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  • Poll [28 votes]: Do you want to play as an Elite in Halo Reach?
Subject: Do you want to play as an Elite in Halo Reach?
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Poll: Do you want to play as an Elite in Halo Reach?  [closed]
YES!!!!!!! Finaly:  32%
(9 Votes)
NO, hate Elites:  18%
(5 Votes)
meh:  7%
(2 Votes)
A Campaign with A UNSC and Covenant Mode:  43%
(12 Votes)
Total Votes: 28

I would realy like to have the 4th one cuz i could get to play as SPARTANS and Elites, though in the book, Elites rock hard and they have SHEILDS, not health, so I also would like the first one, Just to balance things out. For the first one, I mean the entire campaign. pls save this thread!

also REPLY plz!


[Edited on 09.11.2009 9:14 AM PDT]

  • 09.11.2009 8:41 AM PDT

What would the elites fight though? Shieldless weak humans? There isn't nearly enough spartans to make a challenging campaign.

  • 09.11.2009 8:43 AM PDT

what do you mean finally? we got to play them in halo 2

  • 09.11.2009 8:50 AM PDT
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Think of it this way,

GRUNT = MARINE INFANTRY
JACKAL = HUMAN SNIPER
BRUTE / ELITE = HELLBRINGER / ODST
HUNTER = CYCLOPS
GHOST = MONGOOSE WITH 2 MARINES
PROWLER = WARTHOG
SPIRIT = PELICAN
PROPHET / BOSS = SPARTAN (like in halo 2, instead a spartan to kill, cuz many died on reach)
BANSHEE = HORNET

Many of these Ideas came from halo wars but i think it could work.

on Reach, SPARTANS died, so dont say that killing 1 out of about 30 would be stupid, it would be cool.

people that say that playing as an elite is stupid because of no balance between the armies, think again.

Also, just imagine the epic battles as an elite. if you were a spartan, there would be no sheilds and lack of much action because there were 2 major battles in the book.

this game can also have some of the first strike in it, because John 117 returns to reach and meets some of his fellow spartans in that book.

just my opinion, what do you think?

[Edited on 09.11.2009 11:48 AM PDT]

  • 09.11.2009 8:55 AM PDT
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I mean a FULL Campaign.

  • 09.11.2009 8:56 AM PDT

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Posted by: R4M33Z
Think of it this way,

GRUNT = HUMAN
JACKAL = HUMAN SNIPER
BRUTE / ELITE = HELLBRINGER / ODST
HUNTER = CYCLOPS

Many of these Ideas came from halo wars but i think it could work. thanks anyway!!!
That does sound fun. I know I want to see some units from Halo Wars make it into Reach, and a Covenant campaign would be awesome. It worked in Halo 2

  • 09.11.2009 9:16 AM PDT
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Posted by: R4M33Z
Think of it this way,

GRUNT = HUMAN
JACKAL = HUMAN SNIPER
BRUTE / ELITE = HELLBRINGER / ODST
HUNTER = CYCLOPS

Many of these Ideas came from halo wars but i think it could work. thanks anyway!!!


what the hell is a hellbringer....?

  • 09.11.2009 9:41 AM PDT

Does anyone beside me think that i would end up as a failer just like halo 2's campaign

  • 09.11.2009 9:42 AM PDT

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you mean helljumpers right? to above post h2 campaign was awesome! i'd love to be able to choose Covenant or UNSC and you pick what race you are(grunt,jackal,elite,brute.)(no hunter,drone or prophets.)

  • 09.11.2009 9:52 AM PDT
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If we are fighting humans, it dosen't always have to be fighting infantry, beside the many warthog variants, we could take down heavily reinforced vehicles, and such, heck, we could be fighting some form of a proto megatank for a boss, or even fighting the much feared Stealth Tanks for mini bosses.

While fighting the humans focuses more on vehicular combat, flood levels can focus mostly on foot combat, with some intense vehicular combat. (I'm going to assume, that if the flood do reappear in Reach, they can pilot vehicles again, like they did in Halo 2)

[Edited on 09.11.2009 9:57 AM PDT]

  • 09.11.2009 9:56 AM PDT

without an elite character playable reach will b poor due 2 the fact the spartans dont really survive all that much would b cool. could do it like an arbiter prequel

  • 09.11.2009 10:00 AM PDT
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A hellbringer is a marine with a flame thrower and some heavy gear as seen in halo wars.

  • 09.11.2009 10:42 AM PDT
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I think that would be preety kool to play as an elite...even though we did for lil while in h2,it be fun to choose between the UNSC and the Covenant

  • 09.11.2009 10:54 AM PDT
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You always fight the covenant or flood, why not the UNSC. in halo 2, you were part covenant and only faught brutes, heretics and flood. Reach should have a realy good campaign, to fight HUMANS!!! i think it would be cool!!

  • 09.11.2009 11:19 AM PDT

Here’s what Luke had to say about the differences in treatment between the Spartans and Elites in Reach:

“Instead of piece-by-piece customization like the Spartans, Elite customization is a full model swap with models selected from the various Elite classes appearing throughout the Campaign. There are all kinds of reasons for this, not the least of which is our continued emphasis on the Spartan as your identity in Reach.”

Posted by: Hylebos
What would the elites fight though? Shieldless weak humans? There isn't nearly enough spartans to make a challenging campaign.
Not when there are TONS of these shieldless humans. And remember, Covenant equipment is inferior to UNSC equipment.

Sure the humans are shieldless, but Carbines are a rare weapon and nothing else but the Beam Rifle gets headshots.

If they wanted to make it really challenging, they could make it like the books, where Elites refuse to pick up UNSC weapons, kind of a "mythic" difficulty campaign.

And the only interesting Elites to play as would be Black Ops special forces, like the ones in the end of CE. And they would be deployed to where the fighting was thickest, and most important.

Like MAC cannon sites, ammunition dumps, barracks, air traffic control, communications, and the like.

It could be done, and I would happily play it.

  • 09.11.2009 11:50 AM PDT