Alright, let me set the mood for this all new infection gamemode. You’re all alone, with limited ammo on a huge map. No one in sight. You can hear the infected getting closer and closer. As you continue to fight your way through the map against the growing numbers, you hear a voice. It’s another survivor! Now you have made a new friend in this apocalyptic world. You and your newly found friend now have the job of living and killing the infection until the time ends.
I want 343i to make a gamemode like this and I know exactly how they could pull off this mood perfectly. The gamemode would go something like this, It’s a game of infection on a large map, about the size of a warzone map. There is no specified spawn location for the survivors and everyone spawns everywhere. And to really pat down the idea that you’re the only person alive in this world, the gamemode would have forced game-chat, and this gamemode would also be bringing back proximity chat so that you can only hear another person when they are close to you. The infected, however, are not bound to these limitations. The infected get a large (about 30m-50m) radar that is also not limited to the motion of a player, a constant radar so that the infected can and will find you, no matter where you hide. Also with the lack of proximity chat, they could be making call-outs to the locations of the remaining survivors.
The gamemode would last at least 15 minutes most likely. There would not be 16 players, not 24, but 32 players. I know that 343i’s servers can handle a 32 player lobby, if you can make a 24 player lobby with AI and Bosses all going on, I think you can put 32 players in a game. There would be 8 infected players to start off so that the infected wouldn’t be so limited. The survivors start with nothing but a magnum, headshot 1 hit kills would be turned off, instead it would do 2x damage like the AR. You would only have 2 clips, the one in the gun, and the one left. There would be weapons scattered across the map like in regular infection but not SAW, no sniper, no big power weapons. The only weapons to be found in the map would be DMRs, BRs, SMGs, Shotguns, and other things like that.
I think it would be a great addition to Halo if they added this playlist and bring back this old mechanic of proximity chat. It would be a great new place for people to make new friends, even if it was only for 10 minutes.
What do you guys think about this playlist? It wouldn’t be that hard to make and the benefit from the playlist would be immense. Please leave your opinions or possiple changes to the gamemode below.