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I had what i think is a revolutionary idea last night:
In theater in firefight i was looking at the covenant waves get ready to engage me, and i noticed how they communicate, if even subtly, with one another. It's really comical and at the same time awesome to see them do so.
In Reach, maybe a firefight mode can be added where you get to play as covenant species...but what would you fight, you ask?
Well it could be called Heretic mode, or Heresy, where you are a heretic to the Covenant, and they attack you. You can be any of these species
Hunters--Unlocked by beating campaign on legendary with iron skull on
Drones--Beat a mission on heroic
Brutes--Default
Elites--Beat a mission with a certain number of points
Grunts--default
Jackals--default
Of course, there are different ranks to each species, such as different color elites, brown hunters, chieftans, etc. You can rank up depending on how long u survive each heretic set and how many points/deaths you get
Well how does this work, you ask? That's up to bungie to decide what the species can do. Obviously drones can fly, and if you play as a grunt there are advantages and disadvantages. You could hold many more grenades, you can't melee, etc. Hunters only have 1 weapon and a melee. As a jackal, your beam rifle can shoot continuously, and you have a shield, but you can't melee. Elites would have swords, Brutes will have strong melee and run fast. Also, if you're a jackal you cant drive vehicles. More can be added, but if bungie decided to put it in, there are many things they can do to make the species easy to control and fun and fair for everybody.
Maybe another way to be a species is everyone starts as a grunt, and you level up, going grunt, jackal, drone, elite, brute, hunter, then to the higher brute ranks. This way may be more fair, but some people may wish to stay at a certain species isntead of rank up
There could also be a duel mode after each set instead of a bonus round, where each player duels against each other. When one person is playing, they will duel against the AI, because during each set a helper species comes in to aid the battle. the first set will be 4 grunts, the second set will be 5 jackals, third set is 3 elites, 4th set is 2 hunters. Brutes wont come because brutes usually do not commit heresy, but of course bungie can add that in. Maybe if you make it to set 5, a Fuel Rod or Hammer Chieftan will come in to assit you. You get fuel rod if you are lower rank, and a hammer if you are a higher rank
I think this is a great idea--please don't bash it. I feel it would be a nice edition to firefight, since Reach has all the species in the covenant together and the story is basically about what they did to Reach.
what do you think?! please add this bungie!!
[Edited on 10.12.2009 4:07 PM PDT]