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Awesome! can't wait to see it with other color textures and with side mounted machineguns :) I suppose there is only going to be a version with both the forward mounted weapon and the side machineguns right? More variants that delete the forward mounted gun or the side machineguns are unnecessary IMO. Also is there any reason for it to have missiles? In the last version it had missiles which is quite strange, not sure if you're planning to add a version with missiles under the wings or if it just was for testing.

Oh starship troopers, I remember that movie, would love to kill those bugs in arma 3 :) http://www.armedassault.info/index.php?cat=addons&id=657 I just thought about something, what if blood gulch was added to the big terrain you are going to make? http://www.reddit.com/r/OperationTrebuchet/comments/321a8i/blood_gulch_in_arma_3/

You gave me the idea of a small holographic dot just above the weapon. https://gameovervzla.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/ghost-recon-future-soldier-first-look-20100412054623239.jpg something like that but without the iron sight itself, just the dot floating in the air. Would that be possible in arma? This would not be an attachment but part of the weapon itself. Then the scope would also be part of the weapon, but it would not be physically visible, x4 x8 or x12 depending the weapon type, some weapons such as the plasma rifle would not have this scopes. http://hce.halomaps.org/images/files/lg/HUD2.jpg to change between them press control + right mouse button. This would also give it a futuristic look, and the sight would be somewhat hidden as it is just an holographic dot floating in the air. This would allow the weapon to have good precision and to be very close to the weapons of the lore. Do you think this would work? http://gematsu.com/gallery/cache/ghost-recon-future-soldier/april-12-2010/Ghost-Recon-Future-Soldier_2010_04-12-10_01.jpg_500.jpg Most likely the dot would be blue, purple or green. so the other thing to be discussed are ammo, and weapons overheating. Plasma projectiles, plasma effects, etc. Also, There are some rumors that say Halo 5 guardians is going to have a Covenant Needle Shotgun, which would not follow objectives like the needler, but that would explode. http://i.imgur.com/nxKtUYV.gif That thing would be awesome, I hope they add it just so that we can add it to the mod. Edit: http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?188375-EXT-Extra-Terrestrial-Adversaries Those are pretty nice arma 3 weapon sci-fi effects.

I agree it would not be canon, but in a game such as arma 3 it may work, look at this: The designs of the sights should fit the covenant though, and be as small as possible, so they can't be noticed easily, looks like the plasma pistol has some kind of iron sight or at least it looks like one, use it as reference. if not you can always replace iron sights by http://hce.halomaps.org/images/files/lg/HUD2.jpg but x1, it would look somehow like a reflex sight, but more technologically advanced as you see the end of the gun. well you know what I mean, in that view you would not see the gun, so it wouldn't obstruct your vision. Edit: Also, do you guys think the needler http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131125064340/halo/images/4/49/H4_needler_trans.png should be included to the list? The problem is that it is a very awkward weapon to add to arma: very slow projectiles, they seek and follow, and explode. Also if iron sights are added, the design of it would not allow to have an iron sight on it, because of the spikes. Plus there are already quite a lot of weapons in the list. I'm just asking what do you think about it.

Oh so youre going to add iron sights and scopes to covenant weapons? Iron sights would be uncommon on them but it could be very cool, but quite far from being canon as iron sights are human designs. About the scope attachments, that is something more complicated, I can't imagine something like an ACOG scope or sniper scope attachment in a covenant weapon, they usually are incorporated to the design of the weapon, but lets see how this turns out. If they do something similar in halo online you could have a great reference: It could be similar to the OP Trebuchet assault rifle, it has an iron sight, and a ''virtual'' scope, to change between them press control + right mouse click. Also it would be similar to the lore as the carbine has a x4 optics if I remember correctly. Ghost recon had some holographic sights: http://th02.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2012/078/7/d/ghost_recon__future_soldier_mr_b_assault_rifle_by_scarlighter-d4taihs.jpg Though I still think this x1 would be better than an iron scope for the covenant: http://hce.halomaps.org/images/files/lg/HUD2.jpg Elites could use all the equipment, same for jackals/skirmishers, but when placed in the editor, their loadouts would be defined and limited, so you would have to use different species for every class and role. Grunts are the only ones that would have limitations due to their size, I agree. No problem you are welcome, my English is not perfect either, but I'm glad I have been useful :) Can't wait to see more screenshots of the carbine.

If you are aiming to create characters such as elites I would recommend you to either learn how zbrush or scupltris work, or to find someone who knows how those softwares work. It is the best program if you want to create ''organic'' stuff, such as living things, elites in this case. For vehicles, weapons etc better use 3DS MAX or blender or another software, there are quite a lot of programs. So if you want to really try to make an elite yourself, try :) But in case you not, don't worry, you still have more than enough skills to make the weapons and possibly the vehicles, having a weapon using plasma technology in arma 3 is priceless. As itfrankiea has said, if you show that you've been working on this, people will take you more seriously and someone will most likely join your cause. EDITED: Covenant weapons don't have attachments, the iron sights and scopes are part of the weapon, but not in physical form, they are more like digital. http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090511040727/halo/images/4/4f/H2_weaponszoom.jpg All the covenant weapons could use this type of scope as the normal scope, then for longer distances otpics could be x1 or x4 or x8 or x12 depending the type of weapon. Control + right mouse click would do. http://hce.halomaps.org/images/files/lg/HUD2.jpg So this kind of scope but x1 would work as a proper iron sight and reflex sight works. x4 acog scope, x8 an x12 sniper scope etc. So something like this would work: Plasma pistol x1 Plasma rifle x1 Storm Rifle x1 and x4 Covenant Carbine x1 and x4 Focus rifle x1 and x4 Needle Rifle x4 and x8 Beam rifle x8 and x12 Concussion rifle x1 Fuel Rod Cannon x2 Plasma launcher x2 The other thing I wanted to talk about is if every species will have all the classes, or every class will only be available to a single species? For instance: All rifleman would be grunts, marksman and snipers = jackals/skirmishers, team leader = elites, etc... Or are grunts going to be team leaders too? that would be strange. When it comes to weapons: Grunts would only use: Plasma pistol (Rifleman 1, medic, demolitions, crewman), Plasma rifle (Rifleman 2), Fuel rod cannon (AT rifleman) Elites would only use: Plasma rifle (Crew/pilot , Spec ops, officer), Storm Rifle (Rifleman 3, team leader, squad leader, Spec ops 2), Covenant Carbine (Rifleman 4, engineer, demolitions, medic, spec ops 3), Plasma Launcher (AT/AA specialist), concussion rifle (Grenadier) Jackals/skirmishers would only use: Focus rifle (Autorifleman, spec ops 4) , Needle Rifle (Marksman, Observer, spec ops 5), Beam rifle (Sniper, Recon, spec ops 6) summary: Grunts: Crewman (Driver gunner) , Rifleman 1, Rifleman 2, Medic, Demolitions, AT rifleman. Elites: Crewman, Pilot, Officer, Team Leader, Squad Leader, Spec Ops 1, Spec Ops 2, Spec Ops 3, Rifleman 3, Rifleman 4, Engineer, Medic, Demolitions, AT/AA Specialist, Grenadier Jackals/Skirmishers: Autorifleman, Marksman, Observer, Sniper, Recon, Spec Ops 4, Spec Ops 5, Spec Ops 6

Awesome mammoth tank! But I'm really interested about the RTS feature, which could work not only with this mod but with vanilla arma and other mods, such as Lost Dragons or Operation Trebuchet. Have you considered to actually use the mammoth tank in Lost dragons? It is so awesome.

About the Night vision discussion a while ago, Marines and ODST have night vision incorporated in their HUDs and helmet visors, but what about the Army? I found this concept, look at the warthog passengers: http://halo.bungie.org/misc/operation_chastity_art/lg/02_warthog.jpg It looks like a modern NV device.

That is what I supposed. Also why is the Grizzly not in that list? Is there any reason for it? I also took a look at the other stuff such as the new devices/weapons, pretty cool, I did not know most of them. Though I have some questions: Flares: What kind of flares? Air countermeasures? Or for signalling/illumination purposes? They both are already in arma 3, you want to make custom models and effects for them? What about smoke grenades? http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Smoke_grenade Concussion grenades niice! also are flashbangs grenades possible in arma? I think ive never seem them. http://www.halopedia.org/Flashbang_grenade Napalm grenades, that is something I'm looking for too. C-12 shaped charge, looks like its time to sneak around vehicles and blow them up. Battlefield ''jeep stuff'' if you know what I mean. M168 demolition charge, structures and buildings are going to fall quite easy. H165 Target Locator that is going to work like laser I suppose. designate air and artillery strikes. Binoculars? M7057 Defoliant Projector: Flamethrowers in arma 3? Everyone is doomed lol Hope the fire does not lag the game. • MG460 Automatic GL (vehicles and static turrets) • AIE-486 Heavy Machine Gun (vehicles and static turrets) So Scorpion , Pelican and falcon are going to use those? I thought you guys were going to use the one from halo 2 as planned before. What about static defenses? AT, AA, machineguns...?

Holy... That planned assets list is soo huge! It is more than half than TEI, EPIC WIN. About the halo wars falcon, in TEI it was: FA-78 "Gladius" Manned Fighter ("Falcon" fighter from Halo Wars) , you can keep that name or change it to something like Eagle or Katana, it ould be strange to have 2 falcons. No M850 Main Battle Tank ''Grizzly''? Why not? I mean, you even added the Vulture in that list which is the most OP vehicle the unsc could have lol Why something that has 2 120 mm cannons and it is a main battle tank would not be added? Some comments regarding vehicle list: GA-TL1 "Longsword" Bomber/CAS (Its so big I cant wait to see it in arma, VTOL right?) AH-144 "Falcon" Transport (Nice to see it textured, though what weapons will it have at the end?) AV-14 "Hornet" CAS (Litlebird of the future, it had to happen) F99 "Wombat" (Its going to be nice to se an air superiority drone in arma 3) AV-22 “Sparrowhawk†(Oh yes finally a proper gunship!) AC-220 “Vulture†(This thing is the AC-130 of the future, I'm surprised you wanted to add it, covenant mod is going to need scarabs) D96-TCE “Albatross†(Look at the http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/D82-EST_Darter they look very similar, sine the albatross is from halo 2 I think you could ''redesign'' it a little, darter is a good reference)) B-65 "Shortsword" (Not sure if this is necessary as we already have quite a lot of aircrafts, but its nice to see more halo wars vehicles. The longsword is already CAS/Bomber, I don't see a need of this one) Falcon (fighter jet) (Gladius, katana, eagle... Look at the beginning of my post) M808B "Scorpion" (105 mm gun) M808B2 “Sun Devil†(Twin 40 mm autocannons, its going to be useful even as AA) M808B3 “Tarantula†(I did not know UNSC had MLRS, very nice) M97 "Cougar" (Hell yeah! At least this protects passengers from firearms unlike the warthog) SP42 "Cobra" (While its a cool vehicle, i'm not sure it would work well in arma 3, it has 2 firemodes and 1 is static, im not sure it could work as a proper artillery in arma 3) M312 "Elephant" (That is big! I can see this vehicle as a command one and used to deploy HQs, lots of armor) M274 "Mongoose" (Although we have an ATV in arma 3 already this is a must too) M9 “Wolverine†(Indeed we need something more powerful than the AA warthog) M179 Fox Cannon (This I think that would be a better option in arma 3 than the Rhino or cobra, it should be added IMO) no grizzly? :( (with all the stuff below I am expecting a Eridanus Life mod lol) HuCiv Genet HuCiv Genet (Police) HuCiv HC1500 Überchassis Luxury Sports Car TurboGen Independent Wheel Drive Spade Traxus S-2 Cargo Transporter (So many ships below, blowing my mind. It's nice to see variety but doing all that stuff its going to take a long time) Charon Class Frigate Civilian Transport Vessel Civilian Cargo Vessel Class 3 Bumblebee ONI Prowler UNSC Corvette Overall I'm quite happy with the planned assets, and you added so many complex stuff that I'm surprised you did not add the grizzly since it is a main battle tank, scorpion is more lighter. You even added the vulture which is OP and a shortsword when the longsword already fills the role. And a prowler and corvette apart from the frigate, those things are quite huge too. you are quite ambitious, aren't you? :) About ODSTS having a Reach approach,, I agree their camo is still quite dark and it looks much cooler IMO.

Hope we can see an update soon :)

Magnífico harrier! Ya tengo ganas de ver el eurocopter Tiger y el eurofighter typhoon :)

People we have to remember he is working alone and he has limits, for now he is doing the weapons, and he is doing a pretty good job at that, so I think he should concentrate in making as many Covenant weapons as possible. I would dare to say he even could do vehicles, but something as characters is much more complicated than that, he has already stated that that is beyond his limits and he is going to need help from the community. So until someone appears to make something as characters and other stuff that requires a higher skill level, let him work in the weapons, cause he is doing a great job :) After all, the weapons and vehicles do not require elites and the other covenant species in order to work in Arma 3. So, as that is much more complicated, leave it for the future and lets hope that we can see covenant weapons and vehicles ''soon'' :) In the lore some jackals provided the insurrectionists with covenant stuff too, so maybe we can see some of them in Project Trebuchet. Hope we can see someone getting elites in arma 3 soon too. Seems 1. is going to be a better option, unless someone is willing to make all the animations from 0 and have a similar quality to the animations from arma 3. But I think 1. could do the job, look at this: Uses the arma 3 animation as base. not sure if these elites are fan made or ripped form games, im afraid most likely from H2 but here you have: http://www.halomods.com/ips/index.php?/topic/255-cmt-elite-playable-biped-beta-2-tagpack/ I think the best references would be from halo reach, I don't like much the changes in Halo 4, and Hlao reach introduces the skirmishers which are awesome jackals. Jackals/skirmishers (I think that although in the lore they had shields, they shouldn't have in arma, they will most likely be using both hand to hold the weapon, eve if it is a pistol) http://www.hookedgamers.com/images/1331/halo_reach/screenshot_x360_halo_reach162.jpg http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140205150227/halo/es/images/2/24/Halo-Reach-Covenant-Files-8-5-Skirmisher-Champion.jpg Elites: http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120215111645/7extremepowers/images/6/6f/Major_Elite.png http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/168/a/f/Halo_Reach_Elite_Armor_by_crested217.png Grunts: http://rensedeboer.com/grunt.jpg http://d2z1jzxaddcqt.cloudfront.net/media/Grunts.jpg Hunters: (They are going to be more like vehicles than infantry, I'm worried because they are very big and can't be transported neither use any vehicles) http://photos.imageevent.com/afap/wallpapers/videogaming/haloreach/Reach%20Firefight.jpg http://faqsmedia.ign.com/faqs/image/article/112/1122052/hunter.jpg Brutes and drones would not be necessary, brutes would require more weapons and vehicles, you have enough work. also drones are quite weak and are flying creatures. so I would stay with the more classic species shown in halo anniversary.

Wow you work quite fast! :D Can't wait to see more screenshots. Do you also texture? I'm Spanish but I think it would be very strange if elites spoke my language, that's why I suggested random sounds as wort wort wort xD so its like hey spoke their own language. Would work as OPFOR-CSAT, you understand them by reading the subtitles in the left. and yes unfortunately you can't use assets and stuff extracted from any of the halo games, but luckily there are quite a lot of custom models done by fans. The best looking one atm is: http://www.project-contingency.net/h5-gallery

5. That would be wise, it's a shame we can't have things more similar or true to the lore, but in Arma 3 if the elites ar emuch taller than humans you'll se their head outside vehicles and doors and entrances will be too small for them, so they could be slightly taller, but not by much. That is one of the reasons I'm worried about the Hunters, more than infantry they are vehicles lol. I agree, but elites speaking French... sounds awkward. Maybe this can sound a bit crazy but you could create 'random sounds'', wort wort jeganya etc , look at halo 4 elites speaking. Then subtitles would be in English French etc... Depending what is your language. That should do. Invisibility would be a feature only to sepc ops units and very limited so people will not overuse it. Im pretty sure we will find a way. Hope they can provide you those models :) Some people are making a halo game in cryengine and the models are incredible, maybe you could try there too. It is called halo contingency.

Just found this mod, this is awesome! Aliens are so OP, and the aircrafts outmaneuver anything I've seen before in arma. I have always wanted aliens in arma. Hope that this mod succeeds too: http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?190585-WIP-Halo-Covenant The only problem is that many people are going to be needed to accomplish something of that scale. Maybe you could help him? You've got some nice alien weapon effects.

You may be right about invisibility, I remember a Predator mod with that feature, but you weren't invisible to AI think. Increasing the armor would work though I would love to see a shield effect when hit too. I have seen so many types of tracers in arma scifi mods, so I agree plasma tracers are possible, though its speed would have to be tweaked. Yes that could work, find a battery to recharge the weapon like if it was ammo, the magazine would be quite large depending the weapon, plasma rifle and carabine are different in this sense. covenant ammo boxes could have both ammo and batteries. The only thing is that Overheat should be applied to some covenant weapons somehow, infantry firing 200 bullets without having to reload or wait sounds OP. Edited: Just found this: http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?188375-EXT-Extra-Terrestrial-Adversaries Surprised by the amount of scifi mods we are getting lately http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?177118-Lost-Dragons http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?153116-Terminator-Rising-(WIP)

Ammo also intrigues me, most covenant weapons use something like battery charges in most of their weapons instead of ammo, they also don't seem to use any kind of backpacks. (Unless if it could be considered that the grunts have backpacks) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5SWD6epuZk Elite rangers have some kind of backpack it seems: https://dabidsblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/20111031-142038.jpg Energy shields and invisibility is something I can hardly imagine in the arma 3 engine, extremely cool. Also the wraith, is that going to be a tank or artillery? I'm also a bit worried because the projectile of the wraith is quite slow, should be faster in Arma IMO. Also Shadow transport could be a great counterpart of the UNSC cougar, in these concpts it looks like it has similar passenger seats to the Spirit: http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131208011101/halo/es/images/6/61/Arte_conceptual_Shadow_2.jpg http://halo.bungie.org/halobulletins/20110628/ConceptArt2.jpg http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140513045557/halo/images/2/2b/H2_Concept_Shadow2.png http://th05.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2014/323/8/1/vehicles_for_halo_2__anniversary_by_belovp-d86xp76.jpg UNSC and covenant are not going to be balanced at all though that is not a bad thing, they are meant to be different, the closest relatives are: Mongoose - Ghost Warthog - Spectre Pelican - Spirit Scorpion - Wraith (Or Locust) Fox canon/Rhino/Cobra - Locust (Or Wraith) AA Warthog/Wolverine - AA wraith Cougar - Shadow Gladius - Banshee Longsword - Seraph Falcon - Phantom (not the one from halo 2, the others where they enter and exit using side ramps and have gunners) Sparrowhawk - Vampire Hornet - ? ? - Revenant ? (Elephant?) - Scarab Elephant - ? (Scarab?) HEIV - Type-51 Individual Breaching Carapace Not included Lich/Vulture and brute vehicles since it is unlikely they are going to be in ARMA 3. When it comes to weapons compared to UNSC OP. Trebuchet mod: MA37/MA5B Assault Rifle - T-55 Directed Energy Rifle/Advanced BR55 Battle rifle - Type 51 Carbine DMR - Type-31 Rifle Sniper rifle - Type-27 Special Application Sniper Rifle or Type-50 Sniper Rifle System M6c pistol - Type-25 Directed Energy Pistol M7 SMG - Type 25 directed energy rifle Rocket launcher - Type-52 Guided Munitions Launcher/Explosive Shotgun - ? (Mauler though it is a Brute weapon, shotguns are very uncommon in the covenant arsenal) SAW/LMG - ? (Type-52 Special Applications Rifle?) Grenade launcher - Type-50 Directed Energy Rifle/Heavy Static: M247 General Purpose Machine Gun - Type-52 Directed Energy Support Weapon M41 Light Anti-Aircraft Gun - Type-55 Anti-Infantry Stationary Gun AIE-486 Heavy Machine Gun - Type-26 Anti-Vehicle Stationary Gun M71 Anti-Aircraft Gun - Type-26 Anti-Air Stationary Gun

Awesome! Will it be getting black, tan and White versions too?

We are going to have quite a lot of armors then lol Army with 2 camo variants, Marines and ODST. Now we are getting 2 more marine armors, 1 light the other heavy, and you want to add Halo 3 marines too? That , sounds gorgeous :D Though I'm a bit disconcerted, did not you guys wanted to approach to the Reach and H1 anniversary design more? Because HCE marines are quite different from the marines from the other games and the ones you have already in the mod. Sniper rifle is looking great BTW Definitely you should create a reddit account there are some very interesting conversations there. About the innies attacking Earth and Reach, it would make sense because they actually did that, at least in Reach. But during Operation Trebuchet they were forced to be at the defensive, UNSC had the initiative there, the innies were defending the outter colonies and the UNSC attacking, not the other way around.

Darkedaeron this will be a hard path but from what I see that's a pertty good model, hopefully more pople will volunteer to help both OPTRE and this mod :) Some time ago I posted this in TEI forums, reposting just in case it could be useful: ''In my view the assets considered to be the covenant arsenal (If ever) should be: Plasma grenades Type 25 directed energy rifle (SMG) T-55 Directed Energy Rifle/Advanced (Riflemen) Type-25 Directed Energy Pistol (Crew/Pilot) Type 51 Carbine (Engineer/Demolitions, etc) Type-31 Rifle (Marksman) Type-27 Special Application Sniper Rifle (Sniper) Type-52 Guided Munitions Launcher/Explosive (AA/AT) Type-52 Directed Energy Support Weapon (Static). Type-55 Anti-Infantry Stationary Gun (Static) Type-26 Anti-Air Stationary Gun (AAStatic) Type-26 Anti-Vehicle Stationary Gun (ATStatic) Melee weapons, not sure if those could work in Arma. Needler would be OP as its projectiles follow objectives. Elites would not use brute stuff. Not sure if Brutes and drones should be included. Vehicles: Type-47 Ultra Heavy Assault Platform Scarab (Those things are so OP but so awesome) Type-30 Light Excavation/Anti-Fortification Platform Locust Type-26 Ground Support Aircraft Banshee (Should be VTOL) Type-31 Exoatmospheric Multi-role Fighter Seraph (Should be VTOL) Type-26 Assault Gun Carriage Wraith Type-52 Anti-Aircraft Artillery AAWraith Type-32 Rapid Assault Vehicle Ghost Type-48 Light Assault Gun Carriage Revenant Type-46 Infantry Support Vehicle Spectre Type-29 Troop/Vehicle Transport Shadow Type-25 Troop Carrier Spirit (Helicopter like controls) Type-51 Individual Breaching Carapace (Drop pod) Spirit would perform better than the phantom in arma 3. No brute vheicles unless brutes are added, but that would be a massive work to do and I feel like brutes would be unnecessary. Meanwhile I'll keep dreaming.'' There are quite a lot of models made by fans in websites, you could request their use and hopefully that would make things easier, if more people joins this I can see a future where the covenant is in arma. Also I'm not sure the banshee could work well as an helicopter, I'm pretty sure it would work better as VTOL. Here some examples of models and assets you can find for free, though they have to be requested to their respective owners. http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=6815 http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=6807 http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=6652 http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=6491 http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=6488 http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=6487 http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=6172 http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=5845 http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=4960 http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=3453 https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/search.html?q=covenant&rsi=sbis&backendClass=entity

People, since everyone seems so interested about terrains I have created a thread in reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/OperationTrebuchet/comments/31nmr4/terrains/ BTW someone is willing to make the covenant: http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?190585-WIP-Halo-Covenant

A small island mostly made of buildings and another big island mostly made of rural settlements sounds wise. Its like Utes - chernarus and altis - stratis. Both maps could take place in Eridanus II or a planet from the outter colonies. The big one being mostly a large rural area with some farms, settlements and small towns as well as some UNSC base and military airport and outposts for the rebels to own. There could be a secondary small airport like the ones seen in Altis. http://www.halobase.de/fileadmin/media/gallery/concept-art/halo-wars-concept-art/halowars_concept_art_55.jpg The small one would be a ''small'' size map set in the city of Ellysium or Luxor, you could get inspiration from new Mombasa and new Alexandria to make this one and you would have more creative freedom. It would make sense that things happened in one of the outter colonies and not on reach or earth, mostly Eridanus. Quite a lot of buildings would be required, small-medium sized apartments, skycrappers, bridges, space elevator, space port, airport, etc... If you guys decide to make this, it is going to be a hell lot of a work. Edit: Even halo legends could be a nice reference for the maps. Just imagine the city you could create just by having other cities as reference and the freedom of shaping it as you wish. http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100217112351/halo/images/e/e7/Arcadia_City.jpg http://www.artwallpaperhi.com/thumbnails/detail/20121017/video%20games%20cityscapes%20halo%20reach%20digital%20art%20concept%20art%20artwork%20port%201600x900%20wallpaper_www.artwallpaperhi.com_91.jpg https://halo.bungie.net/images/Games/JKLSKESUDLD/concept_art/environments/Halo3-ODST_EnvConcept-07.jpg https://halo.bungie.net/images/Games/JKLSKESUDLD/concept_art/environments/Halo3-ODST_EnvConcept-06.jpg https://halo.bungie.net/images/Games/JKLSKESUDLD/concept_art/environments/Halo3-ODST_EnvConcept-12.jpg http://thebuzzmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/halo-3-odst-concept-art-aireal-factory-hub.jpg http://halo.bungie.org/bwu/images/Halo3-ODST_EnvConcept-10.jpg http://oyster.ignimgs.com/ve3d/images/03/87/38769_Halo3Recon-05.jpg http://firstpersonshooters.net/Games/-=franchise=-/Halo/1/images/fan%20art/ih_overgrown%20dam03.jpg http://halo.bungie.net/images/games/JKLSKESUDLD/concept_art/environments/Halo3-ODST_EnvConcept-05.jpg http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18q1mqrkwlkljjpg/original.jpg http://images.g4tv.com/rimg_606x0/ImageDb3/128800_l/122908-concept-art.jpg http://www.halobase.de/fileadmin/media/gallery/concept-art/halo-3-odst-concept-art/halo3odst_concept_art_06.jpg https://vgnook.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/ih_outpost_01.jpg http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130330212445/halo/images/6/60/Cascade_City_1.jpg http://halo.bungie.net/images/games/kdighekc/stills/odst_012209_02.jpg http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/halofanon/images/1/1b/City-Siege.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130925002531 http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-suhsMi5f4NY/UEatANluiOI/AAAAAAAAGtE/u9EjmaKNRGI/s1600/Halo+4+concept+Artwork+UNSC+military+base+headquarters+commandb+center.jpg http://41.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3puqwUbQc1qbs6i5o1_r1_1280.jpg http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l47ydtceKm1qbs6i5o1_1280.jpg Of course i'm not expecting all the buildings to have interiors neither destruction. Also remember to be careful with the poly amount. This is all I had to say, keep up the good work :)

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So using halo reach as an ''Art'' reference and setting, but also using all halos for its content? That sounds very nice I must say. This means that vehicles such as the cougar and the hornet are in. Gladius and wombat may make it too since they were listed in TEI. the sparrowhawk now that you have a nice model may make an appearance too. Unsure about vehicles such as the elephant, wolverine, grizzly, shortsword, rhino, fox cannon, Aardvark and cobra. hope you guys can confirm us all that soon.