Im not entirely sure if this is under the right topic type but what if you could choose your faction in multiplayer. (be a spartan, odst, marine, elite, brute, etc) This is a long shot and would change gameplay a lot, but i think it’d be cool to unlock armor/customization for not only your spartan but also other factions you can play as. (btw im saying this as ranked will be locked to spartans only) Imagine getting a chieftain helm or armor for your brute or even a new variant of armor for your odst. Just an idea and i want to hear what you all think -Sierra 772
I think this is a wonderful idea, and definitely locked for ranked as balancing would be an issue for many reasons, but that would be awesome, especially with Reach like armor customization it would be sick to see all of the different types of armor people come up with.
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> I think this is a wonderful idea, and definitely locked for ranked as balancing would be an issue for many reasons, but that would be awesome, especially with Reach like armor customization it would be sick to see all of the different types of armor people come up with.
eh, not too much of a fan… i just think it wouldn’t feel like halo with all those different species to play as
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> > I think this is a wonderful idea, and definitely locked for ranked as balancing would be an issue for many reasons, but that would be awesome, especially with Reach like armor customization it would be sick to see all of the different types of armor people come up with.
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> eh, not too much of a fan… i just think it wouldn’t feel like halo with all those different species to play as
I understand your point, but for silly games with your friends it would be quite enjoyable.
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> I understand your point, but for silly games with your friends it would be quite enjoyable.
Right, this idea is meant for social/customs only. I just would like to see how the community would use this (cool customs, amazing looks in game, more personality, clans, customs that tell a story and most importantly ,imo, more content)
I don’t see this being a thing. It would be an awful lot of work to make these different classes just for social/custom games. Too much work for the payoff. The design work that would need to go into making Spartans different from ODSTs/Marines different from Grunts, Brutes, etc. would be massive, and for something that wouldn’t be universal throughout the game due to inherent balancing issues? Even as a pipe dream, it sounds unrealistic.
The alternative would be that the character models only look different but all play the same (same hitboxes, shields, health pools, etc). But at that point, it would take away the charm of being able to play as these different species because it would be aesthetic only. Again, a lot of work for little payoff, it seems.
I think an idea like this would be better reserved for a special Spartan Ops or Firefight style mode or an entire spinoff game altogether. Allow us to play as Spartans and Elites only in the main Halo games.
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> I understand your point, but for silly games with your friends it would be quite enjoyable.
maybe they could add that in customs or something
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> I don’t see this being a thing. It would be an awful lot of work to make these different classes just for social/custom games. Too much work for the payoff. The design work that would need to go into making Spartans different from ODSTs/Marines different from Grunts, Brutes, etc. would be massive, and for something that wouldn’t be universal throughout the game due to inherent balancing issues? Even as a pipe dream, it sounds unrealistic.
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> The alternative would be that the character models only look different but all play the same (same hitboxes, shields, health pools, etc). But at that point, it would take away the charm of being able to play as these different species because it would be aesthetic only. Again, a lot of work for little payoff, it seems.
Playing devils advocate. How is this amount of work any different than h5 Forge? There has been multiple item requests that seemingly took months of work just to added in late into post game developement and utilized almost no where but forge and customs. The game already has the hitbox, models, Health and shields from the campaign. Unless you assume we are playing a halo campaign without any of the classes that you’ve listed. And I noticed you excluded the elites and as we both know of a certain megathread that would consider their return to be something more than a little payoff. We could grow equal communities that want to be just odsts, grunts. But we won’t know until it happens.