- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
OT, i'm slightly worried by the abundance of indoor/urban screenies and the lack of outdoor enviroments... though obviously, as Bungie have stated, they will exist in Desert, Snow and Jungle flavours! I just wish they would allay my fears and post some shots of the new enviroments... hopefully E3 will shed some more light on the new settings.
What Bungie seem to be attempting is a balance between human and alien weapons: in Halo, the alien weapons were less powerful or practical than their human counterparts,: (The plasma pistol, for instance, although capable of being used very effectively, is usually a last ditch weapon, due to the fact it is so inferior to the Pistol or the Assualt Rifle, and its projectiles are so slow, etc) or in many cases, there were NO alien equivalents. (Shotgun vs nothing, Sniper Rifle vs nothing). Therefore, Bungie seems to be introducing new weapons and tweaking older weapons so that whatever human hardware you can get your hands on, there will always be a alien equivalent that is equally useful.