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How about fights between the covenant and humans happening in the background of MP maps, like for example:
You're playing slayer while up in the sky you happen to see covenant ships/fighter planes and human ships/fighter planes battling it out between each other with rubble and shrapnel falling from the sky from destroyed ships and fighter planes; and half-way through the game a covenant fighter plane crashes in the middle of the map. Or on a map while playing assault you happen to look down into the valley below and you see marines, covenant and vehicles fighting each other, you even see grenades going off and rockets shooting down dropships; the flood then come into the fight after a flood infestered droship gets shot down into the battle. This could also solve the background sound effects for MP. What do you think would be some good background battles?

  • 07.08.2006 12:08 AM PDT
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I like the idea, except for one thing. In slayer, it is red versus blue, with both Spartans and Elites on the same team at times. It wouldn't fit right.

  • 07.08.2006 12:20 AM PDT

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Eh.. unless its they make a mutliplayer that is Campaign based then no. Multiplayer is just for fun it has nothing to do with the actual story of the game.

  • 07.08.2006 12:53 AM PDT

Cool, my own little box!

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Eh.. unless its they make a mutliplayer that is Campaign based then no. Multiplayer is just for fun it has nothing to do with the actual story of the game.

Well, the maps do!! Anyways, I think the idea is ok for eye candy but the part about a ship crashing during a map would just be annoying. What is someone was trying to make a movie or soemthing and the ship crashes on them! (unless you mean that you see the ship crash out of the map, but I still disagree)

  • 07.08.2006 12:57 AM PDT
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I'd like that, but dumb it down a bit. The dog-fighting above the map would be awesome (I loved how in Burial Mounds, you could always see pieces of debris fly though the sky and hit somewhere behind the map), and it'd add a sense of epic-ness to large maps. As for the firefights between ground forces, well, for all reasons mentioned above, and some others too vast in number to name, I think those should be left out. But nice call on the dog-fighting thing. That'd be very neat.

  • 07.08.2006 1:32 AM PDT

"Thoughts are the shadows of feelings; always darker, emptier, and simpler."

I DO think it would be cool if civilians were on headlong (or updated version). And cars parked in lots around the map. Comments???

  • 07.08.2006 1:51 AM PDT
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Posted by: clever1
How about fights between the covenant and humans happening in the background of MP maps, like for example:
You're playing slayer while up in the sky you happen to see covenant ships/fighter planes and human ships/fighter planes battling it out between each other with rubble and shrapnel falling from the sky from destroyed ships and fighter planes; and half-way through the game a covenant fighter plane crashes in the middle of the map. Or on a map while playing assault you happen to look down into the valley below and you see marines, covenant and vehicles fighting each other, you even see grenades going off and rockets shooting down dropships; the flood then come into the fight after a flood infestered droship gets shot down into the battle. This could also solve the background sound effects for MP. What do you think would be some good background battles?

Campaign. AI has no place in multiplayer.

  • 07.08.2006 5:35 AM PDT