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Subject: Covenant vehicles are crap
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Is it just me, or do the covenant vehicles seem... Lacking? The banshee Is too easy to take out, the ghost doesn't seem to properly use the "Roadkill" effect that made the warthog so fun, and the shade is pretty useless unless places properly and with sufficiant cover. And Bungie removed the Shadow, a three person covenant vehicle not unlike the warthog, during development of the FPS version of the game. I was wondering if anyone knew anything about a mod that includes the Shadow, or some other somewhat usefull covenant vehicle... If not, I'm going to have to try and make one myself, and I'm not too good with the HEK... I'm pretty sure Banshees aren't sopposed to fire tank cannons...

  • 06.19.2004 12:59 PM PDT
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  • 06.19.2004 1:15 PM PDT
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I think Covenant Vehicles are only useful when you know how to use them. :^I

  • 06.19.2004 5:36 PM PDT
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The Ghost and Banshee can be deadly in the right hands, but if you really want to make a new vehicle (or mod the existing vehicles), you can totally do that. You could make the Banshee's FRG fire 5-6 shots at once (and adjust the shot spread), or do whatever you want. Make it fire tank shells as fast as the Assault Rifle. Whatever.

Some friends and I are working on a map, and we've played around with modding some of the weapons. The FRG now shoots 6 shots at once (spread out a bit like a shotgun). It's absolutely nuts. You shoot a Warthog, and it blows it straight up in the air about as high as the bases in Infinity. O_o

We modded the AR to fire pistol bullets (but 2 bullets per shot), gave it a 4x zoom, and increased the accuracy to be about like the pistol. It's insane. It's powerful enough that we're calling it a heavy weapon and spawning it accordingly (making it hard to get). It takes down a Warthog pretty quickly. :-) It's about as powerful as the chain gun on the Warthog.

We made the Needler track better and fire faster (both rate of fire and bullet velocity). It's pretty fun to use.

And finally we modded the Plasma rifle. Holy cow, it's crazy. It fires extremely fast, the shots have almost no spread (very accurate), and the bullets travel much faster than usual. It kills anything within a half second (Warthog, Banshee, you name it). Three of us were goofing off testing the weapons, and all I have to say is, You know the gun is powerful when you get a quadruple Killtacular with only 2 opponents. :-)

(Our level is fairly large and will focus mostly on medium-long range infantry-to-vehicle combat (i.e. taking down warthogs down in a valley from up on some overlooking ledges), so that's why we're beefing up some of the weapons for long range combat. Otherwise you're limited to the sniper rifle and maybe the pistol (but even the pistol's range -- 126 meters -- is a little too short for what we want).)

So yeah, you can do whatever you want with the weapons. It's pretty cool. My friends and I might put out a video showing some of the cool things you can do with the weapons.

  • 06.19.2004 8:56 PM PDT
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Hmmm, crap! I have killed so many people in multi-player with the Banshee its' not even funny, but yes the ghost is quite crappy most of the time. I only like the ghost on Ice fields
in m-p mode.

  • 06.20.2004 12:49 AM PDT