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Subject: Halo Universe: Use Fire

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  • 08.13.2007 11:10 PM PDT
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what the -blam!- bungie? the grenade looks tight a nice new twist BUT....flamethrower? i love halo for the game it is and the weapons that are in it, i have never ever played a game where i actually liked the flamethrower cause game developers have never created a decent one. unless you can figure out a really good way to incorporate this and make it balanced and cool and fun to use so when i walk by it i can go, "oh -blam!- the flamethrower!" and pick it up over another weapon....i will be very dissapointed. i thought the bubble shield was going to be stupid but i played the beta and it was actually really -blam!- tight and you guys proved me wrong, BUT until i see this fire spitter in action ill be doubtful.

  • 08.13.2007 11:22 PM PDT
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someone mentioned before that the flamethrower was the human version of the sentinel beam for anti-flood attacks. i don't think so. the flame thrower is like a turret weapon. actually i believe it's exactly like the huge missle launcher you can rip off a stand. you have maybe 8-10 shots of about 4 seconds worth of flaming. not overly useful in campaign i would think. the sentinel beam was just a straightfoward energy weapon that you could fire for any amount of time you want. of course, it does overheat and eventually run out of energy. i can't see the flamethrower being very useful in too many places at all. it'd be like a super shotgun (useful in close-quaters) that restricts your movements cause its so darn heavy.

love the idea of the fire bombs though. THEY'D be useful against mass piles of the flood, or any other type of enemy really.

  • 08.13.2007 11:23 PM PDT
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Finally, someone else agrees that all problems can be solved with fire.

  • 08.14.2007 12:39 AM PDT
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ZOMG BURNINATION!!!

  • 08.14.2007 12:48 AM PDT
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those look pretty sweet...now we just gotta put them to the test and see how they hadle in a situation..but im shrue they will be fun to use...i mean come on...who wouldnt want ot roast a grunt?

  • 08.14.2007 1:24 AM PDT
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Has anybody else noticed the size of these 'nades? They're a FOOT long! Big enough to beat a grunt to death with!!

Anyone know if the flame thrower is reloadable?

  • 08.14.2007 1:42 AM PDT
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Anyone know if the flame thrower is reloadable?

Since it's a support weapon, I'd say no.

[Edited on 08.14.2007 2:21 AM PDT]

  • 08.14.2007 2:20 AM PDT
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Posted by: gEArs oF Halo182
Posted by: Sniper Evo86
i dont understand how that grenade works or what it does...


i think it emits like flames or something? im not sure


It burns everything within the specified radius ...you'll likely witness personnel burning for a short while before they meet their death

  • 08.14.2007 3:12 AM PDT
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Posted by: original smead
Anyone know if the flame thrower is reloadable?

Since it's a support weapon, I'd say no.


Agreed ...I'd say you'd have to pick up another when out of ammo as opposed to being able to reload ...just like you have to do with the missle pods and the turrets

  • 08.14.2007 3:15 AM PDT

"Hey! I heard you fellas taste.... just like chicken!!"

I love these new weapons and I sure hope they are balanced.
As Sgt Pete Stacker said "Heey! I heard you fellas taste...just like chiken!!"

Well now we can fry Kig-Yars (Jackals) and eat them!!!

Bring it on Bungie! Im on fire babeeeee!!!!

[Edited on 08.14.2007 5:08 AM PDT]

  • 08.14.2007 5:05 AM PDT

I'll say it again...the leaked coding was correct, and to this day, it has been 100% correct!

DIE NONBELIEVERS!!!!

  • 08.14.2007 5:09 AM PDT
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Sorry if already asked. Only read page 1. Just wondering what physics are involved in applying flame to the game. Is it going to be able to stick to your armour like a liquid or will the flames be concentrated to the spot where they are initially positioned?

  • 08.14.2007 5:54 AM PDT

cool thing, but i don´t know yet wether i like or dislike the face on the weapon

  • 08.14.2007 6:53 AM PDT
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i can't wait to have the flame thrower in a corridor melting a helpless opponent, it may even feel better then assasinating someone, hey that should be a poll, whats more exciting, assasinating or buring ?

  • 08.14.2007 7:23 AM PDT
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Only the gods with no souls shall have mercy for you and your so called clan. Till then your men will die till then your woman will cry, till then I will be victorious.

Posted by: Crunchbite_xsv
I going to bet a few of you have played a game called halo 2. In case you haven't go buy a copy and fire it up. Begin a new campaign on any difficulty you like. In the first level you will come to some fire. Don't be shy now, go ahead, stand in it. You know what happens? Nada. I wonder if this will be a campaign only weapon because it seems like a pretty useless weapon against shielded enemies. The grenade is a different story. It is apparently filled with something on par with thermite which is much more effective at burning through things. I'm going to go ahead and assume the flamethrower will be campaign-only, unless the chief gets an armor downgrade.....


Its weird that this so called campain only weapon was showed on Snow Bound which is a multiplayer map. As for some who complained about weapon and the powerfulness for MLG type games. In the last podcast it sounded like MP games are free range custom, it seems like Bungie will make it easy for you to eliminate or add weapons at your pleasing to any map in Custom games.

  • 08.14.2007 7:24 AM PDT
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it better burn through chiefs armor, think about it, this is probably a brute weapon and if so why whould they(the brutes) design something that couldn't kill their rival but could fry their furry ass, sorry for the language little ones

  • 08.14.2007 7:34 AM PDT

i don´t think that it is a brute weapon, because it is too primtive for the covenant, the name sounds very human, the brutes wouldn´t paint a face on their wapon and it would be much too strong if it burns through the armor. I think it´s defenitly a human weapon.

  • 08.14.2007 7:45 AM PDT
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cool

  • 08.14.2007 7:49 AM PDT

And another thing... the weapon was in the halo1 pc edition or something like that, don´t know haven´t played it, and to this time there were no brutes invented

  • 08.14.2007 7:50 AM PDT
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Sweet -blam!- bungie hope this adds new demensions to the game.

  • 08.14.2007 8:04 AM PDT

A witty signature you say ! ? well at the moment i have nothing witty that springs to mind, so sory..................nope still nothing.......

Sweet

Setting fire to grunts is fun and all but imagine using the flamethrower against an onslaught of flood combat forms! Watching them burn, shrivel up and pop lol! In fact I have a feeling this weapon is only goanna be in a few select missions in the campaign, like with mission involving the flood. Does the new grenade type act as a flash grenade as well as emit a ‘firebomb’ explosion if say you the player looks directly into the blast?

Looks cool though; definitely looking forward to using the flamethrower on the battlefield!

edit: I also think form the looks of it, it will be used in third person view like the machine gun and missile turrets to, so you have a better control of were to torch things and also to control the arc of spewing flames better I guess.

[Edited on 08.14.2007 8:37 AM PDT]

  • 08.14.2007 8:07 AM PDT
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Any Ideas on what it will say when someone is killed with a flamethrower, or a Incendiary Grenade? (Just throw some funny ideas out there)

  • 08.14.2007 9:03 AM PDT

yes

  • 08.14.2007 9:05 AM PDT