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> > > > > I wouldn’t care if playable elites are added. But as long as they are not in Competitive/Ranked Arena, I’m fine with it. The different body structure would really screw with competitive play and could cause an unfair advantage.
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> > > > > How has this thread stayed alive for 4 years…
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> > > > Because we’re a strong part of the community.
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> > > > Better question is, why has 343 not added them in the last four years?
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> > > BECAUSE, OF, THE, STUPID, HIT, BOX, BALANCE, ISSUES. Inless you want weirdly spartan shaped elites, or a game mode like Invasion In Reach which was unpopular and didn’t get kept, it’s just illogical to make them in the games.
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> > The balance issues can be fixed, especially if the dev does so in a competent way. You also ignore there are many work arounds to that such as a playlists where it’s exclusively nothing but elites, bam! Everyone has the same footing and nothing is unfair. Seriously tho it just takes a competent dev to make the models correctly, if other games can do various aliens and monsters and the like halo can do one race at least.
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> Ok, go on, explain how to can be fixed?
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> Also really, an entire playlist just so people can play as an alternate skin? That’s such a waste of dev time.
Keep in mind I’m not even one who would play as an elite, never have reallly (I mean, I’ve tried it just to try it but that’s about it, I’m not as serious on it as these other guys in this thread are). So I have no bias towards playable elites but I do find it funny 343 won’t do something so simple mixed with taking away another feature that was in previous games.
as for the model it’s simple: adjust them to where they’re the same size as a Spartan model, get their head corrected where headshots are the same. As I said earlier, other games are able to do it with various aliens, monsters, robots, etc etc, halo shouldn’t be no different unless the dev has no interest, and since elites were only in during bungies days they’re at fault for not adjusting the models for those that had issues with it. Bungie may have been a good dev but they too had their own flaws in various things, refinement wasn’t one of them.
“if” adjusting the model really wouldn’t work then a separate playlist can work, it did in the past when they had elite exclusive game modes and such. You say it’s a waste if dev time to make. Separate playlists, but they’re fairly simple to make(you’re literally just adjusting the settings and tabbing it as a playlist, it doesn’t take hours,343 have shown this when they can take and add playlists on the fly) and one could argue previous playlists already are a waste of “dev time”, so why not waste more? Not to mention it doesn’t need to be just about the cosmetic skin of an elite, but playing more with covenant themed maps and weapons(why they have covenant slayer to begin with).