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Subject: Elites or Brutes?
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Elites preferably.

  • 06.21.2009 9:44 PM PDT

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  • 06.21.2009 10:16 PM PDT
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Bungie never really did a good job with the Brutes, which is odd because the Elites were an instant classic. If the Brutes were more like in the book Halo: First Strike everyone would like them. They should be hulking behemoths, attacking at long range with their devastating weapons or pulverizing you with their brute strength and bladed weapons in close quarters. A brute should be able to one hit melee kill you with bladed weapons on Heroic and two Brute Shot grenades should kill you on Heroic. Forget the Halo 3 Brute power armor, that was a sad shield wannabe. The should just be very hard to drop but they should use strategies that make them a unique and fun to fight. Brutes should stay they just need to be executed better.

  • 06.21.2009 10:40 PM PDT

I wanna kill some elites! Playing Halo 3 for countless hours only killing fat blue things gets boring. The Elites are at least strategic, and have energy swords =)

  • 06.21.2009 10:47 PM PDT

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WHY!!! cant we has both!>!?!?!?



I was thinking the same thing. And to the guy who said Brutes wern't in the Covenent at the time: Play Halo Wars and read Contact Harvest.

  • 06.22.2009 7:30 AM PDT

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  • 06.22.2009 7:38 AM PDT

I'd enjoy a mixture.

  • 06.22.2009 7:39 AM PDT

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I want both. It would be nice if they clashed sometimes and ended up fighting amongst themselves. Plus it would be interesting to see if lesser enemies such as Grunts and Jackals would behave differently depending on whether their overseer was a Brute or an Elite.

  • 06.22.2009 8:01 AM PDT

Posted by: MATCLAN
I want both. It would be nice if they clashed sometimes and ended up fighting amongst themselves. Plus it would be interesting to see if lesser enemies such as Grunts and Jackals would behave differently depending on whether their overseer was a Brute or an Elite.



100% this

  • 06.22.2009 8:20 AM PDT

Posted by: ShockedBranch
Posted by: MATCLAN
I want both. It would be nice if they clashed sometimes and ended up fighting amongst themselves. Plus it would be interesting to see if lesser enemies such as Grunts and Jackals would behave differently depending on whether their overseer was a Brute or an Elite.



100% this


for serious man. that idea = gold.

  • 06.22.2009 9:41 AM PDT

Posted by: dragonlord matt
they were

halo wars has brutes

that before halo reach so that means both

and plus we dont no they were not in the covenant cus they just apeared so they might of been


Halo Wars is completely whacked out of the timeline.

  • 06.22.2009 9:54 AM PDT
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Elites. But, I would say they have to have to be at least as agressive as the Halo: CE Elites, and have them show up in surprising places. Like the one golden Elite that shows up in the Silent Cartographer with a sword and kicks your ass if you're not careful.

And besides, I'm a sucker for canon. Having Brutes in the game wouldn't make sense considering that they weren't around in Halo: CE.

  • 06.22.2009 10:03 AM PDT
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I want Elites, or a smarter, more powerful version of the Brutes.

  • 06.22.2009 10:32 AM PDT

(;3=

Posted by: Sumo Jeff
Posted by: dragonlord matt
they were

halo wars has brutes

that before halo reach so that means both

and plus we dont no they were not in the covenant cus they just apeared so they might of been


Halo Wars is completely whacked out of the timeline.


exactly i hate halo wars for not sticking to the cannon (they just had to put flood in thanks ensemble just thanks) but brutes were in the time line before halo2 (read contact harvest it doesnt have much action i thought but its still good)

[Edited on 06.22.2009 11:11 AM PDT]

  • 06.22.2009 11:10 AM PDT

You know, most people are picking paul for the lulz

  • 06.22.2009 3:17 PM PDT
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both races should be present in the game except for Paul...lol

  • 06.22.2009 3:20 PM PDT

By the look of how many players like brutes, its not many.......looks like bungie fofilled what they wanted the brutes to be like ;)

  • 06.22.2009 3:22 PM PDT

The elites that were present in Halo 1, those things were actually tough to fight, especially the golden ones. But also maybe include the occassional brute, and make them much different than the elites. Make the brute live up to his name, make him absolutley nasty, just running at you and he don't stop till hes dead. There is nothing 'brutal' about tactics. So kind of like chieftans from Halo 3 :)

  • 06.22.2009 3:25 PM PDT

yea brutes are in the storie line, they just didnt get used much at first and usualy just gaurded the holy city

  • 06.22.2009 3:25 PM PDT

Posted by: UrbanSolder000
The elites that were present in Halo 1, those things were actually tough to fight, especially the golden ones. But also maybe include the occassional brute, and make them much different than the elites. Make the brute live up to his name, make him absolutley nasty, just running at you and he don't stop till hes dead. There is nothing 'brutal' about tactics. So kind of like chieftans from Halo 3 :)


Let's see how ODST brutes go

  • 06.22.2009 3:30 PM PDT

Bungie KNOWS that most of us love fighting Elites over Brutes. Just look at his thread!
Bungie listens. Don't worry the game will be awesome. ;)

  • 06.22.2009 3:46 PM PDT

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  • 06.22.2009 3:55 PM PDT
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i think elits are the blam 2 i hope they dont have them in halo recon

  • 06.22.2009 4:04 PM PDT

It has to be Elites, brutes weren't even mentained until the events of the first Halo.

  • 06.22.2009 4:16 PM PDT
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Fighting against the Elites gives me the "Halo feeling" moreso than fighting strictly Brutes. If the enemies had to be one or the other, then I'd like to fight the Elites.

However, I'd like to see both in the game, but Elites are fought MUCH more than the Brutes, like how Halo 2 handled it. I'd like to see the Brutes as vicious, berserking gorillas like they were in Halo 2. I think that having those smart and cunning Elites combined with the berserking Brutes would be a lot of fun.

If we don't see Brutes though, then I'd like to see some Drinols.

  • 06.22.2009 4:20 PM PDT