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Subject: Weapon effects on vehicles.
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Now that vehicle damage is confirmed, (Which may i add pleases me greatly), i think vehicles will see alot more action in games. When i had my weekly lan games ('had' i stopped having them a few months ago) my mates and me hardly ever used vehicles, the only use we gave to vehicles was to block up entrances to bases, and teleporters. Our reason for doing this was, because vehicles cant be destroyed, it seemed pointless to drive them to an enemy base. It was pointless because, instead of the vehicle taking damage, you would, so eventually you die, leaving the vehicle at their base, thhey could then use the vehicle to block up their base even further.
So as you can see the fact that vehicles can be destroyed means, we can feel free to drive into an enemy base, knowing that if we die at least our vehicles wont be robbed and misused.

But to the point, i was wondering about certain weapons effects on a vehicle, in particular the plasma sword.
As we know the ghosts wings can come off or rather, been blown off, and i was thinking do you reckon the plasma sword can take the wing off in one swipe. I can just imagine, shooting at your mate in a ghost with an smg, to get his attention. He drives over to squash you, then you pull out a plasma sword side step and slash, chopping the ghosts wing off, and behind you the ghost spirals through the air and smashes into the floor exploding.


And another though, will the needler do damage to vehicles, cause i cant really imagine the needles getting stuck into the hard outer protection of say, a ghost. So do you lot reckon needler will have no effect on vehicles, or maybe only on some vehicles?

  • 07.04.2004 10:33 AM PDT
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Hmmm intresting. Dunno about the plasma sword...I think that it will only be able to damage lifeforms, not vehicles. I could be wrong of course :D

and yeh i agree with you on the needler altho if u needle a driver of a vehicle i'm sure the resulting explosion will damge whatever he's driving.

  • 07.04.2004 10:38 AM PDT

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And yeah, Opey could probably win that game without using his BR. Best SMG user in Halo.


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If you may have noticed in Halo 1, a gold elite with a plasma sword can kill you inside of a stationary gun or one swipe can destroy the banshee. These are both proven on Assault on the Control Room. (and I was rather pissed the first time the elite jumped and swiped at my banshee completly obliderating it.

So, it should be no different in Halo 2. Only, one swipe should blow up anything. We don't know yet.

  • 07.04.2004 10:42 AM PDT

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And yeah, Opey could probably win that game without using his BR. Best SMG user in Halo.


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Oh, and the needler, will have a huge effect on vehicles. It can blow up a ghost in halo 1, and in Halo 2 it's recieving a power upgrade. Oh yeah. I love the needler.

  • 07.04.2004 10:44 AM PDT
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Maybe not an instant kill with a Plasma Sword, but definitely should do some serious damage in Halo 2. And the Needler should have some effect as long as the big explosion thing is still there. They would just need to apply it to vehicles as well.

  • 07.04.2004 10:45 AM PDT
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'The elite sniper' Your name just reminded me, i wonder what sniper rifle will be like. It'll be good, if you can shoot and smash through teh wind screen headshotting the driver head on. I cant quite remember, but i think thats impossible in Halo CE and before some says, yes i know you can headshot them from the side or rear.

Yeah anyway that would be good aswell, same scenario as my ghost plasma sword idea, except a warthog rather than a ghost and a sniper instead of plasma sword. Someone drives straight at you, Bang! Straight through the windscreen, the warthog just slows to a stop infront of you.

  • 07.04.2004 10:48 AM PDT
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I thought it was the "Energy Sword?" hmm nm, tis irrevelant...

i was a bit worried in the e3 2004 demo of how easily the vehicles were to destroy... Hope they don't make it too easy in the final version.

  • 07.04.2004 10:54 AM PDT
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i would like to see the energy sword do some damage to veicles not as much as a rocket but take a wing off a ghost sounds reasonable also i just wanted to throw this out there that i think if you are boarding and you have a sword you should get a kill instantly and get the veicle

  • 07.04.2004 10:55 AM PDT
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I dont see why the needler couldnt stick in the Ghost, I mean it sticks into walls

  • 07.04.2004 10:58 AM PDT
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It also sticks to it in the first game.

  • 07.04.2004 11:00 AM PDT
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In the E3 demo the warthog took two rockets and didnt even blow up. I think they will last long enough. But in halo one rocket to a warthog would kill all the passengers.

  • 07.04.2004 11:01 AM PDT
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I think its an improvment.

  • 07.04.2004 11:02 AM PDT
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Posted by: Khamul
In the E3 demo the warthog took two rockets and didnt even blow up. I think they will last long enough. But in halo one rocket to a warthog would kill all the passengers.


no it didn't, it just wasn't quick enough at turning during the target tracking and wouldn't have hit it head on, more like a bit behind on the floor or wall or something... 2 direct hits would definately destroy it.

  • 07.04.2004 11:03 AM PDT
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Well you got me there I suppose. But, the elite didnt die after the first rocket unlike halo. His shield wasnt even down.

  • 07.04.2004 11:05 AM PDT
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Yeah in the E3 demo the warthog definetly survives a good few glancing blow and manages to keep going. But i think 2 or 3 good shots would destroy it.

  • 07.04.2004 11:08 AM PDT
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The energy sword shouldnt be able to destry vehicles in one hit. it however should damage them greatly and should flip the vehicle. anyways if the energy sword was one hit kill to any vehicle you would die from the explosion.

  • 07.04.2004 11:30 AM PDT