I’ve been wanting to pilot a Scarab since I saw it in Halo 2. So far, Halo Wars has been the only game to give me some pleasure in commanding it, but I want to PILOT it. That, a Lich, a Locust, and a Phantom. Bring back the old forge world and let us put those, pelicans, mammoths, elephants, and scarabs in. The Forge World is large enough to house them, so why not? They’re slow, and big targets, balanced out with a big punch. Anyone else want to command the bigger vehicles out there?
I love the idea, but I am not going to vote simply because I know that the max amount of people halo’s mm and customs can hold is 16. Thats enough people to fit inside one pelican. Why do you think halo 4’s pelican in campaign didnt have the passenger seats in the back open? Because there arent enough players to fill them (no more than 4).
Dont get me wrong, BTB would be epic with them included, but you would need at least double the max amount of players you have in BTB now to actually make it work. And at this point, its pretty much a given that halo 4 cant do it. Bigger vehicles require:
Bigger maps. That means bigger sights, which means DMR dominance and more people complaining about how the BR keeps getting outperformed. (spawning everyone with the same gun would solve this problem easy)
The need for more power weapons. With personal and random ordinance, this shouldnt be too much of a problem, but Im sure someone would find a flaw that would be exploited.
Balance. Im sorry, but a pelican with a mounted machine gun and spartan laser does not balance with a phantom with three slow-moving plasma guns. Given its size, I could see the locust being a good balance for the mantis, since the banshee blows as a mantis-equivalent. But then we would also need a small unsc aircraft to balance the banshee, such as the hornet or falcon. Overall, it would lead to a huge mess of modeling and programming that 343i obviously doesnt have the time for.
I almost wish 343i would make a seperate game, specific to large vehicle gameplay. But with all that they are planning to do right now, I doubt they will even have the time for it.
Bigger maps, agreed. As for the pelican and phantom, who said they had to be armed? Purely mass transit, unless people man the turrets. As for the Phantom, I’ve seen some deployed in Spartan ops that fire a wall of flak at faster than normal speeds when I try to pilot a banshee to them (same level that the mantis are in).
Maybe have their own MP Playlist. Pelican vs Phantoms. Sounds like it could work.
Even space combat with frigates and corvettes. Maybe just Campaign though but still awesome.
Should be in Spartan Ops.
Just left me drive an Elephant again…
> Just left me drive an Elephant again…
In Reach there was going to be a mission after New Alexandria where you were going to drive the Scarab around on the street level, too bad it was cut though 
As for the Pelican, I think it would be cool if they kinda made it a Falcon/Pelican hybrid kinda like they did with the on on Shutdown. Have two side guns on the Pelican, (nerf them a bit from SP) and allow for one or two spots in the back for people to sit/carry an objective. In my vision of a MP Pelican there would be 4 or 5 seats max. Have it able to take 2 Spartan Laser shots or two missile salvos from the Mantas.
The Mammoth is way too large for MM, bring back the Elephant though and add it to a forge Sand Trap type map and that would be awesome…
> Maybe have their own MP Playlist. Pelican vs Phantoms. Sounds like it could work.
> Even space combat with frigates and corvettes. Maybe just Campaign though but still awesome.
Reach was going to have something like this in Fire Fight (AI)/Space Fight (18 people) but it was cut early in development…
- My support.
You are master of any weapon, pilot of any vehicle
So yes 
I like how silent gamer said the DMR would be dominant. It already is lol
> You are master of any weapon, pilot of any vehicle
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> So yes
I like your name.
I voted yes but I would rather have 343 take the programming, coding and balancing time/money to make other weapons, vehicles, improving multiplayer. These things simply take too much time away from the actual game development. However, 343, you made a already pilot able pelican. You failed to place this in forge. I do believe this was very stupid on your part in my opinion. If it was simply time crunching, ok, but truly, truly. You chose a campaign/1 mission only pelican over a MM able falcon or hornet.
Scarab Slayer? One team goes and destroys a Scarab while the other team pilots the Scarab and tries to survive long enough to win. Sounds wonderful to me.
> > You are master of any weapon, pilot of any vehicle
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> > So yes
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> I like your name.
I like yours too 
As cool as that sounds, it’ll never happen.
> Scarab Slayer? One team goes and destroys a Scarab while the other team pilots the Scarab and tries to survive long enough to win. Sounds wonderful to me.
All of this