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  • Poll [24 votes]: Melee only combat?
Subject: Melee only mode?
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Poll: Melee only combat?  [closed]
Hell yes! Bring on the Slash and Bash:  58%
(14 Votes)
Eh, could use a little revision:  29%
(7 Votes)
what are you smoking, its all about the guns.:  12%
(3 Votes)
Total Votes: 24

Heh, it would make the perfect use of the "Boxer" control set. Basically all the weapons in the level are scarttered with flags, skulls, and the Plasma Sword , this woul dbe a weapion set, so you could still play Oddball/King of the hill, Slayer, and capture the flag. What would make it even more spicy is taking off the motion tracker to allow for sneaking backstabbing tactics.

  • 07.06.2004 10:02 AM PDT
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Skulls are the odd balls.

  • 07.06.2004 10:08 AM PDT
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yeah, just killin ppl with flags and oddballs and stuff would be cool. I think it would be fun if there were random grunts throughout the map to kill and use as shields, lol.

  • 07.06.2004 10:10 AM PDT
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When play Oddball, the Skull is the "ball" you pick up to gain points, you cant fire guns like when you have a flag, but you can still melee someone too death. You've watched Red vs Blue, remember when Shiela beats in that dude with his own head? "Its not physically possible!"

  • 07.06.2004 10:12 AM PDT
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we need to still be able to use the gernades

  • 07.06.2004 10:53 AM PDT
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i voted no but i didn't read the post. now that i've read it I say: yes. but maybe you could still have the guns but only use their melees. and take out grenades in the gametype so L chucks your current weapon at a low trajectory.

  • 07.06.2004 12:05 PM PDT
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That would be fun to through a skull at someone's face! xP Or better yet, a Spartan's helmet!

  • 07.06.2004 12:21 PM PDT
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I actually signed up on this forum to suggest this very idea. Now I'm glad I checked the forum to make sure it hadn't already been suggested.

Aside from a pure "Fight Club" mode I was thinking it might be fun to have a mode where only one player has ammo at any one time and you'd have to kill him to get ammo. Basically like playing tag but for ammo.

If it had a rockets only mode it would get really rowdy with everone chasing down a guy with a rocket launcher trying to beat him to death. Even better if the rocket launcher had unlimited ammo (maybe no reload too). Obviously the goal of the game couldn't be the number of kills since the first guy to get the RPG would rack 'em up pretty fast. Maybe the goal could be like oddball where you'd rack up time for carrying the RPG.

Obviously this would have to be play-ballanced but I think it could be a lot of fun. I also like the suggestion of making it a weapons set so you could play any of the game types in "Fight Club" mode.

We tried playing melee only a bit this weekend but some of the guys started shooting and then it was all over. Even with the other guys shooting I played melee only for a while just to brush up on my melee attack techniques.

Any chance the Halo 2 team is actually going to read this?

  • 07.06.2004 4:07 PM PDT

Play as a team win as a team or die as a team!


Bust out the lightsabers!! What oo I mean Plasma Swords!! LoL and lets start to have jedi fights!! Well that is a good idea and it will be funny seeing everyone running after each other and fighting!!

  • 07.06.2004 4:10 PM PDT