People merging Ordinance Points for vehicles?

Games Other Halo
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To be frank, I have no idea how this would work from a gameplay mechanics standpoint, but what if team mates could combine their Ordinance points to purchase a vehicle? I’m not really a fan of the personal Ordinances since they will promote selfish playibg, but I’m enthused about this idea because it would actually encourage people working together for a vehicle which combines multiple people to man. To clarify, I only think this should work for vehicles that require multiple people to make effectively work such as Warthogs, Spectres, Falcons and Mamoths. Things like Banshees, Scorpions and Wraiths only really require one person to make work, so they would be exempt.

Thoughts? This isn’t a thread to bring up “CoDification,” by the way.

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How are they going to drop a Scorpion from a small pod???

But, I’d rather not have vehicles in ordinance.

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Always full of ideas. This one was good.

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> How are they going to drop a Scorpion from a small pod???
>
> But, I’d rather not have vehicles in ordinance.

ODSV: Orbital Drop Shock Vehicle.

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How exactly would they combine their ordinance points?

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> How exactly would they combine their ordinance points?

It would have to be through some sort of external menu or a hologram of the requested vehicle placed on the field which other players could “donate” towards. It would be easier if we had cough keyboards since controllers only have so many buttons, but the Ordinance menu could also be overhauled for Halo 5 to bring up an extended options menu that would be navigated with the dpad.

Also, this could actually get Kinect to have another use in a Halo game.

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I feel like that might just promote camping

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> I feel like that migght just promote camping

Any more power weapons already do? The only vehicle that can really get away with camping is the Scorpion because it’s an AOE Sniper Rifle.

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> How are they going to drop a Scorpion from a small pod???
>
> But, I’d rather not have vehicles in ordinance.

By Pelican. And it would probably only be available on Big Team maps, like Longbow.

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Well Imagine the team camping in the back going " when we get 15 kills we unlock a banshee!"

I don’t think the original system promotes camping because obtaing a power weapon from it is based on luck.

And with power weapons dropping along the map your forced to go get it or the enemy team will stock up.

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> > How are they going to drop a Scorpion from a small pod???
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> > But, I’d rather not have vehicles in ordinance.
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> By Pelican. And it would probably only be available on Big Team maps, like Longbow.

Or ODSV pods.

> Well Imagine the team camping in the back going " when we get 15 kills we unlock a banshee!"

I liked the part where you read the OP.

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Actually, no, the camping arguments make no sense because there’s no benefit from camping for points. It doesn’t matter if the person dies with Ordinance because the points carry over through death.