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Subject: Why is Matchmaking anti-banshee?

I have never seen a banshee in Matchmaking, even though I have played countless games on Banshee-friendly maps like Coagulation or Containment. Am I just getting unlucky game types or are all the Matchmaking games banshee-free?

  • 05.24.2007 6:49 PM PDT
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hmm. ive played MM with banshees.

.....i think

[Edited on 05.24.2007 7:29 PM PDT]

  • 05.24.2007 7:29 PM PDT

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I believe that some gametypes support Banshees on Coag and Containment. But it's easiest to find one on Ascension in the more typical gametypes.

  • 05.24.2007 7:45 PM PDT

Posted by: Lord Butters I
I have never seen a banshee in Matchmaking, even though I have played countless games on Banshee-friendly maps like Coagulation or Containment. Am I just getting unlucky game types or are all the Matchmaking games banshee-free?


You must be fairly new to halo 2 live. Back in the good ol' days(ya know, when you could grab flags through walls), there were banshees in multiplayer. Now, as much of a novelty as this might seem, it wasn't all cookies and cream. The major downside was bomb and flag hiding. This is where tricky folks like myself would grab the flag, jump on top of the banshee, and have someone fly us out of the level. This may seem quite comical to your team, but not so much when you were on the recieving end of this. Even on maps like Headlong, where if the other team obtains the banshee you probably deserve to lose, Bungie deemed it necessary to remove the banshee from matchmaking.

  • 05.24.2007 7:47 PM PDT