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Subject: Firefight: What Could have been.

Am I the only one who thinks 343 industries missed a huge opportunity with firefight. While spartan ops are its concept is already (poorly executed though. Season 2 please deliver), Firefight could have worked perfectly. From the second I heard they were doing the whole holodeck style multiplayer I thought of what they could of done with firefight?

Imagine an extension of war-games multiplayer called "Firefight" were you simulate battles with extreme odds.
Imagine Ordnance drops, and Dominion turrets.

I mean really, If 343 wanted to catch up with the fishy competition why did they replace firefight ( a mode that could of became Halo's Zombies) with spartan ops? Think of all the stuff that makes Zombies' Great, now think of that in a halo setting with the holodeck theme. Would of been great.
But oh well.
At least we have egg heads, crimson and toys.


[Edited on 12.13.2012 12:45 PM PST]

  • 12.13.2012 12:27 PM PDT
Subject: Firefight: What Could of been.

Halo "Zombies" would have just been flamed for being a "COD cpoy paste".

[Edited on 12.13.2012 12:29 PM PST]

  • 12.13.2012 12:29 PM PDT

Posted by: x Foman123 x

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What house has a rocket pod, has legs, and has a long narrow barrel that probably shoots something powerful?

Sounds like you're describing the lower half of my body, actually.

FiRE fiGHT WAZ horible becauze all it waz in Reach waz FRG fight DURRR!

  • 12.13.2012 12:29 PM PDT

Posted by: alex0612
Halo "Zombies" would have just been flamed for being a "COD cpoy paste".

So instead they gave us a "COD Spec Ops copy paste".

  • 12.13.2012 12:31 PM PDT

Wut
Posted by: TH3_AV3NG3R
FiRE fiGHT WAZ horible becauze all it waz in Reach waz FRG fight DURRR!

  • 12.13.2012 12:32 PM PDT

Except episodic content is nothing like Spec ops.
The only similarity between spec ops and spartan ops is the name and fact that its PvE content. The similarity ends there.
Both are handled very differently, and the story based content is enough differentiate the two significantly.
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Posted by: alex0612
Halo "Zombies" would have just been flamed for being a "COD cpoy paste".

So instead they gave us a "COD Spec Ops copy paste".


[Edited on 12.13.2012 12:34 PM PST]

  • 12.13.2012 12:33 PM PDT
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uh, call of duty copied gears of war with zombies. and odst is a shameful copypasta of cod zombies

  • 12.13.2012 12:34 PM PDT

The Wonderful LeSieg!

I was never a fan of how Firefight was handled in Reach matchmaking, but ODST style where you have limited lives and tough enemies would have been pretty great.

Spartan Ops is so much meh. The cutscenes are cool though.

  • 12.13.2012 12:34 PM PDT

It wouldnt be zombies, it would be firefight with the difficultly and tension that Zombies had. Like I said, imagine the turrets, buildables and base fortifications that dominion has incorporated.
Posted by: alex0612
Halo "Zombies" would have just been flamed for being a "COD cpoy paste".

  • 12.13.2012 12:35 PM PDT

I fail to see how ODST ( a mode clearly inspired of horde mode) shares even a hint of similarity with zombies. What the hell?
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uh, call of duty copied gears of war with zombies. and odst is a shameful copypasta of cod zombies

  • 12.13.2012 12:36 PM PDT

Agreed. ODST's difficulty is what they need to campture. Difficulty minus the bull-blam!- melee to regain shields -blam!-.
Add in those dominion elements and I think we could get a relatively popular gametype.
Posted by: LeSieg
I was never a fan of how Firefight was handled in Reach matchmaking, but ODST style where you have limited lives and tough enemies would have been pretty great.

Spartan Ops is so much meh. The cutscenes are cool though.

  • 12.13.2012 12:37 PM PDT

Posted by: x Foman123 x

Posted by: TH3_AV3NG3R
What house has a rocket pod, has legs, and has a long narrow barrel that probably shoots something powerful?

Sounds like you're describing the lower half of my body, actually.


Posted by: LeSieg
I was never a fan of how Firefight was handled in Reach matchmaking, but ODST style where you have limited lives and tough enemies would have been pretty great.

Spartan Ops is so much meh. The cutscenes are cool though.

Yeah man just screw Reach's firefight matchmaking system. ODST had a better one with limited lives and tougher enemies. I mean there wasn't a playlist called Score Attack that had exactly that.

  • 12.13.2012 12:38 PM PDT

Even the whole open world element BO2 zombies has would fit. You could scratch the holodeck element and even add a spartan ops style narrative. Taking a pelican (in game from the First person perspective of a passenger) from a certain spot where crimson is doing -blam!- to another spot where crimson is doing -blam!-.

  • 12.13.2012 12:39 PM PDT

Yea, people want something other than -blam!- solo play. COOPERATIVE PLAY is kind of the whole point of the modes in the first place.
Posted by: TH3_AV3NG3R

Posted by: LeSieg
I was never a fan of how Firefight was handled in Reach matchmaking, but ODST style where you have limited lives and tough enemies would have been pretty great.

Spartan Ops is so much meh. The cutscenes are cool though.

Yeah man just screw Reach's firefight matchmaking system. ODST had a better one with limited lives and tougher enemies. I mean there wasn't a playlist called Score Attack that had exactly that.

  • 12.13.2012 12:40 PM PDT

"Could of been"?

lol, didn't read because you're a retard, OP.

  • 12.13.2012 12:41 PM PDT

I fixed that.
I also fail to see how that in any way makes me "retarded."
Oh well. Sorry to offend.
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"Could of been"?

lol, didn't read because you're a retard, OP.

  • 12.13.2012 12:48 PM PDT
Subject: Firefight: What Could have been.
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I just want a copy of ODST's firefight. Reach's was garbage even though there were more maps, weapons, enemies, and customization. The fact that Arcadefight existed in one small playlist means Reach's firefight sucks.

[Edited on 12.13.2012 1:07 PM PST]

  • 12.13.2012 1:06 PM PDT
Subject: Firefight: What Could of been.


Posted by: iwritestories
uh, call of duty copied gears of war with zombies. and odst is a shameful copypasta of cod zombies
its more like horde than zombies if you pay attention

  • 12.13.2012 1:23 PM PDT