i know this is is real stretch that probably won’t work,
but i’d like an MMO style pregame lobby
and even more than just the pregame lobby, mabey the enitre Main menu system can be like this (it’s an idea, remember)
you would spawn in an initall room with some doors or portals that will bring you into certan areas of the game
this small room would have things specific to you and multiplayer
there will be Computer and TV moniters around the room displaying different things;
-A small moniter will show any of your freinds that are playing ANY halo game, not just halo 4,
if you have multiple freinds that can’t all fit on the screen (srsly? that many??) the list will scoll down slowly and rest after it reaches
the bottom
-Another small moniter will show Halo 4 achivements that you have earned with it’s discription, it will scroll through all teh recent ones
you ahve erned (recent as in, within a few months)
-A really small moniter will show your rank, and the amount of XP/cR/Spartan Points you need to earn in order to achive the next rank
(provided that this is how the ranking system will work)
-A “mirror” like screen will show what armor you currently have on
-Right next to this screen ^^ it will show what “perks” and initial spawn weapon you have eqiped
-(Ideal screen…give me some ideas)
like i said before, in this room you will have “portas” that will lead you to different parts of the game
examples:
-a portal leading Coustom games
-A portal leading to That Infinitey thing (MM and Spartan Ops)
-Theater
-Campaign
-Forge
-Ect. if necessary
you can accses options Via your start menu
if you were to go into The Infinity portal, you would have a little prompt come up asking where you want to go, MM or Spartan Ops
if you choose MM, then another prompt will come up asking which playlist you want to choose.
after you choose which playlist you want, you will spawn in ANOTHER room, first off, completely empty that fill with players over time
(this is matchmaking)
there will be some things to do in the room though,
-there will be target practice, where you can take an initial spawn weapon and shoot holographic targets
- you can look at stats (thru your start menu)
- you can look at the game type being chosen (a big screen)
- you can look at leaderborads through two difefrent screens, the first will show the Top ranks, and the Gamertags of the players at said
ranks, the second screen, will show a list with YOU and people around your rank (this might be harder to implemenmt, as multiple people will
look at the screen at once)
- you can engage in small “duels” with other players by entering a certain area of the room
- you can coustimise loadouts or aperance ( Via start menu)
-you can look at other players- their armor, their rank, their GT’s, their Perks mabey, and mabey even their inilial weapon choice
When the map is loading, players will be allowed to use all this
Once the map has loaded, the system will alow about 10 seconds for players to make any last minute settings, and will allow players to take
a quick glance at the Game and map
the 10 seconds will apear on all of the players’ screens in nice big red numbers
once the countdown reaches 0, the game will start
this idea, i call it the HUB idea will best suport the Halo 3 style of map and gametype choosing, where as the system chooses a map and
gametype at random, and asks if you want to veto it
for this, a button near the Big screen will be there that poeple can press (“Hit X Submit game Veto”) to veto the game and map
you won’t be allowed to hurt anyone for obvios reasons (unless you are in one of those “duel” areas)
If you were to choose Spartan Ops…well i don’t know how it will play, so i don’t have a good idea of how it will look
All the others will be much more simple;
Forge and Coustom games, you go into the portal, select your map, and forge/game type from the prompt that appeares, and hit X to change
options when the prompt is shown
you will then be transported to a room which looks like the MM room, but it dosen’t have as many screens displying data.
In this room, you can invite other players, and if they accept the invite, will be transported to your room
when you are ready to start, there is a button beneath the Screen wich shows the game and Map, the words will apear: “Press X to start game”
once the button is pressed, it can be canceled by the host by pressing the button again
it can also be delayed by anyone in the room, by pressing the button
the countdown time for coustom games and forge would be about 5-6 seconds, as teh match will not start automatically
Campagin:
simple, you go through the portal, and you are transported to the campaign room, which is simple enough with soe cool things here and there
For the skulls, there will be some pedistils, each having a skull siting on it, if you aproch one of the peadistils, you will see the words,
“Hold X to pick up Tough Luck skull” or “Hold X to pick up Mythic Skull” and so on, if you choose to pick up a skull, you will…and once you
do, it will stay in your hands for about a second or so, and then dissapear. You will find teh skull you picked up to be on a pedistil
opisite to where you picked it up, exept this time, it’s eyes will be lit, and will be active when you play your mission
if you want to deactivate a skull, just go up to an active one, and you will see the words: Hold X to Turn off Tough Luck Skull" and so on,
the same prosses to turn one on will start, exect the skull will go somewhere else…back to its original pedistill
for dificulty, it will be simple, there will be four slots, each having a title over them reading, Easy, Normal, Heroic, or Lenegdary, and
in each slot, will be a grunt, each different for each difficulty; a Minor for Easy, A major for normal, A spec-Ops or Heavy for Heroic, and
an Ultra (the ones with helmets) for Legendary
using your magnum, you have to kill the grunt standing in the slot (he won’t fight back) to activate the dificulty
By difault, it will be set on Normal dificulty
If you happen to want to change difficulties after you have already chosen, just kill the grunt for the difficulcty you want to change to,
and the first grunt you killed, will respawn
for scoring, you will see a button, go over to it and it will say: “Hold X to turn on Scoring” if you turn it on (by difault, it will be
off) you will see two lights apear, one thats says Fre-For-All, and Another that reads Team,
shoot the light for the scoring type you want active
max of 4 poeple can join in a campaign game
for theater, you go through your portal, and choose the clip you want to play…simple
and it could be an option, on a simple button in the options menu, it can be switched to the standard MM system looks (the list of "Player
Found")
i don’t expect people to like this idea…it was just a suggestion
thoughts?
