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Subject: "Hover Bike"

With B.B. gone, the passion of Bungie.net has lessened.

Some people have speculated on the "new" vehicle that can be seen in the June OXM article in one pic, and also on a computer screen in the Halo Documentary (the Chief is riding it). We don't know exactly what it is, but the way it looks reminds me of what a Ghost might look like if all its armor were blown off (but in the pics, it doesn't have that blue-glowiness that damaged ghosts in other pics have). Anyone else share this speculation? I might be completely wrong on this, but I'm just curious.

  • 06.12.2004 11:33 AM PDT
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mind giving us a link to the particluar pic?

  • 06.12.2004 11:36 AM PDT

With B.B. gone, the passion of Bungie.net has lessened.

I don't have one, sorry. I don't know where to get pics from OXM articles, or the Halo Documentary.

  • 06.12.2004 11:37 AM PDT
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to make a poem about Halo, alright dude...get a life, u have 2 much free time

  • 06.12.2004 11:42 AM PDT

If you are talking about what I think that you are, then I think (know) this hover bike is a destroyed ghost.

[Edited on 6/12/2004 11:43:30 AM]

  • 06.12.2004 11:43 AM PDT
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It's probably a new vehicle. I actually thought that there would be something like this in the game a year or two back but i never actually saw anyhting on it. Why a new vehicle, well theres always been a counter balance of them. Warthogs : shadows, pelicans : phantoms, banshees : longswords etc etc so this is probably a counter balance of the ATV

  • 06.12.2004 11:47 AM PDT

Posted by: Colbat
so this is probably a counter balance of the ATV


The ghost fills that spot. And the Longsword doesn't counter the Banshee, the Seraph does.

[Edited on 6/12/2004 11:54:03 AM]

  • 06.12.2004 11:53 AM PDT

SB-117

i recently saw chief sitting in some hovering chair thing too on a monitor in that making of trailer...i dont know what it is....

  • 06.12.2004 12:02 PM PDT

With B.B. gone, the passion of Bungie.net has lessened.

MasterChief119: to make a poem about Halo, alright dude...get a life, u have 2 much free time

Listen, dude, do not tell me to get a life. You don't know me. I only made that poem for a contest that was started (and closed) a month ago. I entered it a day late, not knowing the deadline. I kept it in my signature to see if I could get any constructive criticism on my writing skills (I don't write on my own very often). I have a life, and I do have free time. Its all a matter of balancing the "life" and "free time" out. To tell me to get a life is to piss on every single person that has ever written a fanfic, fanpoem, or made a piece of artwork about Halo. They have lives, too.



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Anyway, let me reword my original post a bit. This "hover bike" looks like a Ghost that never had any armor (not one that had it blown off)... again, maybe its just me... I tend to misanalyze things sometimes.

  • 06.12.2004 12:05 PM PDT

With B.B. gone, the passion of Bungie.net has lessened.

Here is the link to the pic in the OXM article... looks like it is a badly damaged Ghost, upon closer inspection... I wish I had the Documentary to make a second comparison, to see if the one featured in that is really the same thing.

  • 06.12.2004 12:16 PM PDT

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  • 06.12.2004 12:19 PM PDT

With B.B. gone, the passion of Bungie.net has lessened.

Crap, try copy-and-pasting this: http://nikon.bungie.org/pressscans/oxm.0604/8.jpg

If that doesn't work, go here: http://halo.bungie.org/pressscans/display.html?scan=oxm.0604

If that doesn't work, go to the OXM June 2004 Article thread in the New Mombassa Forum, and click on the link there. Once in the press scan page, go to the second-to-last pic, and that is the right one.

  • 06.12.2004 12:27 PM PDT
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That looks like a Ghost. I have the article.

  • 06.12.2004 12:46 PM PDT

With B.B. gone, the passion of Bungie.net has lessened.

Just want to point out one more thing: There are two instances in the Halo Documentary where the Chief is in a hovering vehicle... In one, I'm pretty sure he's in a Prophet's Chair, and in the other, he's in what I've described in this forum.

  • 06.12.2004 12:58 PM PDT
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Posted by: Colbat
It's probably a new vehicle. I actually thought that there would be something like this in the game a year or two back but i never actually saw anyhting on it. Why a new vehicle, well theres always been a counter balance of them. Warthogs : shadows, pelicans : phantoms, banshees : longswords etc etc so this is probably a counter balance of the ATV


Actually there IS no counter-balance to the banshee. That is what the new human vehicle will be, a human aircraft that is small, maneuverable, and heavily armed.The longsword is the counter to the covenant Seraph fighters. In halo 2 I want to see what the Seraph fighter looks like, Eric Nylund doesnt describe it very well.And the ghost is the counter to the ATV.

[Edited on 6/12/2004 1:39:58 PM]

  • 06.12.2004 1:39 PM PDT