so if its during halo were is it gonna take place? halo, earth, other? I acualy want to do it around halo 3 after it like after they can't find chief theres like a group of covie rebels that still plan on destroying earth(and almost succeed?)? and find more flood? :0 well those are just some ideas. I would like to see this take place somewere on earth possibly in a city or town, space or somewere with lots of vegetation like forests, jungles, etc.

I think it should be slightly pre-halo (before Battle of Reach), and set on an outer colony planet. This is because the covenant are commonly attacking those places a lot, and there are a lot of them, so you dont have to do too much explaining.

And then there will be no flood in this campaign :D

well thats really a group decision but me i really hate the flood they are annoying trying to kill them and then they jmup at you i find that really annoying.

I was thinking between Halo 1 and 2. So we can introduce the Battle Rifle. I also was thinking of having a pelican crash with a few flood on it. Then make it a mini side objective. I still need to think of a major objective that they need to accomplish. Also I was thinking if anyone can make the scarab into a biped. Give it animations to walk around and fall apart when it dies. If it's not possible or nobody wants to then oh well. It was just an idea.

umm, you can make destructible vehicles.

Its possible, but it would look silly walking into walls into a tight space.

What I meant is that if its going to be Pre Halo, then there cannot be flood.

unless you die AND eradicate all of the flood by the end of the campaign

Kill all witnesses? Hmm... Great idea, provided that its an epic death.

Well if it's made then I will be sure to have an open area for it. Also some people think it's going to be pre-halo. It's not. It will be between Halo 1 and Halo 2.

Or you could have walk around in circles by making it have a command to follow points in a circle.

Im all ok for nexus Halo's idea and could we possibly do some kind of a scarab fight also?i would like to have atleast 1 or 2 bosses in the campaign.

Would you be alone in those boss fights? I don't think that ODSTs usually operate alone, so would there be many allies on the boss fights? There is a difference between an ODST and a Spartan, because a Spartan can take on a boss by himself (I think this is a problem in many games, as they don't enforce teamwork), and an ODST should not be able to. But, I'm not deciding, which is why I'm asking.

No i think that you should have to work along the side of the two other brothers.

Bingo. This scarab battle would take place in Act 3 and since you have all 3 brothers in a squad it will be you three and maybe a couple other soldiers fighting it. Thing is you might have a squad rolling in with a warthog and tanks. I know Act 3 will have to be the one with most action so it will have at least 2 large bosses. The first two Acts will have lots of covenant and maybe an AA fight. Many turrets fighting off tons of banshees.

um just a thought if we are fighting with the brothers they will be invincible right? and also we will probably have to improve the ODST's AI (majorly) or else give them special weapons that are more powerful

also, LOVE the scarab idea :)
Edited by UnevenElefant5 on Dec 27, 2008 at 10:54 PM

HELL YEAH!!!!!! lol sweet but that will take a very long time to make lol but how are we going to make the levels run on lower end pcs?

nvm
Edited by UnevenElefant5 on Dec 27, 2008 at 11:04 PM

I dont think we should rip anything that is not ours to use and i highly doubt the person who made extinction would let us use his scarab we need to ask if we can use other peoples stuff before we actually use them and put them in game.

True but if we open source it and give proper credit I'm sure the creator won't mind. If we are going to have a scarab this gives us a chance to create our own version. Like the prototype of the scarab. That way we can make it smaller and different to kill.

Also: In Act 1 would you rather be dropped off on the roof of a building or on the ground?

Edited by Nexus Halo on Dec 27, 2008 at 11:06 PM

sorry i didnt mean for it to sound like i wanted to rip the tags. I was just replying to your concern that the scarab would not work on older pc's. i was using the extinction scarab as a reference showing that the scarab would, in fact, run on older pc's


id rather be dropped off on a roof and fight my way down to street level.
Edited by UnevenElefant5 on Dec 27, 2008 at 11:11 PM
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Edited by UnevenElefant5 on Dec 27, 2008 at 11:12 PM

Me thinks it should be on Reach at the time of the spartan eradication, where you see the POA flying off. Like, you start off, just finishing the academy, you get your private rank. Then the Covenant comes, , and near the end, the POA flys off, going into hyperspace to escape covenant. At the end, you are awarded some kinda medal and rank up.

Also about the "introduced weapon" does not matter as Wikia says the battle rifle was always there, just not shown up in Halo CE, as Bungie never had the idea. So, you can use any weapons that showed up in Halo 2 or 3.

Like in Halo 3 ODST, theres a concept of a battle in Mombassa, with an ODST in a Warthog passing a Spartan Laser to another ODST. And the game takes place around the time of Halo 2.
Edited by Advancebo on Dec 27, 2008 at 11:54 PM

that sounds cool, but i think it would be cool to be back on earth, fighting on the ground while the master chief is off on delta halo

or

in halo 3 when the admiral dude in the white uniform says "this is humanities final stand, here, at earth" you could be part of the military people that stay behind

Nah but it should be on Reach though i like advancebo's idea also but a little bit before thje spartan thing happens.

I'm cool with that, plus if it's on reach then the big problem could be defending the MAC gun generators, or protecting civilians, just a thought

The scarab tags were released. So no worry about being allowed to use them. They weren't exactly the best, but I don't suppose someone is going to tackle making another one? Couldn't you just make the scarab a vehicle and load it with an AI?

What about Longsword fighters that blast at the scarab? If someone was up to making a Shortsword, we could have it bomb the scarab.

Or maybe an aerial mac gun? A C-12 charge that needs to be planted in exactly the right place?

Just ideas ;D

Well what im thinkin would be a good idea is that you have a scarab which is a biped and it follows command point to go in circles and pwner brougt up a very good point, wouldn't the AI on it fall off? Now, I don't know if this would work, but we could make weapons with the model of covied and attach them to markers on the scarab , of course then they would be invincible, but that's the only solution I could come up with and also, MAC gun would be EPIC WIN LOL it would be like the hammer of dawn in gears of war lol
Edited by UnevenElefant5 on Dec 28, 2008 at 01:26 AM

It could just be a scarab without any covenant on it...just a driver/gunner.

Are there going to be spirits or phantoms?

Yes we will try to put phantoms in the campaign i really dont like spirits i dont know why but i dont like them but it is up for a vote if we put phantoms or spirits in the campaign.

Might I suggest if we do use phantoms, use CodeBrain's? They're quite up to it.

Phantoms are better. The three guns are good at making you have to get behind cover.

If you have a Scarab fight, and have it in the city wouldn't the AI completely screw up? It would be knocking against buildings and such like. Are you scripting it to do things or having it have free control over itself? (Think Halo 2 or 3 )

Maybe have it still? Just stands there shooting. Or maybe have it follow a command list?

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Fleets of pelicans which drop off scorpians, and a marine that get's in. Then they fly over the scarab head and shoot machine guns at it. Destructable, so the scarab can actually shoot them down.

Then maybe Covenant phantoms/spirits engaging the pelicans and dropping off wraiths?

But all that would lag I suppose :\

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Will the Pelicans continuously circle the Scarab shooting at it? Because its kind of hard to do in a Pelican...