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i really believe that they could have made your first encounter with the flood scarier. how you ask, the anwser is simple. no lights. imagine being in that room where you first meet them and boom, the lights go out and you start to hear them. all you have to see is your flashlight(which was barely used in the game). even on the night time levels truth and reconsiliation and the library you didnt have to use it. the levels were still very bright, it was only any good for night vision on the sniper rifle.

complete darkness and only a flashlight when you you met the flood, that would have been great.

[Edited on 4/20/2006]

  • 04.20.2006 8:11 AM PDT

We did use the flashlight in other levels, maybe not just you. But that would be a god idea, except that your flashlight would be out in a few minutes. Then you'd be helpless. But what about the other rooms? I couldnt see any light sources there, so what lights would turn out?

  • 04.20.2006 8:56 AM PDT
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um, cant you just set you brightness to around mid-bright but not that bright? i NEVER use flashlight, i can see just about anything in halo after i set up the brightness settings

  • 04.20.2006 4:54 PM PDT
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Posted by: lpjuunin
um, cant you just set you brightness to around mid-bright but not that bright? i NEVER use flashlight, i can see just about anything in halo after i set up the brightness settings


i never had to brighten it up, i always kept it the same. maybe your eyes are crap lol or maybe i can just see clearly in the dark.

  • 04.21.2006 4:41 PM PDT

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Better yet: one flickering floodlight in the corner.

  • 04.21.2006 7:21 PM PDT
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I think that if it was only the flickering red lights and all of a sudden BAM the lights came on that would scare the living hell out of me. Hell I'm scared about thinking of it right now.

  • 04.21.2006 11:09 PM PDT

Have the floor give out with no lights at all. Then try to fight out of that pit.

  • 04.22.2006 12:37 AM PDT
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Posted by: HaloPlaya4Eva
I think that if it was only the flickering red lights and all of a sudden BAM the lights came on that would scare the living hell out of me. Hell I'm scared about thinking of it right now.


that would be even better.

go into a dark room with little red lights. all you can hear is forms moving around and then bam. lights go on and your surrounded.

good idea haloplaya4ever.

  • 04.22.2006 5:08 AM PDT
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While Jekins' recording gave them away, this would have been good: just as Keyes and the Marines enter the room, and after the sounds of Second Squad being ripped apart, the lights would suddenly explode leaving the Marines in darkness before they are ambushed by the spores, and they really don't know what is happening. And looking at the original storyboards, Johnson points at Jenkins just as a spore jumps on his face; I think something like that should've happened. After a couple of Marines are killed, Johnson, Keyes and Jenkins retreat and ceal the hatch; just as this happens, a spore latches on to Jekins' face, causing his helmet to fall off into the infested room.

I also think the interior sections of 343GS should've been a bit darker, and when MC is viewing Jenkins' recording, there should have been a lot more dead Elites, but when you're playing the bodies are absent, particuarly in the room where you meet the Flood.

  • 04.22.2006 10:08 AM PDT
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I think they should have made it where you walk through the hall before the body of jenkins and you see random body parts on the ground. Then, as you walk on farther, all the lights go out. With a hum, the emergency lights turn on, casting light on the walls. Then, you see(just barely), one or two spores peek out of the shadows and then go back in. as you walk further, you start hearing sounds. Just as you calm down, the door where jenkins body is in pops open, and jenkins body falls out right in front of you. After viewing the vid of his helmet cam, you here that creepy scuttling sound, a zap, and all of the lights go out. Then you hear the thud of something walking toward you. The footsteps stop, and you can hearing raspy heavy breathing. Slowly, some lights turn on, the most important one is one right above you and... a horribly deformed flood, right in front of you, just standing their . Then, as you get ready to shoot in, an even bigger when jumps at you from the side and the fight starts.

  • 04.22.2006 5:02 PM PDT
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Or what they should just do is have the whole level dark with onlt the small emergency lights on and the glow from the plasma weapons for regular lights and the only other lights would be from your flashlight which would run out and from your gunfire. I think the AR would be popular on that level because of its auto fire which will give a 60 round clip of light.

  • 04.22.2006 8:18 PM PDT
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we dont want this game to turn into Doom 3!

  • 04.23.2006 10:52 AM PDT
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Are you dissing doom 3? Cause if you are.....

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  • 04.23.2006 6:38 PM PDT
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Doom 3 is supernatural and demons from mars. Halo is a biological horror show.

I just want when you walk into the door that will eventually lead to the hallway, there is a thud and glass shatters nearby. The lights shut off. You have to use your flash light. If you go to that control panel with the window and look out some siloete move in the darkness in the room. (AH!! WTFOMGBBQ!!) As you go into the hallway you see at the other end some bumps move away (spores) and before that the sounds. When the cutscene starts the emergency red lights activate (very dim still) and the sounds and jenkins movie. In it jenkins keyes and johnson are all thats left after a gun fight with spores. jenkins behind keyes and johnson run to the door mc is in, but a spore goes on the face and in unisen johnson and keyes yell "Jenkins!!". The video ends. Its very dark and you walk further in and you hear scratching and stuff and a door explodes. You look as they pour out. The rest of the map is just redish hue. very dark.

  • 04.23.2006 7:25 PM PDT