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Subject: Would you like this new game mode

Bungie is the team that made it all happen. They brought to us one of the most played online games of all time. BTW I had the number seven before I played any Halo game. However, I'm honored by the fact that its Bungie's also

Remember... This is the way the world ends and the battle begins!

I sorta like the idea of a huge epic battle. I just feel that this would take a while to finish the match, and would there be enough people in that playlist to have matches fast.

I'm not to fond of the point system to purchase weapons, i seems a little complicated. Maybe like invasion have new loadouts unlocked after you reach a certain point.

Also after one team reaches 200 kills and gets a bomb the opposing team could just camp most of the time untill they earned their own bomb.

well thats all i have to say right now, i have to think about it a little more.

  • 08.22.2010 12:10 AM PDT

1) If it was 20v20 and you could spawn in the ship and such and drop into the battle, it could go fast, as well as in BTB in Halo 3 it doesn't take too long to get 100 kills and that is with 8v8, not 20v20 so 250 could be quick, and the other parts yeah it could take maybe 20-30 minutes a game but you would get a lot of credits for it.

2) Well its just to reward you and allow you to get weapons on map so you can live longer, you don't buy the weapons so to speak at spawn. Along with that you do unlock different loadouts.

3) That could happen yes but if they got in the base and killed most of the team, they couldn't spawn in base and they would be kinda screwed at that point.


Posted by: xKimpx
I sorta like the idea of a huge epic battle. I just feel that this would take a while to finish the match, and would there be enough people in that playlist to have matches fast.

I'm not to fond of the point system to purchase weapons, i seems a little complicated. Maybe like invasion have new loadouts unlocked after you reach a certain point.

Also after one team reaches 200 kills and gets a bomb the opposing team could just camp most of the time untill they earned their own bomb.

well thats all i have to say right now, i have to think about it a little more.

  • 08.22.2010 12:24 AM PDT

Bungie is the team that made it all happen. They brought to us one of the most played online games of all time. BTW I had the number seven before I played any Halo game. However, I'm honored by the fact that its Bungie's also

Remember... This is the way the world ends and the battle begins!

Well darn SH4D0W H4WK, you got me on that one.

after i read the OP i just jumped in and answered without checking out other comments. But I guess it wouldn't take to long if they would only spawn in the ship then come down. I'm not a huge fan of BTB but i would like a 20v20 ( doesn't make sense i know but hey you gotta love it).

Well if it does happen to be a playlist then ill will have to jump in and give it a test run.

I prob see you there Shadow?

  • 08.22.2010 12:32 AM PDT

Posted by: xKimpx
Well darn SH4D0W H4WK, you got me on that one.

after i read the OP i just jumped in and answered without checking out other comments. But I guess it wouldn't take to long if they would only spawn in the ship then come down. I'm not a huge fan of BTB but i would like a 20v20 ( doesn't make sense i know but hey you gotta love it).

Well if it does happen to be a playlist then ill will have to jump in and give it a test run.

I prob see you there Shadow?


Haha well i like creating game ideas, I have created several before but I'm only 14 so i cant do anything with them. I have been thinking about this one for a few hours now adding ideas to it, changing some, etc... and if it is created, i will definitely be on it. I would add them to this but the program i'm using to type them wont let me copy and paste and i don't have enough time to retype everything right now.

  • 08.22.2010 12:36 AM PDT

Bungie is the team that made it all happen. They brought to us one of the most played online games of all time. BTW I had the number seven before I played any Halo game. However, I'm honored by the fact that its Bungie's also

Remember... This is the way the world ends and the battle begins!

Keep it up man, your pick up the slack of people like me. I tend to read other peoples ideas and debate how it may/may not work and add my tidbits here and there, but im either shot down or my additions wont work. Im more of a map guy... you come up with the playlist and ill do your maps, how bout that?

OP ill save the thread and come back to it later on to try and add some ideas but as of now my brain isn't working.

  • 08.22.2010 12:43 AM PDT

Haha ok man, and i have an idea for the map, how the bases would be laid out around it. The only thing i don't have is
a. The color scheme or theme of a map
b. The look of the bases completely
c. Cover for map placement quite yet
d. How the drop system will work in with the map (what will happen when you hit a tree or rock or etc...)
e. Details of the map
f. Where vehicles will be and how many. (depends on size and layout of map)

  • 08.22.2010 12:52 AM PDT

Bungie is the team that made it all happen. They brought to us one of the most played online games of all time. BTW I had the number seven before I played any Halo game. However, I'm honored by the fact that its Bungie's also

Remember... This is the way the world ends and the battle begins!

Well shoot me a Friend request on XBL and we can work this out my friend. Ill be glad to be your cartographer.

  • 08.22.2010 1:04 AM PDT

will do, will do

  • 08.22.2010 1:06 AM PDT

My brother actually had an idea yesterday that is similar on scale with this gametype, though maybe not on objectives. So the game is like an Independance day senario. One team, the humans, will need to fly up and into a covenant ship with a bomb and plant it. There will be large teams, so neither the attack or defence lacks. The Covenant team will have both Banshees and other ground based units and turrets defending, while the humans use falcons to go right down their enemies' throats. To be fair to the humans, who will have to go through hell and high water to get the bomb into the ship to plant, the bomb will not be able to be disarmed. Also, like in the movie, the humans will have to complete the objective before the covenant ship gets in range of their base, for now, say 15 minutes. When I get reach, I will try to make this in Forge World, and if anyone has any suggestions, I will be glad to take them.

  • 08.22.2010 9:33 AM PDT

Everyone just lost (the game). :O


Posted by: SH4D0W H4WK


13) Each time you get a kill your spawn times go down and each death it increases. (morale)



bad idea, what if the other team hogs the power weapons? then we will have to sit out for a half an hour just to respawn

  • 08.22.2010 9:55 AM PDT

Everyone just lost (the game). :O

maybe to talk with your WHOLE team hold up on d-pad? like in halo 3? and without d-pad you talk with your squad?

  • 08.22.2010 9:57 AM PDT
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It sounds kinda like Section 8, with the dropping in and vehicle drops, but that's where the similarities end. I would love to play this, and it would be a great, time-consuming way to earn a butt-load of credits!

  • 08.22.2010 10:00 AM PDT


Posted by: TIMUR10

Posted by: SH4D0W H4WK


13) Each time you get a kill your spawn times go down and each death it increases. (morale)



bad idea, what if the other team hogs the power weapons? then we will have to sit out for a half an hour just to respawn


well there of course be limit at like 10- 15 seconds max and 3 second minimum

  • 08.22.2010 10:05 AM PDT


Posted by: TIMUR10
maybe to talk with your WHOLE team hold up on d-pad? like in halo 3? and without d-pad you talk with your squad?


I actually added this in the one i have on a document but i cant add it to this so yeah. it utilizes all four directions on d pad.

  • 08.22.2010 10:06 AM PDT

I love the idea of a large battle with loads of vehicles etc. Maybe you could use the armour abillities in a different way such as 4 squads all have different armour abillities that let them drive and buy different vehicles.

Squad One.
Forced armour abillity; Flyer.
Grants abillity to fly vehicles. (Hornet, Banshee)

Squad Two.
Forced armour abillity; Swimmer.
Grants abillity to pilot water based vehicles.(Submarine etc.)

Squad Three.
Forced armour abillity; Heavy.
Grants abillity to drive armoured vechiles.(Scorpian, Wraith)

Squad Four.
Forced armour abillity; Light.
Grants abillity to drive light vehicles.(Chopper, Ghost)

  • 08.22.2010 10:21 AM PDT
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA

wow great idea i like it

  • 08.22.2010 10:24 AM PDT


Posted by: SH4D0W H4WK
Ok what i said is:

The drop system would be that you go into a drop pod (which spawns every minute or so and about 6 per team for 20v20 and 4 per team for 16v16) and would choose a loadout to start with. After that a overview of the map would appear on your H.U.D. and you would select an area to drop into. You could then move slightly around while in the drop pod to get more precise landing. Once you land you will be in the drop pod for 5 seconds for so. After that the door would open and you would step out and then be able to play as normal

Also while in the cruiser there will be 2 seats for people to see an overview of the map and the people and vehicles on it to give their team information.




the real problem with being able to move in the pod is just pretty much copying section 8....tempting game to get....anyway, also, the pods wouldn't have to spawn every minute, because it would probably work best if the game just started by dropping in, not every time you spawn

that could lead to a lot of spawn killing....or drop-killing...if you will

  • 08.22.2010 10:40 AM PDT


Posted by: SH4D0W H4WK
http://www.filefront.com/17223873/Halo Gametype Idea.pages

that is the full list so far


probably best if you just made a new thread or added to the existing one, many people dont trust downloads....like me, and won't open it, so just post a couple replies and then edit them so you have extra space to write

  • 08.22.2010 10:42 AM PDT


Posted by: xKimpx
I sorta like the idea of a huge epic battle. I just feel that this would take a while to finish the match, and would there be enough people in that playlist to have matches fast.

I'm not to fond of the point system to purchase weapons, i seems a little complicated. Maybe like invasion have new loadouts unlocked after you reach a certain point.

Also after one team reaches 200 kills and gets a bomb the opposing team could just camp most of the time untill they earned their own bomb.

well thats all i have to say right now, i have to think about it a little more.


dont worry, if its 20v20, and the score is to 200....each player needs to get 10 kills, shouldn't take too long....if anything, the score limit needs to be raised

  • 08.22.2010 10:44 AM PDT

I'll work on a screenshot of what the bases could lokk like, *roughly* I'm only gonna spend an hour on it, so no merging, probably 20 minutes, so it'll look good enough

  • 08.22.2010 10:47 AM PDT


Posted by: Im JuSt So Pr0
I love the idea of a large battle with loads of vehicles etc. Maybe you could use the armour abillities in a different way such as 4 squads all have different armour abillities that let them drive and buy different vehicles.

Squad One.
Forced armour abillity; Flyer.
Grants abillity to fly vehicles. (Hornet, Banshee)

Squad Two.
Forced armour abillity; Swimmer.
Grants abillity to pilot water based vehicles.(Submarine etc.)

Squad Three.
Forced armour abillity; Heavy.
Grants abillity to drive armoured vechiles.(Scorpian, Wraith)

Squad Four.
Forced armour abillity; Light.
Grants abillity to drive light vehicles.(Chopper, Ghost)


not sure about this one, i think it work work just fine without, plus people could get stuck with a squad they REALLY don't like, what you mentioned was pretty much Air Force, Seals, Demolition experts, and Recon forces. not sure about that, I'm leaning towards no, however, thanks for adding

  • 08.22.2010 10:51 AM PDT


Posted by: Hawkeye4488

Posted by: SH4D0W H4WK
Ok what i said is:

The drop system would be that you go into a drop pod (which spawns every minute or so and about 6 per team for 20v20 and 4 per team for 16v16) and would choose a loadout to start with. After that a overview of the map would appear on your H.U.D. and you would select an area to drop into. You could then move slightly around while in the drop pod to get more precise landing. Once you land you will be in the drop pod for 5 seconds for so. After that the door would open and you would step out and then be able to play as normal

Also while in the cruiser there will be 2 seats for people to see an overview of the map and the people and vehicles on it to give their team information.




the real problem with being able to move in the pod is just pretty much copying section 8....tempting game to get....anyway, also, the pods wouldn't have to spawn every minute, because it would probably work best if the game just started by dropping in, not every time you spawn

that could lead to a lot of spawn killing....or drop-killing...if you will


True True, Maybe every 5 deaths or so you spawn in the cruiser.

  • 08.22.2010 11:06 AM PDT


Posted by: Hawkeye4488

Posted by: Im JuSt So Pr0
I love the idea of a large battle with loads of vehicles etc. Maybe you could use the armour abillities in a different way such as 4 squads all have different armour abillities that let them drive and buy different vehicles.

Squad One.
Forced armour abillity; Flyer.
Grants abillity to fly vehicles. (Hornet, Banshee)

Squad Two.
Forced armour abillity; Swimmer.
Grants abillity to pilot water based vehicles.(Submarine etc.)

Squad Three.
Forced armour abillity; Heavy.
Grants abillity to drive armoured vechiles.(Scorpian, Wraith)

Squad Four.
Forced armour abillity; Light.
Grants abillity to drive light vehicles.(Chopper, Ghost)


not sure about this one, i think it work work just fine without, plus people could get stuck with a squad they REALLY don't like, what you mentioned was pretty much Air Force, Seals, Demolition experts, and Recon forces. not sure about that, I'm leaning towards no, however, thanks for adding


agreed, actually i have an idea for the squad system:
When the game starts there will be a list of 4 different squads(5 each for 20v20, 4 each for 16v16) and you choose that and you can even change squads if you want.

  • 08.22.2010 11:09 AM PDT


Posted by: Hawkeye4488

Posted by: SH4D0W H4WK
http://www.filefront.com/17223873/Halo Gametype Idea.pages

that is the full list so far


probably best if you just made a new thread or added to the existing one, many people dont trust downloads....like me, and won't open it, so just post a couple replies and then edit them so you have extra space to write


no its just that i cant copy, paste, and post, because the software i used to type it has extended characters or something like that that cant be posted.

  • 08.22.2010 11:59 AM PDT