I know they said Elites are not going to be there at launch, but I want to have this specific conversation as I beleive it is likely this is a potential thing to be added to the game within at least a few years.
What I hope we eventually have is a system to force players to be a specific species in custom games. You should be able to choose each team’s species by the colour if you so wish. This would be great for objective based games as you could create small scale invasion maps with only one objective, as well as make interesting infection games where players are a different species after they are infected.
This all brings up another idea, why not let us choose the guns the depending and attacking teams spawn with in custom games? Then we could at least pretend we are covenant/banished vs unsc.
It feels funny to make this point as I absolutely hate the helioskrill armour because it is a slap in the face to people who actually wanted Elites. It’s just pretending to be a real elite, but here I am suggesting that we should be able to pretend based off of our weapon presets too… Lol.
So i’ve said this and for some reason many people can’t comprehend what I’m saying. Elites and Dual wielding add more to the game than people are giving these two features credit for.
Both can impact Campaign, Social playlists, True Firefight, and custom games. And with 343i being a triple A studio with more resources than an indie studio, it shouldn’t be hard for them to figure this out. With 6 years of dev time there isn’t much excuse for why they aren’t.
Unless my original theory is correct, with both MCC and Halo 5 being unfinished products, 343i spent more time fixing than actually developing the next title.
Im not even a guy who uses playable elites, I can just call out bull when I see it.