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Hate to ruin the spirit but IGN announced that after an interview there was going to be no space combat

I would like something like Angels Fall First Planetstorm that would be amazing! But with Reach controls and with/against real players. I am really looking forward to this game!

So long as they avoid Star Wars: The Old Republic's "shooter-on-rails" idea of space battles, I'm perfectly fine with whatever Bungie wants to include. Battles between giant cruisers, solo or small-squadron actions, etc. And please, for the love of God, don't overpower the radar/sensors to make it/them a superpowered all-seeing Eye of Sauron. I'd like a game, for once, where I had to use my eyes to look for other ships hiding in debris fields or asteroid belts.

Much of this infiltrating large ships and space battles is sounding quite similar to Star Wars: Battlefront II; however, I would like to see a more in-depth display of the large ships, and not like four rooms...

Another thing I think they tested with the space dogfighting level is loading all of it during a cutscene, no loading screen between FPS and flying a spaceship.

I hope that you actually get to fly your ship from location to location, and not just get a two minute cutscene like in Mass Effect of your ship flying through space. A takeoff and landing cutscene would be fine, but having a ship would seem pointless if it was basically the "fly" mechanic in Pokemon.

the reach space combat was only one person per ship, it'd be so much better if there were ships were there are gun turrets and different roles inside the ship so everyone doesn't have to fly, and/or the pilot doesn't have to focus on shooting at shit! and they should at least give players and clans the choice of having more than one player in each ship, more like the falcons in reach, also if they used that type of set-up they could put ships into the ground based PVP without making them OP. it would also mean you could have a ship more like the Normandy from mass effect, and have your home ship rather than just a mode of transport? more like the falcons in reach, also if they used that type of set-up they could put ships into the ground based PVP without making them OP. as for PVP game types, it'd be awsome to have small scale ship-ship dogfights, but also cruiser-cruiser battles like in star wars battle front games? and how about a cooperative protect the convoy mode, against AI opponents like horde mode or something? and then a counter game to that where you attack and loot AI convoys, that would be great then if there were different size ships (on both sides) so you can try to utilize the different ships for the best outcome. another thing some others have mentions is when your flying to another planet, getting randomly attacked or being pulled away to help defend something would be epic, especially if when you enter a certain region in the solar system, you'll always encounter the same race of AI, less random, if you see what i mean, so if the cabal are occupying mars, when you fly past you get attacked by cabal...? another awsome idea would be if you get attacked on the ground, and you can call in a clan mate in who is flying the ship to give air support and to attack dropships, or to do extractions and stuff?

I think it would soo cool to have a major battle with a giant cruiser It would be even BETTER to be able to infiltrate that cruiser and loot it

They mentioned that when designing Reach they had a gamemode of something like 6v6 space battles made, but dropped it because they thought it didn't fit with the typical feel of Halo. Perhaps that was also testing for a Destiny multiplayer mode as well? In general though, I'd love to see a firefight-esque mode that's like it is in the Reach campaign of tougher and larger, more powerful enemy ships spawning in over time, and players have to work together to not die or defend and objective or something. That, as well as that I'd love to see clans get their own giant ships to store their personal ships in that can be taken into battle with other clans with the members either piloting their own ships, or controlling guns on the main clan ship, with the objective to win to destroy all enemy ships and to hit the critical points of the enemy clan ship to take it down. Preferably though this would only be for aesthetic reasons, and all the ships will still be fully functioning after the battle is over. As for simply player versus player battles in general, I'd love to see both space and planet atmosphere dogfighting, and think there should be two different versions of it: one where you get only one life and have to kill all the enemy players, and another where you get unlimited lives, but are aiming to ge the most kills like a typical deathmatch.

Reach had space combat? Oh yeah. That one really forgettable mission where you fly around in a small flying space and shoot like 5 enemies at a time for about 15 minutes before getting to the actually mission.

If its in (which seems likely), I suspect small dogfights. I can't imagine we will be able to own anything "frigate" sized or above. I put frigate in quotes, because people have very different versions of whats a frigate, and the best scale I can think would be the assault frigates from reach. I imagine we will be able to pilot "corvette" class ships and larger fighters. The best example of a corvette class (as I see it, the definition of classes of space ships isn't very clear cut) would be something like the millennium falcon from star wars. Small, maneuverable, multipurpose ships that can be piloted by a single person but can support a larger crew. Note that my scale of classes of ships comes from the game Homeworld. I could see there being missions where we participate in larger space battles though. Whether we use personal craft, or use something provided is a good question. I also imagine the presence of frigate class or above could happen, but would be NPC controlled. At least, that's how I picture it.

Some physics would be nice. As much as I enjoy flying my futuristic spaceship/plane through space, I can't get over the fact that rudders don't work for steering in a vacuum. Not that simple flying is bad. I just would love to be accelerating at 7 G's and be able to rotate my ship without losing any forward momentum. Let's say, if there was something right behind me.