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Don't you just hate those pesky Jackal sheilds and the waste of a grenade on one enemy? Well what if you too could possess this magic sheild via duel wielding leaving you free to attack anything with your (-->insert one-handed weapon here). Still keeping with the "no grenade throwing or melee while duel wielding" motif, you could defend with the left trigger and crouch just like the Jackals.

A thought occured to me that I might not like this idea if somebody had this sheild and a pistol while spawn-killing everything in sight, but it's the thought that counts.

  • 06.19.2004 1:34 AM PDT
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You should use Jackal Shield with Plasma Sword. The shield would need to be a little bigger though for the Spartan.

  • 06.19.2004 1:43 AM PDT
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remember that the weapons will be much more balanced. the pistol will not be near as powerful, if it is even included in the game(im sure it will). that would eliminate the worry of having someone spawn kill using the shield and an overly powerful weapon.

in all of these threads, people keep relating everything to halo 1. halo 2 is going to have everything that you think is bad in halo 1 fixed, as well as much more that will make it even better. so im sure that you have nothing to worry about.

also some sort of human battle shield would be cool. mabye somewhat like a shield that the swat teams use, with a little window to peek through, and a cool metallic texture similar to the marines armor.

  • 06.19.2004 1:55 AM PDT
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sounds great... but maybe it would be a toggle in MP

  • 06.19.2004 2:05 AM PDT
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the jackal sheild sounds a good idea and i hope its incorparated into a useable item in halo 2 as it would certainly give you a fair bit of extra defense. also i you remember in a old halo screenshot there was an elite that had a large blue shield like a jackals and could use the sword with it.
http://halo-zone.com/halo/guide/Energy%20Sword.jpg
this is old but you never know old ideas are coming back into halo 2 like the shadow.

[Edited on 6/19/2004 2:22:42 AM]

  • 06.19.2004 2:20 AM PDT
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it says file not found

  • 06.19.2004 2:26 AM PDT
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sorry : http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=halo-zone.com/halo/gui de/Energy%2520Sword.jpg&imgrefurl=http://halo-zone.com/ha lo/conventw.shtml&h=371&w=452&sz=41&tbnid=2RN UrPGFSMgJ:&tbnh=101&tbnw=123&start=71&prev=/i mages%3Fq%3Dcortana%26start%3D60%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF -8%26sa%3DN

the website won't work but click on enlarged image

  • 06.19.2004 2:42 AM PDT
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how
there's no image to inlarge

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try, http://images.google.com/images?q=cortana&hl=en&lr=&a mp;ie=UTF-8&start=60&sa=N&filter=0
that should work

  • 06.19.2004 2:51 AM PDT
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Uh, the first worked for me.
Try this linky

  • 06.19.2004 3:43 AM PDT
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God that picture looks so damn familiar... I have no idea what from though... The first time I ever saw anything about Halo was playing it at an EBgames before it was released, at least I think... Hmmmmmmm.

  • 06.19.2004 3:44 AM PDT
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if you can make out the head it doesn't look like an elite head
that doesn't look like a jackel sheild either

mabey it was a concept pic

  • 06.19.2004 3:52 AM PDT
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Yea it does look like an elite head, he's looking slightly up in the direction of the sheild.
Of course it doesn't look like a jackle sheild, its a different thing, and bigger. Its not completely a concept pic, its most likely just an earlier build of the game, hey, maybe it was even on an XBOX version, so it might've not been that old. That is a dead jackle on the ground btw.

  • 06.19.2004 3:55 AM PDT
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that's what i ment
an early build

  • 06.19.2004 4:00 AM PDT
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Yeah, that is a pretty cool picture. I doubt that they would let you duel wield with an energy sword though, especially not with a sheild. It would let you get too close with the sword. Bungie is really good about balancing weapons. The energy sword will basically kill somebody if you get close enough, but I imagine it will be very hard to get that close.

  • 06.21.2004 1:31 PM PDT
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Posted by: ZAO
also some sort of human battle shield would be cool. mabye somewhat like a shield that the swat teams use, with a little window to peek through, and a cool metallic texture similar to the marines armor.


Sure they said the same thing in counter strkie and look waht it got them a ****ing wall which you can kill from behind ifthey are not gliching or a lot of nades pitched at them.

  • 06.21.2004 2:03 PM PDT
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what if you could duel weild sheilds, and encase yourself in like an eggshell... you could just run through every level and never get hit with 2 shields!!! oh my thats a great idea, wouldnt it be so much fun people?? you wouldnt have to do anything!!!

HALLOOOO @2222@#@R$Q#

  • 06.21.2004 4:46 PM PDT
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Posted by: Gunhaver
Well what if you too could possess this magic sheild via duel wielding leaving you free to attack anything with your (-->insert one-handed weapon here).


Good idea! I hope it's included!

  • 06.21.2004 4:53 PM PDT
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Posted by: SolidSnake3035
Yea it does look like an elite head, he's looking slightly up in the direction of the sheild.
Of course it doesn't look like a jackle sheild, its a different thing, and bigger. Its not completely a concept pic, its most likely just an earlier build of the game, hey, maybe it was even on an XBOX version, so it might've not been that old. That is a dead jackle on the ground btw.

the elites might have their own sheilds now. that would be cool if you could duel weild the sword and elites sheild. if you can run while blocking with the sheild you could run up and slice your enemy in half. i hope you can use it.

  • 06.21.2004 6:30 PM PDT
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Posted by: flamechu
that's what i ment
an early build


The E3 2001 demo to be precise

I am good! :D

  • 06.21.2004 6:36 PM PDT
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Damn, cool.

  • 06.21.2004 6:40 PM PDT

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Its a video that was released. I think its the last video shown before Microsoft bought out bungie. (yes probably 2001 E3 like you said) Ive seen the trailer in an OXM disc its cool, but the death animations are kinda rubbish lol. Chief stabs an elite with an energy sword at the end and snipes 2 elites at the start after they say "They will surely find them" "You speak truly" (something like that) Oh and this is the trailer where he elite says to the marine "your destruction is the will of the gods". If you want me to tell you what happens in the vid if you havent seen it just say so.

  • 06.21.2004 6:49 PM PDT

SB-117

Posted by: SolidSnake3035
Yea it does look like an elite head, he's looking slightly up in the direction of the sheild.
Of course it doesn't look like a jackle sheild, its a different thing, and bigger. Its not completely a concept pic, its most likely just an earlier build of the game, hey, maybe it was even on an XBOX version, so it might've not been that old. That is a dead jackle on the ground btw.


thats not a jackal on the floor by the way. Its an elite.

  • 06.21.2004 6:51 PM PDT
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i have not seen the video and i would like to know more

  • 06.21.2004 6:52 PM PDT

SB-117

I think a shield gun would be cool for Halo 2 but it needs to be firable. Perhaps it could be like the plasma pistol it can fire weak bursts but when you charge it, it turns into a pulsating shield. This way you have to hold down the trigger and charging it expends the battery so you dont over use it. Also if you blast off the shield it could be more powerful shot.

Or maybe they could rework the plasma pistol to have this feature and the charge is now a shield that would be great whaddya think?

  • 06.21.2004 6:55 PM PDT

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