I'm planning on making a single map, which is basically like The Library, without flood.

You see shooting stars in the distance, which at this time shouldn't be visible at day. You know something's wrong. You hear distant screams in such a quiet place. You grab an M4 carbine with a .45 Colt and head out. forgetting to tell you squad where you're going, you turn back only to see flames from the plasma. You can see some elites walking away, but you know they're too much of a challenge.

Then you come to the point where you finally encounter Covenant, and journey across the open road and to find some help. You find some weapons along the way, most of which is the M4 Carbine, which is pretty much standard over here.

What makes this different, exactly? I'm planning on non-linearity, or presenting multiple endings, at least. NAV points are absent, in such a large area. You're an unfortunate soldier who spots the Covenant and sees them killing everyone, and you know what to do(in which I'll reuse the unarmored marine biped). I'll obviously make the weapons effective against Elite shields. I don't see a reason not to, since MA5 Rifles still use the modern-day 7.62x51mm NATO. ...But that's for sniper rifles, right?

• If Lost Cove Insane is unprotected, I'm in luck.


• I'll only need a BSP modeler, and probably for some scenery too.


• I'm deciding on a health concept:
  -Like in GoW, wherein you health automatically regenerates
  -Like in most FPS games, with either a health counter(number) or a bar, non-regenerating
  -Like in H3:ODST, with a little stamina and a little health
  
• If Lost Cove Insane is unprotected, I'm in luck.


• Cars and vehicles are drivable. Who's stupid enough to leave their keys? But I can't find a reason to why you can flip them. Or can you make it so that you can't flip them?


• Just in case you weren't reading, it's planned to be non-linear with multiple endings if at all possible, but definitely different routes.


• Expect no large weapon set. Probably of the same variety of H1's classic weapon set.


• Then again, I need a scripter to spawn the encounters.

Someone teach me how to compile a BSP and I'll post some pics.

Oh wait, did I make it to the right section? Yeah, 2 of my posts so far made it to the other CE section.

Forget my first idea, it's just to show how we all hate school.
Edited by Ethereial on Aug 8, 2009 at 10:47 AM
Edited by Ethereial on Aug 9, 2009 at 01:10 AM

And how do you plan on making the opening cutscene?

By animating it all. XD It REALLY sucks that people get all of ideas like this. But they all fail in the end. I actually want to see a COMPLETE custom campaign. Not some retarded Halo campaign mod.

No cutscene, just the camera moving around.



Are you reading? It's going to be non-linear. If you can't have multiple endings, then multiple routes at least. I'd actually like to see you make one on your own, without any help.
Edited by Ethereial on Aug 8, 2009 at 07:39 PM

man this'll be really nice. cant wait

Oh wait, you'll have to play as a soldier who fights against the Covenant. Forget all that I said.
Edited by Ethereial on Aug 9, 2009 at 12:58 AM

Will there be nano-suit???

What do you think this is, Crysis? I still can't find a way to export the BSP.

haha hilarious!!

Lost Cove insane is unprotected, I really am in luck. But sadly there was no M16 Rifle(well, there might be, but I either couldn't find it or it's the scoped one), so I'm not that in luck. FAMAS is used by the French, but I'd still like to have it in. Meh, there's some M16 tags on the site.

I still need help with that BSP. Well at least now I have a reason to put those modern-day stuff tags in a map.

Oh wait, found it, but it sucked.
Edited by Ethereial on Aug 9, 2009 at 09:14 AM

something about the bolded parts doesn't sound or make sense......
clue : ammo
Edited by sargejohnson on Aug 9, 2009 at 10:49 AM

MA5 =/= M4 Carbine. And nowadays, rarely anyone uses such large caliber bullets like the 7.62. The NATO round is primarily the 5.56.

Do you know what' an MA5 rifle? I never said the M4 used it. The Colt is your sidearm, and unless I find the other pistol's name, I'm sticking with the incredibly underpowered WWII Colt 45 sidearm.

Oh, and please stop quoting that whole post. Gotta get to San Andreas.

well good luck with that bsp

I say good luck with that opening cutscene.

I say good luck with the scripting.

lol alot of problems eh?

Wait.......you're going to fight the Covenant with less-than-modern weapons?
lame

I say good luck getting it all done.

I'm getting rid of the Colt and putting in the Desert Eagle. The M16 is still standard-issue.

wait a minute, why would a person like you still have an m16 and desert eagle or colt like, 500 years from now?
Also, in my previous post, i was trying to say that the 5.56 round may have problems with covenant shielding and/or armor if even the 7.62 round that the MA5B uses has not much effect on their shielding (armor not included)

anyway, the project is a good idea. Just good luck on making the cutscene at the beginning.

I'm sure very few of those weapons even exist 543 years into the future.

I just found this funny

I like maps with modren weapons but maybe not against the covenet...

Maybe mordenized mordern weapons? Not saying Halo already did taht except for the shotgun but hey.

You mean futuristic. You can't modernize a modern weapon :\

Yes you can. Its called making em better, with new accsesories.
Edited by FlyAwayNow on Aug 13, 2009 at 08:11 PM

....

I don't think you understand what "modernize" means. It means to make something modern. How can you take something that's already modern, and make it modern? Adding new accessories doesn't "modernize" it. If it was modern in the first place, then adding on modern components would still keep it modern. Like this:

Even number + even number = even number.

Assuming that an even number is modern, and odd is futuristic. You're adding an even number to an even number. That outputs an even number. If you were to add on a futuristic component, like:

Even number + odd number = odd number.

Adding on one futuristic part makes it futuristic. Adding on more modern parts leaves it modern.

Ok ok ok i just say what I say becuase of what most pepole say at my school. "If it aint broke make it better."

Actually this is set in the present. The M16 should do more damage against shields, since the Covenant would've had less technology by now. I don't care when the Covenant was formed, it never was canon.

Oh, and if you're wondering where the pictures are, they're still WIP, like the rest. I'll be getting some scenery tags off the site that fit a modern city theme. It's gonna be approx. the size of Extinction.
Edited by Ethereial on Aug 14, 2009 at 04:19 AM