- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Well, for two reasons actually. Firstly, yes, it was the picture that gave me the idea. I wondered how a normal bolt suddenly got so huge, and if you look at other bolts in other pictures that Bungie has released, the size for a regular bolt hasn't seemed to change. So, the bolt's sudden increase in size had to be attributed to something, and that something seemed to quite naturally be the two plasma pistols that the player was duel-weilding. Second, it makes sense. In the books and in the game, bolts or similar blasts of plasma (like a Fuel Rod Gun's or Hunter's plasma weapon) have usually been described as superheated blobs of plasma. Now if you are firing two bolts mearly inches away from each other, it is not unreasonable to say that the two blobs meld together, forming a blast twice as powerful as a single bolt, ie, a Superbolt. But I doubt that a Superbolt would track as well or at all compared to a regular bolt because (1) The bolts have already melded, which would probably wreak havoc on the bolts' individual tracking mechanisms, and (2) because something so powerful as a Superbolt would have to be balanced, and removing the tracking ability would seem a natural choice. I hope this has answered your questions, and if you're still not sure, I suggest you take a look at the Halo 2 article in Game Informer Magazine. I would provide a link to the picture, but as per the forum rules, I cannot(at least until they lift the restriction.) And if anyone else is wondering what I'm talking about, I suggest you visit Event Horizon and take a look at the Weapons of Halo 2 article. If you can't find it, it's because you need to be a member to read it. Thanks for your interest.