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Subject: Vehicles are obsolete?!

Have you noticed that bungie has really toned down the vehicles for halo 2? i mean, there are new and awsome vehicles but other then that. Footsoldiers have gotten a real anti-vehicle upgrade.

Here's my evidence:

-Tracking Rockets -- This really makes pegging vehicles with rockets much easier.
-Destruction of Vehicles -- No indestructability really powers the vehilces down
-Boarding -- Running over people or escaping the enemy base is almost hopeless now!
-Sprinting -- Who need's to drive places as often when you can just run? You can also run from incoming vecicles
-Many more to come...?

am i so wrong?


[Edited on 7/8/2004 11:49:16 PM]

  • 07.08.2004 11:42 PM PDT
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I dont think people realise that there is a very small window of parameters at which you can board. Any vehicle going higher than, say, 20 MPH is inaccesible to those pesky boarding intruders. If your driving the ghost, keep your finger on the left trig :)

  • 07.08.2004 11:50 PM PDT

Devil is Double is Deuce and Joker always trumps Deuce.

nah all that's a good thing. and as for boarding they can only climb on if youre going a certain speed you can still run them over if you go fast

  • 07.08.2004 11:51 PM PDT

still though, eveything else?

  • 07.08.2004 11:56 PM PDT
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Im glad they added damage for one. Now when you shoot the wheel, it doesnt harm the driver. I mean, come on! If your drving a tank down some road, I assure you that its armor should at least stop a pistol (presumably 9mm) bullet.

I also dont think the tracking rockets will be too uber. When your fired upon, the rocket follows you and if youre driving forward at a decent speed it will strike the rear of your vehicle. When I saw this in the demo the driver regained control.

  • 07.09.2004 12:01 AM PDT

still, its alota powerdowns

  • 07.09.2004 12:12 AM PDT
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But then again you now can take more than one rocket. Before a well timed rocket would be instant kill but now the vehcile absorbs some of the damage taken so it doesn't go directly to the driver or passanger.

  • 07.09.2004 12:17 AM PDT

but what would you rather have driving home with the flag, little health, or little vehicle.

  • 07.09.2004 12:40 AM PDT
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Heh.
As long as its rolling.

  • 07.09.2004 12:41 AM PDT

but if it's not, your dead anyway. I'd rather be driiving an indestrucatble vehicle

  • 07.09.2004 12:44 AM PDT
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If it doesnt work, then find one that does.
And if that dont work, then sprint your lazy @ss out of there ASAP.

  • 07.09.2004 12:45 AM PDT

therefore my point is proven, vehicles are losing usability!

  • 07.09.2004 12:47 AM PDT
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Yes, buts its only adding to the gameplay.

  • 07.09.2004 12:48 AM PDT

thats true, but boarding doesn;t really add to the realism. all the otherthings might though. there goes bungie putting realism to use in making a perfect equilibrium.

  • 07.09.2004 12:50 AM PDT
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Or the absence of realism. I was also skeptical about the boarding, and to be truthful, I still am. I hope it doesnt become an annoyance becuase it can easily do so. Thank god you cant be borded while above a certain speed.

  • 07.09.2004 12:52 AM PDT

boarding may be a bit of a haslte for a vehicle driver, but when you're not trying to run someone over, you are ussually going top speed and not slowing down so much to turn and such. Bungie realized that chucking poo grenades only helped so much. They also realised that n00bs with vehicles running people over was getting out of control, so they did this.
... in my opinion.

  • 07.09.2004 12:56 AM PDT

i hope that made sense. i have the tendencey to rant sometimes.

[Edited on 7/9/2004 1:14:59 AM]

  • 07.09.2004 1:02 AM PDT
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Do you realize how long 5 seconds is on the battlefield is holding a rocket launcher aiming at a moving vehicle that's a sniper's paradise! Also on Halo:PC the banshee and ghost were nigh unstoppable now it makes them actually destroyable. I think Bungie is balancing it fine and vehicles will still be sweet.

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  • 07.09.2004 1:15 AM PDT

either way, i'm still gonna wathog it up when i get my halo 2

  • 07.09.2004 1:15 AM PDT

The warthog can take a hell of a bigger beating then the ghost. if anything, the gost got a huge powerdown. Although it got the boosting ability to balance it out a bit, but it's no longer über good.

  • 07.09.2004 8:24 AM PDT
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How does anyone in this forum *know* if the vehicles have or haven't been toned down, or whether they are better, or whether the warthog has now got wings or the scorpian can dig underground...?

I understand that you are raising points about how halo 2 *might* play and i think that is the whole point of the forums but when you say things like 'but its no longer uber good' its not right because you dont *know* this, you dont know how the game is going to play, because tell me if I am wrong, you haven't played the game... ?

  • 07.09.2004 8:29 AM PDT
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Its called realtime pyhsics dude. This means that the game is as close to reality as possible.
Therefore the vehicles need to be obsolete. :p

PS this is not a reply to anyone this is just an answer to this thread..

[Edited on 7/9/2004 8:34:28 AM]

  • 07.09.2004 8:32 AM PDT
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i'm a foot soldier, i hate how people always use the vehicles and are cheapasses, plus this way it allows more strategy, not just rushing in with like all of your vehicles

  • 07.09.2004 8:35 AM PDT

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