Posted by: DemonicX Zero
Nice idea with using innies as training. :P
To expand your idea about only playing as Alpha company, how about having 3 seperate campaigns (Alpha, Beta, Gamma) with like 4-5 missions in each campaign?
Alpha campaign:
Camp Currahee (Boot camp basically).
Insurrection of Mamore.
The Battle of New Constantinople.
Battle of the Bonanza Asteroid Belt.
Operation: PROMETHEUS.
In anyone of these missions could feature Carter, Jun and Emile as easter eggs, since they were from alpha company.
Beta campaign:
Camp Currahee (Again, but now only to show new armor upgrades and stuff).
Operation: CARTWHEEL. (Introduces Kat).
Operation: TORPEDO (Seems like a short
campaign, but imagine this mission as a HUGE map with multiple choices like attack strategies and stuff).
Gamma campaign:
Camp Currahee (One final time to show the latest upgrades and Project CHRYSANTHEMUM)
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Basically any mission can be assigned since all of Delta company are in a unkown location, they could all be sipping tea while watching griffball for all I know. :P
EDIT: Corrected my mistake, meant gamma company not delta...
So you want to swap characters every now and then like in Halo 2 and CoD. Okay. I like it.
Should the events of Ghosts of Onyx be included? And do you think customizable armor like we have in reach would fit with the S-IIIs?
This style of campaign would be an excellent way to get to know the spartans of Noble team a little better, and really get to see what they can do.
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On the topic of AI Squadmates again.
The player should be able to customize the loadouts of his squadmembers in SP. If you wanted to go all out, you'd let them customize their appearance as well. This would give the player more tactical options whith their AI buddies.
I don't really know about onyx, of course you would be there for the training grounds, but why destroy the book canon, just because it fits the second story better. :P
You should defeninetly be able to choose the loadouts for each team member or atleast choose their catergory, like grenaider or recon. Also while in combat you should be able to mark enemies of importance, basically your teamates would then try to shoot that enemy down, but if you tag an ally or a civilian, they should try to give cover fire to that tag.
When it comes to the customization of your character, you should be able to customize it at a greater length, like, more armory parts, color specific parts of your armor, and so on.