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Subject: HALO 3 ------->> MULTIPLAYER IDEAS <----------- HALO 3
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Larger scale, 100 vs 100 battles


change the respawn system----


rather than magically appearing out of nowhere, out in the open where someone with a rocket can gank you, why not have drop ships that periodically attempt to land in allied territories.

when you die, you'll respawn inside a dropship filled with spartans. dead players will simply be able to take control of a lifeless spartan sitting inside a drop ship, and be able to jump out into combat, or stay inside intil landing in a safer location.

this way we experience

- less spawn camping
- enhanced realism
- more satisfaction and point to killing someone in an objective based fight

this could eliminate alot of the suffering that games like battlefield 2 have.

killing an opponent simply starts a timer for the opponent to spawn.

this is the same for vehicles.

the end result is less satisfaction per kill.

(( kill a tank, and you may simply have been better to let it drive by, because another may spawn at your objective and screw you. ))

(( be forced to eliminate/ seize/ intercept enemy weapon supplies and vehicle supplies or be met with double enemy forces minutes later when extras arrive --- ie the player has actually made an accomplishment when he destroys weapon crates, destroys vehicles, kills soldiers. if he hadnt done so, there would be double the ammo and double the vehicles for his enemy))


If vehicles and troops were redeployed ever 5 minutes into combat, it would mean that---

---taking out the tank would prevent you from having 2 tanks to fight as soon as a new one drops

---killing a player would serve to REDUCE the number of enemy combatants on the field, rather than causing them to spawn 15 seconds later right on top of you.

---- new game mechanic / objective- destroy enemy dropships to stop reinforcements.


i think these additions would make multiplayer gameplay feel more meaningful, and certainly be more intense as more facets of war (supplies, redeployment) would be introduced.

imagine running out of sniper ammo, and rather than returning to a spawn point to find it, you had to run to where the dropship crashed after being hit with and RPG...

Pin downed by snipers? use your RPG to shoot down the alien dropship as it flies in to resupply your enemies. snag the equipment, and use it to snip back enemies.

awesome eh?

[Edited on 5/9/2006]

  • 05.09.2006 3:43 PM PDT
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****yea, larger maps, and support for more players


**** more destructable environments


**** no magic out of nowhere spawning


**** aliens vs humans, not colors vs colors. you need to play up their differences, make them 2 different armies with different strenghts and weaknesses.

**** mobile resupplyment via phantoms and pelicans = mobile base camps. the largest grouping of friendly players will be where the dropships try to set down at, which would mean that enemy forces could group anywhere, could move anywhere and have their(vehicles, weapons, troops, contructable turrets) and thus establish a base anywhere.

  • 05.09.2006 4:06 PM PDT
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**** mutliple objectives

**** smaller objectives (bases) that must be taken to make an assault on primary objectives (larger bases) easier ie beach assault d-day style

1- hit the beach

2- hit the shingle, find a foxhole

3- blow the barbed wire

4- get around the mine field

5- get in the bunker

6- work up to take the tower

  • 05.09.2006 4:08 PM PDT
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All great ideas, i only care if they use h2 as a way to single out there thousands of multiplayr mistakes and fix cheating damnit get ur own servers u lazy slobs!

  • 05.09.2006 4:11 PM PDT
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The only thing I ask for is Vehicle to Vehicle boarding. I'm sure Bungie will take care of the rest. (I don't know why you even bother asking for destructible environments and bigger maps...that's a given.)

  • 05.09.2006 4:11 PM PDT
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Thats a really awesome idea. Good thinking!!!

  • 05.09.2006 4:12 PM PDT
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Imagine the drop ships being controled by users to a cetain degree. being able to hold a cetain amount of people and supplies.

you get 50 slots, a human is 5 sniper ammo is 1 or somin like that scaled for balance. and certain people (pilot marines?) can control the ships. like the VTOL in mechasault 2.

probably nto going to happen but cool thought.

of corse this is all for large scale maps, this woudl be ludacris to have ona lockout sized map.

maybe jsut a spawn room or 2 for each team for ammo refils and spans and such.

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Larger scale, 100 vs 100 battles

I agree, that is the only part of the post I read but I do agree.

  • 05.09.2006 4:12 PM PDT
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Hey you want somethin like that go play Medal of honor allied assault for the PC but yea I like some of ur ideas....yes a bigger amount of people would be cool. But bungie is creative enough as it already is, id let them think of the cool multi player options. But i do ask that they try and put some Online Co-op in. That would be raddd and a higher difficulty than lengendary for that and more customization. That would be nice

  • 05.09.2006 4:13 PM PDT

Halo 3 Academy--join to learn, join to play, join to have fun.

Two words--Aquatic Assault. How about adding a Warthog-like boat?

  • 05.09.2006 4:13 PM PDT
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OMG I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT TOO HALO 3 WATERWORLD OMG AWESOMENESS :P

  • 05.09.2006 4:14 PM PDT
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OMG FIX CHEATING FRANKIE!

  • 05.09.2006 4:15 PM PDT
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I like the aquatic Idea, but that whole Human Vs. Alien thing, is too much like starwars battle front

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  • 05.09.2006 4:18 PM PDT
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new vehicles?

* underwater vehicles, vehicles that hover over water, and thus are good for island assaults...

*large ground transport, like an APC.... one that can take... 4 or so rockets one where players can fire out slots in the side, something that is more defensive and less offensive to allow infantry to be more effectively moved across open ground

* warthog- add some missile countermeasures, like chaff that can be fired every minute or so that diverts rockets

  • 05.09.2006 4:19 PM PDT
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i want Elites and Spartans to have different skills and special charactaristics. It should now be a choice of ur different skills wether u want to be a Spartan or and Elite

  • 05.09.2006 4:22 PM PDT
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I like the aquatic Idea, but that whole Human Vs. Alien thing, is too much like starwars battle front

[Edited on 5/9/2006]


wait tho....

you could keep your colors?

and then it would be... race relations, army vs army hatred.

i think it would make multiplayer... be more story driven? if that's possible?

more cinematic/realistic, etc...

i dunno, i just think it's -blam!- that you have to be forced to adopt team colors, when they could simply force aliens and humans to fight.

it reminds me about what i like about singleplayer, the human vs alien conflict for survival... it helps... avoid trivializing gameplay...



i hated star wars battlefront, because it was a sucky game with good ideas.


halo... and i guess bungie make fun games.

if you take a fun game, and add new and expanding ideas, it really becomes something special... right? or wrong?

  • 05.09.2006 4:22 PM PDT
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Why not spawn kill at the space ship?
Not possible? Then the game won't be open ended. Sorry.

  • 05.09.2006 4:23 PM PDT

Once a SPARTAN, always a SPARTAN

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I like your ideas, but the reason Halo 1 and 2 are so great is because they did the multiplayer how they wanted it too, and having so much realism in a game can make a game not fun, exm. madden, no one truly likes the QB vision. too realistic. People want to play games for fun. However I agree that your ideas are fun. They would be sweet if done correctly. But I would like them to keep what they had going in Halo 1 and 2, just with some minor tweeks.

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  • 05.09.2006 4:23 PM PDT
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Posted by: MAC 720
i want Elites and Spartans to have different skills and special charactaristics. It should now be a choice of ur different skills wether u want to be a Spartan or and Elite




i totally agree with you.


i think spartans should be supplied with pelican dropships, and human weapons, and the covenant also...

if you really want a human sniper, then you'll have to intecept a human to snag it =)

  • 05.09.2006 4:24 PM PDT
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Better turrets. For instnace, a 360 degree human turret, and a faster firing covenant turret that can actually hurt you.

  • 05.09.2006 4:24 PM PDT
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Posted by: Jedi3038
I like your ideas, but the reason Halo 1 and 2 are so great is because they did the multiplayer how they wanted it too, and having so much realism in a game can make a game not fun, exm. madden, no one truly likes the QB vision. too realistic. People want to play games for fun. However I agree that your ideas are fun. They would be sweet if done correctly. But I would like them to keep what they had going in Halo 1 and 2, just with some minor tweeks.



yes, but i dont think QB vision replicates what it's really like to be a QB, it simply makes it harder to be a QB, it's not like you feel as thought you are one suddenly =)

Bungie does things correctly =)

i remember when i played the first halo, i thought it was so badass how dropships were flying around, i think if they put that in multiplayer, it'd be so much more engrossing, shooting down a pelican and then looting the gear... damn it'd be cool.

i dont think it would hurt the series at all. it would be a serious step forward for multiplayer games everywhere.

  • 05.09.2006 4:27 PM PDT
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good point...

how about mobile turrets?

ok... say you see a mobile turret laying ont he ground.

you walk up to it and hold X to pick it up.


it's just like having a vehicle, you cant use your weapons, but you dont drop your weapons either.

you run to the place you want, press.. i dunno a button you dont need, like Y to set up the turret or take it down. once it's up, just use x to control the turret, or press x again to let go

if you want to move it's location, simply press x to control, then press Y to place it in a mobile position, and then run to a new location.

  • 05.09.2006 4:29 PM PDT
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It seems like it would be better for team games to have no magic spawn because you have to work at defending your base, and when your assualting, its frustrating to try to leave with a flag, or arrive with a bomb and some guy randomly appears right in front of you ready to kill. I think that team games should have specific starting areas, and you have to go to your base to defend, it would make better gameplay and require you to work with your team. If there were going to be very large scale teams in Halo 3, which I really hope so, then one man won't really make a difference. Kinda like a tom clancy game but combat and tactics prove that correct every time.

  • 05.09.2006 4:29 PM PDT
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More isn't always better....

  • 05.09.2006 4:33 PM PDT
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Coop. I want to play with 8 of my friends against the covenant.

Grunts and other covenant. I want to play as a Grunt or other aliens in MP.

Sticky grenade animations in multiplayer. I want to see the animations in multiplayer like we see in single player when someone gets stuck with a sticky grenade they flail around. frickin awesome.

I want the Double Kill, Triple kill text announcements shown in single player as well as in multiplayer. So if I kill X amount of Aliens I want to see the text of Killtacular!

I want to see reflections on the visor in real time of everything reflecting off it.

I want infrared vision and night vision for night levels like Halo1 had.

I want weather like rain, snow, desert sand blowing wind and so on. Lightning would be good as well as thunder. Tornado?

I want to be able to talk to my marines and order them around like i can in rainbow 6

bring the party system back for Multiplayer like Halo2 has.

Make BOTS available for Multiplayer and able to bring on Grunts as bots and so forth

Flying human vehicles, ATV for ground assault. Snow mobiles, hovercrafts, pelicans flyable.

Alien energy rocket launcher of plasma blasts like the hunters have.

a covenant rifle that acts as a joystick for halo3.

voice changers to change your voice for multiplayer to sound like Cortana, Chief, Elites, Grunts and so on.

Dynamic lighting so it clouds over and the sun comes out just like Oblivion.

HUGE fricking maps with hundreds of people on multiplayer maps.

COOP over live.

I want to be able to change my armor for Chief and Elites and Grunts for my playable character in Multiplayer to be BLACK. I want to be BLACK.

  • 05.09.2006 4:35 PM PDT

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