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Subject: will we get pelicans this time?

The strongest Rivals are also the strongest allies.

its a well known fact that the majority of halo fans want to be able to fly a pelican or jump out the cargo hold to steal the enermy flag, so hopefully well will get a pelican... hopefully

  • 06.03.2009 11:35 PM PDT

Stop destroying the environment,get of that computer and go into your backyard and build a nuclear powerplant...

:)

I WANT THE PELICAN!!!

  • 06.03.2009 11:36 PM PDT

The missile pod and lasers would now bring over kills and killtrocities... It would be picture perfect to bail out of the cargo hold guns blazing and getting team killed from some trigger happy tard who jumped out behind me...

  • 06.03.2009 11:38 PM PDT

Don't even try to pronounce my name.

it would make the game too unbalanced, unless they threw in something that could take it down for multiplayer i doubt they would put them in as playable vehicles. that's why they took the hornet's rockets out of match making.

  • 06.03.2009 11:39 PM PDT

The strongest Rivals are also the strongest allies.

Posted by: Cheesusslice
The missile pod and lasers would now bring over kills and killtrocities... It would be picture perfect to bail out of the cargo hold guns blazing and getting team killed from some trigger happy tard who jumped out behind me...
but it wouldnt explode. if a lazer hits the pilot, it crashes removes shield from passengers. if a missile pod hits it it blows up an engine and the pelican spirals to the ground.

  • 06.03.2009 11:40 PM PDT

Don't even try to pronounce my name.

But in order to do this they would have to make maps entirely too big. Unless....bungie was cooking up some sort of mega matchmaking 20v20 playlist. THAT WOULD ROCK SOOOOO HARD!!!

  • 06.03.2009 11:43 PM PDT

Actually....maybe.....maybe not.
It's too hard to say. Is this going to be more battlefield-esque considering it's reach?

  • 06.03.2009 11:44 PM PDT

The strongest Rivals are also the strongest allies.

halo 3s maps are fairly big and its 2 years old. reaches maps cauld be a thpusand times bigger now!!!!!!!

  • 06.03.2009 11:45 PM PDT

The strongest Rivals are also the strongest allies.

Posted by: Smug Dark Loser
Actually....maybe.....maybe not.
It's too hard to say. Is this going to be more battlefield-esque considering it's reach?
the pelican is used alot in the book. so it should appear as a transport.

  • 06.03.2009 11:45 PM PDT

plus it would be lag central for pelicans to be dive bombing into the heart of war in a big team battle... I'd still laugh my -blamhammer- off if I was cruising around in a pelican though... It's not likely but if it did happen, i'd probably pee my pants.

  • 06.03.2009 11:49 PM PDT

The strongest Rivals are also the strongest allies.

Posted by: Cheesusslice
plus it would be lag central for pelicans to be dive bombing into the heart of war in a big team battle... I'd still laugh my -blamhammer- off if I was cruising around in a pelican though... It's not likely but if it did happen, i'd probably pee my pants.
um reachs game engine iwill be a new one, not a really old halo 3 engine.

  • 06.03.2009 11:50 PM PDT

Don't even try to pronounce my name.

well even in the games the pelican was used as a transport, that doesn't mean we'll get to drive them.. i mean honestly, what do we as halo players enjoy more?

flying banshees/hornets?
BRing the crap out of grunts and hijacking wraiths on foot?

i've always agreed with the ole "Fall of Reach" spartan mentality where they like to have dirt beneath their feet.

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Posted by: Smug Dark Loser
Actually....maybe.....maybe not.
It's too hard to say. Is this going to be more battlefield-esque considering it's reach?
the pelican is used alot in the book. so it should appear as a transport.

  • 06.03.2009 11:50 PM PDT

The strongest Rivals are also the strongest allies.

i like blowing up wraths and grunts with mah rockets

  • 06.03.2009 11:52 PM PDT

Yeah, but the multiplayer isn't based on servers, it's based on player to player connection... the more stuff that is happening all at once the people with lesser internet connections create a load of lag... I don't think they will start running millions of dollars worth of servers just for pelicans. Or by the grace of the gods of programming they'll manage a way to do it with limited programming so it's not that huge of a deal to run a pelican like it is an elephant.

  • 06.03.2009 11:54 PM PDT

Does anyone even read these?

I want to crash it into a mountain.

  • 06.03.2009 11:55 PM PDT

-6Fears

Posted by: Cheesusslice
The missile pod and lasers would now bring over kills and killtrocities... It would be picture perfect to bail out of the cargo hold guns blazing and getting team killed from some trigger happy tard who jumped out behind me...


They can remove the Missle Launchers as they did with the hornet, and make it easier to destroy.

  • 06.03.2009 11:57 PM PDT

I was talking about destroying the pelican... I was hoping the pelican wouldn't be armed...

  • 06.03.2009 11:59 PM PDT

The strongest Rivals are also the strongest allies.

Posted by: Cheesusslice
I was talking about destroying the pelican... I was hoping the pelican wouldn't be armed...
apart from the tail gun, otherwise its flying elephat with missiles O.o

  • 06.04.2009 12:06 AM PDT

flying elephant FTW!!! seriously though, I need to hop out the back of that thing with a flame thrower so I can team kill some people trying to defend my teams flag...

  • 06.04.2009 12:08 AM PDT

they should take off the guns and make it gust be a transport maybe have a turret in the back like in the first mission on halo 3 and they can make like a AA gun to blow it up like 2 guss cannons put together lol

  • 06.04.2009 12:09 AM PDT

I think and hope we do i will be so cool dont you think?

  • 06.04.2009 12:10 AM PDT

Don't even try to pronounce my name.

the only possible way to makethe thing balanced would be to take off all weapons except for the aforementioned rear turret and make it slow and cumbersome. perhaps it would carry 6 people max. and as for being shot out of it or down... i odn't think it should take all shields of passengers.. it should kill the turreteer and the pilot and render the other passengers with half shields. a player with a BR and a spartan laser could easily should it down and BR the reamaining shield drained players with ease for a killtrocity.. it would be too easy for a seasoned player to do something like that. maybe when it got shot down it would just be down until you repaired it.. kind of like returning a flag ya know?

  • 06.04.2009 12:14 AM PDT

I say, make the birdy go BOOM! seriously though, I think a pelican is a bit of a stretch. It's already tough balancing things to what everyone wants. Throwing a flying behemoth into the mix would only create more problems for those poor souls who listen to our complaints everyday. Turfing a pelican would be awesome though... I don't care if it's in single player, i'll just cruise around in campaign by myself.

  • 06.04.2009 12:18 AM PDT

"Reason is Treason, but how is Philosophy Atrocity?"

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Since this game is debuting in 2010, so soon after Halo ODST gives away the Halo 3 maps and increases players in matchmaking, it's obvious from a business standpoint that this is going to be a different beast. Instead of playing as one supersoldier versus one ship in Mombasa, or even Halo 3's strike force mentality, we have a whole pack of (at least 5 says the picture) ubermenshen. This game has larger forces arrayed, so expect it to be HALO 3 BIG BATTLE as ODST is special ops. I want to pilot a pelican, in campaign, and capture your flag, burning your cyclops as I laugh maniacally--and I think this game will allow me to do that.

Even better if we had set points to spend on armory before a big match... so it could be like a tactical scarab fest! I can dream can't I.

On another note, does the Spirit dropship or the Phantom dropship more balance out the covies for multiplayer? Could the Spirit maybe work like that Albatross crashed on those two maps (I mean the island in Halo 2 and Sandtrap in Halo 3)? And yes, we do need heavy dropships... Grizzlies and walking tanks. Nothing better on a scenic and newly crimson battlefeild than a seat far, far, away in the sky.

[Edited on 06.04.2009 12:28 AM PDT]

  • 06.04.2009 12:25 AM PDT