- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Sgt Tango
please state why or why not. my votes on no. somehow i think they will throw things off with all the new features, like boosting, sprinting, homing rockets, there is simply too much room for keeping things as balanced in Halo1. my predictions are as follows. there will either be some rediculously cheap tactic such as quickly tapping the sprint button that will make you almost impossible to hit.
I don't think Bungie would include it if that were the case. My guess would be that when you "sprint" you do not just all of a sudden go faster but rather have to ramp up to, therefore quickly hitting it wouldn't do much and you're now disabling your use of the weapon (the time it takes to lower and bring it back up will be longer than tapping it). Running with out being able to shoot would be a bad idea.
or for the ghost and banshee, if you tap the boost button quickly or time it right, you will eb able to permanently boost and shoot at the same time.
First of all, good luck aiming that thing. Bungie has said it is almost impossible to steer while in bost. This is not to mention that this bug is incredibly easy to fix, in the run loop for the banshee just have a check for whether in boost and if so turn off guns, or when trying to shoot check for boost and turn off if so. A continusous button press is checked consistently.
or there will be some feature which will make some gun as useless as the needler was in the old game. like now with the battle rifle whats the point in holding an smg? its exactly like the old assault rifle, except now it has walk. so u can hold two fo them now...so what? now ur holding two guns that just spray and pray.
You mean to tell me you never used the assualt rifle in MP halo? Sure it was not often but in close combat I found it more useful than the pistol overall. Remember it only takes 15 shots from an assualt rifle to kill, so if you're accruate with it thats no time at all. With two this is equal to shooting off only 7 bullets, thats no time at all. Now I don't know how powerful the SMG is, but you get my point. I can definitely see using two smgs to be very usefull at times. This is all not to mention that the BR is not as powerful as the Halo 1 pistol which means two smgs might be more useful.
overall my point is that, i'm sure there will be something that slips through, at least in the initial copy that is released. but hopefully whatever problem that is unforseen that may aries will be able to be fixed through xbox live.
I think they will be fine for the most part but agree that if something does slip though the beauty of Xbox Live will fix it.