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Subject: New Halo 2 Screenshot!
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[quote]What's up with the funky coloured armour? [quote]
Yeah what's up with the brown, green, gray armor?

  • 04.13.2004 2:46 PM PDT
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thank u bungie

  • 04.13.2004 3:11 PM PDT
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Building the future and keeping the past alive are one and the same thing

I like pie.Do those Masterchiefs like pie?

  • 04.13.2004 3:14 PM PDT
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Building the future and keeping the past alive are one and the same thing

wait... you can hold 2 different weapons at the same time ?? o_O that's awsome

  • 04.13.2004 3:19 PM PDT
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Nice destruction in the pic's, like the bullet holes

  • 04.13.2004 3:19 PM PDT
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also heres another thing is the guy in the background not the red guy but the guy in the background thats holding battle rifle, is he a shadow or does he have on camo. If you look closely you can see right through him

  • 04.13.2004 3:23 PM PDT
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ahoy, and yea. its an over all awsome screenshot, but i think some of ya just are not loking at it right. the other green guy in the back really is dying. well, correction, he is dead. you see that battle rifle? its coming out of his shoulder, and its coming out with a bunch of gernades, sure fire sign hes dead. oh and theres an explosion of dust right infront of him. and another thing, yea its a regular old shotgun hes holding, it only looks smaller cuz of the point of veiw, so my bet is you still can only dule one handed weapons. which raises a interesting point for me... how will you melee when duling two weapons? im sure itll be done and itll look cool. well anyways thats all i can think of, it still looks amazing and i so cant wait for it to come out

  • 04.13.2004 3:27 PM PDT
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Posted by: CaptinFish
... how will you melee when duling two weapons?


It would be cool if you are able to send a size 12 to the face when you are holding 2 weapons. Sounds cool, but not likely in the game.

  • 04.13.2004 3:33 PM PDT
Subject: Plenty more to come you say...

I'll be on my own side.

just imagine 2 of the new Magnum pistols from Halo:First Strike.

  • 04.13.2004 3:42 PM PDT
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Posted by: Ditters
Posted by: CaptinFish
... how will you melee when duling two weapons?


It would be cool if you are able to send a size 12 to the face when you are holding 2 weapons. Sounds cool, but not likely in the game.


oh man! yea that makes sence and it would be so cool!! imagin jumping off the roof of a base and kicking a flag stealing runt in the back of the head! haha awsome dude!

  • 04.13.2004 3:46 PM PDT
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So the new blue strips and keds shoes are not an april fools? that really sucks

  • 04.13.2004 3:58 PM PDT
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awesome. very cool.

  • 04.13.2004 4:01 PM PDT
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Posted by: Ditters
Posted by: CaptinFish
... how will you melee when duling two weapons?


It would be cool if you are able to send a size 12 to the face when you are holding 2 weapons. Sounds cool, but not likely in the game.



I think that was mentioned in one of Frankie's updates, but don't hold me to it.

  • 04.13.2004 4:06 PM PDT
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So is the blue pieces on MC another joke or what? The minivan idea is really stupid, same with the keds footwear.

  • 04.13.2004 4:14 PM PDT

Come on guys, this is Bungie we're talking about. I highly doubt they would start releasing in-game screenshots to the public, after months of the halo community begging for some, with the physics engine going hay-wire. As far as I can tell, there are several possible explanations for what appears to be, a rocket launcher and a red, blue/purple, yellow object floating in mid-air.

NOTE - This first speculation is just that, a speculation with a hint of imagination. The second one is a more realisic view of the topic, with some information to back it up.

1st - While most unlikely of my two takes on this, it could have something to do with a cloaked spartan from an opposing team. See how the rocket launcher is in a downward possition. It could be that a cloaked spartan from an opposing team simply came up and wacked the spartan in the front left of the screen. (Notice how the spartan's upper body, especially his head, seem to be pointed in an upward direction as if he was wacked in the chest or head and is now falling backwards to the ground.) The multi-colored object may not be an object at all. It could be part of the opposing teams custom team colored armor, which isn't cloaked at the moment because it was hit by a plasma shot.


2nd - I once read in an article or heard in an interview, that in Halo 2, not only will the enviornment be desturctive, but the enviornment will react to how it is destructed. For instance, a warthog is coming at you full speed in multplayer. You will have other options beside yelling like a pansie. You could jump to the side as it passes you by and put a bullet in the gas tank for some fireworks, try to shoot out the tires and make it flip out of control, or throw a plasma grenade on the back of it and watch as the back axle breaks under the preasure of the explosion. These examples may be a tad bit elaborate, but you get the idea. If this is in fact a feature in Halo 2, (I'm sorry for not remember the source of this information) then why wouldn't Bungie add this same feature to charcters in the game. If you remember the last screenshot Bungie realesed, it had a red spartan, in the front right of the screen, who looked, to me, to be tripping or, more probable, reacting to being shot on the left side of his body. The same could be said to explain this screenshot. The rocket launcher isn't floating in mid-air, but the spartan was carring it and he was shot in an area of the body that would cause him to drop it. It is also possible that the rocket launcher itself was shot out of the spartans hand. This feature would help balance out the game play, being in Halo you could only carry one weapon, but in Halo 2 you can carry two. As for the multi-colored object, it could simple be some weapon or object in the game that we don't know about. Maybe it something stollen from the opposing team's base; Splinter Cell anyone. Who knows, but I do know that Bungie is one of the most maticulate organizations in the gaming world. There is always something behind the obvious when it comes to Bungie!

  • 04.13.2004 4:18 PM PDT
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i dont really read Frankie's updates, the animation makes me sick...

  • 04.13.2004 4:19 PM PDT
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In the first multiplayer screenshot if you look in the top right hand corner you can see an object that looks kind of like a covenant dropship in the clouds

  • 04.13.2004 4:28 PM PDT
Subject: Plenty more to come you say...
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I didn't see any Warthog.

  • 04.13.2004 4:33 PM PDT
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Not a warthog a covenant dropship in the background on the first multiplayer screen

  • 04.13.2004 4:36 PM PDT
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since this game is still in developement, it is possible that bungie decided to change the color of needler rounds, and that they are now green and all of the other screenshots with purple needler rounds could have been taken before they decided to make the change. Needler rounds probably fly faster now, which would explain why they don't appear to be tracking anyone. There also appears to be someone shooting at the lefternmost MC with a human weapon, as you can tell from the bulletholes in the wall next to him. As for the warthog in a cavern level, it may be because this appears to be an indoor part of desert like level from the first multi-player screenshot

  • 04.13.2004 4:40 PM PDT
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I dont reckon that they would change the needler rounds to green cos then you would mistake the needler for the plasma pistol

  • 04.13.2004 4:44 PM PDT
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ok this is just what i think. The green plasma bolts are actually coming from a new gun. If you look back to an old screenshot theres two elites holding bran new weapons. I believe that that bun is the one shooting the plasnma bolts and bungie purposefully made it so you couldnt see what was shooting it

  • 04.13.2004 4:45 PM PDT
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but what if the plasma pistol is now blue or red?

  • 04.13.2004 4:46 PM PDT
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you may be right, but i'm relativly certain that rifle they're holding is the covenant sniper rifle the weekly updates talk about, and it proly wont have that much ammo

  • 04.13.2004 4:49 PM PDT