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Subject: Covie Tech as Hidden Items

With ODST we've seen a departure from the use of skulls as hidden items in Halo games. Obviously with Reach I'm sure people want more hidden items, but I for one would like something other than skulls to hunt down. My idea is the use of Covenant technology as hidden items.

In Fall of Reach its revealed that the Spartans had orders to collect and return any Covenant technology for study. Since we will be going to Reach I'd say it makes sense that we could find hidden pieces of Covenant technology that we could collect while fighting our way through the campaign.

In addition to this finding these "tech stashes" could result in unlocking extras like excerpts from the Halo Bible or just elaborations on the Halo universe for story fanatics like myself.

More specifically it would be nice to maybe unlock some backstory on whatever item you find. Perhaps if you find a stash of Jackal shields you would unlock a story or video (similar to Jenkins's helmet cam in HCE), or of a laboratory recording of people using it in testing and reworking it to be implemented in Mjolnir. There would of course be a different video or story with each item.

I think this could be implemented right along side pro gamer 13's thread where there are hidden helmet cams within the game. His idea would take the spot of the Terminals, and the tech stashes would take the place of skulls.

I like unlockables :P

  • 10.30.2009 11:13 AM PDT

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That sounds like an interesting idea, but I'd rather have the hidden covie tech and helmet cams in addition to skulls. Skulls let you increase the difficulty of the game in fun and unique ways, which hidden covie tech and helmet cams wouldn't do.

  • 10.30.2009 11:21 AM PDT

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This would be cool, kind of like an idea I threw out on a much older post. Instead of covvie tech like your idea it would be ONI intelligence pads. Full of chatter that nods to both the novels and the rest of the existing canon.

  • 10.30.2009 11:25 AM PDT

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I totaly agree with you i love games were unlocking things gives you extra story maybe if you get so many tech you can play a covenant mission (if they dont include) and also added
armor

  • 10.30.2009 11:25 AM PDT