Upgrade firefight arcade

Games Other Halo
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I know alot of people will disagree with me but I tried to mix things up a little a few days ago in custom firefight. I made it harder but it was still almost just like arcade firefight. The differences were thus:

Difficulty: Legendary
Shields: 3x Over Shields
Melee Damage: 50% of base
Jump Height: 120%
Movement Speed: 120%
Armor abilities: All the same as current arcade
Loadouts: The same weapons
Damage resistance: 90% of base
Drop ships appear at the start and finish of every round
Game lasts for 60 minutes or until lives are depleted
Life pool of 50 shared lives. (change to infinite?)
No Set limit - if you can clear all 3 rounds in 10 minutes, then you’ll be able to fight through 6 sets.
Friendly fire off
Betrayal booting off.
Weapon pickup disabled.
Game begins with tough luck on, 2nd round has tough luck, cloud, 3rd round has tough luck, cloud, mythic on.
Bonus round drops hunters, brutes, elites, and grunts, and has all skulls available in firefight on. That includes tilt, cowbell, IWHBYD.

Notable differences:
Swords will only drain elite or brute shields, it takes 2 hits to kill.
All weapons work against covenant on legendary, only difference is they take more hits to kill - the wraith takes 4 or more rockets.
Covenant do more damage to you and are smarter.
Still infinite ammo, infinite lives too maybe.
Suicide at the beginning of the game WILL NOT get you 2x the firepower. Weapon pickup disabled means when you spawn you can’t use other weapons or pick up grenades; no more weapon stealing or ‘deck’ stacking.

I’m not saying to remove the current boring as hell firefight arcade on heroic, but the option for a more challenging, longer lasting firefight arcade would spice things up a notch. I played the whole 60 minutes solo and got through the first set and began the second. I had over 400 kills and 17 deaths. With teams of 4 this would allow certain firefight achievements to become unlockable in matchmaking. It would also possibly enable medals such as Inconcievable to be gotten (500 kills in a row without dying).

Post your thoughts please. I haven’t finished the game specifics yet, but it was way more fun than normal firefight.

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Although it seems like a good idea, once people find a way to stay alive for 60 minutes, they are going to abuse this so hard, think about it, the average game completion bonus is roughly 2-3k lower if you are not into the high ranks, that is for the 20 minute time limit, having 60 minutes would make that shoot up sky high and considering the average amount of kills when played solo is 400, you can assume that is 100 for each player, giving them the average commendation bonus and easy challenges completed.

60 minutes is the main flaw I can see in this, the rest is fine by my book.

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I’ve said it multiple times before Moa, that the game complete is the #1 reason why firefight is camped by afkers nonstop. Same goes for any gametype. That 2-3k bonus means you can just leave your xbox signed on over night camping firefight games. Of course you’ll get credit banned fast going 0 kills every 20 minute games, but I doubt that stops them. Firefight limited games last for half an hour. Even if it was half my original limit at 30 minutes or even 20, because of no set limit after the bonus round a new round would begin.

So put it at 30 minutes, split between 4 people, the game complete might get to 3.5k or 4k. When I played it elites flanked you if they couldn’t kill you using the most direct path. This was played on glacier, and the elite I died to came through the side entrance and surprised me. He was a dual wielder and shot my body for 10 seconds after I died.

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I’m going to make this, the test was only a test and could not be a possible submission to the cartographers. I will clean it up and make it work the way it should. Maybe it can add some life into this deadening game type. This like firefight limited doesn’t need to have it’s own playlist, just an option in firefight arcade. Edit the name to FireFight, and just make option 2 or 3 Limited. I can visualize Legendary Arcade being the secondary choice below heroic arcade.