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Poll: Boats patch for Halo2.  [closed]
Totally awesome idea!:  26%
(13 Votes)
Dude are you on crack?:  20%
(10 Votes)
Boats are ok but I could go either way.:  54%
(27 Votes)
Total Votes: 50

I know this may sound crazy but bear with me here people. I know halo2 has water, not tons but its there. And not to mention it looks quite pretty. What I am thinking is...boats. Wait before you call me an idiot with a bad idea just listen how I pan out with this. I am NOT saying add boats to the final version of the game, it will delay things so badly if they do people will literally hunt me down and frag me in classic halo fashion. I would like the addition of water levels/maps and boats of sorts to halo2 in a XBOX live update. Now tell me it would not sound interesting playing a CTF map with islands and boats. Maybe a ghost if it can float on water(I am clueless on a ghosts water hovering capabilitys), this sounds like such a bad@$$ idea storming and island with a couple of boats and buddies. Heck throw a chain gun on the front or something, go wild. Now vote on my wacky idea.

  • 07.10.2004 4:51 AM PDT
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This reminds me of warcraft 2 and 3. Many people were upset that warcraft 3 had no naval battles, thankfully its expansion gaves us a taste of it, but it still wasnt the same.

  • 07.10.2004 4:54 AM PDT
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Totally agreed. I was very and still am quite dissapointed in the lack of naval battles in WC3.

[Edited on 7/10/2004 5:12:01 AM]

  • 07.10.2004 5:11 AM PDT
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I have been thinking about boatts in Halo2 since they announced the game. I assumed there wouldm be boats in it, If there is a Jungle varient of the hog which we have seen already, there should be a jungle boat level,, a boat would be kewl, it would have a gun in the front and you could sit in it and shoot out. Boats would rock. I hope they are in it

  • 07.10.2004 5:58 AM PDT
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Oh I totally doubt boats will be in the final version of the game, far to much to render(the boat,water effects and much much more) but XBOX live can fix that easy. Or even a demo disk for those without live. I just dont want to see warthogs that can drive around under water EVER again.made me so mad, along with marines being able to breathe under water. But all around boats sound like a totally rockin idea to me, adds so much variety to the game. Like you can have a bridge map with water in between and you have the option of a boat or a land vehicle to cross the expanse. even better is the boats with guns thought. there could be 2-3 seater boats where you can shoot whilst being on it(scorpion style) and faster varients like jetski's. and of course they can be sunk :p

  • 07.10.2004 6:05 AM PDT
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Ghosts do float on water, try it on death island

boats would be cool, but dont you think its a bit pointless? you can walk underwater, and you wont be detected that way.

[Edited on 7/10/2004 6:23:35 AM]

  • 07.10.2004 6:23 AM PDT
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I want water effects. as in your not able to go under water unless you want to, and you move MUCh MUCH slower. I want marines to drown, vehicles to die and you guy to die also if he goes under water for to long. yes MC has an air supply but its not permanent(is it)

  • 07.10.2004 6:28 AM PDT
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no, MCs air supply lasts for 90 minutes. As for the boats, i like the idea, but i wouldnt want them to delay the game to put them in.

  • 07.10.2004 6:36 AM PDT
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exactly. I want it as a later addition to add tons more depth to the game.anyone opposed to the idea of having boats added later on for free is not reasoning with themselves. It is in no way critical to the game to have boats but I think it would be a great multiplayer addition. not just island CTF games either. any jungle level with a river would make boats awesome, anyon wading the shallow depths could be mowed down by anyone in a boat, but if they have a rocket launcher or hit the boat in the right spot with a gun "KABOOM" and chunks of boat and motor(not to mention MC chunks) go flying about.

  • 07.10.2004 6:41 AM PDT
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Boats would be neat to add the only thing is they don't fit into the game. Boats would not be used 500 years from now think about it. Air travel is much more effiecient and faster therefore boat travel is all but useless. Why would you take a 15 minute boat ride from island to island when you can take a plane. Now if you don't care about the time setting or the story at all yea boats would be fun to have in the game.

  • 07.10.2004 6:44 AM PDT
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what if your flying to an island with SAM emplacements? you go ahead and keep your plane and ill keep my boat thanks... and flying vehicles are not always available in the game. the covenant dominates the sky so good luck flying around if your human have no covenant vehicles lying about.

  • 07.10.2004 6:47 AM PDT
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i think boats would still be used in the future. what if you had to get some cargo across a small lake. it would be more effiecnet to use a boat then a plane. also, what if there is a jungle level. boats would be more logical because a plane wouldnt be able to patrol the river effiectivly due to the canopy. i think a boat with a nice big chain gun would do just fine :P

  • 07.10.2004 6:48 AM PDT
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Its been brought up already. I thought it was a good idea epescially if they made a MP level like death island on pc. but with two islands. Well actually this is the military and the future so if anything there is going to be an amphibious warthog.

  • 07.10.2004 6:57 AM PDT
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No boats. Just give the Marines rebreathers and let the human vehicles go along the bottom and the Covie vehicles float along the top. The vehicle that I really want to see in Halo 2 is an orbital drop pod so you can respawn anywhere on the map as long as your team has captured the drop pod module and brought it back to base.

Boats just wouldn't feel right in Halo, more like hovercraft. Hovercraft APC? Now that sounds right.

  • 07.10.2004 7:14 AM PDT
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what if the place your traveling to has high banked concrete walls....like a dock? how you going to get on it with a truck driving underwater. and BTW NO car no matter how sealed its engine is will last underwater for long. and a large hovercraft would be great but denying boats entirly is just not a logical idea.it should be an option and it just makes sense. besides going underwater is just plain lame...unless there is a small underwater thing you can grab onto and use to pull you around.(like the thingy divers use)

[Edited on 7/10/2004 7:41:20 AM]

  • 07.10.2004 7:40 AM PDT
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u cant have a boat in the game because the MC would sink the boat because he wieghs two freakin tons and only a really big boat can handle that much wieght.

  • 07.10.2004 8:07 AM PDT
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how the hell does the ghost lift his heavy @$$ up then?

  • 07.10.2004 8:10 AM PDT
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because it is meant for the elites and the elites pretty much have the same type of armour as you.

  • 07.10.2004 8:14 AM PDT
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I knew he was heavy but 2 tons is a little...umm..Bull$&%!...mybe your confusing it with what he can lift up? not saying what your saying is BS just if bungie actually made MC 2 tons. thats more than ridiculus..

  • 07.10.2004 8:20 AM PDT
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Boats would be pointless if ghosts can hover above water. Ghosts would be faster and more manuverable.

  • 07.10.2004 8:23 AM PDT
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Posted by: DeathscytheV2
I knew he was heavy but 2 tons is a little...umm..Bull$&%!...mybe your confusing it with what he can lift up? not saying what your saying is BS just if bungie actually made MC 2 tons. thats more than ridiculus..


in the books it says that he wieghs 2 tons

  • 07.10.2004 8:26 AM PDT
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ghost carry only 1 person dont they...ok then...

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  • 07.10.2004 8:27 AM PDT
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if they made boats on a disk to save to your xbox what would happen if you tried to start a game with somebody who dosen't have the boat feature saved to their xbox

i like the idea but if ghosts can go over then what's the point i like the idea of an anphibious worthog though you speed right into the water the wheels come up and you go accross the water still with the chain gun in back they used something like this in WW2 (without the wheels comeing up) and no i am not talking about a landing craft

  • 07.10.2004 9:08 AM PDT
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ok one thing..if you go online...you can get boats..since its downloadable content it would auto download the save onto your XBOX once you connect to the LIVE service...if you link games then the master system(the one with boats) will make a save on the non boat system and voila both have boats....there is no compatability problems here.. also there will be boat-specific levels..like a deep jungle with a deep river splitting it, or and island hop map with several island and 2 main ones meant for CTF/storm the castle style.

[Edited on 7/10/2004 9:14:25 AM]

  • 07.10.2004 9:13 AM PDT
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Another idea I have is a personell carrier thats a hovercraft..sorta like a ghost but bigger. Much bigger. Either that or I want to control one of those pelican majiggys(I think thast what its called) and I want to start raiding bases CTF style.

[Edited on 7/10/2004 10:27:10 AM]

  • 07.10.2004 10:26 AM PDT

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