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The polls are surprising to me! All of the things I thought nobody would vote on ended up being hot topics and the ones I thought would be most voted on are the ones without votes! You guys think outside of the box. PS I just learned I can disable my signature!

BEAST MODE ENABLED! GoW 3 really has a beast mode like that?

Sorry but I changed my mind about this whole thing. I would love the fact that your armor takes damage. I would love to see a huge crack in your visor when you get killed by a headshot but then again you can have dents from bullets and burns from plasma on your armor very visible. The problem is that the whole visor and removing your helmet thing wouldn't work in the game. It can't work and it's tradition never to see the face of Master Cheif, even though you clarified it's for multiplayer. Would it make sense to be able to do it on multiplayer but not campagin?

I've made impacts on many games before me, and sometimes the ideas are bad, but I wasn't saying that I WANT and I HAVE to have it. I was just throwing it out there for you guys to think about. Please don't mistake me for a fool, I know that it would take years to make this. I don't think 343i even has the budget to do something like this. I wasn't even saying it should be in Halo 5, I was stating that it would be fun to have a whole other game for us to game on in a totally different way. This is like Halo ODST, a side story. The the PROS and CONS are not at all even, and it would cost millions to create a game that has nothing to do with Master Chief. Please Absolute Dog understand that I would freak out too if 343i made Halo 4 or Halo 5 completely clouded with things like this. Halo: ODST was a weird exeption of the whole franchise. Sure, I would like to be a marine just to see what it's like but let's make it something we have to think about far in the future because if you view the situation now, the negativity outweighs the benefits of it. The whole purpose of this post was to throw an idea at you guys not spark a war over something pointless.

It's a possibility that another developer company will do so

Exellent ideas! I saw them mods before and they are impressive, but I wouldn't modify a great game like you said

Better yet just create a new and costly game engine to support 64 player gameplay. I give them 5 stars for the lag free environment on big team battles. The laglessness of watching everybody fight in a huge battle was impressive to me. Battlefield dwarfed Halo with the amazingly massive battlefields though. I would think that a ton of people will probably stay on Halo 4 instead of going back to Halo 3 (like they did on Halo: Reach) if 64 player battles could happen without any lag. When people quit games it would halt the game (sometimes) in mid battle, and it can take a short time to get back on again. It is very annoying when that happens and if 64 players are having a huge skirmish, the chances of it happening more often would greatly increase. I just thought: What if there was a small flat area of land, and everybody on each team had unlimited sprint and energy swords... Imagine what it would look like! Just thinking about it makes me worry about corpses dissapearing nearly instantly. They should change the max corpses up to 32 or even 64. That way, you won't end up dying and then your corpse dissapears right away in a huge swordfight. I am so happy today!!! I learned that I was a large influence on a game by doing stuff like this! I am inspired to do this even more now. It's a small game called "Sieger: Level Pack", hosted on www.armorgames.com. I think they did that because they are only a 3 person team.

Dog has a good point, there are only a few bad apples on the tree. And yes that was a wierd figure of speech.

You can read about this in great detail in the link on my signature. This is basically a chunk of that post put on here! This isn't very organised compared to the other posts i've made in the past but i'm not completely awake yet so I apologise. Ok, so when I was looking at the Halo 4 forums, I realised that it wasn't just me that wanted to be something other than a Spartan. It has been going on for, well God knows how many years now, that you play as only a Spartan. In very few game modes of the past Halo's you could be an Elite, and that wasn't extremely fun exept for the thought that you're a mighty Elite warrior. I thought what it must be like as a marine or ODST trooper in the front lines of the war while the Spartan goes deep into enemy territory to do gung ho things that are in no way humanly possible. Sure, they are supersoldiers, but I don't like being the star of the show. I like to be the ones that do the dirty work on the front lines. If there were a game mode like firefight (or a campaign for each species) that lets you defend against waves of marines and Spartans and ODST troopers with your other Covenant allies helping you out in a huge battle, (and most of the fighters are AI) that would be a dream come true! You could flip it around and be a marine in a huge battle as well. You could be an ODST that takes a drop pod (after they die) and instead of having a spawn timer, the drop pod fires from high in the sky and lets you choose where to land by steering it around on the way down. The timer would be the time it takes to hit ground. There may be serious glitches or problems with the whole thing, so I don't support this fully. There should be special abilities for each unit and species. Let's start off with the UNSC. For the Spartan, keep it classic. For the ODST, the drop pod spawn idea. Maybe just choose where you want to spawn and have the regular spawner timer. For a marine, (which is the main purpose of this whole post, cause it's what I want most!) you can do everything a spartan can, exept for assasinating and having shields. They may be weak, but they can have power in numbers and a very low spawn timer! AI would be perfect to have as allies when you are a marine. If you could be a grunt, same story. They have no spawn timer (just a brief second to see what their corpse does) and can't use many weapons. They can access the gunner seat of all vehicles and pilot some vehicles. Jackals can wield some weapons and have a shield that is exclusive to jackals. Jackals can run fast as well. Say, press the LT button to put up the shield. With a skirmisher, make them very fast is all I can say. They are annoying on Halo: Reach. Brutes have no shields (just like all of the mentioned so far) but are invulnerable to assasination and have alot of extra health. Hunters to me is a great idea. Press LT to put up your shield. You can't do anything you can as a Spartan. You should be able to charge with LB and shoot your assault beam that needs a charge up and cooldown with use with RT. Melee with RB. Not much more detail I could go into here. If there were a game mode that has a ton of AI using vehicles and weapons like any other player does, and they complete objectives (like CTF) like a player, then it could have its own breed of multiplayer gaming. If they were to add a game mode for every accliable game mode on the modern multiplayer, while having its own classic multiplayer section, (say a menu with 2 submenus, AI multiplayer and multiplayer) and then from there it is explanitory. For the flood, why not use that as the new living dead. Have classic living dead as well because classics are good. If they let you play as the flood and have their own classes like spores and infected marine, and infected Spartan, and so on. It should allow you to be able to spawn instantly as a spore, and let you spawn after 4 seconds as an infected marine. An infected Spartan could take 8 seconds to spawn. They could have varying health levels depending on the class you are. Spores take 1 or 2 shots to kill, marines take 4 to 7 shots to kill, and Spartans take 5 to 12 shots to kill. (headshots are a different story) If a flood spore hits you, you drop dead and then become a flood character on the spot. If we were to be a marine, we should be able to have full customization of them and change their facial features with a variety of customizations. Let's say: height, fat, muscle tone, skin color (with a logical spectrum of colors), moustaches, eye colors, eye shape (with a couple preset shapes), and head shape. I spent a decent 2 hours making this. :sorcerer: Make sure to like this if you like it, obviously. I would appreciate a reply of your opinion on this idea since I didn't consult any other people on what to add and what not to add. I am coming to be around now. I apologise for any errors I made earlier, because I am not proof reading this.

I think that is a pretty good idea but there are some problems with it, because it will get annoying. Maybe if you take off the helmet, you have no more shields on the head area. That way, he won't die in one shot and can have shields on the body.. Other than that, it is a pretty decent idea. Maybe it could apply for only special heavy weapons when your shields are down. When you get shot in the face without shields, a crack appears of a bullet hole and your character dies. Good idea, but needs better implications. (like headhunter said)

If 343 is willing to take a year or two to make Halo Wars 2, I would love them even more! Until then, we wait to see what 343's abilities are in Halo 4. It will determine whether they are capable or not of creating exellent quality games. (hopefully they're twice as good as Bungie)

You hearing about Halo Wars 2 is probably from me, I spent 4 hours making a suggestions page on it. It's rendered useless now days though, with the whole shutting down of Ensemble.

That is so very true! How should we know they didn't plan for something like that to happen? They are smart enough to plan ahead and survive forever! (unless they gave their lives to the sentinels, in that case, they will be alive forever in a different body, which is a machine)

Wow, I just spent an hour proof reading BraverKING514's add-on to my topic. There were (no offense dude) a TON of errors I had to fix. I'm just assuming you were overtired from talking on here is all

OH NO!!!!!! Age of Empires was my FAVORITE RTS game besides Halo Wars! Are you telling me there's going to be no sequel to Age of Empires OR Halo Wars?!

Ok thats good

The Covenant needed water terribly

I have talked to you already, but welcome!

I have a quick question for the experienced users of the forums... What does "Warn Status" mean? I hope it isn't from somebody reporting me

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