Since the legendary release date of “Halo: Combat Evolved” (November 15, 2001), fans of the Halo series have dreamnt on the very day they might be able to tacticly fly into the warzone with a fabled dropship, dropping in fresh troops and/or picking them up! Unfortunately, Bungie was unwilling to ever fufill these such dreams… Why they sought to ignore their fans requests is beyond me and most others. But what i do know is there may be another chance. Another chance of fufilling these such dreams and giving the fans a chance to see evolved combat and stratagies beyond any other game! Imagine swooping into battle carrying a fresh load of troops and dropping them off at another location closer to battle, or imagine your troops nearly facing death so you attempt a daring rescue to evac them all to a safer location. Best yet, imagine what you might be able to do in a “forge map” or “custom game” with one of these two (Pelican / Phantom) beasts! The possibilities are limitless. This is why my fellow halo fans is why we MUST fight for our hopes and dreams! Or like all the other times, our attempts will be futile… so please, post yes on the forum if you want to see this become a reality in halo 4, if not then post no and please give a reason why. 
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please dont just click and look into the link, reply with your opinions! remember if you dont comment on this post, then do you think the “next guy” to look at it after you will too?
Pelicans, Phantoms, Scarabs and Elephants all need to be vehicles in Halo 4. I’ve got an idea for a scarab gametype that’s basically invasion except the objective is to destroy the scarab and that’s it. The spartan team, spawns with lots of rockets, snipers, even a tank and their mission is to destroy the scarab (Scarab can be destroyed same as Halo 3, the Elite team defends the scarab and spawn on it, one elite will spawn as the driver and cannot leave or be hijacked, the scarab will spawn near a covenant base with beam rifles, fuel rod guns, and a banshee, weapons will also spawn on the scarab. Each game will consist of four rounds in which teams switch off every other round and the Scarab drivers are never the same. The Scarab should have the huge back turret and the laser on the scarab’s face. The scarab’s legs can also crush the following: players, vehicles, certain environment objects. What do you think?
sounds completely awsome! but there are certain extents that game engines can “handle” even the reach engine could barely support multiple scarabs in one mission for 5 mins. let alone any functionality or combat. but overall as unlikely as i see a scarab in forge or custom games ever to be a reality (untill better engines are developed that is) i think that we might have to stick with more realisticly acheivable feats such as a pelicans, phantoms or even just as cool a elephant! none the less you have good creativity
I just hope that 343 is listening to the community on what they want in Halo 4.
Well, pelicans and phantoms can go into interesting gamemodes too. Like each team spawns on opposite sides of a crevice or ocean, one team defends with turrets, rockets, maybe some other weapons, the team on the other side has no cover fewer weapons but has a pelican/phantom that has enough room to transport them to the other team’s side, then teammates spawn in the pelican/phantom that does circles or whatever near the defense side. If the pelican/phantom is destroyed, a new one spawns at the other side. Pelicans should have a forward mounted machine gun used by the driver and a rear machine gun turret used by one of the passengers, the phantom should a a forward mounted concussion turret on the front used by the driver, and side plasma turrets used by passengers.
> I just hope that 343 is listening to the community on what they want in Halo 4.
imsure they might do just as great of a job as bungie, hopefully better! but alas i comepletely agree with you
> Well, pelicans and phantoms can go into interesting gamemodes too. Like each team spawns on opposite sides of a crevice or ocean, one team defends with turrets, rockets, maybe some other weapons, the team on the other side has no cover fewer weapons but has a pelican/phantom that has enough room to transport them to the other team’s side, then teammates spawn in the pelican/phantom that does circles or whatever near the defense side. If the pelican/phantom is destroyed, a new one spawns at the other side. Pelicans should have a forward mounted machine gun used by the driver and a rear machine gun turret used by one of the passengers, the phantom should a a forward mounted concussion turret on the front used by the driver, and side plasma turrets used by passengers.
quite like i said again, a rather genius creativity you have and how amazing it would be to see game types such as these! wouldent you agree? i just do hope that 343 will stroll across this and realize that this is something that they’re players will never forget them by, in a good way i hope!
> > I just hope that 343 is listening to the community on what they want in Halo 4.
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> imsure they might do just as great of a job as bungie, hopefully better! but alas i comepletely agree with you
I know their listening, bs angel is practically always listening, although whether they’ll apply the community’s ideas could still be up for debate.
> > Well, pelicans and phantoms can go into interesting gamemodes too. Like each team spawns on opposite sides of a crevice or ocean, one team defends with turrets, rockets, maybe some other weapons, the team on the other side has no cover fewer weapons but has a pelican/phantom that has enough room to transport them to the other team’s side, then teammates spawn in the pelican/phantom that does circles or whatever near the defense side. If the pelican/phantom is destroyed, a new one spawns at the other side. Pelicans should have a forward mounted machine gun used by the driver and a rear machine gun turret used by one of the passengers, the phantom should a a forward mounted concussion turret on the front used by the driver, and side plasma turrets used by passengers.
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> quite like i said again, a rather genius creativity you have and how amazing it would be to see game types such as these! wouldent you agree? i just do hope that 343 will stroll across this and realize that this is something that they’re players will never forget them by, in a good way i hope!
Well, what I really would like to see from Halo is like huge warzone games where massive armies clash and these scenarios seem the most likely with what could be integrated into them.
> > > I just hope that 343 is listening to the community on what they want in Halo 4.
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> > imsure they might do just as great of a job as bungie, hopefully better! but alas i comepletely agree with you
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> I know their listening, bs angel is practically always listening, although whether they’ll apply the community’s ideas could still be up for debate.
quite ironic that you mention him, i rather recently sent him a message regarding his opinion on this thread. although i really do hope he might at least look at it. but could you imagine BS Angel’s comment on the post? let alone mabe his support?! it would be beyond amazing! but i just do hope that i may not be “getting ahead of myself” on his opinion.
> > > > I just hope that 343 is listening to the community on what they want in Halo 4.
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> > > imsure they might do just as great of a job as bungie, hopefully better! but alas i comepletely agree with you
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> > I know their listening, bs angel is practically always listening, although whether they’ll apply the community’s ideas could still be up for debate.
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> quite ironic that you mention him, i rather recently sent him a message regarding his opinion on this thread. although i really do hope he might at least look at it. but could you imagine BS Angel’s comment on the post? let alone mabe his support?! it would be beyond amazing! but i just do hope that i may not be “getting ahead of myself” on his opinion.
Umm… bs angel is a girl.
oh my i feel like an idiot i had absolutely no idea! i hope i didint offend her 
> oh my i feel like an idiot i had absolutely no idea! i hope i didint offend her
lol, you aren’t the first person who thought she was a guy.
I don’t get the whole point of putting the Pelican in Forge mode? It only has ONE gun and only the pilot can use it. The only upside would be all of the seats. What’s the point?
> I don’t get the whole point of putting the Pelican in Forge mode? It only has ONE gun and only the pilot can use it. The only upside would be all of the seats. What’s the point?
well one i could be used as nothing more then a mass transport of troops and vehicles and i think it could do withought a gun, mabe just one in the rear? (machinegun-turret) also it would be great for machinimas and random map storylins and RP. im sure theres also much more
Also if the Pelican got shot down you should go into some kinda cut scene where it spirals out of control and crashes and say randomly picks a guy or two to survive but takes them a few seconds to stand up or sometimes everyone dies.
I think as an extension of Invasion it’d be really good.
Imagine a map like Spire, and on the second or third stage a Pelican spawns on the beach. It’d require a bit of teamwork and patience to get everyone in, but once you do you’ve got a massive advantage as you can fly right up to the top of the Spire and drop your whole team of Spartans off at once. I just think that feeling of having the whole team flying in together would be really exciting.
I’m using Spire as an example for familiarity’s sake, obviously Halo 4 will have all new maps.
even if it is just in multiplayer i want it to fly, for the fun of flying it and jumping out of it, and for machinima. we had a chance with forge world in reach and i just dont get why they didnt add it in
You can fly it in Halo reach, it’s really not all that great
> You can fly it in Halo reach, it’s really not all that great
well yes you can but they have it very limited, this petition is for halo 4 custom games and forge.