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Subject: What we want to see in Reach.

I have been exiled. Disgraced in front of my men. Put down by those of higher rank. And now I am back. I have come for vengeance!

Before everyone asks yes I know there are multiple topics with this exact same thing. It just wont let me reply to the topics. Anyway. Here's what I want to see added to Halo: Reach. Oh and by the way, for all those halo fans out there who are still oblivious to whether or not Reach is Bungie's last halo game, then here's your answer. Yes it is their last Halo game. Ok, now on to the list:


1: Health - I would like to see health come back. Now that Spartans are back to the very first Mjolnir suit, it only seems right that there's still health. Mark V didn't come along until from what I read in the First Strike book was after Reach fell. They found crates of it underground.

2: Larger and cooler maps - I think that there should be large maps with forests and rocks and rivers. That way there are places to hide. Makes for better team slayer strategies.

3: Armor Detail - From what i've seen is that in Halo 2, Spartan armor had battle damage and looked more detailed, while Halo 3's version of the armor removed all the damage and instead of being detailed, it was shiny. So why not combine those 2.

4: Gender - Now I know what your thinking. I'm not saying their should be boobs on the female version of the characters. Only that their body's should be more skinnier than a males. And a males body should be more musculer than a females.

5: Customizable Weaponry - In the books a Spartan named Linda could take a Sniper Rifle apart and make a much cooler version.

6: A New Armor System - Please take this one into deep consideration. Instead of interchangeable armor, i'm not saying you should get rid of it though, you could make the armor even better. Allow players to paint lines or stripes onto their armor. Add numbers and decals where ever they want. Add new armor parts. Maybe even customizable ammo belts and clips. You know like sling the belts over the shoulder to hip or just along the waist. Ok. Just allow players to move a cursor around and spray paint their armor. Even add rank insignia's. Or maybe even an adjustable height system. Not every Spartan was the same height. So make so that players can make themselves taller or slightly smaller. Allow each player to be different than all the rest.

7: Lowerable Weapons - As I found out you cannot lower your weapons online, but I think people would like it if you could, especially Machinimators. Just use the down button on the D-Pad to lower your gun.

8: More Players Online - As you have probably seen a new game called Section 8 has raised the player cap that any game has failed to achieve. A whopping 32 player online. Now that has got to be beast. So do that for Reach. It would make for more exciting matches.

9: New Vehicles - Add some new vehicles, like the covenant Shadow transport from Halo 2 or the Troop Transport Hog from Halo 3.

10: Outer Space Matches - Ok now most people are probably going to disagree with me on this one, but I think this would be cool. Just have a Human Ship on one side of the map and a Covenant ship on the other. Then have players fly around in Fighters and bombers and shoot each other. Or land on opposing ships and kill each other.

11: Glass made from Plasma - As interpreted from the books, when plasma touches anything besides flesh, it turns it into glass. So when someone shoots a plasma rifle, make it so that the plasma leaves a glassy mark on the surface it hit, even a wraith blast.

12: Improved Graphics - Halo 3's graphics arn't bad, but if Halo: Reach had some kind of even better graphics system, it would be godly.

13: Natal Enabled and a Face for your character - I have heard that Bungie was very excited about Project Natal and that theirs a rumor going around that Reach will be Natal Enabled. Well heres one idea you can keep. If you decide to use Natal for Halo: Reach then consider this. Add a face customizer. Ok. Make your own Spartan face or some kind of Elite face. Although they all look alike. But anyway. Using natal you craft your own face. Then while your in-game you can take off your helmet, and pop, theres your head on the body. Ok. Just use your hands and make a gesture as if you were taking off a helmet. Then Natal mimics it and your character takes off their helmet and reveals their head

14: New Multiplayer Character - Everybody wants one. Everybody wants a new playable character. Ya know, and ODST or a Marine, Or a grunt or something.

15: Another Lowerable Weapon Idea - Instead of using a button, use Natal. Ok. Just hold your hands in any position you want and natal will have your character mimic it.

16: Use Natal - Natal can be used for many things. Lowering weapons, taking off helmets, turning you body or head, although that might be difficult, Talking with teamates, climbing stuff, reloading, real time shooting and aiming and movement. As you raise you gun to shoot, Natal does it exactly as you do it for precise real time in-game movement, Natal can even be used to take a snapshot of your head for your character. You can make so that your charcter can grab and throw or pick up someone. And the person thats being grabbed can dodge it or break free.


These were just some suggestions that I came up with. Please. Deeply consider everything i've said here. Most of this could make the game so much better and improve gameplay and replayability. Most of this players have wanted for years, but we didn't have the technology. Well now we do. The future of gaming is now.

  • 09.06.2009 11:29 PM PDT

health, good idea, larger maps, they had em in halo 2, the average map size for halo 2 was that of snadtrap, as for the shadow idea, ive said they needed the shadows to come back in like 3 other posts, you're the only other person ive seen to enjoy shadows as much as i do, and you sir, have just made my day

lowarble weapons would get annoying if you press the button by accident, so only put in in custom games, better graphics are a given, and as for the other ideas, they would all be way to complex, with the exception of natal (all though the very idea of natal is unbeleivable, what it is currently cpapable of i think could fit into reach)

as for the gender thing, bungie would get soooooo much crap for being sexist if they did that, as for being a grunt of hunter, as awesome as that would be, it would be unfair since grunts are small and so they could take cover easier

and as for space battles, I KNOW RIGHT!?!?! i loved that one halo CE map with the two space ships boarding each other (i forget the name) and they also need to bring back terminal

and lastly, pelicans and scarabs, we must be able to comendeer both of those...

since halo 1 i wanted to use the pelican, then in halo 3 cheif basically says on the level cortana "look arbiter, a peleican that we can fly" so im thinking "finally, after 6 years ican finally fly one" then it cuts to a cinematic

as for scarabs, when sergeant jhonson was in one in halo 2 i was looking forward to piloting that as well....


[Edited on 09.06.2009 11:56 PM PDT]

  • 09.06.2009 11:37 PM PDT