I want some thoughts from the community on my campaign for some stuff.

Character background of story: Squad of 3 ODST's in African Rainforest

Music: MW2 soundtrack?<-- good for dramatic cutscenes (Halo songs will be in there for sure)

Cutscenes: Is fp cutscenes a good idea? (I'm gonna need good fp and 3p animators for these)

Weapons and vehicles: Modified tagset of H3 weapons and vehicles.

What do you guys think of this stuff? Anything that's meh, good, or should be changed? I just want some opinions is all so I can make sure this campaign isn't boring.

Try to add in new weapons other then just h3 weapons that we've seen plenty of times.

FP cutscenes = bad idea. too buggy, hard to get working correctly and working at all. we tried it in lumoria, and after a few failed attempts we scratched it.

music - imo use one soundtrack or the other (imo mw2 soundtrack), allows for consistency. having one weird track that dosent fit a general theme of the other just sounds really odd, believe me.

env - african rainforest sounds intresting, but the key essential to making it not boring is to have fun, interactive encounters that can be played in many ways

Same here for the weapons, cut scenes and music. I've always loved the CMT MA5K though :D

Can you elaborate more on the story and "why" it takes place in an African Forest? Because, if you're just there to kill for no reason (Unless it's firefight but this is campaign) then it's going to be more dull than other campaign maps. And try original encounters....like maybe an escape scene where you fly off in a pelican but banshees chase you and all you have are rockets and lasers???

Well I'm trying not to leak as much as possible, but they're in the African rainforest because there's a covenant assault carrier glassing the forest. Obviously, people will die if the whole forest is gone.

By modified, I mean like Geared has LMG version of the MA5C with rails, ammo barrel drum, bipod, and red dot sight. He said he can make like bomber version of the pelican that can do napalm strikes.

@Higuy, are you totally positive fp cutscenes won't work, because that would kinda mess with my campaign a lot and require some changes. I mean, like what if the cutscenes worked like COD games?
But you think i should use the MW2 soundtrack?

Plz dont think im a die hard COD fanboy for all this MW2 stuff, since this is war, (I know it's Halo), I just want it to make it feel a lot more like war. Being intense and dramatic, and all that.
Edited by Sergeant 1337 on Mar 13, 2011 at 12:21 AM

I'll definately add in like insects flying around. But wildlife like animals and shiz would be kind of a hassle. unless it would be possible for like a cougar to jump out and attack you lol. Cougers might be extinct 500 years from now lol :P

Anyways, I don't want us to rip, unless it's totally necessary. The only thing I'm okay with ripping is sound and textures. You'll need my permission though if you want to rip vehicles and bipeds and such.

Another thing; uhm, when you look at people, like your teammates, can we make it so it says their name, like COD? <-- not neccessary, but would be cool.
Edited by Sergeant 1337 on Mar 13, 2011 at 12:27 AM

FP cutscenes are rare and unique, but according to Higuy they're hard. According to me... I don't know anything about making stuff.

this level sounds like a good idea, and fp cutscenes would be cool.

Yeah, they don't work really that well, and even if you got the basic way of doing it, you wouldn't get much farther from that and it really wouldn't look too good.

and yeah, mw2 soundtrack would be good becuase its new + not halo
I converted a bunch of hl2 music for elefant for his innie map, and surprisingly they fitted really well becuase we only used that music, and not a mix.



npc's as in ai?
well how else would you expect to have gameplay, puzzles or something?

I think your campaign is going to give us a whole new experience. I've looked through the SP maps on this site, and not many features us fighting in a rainforest.

FP cutscenes remind me of Black Ops. I like the idea, really. It would be something different.

H3 weapons are good, so are the vehicles. But you can also use custom content, there are some really good weapons made by this community as well.

:)

Well if it's totally impossible, then I'll try and see if we can still make it look great. not gonna give up on this campaign though.

Any other opinions people might have?
Edited by Sergeant 1337 on Mar 13, 2011 at 01:51 PM

I would still recommend my escape idea :D

Umm....Underground caves....tree top snipers....ambushes from cliffs/hills....hell, I could probably go on....just ideas anyways since you could do a lot in a forest...Tarzan? :P