I was thinking about life in general the other day, and i had an idea of a firefight where you play as a sentinel

I imagined the bsp similar to that of The Arbiter on Halo 2

You would verse heretic elites and grunts, maybe even some heretic hunters perhaps. A few custom flood wouldnt hurt either

My idea for the lives system:

Each time you are killed, you blow up then respawn as a new sentinel and come out through one of those things that spawned sentinels on halo 2.

Weapons:

Custom weapons would need to made for this to be any good. There is ofcourse the Sentinel Beam, which is a bit boring. To widen the weapon variety, different sentinel weapons would have to be made that replicate, for example, a forerunner version of the smg, fusion rifle, or something like that

Thoughts?

on halo2 XBOX on Quarantine Zone
there was a sentenal with a needler, idk if that was a glich, or an easteregg
But a foruner version of that would be fine, btw FP animations, idk if they would be used, and thats no fun D:

Using normal weapons would be gay

Forerunner weapons would have to be made and you can only use them. This idea would require a lot of custom content, which I realize this community too lazy to do anything about

you mean you are too lazy to do right?
If you honestly want something done you really should attempt to try yourself first rather than just assuming other people will do the work for you.

This is a terrible idea. It's like suggesting a flood firefight where you are one of the countless and cheap-to-produce combat forms. Doesn't work, firefight generally involves one or a few key figures holding off against many more enemies. Also sentinels would lack variety, and gameplay value. All you'd do is fly out of reach and spam the sentinel beam.

i should open that map sometime and see if it is real, if so, ILL MAKE EM ALL NEEDELER SENTENALS, xD (gravemind ftw)

what about adding enforcers aswell?
i don't remeber any map where they're in your team...

mmm, sounds kinda like what i was going to do with the heretics i requested... only the other way around... isnt heretics allied with sentinels?
Edited by spiral on Apr 17, 2011 at 12:56 PM

That is exactly what I thought.

Besides that, I'd say you should put this on MP, meant to be played by a single person on LAN. Why? Because, as has been suggested, sentinels are one of the many cheap and generic sentries. Therefore I think you should be expected to die and play as a different sentinel which emerges from the sentinel dispenser (or the object which does so, don't know what to call it) without interrupting the fight between your sentinel friends and the enemies.

I'll just leave these here.. http://www.halopedian.com/File:3Sentinals.PNG http://www.halopedian.com/File:Forerunner_Sentinel_Boss.jpg

I have tried and failed at modelling and making stuff in gmax, so no, i am not too lazy at all.

@Ice phoenix

You wouldnt be spamming the sentinel beam cos thered be a variety of different forerunner weapons, and the ammo doesnt last long on the sentinel beam anyway

As for gameplay, the bsp could be really complex and perhaps you could even verse red sentinels or something. Buggers perhaps

look what i found, i think someone just left this here

http://www.halopedian.com/File:Forerunner_Sentinel_Boss.jpg
Edited by spiral on Apr 17, 2011 at 07:13 PM