Hello Halo friends, fans, onlookers and Covenant

I'm Darknesssamurai, creator of the Tachikoma maps, here to present Plasma Duality.
A series of maps focusing on what the name implies: duals.

This idea came from Halo 2 dual weilding, my favorite being dual brute and plasma rifle, on Midship.
I aim to recreate and improve that experience in HCE for us all.




FIRST - Map

Plasma Duality: Last Hangar

Last Hangar is for an all out plasma dual war.
Cover is your friend. Each weapon is all its own, master which is best for your play type.

Offensive and Defense have been substantially balanced in my view.
Learning all the possible paths around the map, both offensive and defensive, you will excel.

4 - 16 Players is best, excellent in both Slayer, CTF and Team play.







SECOND - Player

You are Council Guard Elites, high generals among both
the Covernant Honor Guard and Elite Council, legends of both fields.

I take pride in variancy, there is far more diversity than these,
but this gives you an accurate idea of what to expect.










THIRD - Weapons

Now for the exciting part, your tools of destruction.
As part of the Council Guard Elite, these are exclusive to members alone.

All of them have been overhauled and tweaked for smooth dual performance,
soon to be favorites of plasma lovers and spec-ops Elite hopefuls.


Dual Plasma Rifles

Holding an even average balance between power, speed, damage and recover time,
these will get the job done and are a reliable standard choice in war.



Brute Dual Plasma Rifles

Specialized for speed, and what they lack in power and other areas,
they make up for with quick kills and instant damage.



Dark Dual Plasma Rifles


The sheer power of dark plasma is mastered by only the lucky few.
Built with power and force, it's mass overheat is nothing
when only its kill rate matters most in war.



Dual Plasma Pistols

Overcharge is a force to be reckoned with. Engineered for its favored potential in battle,
it's primary fire is second-rate, but it's secondary charges are first-class in the right hands.



Dark Dual Plasma Pistols

Combining the might of dark dual rifles and the quick ease of use of plasma pistols,
they are not to be taken lightly. Dark plasma does not charge well but its primary
far outranks the might of some powerful single weapons.





LASTLY - More to come

Midship - Midship is a part of the inside of the Covenant ship, the Pious Inquisitor.

Where the idea spawned. One of the best Halo 2 maps for plasma dual wielding.
Only brute and plasma rifles on, double shields, slayer, 50 kill goal and 16 players.



Carousel and Chill Out - small, mid-sized and open for massacre.

Combined with these plasma and close-quater combat, chaos and plasma flies every second.

These maps force the players to shoot now and ask questions later,
while managing cover as best as they can, both good avenues of game play.





Damnation - Provides vertical and horizontal gameplay.
Its structured environment pushes the player to rely on their position,
area layout, escape roots and how to best utilize weapon types for its non-linear design.



CONCLUSION - Community

I'm open to critique and suggestion, and want your opinions.
I didn't create a WIP for my Tachikoma project but this time around
the community is open on this one.




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Edited by darknesssamurai on Jan 2, 2012 at 08:28 PM

wow, looks cool!

(use the other version of mid ship)
Edited by spiral on Dec 27, 2011 at 04:13 PM

Delicious variety!Are you planning to make dual human weapons?

I want those elite animations and plasma rifle weapons. I tried doing this in Lumoria multiple times and failed, even tried getting people who had done it before and still couldn't get anywhere with it.

Either way though, im loving it. Dual wielding is always real cool.

Duals!
Never heard of the dark weapons before, the color change is interesting.

I, "Convenant" are excited for this! Btw, its spelled covenant. Just sayin'.
Edited by ODST_Nick on Dec 27, 2011 at 05:13 PM

Grammar Nazi. You don't even have perfect grammar yourself. Just sayin'.

Anyway... nice map, you did spell Covenant wrong though, but that doesn't matter, because you've done a brilliant job with the duality features of this mod. I love how you've made different types of plasma rifles with different special features. The dark plasma rifles look especially intriguing...

OOOOHHHH

Me likey. The idea itself is most likely the best part, and if done the way i think it will be, the weapon balance will be amazing.

Looks extra niec, even with just stock Plasma Rifles and Pistols having their color changed. Amazing.

I can understand the frustration, it took a large amount of work to reach their current state.
But now we all know its possible, and the next step is Tri-wielding.
Edited by darknesssamurai on Dec 28, 2011 at 11:00 AM

Dual carbines pl0x? Dual Needlers?

Dual Needlers Would be like Halo 2 and would make me nostalgia so much.

Fantastic idea! This seems to be a very interesting concept. One problem though, is the lack of weapon diversity. Yes, you have gotten different variants of rifles and pistols, but thats what they are, rifles and pistols.

I'm gonna agree with some of the above suggestions for you to put in some more type of weapons, like dual needlers, maybe even dual carbines or beam rifles XD

Regardless, this is a very promising approach to weapons and I look forward to it.

Oh, oh, oh! Put in DUAL ENERGY SWORDS :)
It can be just be a cheesy one hit melee but IT LOOKS COOL SO WHO CARES
Edited by JLtheking on Dec 28, 2011 at 04:57 AM

No other weapons would work in duality in my opinion. Sure, dual SMGs or rocket launchers would be awesome. But they would be slaughtered by the fact that plasma pistols don't need to be manually reloaded very much. They can just be overcharged, then they cool down and you can use them again. Then if you run out of batteries, you can just grab another one and keep moving. On a covenant ship, there would be a lot more plasma pistols available than SMGs.

And it would be a stupid idea to have 2 needlers at once. You'd have to try to control homing needles and reload with no hands free whatsoever. Doesn't sound easy to me.

Anyway, just my opinion. Take it or leave it.

This project is a nice idea!

Thank you all for active suggestion, well appreciated.

That would be a good addition for us all sure, however the process of creating duals,
animating, fp, 3p, firing quality and smooth function would take a significant amount
of work pending what you're aiming for.

Dual rocket launchers and carbines might not be the best because
of the constant reload, plus how would those reload animations work
since you need the other hand.

These plasma weapons don't need the other hand luckily.


Ha, I'd love to see someone reload two rocket launchers in the middle of battle, easy kill.
Edited by darknesssamurai on Dec 28, 2011 at 11:36 AM

Same thing for reloading any other duel wielding weapon.

FTFY

Well, in real life, I assume it's modern day pistols. You release the empty mag by flicking downwards hard while pressing the mag release button and then you take your loaded mag and toss it up in front of you. Then while in mid air, you jam the gun down onto the mag so it snaps into the gun and there fore, reload. :) But with rocket launchers... oh mah dear gawd... good luck with that

I want to see you try that now. And then try it with a MC-sized suit on. And then try it with iron armor on just for the lols.

I completely agree with this. If you miss, it's game over. Dual-wielding with tricky-to-reload weapons is a stupid idea.

Self-reloading weapons are the future!

I can haz 3p anims?

Heres a idea since you like dual wielding, I had this weapon Tag idea a long time ago:

Make the left hand hold a shield which you can block attacks with and the right hold a sword. Kind of a future Knight in Elite Armor.

Would that even be possible? Halo's not had portable shields yet, so are the scripts there/possible?

Yes it's possible to deflect all damage taken by blocking with the shield. it would just be the jackal shield with an energy sword.

I've got a Jackal shield tag that deflects projectiles, but you still take damage.

What's the point in that?

So that projectile will also make someone go with you to the grave.

I like this a lot!
The idea is great, simple, and if you can pull it off, brilliant.
With the plasma pistols, i'm guessing its primary fires 2 bolts with a charge up? With the rifles, do you use primary and secondary to fire?

So something like this

Lumoria Bossfight anyone?

gg no re

Plasma Duality is close to ready for release

Includes five maps featuring plasma dual weapons:
Capital Ship Hanger, Halo 2 Midship
Chillout, Damnation and Carousel

See previous post for weapons and the other Elites that will be used:













Edited by darknesssamurai on Jan 2, 2012 at 02:03 PM