I’ve played every Halo since Combat Evolved. While I love the series, I can’t help but notice there’s one arena of battle being greatly ignored: the sea.
Halo’s universe takes place over 500 years in the future, on many different alien planets, and involves LOTS of different combat scenarios. I find it hard to believe that these battles and their locations never include oceans and/or combat on or beneath the sea. It just doesn’t make sense.
Its probably too late(and difficult) to design naval combat for the existing Halo gameplay, but that doesn’t mean it can’t happen in future games. Just imagine battling in UNSC submarines, scuba Spartans, or futuristic wave runners with mounted turrets.
Yes I am a former US Naval service member, but my opinion isn’t bias. The Halo universe would be an awesome place to add naval warfare to the FPS genre.
I can’t be the only one who wants to see CTF under water.
Well I feel like it could be both a good and bad addition I definitely see where your coming from. The UNSC names all their vehicles after some sort of animal so imagine the possibilities with this examples: (Shark, Orca, Dolphin, Stingray, etc.) Itd be really cool to see this. Also imagine loosely based underwater versions of already existing vehicles. I agree it may never happen but I would certainly love to see something like this included in future installments.
If only Spartans didn’t drown in anything worse than a light rain… 
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> I’ve played every Halo since Combat Evolved. While I love the series, I can’t help but notice there’s one arena of battle being greatly ignored: the sea.
> Halo’s universe takes place over 500 years in the future, on many different alien planets, and involves LOTS of different combat scenarios. I find it hard to believe that these battles and their locations never include oceans and/or combat on or beneath the sea. It just doesn’t make sense.
> Its probably too late(and difficult) to design naval combat for the existing Halo gameplay, but that doesn’t mean it can’t happen in future games. Just imagine battling in UNSC submarines, scuba Spartans, or futuristic wave runners with mounted turrets.
> Yes I am a former US Naval service member, but my opinion isn’t bias. The Halo universe would be an awesome place to add naval warfare to the FPS genre.
> I can’t be the only one who wants to see CTF under water.
Space is the new sea. Submarines don’t exist because they’re obsolete investments and unneeded. Just like UNSC Air Vehicles. We don’t have those anymore because they were rendered obsolete in terms of the War Games Simulations. We 'won’t ever need the ability to have a Spartan flying a UNSC air vehicle, only ground vehicles… sure let’s give them Phaetons and Banshees, but no human vehicles to train in… absolutely unnecessary waste of digital investments."
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> Well I feel like it could be both a good and bad addition I definitely see where your coming from. The UNSC names all their vehicles after some sort of animal so imagine the possibilities with this examples: (Shark, Orca, Dolphin, Stingray, etc.) Itd be really cool to see this. Also imagine loosely based underwater versions of already existing vehicles. I agree it may never happen but I would certainly love to see something like this included in future installments.
The Kraken is a sea-dwelling giant squid.
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> > I’ve played every Halo since Combat Evolved. While I love the series, I can’t help but notice there’s one arena of battle being greatly ignored: the sea.
> > Halo’s universe takes place over 500 years in the future, on many different alien planets, and involves LOTS of different combat scenarios. I find it hard to believe that these battles and their locations never include oceans and/or combat on or beneath the sea. It just doesn’t make sense.
> > Its probably too late(and difficult) to design naval combat for the existing Halo gameplay, but that doesn’t mean it can’t happen in future games. Just imagine battling in UNSC submarines, scuba Spartans, or futuristic wave runners with mounted turrets.
> > Yes I am a former US Naval service member, but my opinion isn’t bias. The Halo universe would be an awesome place to add naval warfare to the FPS genre.
> > I can’t be the only one who wants to see CTF under water.
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> Space is the new sea. Submarines don’t exist because they’re obsolete investments and unneeded. Just like UNSC Air Vehicles. We don’t have those anymore because they were rendered obsolete in terms of the War Games Simulations. We 'won’t ever need the ability to have a Spartan flying a UNSC air vehicle, only ground vehicles… sure let’s give them Phaetons and Banshees, but no human vehicles to train in… absolutely unnecessary waste of digital investments."
I agree, space has always been treated as the new ocean from the way that ships are named to the new explorers being space explorers - look at UNSC, Mass Effect or Star Trek. Though I will say that Air Vehicles may still have some place.
Why have naval battles when you have massive spaceships that can bombard any coastal location or destroy any seafaring ship. Naval warfare is obsolete now.
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> > Well I feel like it could be both a good and bad addition I definitely see where your coming from. The UNSC names all their vehicles after some sort of animal so imagine the possibilities with this examples: (Shark, Orca, Dolphin, Stingray, etc.) Itd be really cool to see this. Also imagine loosely based underwater versions of already existing vehicles. I agree it may never happen but I would certainly love to see something like this included in future installments.
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> The Kraken is a sea-dwelling giant squid.
Yeah, but it’s a Covenant weapon/vehicle/mining platform/thing and the kraken is a mythical giant squid.
Yeah no. That’s definitely a waste of time and resources in real life and if you look at it from a halo viewpoint. “Hmmm do I want to buy a fleet RESTRICTED to only being on and in the water of this ONE planet when we know of someone many others OR buy a actual real and practical fleet of spaceships to explore what really needs exploring and it’s butt potentially kicked?” I’d rather then focus on getting us UNSC air vehicles, infection, race, and so many other things other than seeing my spartan doing the breast stroke with a flag taking forever to get back to my base. Also have you not seen the myth busters episode? Bullets pretty much fall apart in water so there goes underwater gameplay. As for on the water why the hell would you take a spartan with the level of mobility he has and stick him on a craft that doesn’t? If you want something like that there already is its called battlefield 4 it makes sense to have it there. Lame idea is lame.
I wouldn’t want to see that in Halo matchmaking. Maybe some space combat in single-ship fighters like broadswords and seraphs, kinda like Battlefront is doing. I can only see a sea ship in the campaign, and as a way of getting to an objective because all other routes are closed maybe. Have a little fight on the way there were you repel banshees and what not with turrets.
Due to a lack of Naval Vehicles I take a mongoose and drive it through the sea on Raid On Apex 7 and pretend its a jet ski lol
Take Ghost
Weld pieces to Ghost
Place invisible blockers under the surface
Place Spartan teleporters just on the surface of the water that teleports you to the ocean floor
NAVAL COMBAT
To those of you who think naval warfare is obsolete I just want to say on behalf of the US NAVY, you’re welcome. We’ve defended the earth’s largest battlefield for American freedom for over 200 years and we still do.
Also, today’s Rangers and SEALs still use tomahawks and field knives in modern combat. There’s no such thing as an obsolete weapon or combat tactic.
Finally, real warfare takes place on all types of battlefields. You can’t tell me other planets in the future don’t have masses of water or enemies willing to fight for it.
I think you critics are just too scared to try gameplay in new environments.
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> To those of you who think naval warfare is obsolete I just want to say on behalf of the US NAVY, you’re welcome. We’ve defended the earth’s largest battlefield for American freedom for over 200 years and we still do.
> Also, today’s Rangers and SEALs still use tomahawks and field knives in modern combat. There’s no such thing as an obsolete weapon or combat tactic.
> Finally, real warfare takes place on all types of battlefields. You can’t tell me other planets in the future don’t have masses of water or enemies willing to fight for it.
> I think you critics are just too scared to try gameplay in new environments.
I think you’re reading the responses wrong.
What they are saying that naval warfare in Halo’s time frame is pointless. If you played earlier Halo games such as Halo 2, there are levels on the sea, but in the sky above. Why would a military need to have sea faring vehicles when they could use planes, jets, spaceships instead? Play Halo 2 and you’ll see what I mean.
Spartans are allergic to water and die when submerging themselves beneath it.
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> Due to a lack of Naval Vehicles I take a mongoose and drive it through the sea on Raid On Apex 7 and pretend its a jet ski lol
If 343 ever gives us a forge map that’s all water we can make our own naval battles and have the water be up to the point of where the warthogs bumpers are to “hide” the wheels and BOOM we got battle boats haha
To those saying that this wouldn’t make sense as naval warfare (as we know it) is obsolete, the UNSC does maintain a “wet” Navy, so these vehicles do exist in the canon.
I’d love naval/ underwater warfare in Halo. The gametype and forge possibilities are endless.
The UNSC dose have a Wet Navy. The only ship seen so far is a Aircraft Carrier that had those drone aircraft from Halo 3 ODST.
To those saying the UNSC doesn’t waste resources on a wet navy, if you’ve played Halo 3: ODST or the Halo 3 map, Longshore, you can see clearly that the UNSC still has Aircraft Carriers containing Pelicans and the unmanned aircraft that appear in ODST.
Bungie tried to get naval like vehicles back in halo 1 and during reach development. I’m sure they tried with H2 and H3 as well. From what I heard, it just doesn’t work well with the Halo engine.
theres a tiny bit of footage out there of a boat running on waves in a behind the scenes reach panel, shouldn’t be to hard to find on YouTube.