo games.

Mythic Edition
Wearable Mark V Helmet
Bestarium Instruction Manual
Disk 3
Halo Encyclopedia
Artwork
Limited Edition Case
Elite Collectors Edition Model
Code Allowing you to download some past favourite maps for Reach (Should also be the Pre-Order Bonus)

This list will be further updated.

PLEASE TRY TO KEEP THIS THREAD ALIVE AS A LOT OF THINKING WAS PUT INTO IT!

[Edited on 09.01.2009 9:44 PM PDT]

  • 08.08.2009 10:30 PM PDT
Subject: Some wants and ideas

Warning: You may find that my, or someone else's opinion does not comply with yours. Side effects of disagreement may include (but are not limited to): flaming, irrational behavior, broken keyboards, and/or nervous sweats. If you experience any of these symptoms refrain from communicating with others until the symptoms have subsided.

Good ideas. I can see why you kinda' bumped it a little, it's quite a bit of typing.

[Edited on 08.08.2009 10:42 PM PDT]

  • 08.08.2009 10:42 PM PDT

Why is his gamertag thatlolguy?

Thanks. I put a bit of thought into it and tried to include a lot of people's views from what I've seen from other threads :D But a lot of my ideas are (hopefully) on an original premise.

  • 08.08.2009 11:19 PM PDT

Were it so easy.

Your survival mode is the exact same thing as firefight. Also, we don't need another close range weapon.

But I digress. I want a new game mode thats basically an MMOFPS game mode there can be many different servers or whatever they want to call it so its not laggy, also it doesn't nessicarily have to be a full on thing that takes away attention from firefight and matchmaking, just a side thing.

[Edited on 08.08.2009 11:25 PM PDT]

  • 08.08.2009 11:20 PM PDT

You need a better thread title. No one will look at this.

  • 08.08.2009 11:22 PM PDT
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I prefer the Halo 2 energy sword, mainly because of it's detail and beauty.

The original energy sword is ok, I guess, it just looks like a simple, oddly shaped light saber with a cyan glow to it.

  • 08.08.2009 11:33 PM PDT

Why is his gamertag thatlolguy?

Yeah. I obviously mean more detailed. Because unlike when Halo CE was around Bungie now has the possibility to do that.

  • 08.08.2009 11:37 PM PDT

Better title. Nice work btw.

  • 08.08.2009 11:42 PM PDT

Why is his gamertag thatlolguy?

Thanks :)

  • 08.08.2009 11:43 PM PDT
Subject: What Reach has the possibilities to incorporate.

Memento mori.

I agree. And I think just more weapons in general all over the place, maybe even some new Covenant weapons since the selection hasn't exactly changed much over the years since Halo 2. And personally, I would LOVE to be able to blow off heads of Grunts, Jackals, and Elites with Sniper Rifles and Magnums and Shotguns. But that's just me.

  • 08.09.2009 12:00 AM PDT

Why is his gamertag thatlolguy?

I'm looking for Covie Weapons to incorportate.

  • 08.09.2009 12:04 AM PDT

Why is his gamertag thatlolguy?

Come back to life dear thread :P

  • 08.09.2009 2:35 AM PDT
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  • 08.09.2009 2:47 AM PDT

Why is his gamertag thatlolguy?

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  • 08.09.2009 2:48 AM PDT

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Posted by: thatlolguy
Co-Op
5 Player Co-Op
Firefight
A heavy emphasis on co-op actions. Like in the linear missions when you have to split up and take different ways then you have to help each other from different parts of the level.

Firefight
Instead of being specified characters in Firefight you have your player models from Multi-Player.
Brutes and Drones... For all you people who don't want them in the campaign this is non-cannon and can help match up to the Spartans Strength.
Classes. A lot of you say that this wouldn't work in Multi-Player but I think that incorporating it into Firefight can help make it a lot harder. Like... Say that you're screwed if your medic dies then you have to heavily rely on teamwork to survive till the next set. But when I say classes I don't mean that you all spawn with different weapons. Just that each class has different bonuses.


I have never liked the idea of having classes in Halo Reach, but I think classes could be fun and add more depth to playing Firefight.

  • 08.09.2009 5:05 PM PDT

Why is his gamertag thatlolguy?

Thanks. Cos don't get me wrong I would hate classes in regular multi-player.

[Edited on 08.09.2009 9:40 PM PDT]

  • 08.09.2009 9:29 PM PDT

Why is his gamertag thatlolguy?

Sorry for being a bumper but I wrote quite a bit :D lawll

  • 08.09.2009 11:23 PM PDT
Subject: Some wants and ideas

Now you know how I feel.

Posted by: thatlolguy
Just making this thread a little bit alive... Sorry for inconveniances... I just didn't wanna write this all for nothing.

  • 08.09.2009 11:40 PM PDT
Subject: What Reach has the possibilities to incorporate.
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a story as the covies would be nice!

  • 08.09.2009 11:52 PM PDT

Why is his gamertag thatlolguy?

Yeah. I liked Halo 2 how the Arbiter was really fleshed out. But I wanna see something from a fellow Elite's point of view.

  • 08.10.2009 2:38 AM PDT

Why is his gamertag thatlolguy?

Sorry for bumping again but I didn't write all of this for nothing.

  • 08.11.2009 1:38 AM PDT

You should have made the title more interesting for the kids.

I like your ideas though.

  • 08.11.2009 2:25 AM PDT

it all began with a big gray box

all that sounds like it would be great
i just wanna play as the other spartans like linda and sam

  • 08.11.2009 2:37 AM PDT
Subject: Another Halo: Reach Wishlist
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Posted by: DK daze
Dude I don't care and my grammer is perfect.I used "Big", as you recall it to mak is specific."to not do...",is incorrect beause "do" is present tense/perfect(or future) when it was a past tense.

I notice that you didn't include squad battle in ranked playlists. Other han that, I pretty much agree with everything (although if you put in the MA5K, you have to take out the BR and possibly AR).

  • 08.11.2009 6:58 AM PDT