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Subject: Why do so few people choose to be a Covenant Elite?
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  • 08.04.2007 9:59 PM PDT

If you're fighting fair, your tactics suck!

Becuase the elite has a disadvantage of some sort. somthing to do with the head sticking far out. (Sniper bait)

  • 08.04.2007 10:09 PM PDT
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They have an extraordinarily large head. Sniper's like that.

  • 08.04.2007 10:11 PM PDT
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I am not sure, I know they have some sort of disadvantage, but I just don't really know what. I personally only play as an Elite.

  • 08.04.2007 10:11 PM PDT

RIP Halo 2.

Easier to snipe and stick and they make you look like an idiot..

  • 08.04.2007 10:12 PM PDT
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Suppoesdly their huge heads make them easy targets for snipers, but I don't know if i've every really believed that myself. SPARTANs just kind of look cooler in my opinion too.

  • 08.04.2007 10:14 PM PDT
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Because it IS A PROVEN FACT that elites have bigger hitboxes. Which basically means that they are easier to shoot.

  • 08.04.2007 10:25 PM PDT
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Posted by: Arsenic
Because it IS A PROVEN FACT that elites have bigger hitboxes. Which basically means that they are easier to shoot.


*shrugs* I still think SPARTANs look cooler.... loolololllollololoolllllololololollolol

  • 08.04.2007 10:31 PM PDT
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I have a lot of profiles and my best one as far as the colors is an Elite, and I used to always play with it just because of that. Now becuse I keep switching clans I just made a generic spartan clan profile so I can change the emblem without losing the original.

  • 08.05.2007 12:45 AM PDT
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Actually, I'm fairly certain that Bungie said that the same hitboxes were used in creating both spartans and elites.
Therefore, there's no disadvantage aside from the smaller zoom screen, pink border, and ugliness.
Of course, that's more than made up for in the fact that elites can melee with a brute shot twice as fast as spartans.

  • 08.05.2007 1:00 AM PDT
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Posted by: Janube Taso
Actually, I'm fairly certain that Bungie said that the same hitboxes were used in creating both spartans and elites.
Therefore, there's no disadvantage aside from the smaller zoom screen, pink border, and ugliness.
Of course, that's more than made up for in the fact that elites can melee with a brute shot twice as fast as spartans.


There are MULTIPLE videos PROVING that elites have numerous disadvantages. It's basically easier to hit the elite with every gun in every way except from behind the elites shoulders protect its head from behind while looking straight, but you can do the same thing by looking straight down with a spartan.


So basically, you're asking to lose if you're an elite.

  • 08.05.2007 2:13 AM PDT
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actualy the hit boxes are exactly the same between an elite and a spartan. so even if there heads are bigger u can actaully hit them if u shoot where the hitbox is(the middle not the outside edges of the head. this goes for there body also....

true there head sticks out more but have u ever played swat on beaver creak n gone through a portal n had some1 start shootin u in the back of ur head n u dont die so u just swing around n kill them(ppl get really annoyed with that). try it it works. u cant do that with a spartan...

also an elite crouchs lower so if ur in a BR fight u can get an extra shoot in when u crouch while there tryin to drop there sight lower than usual.
an elites sheild recovers faster.
active camo works better on an elite(hard to see i mean)...
plus they look alot cooler( i look like bumble bee off transformers atm, i always get comments for it)

i know of more but i'm sick of posting them all evrytime this subject comes up.

the downfalls.
an elites mallee is slower to go a second time(if u can understand that)
its harder to use the sword when ur an elite coz u have to b closer to get a red rectile(u can easily get used to this though n work around that downfall)..

i dont think there is many more downfalls then them 2 i listed bar the fact that every thinks elites suck n if they see one in MM they automatically think ur a newby...

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  • 08.05.2007 2:35 AM PDT

Why so British?

ive just never liked alien races. if any of you have played maelstrom or any thing else that has aliens on you wont find me as one

  • 08.05.2007 3:17 AM PDT
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cause no one likes to run around looking like barney the dinosaur, and since you haven't been able to clone for like over a year and a half no GPK's use it.

  • 08.05.2007 3:21 AM PDT
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I don't play as an elite because it is the symbol of a noob. I Don't think I have EVER played an elite that was hands down better than me. Kids that use the elite model are garbage. That's my point of view.

  • 08.05.2007 3:25 AM PDT
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Posted by: Mad1Mwuaha
i like barney, barney is cool, barney is purple, barney is my friend, so is kermit...the frog...and elmo!!!
omg omg omg and AMY!

mayb we've met n dont know it coz barny's my friend also = )

so nobody go baggin barny coz u dont wanna c his angry side

barny's a legit 50 n he'll own all you's with one hand(im talking about the real barny also, the purple dinosaur)

  • 08.05.2007 3:31 AM PDT
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Barney is stoopid

Dont speak about him that way!!!


um i never posted sayin he was stoopid so where did u get that from

  • 08.05.2007 3:37 AM PDT
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Posted by: Mad1Mwuaha
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Posted by: Mad1Mwuaha
Posted by: TokenBlackGuy4U
Barney is stoopid

Dont speak about him that way!!!


um i never posted sayin he was stoopid so where did u get that from

u said it and it hurt my feelings


i never said it, barny's my friend also(just ask him)

i said

Posted by: Mad1Mwuaha
i like barney, barney is cool, barney is purple, barney is my friend, so is kermit...the frog...and elmo!!!
omg omg omg and AMY!


mayb we've met n dont know it coz barny's my friend also = )

so nobody go baggin barny coz u dont wanna c his angry side

barny's a legit 50 n he'll own all you's with one hand(im talking about the real barny also, the purple dinosaur)

  • 08.05.2007 3:41 AM PDT
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you two need to be using elite skins

  • 08.05.2007 3:45 AM PDT