Had this idea ever since Halo 2 hit the shelves… Part of me hoped this is what Halo Wars would be like instead of a strategy but hey. Does anyone else think this would be a good idea? Think of the space battles Battlefront had and then imagine it with covenant cruisers,longswords, pelicans, seraphs etc. And the ‘points’ for better characters would work perfectly for this too! Start off as a marine/grunt/jackal and progress your way up to say a spartan/ hunter via ODST’s/ Elites. They put a cap on the higher rank characters in those games so it wouldn’t end up being spartans vs hunters etc. Just think it’s something they should consider. I know a lot of people who see this as a way of fleshing out all the vehicle warfare they’ve (let’s be honest) neglected in every title. And if they added AI coding into the multiplayer it would be amazing! With the new consoles specs rumours roughly saying the same thing… they could easily make something like this that should support 24 vs 24. I’d get it even if it only could manage split screen!
YES! We. Need. This. Game. Now. I can see all the factions now-
I. UNSC
A. Marine Infantry
B. " Sniper
C. " Heavy Assault
D. " Engineer
E. ODST
F. Spartan
II. Covenant
A. Grunt
B. Jackal
C. Fuel Rod Grunt
D. Drone
E. Elite
F. Hunter
I would honestly have preferred this to Halo Wars.
> YES! We. Need. This. Game. Now. I can see all the factions now-
>
> I. UNSC
> A. Marine Infantry
> B. " Sniper
> C. " Heavy Assault
> D. " Engineer
> E. ODST
> F. Spartan
> II. Covenant
> A. Grunt
> B. Jackal
> C. Fuel Rod Grunt
> D. Drone
> E. Elite
> F. Hunter
Let’s not forget the Flood and Promethean classes:
III. Flood
A. Flood combat form (Elite)
B. Flood combat form (Human)
C. Flood combat form (Brute)
D. Infection Form
E. Flood pure form
F. Flood Juggernaut
IV. Promethean
A. Crawler
B. Crawler Snipe
C. Watcher
D. Knight Lancer
E. Knight Battlewagon
F. Knight Commander
Additionally there should also be “hero” units for each of the classes. Some examples could include:
I think the reason a lot of games have stayed away from the battlefront style is the 2nd one flopped from what i’ve heard. Pandemic died during the recession anyway
But i believe that’s because they released it when online play (consoles) wasn’t really all that huge. Release something like it now and I really can’t see them going wrong. I honestly can’t believe that most people wouldn’t like the idea of e.g. 24 vs 24, spawning in a pelican loaded up with your squad mates with a scorpion on the back and going and decimating some covenant flying in the opposite direction with a wraith!
Space battles would be easily modelled too. Make a less accessible version of the corvette from reach for example and you could jump inside, take out life support, engines (like Battlefront 2)
Just honestly think they should do this as a side project (doubt it’ll happen though) :’(
I’m not sure how you could incorporate flood and prometheans into the main game play but they had those hunting missions where you could do ewoks vs sniper troopers. Could possibly do something like that? Having said that the flood proved countlessly (in halo 2) they’re more than happy to utilise human and cov vehicles alike. So you could use those in the main gameplay.
It doesn’t sound crazy, They used Battlefront 2’s space combat mode in Reach and the bases in Dominion act like the command posts. My answer, HELL YES, DO IT!!
(doubt it’ll happen though) :’(