spoiler alert!..ok heres my idea for some single player dlc for reach. i know that 343 wont make it but its a good idea anyway.
it would be short kinda like odst but meyb shorter…i would say 800 ms points for 4 missions or meyb 1600 points for 7 or 8 missions.
i have read peoples ideas for singleplayer dlc and most of them want somthing like noble teams backstory or the battle of reach from the perspective of master cheif, odst’s ,or other spartans. that would be great but i have an idea that i think would be even better. the battle of reach from the perspective of the elite zealot team that noble encounters throughout the game.
the gameplay would be fairly simular the only differences would be that you will be fighting marines odst’s and spartans. the main goal of the dlc would be to give the player the full experiance of fighting as the pointman of a squad of highly trained elites. the zealots sheilds will have to be nerfed for the sake of gameplay but imagine storming a spartan base with your squad of cloaked zealots. energy swords drawn you pick up a spartan with one arm and impale him with the other then uncloak and fry the rest of them with duel plasma rifles.
their could even be a space battle where you fly either a seriph or space banshees shooting down sabres and destroying some frigates. i remember how awsome it was in halo2 playing as the arbiter cloaking and sneaking your way through entire levels assassinating everyone in your path. and even now when i go back to play halo2 on legendary the arbiter missions are really the only ones i find fun anymore.
people complained about the arbiter missions when halo2 was first released yet they seem to be the only missions that have passed the test of time. just imagine storming new alexadria in an anti air wraith oblitorating scorpians and warthogs. the puny humans defend their city with hundreds of troops but they dont stand a chance against the spec ops elites. send in your grunts and watch as the puny runts die one by one. their sacrifice revealing to you the position of a spartan sniper in a distant building.
this idea has the potential for some good gameplay and honestly if i had some dev tools and a modded xbox i would make it myself. the only hard part would be balancing the gameplay but it wouldnt be that hard. the spartans could use the elites AI just modified slightly to make them less aggro and more tactical. they did it with odst and that worked quite well so if they can make an odst game on the same engine as halo3 i dont see why it would be all that difficult to make an elite expansion with the reach engine. a small passionate team could pull it off quite nicely…they could even use alot of the same levels since the team of zealots encouters and kills most of noble team anyway…noble team could be boss characters. you could play as the elite that snipes kat from his dropship or fight emile as one of the last bosses. or pilot one of the banshees that chases down carters pelican.
the possibilities are endless. you could even be that elite that grabs noble six and gets punched or one of the elites that finally kills him at the end.
their are enough halo fans that it would sell well. during night missions you would turn on your purpley night vision and cut down odst’s one by one with energy swords, switch to your needle rifle and supress a spartan before he dmr’s your grunts from his tower. this would also allow for utilization of evade in singleplayer missions.
i belive that an expansion of this nature would give a cool perspective to the battles that we experianced as noble 6. even if all the voice acting was in alien speak and it had no new music…it would still be about as epic as it gets.
Simply breaking holes in lines of intrenched nests of spartan’s would be fun -Yoink- hell…like reverse firefight…this would also be a good excuse to bring back firefight versus in matchmaking, which happens to be my second favorite gametype (fav being invasion)…
well i dont expect bungie or 343 to make dlc of this nature but i thought i would voice a good idea none the less. at the very least they could give us more invasion maps even if they are comunity created. anyway let me know your opinions on this idea and if you would like to see somthing kinda like it in the future.
>also if anyone has any examples why this would work/not work feel free to post. this is more a discussion then anything else im not trying to form a petition here just bounce some ideas, bungie and 343 are busy as hell atm anyway
the ending would present a problem cause they would have to work in a way for Noble six to kill you)