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Subject: Covenant Ammo
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In Halo 2 will there be a way to find ammo or a battery for the Plasma Rifle or Plasma Pistol once they have run out?

  • 04.21.2004 8:59 PM PDT
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Makes sense, it gets annoying picking up a covenant gun after another to find the one with the most charge. Not so much that they need to make batteries, (good idea) but I think they need to last longer and put more of a hurt on the elites. They get your shields down in three hits, (Legendary) it take a full spurt or two with the plasma rifle to bring their shields down.

  • 04.21.2004 9:04 PM PDT
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Who knows, we may not even need covenant ammo. Look at it this way, if you can't kill an elite on legendary without crying about, you suck at Halo. I can beat elites to death and its alot of fun beating a "goldilocks" with you gun and running then getting sliced in half. So as long as i get my fair share of a plasma sword, a few nades, and covie blood on my boots, i'll be a happy SOB

[Edited on 4/21/2004 9:10:19 PM]

  • 04.21.2004 9:09 PM PDT
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What's the difference between searching for a new Covie gun, and searching for ammo for a Covie gun? Yeah, there's no reason to make ammo for them when you can pick up new ones. Also, you can take down an Elite's shield in one hit with a plasma pistol....then blast away with the pistol or assault rifle.

  • 04.21.2004 9:14 PM PDT
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and how about the Grunts will they be able to use the regular grenades and not just the plasma grenades?

  • 04.21.2004 9:16 PM PDT
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Thank you captain obvious.

  • 04.21.2004 9:20 PM PDT
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I am not crying about elites and how they are so hard. Just making a point, dumb @ss
I can take care of myself

  • 04.21.2004 9:21 PM PDT
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I hope your not calling me a Dumb@ss?

  • 04.21.2004 9:24 PM PDT
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Actually this could pose a problem in halo 2 because of dual wielding.
There will be more places on maps where they have just ammo laying around instead of just a weapon, and picking up the weapon to get ammo, otherwise it would be to easy to get weapons to dual wield with and the game wouldn't be balanced.

But if since they don't have ammo for plasma weapons, they will have either

1)more plasma weapons lying around then anything else and thus have many people with dual wielding plasma pistols and plasma rifles or

2)plasma weapons would be more scarce, because there are less of them lying around and becuase ammo is hard to come by.
So the most reasonable solution to this is to make plasma weapons have a replaceable battery.

[Edited on 4/21/2004 9:53:11 PM]

  • 04.21.2004 9:32 PM PDT
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Lets just hope that if we dont get any ammo. We get size D batteries instead of some triple A's.

  • 04.21.2004 9:35 PM PDT
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Posted by: gnomefriend
actually this does pose a problem, in halo 2 because of dual wielding there will be more places on maps where they have just ammo laying around instead of just a weapon, and picking up the weapon to get ammo, otherwise it would be to easy to get weapons to dual wield with and the game wouldn't be balanced.But if since they don't have ammo for plasma weapons, they will have either more plasma weapons lying around then anything else and thus have many people with dual wielding plasma pistols and plasma rifles or plasma weapons would be more scarce, because there are less of them lying around and becuase ammo is hard to come by. so the most reasonable solution to this is to make plasma weapons have a replaceable battery.


Kind of hard to read because of the run-on, but....

Again, it's no different if you pick up batteries or a new gun....it's the same thing. The whole point of either, is that you get more ammo. So why would it matter which way the ammo was obtained? The only ammo for a covenant weapon in the first game, was the needler...and that's because it's a projectile based weapon. I think this will remain true for Halo 2, because there is simply no reason to change it.

  • 04.21.2004 9:39 PM PDT
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Posted by: bboypjm
Lets just hope that if we dont get any ammo. We get size D batteries instead of some triple A's.


that's a good idea, i hadn't thought of that, that would solve the problem as well or better then adding ammo would

  • 04.21.2004 9:40 PM PDT
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Would the covenant sniper rifle be energy or projectile based?

  • 04.21.2004 9:42 PM PDT
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i don't think we know, but i would guess that its a projectile

  • 04.21.2004 9:48 PM PDT
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Unless you could super concentrate plasma and fire it out at really really really high speed...

  • 04.21.2004 9:50 PM PDT
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Energy most likely, everything of theirs is energy, because energy is the basis of all destruction.

  • 04.21.2004 9:51 PM PDT
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Posted by: KEHK1
Unless you could super concentrate plasma and fire it out at really really really high speed...


Not exactly true....in First Strike, Cortana does exactly that with the Covie ship Ascendant Justice, and totally wastes some other ships. I think it'll be like the railgun from Quake III.

  • 04.21.2004 9:53 PM PDT
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So it would have less ammo restrictions than a normal human sniper rifle...

  • 04.21.2004 9:58 PM PDT
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If you give me tell fall...I can awnser all of these damn questions

  • 04.21.2004 10:00 PM PDT
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but speculation is fun...

  • 04.21.2004 10:03 PM PDT
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Posted by: KEHK1
Would the covenant sniper rifle be energy or projectile based?


it will be engery. just wacth the movie "evloution of halo" they show the covenet sniper in action.

  • 04.21.2004 10:08 PM PDT