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Subject: Do brutes have sheilds and are they stronger than elites?
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what heading said?? thoughts?

  • 05.28.2004 5:51 PM PDT
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brutes do not have energy shields like elites. i think brutes are stronger than elites also

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actualy im pretty sure an elite could kill a brute, considering it took roughly 2 hits from a melee to kill one (+ an extra shot for reasurance) where as an elite takes atleast 2 to lower the shield and 2 more to kill.

  • 05.28.2004 5:55 PM PDT
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Well, their armour is so tough that it takes two sniper rounds to crack open their helmet. Then you can kill them on the third headshot.

Not even a Gold Elite can survive more than that amount of punishment

  • 05.28.2004 5:56 PM PDT
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dude, that was a demo, and the brutes were using grunt a.i.'s. it would suck to be giving a demo at e3 and be getting your ass kicked. once halo 2 ships you will see that brutes are stronger than elites (or you could just read first strike and see for yourself)

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Yeah, I think Brutes rely on sheer mass for defense. If you watch the trailer from last years E3, youll see that when MC shoots the Brutes, they can be taken out pretty quick. This might just be that they hadnt put in all the physics for the Brutes for last years E3.

  • 05.28.2004 5:57 PM PDT
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yea that is true uasly one head shot dose it or is it 2... i havent played halo in so long man i dont even know any more the way i see it is im just gona jump in to the next one when it comes out

  • 05.28.2004 5:58 PM PDT
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Posted by: haloruler33
dude, that was a demo, and the brutes were using grunt a.i.'s. it would suck to be giving a demo at e3 and be getting your ass kicked. once halo 2 ships you will see that brutes are stronger than elites (or you could just read first strike and see for yourself)


i know, but think about it in the books it says that prophits are muscular and powerfull so much so that they can rip a hunter in half? thats not how they will be in Halo2 they will be frail and week...the books are a little off. but who knows. brutes have taken the elites place as shock troops/squad leaders and the elites are elite soilders.

  • 05.28.2004 6:00 PM PDT
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Posted by: The Wasp
Yeah, I think Brutes rely on sheer mass for defense. If you watch the trailer from last years E3, youll see that when MC shoots the Brutes, they can be taken out pretty quick. This might just be that they hadnt put in all the physics for the Brutes for last years E3.

again, the brutes a.i. was not finished. they were using grunt a.i., thats why they appeared so easy

  • 05.28.2004 6:00 PM PDT
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Also can they carry guns? Cos in E3 demo they were not, but that was so long ago

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brutes do not have shields

however in the books it said a brute punced through the master chiefs shield with his fists even after he put a clip of ammo into him.

brutes r stronger

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Posted by: crimtonic
Posted by: haloruler33
dude, that was a demo, and the brutes were using grunt a.i.'s. it would suck to be giving a demo at e3 and be getting your ass kicked. once halo 2 ships you will see that brutes are stronger than elites (or you could just read first strike and see for yourself)


i know, but think about it in the books it says that prophits are muscular and powerfull so much so that they can rip a hunter in half? thats not how they will be in Halo2 they will be frail and week...the books are a little off. but who knows. brutes have taken the elites place as shock troops/squad leaders and the elites are elite soilders.

No....the prophets said that about the Brutes... As for Brutes, their armor is very strong. The books said Prophets were weak too.

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Posted by: crimtonic
Posted by: haloruler33
dude, that was a demo, and the brutes were using grunt a.i.'s. it would suck to be giving a demo at e3 and be getting your ass kicked. once halo 2 ships you will see that brutes are stronger than elites (or you could just read first strike and see for yourself)


i know, but think about it in the books it says that prophits are muscular and powerfull so much so that they can rip a hunter in half? thats not how they will be in Halo2 they will be frail and week...the books are a little off. but who knows. brutes have taken the elites place as shock troops/squad leaders and the elites are elite soilders.


you must be pretty confused. the prophet of truth was thinking about how a brute was so strong and takes orders so well that it could rip a hunter in half. it wasnt the prophet they were talking about, it was the brute (through the prophets thinking)

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Posted by: Draerden
Well, their armour is so tough that it takes two sniper rounds to crack open their helmet. Then you can kill them on the third headshot.

Not even a Gold Elite can survive more than that amount of punishment
Whoa. Seems like the Brutes are going to be a challenge. No wonder they are choosen to guard the prophets.

  • 05.28.2004 6:07 PM PDT
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ahh well i havn't read the books thats just what i heard from someone else...but man i can't imagen elites being weaker than brutes....(not becuase i wount beleave it just sorta like woha)

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  • 05.28.2004 7:03 PM PDT
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I read somewhere, in one of the magazines i think, that the elites and the brutes hate each other... and that you might even see some fighting with each other.

  • 05.28.2004 7:07 PM PDT
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yes, they do hate eachother.

  • 05.28.2004 7:09 PM PDT
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he is right first strike man all the way acording to first stike a brute could rip a hunter a part bear handed

  • 05.30.2004 10:23 PM PDT
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The First Strike book described Brutes to be stronger then Elites. And as for the weakness of the brute in the video, its a demo and I am sure it was on the easy difficulty level.

  • 05.30.2004 10:26 PM PDT

Me: "OMFG, Dude... wtf!"
AbolitionofMan: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to betray you."
Me: "That's the 4th time in this game alone!"
Chris: "Third, besides he had the flag I was trying to stop him, how was I supposed to know you were there."
Me: "I said, 'I got the Flag, don't shoot.'"
Chris: "Well those Wraith shots take a while to reach you."
Me: "You were right next to me, I had killed him and a minute passed before you decided to shoot."
Chris: "Hahahahaha, yeah... that was great."

Not only has it been said that the Brutes and Elites hate each other... but you can see the animosity in FS towards the end of the book... and it appears that the prophets and brutes are up to something they are keeping from the elites. So... there has been a theory thrown out to us that there is a Covie Civil War.... now... THAT would be awesome...

Achilles

  • 05.30.2004 10:32 PM PDT