Not like firefight, but like firefight. You and 3 friends (maybe 5) get set down in an area. Flood forms will attack you from all sides, difficult and amount increasing with each wave.
You will get points for each kill which you can spend on new weapons, defences, or vehicles. This needs to be good, not just an auto turret and a few traps but the ability to construct a proper defense and armour up a building.
You start off with no weapons, or functioning Mjolnir armour. Just a knife. (All weapons are upgrade able, e.g. You can purchase scopes or explosive rounds.
Once you progress enough (get enough points etc buy a gun etc) you can pay to activate an armour ring station which either:
- Gives you new Mjolnir armour that has no charge. (My preference)
- Activates your current Mjolnir armour/recharges it. (If you had it from the start)
- You can pay for an inferior set of SPI stealth armour. (Providing you start of with no armour)
(You have to pay for each option)
Once you have this armour it cannot be destroyed, but can be swapped. However as you take damage and use it, it will need recharging. Similar to Crysis 3 energy bar, however it lasts longer (the shields are not included in this package [POWER: which allows you to jump higher, power melee, charge through hordes etc]. Once shields are depleted you will need to find either a power up dropped by a flood form or pay to recharge, alternatively if urgent you can opt to transfer your remaining energy to the shields which refills your shields with either a limited drain (with over shield effect) or just replenished normally, either way you lose the power of the Mjolnir which will need recharging. This will depend on how shields work, whether they will be like two hits and down then need recharging (in the classical sense where they refill normal but you have a limited number of refills.) (My preference)
You can also buy armour upgrades, these include things such as fast reload, defibrillator, 3 gun ability etc. if you are downed, then you lose these upgrades unless defib which allows self revive.
Thoughts?
Sounds intense! But it adds so much new to the game… starting with just a knife and working your way up to fully assembled mjolnir…well, it sounds like a long game. I’d be just as happy if they made Flood Firefight with more intense waves instead of just enemy drops.
It would be a long game yeah, basically no time limit just depends how good a player you are. Also yes I might be asking a lot but with so much time until Halo 5s launch and the return of the flood I think it isn’t too much to ask.
Oh don’t get me wrong, it’s a cool idea. I just don’t know how practical it is to develop alongside a traditional Halo game; it adds lots of functionality, and functionality is traditionally something that is applicable across more than one game type.
New firefight types/modes sounds awesome, especially Flood specific firefights.
I like it. Add all the enemy species though!!
i read first few lines and COD Zombies came into mind.
EDIT: yeah this sounds so much like cod zombies ‘when you’re down’ for one, new scopes, perks, all these things sound like a mix between WaW, Black Ops Zombies and some deformed version of halo.
(no offence)
But the thought behind it of flood and buying defences… idk, i think the flood would be a cool idea, i also think that they won’t be adding firefight. but all this upgrades and currency and all that is kind of a COD thing, and i don’t mind it in COD, but it might wreck halo.
I’m not sure how it would wreck Halo, if you mean it would cause altering Halo too much I understand but I think as it’s own stand along mode it would just add the the experience. Also lore wise it could fit in perfectly with Halo 5 being “darker” and all. Perhaps your Pelican want down etc.
Finally yes this is like Cod but it is also like Gears of War, and numerous other survival modes in other games than just CoD.
I like it but knifes aren’t really a halo look maybe you start with a magnum or plasma pistol instead. And generally when the flood are within melee range your dead anyway.
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I came here for the flood tower defense!!! I haven’t read the post but man do I already like this! 
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My thoughts are it would need to be indie developed. They aren’t restricted by anything but there love for the game itself. It would also need a horror atmosphere to it; screams of the Flood seemingly out of nowhere, etc…
I hate to say it, but there’s almost no chance for 343 to make this. The Flood are done for them ATM and they would make this a use prometheans before they would make bring the Flood back.
Also if they made it they would be getting a lot of people complaining about it being in the game for some reason.
I want this, but I want it to not be held back at all.
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Also one last thing, I would also want there to be an element of camaraderie to the game. I want you and several other people to be terrified and have to work together to survive.