Flora and fauna in Halo 4?

Games Other Halo
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I would love to see a heap of different species of animals on the Halo 4 Planet living around… Would you like to see this? They could even collide with some of the cutscenes e.g. You see Master Chief walking up behind a sunset with birds flying past or Master Chief is attacked by a vicious animal? It would add to the atmosphere of the game as well as realism. Because who want to travel around on an Empty planet?

Discuss how you would like animals to be used in this game if any way at all?

As for Flora. Pine trees… Really? I want more than just pine trees and grass please. What would you like in particular…

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I wouldn’t like them to attack, maybe just run around like the moas

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What are you talking about? We have Scorpions, Warthogs, Falcons, Hornets, Mongooses, Hawks, Vultures, Cobras and Wolverines. Those are all the Fauna we need…

As for Flora, we have Conifers… Everyone LOVES Conifers…

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I will gladly sacrifice the flora and fauna if it means concentrating on other programs that require more love before ZBD.

Luckily, in Halo, sacrificing flora isn’t usually an issue. It’s the frame-robbing space squirrels on PCB that tend to not make the cut.

Once the core game is crafted, I’ll take add-ons. Honestly, I think that can happen now.

I think Halo4’s polygons will be toned back just a little while even more emphasis will be put on rendering the skins of objects to get their looks. Compared to Reach that is. About 25% less polygons should be starting point for that sweet spot of looks and play.

The frame-rate drop and the distance draws are my biggest concern over anything. Spoiled I have become, spoiled I like to stay.

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I was just looking at some early screens of Combat Evolved, and thought it would be cool to have wild fauna running around portions of the environment. Of course, if they have to sacrifice their inclusion for more important stuff then that’s fine. It would be nice, though. The concept trailer showed some birds flying about. Perhaps that’s a small hint?

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what about wild horse like creatures which you can ride to get around.

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> what about wild horse like creatures which you can ride to get around.

I think that’s a bit too far that too much like WoW and chief’s weight would probably crush them anyway.

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what if they were elephants

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> what if they were elephants

Lolz I don’t think elephants would be on a random alien shield world I like the idea of aggressive animals but riding them is just too much

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what if they were grunts…twenty of them

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> what if they were grunts…twenty of them

Hehe lolz I think that might work or it could fail like this cat LOOOOOL

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I say pokemon need to be added.

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this reminds me back when halo2 was being made… and halo 3… and odst… wait i see a pattern… well at least we have moas.

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maybe they should have an entire level dedacated to moas and you ride one and then there is a scarab that kills you

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Great idea, I’d love to see both flora and fauna in Halo 4. Makes it way more realistic. But I hope it would be the last finishing touches in detail as I wouldn’t want it to take away aspects of the game that could have been worked on to make gameplay better. You should post your idea in the feedback thread to get it seen by 343.

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I am sure they will have time for this aswell as gameplay mechanics…

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Flora and fauna are essential to creating a game with depth. I’m afraid that the previous installments in the series were rather devoid of that.

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> > what if they were elephants
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> Lolz I don’t think elephants would be on a random alien shield world I like the idea of aggressive animals but riding them is just too much

Elephants were the first to colonise the moon in 2134, you never know, they could be there.