343i you have done an amazing job with infinite’s campaign! Incredible. Thank you for this. And if this Halo and it’s live service is to last 10 years, here are my biggest hopes for things that we could experience together! If even some of this were added in, this would definitely be my favorite Halo by far.
[*] Exploratory.
Obviously without knowing what DLC and expansions will bring, and what places we will explore in them, but I’d love;
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To explore the islands out beyond the bounds of the current base campaign. They look so explorable. I want to climb that guardian.
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to be able to fly up to the hovering banished ships if they are directly overhead. Take them out.
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It would be crazy to stand on the edge of the ring. Or walk on its outer shell. Would be a wild mission.
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I’ll never not want dynamic weather in Halo. It’d be so cool.
[*] Encounters
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Banished Scarab. ‘Nuff said.
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Goliath Hunters.
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Marines being able to drive vehicles. I miss those moments with full scale vehicular chaos on wide open battlefields. Driving a warthog with three other warthogs at your back. Some allies in a tank, some in whatever they found, just going full into it. Storming the scarabs in Halo 3 was one big feeling infinites campaign left me craving. Banished scarabs…THAT would be something.
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it would be epic to be able to grapple up to the phantoms and take out the crew; then Pry the doors open and take out the pilots.
It would be a step more epic if we could then even hijack the phantom and transport saved marines in them. That’s some Spartan S***.
And one more step epic? imagine a command while piloting the phantom, if you’re close enough to the ground, to deploy the marines to flank enemies while you then just go crash the phantom into their ranks. Also some Spartan S***
- And it goes without saying, but, the Flood…
Flood outbreaks on Zeta would be surreal. With new terrifying forms.
But more specifically I’d still love to fight a Gravemind. Or Protograveminds.
[*] Weapon Sandbox.
Useful or not the weapons I missed the most;
- BRUTE SHOT. Plasma Rifle (or brute), SMG, Needle Rifle, Beam Rifle, Shotgun.
- And personal taste but I’d love to see a type or two more Needler weapons. Fear the pink mist.
[*] Vehicle Sandbox.
Honestly where my biggest hopes are.
I Would absolutely LOVE LOVE to see vehicles pulled from Halo Wars 2’s roster.
- Banished; Locust, Marauder, Vampire,
- UNSC; Jackrabbit, wolverine, grizzly,
These would be a my favorites and blast to drive around. Even the more support type vehicles from Halo Wars would be really fun and interesting to use in Co-Op.
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Would love to see the falcon return too. Would be perfect for co-op too. Or flying around with our favorite marines.
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I’d love to see the pilot mount up in a vulture…Or even get to fly one ourselves. would be a great mission.
*if balance is the issue, I think that could be fixed by having slightly different sandbox sets on different islands or expansions or something? Or weapons could have a rarity system. Like most of the time enemies might spawn with let’s say shock rifles, but occasionally one of them will spawn with a beam rifle, or A brute that had a bulldog might rarely spawn with a classic shotgun; Just whatever is equivalent to the weapon whatever enemy may have.
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*And maybe something similar for vehicles? Might be two brute choppers in an area, but occasionally two brute choppers and a Reaver or something. The game seems to self balance already depending on what you go out into the world with though too, so it seems like it wouldn’t be cluttered with a bigger sandbox. Just more varied place to place. Plathrough to playthrough.
*You call in a scorpion and go out and see wraiths and banshees. Call in a grizzly and see wraiths, reavers, banshees and vampire or something. Or maybe you just can’t call in the more specialized vehicles and have to find out on the battlefield.
[*] Hopes for Returning Characters.
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Spirit of fire’s Return. That’s the fire I want set in my heart. I think my biggest hope is just seeing chief interact with Red team and cutter. And facing off against The Banished would feel even more satisfying alongside the Spirit of fire and crew.
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Blue Team. Of course.
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Look, I still just miss good Ol’ half-jaw, okay? Rtas is so Sick. Suddenly hearing over coms “This is the carrier Shadow of Intent…”. My God.
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The Arbiter. To fight alongside Keith David again, are you kidding me? Yes.
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Osiris, Crimson, and Majestic. I want to save some Spartans. I promised Spartan Griffin I would. And if they happened to be familiar faces, that would be pretty crisp.
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Lasky and Halsey
-And a side not but I hope campaign eventually gets a service record. I loved knowing how many covenant met their end by my hand.
I guess it’s a pretty long list. Here’s to the next 10 years of Halo!
