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just tossing out ideas here, whole different gametype, or maybe bungie could make a seperate disk/game just for this multiplayer game: 'frontlines' or if you have any better Ideas for a name, please do tell!

BASICS:
It would be a covy versus UNSC online match, one team covy other team UNSC, at the start of the game you get 20 seconds to choose your class and customise your apperance, then if your covenant your suddenly in a covy dropship about to be dropped off by your phantom/or covy drop ship from Halo 1 CE, if UNSC about to be dropped off by your pelican, (both first person veiws from inside your drop ship, with your team, you can look around so you can see what classes you're team have chosen while your being taken to your location) you can't see out the dropship because the ramp is closed, or phantom doors are closed, then the doors go down and you climb out, (from then you just spawn after death) you can now move shoot E.C.T, the game would be team slayer, first to 100 points/kills wins the round, then theres a second round (if were COVY now ur UNSC, or if were UNSC ur now COVY and its the same as the start of the game were your dropped off in your dropship, cept now its the other dropship and now your being dropped off the side your opponents were the last round) next round same thing, first to 100, if both teams win a round, then theres an end match type thing, were you stay on your team but you can pick from UNSC OR COVY and you just spawn on wich ever side you were on last round (your not dropped off, because if teams were a mix of covy and unsc wich dropship would drop off wich side, it'd get confusing lol) then theres one last round of team slayer first to 100 points.
so to sum it all up: (2-3 rounds) 15v15 but only 24 actual players, the rest are bots that play as grunts or marines, as not many people would pick them, the covenant you can pick from:

COVENANT:
Jackal-SNIPER
Brute-HEAVY/DEMOLITION
Elite-ASSULT FORCE
Grunt-SOILDER-infinite grenades (but 4 seconds before each lob)

UNSC you pick from:
Marine sharpshooter-SNIPER
ODST-HEAVY/DEMOLITION
Spartan-ASSULT FORCE
Marine-SOILDER-infinite grenades (but 4 seconds before each lob)


WEAPONS AND PERKS:
JACKAL-beam rifle
BRUTE-mauler and brute shot
ELITE-plasma rifle (would be as powerful as assult rifle)
GRUNT-plasma pistol and plasma grenades

MARINE Sharpshooter-SNIPER RIFLE (lol durr)
ODST-shotgun-Grenade launcher (new weapon)
Spartan-assult rifle
Marine-SMG and frag grenades

MAPS:
Black Stone- A huge desert of grey rock, in a huge canyon, set at night time, with a foreunner base one side and another forerunner base the other, (INbetween is a huge rocky desert with rocks as cover and various sniper spots) (concept art soon) humans are dropped off (like explained) just outside their base, and the covenant are dropped off just outside theirs, both bases are the same exept the covys has:
2 (armable) shade turrets defending the base
2 wraiths
2banshees
1chopper

and the humans have
2 (armable) machine gun turrets
1 scorpian
2 average jeeps
1hornet
all vehicles spawn once at the start of each round, to encourage face to face combat and use of class.

(SAME FOR ALL MAPS)
no weapons on maps, just grenades, invisibility and oversheild also picking up weapons isn't possible, other wise choosing a class would seem pointless, also would be a waste of animation if everything could use every weapon, also the UNSC can't use covenant vehicles (exept spartans and ODSTs) and Covs can't use UNSC vehicles (exept EliTes and brutes) only elites and spartans can board.

APPERANCE:
BRUTES- halo 2/ halo wars armour, (TRIBAL) OR halo 3's
more intelligent look, (BERSERKER)(the blue armoured ones, not the gold) ( plus neither have sheild, only spartans and elites)
JACKALS-the sniper helmet from halo 3 (SHIFTER) or the halo 1 CE helmet (ASSASIN)
ELITES-halo 3 combat armour (COMBAT) or the honour guard armour from halo 2 (HONOUR GUARD)
GRUNTS-average halo 3-2 and 1 armour (TANKER) or the armour that the suicide grunts wear,(BARREL) (dosn't mean you can actually self destruct lol)

UNSC:
SHARPSHOOTER-average marine helmet from halo 3 (UNSC) sniper helmet, with scopes and things on it (SCOPER)
ODST- halo 3 ODST armour from the rookie (ROOKIE) OR dutches armour (DUTCH)
SPARTAN- halo 1 armour (MARK V) halo 2 and 3 armour (MARK V1)
MARINE-average halo 3 armour (UNSC) pillar of autumn marine armour (halo 1 marine armour) (PILLAR OF AUTUMN)

the 6 bots (3 grunts for cov and 3 marines for UNSC) have 2 (UNSC) armoured marines and 1 (PILLAR OF AUTUMN) armoured marine and the grunts have 2 (TANKER) grunts and 1 (BARREL) grunt. and yes, you can still choose symbols.

THE MAGIC D-PAD APP
when in gameplay if you click up on the D-PAD a menu will come up with icons to pick from you pick one then were your aiming that Icon will appear on your teams screen when they turn on their 'Tactical veiwer' (tell you abou that in a bit)
the menu lets you pick from an icon with a picture of a:
JEEP (indicating you found a decent vehicle anyone could use)
EXPLANATION MARK (indicating theres something important)
SOS (indicating you need urgent help, or your pinned down, or look at someone in the distance who needs help and place it there)
your team can see your (or you can see your teams) icons/waypoints they've or you've placed by clicking DOWN arrow wich activates 'tactical vision' showing all your teams waypoints, or turn it off by clicking it again, you cannot see your enemies waypoints. Also you can only place one waypoint at a time, once your next one is placed the old one dissapears

LAST BUT NOT LEAST:
when you pick up camo or oversheild (hidden around maps) you don't automatically use it, once you've picked it up you click X to activate it, so you can pick up camo get to the enemy base, then turn it on as you enter, as a pose to getting it and it running out as you approach and then being shot to peices, also the same with oversheild, so you can be in mid battle, see some wraith bullet fly towards you and quickly activate it, or even look usless so a team of enemie surround you, then activate it and watch their faces drop.

I only came up with one map, please MAP IDEAS PEPOPLE (if in door map then teams can just spawn) =] I'm eager to hear critisicm ideas or complements, also any more map ideas? or name ideas? any idea's, try to keep them with in reason =P thanks for reading



[Edited on 11.08.2009 8:03 AM PST]

  • 11.07.2009 5:12 PM PDT
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That would be cool, but no one would be a grunt

  • 11.07.2009 5:14 PM PDT

That sounds like a great idea, and I'm sure it would be fun, but it just might not work. Lag would be an issue if you have 24 players as well as bots, and you would have to make them balanced in some way to make grunts an even match against spartans, and I don't see how that's possible.

Edit: I would be a grunt balanced or not :P

[Edited on 11.07.2009 5:20 PM PST]

  • 11.07.2009 5:19 PM PDT
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lol I would 2, :P :P
but the grunts and marines don't have to be balanced against sparts or whatever, because you don't have to be them, and you play 1 round as UN and 1 as COV, so it should keep balance, you don't have to play as grunts or marines. also lag I agree could be a problem, but if it were on a seperate disk, a seperate game altogether, no campaign, then there wouldn't be too much lag,
but thanks!! well spotted =]

  • 11.07.2009 5:30 PM PDT

You could also make the covenants weapons slightly stronger like the plasma pistol. It should be more powerful if it's shooting plasma, same goes for the plasma rifle. This would make it more fair for the covenant players.

Edit: Island Hopping - An island that whatever team controls and the other has to try get in, secure an objective and get out. For eg: The covenant control an island and inside they have an important object. The UNSC have to get the object with minimum casualties and the object undamaged, before flying out just to get caught in a sky battle with covenant air patrol. some of the UNSC drive some sort of flying vehicle (hornets maybe) and take out the covenant before getting back to their own base. the covenant score points by killing the UNSC players, and extra points if they get the object back. After a period of time or the object is captured, the teams switch.

Just my idea of a fun map to play

[Edited on 11.07.2009 5:56 PM PST]

  • 11.07.2009 5:41 PM PDT

Posted by: NICKxCaTcHeR09
That would be cool, but no one would be a grunt

Rofl have you ever been winning by so much you just said screw it I'm using a undercharged plasma pistol and hope you get 1 kill yeah thats what would happen.

  • 11.07.2009 6:22 PM PDT
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Posted by: Rubber Ducky929
Posted by: NICKxCaTcHeR09
That would be cool, but no one would be a grunt

Rofl have you ever been winning by so much you just said screw it I'm using a undercharged plasma pistol and hope you get 1 kill yeah thats what would happen.

[quote]Posted by: Rubber Ducky929


I know!!, noones going to make you be a grunt, thats for the bots or you if you really want to. also plasma would be greatly upgraded more powerful and shoot much faster, so they would be equal to marines. plus how about MARINES AND GRUNTS CAN SPAWN MUCH QUICKER. and open doors on the maps that the other classes can't. AND perhaps lets say theres rocket launchers & fuel rods in the map that they can pick up and use, but would be hard to get to them as there so feeble thanks for feedback =]

[Edited on 11.08.2009 3:07 AM PST]

  • 11.08.2009 3:06 AM PDT
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Posted by: Muzzbug
You could also make the covenants weapons slightly stronger like the plasma pistol. It should be more powerful if it's shooting plasma, same goes for the plasma rifle. This would make it more fair for the covenant players.

Edit: Island Hopping - An island that whatever team controls and the other has to try get in, secure an objective and get out. For eg: The covenant control an island and inside they have an important object. The UNSC have to get the object with minimum casualties and the object undamaged, before flying out just to get caught in a sky battle with covenant air patrol. some of the UNSC drive some sort of flying vehicle (hornets maybe) and take out the covenant before getting back to their own base. the covenant score points by killing the UNSC players, and extra points if they get the object back. After a period of time or the object is captured, the teams switch.

Just my idea of a fun map to play


yeah, thats the kinda thing I'm looking for!! thanks!! =]
MORE IDEAS PEOPLE!! =P

  • 11.08.2009 3:08 AM PDT

Sounds good, but I can already see the problem that different character models give teams a distinct advantage since grunts are obviously harder to shoot than a marine.

  • 11.08.2009 4:23 AM PDT
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Posted by: kanso1115
Sounds good, but I can already see the problem that different character models give teams a distinct advantage since grunts are obviously harder to shoot than a marine.


good point kanso1115 =]
but thats why theres three rounds, one as cov, one as UNSC one as either, so no team has an advantage,

  • 11.08.2009 7:26 AM PDT
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i would buy this, something that bungie would do right. price could be 20+ dollars anything above 40 i would disregard. maybe the could release a water based map with new vehicles or a wooded map on earth.

[Edited on 11.08.2009 7:38 AM PST]

  • 11.08.2009 7:37 AM PDT

i know this sounds kinda wierd but i've allways wanted to fight marienes? (spelling) as the covies.

  • 11.08.2009 8:19 AM PDT
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No..it sounds good..but in actual gameplay it will have many problems.

  • 11.08.2009 8:24 AM PDT
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it'd just give you a wider range of tactics, plus I've always wanted to play as a brute, or jackal. I can't think of many in game problems, please say them =] I will listen

  • 11.08.2009 8:43 AM PDT
Subject: halo: 'the frontlines'

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  • 11.08.2009 6:40 PM PDT

I speak the truth, and truth speaks itself.
The lies disguise what you despise.
Run. Flee and be, what you've always dreamed.
What happens now won't matter later.
What you see will not be, nor what you imagine will not happen.
The end is close, so take your dose.

I'd be a grunt, so I can sneak up and stick them with my 'nades.

  • 11.08.2009 6:43 PM PDT

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If someone is worse than you, he's a noob

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  • 11.08.2009 6:44 PM PDT