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Subject: Phantoms and Pelicans in Multiplayer?
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Posted by: Draag
well this is true, because ive seen 8+ rockets converge on the same banshee on PC and all miss, but just dont hold your breath about the rockets goin around corners

okay banshess are tight and crap but where talking about phantoms and pelicans in this thread. i personaly don't think it would be hard to take down a phantom or pelican with a heat seeking rocket.

[Edited on 7/14/2004 7:07:55 PM]

  • 07.14.2004 7:07 PM PDT
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Banshees aside, Pyroboy's right about the dropships for sure. They're not agile. Just dependable. Even the slightest tracking is a huge boon to anyone targeting one.

  • 07.14.2004 7:07 PM PDT

I'll be on my own side.

oh if a Phantom wont die from about 10 shots from that gauss rifle in E3 2003(i dont want to hear that it doesnt exist. i dont wanna hear it.),then i think it will take a lot more than one rocket

  • 07.14.2004 7:09 PM PDT
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Posted by: Nedus
oh if a Phantom wont die from about 10 shots from that gauss rifle in E3 2003(i dont want to hear that it doesnt exist. i dont wanna hear it.),then i think it will take a lot more than one rocket

i never said it would take one rocket, prob. more like 5 all i'm saying is it wouldn't be hard to bring down a dropship.

  • 07.14.2004 7:11 PM PDT
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Yes, they should.

I have always wanted to drop my friends off on the front lines in a Pelican.

Bandits (Covenant dropships should be in there too)

[Edited on 7/14/2004 7:12:57 PM]

  • 07.14.2004 7:12 PM PDT

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Posted by: Nedus
oh if a Phantom wont die from about 10 shots from that gauss rifle in E3 2003(i dont want to hear that it doesnt exist. i dont wanna hear it.),then i think it will take a lot more than one rocket

i never said it would take one rocket, prob. more like 5 all i'm saying is it wouldn't be hard to bring down a dropship.


yeah if you dont get killed by the 70mm chin gun and rocket pods on the Pelicans.

  • 07.14.2004 7:14 PM PDT
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Why do you think Foehammer never landed in the middle of enemy troops (except at the beginning of Silent Cartographer)? Its because dropships are not for combat, they're an accessory to combat. And as such, they aren't going to dominate the skies. Look how fast Foehammer went down when it came to an actual fight. Theres no way that dropships, if added to MP, are going to upset the balance.

  • 07.14.2004 7:25 PM PDT
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Posted by: BAR666
Why do you think Foehammer never landed in the middle of enemy troops (except at the beginning of Silent Cartographer)? Its because dropships are not for combat, they're an accessory to combat. And as such, they aren't going to dominate the skies. Look how fast Foehammer went down when it came to an actual fight. Theres no way that dropships, if added to MP, are going to upset the balance.

yeah the phantom does have weapons, it seems like a support vehical as well as a dropship, also they might put in like an assalut version of the pelican or something.

  • 07.14.2004 7:28 PM PDT
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yeah the phantom does have weapons, it seems like a support vehical as well as a dropship
I know it has weapons, but minimal ones; only enough to defend itself and lay a little cover fire for the troops it drops. By an "accessory to combat", I mean a support vehicle. If a dropship stops to shoot at ground troops, it becomes a sitting duck. Everybody in a large radius will see it and shoot at it.

  • 07.14.2004 7:35 PM PDT
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And anyway, my whole point here is that dropships should definitely be not only drivable, but included in MP, and will not disrupt the balance of combat that makes Halo multiplayer kick ass.

  • 07.14.2004 7:40 PM PDT
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yeah your right but remeber in e3 2003 those phantoms stayed behind to reek some havock and crap?, but yeah i think in mp they would get slaughtered if they stayed around to help. i think it would be the tightest thing ever even if they didn't have weapons.

  • 07.14.2004 7:46 PM PDT
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You can't fly the Pelican or the Phantom, so what is the point?

  • 07.14.2004 8:06 PM PDT
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Yes but for real big maps only. Also you could use them to respwn back to the game, like the drop ships go over the map with you in it thin it would drop you off by you're teams base. Thats cool.

Any one played planetside? Those are BIG maps

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doesn't anybody remember that troop carrier version of the warthog? it's basically the same thing as the pelican except that it can't fly. if it makes it to multiplayer then the pelican is kinda pointless, but i still think it would be cool to fly one around and stuff. it's real slow too so it should be balanced because it won't be able to do much dodging

  • 07.14.2004 8:35 PM PDT

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