Just thinking about if you were to increase the rarity of spartan gear but buff it up a bit, thoughts?

the rarity? It's in the shop. If you mean the price, i could, but i leave it cheap(ish) because some people like being able to walk into a game as a god. :)

just a suggestion, not sure how far you want to take this mod, how about adding covenant factions,making it a full on halo mod

Yeah, could you like fully reskin the factions to make them look like UNSC/Covenant/Forerunners like mcc said? Or add weapons from Halo?

the ammount of work to reskin, i could tho. If i had more subs maybe. Thought of even adding a hunter type unit. lol

How about ODSTs?

I am just adding a suggestion, I know you have a life and all though instead of adding the UNSC as a boss faction just switch up the faction list in general. UNSC, FLOOD, and Covenant... Covenant will mainly have grunts, those with shields will be jackals, and the armored units are elites. Flood could be replaced with insurrectionists which would be easier on you. Finally the unsc will have access to marines, odsts (first tier armor upgrade), and spartans (regular and upgraded). You could then proceed to adjust all the radio calls for each faction.

UNSC Radio Calls...
- Regular Artillery callouts with different icon
- Paradrops that could remain the same (drop by pelican if you want to go overboard)
- ODST drops, drop by destructable drop pods that provide temp. cover
- Spartan drops, same thing as odsts but better
- Spec op Spartan Drops
- Vehicle drops could remain the same just reskin at your leasure.
- MAC round ability (3000 rp)

Covenant Radio Calls...
- Plasma barrages
- Larger drops for the same cost as regular with mixed troops (grunts, jackals, and 1-3 elites)
- drops would consist of 8, 16, & 24 with once again regular drop animation or dropship
- Vehicle call downs though reskin and code in seperate physics at your leasure
- Cleansing Beam which streaks in a direction of your choosing for 5 seconds (3500rp)

Flood (optional faction) Radio Calls...
- Spore drop (infection forms) which is paradrop with 16&32 melee only units
- Vehicle call downs are just stronger and larger flood variants
- Spore Barrage (2500 rp)
- Barrages are with non lethal rounds that turn npcs/ players into flood

Insurrectionists Radio Calls...
- Uprising (2000 rp)
- makes unsc marines (not odsts, spartans, covenant, or player) fight for the insurrectionists
- Regular barrage choices
- Vehicle call downs are limited to light vehicles (different color unsc vehicles)
- Paradrop units run in from off screen instead of paradropping in
- sizes are 6 and 10 as they are slightly weaker than the UNSC since they have no spartans
- Underground (3000 rp)
- perminantly establishes an underground tunnel that allows you to instantly travel between
locations
- establishes an entrance and exit and cannot be moved but can be destroyed (covered up)
- can only be used by the insurrectionists

These are just a few ideas that I had, again take it with a grain of salt because you are only one person and you more than likely have a job or two.

I think a good idea would be an ODST or EVA armor, just named something different than, and looking different than Spartan armor. It would be weaker, say maybe 5 or so hits max, but would give the player a speed boost and make them slightly less detectable to the AI, like the stealth armor from the Mass Effect RWR Mod.

Also, any new versions of Spartan Armor would be welcomed, including the Spec Ops being avaliable to players :P

But nice job regardless of whether you add this.

Also, it would be interesting if you replaced the Aks-47 (the little ak 47) with a more sci-fi looking Spartan Rifle, operating like the m16, only with higher speed and different colored projectiles.

I'm trying to figure out projectile colors, but, that's not going well. >__> want to make the railgun beam red. lol.

The largest issue tho, is making models. The coding isn't rough. Just simple INI editing. I work and go to school, so models is just an extensive project. :C

However, there is variation of spartan gear (tho looks mostly the same) that's done, only dif is paint atm. but not in game yet. Special Stealth gear is done and in game, but not avail to player. :)

Is it hard to make new skins for weapons, or rather, their HUD? If it is any easier, I have some altered weapon ideas.

Spartan M7: A hi-tech reskin of the Beneli, using the same in-game sprite (altered if you wish) and an altered HUD one. It has 16 bullets as opposed to the M4's 12, and has higher bullet speed.

Also, if depending on the difficulty of weapon spriting, you could reskin the XM8 to be gray, and slightly increase the accuracy to make aforementioned Spartan Rifle.

Can you borrow or get assets for custom vests and skins from other modders?

i have not tried to make a new hud. I can make new weapon icons, that's easy. the spartan armor icon is easy to make, im just lazy.

to make new skins, that's slow process of voxel editing, or basically making an image pixel by pixel.

hmm, a grey xm8 would be easy (there's a white one for winter maps i believe. if not, it's only on my variation) .. i could make a new xm8 w/ increase aim, but haven't felt the "need" for it. Thought of adding a few guns, that would be less "op" but didn't see the need as most people like the OP guns, or just will avoid them.

And yes, i can use other modders stuff in mine, just need to 1) get permission. 2) modify to mods to fit. example, if i added the "running with dead" zombies, i need to modify a few files to make it work with my mod.

Hm, I see.
The modified Beneli and XM8 aren't that much, I just thought it would be a nice thematic change, especially since its not as hard as making new weps.

I was wondering if it would be possible to add the Shock Vest item from RWR Reloaded. The dev of it has pretty much said he was done making the mod, and I do not think he would object to you using it (probably). It would be a nice way to bridge the gap between Vest II's and Mjolnir armor (maybe rename it Marine Armor to fit in better).

i believe that his "shock vest" is just a renamed t3 armor. which, i could make avail to armory.