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If you get in the side seat of a warthog holding a plasma sword, what happens? Can you still hit stuff as someone drives you? Maybe hold out the sword as you go along and decapitate people as you drive past? Or slash at someone trying to board from the front?
There's another question - can you shoot someone trying to board your vehicle from the side seat?
Roll on November!

[Edited on 6/6/2004 7:36:44 PM]

  • 06.06.2004 7:33 PM PDT
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Posted by: NiceMissMayo
If you get in the side seat of a warthog holding a plasma sword, what happens? Can you still hit stuff as someone drives you? Maybe hold out the sword as you go along an decapitate people as you drive past? Or slash at someone trying to board from the front?
There's another question - can you shoot someone trying to board your vehicle from the side seat?
Roll on November!


My cousin and I were wondering about that... I would be awsome to go warthog jousting :)

  • 06.06.2004 7:34 PM PDT
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Warthog Jousting!

  • 06.06.2004 7:39 PM PDT
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Yeah, it's kinda cool on Halo 1, with rockets or shotguns. But to lean out of a warthog and stick your plasma sword through someone's windscreen would be soo cool!
Am I right in thinking you can't melee attack in the side-seat on Halo 1?

  • 06.06.2004 7:44 PM PDT
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The thought of it only adds to my anticipation.
November 9th + Halo 2 game = Heaven

  • 06.06.2004 7:46 PM PDT
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Went and tried the bash/side seat thing. No, you can't.
So what does that mean for sword-hogging?

  • 06.06.2004 7:57 PM PDT
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might be cool but i doubt that will b possible

  • 06.06.2004 8:03 PM PDT
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But before, melee was just an option with your gun, and wasn't missed in the side seat. With a sword or other melee-only weapon taking up half your weapon inventory you must be able to do something with it while in a jeep!

  • 06.06.2004 8:07 PM PDT
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speaking of swords will they be as easy to get as a assault rifle in your base or as hard to get as a sniper rifle in blood gulch (meaning there is only one and it respwans) or is it ouside of you base and like shotguns in hang em high?

  • 06.06.2004 8:08 PM PDT
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Im pretty sure that they said that there will, in most maps, be only one plasma sword on a multiplayer map, unless it's a particularly huge map, and that the sword will be kinda tricky to get (like the whole shoot-the-ramp-and-drop-into-the-gap pathway on Zanzibar), because once you have it it kicks SO MUCH ass, more than one or two would be unbalanced. But facing off, one-on-one with someone, both with swords, would be coool! Maybe you could make a gametype with just swords available...

  • 06.06.2004 8:13 PM PDT
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it would suprise me if bungie doeasn't make a "plasma swrods" mode like "rockets" and "snipers" in H1

  • 06.06.2004 8:18 PM PDT
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in answer to Willshire's question, speaking of swords will they be as easy to get as a assault rifle in your base or as hard to get as a sniper rifle in blood gulch (meaning there is only one and it respwans) or is it ouside of you base and like shotguns in hang em high?

if you watch the Halo 2 E3 2004 demo movie, it shows that you have to kinda try hard to get the plasma sword, it isnt as easy to get as other weapons...which is good, because I understand it only takes a couple of swings to kill someone with it....

download the movie at http://gametrailers.com/vault-h.html

  • 06.06.2004 8:23 PM PDT
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Only one swing, if you line it up right and lock on!
Then it smacks someone flying across the level!

  • 06.07.2004 8:05 AM PDT
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and then ricochetting (sp?) off of a rock

  • 06.07.2004 8:33 AM PDT