there should really be HUD elements for each character. eventually, if you want to forge a map and play as brutes or play as a grunt, there should be separate HUDs for grunts jackals brutes elites flood human combat forms flood elite combat forms flood spore combat forms flood muffin wall crawler drones forerunner suppressor guys, forerunner mimetic skull knights forerunner sentinel drones forerunner sentinel drone type 2s
all of the characters of should have visually unique and thematically appealing HUDs that even if these assets are not loaded in most campaign missions, can be compiled into a scenario if they are called for in a forge map.
also important is ubiquitous details displayed to spartans on their HUD would be seamlessly carried over to the (covenant/forerunner/banished/smashed flesh gravemind short circuitry) striking visual differences between the nature of the species that developed their HUD
like a grunt HUD could incorporate some sort of 8% opacity methane pressure gauge or something
and flood hud would be bloody wires and electrodes stuck into a brain with some little writhing organic tentacles overlaid by partially functioning human OR covenant OR banished interface.
what the heck would forerunner HUD look like? i bet that would be way cool. probably has like some hypercube 6 dimensional spherical motion tracker and xray/gamma ray vision capabilites or something
there could be powerups unique to the UI of the character you’re playing as. flood muffin powerups could be ragdoll reanimation into combat form with gravemind HUD
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As I’ve said above, honestly hire out some modders. There are passionate people ready and willing to do the work to help make these things.
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we want to be able to use these HUDs in the new slipspace forge engine though
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I get that, that’s what I said. Hire modders for this work. Fans are dedicated and happy to do this kind of stuff. If we want playable races with differing Hudson and armors, why not open it all up to the players.
A la tennogen. Check up above in my previous posts. You’ll understand what I mean
What about playable brutes? I feel like that could be interesting for an invasion mode
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There’s been rumors that a new game mode called extraction is supposedly hinting that brutes are going to be playable which is great but still elites should be playable as well
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Technicly speaking that is a step forward. brutes are closer to spartans in size.
And with them playable that opens the door for elites down the line.
this is just becoming more and more interesting every day i wake up lol
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Honestly I hate to say this but I don’t think 343i has plans to bring back playable Elites! It’s been the number one topic across waypoint sense the halo 4 days! And if it’s been long I don’t see it happening which stinks to high heaven!
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It could be in vain or not but I’ll keep fighting to have them back it was my childhood it was who I was when I played matches it’s what I remember the most about halo from the first time they were playable and it has for many old school halo players It should have never been removed in the first place and we will not back down
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It truly does separate so many games out there! Like bring the elites back and even the brutes.
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Has anyone read Joseph Staten’s content on LinkedIn?
“deliver the next great Halo experience”
Some important old employees returned to the studio.
He is the author of the Shadow of Intent.
Halo used to have a tradition of playable elite.
I am optimistic about this.
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I gotta say you guys do me hope for elites to see the fire y’all’s spirits and willingness to fight for it for the honor of sanghelios and the elites rights to train with Spartans in multiplayer is truly inspiring!!!
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That’s fair but we’re not gonna stop fighting till we get a definitive answer. For now me like everyone else will just be on mcc.
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they have no reason not to add them, they love money and it would just be extra dollar signs for them. There’s only so much customization one could think of or even have.
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Thread still going strong. Just hoping 343 gets some sense and gives people their player expression back with this. 2009 to now, always played as an Elite. Even if they’re added in with an expansion I just want them back. Been almost 12 years, a pretty long time without playable elites. Plus, invasion with 12v12 would be absolutely insane.
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Invasion 12 v 12?
Well if Certain affinity can achieve 100player count for a BR.
What about an invasion 50v50?honestly would be wicked
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Invasion is a must. I also want some kinda firefight mode back with us playing unsc/ sos vs all the banished units we see.
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Have you guys seen the renders people have been doing of elite armor variants in halo infinite?
This game could really benefit from a SpartanGen (Halo’s version of Warframes tennogen)
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