Playable elites have been a thing ever scince the second Halo, they were here up until 343i took over and completely removed them. While I understand there where issues with the hit boxes, that I no reason to remove them from the game, in modes like invasion they had different weapons, vehicles, and even abilities than Spartans that made them unique, the hit box “problem” was not an issue due to the diversity between them and the Spartans already. You can say the were harder to shoot from behind, but their weapons for the most part aren’t hit scan and that puts them at a disadvantage, while Spartan vehicles are more powerful, they often require more than one person to use. These are all things that are expected, the whole point of the game mode was putting the Covenants best against the UNSCs best, not all on so called equal grounds. Not everyone plays Halo as a sport strictly for competativness, the people who do are minority, that is why big team battle and modes with lots of vehicles are so popular. With invasion we could replicate battles between humans and aliens, we could feel like we were actually in a war without being tied to campaign restrictions.
In fact I still play halo reach because the last 2 Halos have not had playable elites. Almost the entire reason I have and Xbox instead of a play station is because of Halo, but with Halo 5 not having elites, the game just isn’t worth it to me to buy an entire console for. So for now, at least until I can play as and elite again I will have to stick to the 360 playing a game made in 2010.
Playable elites need to be put back in Halo, with the amazing forge, the possibilities could be endless, you could even make a warzone type with the covenant ai fighting alongside you against the UNSC and vice versa.
To be honest I hate the changes 343 has been making to Halo, but putting playable elites back in the game would redeem them in my eyes.
elites broke swat in halo 3
I loved invasion in reach because you could play as elites and because the simple fact that warzone or warzone assault can NEVER replace that gametype
There is a mega thread on this already. The elites have different hitboxes, which means they would need their own game mode, so that there is not an unfair advantage to one species. 343 determined there was not enough demand for it to be attempted, so it isn’t in the game. Halo 5 is the most balanced halo to date, please don’t try to change that
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> There is a mega thread on this already. The elites have different hitboxes, which means they would need their own game mode, so that there is not an unfair advantage to one species. 343 determined there was not enough demand for it to be attempted, so it isn’t in the game. Halo 5 is the most balanced halo to date, please don’t try to change that
it would be called invasion…if they brought it back that is and the different hitboxes didn’t stop Bungie, I’ve never had a problem with balancing playing invasion. And the fact that there is a mega tread about this(forgot how many comments there were in it) says that their IS a demand for it
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> > There is a mega thread on this already. The elites have different hitboxes, which means they would need their own game mode, so that there is not an unfair advantage to one species. 343 determined there was not enough demand for it to be attempted, so it isn’t in the game. Halo 5 is the most balanced halo to date, please don’t try to change that
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> it would be called invasion…if they brought it back that is and the different hitboxes didn’t stop Bungie, I’ve never had a problem with balancing playing invasion. And the fact that there is a mega tread about this(forgot how many comments there were in it) says that their IS a demand for it
Bungie didn’t make well balanced Halo’s though. Despite all of the issues blame 343 for, you can’t say that balancing is not the best it has ever been (vehicle balancing could be debated, but isn’t relevant to what we are talking about.) That thread is several years old, it is bound to be a mega thread since some people are very passionate about it. I don’t distinctly remember reach’s numbers, but I don’t remember invasion being one of the top playlists.
They wont be coming to Halo 5, but we can hope for Halo 6.
Something something balancing, something something different hitboxes, something something unfair advantage.
Give the elites stronger shields and faster move speed like Reach for being a bigger target or force matchmaking to be all one species for each gamemode. That or have matchmaking options to allow cross species wargames, spartan only wargames or elite only wargames.
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> There is a mega thread on this already. The elites have different hitboxes, which means they would need their own game mode, so that there is not an unfair advantage to one species. 343 determined there was not enough demand for it to be attempted, so it isn’t in the game. Halo 5 is the most balanced halo to date, please don’t try to change that
Wow you just contradicted yourself a bunch of times. Please stop.
Feel free to use the megathread.