The title is exactly what needs to happen! Halo 5 is an amazing game, with many amazing new features!
Imagine what bringing playable elites back would do. Playable elites are positive as they bring much needed variety to multiplayer, and add many possibilities for the machinima community as well.
Creating equal abilities for elites, as the Spartan have won’t be much work; keeping the elites only in customs and warzone promote the casual, diverse experience for some, and allows for arena to only feature Spartan v. Spartan combat.
Right now now is a great time for 343 to capitalize on
the potential that bringing elites back will bring. I know several people including myself willing to purchase the $100 req pack just to own the various elite armors. What do you, the community think?
My only concern is how to handle their loadouts…would they just use the same UNSC loadout Reqs as Spartans, like all of the 456 Assault Rifle variants etc? Or would they get their own loadouts, like Storm Rifles and Plasma Pistols?
If we went with the second option, that would probably cause a lot of imbalance (e.g. loadout Plasma Pistol would make vehicles useless). But if we went with the first option, that would make them feel less unique and just wouldn’t make as much sense from a universe standpoint. I’m not sure how to handle it.
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> My only concern is how to handle their loadouts…would they just use the same UNSC loadout Reqs as Spartans, like all of the 456 Assault Rifle variants etc? Or would they get their own loadouts, like Storm Rifles and Plasma Pistols?
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> If we went with the second option, that would probably cause a lot of imbalance (e.g. loadout Plasma Pistol would make vehicles useless). But if we went with the first option, that would make them feel less unique and just wouldn’t make as much sense from a universe standpoint. I’m not sure how to handle it.
The way I see it, they all spawn the same, AR and pistol, and whatever else you want. Elites in H2 and H3 spawned with the same and it was great. The goal is to change the player model. Nothing else. Core gameplay is great. I just don’t see why we have 200+ armors that all look identical ingame.
They could add the plasma repeater, needle rifle and even the plasma rifle to help balance out their loadouts. Or they could just as easily leave it the same as the Spartans cause that did work fine in H2 and H3 as stated above.
343 has brains. We can see that through how far they’ve come since H4. I know they are thinking, and if they jut listen to the longest lasting halo forum, they could disputably make H5 the best Halo of all time.
I have been requesting elites in Halo 5 before it was even developed, if they added elites for customs and war zone it would work in their favor for sure, but they seem so focused on different aspects of the community.
It’d be cool to make it like firefight but with a warzone twist. Like instead of red vs blue it’d be Spartans vs Elites. It would be tough to balance weapons though.
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> The title is exactly what needs to happen! Halo 5 is an amazing game, with many amazing new features!
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> Imagine what bringing playable elites back would do. Playable elites are positive as they bring much needed variety to multiplayer, and add many possibilities for the machinima community as well.
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> Creating equal abilities for elites, as the Spartan have won’t be much work; keeping the elites only in customs and warzone promote the casual, diverse experience for some, and allows for arena to only feature Spartan v. Spartan combat.
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> Right now now is a great time for 343 to capitalize on
> the potential that bringing elites back will bring. I know several people including myself willing to purchase the $100 req pack just to own the various elite armors. What do you, the community think?
If elites were available, they would be really tall and easy pickings. But multiple things suggest that if they become playable it can work. They are able to somersault in any direction. In halo reach a “roll” armor ability that allows you quick roll 2x was available. For a replacement for thrusters, Elites should just do a somersault x1 or do a hop side to side cause in the campaign, that’s literally what they do to dodge… For sprint to spartan charge, Elites should be able to do that too since I have seen the A.I run up to you and smack you. Ground pound is something different though… Hmm there are special elites equipped with jetpacks… Also I remember in a Halo canon video (not sure really… It was somewhere) that elites had also participated in war games simulation too. Actual elites from the swords of sanghelios. So there are ways for elites to be able to be in new halo games… But with the new abilities, they gotta find ways to accommodate for them. Just no built in camo… Camo is hard to see sometimes in certain areas of a map.
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> That would be unfair for the elites because of their massive hit boxea and size, elites won’t be in halo 5 honestly.
Well what’s the issue then? Elites would be “easier to kill on the battlefield,” I’m willing to take that unfair advantage to play as an elite, and I’m sure the majority of elite players are. In fact, any player who isn’t an elite should also support this just because a potential for more kills.