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Subject: i just want one thing in halo 3
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Everyone has posted about the weapons, levels, characters, and vehicles they want in halo 3.
But i just want AI in multiplayer levels.....that way if u have already beaten the campaign and u cant find a game on live u can play with the bots in the levels. There could even be special levels built for bots that way it doesnt "ruin" multiplayer.

Now i know ur prolly thinking "wut no new weapons or vehicles or maps or anything?!?", but i know that Bungie is gonna automatically put in new things like that and they aren't gonna make gameplay worse. It might even make it better but neways...

This will also add another element to the game.... WIDER scale of battles because the 360 is gonna be able to handle more no matter what and at on H2 some levels did have 20 enemies on screen and i have gotten 30+ on screen by making them chase me. By taking this into account we can make war like matches and with bots you can even do this alone. This could be a campaign level but if it was meant for multiplayer like an individual map it would add alot more fun and replay value. Almost like playing campaign either by yourself or with a group of your 10 closest friends.

Even though Bungie won't look at this at all now that they are at least half-way done with Halo 3, i wanted to put this idea out there cuz i haven't seen it.

Note that I have complete coinfidence in Bungie and its new soul-sucking game, and will still skip school on opening day to play it wether or not it has multiplayer AI.

Also this is just an opinion based on a person who has seen about a hundred ideas (good and bad) for Bungie and still sees more coming out, so plz don't flame.

Later
Mewt

[Edited on 6/29/2006]

  • 06.29.2006 6:56 AM PDT
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hmmmmm

  • 06.29.2006 6:58 AM PDT
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If your gonna have bots in halo 3 ... bungie is gonna have to come up with some new amazing AI because halo is a little too frantic for bots to really handle .. it would be ok i guess but i think it would be too easy ... but i know they shouldn't ever be in matchmaking

  • 06.29.2006 6:59 AM PDT
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yea not in matchmaking because that would be almost impossible to keep the ping down. also there could be a difficulty level

  • 06.29.2006 7:01 AM PDT

Posted by: Mewt00
yea not in matchmaking because that would be almost impossible to keep the ping down. also there could be a difficulty level


not sure wat bots would have to do with creating lag...

  • 06.29.2006 7:39 AM PDT

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Posted by: Mewt00
yea not in matchmaking because that would be almost impossible to keep the ping down. also there could be a difficulty level


not sure wat bots would have to do with creating lag...


have you had a thought process lately?

bots would divert processing power from connection upkeep while increasing the size of the data packets, BOTH of which increase latency

  • 06.29.2006 7:47 AM PDT

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I doubt they can put bots in a game like Halo because in order for the bots to be a challenge to anyone, they would have to know not only all the weapon spawn points but if they came across a weapon on the ground they would have to make a decision about whether or not it is in the bots best interest to pick it up. Not to mention the complexity in pathfinding routines if say a bot killed a player that had a sniper, the bot (in order to be realistically like a real player) would have to actively search for where the sniper landed and go pick it up. It just seems like too much work for the CPUs.

  • 06.29.2006 8:02 AM PDT

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Posted by: Mewt00
yea not in matchmaking because that would be almost impossible to keep the ping down. also there could be a difficulty level


not sure wat bots would have to do with creating lag...


have you had a thought process lately?

bots would divert processing power from connection upkeep while increasing the size of the data packets, BOTH of which increase latency


That is true.

However:
The bot would only require more processing power on one xbox.

There is no way that a bot would take more processing power than rendering the game 4 times for 4 player gaming online.

  • 06.29.2006 8:35 AM PDT
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dude the bots wouldn't have to be like normal people they could just be a marine or something to that extent. they could have the same options as the marines or just the npcs that are on your team would on the normal camp. If you think the should have a different weapon then swap them for something. Nothing bad could come from this. Infact I love the idea
There could be an A.I. setup screen, it would it could controle things like their starting weapon, their difficulty setting, what they are allowed to do, amount in the game, amount per team, if it is just free for all death match what their limits are there to.
If bungie did use the idea i think that they should put more controle over the bots, marines, wanna-be spartans, and other cpu possible. For example I think that they should let the cheif (being a higher rank then the marines) be able to do thing like pressing on the d pad for some commands such as telling the marines to push forward, to fall back come to his location, and things like that.
I also think that having bots or marines or cpus or wanna-be spartans wouldn't make the game lag at all, maybe a longer loading time if you have like 50 of them but x box 360 has its own big boy pants it would be able to handle a little extra to think about

  • 06.29.2006 9:12 AM PDT
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massive wars could happen with this idea. if this were to happen i swear i would make one team with like 200 marines vs just me and my friends and the game would be who gets the most kills. i would give them all the good weapons and all the vehichles. this would also make and it would fill the larger maps up. I CAN'T EXPRESS HOW MUCH I LOVE THAT IDEA!!

  • 06.29.2006 7:14 PM PDT
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Yes and only in making your own custimized NPC's you could also use this idea making it so you can make your own maps for you and your own friends to play on like create the terrain, weapons on the map the ecosystems, vehicles and place some good sniper spots in thjere too, just thinking that it would make it a bit cooler to have a map that you designed to be able to play on it, like in some maps that i play on im like well that should be there for some reason and oh well that could also be there, when i play i can spec out little things that bungie has missed in the game and ill post them on here i have a few things that i have seen i have gone under the map quite a few times from explosions and have not died, i had to commit suicide to get out and my friends were like what the heck... I could still shoot them and stuff but it wasnt very fun no vehicles or anything just wanted to make sure that bungie will make it a bit harder to get under the map.

  • 06.29.2006 8:10 PM PDT

Adding bots is a great idea. Hopefully Bungie figured this out long ago after they put H2 out. It's not a huge undertaking to add them, its been done before in many games. Just add them to customs though. So you can play at home by yourself. And for those who don't have XBL.

  • 06.29.2006 8:50 PM PDT

Bots in Halo = No good.

  • 06.29.2006 8:50 PM PDT
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bottom line bots would add replay value w/o live and would fill up larger maps

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Mewt

  • 06.29.2006 9:18 PM PDT
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i think... if they do have them, that there should be difficulty levels... and not like hard easy medium and n00bcake but like the levels of the game (1-50) but not 1-50 more like 1-25 because if you are better than a 25 you are going to have xbl... that's my opinion on the bots

  • 06.29.2006 9:25 PM PDT
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Um hi mewt did you read the bots are for offline play only so no lagg or delay or anything and there should be a limit on number of bots like 100 or so

  • 06.29.2006 9:28 PM PDT