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  • Poll [31 votes]: Defend the Generators mode! Would you like this new gametype?
Subject: Defend the Generators mode! Would you like this new gametype?

Someone get the ghost. I call warthog driver. We need someone to get the laser before the other team does. I need a gunner. . . . . No wait- . . . . I NEED A GUNNER . . . . oh . . never mind. I'll just splatter people. <"SPLATTER SPREE">

Poll: Defend the Generators mode! Would you like this new gametype?  [closed]
Yes:  61%
(19 Votes)
No:  39%
(12 Votes)
Total Votes: 31

Read first.

If you read the books, you would know that spartans were sent to Reach's surface to defend the generators for the MAC cannons.

Would you like a game mode kind of like firefight, where you have to defend the generators from covenant?

It would have to be like firefight except you have unlimited lives. You could call in airstrikes after getting enough points from killing enemies.

Engineers will also play a role. I think Grace is the explosives genius. He could disarm the explosives on an engineer, which would allow the engineer to join your side. Engineers could make repairs to the generator, weapons, vehicles, armor, and other things. They wouldn't give you an overshield though. That would make it too easy.

As the covenant overrun one generator, you would have to fall back to another generator. There would be a total of seven generators. And after the last generator, the game ends.

You could get vehicle drops once you get enough points, where a pelican comes in and drops off a warthog or other vehicle. The pelican could be shot down though, making you only want to use it when there aren't as many covenant.

Vehicles from Halo Wars could exist too. Rhinos would be pretty fun, but you could get hijacked by brutes. Grunts should also be able to jump on, and stuff a plasma grenade inside the vehicle.

You could have modes that resemble firefight:
1) Skulls turn on after each round and set

2) All skulls activated at the beginning but normal waves of enemies

3) Chieftan Mode! Endless chieftans. Only 3 come at a time the first round and with each round more chieftans come

4) Grunts! All skulls on, and endless grunts

5) Sniper mode - You start with a sniper rifle and endless jackal snipers spawn with increasing number and difficulty

6) (Post a comment on what you think would be a good mode)

EDIT: This could also be a good versus mode. One team plays as spartans, defending the generators, while one team plays as the covenant, attacking.

EDIT2: This may be a level in campaign, but it still might be fun in multiplayer with a few twists.

Tell me what you think in the comments.



[Edited on 10.19.2009 5:55 PM PDT]

  • 10.19.2009 12:03 PM PDT

Why have a game about what we are probably going to be doing in the Campaign anyways?

And we won't be playing any of the spartans we already know about, its five unknown spartans.

And airstrikes are lame.

  • 10.19.2009 12:05 PM PDT
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I like the idea, maybe it could be more of a variant of Firefight instead of a full new gametype.

I was also thinking, what if your idea could be incorporated as a simple team based multiplayer gametype? It'd probably be like Gold Rush in Battlefield Bad Company. One team attacks the generators, while the other team defends.

Good idea though. This would shake up the typical shoot as many enemies as possible gameplay and add a more tactical approach.

  • 10.19.2009 12:12 PM PDT

Posted by: Br0wnieBandit
I was also thinking, what if your idea could be incorporated as a simple team based multiplayer gametype? It'd probably be like Gold Rush in Battlefield Bad Company. One team attacks the generators, while the other team defends.

Kind alike assault right? We already have that...

  • 10.19.2009 12:16 PM PDT

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Posted by: Br0wnieBandit
I like the idea, maybe it could be more of a variant of Firefight instead of a full new gametype.

I was also thinking, what if your idea could be incorporated as a simple team based multiplayer gametype? It'd probably be like Gold Rush in Battlefield Bad Company. One team attacks the generators, while the other team defends.

Good idea though. This would shake up the typical shoot as many enemies as possible gameplay and add a more tactical approach.


This was my first thought aswell, a solid idea OP. Judge says "Two thumbs up".

  • 10.19.2009 12:16 PM PDT
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Posted by: Hylebos
Posted by: Br0wnieBandit
I was also thinking, what if your idea could be incorporated as a simple team based multiplayer gametype? It'd probably be like Gold Rush in Battlefield Bad Company. One team attacks the generators, while the other team defends.

Kind alike assault right? We already have that...


Assault involves taking a bomb to a bomb spot. This gametype involves the destruction of generators by use of provided weaponry. There is quite a difference.

  • 10.19.2009 12:20 PM PDT

Posted by: Br0wnieBandit
Posted by: Hylebos
Posted by: Br0wnieBandit
I was also thinking, what if your idea could be incorporated as a simple team based multiplayer gametype? It'd probably be like Gold Rush in Battlefield Bad Company. One team attacks the generators, while the other team defends.

Kind alike assault right? We already have that...


Assault involves taking a bomb to a bomb spot. This gametype involves the destruction of generators by use of provided weaponry. There is quite a difference.

Meh, I suppose, its been a while since i've played Bad Company, and all I remember was running into near empty bases and planting the bomb and camping until it went off. So many silly people in that game...

  • 10.19.2009 12:28 PM PDT

This came from Unreal Tournament.

[Edited on 10.19.2009 12:39 PM PDT]

  • 10.19.2009 12:30 PM PDT

i like me...

sounds like scavenge mode in L4D2

  • 10.19.2009 12:38 PM PDT

Someone get the ghost. I call warthog driver. We need someone to get the laser before the other team does. I need a gunner. . . . . No wait- . . . . I NEED A GUNNER . . . . oh . . never mind. I'll just splatter people. <"SPLATTER SPREE">

Posted by: Homeboyd903
This came from Unreal Tournament.
Well technically the only true game that didn't copy off anything was Pong.

And Bungie copied off of that with Gnop.

  • 10.19.2009 3:39 PM PDT

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Posted by: randomrocket
Posted by: Homeboyd903
This came from Unreal Tournament.
Well technically the only true game that didn't copy off anything was Pong.

And Bungie copied off of that with Gnop.

*Giggles*

  • 10.19.2009 3:41 PM PDT

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"I would have been your daddy, but the dog beat me over the fence."

That's basically the Assault gametype with AI and overpowered defenders. It's not a bad idea, but to be honest, I have three reasons why this won't work:
A)Like the first guy said, we'll be doing this in campaign anyway.
B)A normal Firefight mode will do.
C)We'll have assault in multiplayer anyway.

  • 10.19.2009 3:47 PM PDT

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Posted by: randomrocket
Posted by: Homeboyd903
This came from Unreal Tournament.
Well technically the only true game that didn't copy off anything was Pong.

And Bungie copied off of that with Gnop.


Wrong.

Pong was ripped off tennis.

  • 10.19.2009 3:49 PM PDT

Posted by: BurntBiscuits
Posted by: randomrocket
Posted by: Homeboyd903
This came from Unreal Tournament.
Well technically the only true game that didn't copy off anything was Pong.

And Bungie copied off of that with Gnop.


Wrong.

Pong was ripped off tennis.

Which was ripped off ping pong.

  • 10.19.2009 3:58 PM PDT

There are two things on this forum that piss me off;
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Posted by: Smug Dark Loser
Posted by: BurntBiscuits
Posted by: randomrocket
Posted by: Homeboyd903
This came from Unreal Tournament.
Well technically the only true game that didn't copy off anything was Pong.

And Bungie copied off of that with Gnop.


Wrong.

Pong was ripped off tennis.

Which was ripped off ping pong.


Oh my god, it's one great paradox! D:

  • 10.19.2009 4:04 PM PDT

I like the idea of protecting some sort of object as an objective gametype, but everything else mentioned was kind of lame xD

  • 10.19.2009 4:07 PM PDT

Someone get the ghost. I call warthog driver. We need someone to get the laser before the other team does. I need a gunner. . . . . No wait- . . . . I NEED A GUNNER . . . . oh . . never mind. I'll just splatter people. <"SPLATTER SPREE">

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  • 10.19.2009 5:04 PM PDT
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Posted by: evilcam
Bobcast is paid in MILF blind dates.

Sam died in 2525. The explosive expert you're thinking of is Grace. Love the idea though.

[Edited on 10.19.2009 5:33 PM PDT]

  • 10.19.2009 5:31 PM PDT

it's a good idea. but no. it would just be a new assult

  • 10.19.2009 5:36 PM PDT

Posted by: BurntBiscuits
Posted by: Smug Dark Loser
Posted by: BurntBiscuits
Posted by: randomrocket
Posted by: Homeboyd903
This came from Unreal Tournament.
Well technically the only true game that didn't copy off anything was Pong.

And Bungie copied off of that with Gnop.


Wrong.

Pong was ripped off tennis.

Which was ripped off ping pong.


Oh my god, it's one great paradox! D:


lol!

  • 10.19.2009 5:37 PM PDT

Someone get the ghost. I call warthog driver. We need someone to get the laser before the other team does. I need a gunner. . . . . No wait- . . . . I NEED A GUNNER . . . . oh . . never mind. I'll just splatter people. <"SPLATTER SPREE">

Posted by: Thrasher Fan
Sam died in 2525. The explosive expert you're thinking of is Grace. Love the idea though.
Thank you. I fixed it.

  • 10.19.2009 5:58 PM PDT