[quote]An ISD would solo-rape any UNSC ship, turbolasers SW shields can stop projectiles. They may not stop a MAC, but every other weapon in the UNSC would be useless. Archers, railguns, even nukes would be useless. Since the Proton Torpedo's in SW are as strong a
[quote]How about "Advanced Fertility Drugs" instead? Get rid of the clones, and just have lots of multiple births. Hell, you could even have "Genetically Enhanced Longevity" even.And yeah, I am gonna really enjoy taking a few Marathons up against some Star Destroyers. I think DANMAN wants to have the UNSC be invincible, slow-moving, expensive bricks of doom. I mean, a UNSC frigate has what, 1-2 meters (3-6 feet) of solid titanium-A plating on each side, plus destroyers have an additional 3 m
[quote]A space combat game sound fun butttt. if you know anything about the "HALO" Universe the combat must not be balanced. Humans are utterly ruined in space we know this from reading the books it would be extremely difficult to be humans low weapons damage with eception of the "mac gun" and "Mac platforms". For an analogy it would be like send men with muskets to fight men with "Uzi's".But with all that aside good look and I hope that it is good[/quote] We've discussed this, and it H
[quote]Actually according to Microsoft's Game Content Usage Rules, "the music from Halo 3 is available for your use in non-profit ventures thanks to an arrangement with O’Donnell/Salvatori, Inc., composers of this iconic theme." http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/developer/rules.htmWhile the rules were created with Machinima and gameplay montages in mind, the use of intentionally general language like "non-profit ventures" implies that it can be applied to other projects such as mods. As long a
[quote]its a good idea. but dont advertise it. there was a mod for C & C Generals that was halo, but bungie and microsoft got way mad at them and made then stop makeing it, and closed the website and everything. so if you do make one do it under the table and dont advertise it, but email it to me =D [email protected][/quote] Oi, people need to stop making posts like this. I'll list it for easy reading. 1: Bungie didn't close the mod down, infact, I think they even hel
[quote]Are there enough Covenant ships to use for the Mod at the moment?[/quote] The initial beta will only have UNSC ships, no covies.
[quote]Some ships actually were crewed by Brutes. See Contact: Harvest. I personally would give them a "Berserk Rage" ability with increased weapons damage but they also take more damage.[/quote] Well, I'm not sure what the books said, but I know for a fact before the civil war, the Elites were the dominant, and most trusted race of the Prophets. So even if, by some chance, Brutes crewed some ships, it'd be rare and intermitant. And it deffinently would not be an entire class of ship
[quote]For the Covenant ships how about they are given abilities similar to the different racesGrunt: Self-destruct: Explodes and damages nearby shipsJackal: Plunder: A passive ability that gives you a share of the resources of each ship you destroyHunter: Fuel Rod Cannon: A series of fuel rod cannon blasts are fired at a targetElite: Tactical management: A passive ability that increases the stats of nearby shipsBrute: Rage: Halfs range but doubles attack strengthDrone: Swarm: A swarm of drones
Covies don't have point defense lasers, and their plasma torps shouldn't be an ability. They were too spammable to be an ability. A MAC makes a good ability, because in the Haloverse it has to charge up for a couple minutes anyways, but Covie weapons don't have this same restriction. They can fire a plasma torp the second the first one detonates. So you'd basicly have to give it no cool-down time, in which case it's more a hassle then anything.
http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/2d-gallery/41907-halo-fleet-profile-sheets.html Found that (Gotta sign up to see it), it's basicly a guy who makes a bunch of UNSC ships. And since probably half of the UNSC ships aren't done, I figured this might help with ideas, or, actually be used if permission is obtained. What caught my eye of his was his utility tug and transport (Both of which are needed for the UNSC, and seem to have been forgotten) and his super-carrier design. He al
For when you start on the Covies, I was watching StarShip Troopers, the first movie, and realized that the bug plasma would work REALLY well for Covie plasma.
[quote]Bungie's way of bitchslapping this entire modfor the UNSC anywayThis image has been resized. Click this bar to view the full image. The original image is sized 610x457.[/quote] Not to be mean, but this post made me lol. How a render sheet from some HW2 mod could be "Bungie's way of bitchslapping this mod" is beyond me lol.
[quote]No offense, cptkeyes, really, but it would really help us to understand what you are saying if you include some punctuation SOMEWHERE at least. I can understand without capitalizations, poor spelling, and unusual syntax, however, the complete lack of any punctuation really gets in the way of people being able to understand what you are saying.Sorry, but it's true. Punctuation helps people know what you are saying.And yes, I do get what you are saying. However it is very hard to underst
[quote]The point I was making is that balance does not make a mod fun in itself. The Retarded mod is balanced to a certain extent, however if making a unit balanced makes it boring, then the maker will not balance it. While balancing certainly can improve fun, you can balance sides to where they are cookie-cutters of each other and therefore kill the fun.Mods should always strive to be fun, and not centered on "balance". Enjoyment is more important than fairness when playing a game.[/quote]<b
[quote]I'd rather have fun than balanced or realistic. I think most people do as well. Just look at the popularity of the Retarded mod for C&C3. Everything is balanced only in its ability to PWN.[/quote] Such things make for fun mini-mods, but not for any sort of major mod. You need balance, that doesn't necesarily mean you have to make carbon-copies of each faction. You can attain asymmetrical balance, but you allways need balance.
Yeah, I've found the Halo wiki to be extremely accurate. And plus, if you want input, you'll either have to go re-read the books every time you want info, or trust wiki. Because most of us aint gonna re-read the book looking for every tid-bit of info, we'll just wiki it and get a nice convienent article. And in the end, it's a mod. It doesn't HAVE to be perfect, and if wiki is wrong a bit, who cares? Who cares if it says a plasma torp travels at half the speed of light, when in fact it travels a
[quote]where does it say that plasma torps are half the speed of light? not to sound like im challanging it but i want to know to verify it from the books.keyes how many covie ships will we have?[/quote] http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Plasma_torpedo Says it there, not sure in what book n the like, but yeah. It can't go that fast in Sins anyways, unless we made the gravity wells 100 times bigger and made fleet engagements take up the entire gravity well (Which, is what they do in H
[quote]keys did it more than once even with a bigger ship... he did take out two covie ships dodging the torpedos and getting them to hit the ship that fired it... but the fact is that maybr it could be for the frigate or destroyer.. or maybe a capital ship that is commanded by cpt keys.. kinda like a special ship for the UNSC..(but might be a little hard) never mind the fact[/quote] Don't think hero units are possible in the game, if they are I'm all for it. But I just don't think this
[quote]well funny tho (i feel another argument) keyes out ran torpedos before[/quote] Where would we be without our arguments? As for the torpedo's chasing Keyes' ship, it's only because he managed to evade them and they had to turn about. Not to mention he was using a destroyer, a ship the size of a frigate, which I said would be about the largest ship capable of evading plasma torpedos. So his entire trick is perfectly valid, even given the plasma torpedo's speed and maneuverability.<
[quote]um is it possible to have the emergancy evasive mauguvering(no idea if spelt right) for some or all ships... it was a main tatic for Captain Keys when fighting the Covies shipsd[/quote] Well, the problem with such an ability, is that in real life such actions are very dependent on the crews skill. Keyes got lucky that he had a skilled crew that was capable of pulling off some insane stunts. But most ships aren't so lucky. If you look at Halo, 90% of all ships that enter combat w
[quote]it can be out ran by a halcyon[/quote] Then it's too slow. Halcyons are one of the slowest ships in the UNSC, and Plasma Torpedo's can travel half the speed of light. While, we obviously can't have realisticly fast torpedos, they should atleast be guaranteed hits to any ship larger then a prowler.
[quote]i havent tested for that but you can outrun/outmanuver the torps the ai does it quite frequently. the problem with missiles is that their locking system is independent of the ship. hey colt its just the basic advent plasma if you want to test that for me.keyes i think we should make the range on the mac guns extreme since originally the gauss guns in the game had horrible range. the plasma torp i currently have is slightly slower than the slowest ships traveling at about 500 game units
A question with the torpedos, when the fireing ship is destroyed will the torpedo detonate? It's stated that when a Covenant ship is destroyed and a plasma torpedo is en route it will detonate prematurely, or fly off aimlessly till it hits something. I find the second rather hard to believe because of the way plasma torpedo's operate, though.
[quote]We never promised anything colt im gonna say one last thing and i dont want to hear any more canada man gets pissed when we argue like this its our decision and what ever we decide is final no matter what we have said in the past end of story[/quote] Just because it's final doesn't mean I have to like it.
[quote]well colt if you would have listen to canadaman and didnt rant like a little school boy you would know that lottery or not you fife and under heaven would get the beta but as for the others it would come down to a lottery[/quote] So? This isn't only about me and whatnot. If you honestly think I'm that self-centered, then meh. I still want an open beta because what about all the others who want to play this? Who were promised an open beta and have been waiting patiently to play th
