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This is an amazing idea, but I suggest making a whole link to a page with all information about servers, all information about the map type, and all information about buying weapons, ect. This gametype deserves attention, because I believe it would revolutionize Halo and video gaming in general.
Vote: YES

  • 09.24.2009 5:28 PM PDT
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Halo is about everyone having the same advantage over everyone. Not buying rockets and killing noobs running for rockets. Besides that, it's a pretty good idea. Especially the HEV's.

[Edited on 09.24.2009 5:53 PM PDT]

  • 09.24.2009 5:53 PM PDT

waz up

i would love it but as long as with the points you dont keep them after the games over and there should be a few more types than slayer/ assault like CTF, VIP, infection. territories would be epic for this probally

  • 09.24.2009 8:44 PM PDT
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Im a Spartan with Heart

Im a Elite with Honor

Im a ODST with Valor

i got a idea to include but since with points you buy weapons right? so why not type of armor that has it's own stats? like i dont know say the odst helemt has visr mode(i know halo 3 odst) but others like mark V and hayabusa dont get it instead they get there own type of i gusse you can say ability? and with armor types like shoulder would increase your speed or sheild etc.

  • 09.24.2009 9:18 PM PDT

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sounds great..
plz check out my thread
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  • 09.24.2009 9:41 PM PDT
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Idea 1 - You should hav the option to swap weapons with your team mates like u can do in campaign instead of having to find a weapon on the ground and swapping with that so then your team mate can take it,

Idea 2 - Maybe when one team obtains their bomb and can call in a pelican or take on thats on their UNSC Crusier and fly over to the other teams UNSC Crusier and there would be a spot to plant the bomb there and it blows up the whole Crusier.

(if anyone has sed these idea im srry i just cbf'd reading all the posts)

  • 09.24.2009 10:00 PM PDT

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Posted by: ujjval16
Obviously there are problems with this idea, like communicating with a team of 20 but people have said a squad system might work. So yeah, this is my idea, and tell me what you think.

that could out like wow's raid chat by having smaller teams of five in a whole army. and by pressing up or down on the d-pad you'll gain excess to the whole armies chat or your squads chat.
there may be something wrong with this but it does seem like this is the easiest way to manage chat within a 20+ man battle.

edit: as for wepns... you should have a weapon drop every 2000 points. it brings in 4 weapons of your preset choice and a pelican drops them like in halo3.

[Edited on 09.24.2009 10:07 PM PDT]

  • 09.24.2009 10:04 PM PDT

"Belive me, or what'cha see is what'cha get."

Another add on:
Capture the cruiser
Objective: Use Territories to capture the enemy cruiser and 4 Ground Bases
random medal: Drop PWND - Use drop pod and "accidentally" hit an enemy.

Another idea: Shoot-down
Everybody spawns with either rockets/plasma pistols.
Cruiser is very low to the ground.
Objective: shoot the -blam!- out of the cruiser
-also could be used for bomb...

ANOTHER IDEA!?
VIP your VIP is trapped in enemy cruiser's prison, rescue and take him to your carrier!

OMFG SRS ANOTHER IDEA!?!?!?
cruiser airfight
Use cruisers to fight
Cruisers are boarded on a airdock ( about the X axis of sandbox..

STOP WITH THE IDEAZ!!
Battle for the cruiser
Everybody spawns on oposite sides of the cruiser and must stay in the hill longest.

STOP IT WITH THE IDEAS NOW!!!
I'm out of ideas.

  • 09.24.2009 11:29 PM PDT

Okay, Im not trying to down your creativity here, but none of these would work.
Capture the Cruiser: This idea i didnt really get. How would capturing territories capture the enemy`s Cruiser?
I have nothing against the medal idea. I loved this one.
ShootDown: Rockets and plasma pistols would do NOTHING to the hull of a cruiser. Im sorry, it just doesnt work.
VIP: This doesnt work because there would be no playing on the ground. Just constant movement through the air to the enemy`s Cruiser. And thats just not that fun. :P
Cruiser Airfight: I can almost ASSURE you this wont be included in the game. Its more of an RTS type idea. More toward Halo Wars II rather than Halo: Reach. We all want it, just in another game.
And I just dont get the King of the Hill idea. It just doesnt compute here man.
And dont think Im hating on your ideas. Theyre just not viable to this game type in my opinion. Sorry.

  • 09.25.2009 9:16 AM PDT

This would be the most fun multiplayer game ever made, but that's the only problem I see with it: it's to much! I mean, think about it for a second, if Bungie had problems fitting everything into ODST, then how do you expect them to do this? They would have to make a second disk strictly for multiplayer, and I honestly don't see that happening. And if they do, then the price of the game will go up, and no one wants that.

And the HEV drop idea is awesome, but can it be done? I mean, after the HEV dop in ODST we had to have a loading screen before we could play, so, if anything, it would have to be an opening cinimatic for the game, ya' know? It wouldn't be instant, it couldn't be. At least I don't think so.

  • 09.25.2009 10:17 AM PDT

Posted by: ujjval16
Ok, first of all I would like to say that this is a new game mode, not the entire multiplayer experience. It gets it's own special spot on the main menu, along with forge and theater. This game mode would have to have large teams, probably like 20 vs 20, and it would only be possible with dedicated servers, due to lag.

So this is how the game begins. I can't find the thread for it but somebody came up with the idea of spawning in a UNSC cruiser and entering the battlefield with a HEV. I like this idea. So the game starts off with both teams in a UNSC cruiser. You have to find a HEV pod and go down to "The Perfect Map"

"The Perfect Map" is a map, imo, that utilizes everything. That means every weapon, and vehicle. That means that the map must have large open areas for snipers, vehicles ect... but, it must also have tight areas where the shotgun would be the best weapon, and everything in between. It would be a hard map to make but I believe Bungie would be able to pull it off.

When you enter the map you will start off with normal team slayer. The score will be 200. Once you're team scores 200 kills, you will be given a bomb, and you must finish up the game with a game of assault. However you will ONLY be given the bomb if you reach 200 kills. If blue team has 200, but red team only has 150, then the red team won't be given a bomb. Once red team also get 200, the get their own bomb.

Now there has to be a few twists. A big one I think would be adding Campaign scoring. so every time you kill somebody you get points, and you get more points when you get medals. Now obviously these points can be used for bragging rights, but maybe they can do more. Ok lets say you were doing really good, you just got a killing frenzy, but you died. You have a lot of points, because you got 10 kills, and not to mention the medals. So you spawn in the cruiser, but instead of going straight down, you go to a weapons shop. With those points you can buy a secondary weapon. Now I bet the thing I just said probably made 50% of the Halo Reach forum's population get mad, but just bare with me. These weapons would be expensive, so even though you got 10 kills, maybe you only have enough points for a Battle Rifle, or Carbine. In order for you to get a sniper, you would have to have way more points. However to keep it fair you can only buy 1 weapon at a time, so you can't go down with a sniper and rockets. Don't worry though, there will still be weapons on the map.

Now if you have been reading this far and aren't mad at me, you might like what's next. Ever been in the position where you need a vehicle, except you can't find one. Well I think we should be able to call in vehicle drops, from a pelican. You would obviously call in the drops using your points. So lets say I called in a pelican to drop me a mongoose. I would have to hold my position, for 30 seconds, until the pelican comes. If I die, the pelican will come anyway, and drop the vehicle, anybody would be able to take it.

So that is the basic of the mode I am thinking of. Obviously there are problems with this idea, like communicating with a team of 20 but people have said a squad system might work. So yeah, this is my idea, and tell me what you think.


PLEASE READ
Oh and if you want to see everyone's idea's, go to page 8 and go to AbruptArc's post. Also I highly recommend you guys look at Half Demon ANBU's post on page 10. I would post them, but I don't have enough room.
very very good idea bungie add this to reach.

[Edited on 09.25.2009 2:28 PM PDT]

  • 09.25.2009 2:27 PM PDT
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Maybe with the dedicated servers more than 20 v 20. Its the battle of Reach so maybe larger. Like 150 v 150 with lots of servers. Vehicle drop offs,Pelican to be piloted to drop off respawning troops. New weapons like a full auto option for the BR or Ar. The option to control to play as a Marine,Spartan,ODST,Elite,Hunter. Have troop commands like cover me,need backup,need ammo. Stuff like that. Have it amazingly realistic like how a real futuristic war would be.

  • 09.25.2009 6:16 PM PDT
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Also have game types like infiltration where you have to go to the enemy base and take it over. Im just glad Bungie is making such a game that the more i talk about the more hyped i get.

  • 09.25.2009 6:19 PM PDT

dude ur the coolest person ever now.I love this idea i even think it would be better than firefight...........to be in a ship and get dropped off with your own points!I vote yes!Plz add me where did you come up with this idea plz add me and talk to me idc if ur friends list is full delete sum1 who barely plays!
thank you for this insane idea!
my gt is, christo theKILL.

  • 09.25.2009 6:55 PM PDT

"Everything works itself out. The only thing that matters is whether you want it to or not."

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It seems a bit like Battlefront to me, to be honest, but it's nonetheless an amazing game suggestion. The Perfect Map part is my personal favorite. A map like that would be awesome, it sort of makes me think of Valhalla, only maybe even bigger with more buildings and tunnels, maybe even an underground tunnel system.

  • 09.25.2009 6:58 PM PDT

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I really like your idea of spawning in a ship. Just an idea, something to add for the game mode, now that ODST has been introduced, maybe you could choose between being a Spartan which gives you more power, health and shields, or an ODST trooper who is faster and has the VISR, and has the ability to drop from the ship straight into battle, and vice versa with Covenant (Brutes and Elites though). Also with the perfect map thing, I think it would be interesting to possibly have fights between cruisers in space, with each team not only guarding their cruiser's vital areas (engines, weapons, etc.) on the inside, but launching teammates to the other cruiser to attack it. Just idea though please give input cause I think these ideas are amazing. Bungie should really tap into the players opinions more.

  • 09.25.2009 7:26 PM PDT

if they did this, Halo would be waay more awesome!

  • 09.25.2009 9:34 PM PDT

This is hands down the best idea I've ever seen for a gametype, good job thinking outside the box. The point system might be good but 20 v 20 might to much. However these are small kinks for such an ambishous* idea. Great work!!

  • 09.25.2009 10:02 PM PDT

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Wow, I really like this idea. And all the posters have some good revisions too. Here are some of my ideas:

Weapon shop fix: Seperate all the weapons into 2 categories- Primary, being (UNSC) BR, pistol, SMG, Shotgun, MA5B (I want the Halo 1 AR back, sound and all) and Special, being Sniper, Rocket, Missile Pod, and introduce a deployable turret. Now to make things interesting, there will be a Primary weapon in each HEV pod. You just pick a pod with the weapon you want and drop. Then you use the point system to call in weapon drops for the secondary weapons, which will drop 2 canisters: the special weapon with full ammo and more ammo for whatever Primary you're carrying. Keep vehicle drops the same, LOVE that idea.

Cruiser Camping fix: I know this is gonna sound Battlefrontish, but hey, we ARE discussing new stuff for Halo, right? Make a hanger bay with Longswords and whatnot in it (Pelican with rocket pods?), Seraphs and whatnot for the Covenant. (BTW, I think it should be Covenant vs. UNSC all the time.) Then you can board the enemy ship and take out campers. But so you can't just say "all your base are belong to us" and stay there, the enemy ship will have automated inner defense. Like in Halo 1, when the Marines got pissed at you.

Spawning: Spawning on the ship is good, and droping in is too. But what if you don't want to drop in? On the first drop of the game, A base is established upon landing. Maybe I'm crazy, but there could also be a Battlefield 1942 like spawn system. No tickets counting down, but this would be more like Land grabbin. So that way this whole thing is like Slayer, cuz you're workin for kills, Assault to win the game, and Territories for spawning. However, the Cruiser is always available. And if there's a base you want for your team, you will be allowed to drop within a certain area around it and try to assault it with teammates.

*sigh* My fingers hurt. Speculate some more everyone

[Edited on 09.26.2009 12:23 AM PDT]

  • 09.25.2009 11:54 PM PDT

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Posted by: xFSPx Slaughter
And the HEV drop idea is awesome, but can it be done? I mean, after the HEV dop in ODST we had to have a loading screen before we could play, so, if anything, it would have to be an opening cinimatic for the game, ya' know? It wouldn't be instant, it couldn't be. At least I don't think so.

If this game can do a high altitude drop without a loading screen now, I'm sure Bungie can do it by next year. I have faith in them.

  • 09.26.2009 12:21 AM PDT

I'm loving everyones ideas and i think the overall goal is AWESOME and i'd love to play a game like that. the idea of droping straight into battle is very do able the game section 8 does it without load times so that parts easy to pull off. if not they could make the drop itself a load screen. so u can at least look at that while it loads. also as far as the perfect map goes i think it would be awesome if they made maps based off of what they used for like say the 'Halo Wars' cut scene inside the ruined city or even better the master chief memorial from the 'believe' commercial it had wide open areas, trenches, hills, ruins it had everything a full blown war needs i like the idea of unlocking weapons but i don't really like the buying idea i think it would be suitable if the more points you rack up along with your rows of medals you rise through the standard military rank system and the higher your rank the higher your clearance and that allows you access to more areas of the cruiser. the ship to ship battle seems like a little much though to have a fight going on the ground and in orbit is just a bit much. I really love the idea of starting the game off as a slayer/ territory's match where once you control an area a base is established be it via pelican or phantom and then a full blown slayer match followed by a multi-bomb match all one after another . I am however concerned with who is going to be fighting who humans vs human makes the most sense and is completely possible since its what we do now. but humans vs covenant raises hella problems there are so many races if a player is aloud a choice it would make it unbalanced. Spartans are the only humans with shields and yeah odst's can hold their own, against computers, but no human being would actually stand out in the open and wait for you.
the easiest way i see to do it is Spartans vs Elites (no brutes since its reach) or humans vs humans (odst vs odst or spartan vs spartan)

[Edited on 09.26.2009 1:34 AM PDT]

  • 09.26.2009 1:07 AM PDT
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Part of this idea was already used in section 9. You can buy a battle suit if you have enough credits and you have to wait for it. If you die, it gets dropped anyway.

  • 09.26.2009 1:50 AM PDT

Posted by: Riker Watts
Another add on:
Capture the cruiser
Objective: Use Territories to capture the enemy cruiser and 4 Ground Bases
random medal: Drop PWND - Use drop pod and "accidentally" hit an enemy.

Another idea: Shoot-down
Everybody spawns with either rockets/plasma pistols.
Cruiser is very low to the ground.
Objective: shoot the -blam!- out of the cruiser
-also could be used for bomb...

ANOTHER IDEA!?
VIP your VIP is trapped in enemy cruiser's prison, rescue and take him to your carrier!

OMFG SRS ANOTHER IDEA!?!?!?
cruiser airfight
Use cruisers to fight
Cruisers are boarded on a airdock ( about the X axis of sandbox..

STOP WITH THE IDEAZ!!
Battle for the cruiser
Everybody spawns on oposite sides of the cruiser and must stay in the hill longest.

STOP IT WITH THE IDEAS NOW!!!
I'm out of ideas.


um alot of these are nice but i don't think they could all work however the vip idea could work in halo 1 you save captain keys from a covenant cruiser the Vip game could be something like 1 sided vip or even 2 sided i guess if you want.

Basicly you have the cruisers low to the ground with gravity lifts or elevators respectively bringing supplies/ troops up and down you fight your way to the cruisers and use these to get inside once inside it plays just like Halo 1 fight your way through with some minor npc's if possible something like Crew members/Marines or grunts/jackles + what ever players decide to go back and defend the crusier. of course taking your vip back across a war torn battle field could be HARD to say the least you could also take another cue from halo 1 hijack an enemy ship phantom or pelican from the docking bay and head on back to yours or head out place a beacon and hold out for pick up. (has anyone mentioned the use of these ships at all I think it would be insanely AWESOME to have maybe 3-4 of these for each side that are piloted by players if you want something delivered ask for it need to get alpha squad to bravo squad like 10 mins ago ask for it a 2 man flying system would be sweet so you have 1 pilot and 1 co-pilot to work main weapons and you could have someone 1 man the rear turret or side ones on a phantom carry your men to the front line or give them a ride back to the cruiser)

  • 09.26.2009 1:50 AM PDT