- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I for one believe that the 3 shot pistol kill was way too easy to pull off.
I may be biased due to my play-time in the Halo PC world. Halo Xbox was a slightly different story.
However, the fact that you could snipe someone with a pistol from half a map away was irritating. If that person wasn't looking in your general direction, it was essentially a free-kill.
How does that make you elite?
He has no defense against it. He can't duck/hide/jump or evade if he doesn't know what angle you are shooting him from.
Insta-kills are nice when your doing it against some AI or some challenge. It makes you feel superior. But when you do it against other players you get 'n00b' and 'elite' mentality that is complete BS.
The only reason you ruled with a Pistol was because you had
1) Opportunity
and
2) An over powered weapon with which to maximize opportunity
You want 'elite' try charging people with a sniper rifle that actually has wicked RECOIL when you shoot it. Any weapon that lets you fire multiple shots, is powerful, and has no recoil is both unrealistic and OVERPOWERED.
This is why I love the introduction of recoil to the assault rifles, although I think it shouldn't be constrainted to verticle recoil when dual wielding. If you unload 2 clips, one in each hand, you should spin around and fall over. Basically make the 'adjustment' you have to do VERY HARD.
So yeah, if you manage to unload both clips into him, somehow compensating for the horrrible recoil then you can call yourself 'elite'.
3 Pistol shots to the head are not 'elite'. Any monkey with a mouse can do that.
->Grenades now adays.
Finally Frags don't have such a huge blast radius. You have to actually AIM. Or use them as a sneak attack.
->Vehicles destructable?
Yes, finally! No more vehicle whoring. I've been working... erm.. eheh... wishing that to happen in Halo PC for a long time.
->Jump the vehicle?
Awesome!!! What I find irritating is that when people boost you can't try to jump the vehicle.
I'd rather have it that the opportunity to do so would just be horribly small, so the truely coordinated COULD do it. But you couldn't just mash X when you see someone driving at you. Because the ghost is freaking difficult to counter now. I've seen a relatively ok player take out everyone on the map with a ghost, just by ramming into all of us using boost.