(and I think 343 will like this idea as it uses assets the game already has!)
Assault has been a favorite gamemode of mine and many others for quite sometime. But for it to return to its exact nature as in previous titles, they would have to make a bomb model, a first person view of the device and a third person view for the device.
So instead of them creating a lot of things just for This why not we use something the game already has? Such as This?
How would this work?
Answer -
It would work in a very familiar way. Each team has a Target Designator that they have to get delivered to an “arming” sight. The only difference between this and the traditional Assault is that the “arming” sight now has a “target” that must be acquired in said spot. Once the target has been acquired a single missile will launch and explode at the target location. It can work just like old Assault too, the person acquiring the target can be taken out in an ordinary fashion to stop the target from being acquired.
now some of you may be asking. “what happens if the map is indoors or the target is inside the base?”
This would probably be the easy part for 343, Just add in an explosion! Where the missile is entering the building or structure, just add a small, harmless “entrance” explosion to justify the fact that a missile just busted through a ceiling.
and just to solidify the concept, here is a diagram I made to help you understand the idea.
Now what about the assets that the game already has that I mentioned earlier?
the main thing is the Target Locator itself, its already in the game, it already has a first and third person view model, its pracitcally done. Nothing for 343 to animate or create, just move from campaign to Custom Games. And the Missile? 343 has shown that they already have something for that in “The Forerunners Return” vidoc they made. Just watch the part where they are explaining the particle effect and they show MC using a Target Locator to launch a single missile down onto 3 Knights.
In all the debating on how 343 can improve Custom Games, I think this would be an extremely cool way to bring back Assault. Since Assault would be the hardest to bring back (because of the bomb) and this would probably be the less labor intensive way to bring it back.
please if you can, keep this post alive as long as it can. If it gains popularity than it could possibly be implemented! I will also be linking this thread in the “Custom Games options are unacceptable 343” thread since that is where they would most likely see it.