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Subject: Hardest Covie? Might be different then what you think.

Posted by: Darth01
I go around the world leaving a path of destruction in my wake. When I come to a city, grown men cry and women wail. I collect the skulls of my enemies and display them for all to see.........I also kick puppies. For fun.

well i was thinking about this the other day, in Halo 2, jackals will be able to use plasma pistols like in H1, and if you look in the Halo 2 screenshots, you will find one with a jackal using a plasma rifle . Also, I have heard they can possibly use needlers, and that they can use the new Covie sniper rifle. So, with their sheilds and vast variety of weapon choice, could the jackal be the most lethal Halo 2 foe?

  • 06.02.2004 8:01 PM PDT
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I'll be mad if they are. I like killing them just the way they are

  • 06.02.2004 8:03 PM PDT
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I thought in Legendary the Jackals were the most annoying Sonsab***** in town, im not so sure abotu them being the hardest, just really annoying, really really annoying. And in Halo 2 it looks liek they'll be more annoying, but...I havent played the game, so i dont know.

  • 06.02.2004 8:04 PM PDT
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They really should be harder to kill than they are. If they moved around more like elites instead of stand still and let you shoot at them then they would be harder.

  • 06.02.2004 8:05 PM PDT
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One time I was playing AoTCR on Legendary and a Jackal kept bugging me with his damn plasma pistol, (I couldnt shoot him cuz I only had two rounds in my Rocket Launcher left, no assault Rifle rounds , and I couldnt melee him cuz he was on top of a little mesa thing) I had to save my RL for the Wraith ahead, but he kept bugging me , so I put a 105mm Rockeet into his face, never saw the poor little bastard again....

  • 06.02.2004 8:06 PM PDT
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jackals....those lil bast---- if this news is true they will be the biggest pain in the a$$ ever. who knows though....maybe they'll just be a distraction for some far worse.......like the hidden flying tulip of doom!

  • 06.02.2004 8:08 PM PDT
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jackles can hold single hand weapons ONLY becuase there other hand (arm) uses the shield so its plasma pistol, plasma rifle and needler. not to mention the MC destroyed there shields with his BR

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  • 06.02.2004 8:08 PM PDT
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Just chuck a grenade at them. The jackals are very easly killed with grenades. (only problem is running out of grenades.

  • 06.02.2004 8:10 PM PDT
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but youre forgeting the flying tulip of doom!

  • 06.02.2004 8:11 PM PDT

Posted by: Darth01
I go around the world leaving a path of destruction in my wake. When I come to a city, grown men cry and women wail. I collect the skulls of my enemies and display them for all to see.........I also kick puppies. For fun.

Still, think about this, youre playing the game on Legendary, and you walk around a corner to find a group of jackals, one gets you with a charged plasma pistol shot (which takes all your shield), while the others finish you off with a few plasma rifle shots or a few needlers. Also, since plasma weapons stun you, jackals can just set you up to be meleed by an elite or killed by some of their other buddies.

  • 06.02.2004 8:27 PM PDT
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Thats were the look around the corner ability in halo comes in handy.
See in halo two you can sue the D-pad to look around corners you can see the covies but they cant see you. while your doing this you cant throw nades or fire your gun.

  • 06.02.2004 8:41 PM PDT
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A jackal is a jackal, regardless of new weapons. The hardest Covie I think is going to be a prophet. Ive heard severl unconfirmed rumors that they may be psychic and have telekinetic powers

  • 06.02.2004 8:57 PM PDT
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Yes but the most annoying thing will be the engineers.

"One observed exception to this fact is a high-pitched, keening wail that Engineers will emit should Forerunner objects or structures be threatened."

does'nt that sound annoying to you?

  • 06.02.2004 9:01 PM PDT
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Posted by: Blue Spartan
Thats were the look around the corner ability in halo comes in handy.
See in halo two you can sue the D-pad to look around corners you can see the covies but they cant see you. while your doing this you cant throw nades or fire your gun.


Can anyone say ASSUMTION. You have no idea if the D-pad is going to be used for that.

This is how rumours are started.

-=Shinji=-

  • 06.02.2004 9:03 PM PDT
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Actually I read it in a Magizine. (Electronic Gameing monthly)

  • 06.02.2004 9:05 PM PDT