I’ve seen a lot of mods for both MCC and Infinite that just load your multiplayer Spartan over Chief, so 343 not doing it is just likely excuses or laziness. I can only hope for Halo Infinite Spartan Ops I guess. We spend all this time and money on our Spartan customization, and can’t use them in Co-op. A shame really.
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@xXx_Mhx_Air_xXx and @Majin_Eclair I could agree more. Especially on the excuse or laziness. But the whole point of Spartan canon at this point is an excuse to not put elites in. They say Spartan story Spartan story. Halo isn’t just a Spartan story and hasn’t been since 3.
If they wouldn’t be such babies about Xbox modding and since the obviously have no problem bringing other studios in why not use a good portion of those studios for the flag ship game. Churn it into this massive shooter title with a functioning open world firefight, forge with ai and a campaign with options to do with as you desire AFTER you complete the campaign.
Good god this better not be the case, it will though, it will.
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Actually 343 themselves said Infinite is a Spartan story not a master chief story, Custom Spartans are still Spartans
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The UI probably doesn’t support it… 
Halo 5 had two sets of characters. Which was pretty well in the vein of Halo 3. Spartan Ops also went the Reach route of having the characters be our actual Spartans. Funny how our multiplayer Spartan playing a canon role in the story was already a thing twice and yet it’s being presented as some big new thing in Infinite.
But yes, that doesn’t excuse Infinite not doing the same thing for players 2-4. That said there is always the possibility that what we are seeing in Infinite’s coop so far is still considered a placeholder. And/or that the heavily implied shift in the Halo franchise from Master Chief to our own Spartan as the main character won’t happen as early as the second or third campaign dlc, at which time coop will be able to reflect that change.
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It’d be more interesting if 2, 3 and 4 were not just clones of Master Chief appearance wise.
Would also add a lot more value to investing in customization of your Spartan as well. Giving people more reason to actually buy cosmetics.
Doesn’t mean also that they couldn’t update the game later to change it if it does turn out to be just all Master Chiefs too.
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Coop Campaign doesn’t have to be canon and the Multiplayer doesn’t have to be either. I don’t know why 343 keeps trying to make this a thing.
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Yes but it’s pretty much unanimously agreed upon that both H4 Spartan Ops and the entirety of Halo 5’s campaign was disappointing.
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I agree wholeheartedly
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soo… what you’re saying is that if there is no custom spartans in the campaign, 343 can eat those words of theirs?
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Yes, but being able to play as your Spartan, and haiving different characters to select in 5’s coop wasn’t the issue itself.
Both had a lackluster story. And the issue with 5 was that the characters you had to choose from, with the exceptions of Master Chief and Buck, sucked. (Blue Team is awesome in Lore but were extremely underwhelming in 5)
I disagree. I
On the Spartan ops that is. I thought ops would’ve been AMAZINGLY recieved if a separate fire fight would’ve dropped beside it. Objective based halo PvE matches were awesome
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Chief is not a Mary Sue, as far as the extended fiction goes. He earned his status. I do agree however that having a story about the quarterback, prom king, top cop, or best of the best saving the universe every single time again and again and …
It does get old. I think that’s why Reach and ODST have a special place for fans. Their not underdog stories per say. More what the rest of what the UNSC goes through. Whether by the skin of their teeth or by making sacifices.
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This. Honestly still waiting for a client side option to play as our custom MP armors for MCC Halo 3. They’ve already enabled weapon skins for MCC campaign afterall.
In fact, there are already mods which apply this to the H3 campaign on MCC, of course only in single player mode or else Easy Anti Cheat will bust your account.
still holding out hope they add firefight eventually, its literally one of my favorite things to play on halo after custom games
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Honestly i want blue team back and used for story stuff.
Our own spartans in base defense and open world hyjinks and perhaps a spartan ops.
I want a firefight evolved. I want an open world segment that I can complete with up to 8 players either in a private lobby or in a match made setting. We haven’t had a personal firefight in years.
But tbh if they put AI in forge (not bots but banished) then I doubt there will be a time Im not building story and engagement maps for us and our friends. And by that I mean ALL OF US HERE IN HALO.
I want to talk with known forgers to build some play spaces in different world settings, and if we can get playable ai I plan on doing a SoS story line too.
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i love your ideas, i have the same ideas. but do i dare get my hopes up? i had my hopes up about alot in infinite, so is forge really going to hit the nail on the head?
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Infinite forge 1.0? I doubt it. We don’t even have a mantis or let alone a map that reliably spawns a scorpion.
But if bots are coming in, I’d like to hope that ai placement is no so inconceivable for them.
Tbh it actually isn’t at all. It’d just require another option set. Rather then Bot : true
Elite/grunt/etc : true zone variables.
Now LISTEN IM NO CODER I KNOW ITS MORE THAN THAT.
but my point is gathered. In line with that thought process I honestly think the reason we haven’t heard anything about firefight is because they haven’t figured out a way to
A) MONETIZE it.
B) what this firefight will be. Which I don’t understand because at the base everyone would at least like basic arena FF. Open world segment firefights with objectives and a boss fight at the end would be awesome. (I think you can view my profile for a thread I made about how a FireOps, see what I did there, Could work.)
C) they’re going to open firefight map design to the public. Similar to how they featured created maps for H5 social and reach social games.