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Subject: Halo 2- ever notice....
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from the New mombasa vid, just some stuff I've noticed-
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-When you see MC flying towards the action the city looks like a tree...?
-Everyone is calm while your pelican is getting shot at and almost hit
-When MC lands the newly armored marines run past and somehow as MC talks to other marines, you catch up to them
-Right before MC catches up to the tactical marines, it shows the guy who is showing you the way to the sargeant aiming over the balcony at the covenant cannon and yet when he shoots the bullets go down
-the cannon is shooting over the building you came into, not directly at the MC like it should (and yet when you land you don't see any of those shots)
-the new battle rifle CAN SHOOT THROUGH JACKAL SHIELDS, YAY!
-the sargeant hands you one SMG and yet you end up dual wielding 2 LOL
-when MC approaches the enclosed area and the tactical marine throughs a frag, it doesnt kill anything but makes them jump around holding their ears (maybe sound hurts covies in H2?)
-The rocket launcher on the warthog MC rides on is different!! It shoots quicker firing ammunition what appears to be powerful small rapid firing rockets or something and when they don't hit anything damageable they don't explode, just flash quickly
-the phantoms seem to have some kind of shield around them...I hope the will be destroyabale though!
-The brute jumps on your car and it seems you can shoot it off, the reticle turns red when the mc aims at him but for suspense I guess he turns it away and misses on purpose
-the brute stays on the car until mc shoots at the car(not at the brute)
-brutes seem easy as hell to kill-this guy must be playing on easy
-MC does a 3 hit combo with the BR-swings, hitting him, brings gun back, hitting him, and does like an uppercut with the gun, killing him. screw plasma swords, i wanna do that!
-When the brute dies, it's gun which fires powerful blue beams(bigger and slower than a plasma rifle) disappears...I hope you can get this gun in H2 though =(
-at the cinema a phantom shoots down a sign and crushes the other phantom...? okay...
-brutes must be really stupid...they crash into the wall even though they had a lot of time to turn. So does this also mean crashing into a wall with a hard collision kills you in H2?
-The elites wield plasma swords that glow like burning plasma, but in the zanzibar demo the swords YOU can actually wield don't glow like that....
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These aren just strange things I've noticed, I realize this is probably a work in progress video but I was just wondering if anyone else noticed. Any corrections/comments/observations about this? Please post your response.

[Edited on 7/6/2004 4:23:02 PM]

  • 07.06.2004 4:20 PM PDT
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Well let's see here I am glad you called the BR going through the Jackal's shields a mistake, especially when in Halo 1 all bullets just bounced off. That is just a mistake in the demo though. Even then not much of a mistake considering the employee playing was on " god mode. "

Also you must realize that the video you are referring to was in a far from completed state. Meaning tons of stuff had still yet to be fixed. They were just trying to show off what they had.

  • 07.06.2004 4:24 PM PDT
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i do believe the brutes were using grunt stats. this makes them easier to kill (and stupider)

  • 07.06.2004 4:29 PM PDT
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I think that the "rocket launcher" is actually a rail gun

  • 07.06.2004 4:31 PM PDT
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Posted by: spartan 68
I think that the "rocket launcher" is actually a rail gun


No, its a gauss gun.

  • 07.06.2004 4:39 PM PDT
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Ok, here goes...

MC probably had an SMG as his alternate weapon, so when he was given one he switched to his alt. and then he had 2.

The frag does kill some grunts, but also shows off the new ability it has to stun anything in range that is not killed.

That was not a rocket launcher, it's what some are calling a Gauss Rifle, which has yet to be confirmed for the final game.

The Brute's AI was not finished at the time so it was using Grunt AI, meaning it's dead in 2 shots and stupid.

Anywho, that should answer at least a few questions about the vid

  • 07.06.2004 4:41 PM PDT
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Teach me more about this "gauss gun" ...? I thought that's what the AR was (sorry I'm a newbie at real guns)

  • 07.06.2004 4:42 PM PDT
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The jackal shields AREN'T penetrable. At the beginning when he shoots that jackal, someone else must have killed it, since there were a lot of marines there. The proof is that later, when the jackals go in formation towards the chief, the chief couldn't kill them, and kept hitting their shields.

  • 07.06.2004 4:45 PM PDT
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No that's not the case, you can tell he wanted to add pizzaz to the video by letting the warthog plow them down because he could've shot through the shield with quick firing bursts, but you can tell he doesn't as he shoots slowly at them and shoots at different ones, not concentrating quick fire on one at a time, or he could've just thrown a grenade better yet, but as I said he was adding pizazz to the video.

  • 07.06.2004 4:55 PM PDT

SB-117

The tree shaped city is to save space I think. Why cover the ground with cities when you can make tier cities that stack into the air?

  • 07.06.2004 4:57 PM PDT
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Very interesting theory ash.

  • 07.06.2004 4:58 PM PDT
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LMAO

  • 07.06.2004 4:59 PM PDT

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Yeah, before I saw it on Halo2 in school we were discussing overpopulation. I said this crazy idea one of my friends thought it was stupid. But bungie obviously know the truth and put it in Halo 2.

  • 07.06.2004 5:01 PM PDT
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as a matter of fact, on kiziko, I was watching the halo2 demo (before the people played mp) and when wort ran into the wall, it said he got splattered. Yah, I noticed that too!

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Doesn't seem crazy to me, in fact I think what we should do is make things like tiered cities, floating cities (underwater and in the air), and underwater cities.

  • 07.06.2004 5:03 PM PDT

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But splattered refers to roadkill I think. If you get crushed by a vehicle into a wall that also counts. You can't die from running into a wall, thats plain stupid.

  • 07.06.2004 5:04 PM PDT

I'll be on my own side.

the Grunts drive Ghosts. it was in the Halo 2 E3 demo in 2003

  • 07.06.2004 5:04 PM PDT
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Posted by: Lifeforce
as a matter of fact, on kiziko, I was watching the halo2 demo (before the people played mp) and when wort ran into the wall, it said he got splattered. Yah, I noticed that too!


Interesting...I guess that settles it. Hard hitting collisions in H2 can kill you! Very realistic...I guess.

  • 07.06.2004 5:04 PM PDT
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Oh ya that too Nedus.

Ash-actually it's not stupid if you crash into a damn wall going full speed your shields should at least break.

  • 07.06.2004 5:06 PM PDT
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Posted by: Drez
No that's not the case, you can tell he wanted to add pizzaz to the video by letting the warthog plow them down because he could've shot through the shield with quick firing bursts, but you can tell he doesn't as he shoots slowly at them and shoots at different ones, not concentrating quick fire on one at a time, or he could've just thrown a grenade better yet, but as I said he was adding pizazz to the video.

I still don't think that Bungie would make the shields penetrable. It would make them pointless, and would turn Jackals into Grunts, that stand still thinking that they are protected.

  • 07.06.2004 5:08 PM PDT

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But E3 2004 didnt have sprinting enabled it is impossible and won't be in the final version. If it is I'll....do something very embarrassing or difficult.

  • 07.06.2004 5:08 PM PDT
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On the back of the Hog in the video is either a Magnetic linear accelerator (a.k.a. Gauss Rifle i own one they're awesome) or a rail gun. both use the power of electromagnets and bot accelerate thing to high velocities. So high in face tht it is possible to bring down a brick wall with a paper clip. The one in the video is most likely a rail gun because it shos small strait projectiles. Because normally with a Gauss rifle you shoot large metal slugs(Because in a Gauss rifle the projectile has a electromagnetic field around it that does damage even if you dont get hit bigger slug biger field). But it doesn't really matter which they used because each does a lot of damage and both use extreme temps in the firing process but then it makes me wonder what kind of cooling system they use.

  • 07.06.2004 5:09 PM PDT

I'll be on my own side.

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Posted by: Lifeforce
as a matter of fact, on kiziko, I was watching the halo2 demo (before the people played mp) and when wort ran into the wall, it said he got splattered. Yah, I noticed that too!


Interesting...I guess that settles it. Hard hitting collisions in H2 can kill you! Very realistic...I guess.


no no. it was because he got hit with a rocket,which blew his Warthog into the wall. i doubt that you get killed from collisions with other vehicles

  • 07.06.2004 5:09 PM PDT
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Posted by: ash55
But E3 2004 didnt have sprinting enabled it is impossible and won't be in the final version. If it is I'll....do something very embarrassing or difficult.
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Ya it would be somewhat messed up to have jackals shields penetratable....or maybe it will be fare if you can break em after certain amount of shots. We will just have to see...

  • 07.06.2004 5:11 PM PDT

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