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Subject: Are theGrunts in Halo too weak?
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First off, don't get me wrong... I LOVE grunts.. they are so small, and obedient little creatures. However, I think that bungie has not given them as much thought.. don't get me wrong though, to have the ability to give them plasma rifles and fuel rods was a great innovation, but let's concentrate a bit on their lives. The grunts are so weak, I mean come on Bungie, let's get our head in the game, one flood parasite tentacle thingy hops on them they're dead.. two or three hits with a plasma pistol.they're dead, a melee, their dead. Come on..at least give them sheilds or something.. What do you guys think?>

  • 07.24.2007 10:18 PM PDT
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nah, they are cannon fodder. meaning they are weak and useless.

  • 07.24.2007 10:19 PM PDT

They look more purposeful in Halo 3......but then again we haven't really seen anything

  • 07.24.2007 11:30 PM PDT
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Posted by: II ikillsins II
First off, don't get me wrong... I LOVE grunts.. they are so small, and obedient little creatures. However, I think that bungie has not given them as much thought.. don't get me wrong though, to have the ability to give them plasma rifles and fuel rods was a great innovation, but let's concentrate a bit on their lives. The grunts are so weak, I mean come on Bungie, let's get our head in the game, one flood parasite tentacle thingy hops on them they're dead.. two or three hits with a plasma pistol.they're dead, a melee, their dead. Come on..at least give them sheilds or something.. What do you guys think?>


are you sure that giving the grunts shields or making them tougher would be a wise idea, imagine this 8 grunts and 2 elites and your almost out of ammo if the grunts are tougher they may use up that ammo before you can kill the elites, while with the grunts as they are a couple of shots there dead then you fininsh of the elites and claim there weapons as your own as your prob out of ammo (depending on the difficulty you play on, which sounds like easy, i find that Heroic Grunts take more time to put down but not much of a threat compared to Legendary Grunts)

  • 07.25.2007 4:12 AM PDT

1.Arkham Asylum, 2.Mass Effect, 3.Halo CE, 4.Mass Effect 2, 5.Halo 2, 6.Splinter Cell Double Agent, 7.Gears of War 2, 8.Medievil, 9.Oblivion, 10.Crash Team Racing

Game is designed to have variable features. Some charachters are tougher than others, if Grunts were as good as Jackals, Drones, Elites or even Hunters what would be the point? Grunts are grunts who are weak, lively and casual people like many Marines seem to be and they make us feel the story better (Marines and Grunts go crazy about single spore, one spore doesnt feel anything for me as spartan, but when i see Marines or Grunts i realise truth and how bad situation is. Not everyone should be war experienced super fighters). I love to have weak enemies who are just cannon fodder, not every enemy should be hard. Halo2 grunts were perfect and im not sure will these new grunts be as cool as earlier were, new ones look scary and tough and if only old thing in them is their voice im not sure if it will feel right. Do not add shields or something unoriginal that all others already have, make them more intelligent, have more in numbers, better weapons or something like that. They are pretty tough on Legendary, but they shouldnt be able to kill me regulary on easy.
Spore attacks were partly fixed in Halo2 when Grunts sometimes managed to shake spores off from their skin. Think all those races as one big great family, dont seperate them and say this should be better, everyone is good in their own way.

  • 07.25.2007 4:44 AM PDT
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Grunts were downgraded, notice how they are bad (theyre pretty good in groups actually) and 8 of them follow one or two elites

  • 07.25.2007 5:11 AM PDT

1.Arkham Asylum, 2.Mass Effect, 3.Halo CE, 4.Mass Effect 2, 5.Halo 2, 6.Splinter Cell Double Agent, 7.Gears of War 2, 8.Medievil, 9.Oblivion, 10.Crash Team Racing

Because there isnt walking trashcans or basketballs i want something else to kick around, Engineers might do that job.

  • 07.25.2007 6:59 AM PDT