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I wonder if you can see what the other players 3rd weapon is like you can in the picture


Yes. You can see the secondary weapon another player has.

  • 03.01.2007 8:40 AM PDT

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I have a question that will probably be answered when the Beta hits, but I'll post it anyway for reasons of rudimentary speculation.

Since the Spiker has fairly low amount of recoil, and the SMG has a relatively high recoil..... What happens to the recoil, and or accuracy, of the aiming reticle when dual wielding with one of each weapon? Will it follow the erratic bounce of the SMG, or the seemingly steadier recoil of the Spiker?

  • 03.01.2007 8:48 AM PDT
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The spiker does sound brutally effective. But is this just an excuse to get rid of the smgs and replace them with a more powerful weapon. Because I can't see any reason for the smg any more. The spiker makes it redundant.

I loved the alein weapons in halo 1 because they were alein and getting to know how to use them properly was half the fun. This doesn't seem very new though or imaginative, needle's allready bounce round corners and while thi feature ties the weapon as being covenant in origin it still seems like a replacement for the human smg which did not work very well on harder difficulties in the campaign.

The quicktime movie is good and more of these would be appreciated.

  • 03.01.2007 9:36 AM PDT
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Ah they should just chun in the auld crazy smg's. The option of having them in custom gametypes might shut a few 13 year olds up. I'll enjoy the assault rifle though.

  • 03.01.2007 9:40 AM PDT
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I notised that the name on the form you had Frankie said that it was type 23 carbine. is it taking the place of the carbine?

  • 03.01.2007 9:41 AM PDT

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Oh, a gun and a stabbing weapon all in one. Nice.

The 3d shot is a bit wierd, it looks more like an untextured spin-around than an occlusion shot like in last week's update, you can see a lot of the vectors. Bah, either way it looks good.

At least I should be able to ID it from a distance now i've had a good look at it.

And, Bravo Kilo... Baby Kong? Rofl.

  • 03.01.2007 9:45 AM PDT

Get Ghost.

can't wait to try that thing on a grunt.

so does it explode catostrophically like the needlers used to do in Halo CE? the needlers in H2 seemed kind of toned down a bit. and does that make the needler useless, or is it more like the SMG, or both?

  • 03.01.2007 10:11 AM PDT
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From the update, the spiker is gonna be a new needler type weapon.

I didn't like the idea of campaign when you can't actually hide from Brute weapons by taking cover.

  • 03.01.2007 10:35 AM PDT
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Thats awesome, i look foward to the noob tooling i will be doing with it. Nice 3D.

  • 03.01.2007 10:35 AM PDT

A witty signature you say ! ? well at the moment i have nothing witty that springs to mind, so sory..................nope still nothing.......

looks sweet !

Can't wait to duel wield that beast ! the quick time animation was cool to (mmm vector debug spiker). sounds like it balances well with the SMG to.

nice one Frankie.

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  • 03.01.2007 10:38 AM PDT
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Nice stuff! The Spiker will pwn.

Can't wait for the next weapon updates.



  • 03.01.2007 10:43 AM PDT
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so after further consideration about the new control option of the x button ive considered that the x button may switch the fire rate of some of the weapons. as in this story they say that the spiker has little to no rise when on default automatic fire mode...meaning that there must be other fire modes...aka burst and or single shot. all in all im excited, great story frankie

  • 03.01.2007 10:49 AM PDT
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Cool gun. Cool update.

*Counting down to the Beta!*

  • 03.01.2007 11:08 AM PDT
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Another reason why I can't wait for Halo 3.

*Freezes self*

  • 03.01.2007 11:25 AM PDT
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i thought he said the amount you put pressure on the trigger would control the rate of fire.

but ya why have an smg (unless it has a bigger mag) when you can have one of these

also there better be halo 1 alien guns in halo 3 like the "STUNNING" blue alien gun

GAMETYPEs please have atleast a few new ones more

old maps, like hangem high boarding action....

the party system on XBL is excellent makes you thankful when you play other games

OH heres a great idea radio in the warthog hahahahamaybe even the music stored on their 360

option to make the vehicles explode OR NOT miss hog wars on halo 1 now they just blow up

fusion cores kinda sucked either make them explode more or get rid of them

POrTalble gun turrents would be cool like in halo 2 in story mode

lots of "good" ideas here if you need any

  • 03.01.2007 11:27 AM PDT

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Nice to know some new info on the spiker. Good work Bungie.

  • 03.01.2007 11:46 AM PDT

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  • 03.01.2007 11:50 AM PDT
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I don't know if you did this as an intentional hint, but I would have to believe that everything you write is examined carefully, and mistakes or unintentional leaks are highly unlikely. I noticed that there seemed to be a lot of comments about the Brute Spiker having a "default Automatic Fire" and some talking about being less accurate when in fully automatic mode. If there is a default mode of fire, I would have to believe that means there are alternate rates of fire to be more accurate. Could this be the Mysterious X Button????? I called it first! PWNED NUBS!

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  • 03.01.2007 12:16 PM PDT
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“I saw the baby kong go dry so I moved in with my shotty, well that’s the last time I’ll be doing that, huh? Damn cleaver-bayonet-thing went right through the shotty and cut my arm off just above the elbow. Only reason I’m still here is because of, well you know, because of him.”

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Sweet update

  • 03.01.2007 12:38 PM PDT
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Posted by: SuperPhish
I notised that the name on the form you had Frankie said that it was type 23 carbine. is it taking the place of the carbine?


car·bine (kär'bēn', -bīn') pronunciation
n.

A lightweight rifle with a short barrel.


a.k.a. no.
Also, it's not replacing the SMG. I actually tend to relate it more to a slower Needler than to the SMG.

As for the "default" setting comments, I'm sure that if that means something other than pulsing the trigger, it would be referring to a gametype customization rather than the X button. Not all guns would need secondary modes of fire, so that'd be a stupid X button. It's probably something you can tweak in custom games - (i.e. Rate of Fire - 100%, 50%, 200%, etc.).

  • 03.01.2007 12:51 PM PDT
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Wow. Every time i see an update like this i start drooling.

  • 03.01.2007 12:59 PM PDT
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It looks soooo cool i cant wait to use it in H3 life is gonna be great

  • 03.01.2007 1:04 PM PDT
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How come they didn't have one of those cool quick time links with the other weapons?

  • 03.01.2007 1:05 PM PDT

Hooah!

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NO MORE WILL I HAVE 2 USE SMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i can c y u wood like SMG went u have 2 but when u come back 2 life and u have 1, and there 2 guys r runing at u ,dual wielding 2 SMG.......u get my point.

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  • 03.01.2007 1:40 PM PDT