Halo: Reach Discussion

[sevlag]

Yeah, when I read about the Skirmishers, the first thing I thought was "an excuse to keep using that terrible Halo 3 Brute AI?" As for the grunts, I hope what they showed us was just a subvariant, because that's the wrong way to go to make them look menacing. And, they are grunts for crying out loud, they aren't supposed to be that menacing, even if Jackals and Elites are.

it makes them (the grunts) look odd i admit, but they look alittle like they're worth the waste of bullets or effort to kill now

the elites look more like they did in the E3 trailer for the original Halo, the armor seems to be Halo 1 ish, which is good, it kinda ticked me off that the armor design changed on the elites (I liked the glowing orbs that indicated their shield's charge)

which begs to question, if there is MP in REACH when it hits shelves, will elites be playable in MP? or will we revert back to SPARTANs only?

[Kornman00]

I have no doubt in my mind that we'll see Elites returning to MP in this iteration of Halo too.

It's just MP after all.

[ejburke]

Depends on whatever fiction they come up with to explain the armor abilities. It might not make sense for Elites to be able to use them, but I guess that's never stopped Bungie before.

I would not be sad if there were no MP Elites. They weren't as customizable as the Spartans in Halo 3 and there was the whole headshot issue in Halo 2. They should focus on making the Spartans as customizable as possible, so we don't see one type of gaudy armor everywhere we look ala Hayabusa.

Unless they're going to finally force Spartans vs Elites in a game mode. Then and only then would they be worth the development resources they'd be diverting from making the Spartans customizable.

[sevlag]

Depends on whatever fiction they come up with to explain the armor abilities. It might not make sense for Elites to be able to use them, but I guess that's never stopped Bungie before.

I would not be sad if there were no MP Elites. They weren't as customizable as the Spartans in Halo 3 and there was the whole headshot issue in Halo 2. They should focus on making the Spartans as customizable as possible, so we don't see one type of gaudy armor everywhere we look ala Hayabusa.

Unless they're going to finally force Spartans vs Elites in a game mode. Then and only then would they be worth the development resources they'd be diverting from making the Spartans customizable.

like assault, attackers are Elites and Defenders are SPARTANs

[Kornman00]

no, suicide grunts <>

[sevlag]

no, suicide grunts <>

isnt what those grunts in H3 that stuck themselves were?

[Con]

Playing as grunts would be so fun (but would ruin the game).

[Darqeness]

Isn't that what they did with the early demo's of Halo 2 multiplayer? Having Elites as attackers and Spartans as defenders. I think there'd be a lot of complaints about being forced to play Elites though (I never understood why everyone has such an issue with playing them).

[t3h m00kz]

like assault, attackers are Elites and Defenders are SPARTANs

That'd be interesting. Who knows?

[Kornman00]

isnt what those grunts in H3 that stuck themselves were?

yeah, they were the ones who said 'fuck it' and pulled out two plasma grenades and charged at you

they're also in Halo Wars

speaking of which, I played it on XBL this morning....I fucking got raped by a dude playing as the Arbiter who built NOTHING but Engineers to send with his arby to attack me. I tell you, it was not fair . You should have seen it. It was like a cloud of Engineers...