Greetings fellow guardians. Like you, I have traversed the solar system relentlessly for the past 2+ months leaving shell casings and a trail of dead in my wake. Sometimes we fight together and sometimes we find ourselves pushing back the Darkness alone. But we're never [i]really[/i] alone are we?
Faithful as an old dog, persistent as the sun, our Ghosts have never left our sides. They guide us, warn us, hack systems and open doors that would otherwise remain closed to us. They hold the patterns of our minds and bodies and bring us back again and again to continue the fight against the minions of the Darkness.
[b]So why are they so useless outside of objective activation?[/b]
I feel like the phone I'm writing this on has more functionality than a Ghost (Edit 9: I'm listening to Led Zeppelin while I write this) and that makes me kind of sad. Don't get me wrong, I'm not asking to play a lock mini-game to open doors or chests instead but I feel like the Ghost has way more potential as a combat tool than we're currently seeing.
Bungie, can we please have ability trees for our Ghosts that unlock and augment their combat and support roles?
Examples of the type of abilities would be:
- Player shield buff that automatically activates when health gets low enough, perhaps upgradeable to cover the whole fireteam.
- Ammo regeneration or synthesis drops
- Buffs to certain weapon types or damage types (arc, solar, void)
- Enemy tagging and tracking ( think selecting a specific enemy type and getting a ping to lead you to the nearest mob)
What do you think Guardians, who else wants to see Little Light step up in this fight?
Edit: I forgot to mention the upgrade trees could be universal or based on what class/subclass you have equipped.
Also, love the Medic and distraction functions, thanks for the feedback!
Edit 2: Turret Ghost FTW
Edit 3: Gear with bonuses that linked to specific Ghost abilities would open up a whole new optimization chase.
Edit 4: Remote Vault management
Edit 5: Manual flashlight toggle
Edit 6: Play me something classic, Ghost
Edit 7: Show me the resource nodes!
Edit 8: (waaay overdue) vision filters similar to the detective vision from the Arkham games. This be used to find resources, see what enemies are in the next room or even locate hidden areas or other points of interest.
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#feedback
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Great idea :)
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Love this idea!
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Didn't bother reading it but I already agree.
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this could actually give the little dude some purpose. of course this would have to be pve only. it's difficult to imagine one more unbalancing agent added to the crucible.
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This should be a thing.
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Oh yes, this is exactly what I needed in my life. For someone to give dinkle-bot a gun. No. Definitely not. Let me reiterate: PLEASE NO. Dinklewankbot screws me over enough already. He doesn't need to be able to shoot himself in the proverbial foot too.
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You could also implement the ghosts abilities with the touch pad if your ps4
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I love this idea
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Edited by The Marauder : 12/1/2014 12:17:21 AMGhost is like the useless, dull, shitty version of Cortana. The game feels so much like HALO, except it has no real story and is a repetitive grind, you're character spends 90% of the game hidden behind a helmet which makes me wonder why we had a character creation option in the first place. You're idea sounds great, it really does........ unfortunately we have greedy, incompetent, dim-witted idiots running the show which means great ideas like this go unnoticed and ugly hive inspired armour gets put in.
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Yes please add this and let us choose a voice for our ghost millions of players have to listen to the same freaking voice
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I like that
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What about the ability to show chests and materials (spin metal, spirit bloom, etc) on your radar?
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Yes, and replace those dumb action buttons, instead of dancing, the ghost uses his ability
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Yes yes yes yes and watch it never happen cause of every ones favorite aaaaactivision
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ENGRAM FINDER. After the heat of battle, it's annoying knowing that you might have missed an engram. No matter if it's legendary or not, it's still worth something. I'm not sure if you mentioned this already, I'm just throwing it out there.
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Good ideas!! I like the personal shield upon low health, just like the guardian mod for your sentinel on warframe!
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le bump
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You should be able to pull up your ghost and use the D-pad for ammo. Instead of pressing starts and all that other unnecessary stuff.
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Maybe we can get him to work faster when unlocking a bloody door and/or stop making annoying comments about the Hive "breaking the Beckenstein Limit" while we fight to survive. But in all seriousness, I would like a toggle- able flashlight.
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A flashlight maybe would be nice.
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AWESOME idea. I also always felt that ghosts were a little useless outside of hacking things.
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Quality ideas I like it
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Bump. Great idea