- Halaxis
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Okay, so there's a lot of argument going going on about classes in the Halo: Reach forum. I, for one, am impartial to classes. Their good ideas, but I love the current Halo formula as it is. To me its perfect right now so why go screw with it. Classes would be better as an add-on. Their own separate hopper if you will. That way, all the Halo purists can keep on playing they way they love and the class lovers are happy too with a class based game type.
Class based games always have the same problem. When their aren't restrictions, [insert weapon] whores dominate the map. A way to make things fair is to implement classes, but have them set. For example. On Valhalla, their can be a sniper, shotgunner, laser, grenadier, and 4 standard infantry. Only one person to each slot and priority is based on Global Ranking then Playlist Ranking. This way, people who have worked hard to earn their level 50's are rewarded by being able to choose first and noobs who aren't good enough yet are stuck at infantry where they can learn to play better and are encouraged to rank up. To keep things interesting for infantry, it would be nice for your starting weapon to be customizable. You could unlock extras for your starting AR or BR by ranking up. You could add things like better sights, silencers, extra large clips, but at costs such as ROF, power, clip size, ammo count, gernades or accuracy. Certain weapons could also have secondary functions which take away grenade use. Of course, these are much weaker than their full counter parts. Examples, Grenade Launchers, Shotguns, Red Laser Sight, Sentinel Beam, Rockets, Flares etc.
A lot of these ideas were adapted from Americas Army for the PC. They worked very well their, they could work for Halo if it was done right, Oh, team sizes would have to be bigger as well (10-12) and objective based games and very large maps.
Thats my two cents. Comments? Please, actually read the post instead of griping about grammar usage or calling it -blam!-/retarded/[generic insult that only a 12 year old would use].