In Halo Wars 2 I’d like to see at least 6 factions like we did in the first game. However, I would like each faction to be a lot more different.
Of course you’d have your typical teams like;
UNSC/ONI
Covenant (with a prophet leader?)
On top of those two I’d also like to see;
Forerunners/Prometheans
Flood
UNSC/Arbiter (a combination of human and alien forces)
Brutes (Contains most of the alien races excluding the elites and has primarily brutes)
Maybe even a Insurrectionist team? They could be somewhere in-between ONI and the flood in their combat style
In the first game we really only had two factions as they had small differences. What I would like is more wildly different factions and more types of units to pick from than we had in the first game. Also, I think it would be cool if each faction had a certain set of heroes instead of how they did it in the first game with only the covenant having heroes.
I’m probably reaching out too far but I would like to see the Halo Wars series eventually come to this point.
We don’t know when Halo Wars 2 is in the Halo timeline, so we don’t know if the Elites have broken away from the Covenant yet. If I had to guess I’d say that the game is staged around Halo 2, so an Elite/Human faction probably won’t be possible. Same with the Prometheans. Honestly, I don’t really want a lot more factions. Maybe 1 addition, but no more than that. The original Halo Wars had balance issues and there was only the Covenant and the UNSC. Think of what balancing issues would surface if CA decided to add 4 more factions. Things would get out of hand.
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> We don’t know when Halo Wars 2 is in the Halo timeline, so we don’t know if the Elites have broken away from the Covenant yet. If I had to guess I’d say that the game is staged around Halo 2, so an Elite/Human faction probably won’t be possible. Same with the Prometheans. Honestly, I don’t really want a lot more factions. Maybe 1 addition, but no more than that. The original Halo Wars had balance issues and there was only the Covenant and the UNSC. Think of what balancing issues would surface if CA decided to add 4 more factions. Things would get out of hand.
I don’t doubt that but I’m actually looking at this from the casual perspective. I’m not much of a person for competitive play in RTS’s. From the competitive standpoint you make very valid statements and the competitive scene should not be ignored.
As far as the timeline goes, just think of the matches you set up as a virtual training simulation. Heck, eve the campaign could be a a virtual battle (though I know that won’t happen in Halo Wars 2) If this was the case though throughout the entire game then that would allow for more diverse experiences.