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A deacon is a grunt minister of sorts. Like a grunt prophet, so to speak. They are probably the only slightly respected variant of Grunt, and I'm suggesting that this Deacon had spread the Great Journey around, and found himself in a position of superior Grunt power, making him a great candidate to discuss objects of interest, and earn their ire.

Now, the Prophets don't like having any opposition, as referenced by their covering up of and genocidal attempts against Humanity. Flipyap happens to be their next target, as if he gains more power he could be a serious pain in the ass.

And thus, it was a matter of convenience for the Hierarchs (Truth, Mercy, Regret) to send two of the Prophets they replaced to meet with oblivious Flipyap and kill him, destroying any opportunity for another Grunt Rebellion.

However, yourself, Spartan III A173, or Dawn for short, have been inserted with Marine Captain Jacob Keyes to silently eliminate the Grunt leader. While it would be more conventional to launch a fleet, the UNSC is thinly stretched with battles all over various theaters of war. In addition, a Covenant Assault Carrier has taken position in geostationary orbit, so you're on your own.

The UNSC frigate Remorse launches your Pelican and another carrying support on the dark side of the planet, far enough from the lethal Assault Carrier on the other side. Due to the weight of your prototype armor, your pelican only holds yourself and Keyes. The other contains 12 elite marines from the 206th Environmental Combat unit. On the trip down, however, their pelican takes damage from an unexpected blizzard and crashes. Once deployed, your HUD displays the last known position of the other team. Your first objective is to find the marines, and continue the mission.

After evading several patrols, you notice multiple heat signatures over the next hill. Despite Keyes's warnings you sprint to the downed Pelican, where the Marines lay dead. An elite major spots you and dashes to a communications tower, and you promptly snipe him dead. Keyes informs you that now you have one sniper bullet remaining.

Thats all I have right now. Nothing special pepzee, truthfully idk about credit because I didn't make it in the first place :/

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1) Human corpses still last quite a while, so you calculated the last known position, gasped, and sprinted.

2) Ok, lets make it that 5 of them died in the crash, and the elite is an Ultra. She has, or had 10 Unggoy under her command in addition to two of the patrols you encountered earlier.

This elite, Ikka Serumee is actually a female, because I like some variety :/ Probably just going to make her worts sound higher or something.

She was minding her own business at the forward outpost, reading reports from the patrols. The ten of here grunts were dicking around with fire and plasma nades, when suddenly an out of control pelican crashes near her. Around a minute and a half later the grunts, being their idiot selves, decide to investigate. This is fine by Ikka because she presumes anything on there would be dead anyway, and doesn't bother to report it.

However, the back door busts open and the seven marines file out and begin firing at the grunts, eventually wrestling with them. Ikka is not visible because of her white armor, but it doesn't faze her that her grunts are in the way and she begins firing (The plasma bolts adding to the heat signatures), and this leaves only the two grunts that are STILL dicking around with fire and none of the marines alive. Ikka doesn't report it, because, anyway, they're dead. However, she notices a faint outline in the fog, and sprints toward the communications. Dawn snipes her, but due to the shielding she falls, but only suffers from a concussion, so Keyes forces her to march with you, because you can never have too many elite POWs.

Sorry about the new thing, once I personalize a character I can't bear to kill them ^^;
Edited by Sergeant Major on Dec 9, 2010 at 07:03 PM

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An MA5K with suppressor and extended barrel. Maybe a red dot sight too >:)

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Maybe it would be best to just make a new biped by editing another one?

The 206th biped would be quite nice, though it'd take me a while to make.

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Anyway, it would be easy to stick a keyes head on one in the process of making it, my only question is would I be able to use the marine's rig?

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Say I just modeled it off from Colt3rs thing, which is already rigged I believe, and exported that. Would it work, and what would the results be?

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And by the way pepzee assasin wants your xfire.

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Did he get deleted?

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Neither +1

Coldsnap would make the map look bad, but my BSP is too small and won't fulfill some purposes

Is there a way to reduce poly count in max?

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I have a bigger one made, but Halo would throw a fit. It's 643,000 polygons

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Yes +1

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Well... to be honest, for the past 3 years I've been playing coldsnap, I've never realized the mountains were that bad until now. Better textures, maybe? I don't know I'm just coming up with stuff.

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Just optimize where you can, and deal with the hi poly count. This is a bsp.

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Okay, about how bad would the game lag with 643,000 polies? What would be the usual amount of polies in a map?