Hello there, I hope you all are having a good day, but anyways to the post:
Now this is going to be for the more casual players, no competitive ideas here.
What I want to go over is the idea of bringing back all of the previous factions that were in the Halo games.
Separately, we have had UNSC, Elites, Brutes, and Prometheans. Each brought their own take on a weapon or vehicle. And if you can follow my rambling, then I can explain a cool new gametype idea.
So, in Halo 3 we had three main factions:
UNSC
Covenant-Elites
Covenant-Brutes
And in multiplayer we had some nice weapon and vehicle compliments, for example:
Grenades:
UNSC: Frag Grenade
Elites: Plasema Grenade
Brutes: Spike Grenade
Scout Vehicle:
UNSC: Mongoose
Elites: Ghost
Brutes: Chopper (kinda)
With the addition of Halo: Reach, it was narrowed down to UNSC-Elites, and there was a complimentary weapon for both sides.
(Example)
Marksman Rifle:
UNSC: DMR
Elites: Needle Rifle
Light Vehicle:
UNSC: Warthog
Elites: Revenant
And finally we had Halo 4, and this brought 3 factions together and created three different variations of weapons.
Automatic Rifle:
UNSC: Assault Rifle
Elites: Storm Rifle
Prometheans: Suppressor.
While these additions haven’t really added anything worth of value to those who like competive play, however they add variation and more items to be used by casual players, and especially forgers.
So now to the point:
What if we had all four factions in Halo: Xbox One? Each faction had a counterpart to the others. We could have four variations to each weapon, grenade, and vehicle. Each would bring a different view or change to the part it plays.
With this idea, we could add duel wielding, more weapons, more grenades, and finally a new gametype/a possible revival of Invasion.
So if we did have a counterpart to each vehicle, weapon, and grenade, then we could have some pretty sweet gametypes.
You could load up “Versus/Invasion” in matchmaking, and lets say these three gametypes show up. (I’ll use previous maps for examples)
Brutes vs. Promethians - Ragnarok
Elites vs. UNSC - Boneyard
Brutes vs. Elites - Spire
Now there could be an issue of fairness, “The Brutes have better vehicles than the Elites”, well then you could have each team have 2 rounds, one Brutes, one Elites.
The biggest issue for something like this to happen, is that 343 would need to add/bring back a lot of old vehicles and weapons. Not to mention, there are no Promethean vehicles.
I would like to know what you guys think, and below I am gonna list the counterparts that we already have.
If they did we would have these counterparts:
Weapons:
Automatic Rifle:
UNSC- Assault Rifle
Elites- Storm Rifle
Brutes- Needed
Prometheans- Supressor
Precision Weapon:
UNSC- Battle Rifle/DMR
Elites- Carbine/Needle Rifle
Brutes- Needed (Possibly Carbine, while Elites get Needle Rifle)
Prometheans- Light Rifle
Sniper Rifle:
UNSC- Sniper Rifle
Elites- Beam Rifle
Brutes- Needed
Prometheans- Binary Rifle
LMG:
UNSC- Heavy Machine Gun
Elites- Plasma Machine Gun
Brutes- Needed
Prometheans- Needed
SMG:
UNSC- SMG
Elites- Plasma Rifle
Brutes- Spiker/Brute Plasma Rifle
Prometheans- Needed
Heavy Weapon:
UNSC- Rocket Rifle
Elites- Plasma Launcher/Fuel Rod Cannon
Brutes- Needed (Fuel Rod Cannon)
Prometheans- Incineration Cannon
Grenade:
UNSC- Frag Grenade
Elites- Plasma Grenade
Brutes- Spike Grenade
Prometheans- Promethean Grenade
Sidearm:
UNSC- Magnum
Elites- Plasma Pistol
Brutes- Needed
Prometheans- Boltshot
Close Quarters:
UNSC- Shotgun
Elites- Energy Sword
Brutes- Mauler
Prometheans- Scattershot
Special Weapon:
UNSC- Grenade Launcher/Sticky Detonator
Elites- Concussian Rifle
Brutes- Brute Shot
Prometheans- Needed
Special Heavy Weapon:
UNSC- Spartan Laser
Elites- Needed/Plasma Launcher
Brutes- Needed
Prometheans- Needed
Vehicles
Scout Vehicle:
UNSC- Mongoose
Elites- Ghost
Brutes- Chopper
Prometheans- Needed
Light Vehicle:
UNSC- Warthog
Elites- Spectre/Revenant
Brutes- Prowler
Prometheans- Needed
Heavy Vehicle:
UNSC- Tank
Elites- Wraith
Brutes- Needed
Prometheans- Needed
Flying Vehicle:
UNSC- Hornet/Falcon
Elites- Banshee
Brutes- Needed
Prometheans- Needed
Special Vehicle:
UNSC- Mantis
Elites- Needed
Brutes- Needed
Prometheans- Needed
So I realize that this kinda became a Halo wiki page, but if we added these counterparts, we would have about 9 duel weildable weapons. Which could warrant the return of that feature.
So it’s ridiculously long but I hope I explained a cool idea.
TL;DR
UNSC/Elite/Brute/Promethean Weapon and Vehicle counterparts could bring back Invasion in the form of a “Versus” Gamemode (E.g. Brutes vs Prometheans)
