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Poll: More player interaction like Far Cry2 eg, seeing the player get healed  [closed]
Yes:  62%
(5 Votes)
No:  38%
(3 Votes)
Total Votes: 8

i watched the gameplay interviwe from gamespot today with bungie and noticed that still
-when you pres a switch the switch is JUST magically interacted with and you don't see your players hand at all touch it/interact,
- the same apples to climbing laders.
-regarding the health packs it would be nice also to see actual animation when your player is being healed.

What im trying to get to at here is that the players/Rookie should have more interaction like that of Far Cry 2, like when you see your self get healed. Or see your self press a switch.

Now don't get me wrong halos amazing and i don't want it to be like FC2, but it irritates me knowing that this is the 4th halo game and still such details have not been addresses.

So in any case do you think that bungie should look into it?

  • 06.04.2009 1:41 PM PDT
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Posted by: goldhawk
We should know better, because we are better.

No because if your healing yourself with your hands whats going to shoot your gun? Your foot?

  • 06.04.2009 1:42 PM PDT

Perhaps it's got to do with the general Halo formula.
When we're doing something, like pressing/activating a switch in Halo, you're pressed for time.

You don't exactly want to see yourself injecting biofoam into yourself taking away from time to shoot at the baddies, while they shoot at you.

It's simply not Halo.
This is not Far Cry 2, nor should it be.

Perhaps such details have not been addressed because the development team doesn't feel like it's an issue that needs to be addressed.
On top of that, you don't see many people complaining about such minor details, because most people don't care that much.

  • 06.04.2009 1:43 PM PDT

thats why you go behind cover/safe place when your healing thats gaming 101, hence your behind cover so theres nothing to shoot at :)

  • 06.04.2009 1:45 PM PDT

you have a valid point, but halos had a history of fine detail, like actual having written info on the rocket ammo that heading your way to kill you.

  • 06.04.2009 1:48 PM PDT

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Posted by: Xd00999
No because if your healing yourself with your hands whats going to shoot your gun? Your foot?


That could be the dangers of healing. Yes, it does replenish your health, but there's a risk a Covenant patrol might come around the corner.

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The story takes place 500+ years in the future. Doctors have been replaced with buttons which dispense targeted medicine. No additional animations required.

  • 06.04.2009 1:56 PM PDT

Posted by: Spartan153
Posted by: Xd00999
No because if your healing yourself with your hands whats going to shoot your gun? Your foot?


That could be the dangers of healing. Yes, it does replenish your health, but there's a risk a Covenant patrol might come around the corner.


but wouldn't that add more depth? and im not talking about a 30 second long animation here, im talking about something quick/a quick bio foam injection - depending on the injury though

and having the sense of having to tread with care when playing the rookie all alone is what the guys at bungie even said they wanted you to feel

  • 06.04.2009 1:57 PM PDT

if knowledge is power and power corrupts, isn't knowledge therefore dangerous?
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well, they finally made you pull the trigger on guns. that's an improvement.

  • 06.04.2009 1:57 PM PDT

Posted by: bigturns00
The story takes place 500+ years in the future. Doctors have been replaced with buttons which dispense targeted medicine. No additional animations required.


but med packs(like Halo 1) are already in ODST thanks to bungie, so it wouldn't make sense if you picked up a med pack then see it vanish

  • 06.04.2009 2:01 PM PDT

Don't worry about what people think. They don't do it often.

Arguing on the internet is like running in the special Olympics, even if you win, you're still retarded.

As long as it wouldn't be as random as Far Cry 2's healing animations. It's kind of confusing when I take damage from a fall and I go to heal myself, only to find my character pulling a random bullet out of his arm. WTF?

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Posted by: Volatilejeroen
but med packs(like Halo 1) are already in ODST thanks to bungie, so it wouldn't make sense if you picked up a med pack then see it vanish

Perhaps the med pack is 100% edible?

Each med pack is filled nano-machines which tap into your central nervous system in order to send nano-surgeons directly to the source of pain in order to deliver medicine as well as repair damaged tissue.

Posted by: YoJimbo117
As long as it wouldn't be as random as Far Cry 2's healing animations. It's kind of confusing when I take damage from a fall and I go to heal myself, only to find my character pulling a random bullet out of his arm. WTF?

yeah, and where is the animation, which should follow this crude act, of the guy rolling around on the ground for hours, in cold sweats, writhing from the pain caused by jamming a pair of players into a gaping wound without the aid of both antiseptic and or anything to control the pain?

[Edited on 06.04.2009 2:23 PM PDT]

  • 06.04.2009 2:19 PM PDT

to YoJimbo117

yeah that part of it did suck

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  • 06.04.2009 2:20 PM PDT

to bigturns00

Regarding you point of :
"Perhaps the med pack is 100% edible? Each med pack is filled nano-machines which tap into your central nervous system in order to send nano-surgeons directly to the source of pain in order to deliver medicine as well as repair damaged tissue."

thats why they use syringes-to inject the nano machines directly in to the wound-look it up on halo wiki is vividly stated in the books, which by the way was written in close collaboration with bungies creative team.

  • 06.04.2009 2:29 PM PDT