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Subject: Who thinks the last part of the Maw is a bit cheesy.
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At the end of the Maw when you shoot rockets or throw grenades into the reactor, why doesn't it blow up faster. They give you ATLEAST 6:00 to get out and realistically speaking, wouldn't it blow up a lot faster.

This next thing might be false but what do u actually destroy? The coolent rods or the actual reactor because if its the coolent rods, its totally weird because the ship wasn't even running in the first place so why would the coolent rods affect the reactor, again this is probably wrong becuase I thnk its actually the fusion reactors that they take out. But I still stand beside my first opinion, dont you guys think it should blow up a bit faster. They should have probably made the warthog run so that it wasn't timed, but that you get like 10 seconds to get outta the reactor room and get to a warthog, then it blows up, sending a wave of fire after you and you need to outrun it. Something like outta the last star wars when they need to get out before the flames engluf them. That woulda been way cool.

[Edited on 6/7/2004 2:15:03 PM]

  • 06.07.2004 2:13 PM PDT
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Yeah, I can see waht you're getting at with the '6 minutes to escape a 100,000,000 degrees explosion'. Realistically it would happen a lot faster. Unless the strength of the reactor walls were stronger than we assumed then it could happen but I doubt stronger walls could hold an explosion that immense.

Maybe that was an area where a remote mine could come into play? Stick it to the reactor exhaust covers' flap things (underside of course) and when you get a good distance (like about to get in the longsword fighter) you could detonate them.

  • 06.07.2004 2:26 PM PDT
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oh! so would you rather you died EMIDIATLY and the kik ass driving part doesnt happen? and halo 2 never would happen? STOP COMPLAINING! besides, in legendary its 2:00.

  • 06.07.2004 4:29 PM PDT
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yeah why couldnt we die rite there it would be more realistic
and how bout there arent any aliens with guns
or any to begen with
or any superhuman cyborgs
that would make everything more logical

  • 06.07.2004 5:06 PM PDT
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Posted by: RECLAIMER89
yeah why couldnt we die rite there it would be more realistic
and how bout there arent any aliens with guns
or any to begen with
or any superhuman cyborgs
that would make everything more logical


lmao i hear ya. but you forgot one thing, anti gravity boots with turrets on the heels and a matter transporting gun, so you can go back in time and chant with the natives. THAT would have helped the game get higher ratings (because they where sooooo low already)

  • 06.07.2004 6:20 PM PDT
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God I hope that was a sarcastic comment

  • 06.07.2004 6:43 PM PDT
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lol well a reactor... how to put this... reacts. And that involves reactive material. So it would always be going - kind of like neuclar material is always spewing radiation and energy.

Heck, the reactor probably is neuclear, so when you blow up the coolant thingies, the reactor starts to overheat, and eventually reaches a critical temperature, at which point the walls are no longer able to contain any material - the equivilant of a meltdown. So basically it overheats, and at a certain temperature reaches a point whare the matter reacts violently and all at once rather than gradually, creating a BIG explotion.

So it's all modeled after a neuclear reactor, which does the same thing - you have the rise in tempurature, and eventually you reach a critical point, and once things go critical you end up with a meltdown - or in this case an explotion (I'm not sure how much of an explotion a meltdown gererates - whatever).

  • 06.07.2004 6:54 PM PDT
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You shouldve had to fight a montior boss. Like with the healt meter and hes super powerful...

:P no just kiddin

  • 06.07.2004 7:04 PM PDT
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Posted by: johny joe
oh! so would you rather you died EMIDIATLY and the kik ass driving part doesnt happen? and halo 2 never would happen? STOP COMPLAINING! besides, in legendary its 2:00.


Try 5 minutes...

  • 06.07.2004 7:06 PM PDT
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It's five munutes dumass

  • 06.07.2004 8:02 PM PDT
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I like chicken.

  • 06.07.2004 8:34 PM PDT
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I disagree I was completly riveted although im a sucker for a race against time ala Metroid

  • 06.07.2004 8:39 PM PDT
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I wanna know why the ship even had those huge area's on top that you could drive through?
I mean, why would you have that?

  • 06.07.2004 8:43 PM PDT

Don't forget to look both ways.

Cortana said that the ship was still powered up in Two Betrayals, but yes it is a little cheesy.

I mean...the Pillar of Autumn is only 1 km long! And why would the outside of the ship have such wierd architechture?!?

EDIT: And Cortana said that they had 6:00 to get to a ship. Otherwise it'd be impossible to escape the blast. If they got to a ship in 6:00, then they'd have several minutes to lift off and stuff.

[Edited on 6/7/2004 9:07:57 PM]

  • 06.07.2004 9:03 PM PDT
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in legandary its 5:00 dude...not only 2:00. and "cheesy" is not the right description for what your talking about "cheesy" is a taste or how you feel when you watch the show "full house" (when people hug and kiss and say "i love you" thats "cheesy") and here is why it took 6:00. you see... Halo is whats called a "video game" and its not real. in a "video game" their could even be aliens trying to destroy earth...cool huh? anything can happen in these "video games"....
Posted by: johny joe
oh! so would you rather you died EMIDIATLY and the kik ass driving part doesnt happen? and halo 2 never would happen? STOP COMPLAINING! besides, in legendary its 2:00.

  • 06.08.2004 3:05 PM PDT