As we know Halo has had a vast array or Weapons, Vehicles and Enemies. I suggest bringing back all halo equipment (Except Invincibility… That was stupid.) and have it as some sort of power AA form which can only be used once. This would lead to some AA’s being dropped and it could also act as a counteraction for some weapons and vehicles, for example a guy is running towards you with an energy sword deploy the land mine in the form of an armour ability that a guy picked up earlier and KA-BOOM! now you have an energy sword and an extra kill. This could work with AA’s as well because some of them are so overpowered and by upgrading them and making them power AA’s they would be balanced. Also doing this would allow all of the equipment from halo 3 would make a return.
Armour abilitys like armour lock would be a power AA and cannot be picked up by another player if already picked up. They would also recharge as normal. Thoughts? Let me know below.
Agree, we need the return of Equipment. I have suggested this as an option:
How to HYBRID AA and Equipment made easy:
AA/Equipment become the same. The are only available as map pickup, but it is possible through game settings that you can spawn with them. This would benefit custom games and action sack.
The big difference now is, that not all equipment is single use, some can be multiuse. To balance them out. The Bubble Shield and Power Drainer would be single use, where Hologram and Thruster Pack would be mutiuse. Again, you can change how many times each ability/equipment can be used and also change the time before it can be re-used. This gives you great power.
Take the JP for example. In both REACH and H4 it is very overpowered, it destroys map control and map movement. But if this was a one time use, or it had 3 quick upwards burst like Thruster Pack. It would be much more balanced and require much more skill to use. And if say you encounter someone and you fired rockets at them, and the used the JP to escape and survive, and even if the then won the encounter. You wouldn’t feel cheated like you do in REACH and H4. You would go, well played.
That is why Equipment is much preferred. But if we have a hybrid of the two, we can’t really call them Equipment or AA, so we need a new name.
The only name I have thought of so far, and it is not very impressive is “UTILITIES”. So if you like my idea, which I have had much help from the community to improve it (Thank to SWIFT). And can think of a better name. Please tell.
IMO, at this current stage, i think this is the best approach. And most importantly, it returns Halo to an Arena Shooter by having “UTILITIES” placed on maps.
