Halo 4 | Flood Mode

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INTRO

For years I have sought out for the perfect survival game type scenario for Halo.

-In 2007 we all Experienced Halo 3’s Infection, a beautiful addition which lead to millions of helpless victims being swarmed by undead hordes. Using the Shotgun had never felt better.

-In 2009 Halo 3: ODST was released which gave us once again a new flavor to halo, Firefight. Take on uneven odds as you hold your ground against countless waves of covenant troops.

-In 2010 Halo: Reach gave us a 2.0 of everything we had anticipated, adding new twists and mechanics to our awesome game experience.

But there is always a thirst for more… right? (AND NO WE AINT TALKIN 'BOUT INVASION!)

Halo 4 | Flood Mode

There will be two basic teams. One Spartans (Human), and the other Flood (Infected).
Simple right? well it gets better.

-The goal of the Spartans is to rack up as many points as possible killing the flood and Survive.

-The Goal of the Flood is to get to and eliminate the Spartans at any cost, even if it takes numbers.

N00b: Well doesn’t that sound like a regular game of infection?
SharpShooter0x1: wait! there is more!
N00b: ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

The points that the Spartans earn will be used as Currency/Credits or Cr, Cr will be used to purchase weapons, armor abilities, weapon attachments (Halo 4?) and whatever might be new from Vending Machines (Which will be accessable between rounds). Cr will also be used to seal off Obstacles like Doors, Vents, Windows and other Pathways (Each of these will have their own durability bar which will give out under excessive damage by the Flood.

The points you have on your person to spend will not be kept, but your total score will be remembered over time.
So say you may have Cr-250 and spend Cr-75. Your score will still stay 250 but you’ll have Cr-175 available to spend in your wallet.

Rounds

-Flood Mode will consist of unlimited or set rounds, between the rounds you will have access to vending machines. You will have 1 minute to complete a purchase, once the timer reaches 0 you will be locked out and unable to use the
machine until you eliminate 3 waves worth of Flood (1 Round). (Continued)

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I’m assuming there may be some form of safe room where you can access the vending machine.

Goals

-There will be way points or hill markers that you have to get to during the waves which will add a multiplier to your score, so if you hit up 3 way points and killed 250 points worth of flood you might get a 1.5x bonus once the round is over.

Dieing

-A very sad thing, but it happens. Numbers become too great and you shriek in terror as your new whitey tighties become yellow.

-Once dead you will change teams to the Flood (Infected), I’m considering you being able to pick your class of flood. Like the guys that explodes or a normal humanoid flood.

-There will be a timer on what class you pick, so if you want to be a boomer you’ll have to wait 10 seconds to respawn as him. Scoring will be similar once you become infected, since it is an every man for himself scenario.

-We could implement the Armor Ability button for your Flood Special so you can go Boom at the touch of a button!

-You will be able to break through doors and obstacles as flood!

Different Mechanics

-Since we are talking about a new game here we could bring back or create new things. Interactive objects in maps like doors are sweet, and so are flashlights. If you have anything you’d like to throw down please post away.

**-**Reserved… fo yo momma! (JK)

Skulls

-Time to Uneven the odds! Lets Add SKULLS!

-Bean Bag (Every small flood explodes when you shoot at it)

-Green Meanie (Everybody gets promotions! and uhh, juggernauts appear)

-Aint no rest for the Wicked (Instead of 3 waves per round there are 5)

-Quarantine (Only flood can break obstacles)

-Armor Acknowledgement (Armor Abilities are now Useless)

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Player Cap

-Now most game types have 16 players and firefight has 4, I would love flood mode to be Involved in firefight but the idea of sealing off vents/obstacles and having safe rooms would involve different mechanics than a standard firefight. Not only that but the map style would have to involve fight and flee tactics to ensure a long survival, which not every firefight map has.

-I would like to have at least an 8 player cap on Flood Mode so that you could start a game out with 4 flood and 4 spartans players.

Flood Goals

-Now that I’ve explained the Human side, we’re going to get into more depth of how the flood are and why this is different then actual infection (It’s suppose to be better)

-There will be a mixed number of Flood NPCs and Players (Who have Died). Players will act like the standard upper class infected like Humanoids or Whatever Class they pick (I will cover this more in depth momentarily).

-You will destroy barriers to get to the humans.

-You will rack up points just like humans but you won’t be spending it on Armor Abilities or Weapons. More like on what your class is. You could either wait the 10 second countdown to be the boomer or spend 75 Cr to get it instantly (Effective for speeding up waves)

Flood Classes

-I’m going to lay out a few examples of classes that you’ll be able to pick through at your loadout, first you will either be spawning or respawning. Here you will select what Flood species you want to be, your armor ability button will let you use your classes’s special.

-Boomer (You walk very slow compared to other classes but when you get close you can explode at your own will, which will cause a couple dozen bean bag floods to appear and swarm the spartan.)

-Humanoid (You are a regular trooper, you get nasty hits when up close and when you activate your AA you will pick a waypoint where you want the bean bag monsters near you to attack or head towards.)

-Vomiter (Regular mob, Pukes on will. Self explanatory)

-Bean Bag monster!!! (You clan float around, walk on walls and do stuff upside down. You are very weak but you puff on contact)

-Gasser (Release toxic fumes at will, fumes stay in general area for about 10-20 seconds)

-Humanoid with Gun (Once again self explanatory)

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N00b: ZOMG ITS LIKE COD ZAWWMMBIEZZ!

^^^^^^ if this post related to what you may post, then please refrain from posting. I want good feed, not omg it’s been here before.

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Sounds a bit Call Of Duty to me…

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Please refrain from major posting until I am done with writing the whole thread. I just ran out of room on the first post.

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> Saved for edit.

> Saved for edit. 2

> Saved for edit. 3 Might be unnecessary,

Don’t spam posts
Edit: I see, right you ran out of room

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cod zombiez in halo this is uneceptable

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I’m not done, lol and this is a bit different then cod zombies :P. Plus you don’t pay to take down barriers, you pay to put them up. There is definitely some killing floor, dead space 2, and other zombie additions mixed in here.

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> INTRO
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> For years I have sought out for the perfect survival game type scenario for Halo.
>
> -In 2001 we all Experienced Halo CE’s Infection, a beautiful addition which lead to millions of helpless victims being swarmed by undead hordes. Using the Shotgun had never felt better.

Fix’d.

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:] okay lmao, I forgot to mention that everybody tried attempting several of these game types before their actual time of being published. I’m well aware of Halo CE and Halo 2 attempting infection.

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Phew
U scared me there for a second.

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This could be a gametype in firefight. There could be many different floodfight modes.

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Don’t like it.

But we should have flood characters for infection mode.

No need for new gamemode.

I want to be able to choose flood as enemies. And like in Reach’s firefight, you can play as elites, but this time as grunts and hunters and even flood (gameplay of what if would be like)

> I’m not done, lol and this is a bit different then cod zombies :P. Plus you don’t pay to take down barriers, you pay to put them up. There is definitely some killing floor, dead space 2, and other zombie additions mixed in here.

Would want Halo to have it’s own thing.

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this is awesome!

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I’d rather have Floodfight.

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I would love to have it be involved with Firefight, but there are several mechanics in this game type that would have a hard impact on regular firefight maps.

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Sounds like Living Dead to me, just that the infected would have Flood skins.

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so what your saying is…
Backwards CoD Zombies?
You pay to block of entrances instead of getting paid to block them off, and you dont have to pay to open up the map… i think it sounds like CoD

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Need we not mention that Firefight was a cheapskate off of Gears of War 2’s Horde… Nuff said.

Also who cares if this is similar to Cod Zombies, a game type is a game type! CTF is a great example, both seen on Halo and Cod. So if you have a comment other then this your good.

N00b: Zomg its just leik COD ZAWUMBIEEEZ!
SharpShooter0x1: D;