Possibility of Boats in Halo 4? (Bulletin)

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So, I just read the Bulletin, and this stood out to me in the information about the Operator Specialization:

“Spartan optimization for the operation and control of a wide-range of vehicles; space, air, ground, <mark>and sea</mark>.”

I’ve checked and so far I have seen no-one make a topic on this (although, knowing my luck, someone will whilst I type this…).

It could just be a purely back-story based thing, giving information as to why an S-IV would require that specialization, not based on our actual gameplay experiences. However, boats are things that a lot of the community has been asking for for a very long time, and I think it would be cool if 343 has added them. I say “has” as it is far too late to add them now.

As I said, it could just be my hopeful-ness, or just back-story information, but Im interested in the community’s opinion on this.

Thanks.

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It’s certainly a possibility for campaign, it’ll most definitely be spartan ops. I’m not so sure about custom games and forge though.

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Covenant forces had been searching the seafloor for something. What precisely - a holy relic, a geological sample - no one knew, and it didn’t matter. What mattered was when they got what they wanted, the Covenant then historically glassed the planet to remove any human “infestation”
Ghosts of Onyx, page 203

I would like to see some sort of tactical fight about stopping the above. That’d be cool :slight_smile:

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> Covenant forces had been searching the seafloor for something. What precisely - a holy relic, a geological sample - no one knew, and it didn’t matter. What mattered was when they got what they wanted, the Covenant then historically glassed the planet to remove any human “infestation”
> Ghosts of Onyx, page 203
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> I would like to see some sort of tactical fight about stopping the above. That’d be cool :slight_smile:

So, a Submarine? That would be cool, but difficult to do, especially for Multiplayer!

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I certainly hope boats will be available in Customs and Forge.

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Random knowledge fact:
Go to 6:47

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It’s a good idea and i hope your right about it; it would add a whole new dimension to the gameplay.

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I really do hope that they’ll have boats or things like that in Halo 4. I don’t think it’d be in MP though.

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> Random knowledge fact:
> Go to 6:47

I think we should have the global battles in Halo 4.

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> > Random knowledge fact:
> > Go to 6:47
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> I think we should have the global battles in Halo 4.

Would be very interesting to say the least, I’m for it.

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> Random knowledge fact:
> Go to 6:47

If you go to 08:00 in that video, it looks like that mission could be similar to the desert one we’ve seen in Halo 4. Well, hopefully it’s a mix between that, Tip of the Spear and The Ark.

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I still doubt that has any merit in terms of what we should expect to be in the game.

By the time of the Halo series, naval warfare has been brough down to an absolute minimum because it basically all takes place either in space or on the ground. I believe one of the books even describes how naval warfare is something from the past.

Now, Im not saying one line in a book means we won’t get it at all.
But for there to be a useful purpose for boats/hovercrafts/jetskis you need enemies that use such things as well. And Covies are exactly known to have water vehicles, and the Prometheans seem too advanced to have any use for such vehicles.

But what bothers me most is that boats and combat have seldomly delivered cool gameplay. I remember the last of such games that had any publicity was some Xbox launch title…which played horribly. And I guess Bungie didn’t cut boats from their original Reach plans for no reason…