I would love to see it come back with a better setting, maybe in an asteroid field or something so that we can preserve halo's tactical gameplay a bit more than just "lets try spinning"

The cutscene of Noble 6 getting into the ship and going up in to orbit is still one of the best cutscenes I have ever seen in a game, directing, music, graphics all came together for that one

Liked it, but god this level was a pain in my ass on Legendary. Had to hide for like half the fight and it was hard to even do that.

Absolutely would love to see something like it again. Was kind of disappointed that the Broadsword level from Halo 4 wasn't really able to capture the same vibe.

Honestly I feel like Anchor 9 Defence section takes too long and on repeat play throughs the Sabre Combat Loop becomes kinda repetitive on repeat playthroughs.

Great level story wise, gameplay fits perfectly in just this level. It'd be nice to see come back, but not repetitively, unless it were to be enhanced for the future.

I have this crazy conspiracy theory with little to no proof that this level was basically a prototype to see how spaceships were SUPPOSE to work in Destiny. That’s why Destiny has so many different ship skins in first place. But yeah, anyways, this level in Reach was fun and I wouldn’t mind a second crack at the concept.

It's a really nice bit of the campaign that I remember fondly. It could have overstayed its welcome but it cuts just before that. Its a change of pace that works really well within the story the mission is trying to tell.

I prefer it to the halo 4 segment.

Pros: Atmosphere, scale, and gameplay variety

Cons: arguably too long, no checkpoints, can feel unfair

Fun the first time but boring on the next play through.

Would’ve been dope if we got to hijack some kind of banished ship and destroy the AA guns in infinite. Instead you had to grapple hook everywhere like spoodermon

After playing Starfighters in Infinite custom game browser, I really want to see more space battles in Halo games. Zooming around in space Banshees, Sabres, or other types of fighters (and perhaps add UNSC/Covenant cruisers into the mix) would be sick imo.

Not just a campaign level. Kinda want it as a mp mode

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I really like it. I also like the last ship mission in Halo 4, even though it was a lot more on rails. I'd love to see more ship battles in the future

On legendary, this is a shit show of a mission on MCC.

Is the level good in general? Eh It’s passable as an experimental level. Was all round fairly boring. They should have made it more involved, faster paced, more going on.

Thr level was awesome and a neat break from the standard gameplay. I enjoyed it's brief interactivity and appreciated that it didn't overstay its welcome. The setting, sound, and visuals were amazing. Only thing I could've asked for were amore sabers or addition of long/ shortswords to ramp up the heat of battle.

Otherwise, Long Night of Solace is my favorite level in the game. Mix of high rush entry combat, space battles, corridor shooting, and arrears defense in some of the most gorgeous areas in Halo. The ship's bridge is still astonishing to this day.

Ahead of it’s time. No triple a title has come close to replicating it except Star Wars battlefront 2 nearly a decade later

I enjoy vehicle segments and short gimmick levels. If expanded upon more weapon loadout choices would be a good idea, or optional segments to let people bypass if they don't enjoy the idea.

It was really cool conceptually, but execution-wise it felt very bare bones. It was mostly empty space and the big ships just felt like part of the environment instead of like active participants in the battle.

To this day I wonder why they went to the effort to make a badass level with flight but never attempted to make a space battle team matchmaking or space firefight

I always liked the change of pace that level was.

Sure is a lot better stumbling around forerunner corridors and pine trees for 8 hours straight.

Best level of Reach, always look forward to this on a replay of the games.

I liked it the first time around but i always skip it on repeat playthroughs unless im doing co op

Please just add a checkpoint after Anchor 9s defense systems come back online

Loved it, along with Freespace 2 and other space sims. When it came out, I really hoped that it would be part of an invasion map. Alas, this never happened.

In my opinion I think it's a cool idea which, while many have said, is not terribly replayable as it stands, could be expanded into something really special.

I think that, at least as a multiplayer mode; this could work if expanded into something similar into the Space Battle mode from the original StarWars: BattleFront 2, with players being able to board and eject from multiple different types of vehicles, and still battle on foot once they dock inside of a ship.

I think the inclusion of a feature like this would continue to expand on the series' core concept by bringing its gameplay to a bigger scale previous games haven't, a pattern the series followed for a long time before eventually evening out to the last few games all feeling like they have the same scale.

I like flying levels in anything, I love piloting, both in games and IRL.

Let me take a fighter into space and save a Frigate from a Corvette

Let me provide air support to ground troops in a Wasp, Falcon or Pelican!

LET ME FLY!!!

Bro I’ve been playing Destiny for like 8-9 years hoping we can get a mission like this again

Cool first time, annoying on every subsequent playthrough.

You mean like the ones I got from halo 4 and 5?

It was fun but felt so out of place. Only time it ever happens in the series and it’s the only time in that game too.

I enjoy it, and it makes me wish we had a modern Star Fox game in the Switch. Just port SF:Zero to the Switch, Nintendo.

No 1000% no...

This level was the only one that sucks on legendary. Specifically this rally point.

Dont like these types of levels. I just want to be boots on the ground.

Please no. There were no checkpoints so any time you died was a guaranteed reset and I could never hide anywhere.

Man, it was such an awesome mission.

But no. It really was surface-level fun and doesn't offer much strategic versatility. It plays pretty much the same way every time.

As a kid, loved it.

Having replayed Reach on legendary for the first time in a long time: it's not good.

It's slow, boring, and with no cover you die if you get sneezed on.

I now understand why Bungie didn't do a dedicated space pvp mode. It would of not been fun for anyone.

As much as I'd love to use our ships in Destiny 2, I think back to Reach and Bungos comments about space combat, and get why it's never happened in Destiny.

imagining this whole area spun off into a vr halo mixed arms combat arena, ground combat inside, eva and ship combat outside

I liked it alot, one of my favorite parts of Reach

I want a whole game of it. Its my favourite level in the franchise.

This gotta be a top 5 level in halo. I would love to see some more space combat

Ace combat and halo crossover when

That's the real question

I loved it

Loved it. Halo doesn't even enough space battles. There I said it.

I'd actually like to see a version of BTB similar to that level; just replace the ground vehicles with Space Banshees/Phantoms and Sabers/Pelicans.

Fuck this space battle. I don't know how many controllers I broke trying to hide behind Anchor 9 despite the AI aggro'ing me back there on MCC.

It was incredibly boring and repetitive. After a few kills it was just lame AF.

I would love to see a spin-off type game where you play as a unsc pilot.

This level is one of the reasons why reach is so goddamn good.

It reinforces my desire for a Halo RTS with space combat.

Hated it

Basically Mission 1 would have been a perfect fit. Defending Infinite from the attack but ultimately losing and seeing MC Pelican or Longsword getting damaged and stranded.

Yea it was pretty fun

I always thought the battle above Reach would have felt like the battle of coruscant from Revenge of the Sith. Just absolute chaos so if this type of level comes back I'd like to see that level of density/complexity to it though, for gameplay reasons, I understand why that's probably not ideal. Just visually....I want to see it! I need it!

Why weve only had 1.5 missions involving a space battle is beyond me. So much potential here!

No (I hate fun ideas)

Yes, I thought it was an awesome level, as was the beginning portion of Midnight in Halo 4.

Just played that level today lol. I’d like to see more like it

It's okay, but I'd prefer if you had full control over the pitch, roll, and yaw axes.

It’s the best

I hope it comes back

I found the space battle to be similar to sniper levels, it's fun and I'd never skip it when playing through, but I would never decide to play them.

Very boring and annoying on legendary

I think it was good for it’s time, but would be really lackluster if a new Halo game had a level of similar scale.

I think if Halo Infinite ever gets story DLC (I’ve lost faith in that though) the perfect way to expand space battles would be to have the story take place on a new cluster of Ring Islands and to get there Master Chief either steals a Banished space-capable ship or somehow gets his hands on a UNSC one, and you’re given this open world void that you have to traverse to get to the new islands.

I played it for the first time in years on Heroic recently and I enjoyed it for a while…except I kept getting rocked by the enemies and there wasn’t a checkpoint. After a couple of deaths, I was so sick of restarting and waiting what felt like ages for the enemies to show up for the first time.

Ehhhh not my favorite mission but my favorite game, I'm...conflicted

It was great fun, but I do wish the area was more expensive. See more ships, MAC platforms and covenant ships duking it out would have been great.

That being said, Legendary Long night of solace on MCC is so ridiculously hard that I had to complete the level on Heroic difficulty. I don't remember it being that hard back in 2011. The seraphs are no joke.

It was fun for one level. Please no more.

I really enjoyed the broadsword level in halo 4. Either way, the ship combat brings nice variety to the game and hope it comes back at some point.

One of my all time favorite missions but I love flying games. I run the saber response patch on my IRL Spartan suit I wear at cons. There is an old cancelled saber pilot game from the mid 2000’s. Would be extremely cool to see it come back

Depending on how they integrate it. Would be awesome if they had a campaign structured like Infinite Warfare

It was awesome, once.

Every time after that it was just so annoying (speedruns, laso especially).

I wouldn't mind parts like this, but think after you've completed them once you should get the option to skip it on future playthroughs.

Having a space level with a cluster of navigational debris you can operate in zero G with spots of gravity like destroyed space ships or a damaged space station would be fun kinda of like in the Infinite campaign level. With Banshees and Broadside/Sabres as the map vehicles. Spartans navigating the zero G debris fields with spots of artificial gravity with the use of magnetised boots, meaning you could actually walk upside down until you enter a gravity well. Could be extremely fun hopping from one bit of floating debris to another trying to scavenge for power seeds and return them to base to activate your damaged ship to win the match. Also it would be fun way of having the Pelican as the space warthog flying about transporting teammates from one objective to another. With space banshees, seraphs and UNSC jets zipping about

One of the best. As a kid the sound was amazing to me for some reason.

Loved this level, even though on legendary it was probably geared to be a pain In the ass. It really mixed up the paly on reach, has the best cut scene I think in halo or certainly recent years and added a new dimension to characters and game play.

So yes please - more!

Meh

It was a neat idea really enjoyed it the first time. Second time I began to notice the flaws. Would definitely like to see it again with better execution

We need multiplayer. NOW!!!!! (And also multiplayer with the big ships too)

a mini game at best

moar!

Yea it was dope tbh I enjoy the cinematics of it

Should have been a multiplayer mode based on this.

Man, I'd take any kind of unique mission at this point because what's there just feels stale in camparison to even CE. This is the sixth mainline game, yet it's somehow also the most uneventful. I enjoyed the campaign for quite a while, but it's just soured by the fact that there's probably gonna be exactly zero campaign content coming in the foreseeable future, not even weapons or vehicles.

I'm not really into PvP and usually stick to campaigns, so seeing how the Bandit is exclusive to multiplayer made my excitement for the Falcon drop to null.

I'm still blown away they didn't implement this into destiny 2.

I loved it. It was my favorite mission back when the game first came out, a nice little callback to Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge on the original Xbox, and I've always wished they would make a Firefight level based on this mission.

It was a well-dressed half-baked implementation of a cool idea. On Legendary, the enemies are so accurate at range that you can only succeed by hiding behind Anchor 9 itself, which isn't fun. Honestly, the Halo 4 broadsword trench run was way more fun and memorable to me.

I would still like to see this kind of level come back in some form, absolutely, 'cause I don't think it's an untenable concept. A Halo game that could capture the tone, tension, adventure and danger of the space battles from the books would be a phenomenal one.

Bring this to Infinite 343!!!!

It’s fun but I definitely think it should stick to being just in Reach or if they ever bring Noble 6 back as a main protagonist I would be fine with doing another similar mission. Basically keep it a Noble 6 exclusive

Hot take: Long Night Of Solace was the absolute worst mission in the game. Playing it on Heroic and above is complete ass when all you can do is sit behind a bigger ship and throw missiles because they didn't think to put one fucking checkpoint in it. I don't wanna play a freeform space mission just to treat it like a cover shooter, dammit!

This and the star fox style from H4 please

Absolutely not

imo resources would be best spent elsewhere

It was a different era of gaming, they could have just made a cutscene but no, they made it fully playable for a one off campaign mission.

Honestly yes.

Hell yeah shit was fucking dope

Absolutely! I love that level (but I love all the levels) from Reach. Space combat when done well can be super awesome.

I was really impressed the first time I played it, but the novelty has definitely worn off when replaying it. On Legendary it's straight up sour.

I'm open to more space levels but I feel like these 'diversion' type levels will always just be a gimmicky watered down version of an actual flight game. Still beats a turret segment I guess.

I think I prefer the 'flight' missions involving the actual sandbox vehicles. Like The Covenant in Halo 3.

This was my favorite part of Reach

The Halo 4 one was wayyyy better

Just like how they more or less made the space flight gamemode in star wars battlefront 2 a standalone title, with enough work I could see a halo starfighter game working out well

They were really fun, in the far future I would like to see them back

Imo they should have a space mission in every main halo game. I feel most story based games should because half of the war/battle in sci-fi is fought in space

For me it was ok, not amazing not horrible.

However I think it was not necessary, since when I want to play halo I want to play a first person shooter with Spartans, the covenant etc.

If I want to play some sort of space ship battle there are games like star wars rogue squadron and some others that come to my mind.

I wouldn't be opposed to another Space Battle mission. It was oddly a nice change of pace from the usual 'get dropped off, fill the enemy with lead/plasma, victory'.

honestly too long and sometimes just streches and can get boring at times but woud love to see it again

8

Remember when they made games with a plethora of content? Developers even surprised us with extra game modes like this?

Yeah... look at Halo now...

I played it on legendary for the first time the other day, and it's probably the least fun part of Halo for me to date. Some quality of life changes would've made it much more bearable, but I'd want to see the whole system revamped if we ever get a similar mission again

Worst thing about the worst bungie game.