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Subject: Should humans have melee weapons like the energy sword ?
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Well, the covenant have an energy sword, but my question is, do you think that the humans should have some type of melee weapon ? I think it would be cool to have have a human sword. The battle knife, or the machete that was originally in Halo would be cool. What do you guys think?

  • 06.24.2004 3:44 PM PDT
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NO THEY SHOULDENT!!!! THEY USE THE ENERGY SWORD!!!! GOD STOP ASKING THIS!!!!

  • 06.24.2004 3:45 PM PDT
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No human blades. Period.

  • 06.24.2004 3:56 PM PDT
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I agree, no human Melee weapons. The energy sword is only useful to elites because of their sheilds, since the Human G.I. does not have sheilds it would be useless.

  • 06.24.2004 3:58 PM PDT
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THE MACHETTE no. no human melee weapons but whoever thought of putting that weapon in one of the earlier versions of halo was well lets think, plasma sword stoped by a machette come on. thats like a light saber and a broom stick.

  • 06.24.2004 4:03 PM PDT
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I stand so corrected, however, it's possible


[Edited on 6/24/2004 4:08:47 PM]

  • 06.24.2004 4:03 PM PDT
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I wanna throw rocks at people :(

oh yeah and the other melee weapon is the one on The Brute's elbow or arm or something....yeah...He'll kill you

[Edited on 6/24/2004 4:04:58 PM]

  • 06.24.2004 4:04 PM PDT
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Posted by: Dobber83
Well you can say all ya want, as can I, but I've heard there are other melee weapons, and in the E3 2k4 demo, he SAYS something to the effect of "Here is the energy sword, ONE of the new melee weapons in Halo 2" Guess we'll all see


He never says that in the video. I just watched it. No such words were said. Ever.

  • 06.24.2004 4:07 PM PDT
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why shouldnt there be a human melee weapon? makes complete and total sense to me...in THE FALL OF REACH, there are blades that John uses, so wht not in the game? maybe only for the earth-based levels, seeing thats where the technology would be...but as soon as you start seeing the more advanced elites throuhgout the game the human blade would be replaced with the elite sword...plus its not like you would HAVE to pick up the blade, its just there for realism/a melee weapon if you feel you should have one

  • 06.24.2004 4:32 PM PDT
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For some reason I think they said that there would be other melee weapons besides the Plasma Sword, but for the life of me I can't remember where I heard it. I'm pretty sure Bungie said it, though. I think another melee weapon would be cool, like a energy bowstaff that could have a nine-foot arc of destruction. Imagine two players facing off, one with a Plasma Sword and the other with the Energy Bowstaff. Just thinking about it seems really cool, and I think Bungie would want something of this coolness to be in Halo 2.

  • 06.24.2004 4:37 PM PDT
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just have a short range human weapon (flamethrower)

  • 06.24.2004 4:43 PM PDT
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i think having other melee weapons would be cool. in fact, it would be super awesome if you could pick up pieces of blown up rebar abd bludgeon people with them. same goes for other objects that are dangerous. like a board with a nail through it.

or a broken beer bottle.
or a jagged piece of glass. cool.

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  • 06.24.2004 4:44 PM PDT
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Personally I cannot wait to tear apart hordes of floodies with my energy sword. A chainsaw would be cool also but unlikely.

  • 06.24.2004 4:49 PM PDT
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How about a bayonet attachment for the battle rifle. Since you can already melee with the BR, then you could use the bayonet in some type of combo so you could really tear someone apart.

  • 06.24.2004 4:55 PM PDT