Just something that popped into my head when I let my mind wander back to the original Halo Wars… one thing I thought was really cool about that game is that it was the first Halo game to have AI bots in multiplayer; albeit it was not a traditional Halo game in that it was an RTS, not and FPS.
So I thought, wouldn’t it be cool if you play Warzone, in single-player, with AI bots? Only instead of Red versus Blue, make it Blue Team Vs. Fireteam Osiris. One player and 23 clones of the characters from Blue Team and Osiris in a single-player Warzone variant made for casual fun… to give players a better way to try out the various REQs without the frustration of dealing with other players in game of regular Warzone, or the boredom of going into Custom Games solo and shooting at a wall to pass the time.
The AI bots would need to be able to do almost everything the player can; which is to say capturing bases, using REQs, and taking down bosses. Furthermore, we should be able to choose the difficulty just like in campaign; Easy, Normal, Heroic, and Legendary.
You would choose from up to 8 playable characters (Master Chief, Linda, Kelly, Fred, Locke, Buck, Vale, and Tanaka) each with their own unique starting loadouts, traits, and armor mods much like in the campaign. Each character would also have a unique REQ card deck; so instead of using the normal REQ cards you get from the store, you would have an unlimited number of a select group of REQ cards for each character.
For example, Master Chief would be a jack-of-all trades with access to basic versions of all UNSC and Covenant REQs, including weapons and vehicles, as well as classic REQ items like the Halo 2 Battle Rifle and Halo 1 Pistol. A character like Locke- being a top agent for ONI- would have access to high-level REQs and prototype weapons and vehicles, including all ONI and Hannibal vehicle variants, but would have fewer low-level REQs to choose from… putting him at a slight disadvantage at the start of a game.
Linda would be the only character with access to top-tier sniper weapons like Nornfang, and the highest-level versions of weapons like Beam Rifle, Halo 2 Beam Rifle, and Binary Rifle. Vale would be the only character allowed to use all of the top-tier Covenant weapons and vehicles (barring snipers) like Blood of Suban and Prophet’s Bane.
Even after recent updates (Monitor’s Bounty) Warzone Firefight is still not the casual PvE mode I’m looking for, and it still doesn’t have a single-player variant. I thought this would be a cool alternative, and give the player another means of playing as Blue Team and Fireteam Osiris outside of the terrible and short-lived campaign, as well as another means to play with the new REQs they’ve released since launch without the limitations of regular Warzone.