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Subject: Would you like an optional Firefight mode with unlimited lives?

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Do you guys think that it would be cool if there was a Firefight mode with unlimited lives? I would like to see what it is like to face enemies in some of the later waves and be able to fight some tougher enemies. Sometimes I would like to just jump into Firefight, fool around, and kill some enemies without worrying about losing too many lives.

Some days I would want to play traditional Firefight to see how far I could get before losing all my lives but other days it would be cool to play some Firefight until I got bored. This could be advantageous if you jut wanted to play it by yourself. We can't always get a full party together to play Firefight and going in alone is suicide. You would lose all of your lives before you got past the first few waves.

EDIT: I forgot to add that there would be no scores or achievements as that would just be too easy. Stats for the unlimited lives mode would have to be kept separate from normal Firefight stats.

[Edited on 08.13.2009 1:36 PM PDT]

  • 08.13.2009 1:08 PM PDT
Subject: Would you like a Firefight mode with unlimited lives?

it would be cool to just fool around but then that would deafet the purpose cause there would be absolutly no challenge

  • 08.13.2009 1:10 PM PDT
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Interesting, but bad, idea. It takes the "Survival" out of Survival Mode if you have unlimited lives.

  • 08.13.2009 1:10 PM PDT

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Posted by: guiltyspark06
Interesting, but bad, idea. It takes the "Survival" out of Survival Mode if you have unlimited lives.

But there would be two modes. The traditional Firefight if you want to be tactical and try to survive. Then the unlimited lives mode would be another choice if you just wanted to fool around.

  • 08.13.2009 1:13 PM PDT

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It would be nice to have that option, but guilty has a point about losing the suspense of the game. Maybe if it was coupled with a time limit that you were going against you would retain the feeling of desperation.

  • 08.13.2009 1:17 PM PDT

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Posted by: guiltyspark06
Interesting, but bad, idea. It takes the "Survival" out of Survival Mode if you have unlimited lives.

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i think it is a great idea, but to your point ^, it could be set so you cant earn achievements, get on the leaderboards etc.

  • 08.13.2009 1:18 PM PDT

Die, just die

no one would ever play the other mode. it would be "too hard" to play with a limited amount of lives. I like the idea of needing a good team and have alot of skill to get to the end of firefight. unlimited lives would ruin the whole point of firefight. Plus, bungie cant make changes now, the game is finished. and even if they could, they wouldnt. they want it to be hard so that way everyone doesnt just beat it. One way i could see this idea work, though, is if they put in a few checkpoints so that way you go all the way back to the last checkpoint before you can keep going. but that is unlikely. im not closed minded on this idea, i just dont see it working out well.

  • 08.13.2009 1:23 PM PDT
Subject: Would you like an optional Firefight mode with unlimited lives?

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An unlockable version, yes. Achievements disabled for unlimited lives.
Also, it wouldn't keep track of more than 1 game's worth of stats, in a separate file on bungie.net so there would be no confusion or padding possible.

[Edited on 08.13.2009 1:24 PM PDT]

  • 08.13.2009 1:23 PM PDT
Subject: Would you like a Firefight mode with unlimited lives?

still i dnt think bungie will ever do that. though it would kool and fun

  • 08.13.2009 1:24 PM PDT
Subject: Would you like an optional Firefight mode with unlimited lives?

no i wouldnt, it defeats the whole gameplay purpose of trying to survive as many rounds as you can.

  • 08.13.2009 1:25 PM PDT
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I think it would be pretty cool to have an option for unlimited lives. But if they did implement that, it should not post your results on leaderboards and achievements should be disabled.

  • 08.13.2009 1:26 PM PDT

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Posted by: Xerxes2552
I think it would be pretty cool to have an option for unlimited lives. But if they did implement that, it should not post your results on leaderboards and achievements should be disabled.

I actually was going to put that in my post post but forgot about it :P

It's in there now.

@ the guy that said it is impossible because the game is already made: They could just add it in an update. All the coding for Firefight is already on the disk. All they have to do is add a button that makes you have unlimited lives, no scoring, and no achievements.

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i like the idea. if we wanted to make machinima too thats what we could use

  • 08.13.2009 1:30 PM PDT
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Posted by: Uncle Kulikov
An unlockable version, yes. Achievements disabled for unlimited lives.
Also, it wouldn't keep track of more than 1 game's worth of stats, in a separate file on bungie.net so there would be no confusion or padding possible.

That's a good point. Perhaps they could record stats like they do for Social vs. Ranked stats. There would be a page for normal Firefight and a different page for the unlimited lives mode.

  • 08.13.2009 1:35 PM PDT

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I don't see the point.

Start on easy - fool around - die 7 times - restart the match - fool around.

It's like some people want Dead Rising to have a mode without health. I see absolutely no point. On top of that it forces Bungie to create an infinite number of sets, which I doubt there can ever be. They say it's unlimited sets and that you can't even reach set 100. That's exactly what makes me think there are only 100 sets. Otherwise at some point the console would freeze and explode. That's why we only have 100 custom content items.


And for the "I want to see the tougher enemies": It's mostly random, plus the whole point, atleast for me, is to get better to see what the tougher fights are like. Tough fights are not tough if you're invincible.

[Edited on 08.13.2009 1:40 PM PDT]

  • 08.13.2009 1:37 PM PDT
Subject: Would you like a Firefight mode with unlimited lives?

this calls for a poll

  • 08.13.2009 1:40 PM PDT

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Just wondering why an xbox would blow up during a game that goes on too long. I agree we need a poll for this for all the good it will do.

  • 08.13.2009 5:03 PM PDT

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I really think this would be a great idea. It would let you explore the levels a lot more than if you were constantly trying to survive. Maybe it could be a skull you find in campaign (like IWHBYD) that would unlock it for you. It could be like playing Single Player Split-Screen in Halo 2. Absolutely no point other than to explore the levels and practice a bit. Very helpful, yet it wouldn't negate from the game.

  • 08.13.2009 5:10 PM PDT
Subject: Would you like an optional Firefight mode with unlimited lives?

BTW Kalle90 But Bungie confirmed that are UNLIMITED waves, its like -blam!- Zombies on CoD: WaW, it keeps going until you lose. You don't see people playing -blam!- Zombies for a week Straight get to wave 3000 and all of a sudden there Xbox freezes do you? Thats why Bungie made the waves random, to keep it going.
No offense.

[Edited on 08.13.2009 5:15 PM PDT]

  • 08.13.2009 5:14 PM PDT

lol they block out the racist German name, sorry Bungie for posting that didn't know that was blocked, just referring to a game.

  • 08.13.2009 5:23 PM PDT

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Posted by: kalle90
I don't see the point.

Start on easy - fool around - die 7 times - restart the match - fool around.

It's like some people want Dead Rising to have a mode without health. I see absolutely no point. On top of that it forces Bungie to create an infinite number of sets, which I doubt there can ever be. They say it's unlimited sets and that you can't even reach set 100. That's exactly what makes me think there are only 100 sets. Otherwise at some point the console would freeze and explode. That's why we only have 100 custom content items.


And for the "I want to see the tougher enemies": It's mostly random, plus the whole point, atleast for me, is to get better to see what the tougher fights are like. Tough fights are not tough if you're invincible.

Bungie has said that there are unlimited waves.

  • 08.13.2009 5:25 PM PDT