Sign the petition, demanding Bungie to bring back Alpha Zombies gametype! I loved playing fat kid, it was always so damn fun! There were numerous other games I loved back in Halo 3 that involved alpha zombie too! BRING IT BACK! Sign the petition here!
I agree fat kid was a bad mini game for the most part, there were a couple fun maps but for the most part just plain not fun.
The only petition for a change in a game that I've ever seen work was one on Valve's official forums, and that literally had tens of thousands of signatures.
I'd sign it but my only issue is that it takes forever to get spawning right, what with all the ridiculous requirements and all that glorius Bull *bleep*.
I was planning a beast Cops and Robbers gametype where when infected, you become a ghost so you dont need to wait for the round to end. I couldnt do it in Halo 3, because the ghosts would assassinate the prisoners. You can disable this in Reach, but since there are no Alpha Zombie settings, I cant do it now!
They also killed Smear the ***** off as a Gametype. You can no longer set only the Alpha Zombie to have a Plasma Pistol, and can't stop people getting kills using weapons because now splatter damage is dependant on weapon damage. This also kills the Cat and Mouse Gametype, and as mentioned before, Asset has been killed off. No more options for whether winners or losers become the next zombies. Sure they added in lots of new stuff, but they took out features we've all taken for granted.
I haven't gotten the chance to buy Reach yet (by chance I mean money) but I hadn't realized they removed so many features from the game. No shield leech? No VIP? No Alpha Zombie? I don't understand why those things would need to be removed. What's the point?
... Cat and Mouse was awesome. And fat kid and smear the pinky were fun time--passers. I even loved being the zombies. Matrix-dogding BR shot while rocketing along at 300% speed was one of the best times I ever had in H3.
A "small" fraction of the community is still quite the portion. I'm fairly sure the majority of Forgehub (a considerably large part of the Halo populace) has played this classic and popular gametype. Although, your statement regarding it's validity towards the petition argument would be correct, since Cat n' Mouse never actually utilized the AZ settings. The Alpha's would never be killed, so there were never any regular zombies. That is why it works just fine in Reach. Anyway, I would definitely agree that the AZ's should be brought back. It would have opened even more avenues for Reach, but even without classic-but-dulls like Fat Man, I will still miss it. But, I am pretty positive that something as small as this won't be returned.
ForgeHub is but a very small fraction of the total players that made up the Halo 3 Community. ForgeHub only represents a community of players that Forge's maps and players that enjoy finding decently forged maps. When Security77 stated Cat & Mouse was voted best casual map and pre-DLC map, how many of ForgeHub's community actually voted for it? I'd be willing to bet that less than 100 members of ForgeHub total even bothered voting... out of over 50k members on the forum. Even if 200 members managed to bother voting, that's still less than 1% of just the ForgeHub community, let alone the Halo 3 Community.
This is a very valid point. I feel alpha zombie traits made the game slightly easier for the first zombie, as long as it was set correctly. Fat kid maps were never good to include, but it still helped many zombie maps. Loosing VIP ruined many people's plans for maps they wanted to make. I'm surprised Bungie took so many features out.
Speaking of which, has anyone devised a gametype idea that mimics VIP as closely as possible? That is, an escort gametype where the game/round ends if the VIP is killed or if the VIP reaches a single destination?
Hey, would it be possible to create a similar gametype as VIP but with using Juggernaut? it would be one sided though... But Cat n' Mouse could definitely still be remade in halo reach. in fact, Im going to get on my xbox right now and make it to show everyone here. and ill work on a fat kid variant.