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Subject: Space battles

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Posted by: DoDgE410
I'd prefer a space map kinda like that one in halo ce where your split up in a space ship and you can fall down to space if you try to jump at their base... hope you know which one im talkin bout


Yeh, i know what you mean, perhaps you need to stop jump pack brutes in EVA suite from breaking into your frigate or something.
Secondly, commanding something like a longsword wouldn't work for the reasons pounted out by people above me unless it's like that terrible game called H.A.W.X. It would be better if perhaps you travelled around the ship swapping between repelling boarders, manning point-defence cannons and rescuing fire-teams then at the end you lead some soldiers to the launch bay and escape in a pelican just before the ship explodes in a huge fireball

  • 10.27.2009 12:15 PM PDT

maybe something like a turret defense thing where you run from turret to turret to fight off boarders, and if you don't knock out one of the landing craft then you have a bunch of Brutes trying to stop you from killing more of their friends. this means that if one ship gets through that you will be fighting the first boarding party while more make their way inside. add in marines to help you and a 20 min timer and this could be the best mission in any halo game by far.

  • 10.27.2009 12:22 PM PDT
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Posted by: DoDgE410
I'd prefer a space map kinda like that one in halo ce where your split up in a space ship and you can fall down to space if you try to jump at their base... hope you know which one im talkin bout


Yeh, i know what you mean, perhaps you need to stop jump pack brutes in EVA suite from breaking into your frigate or something.
Secondly, commanding something like a longsword wouldn't work for the reasons pounted out by people above me unless it's like that terrible game called H.A.W.X. It would be better if perhaps you travelled around the ship swapping between repelling boarders, manning point-defence cannons and rescuing fire-teams then at the end you lead some soldiers to the launch bay and escape in a pelican just before the ship explodes in a huge fireball


Bungie, please don't stick us in point defense positions. How many games from the 90s and early 2000s stick you in a situation where you can't move and you have to defend the caravan. Those suck. You're so helpless and it's just a matter of getting lucky. It's overdone and no fun.

As for the repelling boarders, that's much more accurate to the story and it would be fun. But I'd really like to get thrusters and go out and have some infantry space battles.

  • 10.27.2009 12:36 PM PDT

That would be pretty cool.

  • 10.27.2009 12:52 PM PDT
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i hope they will have it, but i know better then to get my hopes up

  • 10.27.2009 1:14 PM PDT

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Do gauss canons work in space? Because using one to fight off ships would be kinda... cool, I guess... just a stray thought I had....

  • 10.27.2009 5:04 PM PDT

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It takes several men to control those ships. Unless your an AI you'd have to run back in forth from terminal to terminal.

  • 10.27.2009 5:05 PM PDT
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i dont realy think that a space battle would be mutch good. halo mostly focoses on ground ops and stuff, but i liked the idea of an odst style entry maby in a pelecun droping into reach from orbit under fire and you can see all other troops/spartans around you

  • 10.27.2009 5:14 PM PDT

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Ah, but see that would be unoriginal, since they JUST did that in ODST. However, amazing long intro cutscenes like they did in Halo 2 would be cool.

Someone told me they were playing a game that had an hour-long ending cutscene.

  • 10.27.2009 5:21 PM PDT
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There is a large problem with your idea, Hornets and banshees aren't exactly airtight, you'd need the special armour unless you fly shortswords (or maybe seraphs), and yes gauss cannons would work in space, an hour long ending cutscene is just foolish. Otherwise this is brilliant.

  • 10.31.2009 6:51 AM PDT

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I would love it =)

I loved the majority flying level of ODST, and arial battles in a sci fi are always to die for...

  • 10.31.2009 7:32 AM PDT
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The space battle your talking about has been done before, and well(in my opinion). it was done back in the days of ps2 and the plain xbox original. it was done in Star Wars battle front 2, to win you had to take out critical points on the oponants carrier whilst fighting off enemy fighters(Lots of them too. though you did have lots of friendlies too.). there was even a choice of fighter, bomber and recon ship.

It could be done again. Though i'm not sure bungie would have enough time to implement it.

But you can hope...

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  • 10.31.2009 8:30 AM PDT

i dont mean to burst your bubble but it would be incredably hard to create a xbox 360 gamepad control system for spartans in space as the only resonably way to do it is to copy the hornets control system but in my opinion that would suck so mabye fightomg along the side of a half destroyed cruser and ending with a huge exsploson

  • 10.31.2009 9:00 AM PDT

Star Wars Battlefront 2 had space battles? So Yeah In Halo Rrach it can be easily done, in campaign and in multiplayer will be epic!

  • 10.31.2009 10:25 AM PDT
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Well in the beginning John and some other spartans stole some banshees and brought a bomb to a carrier. So maybe theyll have that in it......

  • 10.31.2009 10:28 AM PDT
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Posted by: Nichos354
I would love to see a mission where, instead of you fighting a scarab in a warthog, you fight a covenant cruiser in a banshee.


I'd rather fight it in a Longsword actually...Or a Vulture if it's on the surface of the planet. Banshees are a little underpowered.

  • 10.31.2009 10:56 AM PDT

KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!

For everyone who mentioned BF2, that's EXACTLY what I'm talking about, but think even more epic.

  • 11.03.2009 7:36 PM PDT

KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!

you know it

  • 11.03.2009 7:40 PM PDT

i played this game called Dawn of War where you need to fight off invasion parties that infiltreted the ship. that would be cool doing it the other way around like what the ODSTs where saying befor they launched. imagine fighting in a covenent ship and downloaching the schematics into your HUD.that would be awsome along ith fight with some smart allied AI who wont run into bullets. your goal would be like setting bombs in the reactor or in vital areas then evacuating.

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  • 11.03.2009 7:45 PM PDT

KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!

Ever played this game called Halo 2?

  • 11.03.2009 8:10 PM PDT

Longswords or new vehicles would be great, but I don't want a crappy flying mission like the one on Halo 3 in the covenant, where you basically flew around the corner and that was it.

  • 11.03.2009 8:18 PM PDT

KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!

Hey the Covenant was one of the better missions. Although, yeah they could have made it longer.

  • 11.03.2009 9:21 PM PDT

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i think in campaign there should be full throttle space battles just like in the book unlike u fighting of a couple phantoms... BRING SOMTHING NEW TO THE HALO UNIVERSE

  • 11.03.2009 10:12 PM PDT

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