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Posted by: Nedus
Posted by: Drez
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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!


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

Good...it would be quite dumb to completely DIE from a collision, I mean you are state of the art technology with shields and all, but it would be interesting if your shields get slightly damaged from hard collisions.

  • 07.06.2004 5:14 PM PDT
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Posted by: Drez
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....
-this game kicks ass[/color]

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.


First of all, if i posted this reply a little late compared to others and post some things alrdy said, sry for wasting your time blablabla and the whole 9 yards.

1. Probably to save space because this is 500 years into the future and places like china are alrdy having trouble.

2. Theyre trained to be stong and tough. Like in the silent cartographer if u look at the marines they know they cant do anything about it.

3. Well, either those were different marines or they stopped to kill people. You usually dont run into the enemy unless youre like william wallacde or somehting.

4. They eitehr couldnt see MC, or they were trying to get the medic tents on the other side

5. yay

6.No, its kinda like when u stop with an AR and pistol. You start with a BR and ONE SMG. He gave you one MORE

7. Shell shock type thing. Didnt u notice the blood? Before nade, no blood, after nade a lot of blood. The AI is better so maybe they found coveer

8.Its not a rocket. First of all rockets dont accelrate that quickly. Second of all, when MC shoots the cars theyre should be a wider blast radius like in Halo PC. Its wat fans are calling a Gauss rifle.

9. Actually, there could be a shield thats so advanced that they dont flicker. Or maybe they dont.

10. Ya, to show off combos and that the Brutes can do that. Also, this may be wrong, but maybe the large calibur rifle will be shot from so close that it migght hurt u?

11. Dont know why

12. Yea, or their AI wasnt finished.

13. OK

14. Well, i didnt see it for a month, but the brute that died had a carbine that disappeared. Maybe the otehrs were carbines too, or maybe some other weapon

15. I dunno, maybe by accident. Covies must have friendly fire once in a while...

16. They couldnt. The ghost doesnt have enough traction to turn it around at that close. Well, youre vehicle should be a little messed up.

17. Either the sword changed(i dont like this change) or they had to tone down the graphics for internet MP

18 No Shi t sherlock

  • 07.06.2004 5:14 PM PDT
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Posted by: Kamizar
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.


No, i'm sure that it was a gauss rifle. Before this new flashier bungie.net, we had the older version. It had a poll before that asked what ur favorite part of the e3 2003 demo was, one of the options was the new gauss rifle on the back of the warthog.

  • 07.06.2004 5:18 PM PDT
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Posted by: cDringer
Posted by: Kamizar
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.


No, i'm sure that it was a gauss rifle. Before this new flashier bungie.net, we had the older version. It had a poll before that asked what ur favorite part of the e3 2003 demo was, one of the options was the new gauss rifle on the back of the warthog.


They may have used that term t reduce confusion. If they said railgun while everyone was saying gauss rifle, people may be confused and write like fifty threads about, "railgun, wat is it"

  • 07.06.2004 5:21 PM PDT
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Don't you mean 10 yards? You have to get 10 yards for a first down...
OK so its either a rail gun or gauss gun.

[Edited on 7/6/2004 5:27:49 PM]

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It doesn't really matter which it is either as i explained in my large post I'm just concerned about its cooling system i know its the future but seriously its shooting really fast ever play mechassault and use the gauss the thing doesn't shot that fast and your mech gets hot real fast too. I know its scaled down so everything works in reduced amout but you still shouldn't be able to shoot that fast

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Posted by: Drez
Don't you mean 10 yards? You have to get 10 yards for a first down...
OK so its either a rail gun or gauss gun.

Check my post on the first page it will explain what a gauss rifle is ok?

  • 07.06.2004 5:28 PM PDT
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Ya I noticed this baby shoots as fast as a damn sniper rifle because you can see a ghost at a far distance and MC shoots and it explodes like instantly....
I'm also sure now that it is a rail gun.

  • 07.06.2004 5:30 PM 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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All right, here are the things I've noticed

-That "tree" is a huge building
-Of course everyone is calm! They are the same way in Halo
-The MC is fast!
-The bullets that are going down are from the turret! Stupid!
-You probably can't shoot through jackal shields in the final version. after all it was a demonstration.
-When the Sarge hands you an SMG, you obviously have one as your secondary weapon. You wouldn't just start out with the BR. Although, you do just start out with the pistol in Halo....
-The frag DOES kill a few grunties.
-And the rocket launcher is different now.
-He shot at the car to try and make it blow up (but it hardly seemed worth it since he just killed him with a string of Melee attack combos Hell ya!)
-Brutes are stupid
-The glowiness?! Who cares? The needler doesn't look as shiney when you are looking at it as it does when you are using it
- And Halo 2 REALLY KICKS ASS!

  • 07.06.2004 5:32 PM PDT
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Posted by: The Elite Sniper
All right, here are the things I've noticed

-That "tree" is a huge building
-Of course everyone is calm! They are the same way in Halo
-The MC is fast!
-The bullets that are going down are from the turret! Stupid!
-You probably can't shoot through jackal shields in the final version. after all it was a demonstration.
-When the Sarge hands you an SMG, you obviously have one as your secondary weapon. You wouldn't just start out with the BR. Although, you do just start out with the pistol in Halo....
-The frag DOES kill a few grunties.
-And the rocket launcher is different now.
-He shot at the car to try and make it blow up (but it hardly seemed worth it since he just killed him with a string of Melee attack combos Hell ya!)
-Brutes are stupid
-The glowiness?! Who cares? The needler doesn't look as shiney when you are looking at it as it does when you are using it
- And Halo 2 REALLY KICKS ASS!

even though you started with a pistol two seconds later you picked up a AR

  • 07.06.2004 5:36 PM PDT
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Posted by: Drez
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...?
THE CITY HAS LAYERS...
-Everyone is calm while your pelican is getting shot at and almost hit
THEY ARE ODST's... THEY WOULD SHOOT THEMSELVES IF YOU TOLD THEM TO...
-When MC lands the newly armored marines run past and somehow as MC talks to other marines, you catch up to them
THE ODST's STOPPED TO SHOOT THE THE GRUNTS AND JACKELS ON THE LANDING BELOW 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
I DONT EVEN THINK YOU CAN SEE THE BULLETS...
-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 "CANNON" IS TRYING TO TEAR DOWN THE BUILDING. IN HALO 2, YOU ARNT THE MAIN ATTRACTION ANYMORE. THE STORYLINE IS MORE REALISTIC
-the new battle rifle CAN SHOOT THROUGH JACKAL SHIELDS, YAY!
I BET BUNGIE DIDNT GET TO THE LESS IMPORTANT STUFF LIKE THAT YET...
-the sargeant hands you one SMG and yet you end up dual wielding 2 LOL
HIS SMG WAS ON RESERVE WHEN HE HAD THE BR OUT... MAKING IT 2 SMG's
-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?)
THERE IS MANY SPECULATION, BUT THE GRUNTS WERE RUBBING THEIR EYES, MEANING THAT THE EXPLOSION BLINDED THEM FOR A SECOND... AND THERE WAS BLOOD AND DEAD GRUNTS FROM THE EXPLOSION, SO IT WAS A FRAG, PROBABLY A LESS POWERFUL FRAG
-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
DIFFERENT TYPE A HUMAN WEAPON...
-the phantoms seem to have some kind of shield around them...I hope the will be destroyabale though!
SHIELD? HMMMM
-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
HE SHOT THE HOG SO THE BRUTE CAN NOTICE HIM AND JUMP OFF, SO HE CAN SHOW OFF THE MELEE COMBO
-the brute stays on the car until mc shoots at the car(not at the brute)
THE BRUTE DIDNT NOTICE HIM UNTIL HE SHOT AT THE HOG
-brutes seem easy as hell to kill-this guy must be playing on easy
MAYBE, OR BUNGIE DIDNT GET TO THAT PART YET...
-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!
MELEE COMBOS (DIFFERENT COMBO's FOR EACH GUN!)
-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 =(
BUNGIE PROBABLY DIDNT GET TO THAT PART YET, SIMPLY MAKING IT DISAPPEAR IN THE DEMO
-at the cinema a phantom shoots down a sign and crushes the other phantom...? okay...
THE PHANTOM WANTED TO HIT THE MC WITH THE SIGN AS HE WAS ESCAPING ON THE GHOST
-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 GHOSTS ARE DESTRUCTIBLE... SO YES, THE EXPLOSION FROM THE GHOST WILL KILL YOU
-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....
THEY EITHER CHANGED THE SWORD OR THEY MADE THE SWORD MORE BALANCED FOR MULTIPLAYER
-this game kicks ass[/color]
YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN

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.


My comments are in CAPS... Did you also notice:

While the MC was duel-wielding the SMG's, they didnt recoil in his hands? (Bungie didnt get to that part yet)
The Jackel shield is not transparent (Bungie has made it transparent now)
And did you also notice that the video is a year old? That Bungie didnt get to the little stuff yet as you mentioned?

  • 07.06.2004 5:55 PM PDT
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Ok, most of those have been addressed but I want an answer to this, anyone who hasn't seen that video and is experienced in halo1 would immeddiatly throw a nade into the marching jackals. Will the AI be advanced enough to were the marines will stop their warthogs in time? If not they are going to hurt in the morning

Also, if you are talking about every nit-picky little thing, the battle rifle was always single shot, and the SMG's both fired with the press of only one trigger, and the SMG's also seemed to have infinite ammo.

Anyone noticed the yellow hummer spoof on that sign when MC gets into the warthog.

  • 07.07.2004 1:53 AM PDT

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