I think a game mode in halo reach that would be great would be team slayer but instead of both teams being spartans. One team is elits and the other is spartans.
Think that through…
Like the old SvE Slayer from the Beta? That was just straight Slayer, but without the weapon drops of Invasion Slayer. I wouldn’t mind that coming back.
I think the regenerating health and possibly the hitboxes of the Elites leads to some issues with SvE Slayer making a return. I’m not fully educated on the matter, so I’ll leave it to someone else to explain (Cobb? Can your super awesome genius-ness help a brother out, here?)
So while it’s fun in theory, in practice, I don’t know how it would work out.
> I think the regenerating health and possibly the hitboxes of the Elites leads to some issues with SvE Slayer making a return. I’m not fully educated on the matter, so I’ll leave it to someone else to explain (Cobb? Can your super awesome genius-ness help a brother out, here?)
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> So while it’s fun in theory, in practice, I don’t know how it would work out.
Spartan hit boxes versus Elite ones? Sure, elites have stronger shields and bigger hit boxes. Spartans are smaller but are also more agile to avoid bullet fire. In the end, not much a player can do if 5 Spartans and elites faced off. Grenades, firing lines, cover, and luck would play a big hand to see who would win. It’d be a nice new playlist if 343 chose to introduce a new one this late into the ballgame, but the final thing to really consider is: What AA’s should be allowed? The beta, if I remember correctly, was all default loadouts including AL, Jet Pack, Evade, etc… Honestly, it’d be interesting to see how often Elites would win considering how far we’ve gotten into Reach. I’d leave out AL though…
> > I think the regenerating health and possibly the hitboxes of the Elites leads to some issues with SvE Slayer making a return. I’m not fully educated on the matter, so I’ll leave it to someone else to explain (Cobb? Can your super awesome genius-ness help a brother out, here?)
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> > So while it’s fun in theory, in practice, I don’t know how it would work out.
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> Spartan hit boxes versus Elite ones? Sure, elites have stronger shields and bigger hit boxes. Spartans are smaller but are also more agile to avoid bullet fire. In the end, not much a player can do if 5 Spartans and elites faced off. Grenades, firing lines, cover, and luck would play a big hand to see who would win. It’d be a nice new playlist if 343 chose to introduce a new one this late into the ballgame, but the final thing to really consider is: What AA’s should be allowed? The beta, if I remember correctly, was all default loadouts including AL, Jet Pack, Evade, etc… Honestly, it’d be interesting to see how often Elites would win considering how far we’ve gotten into Reach. I’d leave out AL though…
I’d say it would work out fine, like it had before. Besides the Elites got weakened from the Beta.
It doesn’t have to be seriously competitive or argued over, just something new and fun.
All of the strengths of the Elites are easily offset by their larger hitboxes.
And for loadouts, either give them all the same standard stuff, or make it something like Spartans start with DMR/Assault Rifle while Elites get Needle Rifle/Plasma Repeater.
AA’s should mostly be the same for both sides, though Spartans should probably keep Armor Lock while Elites keep Evade to dodge each respective species grenades.
Because pink vs yellow wouldn’t look right.
On a serious note that’s called invasion.