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Subject: Why can't ODST's use equipment?

I understand equipment is a little too big for a normal person to carry, but why not have it like turrets? You pick up one piece of equipment, and carry it around in your hands really slow, and then you activate it? That way you can use the right bumper to pick it up, and the left trigger to activate without ruining the VISR.

  • 06.03.2009 5:08 PM PDT

...Because ODSTs don't have the proper knowledge to do so?

  • 06.03.2009 5:10 PM PDT
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  • 06.03.2009 5:10 PM PDT

It's like if the Fanta girls and the the cast of Girls gone Wild participated in a remake of Labyrinth that takes place in a crackhouse version of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory where the sugar is cocaine, the candy is crystal meth, and the chocolate is LSD*takes a breath*and the goblin king became the gummy bear king.

because there awsome like that

  • 06.03.2009 5:10 PM PDT
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Bungie wants the game to be more stealth like?

  • 06.03.2009 5:12 PM PDT

because equipment is for -blam!-s

  • 06.03.2009 5:13 PM PDT

ODSTs haven't had the summoning powers that the Spartans do to open up portals to Hammerspace.

  • 06.03.2009 5:13 PM PDT
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Holy freedom fries!

*lugging around flare, climbing up a cliff*
Okay, now to activate -*drops*
....*hits brute on the head*
Brute:ENEMY!
you: Oh, sh-*stuck, dies*

  • 06.03.2009 5:14 PM PDT

I don't see why exactly either, but I guess that it is to help differentiate Spartan from ODST and make tge game play for like Halo: CE.

And come to think of it a regenerator will be useless, trip mines are pretty large and would probably kill you too etc.

  • 06.03.2009 5:17 PM PDT

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Having the enemy use equipment is a nice way of giving them a power that you can't do. Equipment was very useful for Spartans because they could use them just like the Brutes can. And ODST, however, probably isn't going to have the ability or knowledge to fling a power drain across the map or play camp fest with a Bubble Shield like a Brute could.

  • 06.03.2009 5:22 PM PDT

Maybe they can..?

  • 06.03.2009 5:25 PM PDT

Posted by: T3H Sniper King
Maybe they can..?


Uh... No I'm pretty sure they said you can't in the Gamespot ODST Live video.

  • 06.03.2009 6:13 PM PDT

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Posted by: GhostNXGSprite
...Because ODSTs don't have the proper knowledge to do so?


That's why they drive off cliffs and die easy etc in the Halo games. Just no brain power in an ODST soldier

  • 06.03.2009 6:25 PM PDT

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I could of swore I seen a bubble shield somewhere

  • 06.03.2009 6:58 PM PDT

they replaced equietment with the visr

  • 06.03.2009 7:02 PM PDT
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I hope they can use equipment, but I understand the reasoning of why they wouldn't be able to.

  • 06.03.2009 7:04 PM PDT

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Posted by: T3H Sniper King
Maybe they can..?


Sorry, but no. The Brute could've just as easily dropped the Booble in that pic. (Yes, booble not bubble.) =D

  • 06.03.2009 7:05 PM PDT

Posted by: hobomcmuffin
because there awsome like that

  • 06.03.2009 7:06 PM PDT

they most likely wont change the ability to toss it

  • 06.03.2009 7:06 PM PDT

Four shots, four kills, reload, repeat. This is the work of a sniper.

Yesterday I almost made a thread asking if there was going to be equipment or not, but my question was answered today. while I personally don't see why an ODST can't use equipment, I also would rather have VISR anyway. Plus, a lot of equipment would become useless, since you technically don't have shields to regenerate, and there aren't really radars to "jam." There are a few other things that wouldn't really serve a purpose, like the grav lift, but you get my point.

  • 06.03.2009 7:09 PM PDT

ODSTs are too bad--- for something like Bubble Sheilds.

[Edited on 06.03.2009 7:11 PM PDT]

  • 06.03.2009 7:11 PM PDT

Posted by: lsbd
*lugging around flare, climbing up a cliff*
Okay, now to activate -*drops*
....*hits brute on the head*
Brute:ENEMY!
you: Oh, sh-*stuck, dies*


Lol. That would so happen to me :(

  • 06.03.2009 7:14 PM PDT
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Just for those who are still wondering any equipment you've seen deployed in screenshots or videos (like bubble shields) are ENEMY-deployed. ODSTs lack the capability to deploy equipment. I would just like to know Bungie's fictional in-game reason why they can't...

  • 06.03.2009 7:16 PM PDT

Posted by: tdog87
Just for those who are still wondering any equipment you've seen deployed in screenshots or videos (like bubble shields) are ENEMY-deployed. ODSTs lack the capability to deploy equipment. I would just like to know Bungie's fictional in-game reason why they can't...


Same here. I'm not going to speculate though. I don't want them stealing ideas. I want to see what they can come up with.

  • 06.03.2009 7:21 PM PDT