Absolute Dog

Welcome Diego! Glad to see you here. There is an "Introduction and Hello" area in here as well to introduce yourself.

eliteultra what ever happened to the post of elites versus spartans as a slayer variant? I will run with it if you haven't!

batou not sure about the reference to the "forum fan boys", but this would just be a single play list, or maybe two if objective was added, and no one would force you to play it. The idea was originally conceived as a way to have the "old school" feel on the Reach engine. It does not mean you hate Reach or have wasted you money if you play it, just something different. Appreciate your thoughts.

Spectral I can feel the love man! These are all great updates and should be greatly appreciated by the community. Remember our discussion on the "Classic" play list when you guys make the changes to it. There were some good points made in it and they seemed well liked by those who responded. Please read Coopd's new thread "No Love For Snipers" on the Reach forum. It is a playlist that has gone relatively untouched and needs some TLC. As always, good work and thanks again for the input and update.

I agree with you Coopd there needs to be some love baby. I have forged and continue to for maps for all game types. I currently have two classic sniper maps and a few others that can be used for snipers. They need to take a look at some of the existing forge maps that are already in use as well as some new ones being made just for this game type. If you or anyone else is interested, send a friend request or message to my gamer tag. Absolute Dog. I keep a pretty full list of friends, but will add as I can, and share my maps. When time permits I will put them in my file share for download.

Bullet I appreciate the input. The idea of having achievements to unlock a particular armor is meant to encourage a player to use a weapon and become good with it. Lets say you are bad at sniping like I used to be, I mean I got owned by it and when using it. By repeatedly picking it up an using it and along with advice from friends and other players, I am considered a threat with it now. The sniper armor would only unlock after "x" amount of sniper kills, something repeated use would unlock. The upgraded version of armor would be for those would attain "x" amount of sprees of "Headshot Honchos" and so on with each achievable armor. This encourages use of different weapons initially and rewards the player who is very good with it. This can be applied to all armors unlocked by a weapon achievements. Yes, the "flaming sword", "glowing or flaming body" would be temporary, losing the perk when you died and like you said would draw attention to the player on a streak that needed to be dealt with, which in and of itself, would make streaks a little harder to attain. The flaming sword would not have any more power or damage capability, it would be purely cosmetic as would the lingering flames left on the dead body. The same would be true with the "streak" flames the player would have had attained with the necessary spree or frenzy. The idea, in a nutshell, is to encourage the use of different weapons. Remember also the social ranking that I mention. These armors and upgrades would be unlockable in the less competitive environment of social play as well where the competition is usually easier. A new thought here: The sniper variant could have a different look when attained in social as compared to ranked play as would the upgrades. This might encourage the casual player, once he or she acquired the social version and hopefully improved their skill, move into the more competitive ranked arena. It may be hard for some to remember and for new players to accept who want it all made easy, but when I played match making in Halo 2 I mainly played Skirmish, which is now Objective. This seemed to be an easier game type for me to learn how to kill because I would stay near the objective and players came to me giving me more chances to kill. Later on I moved into slayer, then onto "ranked" slayer, doubles and FFA. I wanted to be good at the game, if only to kick my nephews butts who repeatedly owned me. I took the time to learn the game and ranks and armors meant nothing in the beginning. Consider this, achievement unlocks give a longer life and a continuous challenge. There are still those who I know that go back to H3 to try and unlock a particular armor.

I do not see any problem with any of them, just simply don't!

????? Think you are in the wrong topic or need to reread it. Believe you wanted the "Flood in Firefight" OP in Halo CEA forum.

I get it. Don't play COD. It was just an idea though. If it gets more negatives I will update by popular demand. Thank you.

LMAO!

Appreciate all of the hellos. See you in the forums.

"I'll be back!"

ValentineF and I were having a discussion in a forum one day and he had what I though was a great Infection idea that got lost in countless new threads. This is a new twist on the original thread since he appears to be offline for quite some time. Here it is. The original idea was to have a "Flood Infection". It fits into the actual infection concept of previous Halo campaigns and has more of a zombie feel to it. The Spartan would be the uninfected and the Flood the obvious infected. The Flood players at the start would have a randomly selected body type selected by the system and move to infect the Spartans. As they become infected they would themselves receive a randomly selected infected type and so on. The infected types would be limited to keep lag down. To prevent camping the entire map would swarm with parasites, the small spider like creatures, that would leave a moving player alone and attack when a player does not move or stays in a very confined area for more than say...5 seconds. The player could fight them off or run away eluding the "lock" of the parasite if he created a big enough gap between he and them. This would force movement and bring a new dynamic to the game type. There would also be maps designed specifically for infection that may even have changing environments ie. passageways, openings and ladder and ramps would randomly move making popular fighting areas move across the map. Finally, give forge the full range necessary to create new maps to be made available to the community. Please add ideas or criticize as you see fit. If you really like someones idea, quote it and I will update it into the thread if it is popular.

I play chess both in person and online, but I don't see the need for it in a Halo title. It would be very cool to play a board with the Covenant versus the humans, but again just don't see the need for it in Halo.

I have no clue what this guy is up to, but humor me on this OP. Start a new thread just like this one where we can respond in kind. Sounds to me like "343 Guilty Spark" terminology. Could end up being a fun thread in the General Discussion area.

Even though I love the BR on "The Pit", poking a hole in someones head on "Valhalla" with the sniper has to be my all time favorite. They fight and work so hard to get to the hill and then get back flipped from a shot a quarter of a mile away.

This belongs in the "Forge" forum at the top of the page I believe......and besides I had the idea first, so there! lol! There are a lot of good ideas in the forum. I know it takes a while to read, but you can skip doing homework tonight if you want to read it, I'll write a note for your teacher!

Is this to be serious writings or are off the cuff stories welcomed?

.....which were stained with blood.....

Figures I follow Jester in here! Lets see......"The person above me has my respect and friendship." "The person below me downloads illegal Indie movies from the internet about kittens forced to fight each other while drunken men gamble on the winner."

How about instead of all the fancy colors it gets a flame after a sword spree and as you continue to kill it leaves the dead carcass burning like the flame thrower from Halo 3. Cool huh....huh?

Clappy you dove right into the shallow end of the pool from a high board, but it's okay. You appear to have come in hot with some bad info. Listen to what Spectral has to say. He is knowledgeable and kinda cute. The information you need is in this site. Feel free to ask anyone for help finding it.

I am really laughing as I type this. Look guys, it is obvious opinions are flying around here. No doubt feathers are getting ruffled. Even though you make me laugh iCaPWN3d, try to keep the tone, well......I don't know, more pleasant but with the same bite. I have seen your record and your numbers. They are impressive. With your skill and knowledge of the game you could add a lot to this site if you were less combative. I really hate to see you having a negative reputation, which you may care less about, because I do like your OP's and opinions.