What If, Halo Style: Round 5
September 5, 2008 79 Comments
While it would be more appropriate to say TGIF today, I will instead say thank goodness it’s September. That means the days of freaking all of you out by announcing that it is Friday when it really isn’t are temporarily over. You will now be blessed with nine glorious months of me knowing what day it is. Rejoice! Ms. Hawty McBloggy is back on her game. Well, the knowing-what-day-it-is game. Not the Halo game. Unfortunately there can only be so many miracles granted in one lifetime.
Since today is Friday, that not only means there is a relaxing weekend right around the corner but also that it is What If, Halo Style day. Two weeks ago I asked, “What if you could add absolutely any vehicle you wanted into Halo 3’s multiplayer mix. What would it be?” and a diverse mix of answers came rolling in. Unfortunately I’m having trouble concentrating again because the page I am reading all of your comments on has the half-naked picture of Master Chief on it. One of these days I am going to ask, “What if Master Chief appeared on your doorstep wearing only his codpiece?” I ask myself that every night, might as well get your opinion on it too, right? But for now it’s time to get back to the topic at hand. Let’s cover some answers from a few weeks ago then we can tackle a new codpiece-free topic.
- “Save a horse, ride a Master Chief.” (Dakota the Wolf)
- “An AT-RT, or rather, any fast transport with a weapon. I’m tired of needing to get some where fast, but constantly be killed because I’m riding a weaponless Mongoose.” (AT-AT)
- “A red 2001 Hyundai Accent.” (petetheduck)
- “Scarab tank! Should be a whole gametype about bringing the thing down!” (xp194)
- “A golf cart with a turret on the back.” (SIR COFFEE)
- “A broom. I really want to play a Quidditch game varient.” (retinence)
- “A chariot. I just love the idea of master chief riding a chariot into battle, throwing plasma grenades to the left and right. Really.” (MathijsBuster)
- “Forerunner Tank would have been awesome.” (Nid)
- “I don’t know. I’m afraid you effectively erased my reasoning and common sense with this picture. *goes catatonic and stares at the picture*” (Odessa)
I feel your pain Odessa, I feel your pain. Every single time I see that picture, I slip into a daydream and lose about ten minutes of my life. Not that I’m complaining, mind you. Before I wander off again, I’ll leave you with a new question to ponder. What if you got to take over the Double EXP Weekend duties next week. What would your playlist of choice feature? I think I will have to be completely unimaginative and go with neutral flag variants. I really miss the intense games of neutral flag from the Halo 2 days, especially on maps like Sanctuary and Warlock. So what would you choose? Something old? Something new? Something borrowed? Or something purple?
Hmmmmm, that’s tough. I’d have to say CHARIOT RACE. Plasma grenades and pistols only, it’s like rocket race, only with chariots.
Some sort of playlist that puts a bunch of all those really crappy people you’ve run into over the course of your XBL/Halo experience into a giant hole, with no sheilds and heavy gravity. And then you chuck grenades at them. And leaving is disabled. And if you try to turn off your Xbox or go back to the dashboard, your actual self will burst into flames.
Yeah, I would do that one.
Extermination – A Team Slayer type match with 3 rounds. The only way to get a point is to kill the entire other team within 4 seconds. If not they keep respawning. I think it would force people to work together and would probably be the most hated gametype ever! =D
Neutral Flag on Sanctuary ROCKED. Neutral Flag on Warlock was often a 90-second game that you either won, or lost, 3-0. (Not so much fun, either way.)
I’d bring back Action Sack games. Because… well, because that’s what I like playing. I totally miss whacky gametypes. Remember Base Jumping? Or that insane fixed-hill rockets-only KotH on Midship? Dang… I’m getting misty-eyed just thinking about them.
INVISIBLE PISTOLS ON WATERWORKS, NO VEHICLES! YEAH, BABY! …oh, wait, that one sucked.
“INVISIBLE PISTOLS ON WATERWORKS, NO VEHICLES! YEAH, BABY! …oh, wait, that one sucked.”
Ok mine would ALMOST be the most hated gametype ever. =)
Living Dead. I loved playing that last week.
I agree with the Living Dead. Except you got to get rid of the invisible zombies…
TeaBagathon : Finish your opponent by Teabagging them. Not to be confused with a curb stomp.
I would have to in with a CTF weekend. 1 Flag, 2 Flag, neutral flag the works. All CTF, all weekend.
Krazy Killa Fiesta! Everyone is super fast and super light, spawns with random weapons, and kills are practically instant. About a dozen people running all over Sandtrap killing each other with super long range Assault Rifle bursts is a great thrill.
I think my double exp weekend would contain a fiesta of objective games with the occasional fiesta of weapons.
Thumb War.
I. for one, would love to play those gametypes zZombie13 thought up of. I wanna play wedgie wars!
SketchTrap.
Naw, I’d probably just have Infection variants. I love that game, so much.
Double EXP weekend MLG playlist baby! Come on, me, voting for competitive gaming? Camannnn who could’ve seen that coming, right? right? amiright? *holds up hand for high five, dead silence*
Anyway I’m glad i saw the contest for winning Angel’s swag bag after about 300 comments are already there lol
I have this idea of combining different gametypes into one game type.
But I’d totally need the following items.
1. Booze. Lots of booze.
2. A Dart Board.
3. Darts.
4. A list of all the game types.
Now you just have to get drunk, set up the dartboard with the gametypes listed, and then toss 2 or 3 darts at the board, and hope get you get some good combos. Like…
Fiesta Oddball Slayer
Covenant Rocket Race King of the Hill
Zombie Shotty Sniper Territories
Oh, and the best idea… Zombie Grifball!
But if you accidently toss a dart and hit a Bungie employee, they get to pick the map variant.
V.I.Pinata.
Community weekend. A huge rotation of community built gametypes. They would need a short explanation of the objective or changed rules, but it would be awesome.
sorry…what was the question..?? master chief in a cod piece…?
glaze….
117 Flag CTF!
Turn down the gravity and turn the speed up, pop open an energy drink and let the adrenaline fueled shenanigans begin!
“Grab Bag” – A “Grab Bag” of various crazy and/or zany variatiosn of such gametypes as Juggernaut, Infection, King of the Hill, Odd Ball. Keep it mixed. Keep it crazy.
Living dead is fun but they need to take off the invisble zombies, and add the fanmade gametypes like Fat kid and Duck hunt, which would be way funner than “Save one bullet” and the regular infection types.
I would have to say that since I’m pretty sure a community playlist is coming that I would go for a bonus points weekend. Bungie can choose how they want to weight everything or have certain gametypes that focus on one (only sticks give bonus or only snipes or something) I really just want to see people using that feature more…
My Double Exp Weekend would be:
2 Teams of 4, No Power ups, Battle Rifle only, No weapons to pick ups, If you get shot twice you die.
=D
The roflwaffle playlist.
Where you spend 10 minutes shooting laughing waffles.
What about Team No-Auto-Aim?
Everybody on one team, friendly fire enabled, betrayal booting disabled, point for betrayal, 1st to 25 wins?
Lazer Tag? rofl.
Anybody ever play Grandma’s House CTF? 16 man Grandma’s House!
I like the off-beat gametypes. I would like to see a FFA Swat Needlers weekend with no grenades and no secondary weapons.
How about a Recon Weekend, where maybe 5 players with the most earned EXP (for the weekend) receive the Recon Armor.
Team FAE, the various Action Sack games and Big Team Slayer with heavy weapons.
I’d have to say i would pick what they were talking about on this last podcast. fan made forge variants. that is going to be the coolest playlist of all time. :)
@ Captain Spark
I like the off-beat gametypes. I would like to see a FFA Swat Needlers weekend with no grenades and no secondary weapons.
WE HAVE TO PLAY THAT! O_O
Super Grifbal…..everyone’s traits are increased….including…….
EYE BEAMS!!!!!!
If it was up to me it would be FFA Slayer in Forge.
I <3 pandemonium
Hey mendicantbias00. Check my file share, I have a forged version of Cold Storage with all Needlers called Cold Mist. I applied the Juicy FX filter and it really makes the colors stand out. There are Firebomb grenades and plasma grenades and two raised platforms. You have to choose default weapons to have all Needlers in this map, all other weapons have been removed. I need to play test this map sometime to see if I need to change anything!
8v8 One Flag on Snowbound…with the defenders getting tanks, and the attackers getting Rockets and Fuel Rods. Ah, if only…
I’d have to say Vehicle Wars. 6 on 6 action with plenty of Vehicles and anti-vehicle weapons to go round (all with fairly clip respawn times so you’re not left out).
team brs on Guardian and team brs on the Pit, but without spawning with both the br and the AR. It would be slayer that you would want to play because there would be no isolation or assault rifles
Captain Spark,
Downloaded, we should test it soon. =)
“Patriot Man”! It’s a game type I play with my mates which involves an extremely fast and extremely strong Juggernaught (The Patriot Man) slaughtering through groups of other players (Teh Noobs!). In the unlikely event that a noob gets a headshot on the Juggernaught, they earn themselves 10 points and become Patriot Man. 3 rounds, 50 points each and one massive pile of dead bodies.
Fight club, no shields, no grenades, low gravity. The only weapons are plasma pistols and you can only melee the enemy.
I like the Vehicle wars idea… Throw in Sandtrap, Valhalla, Standoff, Avalanche, and maybe Rats Nest with no weapons on any maps except for maybe one or two rocket launchers.
Chiron-palozza!
Every single gametype (including SWockets and SWeedlers) known to man on everyone’s favorite Halo 1 map, Chiron TL-34! (They really need to remake that map for Halo 3)
Rocket Ball
Meat Flag from Gears of War 2. The “flag” would be a Brute Chieftain or even a Hunter with boosted health and AI. Once you kill it, you have to load it onto a vehicle and drive it back to base. And the Meat Flag would be protected by AI Grunts and Jackals.
I agree with Wu to a degree. I want Action Sack back, but as a full time social playlist. I would have to say a Team Armory playlist would be sweet. Or possibly a Bar Ball weekend. Just think of all the complaints in Optimatch if that ever happened!
Anything that will annoy the hell out of boosters… say a slayer game with a one-hour time limit and no winning score?
Spy check
Game type : Odd ball
Weapons: Pistols
On map: a ton of flame throwers
Conditions: When you grab the skull you get cloaked
Thus remaking tf2′s spy check
A ranked FFA game where you couldn’t kill unless it unlocked an achievement and peope with the lowest number of kills wins (the one that helps the most) and the highest you can go is 5 skill so no boosting.
I’m gonna have to be selfish and say all of the Rumble Pit World Series’ custom gametypes :P
2v6 1 Flag CTF…
BR/Shottie start, infinite ammo…no weapons/equipment on map…vehicles map default….no radar
Off- 2 players w/ full invis
Def-6 players
try it…you will never play normal ctf again
Cock Fighting except with grunts
You bet on which one will win and if you win you get the amount of exp you bet. There would be a max of like 10 exp though.
team hammer/swords with regenerating grenades and 50% gravity
TORTURE :evil:
ranked fatkid yeah!
Definitely a scarab gametype. On a modified version of sandtrap. There are a lot of platforms at the scarabs level, one team tries to bring it down by boarding it and planting a bomb at the core, the other stops them.
WHACK-A-MOLE! Everyone spawns in a hole, and you have to poke your head up every now and then to get the shield regenerator, because your health is constantly going down. Then there’s some guy with a Grav-Ham just smashing their brains out. ~ Caelan96
Ooo! A playlist where it scans for custom game types on custom levels! Awesome.
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hold on a second!
‘I feel your pain Odessa, I feel your pain. Every single time I see that picture, I slip into a daydream and lose about ten minutes of my life.’
MASTER CHIEF ONLY LASTS 10 MINUTES? Look, I’m not into him like that, but even I think that’s LAME! Psh, Spartan II training my ass.
;-)
A Scarab gametype on Sandtrap? Psh. I want a Scarab gametype on, like, Gaurdian.
Definitely a SWARM playlist, a custom sandtrap maps with a handful of light ground vehicles, then set it to infection, zombie starts with 300 speed, 50 grav, with either swords, hammers or both, zombies have no shields, 200 damage resistance. goal of the game… run away, until there’s a shitload of zombies, and if you flip, you’re about to get swarmed. awesome big group game.
DUUUde.. guys…guys..and girls… how about a DRUNKEN IRISH BAR FIGHT gametype…16 people on guardian with plasma pistols that don’t hurt anyone, but when you start swinging fists ..BLAM!. imagine the carnage; going around the map saying ,”POW! RIGHT IN THE KISSER! POW! RIGHT IN THE KISSER! POW RIGHT IN THE KISSER!” -You’ve unlocked the “POW! RIGHT IN THE KISSER!” Achievement!-Ahh, satisfaction guaranteed. :D
Fight night: close combat, invisible, weaponless.
If only possible, 4v4 or 6v6 Scorpion battle. If only…
I would take over Bungie in a hostile takeover campaign… and by hostile takeover, I mean with weapons… then I’ll force them to stop listening to fans so much so they can make their own damn game… we all know Halo would be much better if Bungie wasn’t trying to cater to every single being that ever opened their mouths to complain. Hell, the leaked “Bungies working on a Halo game… without the Chief!” was probably just to get peoples opinions on the situation so they could gauge whether to leave the Chief out, or to put him back in. If people are as dumb as we know they are, and Bungie being the person who listens to everybody, they’ll here, “no Halo without teh Chiefs!” and go and shove him in uncomfortably… with rocks… and glass…
But seariously, I would round up the best Forge maps and some good gametypes with them, to include classic remakes and really well made maps and shove’em into one big Double EXP weekend. Who wouldn’t want to play Metalock (REALLY good Warlock remake) in a FFA, or a TS, or a 4-Way Assault, or something else equally wierd on that map other than slayer? Oh, and I’m still waiting for a Battle Creek remake.
6 hour long slayer matchs and the reward is 50 xp :P
Never commented before but, I had to for this one.
I’d do a circuit based race playlist.
Its never been done before, there are plenty of community maps, and everyone likes running people over!
4 teams – 4 flags – every level from epitaph to sandtrap
pure chaotic flag fun
A gametype similar to infection, except that with slayer teams, and when you get a kill, the person killed goes over to your side. The game only ends when all the people are on your side. I’d call it “turning tides”.
I would have to say maps that incorporated all of those cool things like the man cannon rifle and if you pick up the invis. you get crushed by a dumpster and the sniper pit
I shall call it draw. Players spawn facing eachother with pistols and instant kill. Whoever pulls the trigger first wins.
I would turn over my control of the Double XP playlist to forgehub. God I love forgehub. I’m confident they’d make some playlist comprising entirely of their featured maps list. And you know what? I’d be fine with that.
Or maybe neutral flag 4v4v4v4. God only knows why Bungie hasn’t done that yet. Actually, he’s pretty stumped too.
eclipsedsunrise – that sounds like Red Rover, with guns.
Could be interesting…
Zombie SWAT: zombies move slowly, but outnumber humans 4 to 1. Zombies can only be killed with headshots. Humans have BRs and Shotguns.
OR:
Forge EXP gametype: Two teams, each team has one player as a monitor who can give his team weapons, vehicles, teleporters, or even spawn points. Could use with Slayer, CTF, assault, territories.
Simmon’s Blindfolds. (Hope you get the reference)
Also, Cat and Mouse would be fun.
300% speed, 50% gravity, primary weapon spartan lazer secondary weapon gravity hammer! I am so f**king original!
Either that or griffflag. Thats griff-flag. Try to get it.
I think you really meant Grif-Lag as I can never win Hammer Duels.
That peasant hunt gametype, where you basicly just run around a maze like mice, hiding from a guy with a hammer.
1v1 neutral assualt on vahalla plasma pistol starts
Multi-team CTF with multiple flags per team or neutral flags
Example Diagrams:
________________ _______________
|R : B| |R R|
| : | | |
|………..N……….| | …….N…….. |
| : | | |
|G : Y| |B B|
———————— ————————
R=red flag, B=Blue flag, G=Green Flag, Y=yellow flag, N=Neutral flag
… or : = partial wall/dividing structures, — = boundary
Rules: Capture N= +1 point, Capture non-self flag= +1 point, enemy captures your flag= -1 point
Variant of infection in which zombies can become humans if either 1) they don’t kill anyone for a while or 2) they get killed enough times in a row.
The scarab idea also sounds good.
Double post to apologize for faulting spacing (it looked right, but the server apparently deletes chains of spaces).
________________ _______________
|R—– : — B| |R———R|
|—— : —–| |———- |
|………..N……….| | …….N……… |
|—— : —–| |———- |
|G—– : —-Y| |B——– B|
———————— ————————
- = emptyish space
little late here, But…HAMSTER BALL. All last resort or other big maps, a few different variations like maybe a zombie type, but it`s basically 200% speed, 50% gravity. Let your imagination do the rest.