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Subject: Flyable pelicans, surely its time?

Here we are again bro... Just you and me. Same kind of moon same kind of jungle. Real number 10 remember... Whole platoon, 32 men chopped into meat... We walk out just you and me, nobody else. Right on top huh? Not a scratch... Not a f**kin' scratch. You know who ever got you. They'll come back again. And when he does I'm gonna cut your name right into him... I'M GONNA CUT YOUR NAME RIGHT INTO HIM!

I'm really hoping some of the levels in Reach will be large enough to let us fly around in pelicans and drop our fellow players and vehicles into battle for some multiplayer epicness. Bungie has teased us with this vehicle for so long that Reach has got to have the scale to let us stretch its wings?

  • 06.06.2009 2:15 PM PDT

Nope never gonna happen man

  • 06.06.2009 2:16 PM PDT

Spinning a plate on a stick is impressive, but if you try to spin three at once then you'll just end up digging porcelain out of your face.

I'm sure that pelicans did not evolve on reach. Plus it would not fly, seeing as you will be a spartan wearing almost a half of a ton of armor the little feathered rat wouldn't be able to lift you.

  • 06.06.2009 2:18 PM PDT

Here we are again bro... Just you and me. Same kind of moon same kind of jungle. Real number 10 remember... Whole platoon, 32 men chopped into meat... We walk out just you and me, nobody else. Right on top huh? Not a scratch... Not a f**kin' scratch. You know who ever got you. They'll come back again. And when he does I'm gonna cut your name right into him... I'M GONNA CUT YOUR NAME RIGHT INTO HIM!

Oh of course you would know mate

  • 06.06.2009 2:18 PM PDT
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Recent K/D ratio 2:1

Recent games is either 1st or 2nd place mostly.

WTF Chief gets transported by Pelicans all the time and plus in the books over 20 spartans could fit in and be able to fly in a pelican. So yes it is the time to bring in playable Pelicans.

  • 06.06.2009 2:43 PM PDT
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bungie doesn't love us enough to let us fly pelicans

  • 06.06.2009 2:48 PM PDT

Posted by: picklepop19
I'm sure that pelicans did not evolve on reach. Plus it would not fly, seeing as you will be a spartan wearing almost a half of a ton of armor the little feathered rat wouldn't be able to lift you.


I am going to assume that you are joking and actually have played the Halo games and were not so incompetent not to notice that the Chief flies in Pelicans all the time. Also in the books.

That said, I would like to see some freakin Pelicans "stretch their wings."

  • 06.06.2009 2:54 PM PDT
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In single player they probably wont, seeing as you'd be doing the shooting instead of dropping off and flying.
Although there could be a cool flying level where you have a group of marines/spartans and they shoot all the enemies attacking and you can fly and operate the chainguns/rockets on the pelican. Sort of like the hornet part of the Covenant at the beach, except much more epic and large scale.

For multiplayer, it's highly unlikely unless they seriously upscale the multiplayer to like 30v30 - which most likely won't happen.

Single player is our best bet, but no way would it be in multiplayer unless Bungie pulls off the impossible.

  • 06.06.2009 2:56 PM PDT

Here we are again bro... Just you and me. Same kind of moon same kind of jungle. Real number 10 remember... Whole platoon, 32 men chopped into meat... We walk out just you and me, nobody else. Right on top huh? Not a scratch... Not a f**kin' scratch. You know who ever got you. They'll come back again. And when he does I'm gonna cut your name right into him... I'M GONNA CUT YOUR NAME RIGHT INTO HIM!

Im picturing in my minds eye levels 4 times the size of sand trap with pelicans ferrying troops and tanks to ppl in the front lines. Awesome fun.

  • 06.06.2009 2:58 PM PDT
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PLEASEEE!!

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I started out with nothing and I still have most of it left.

Well, it's not impossible, I suppose.

But I'm not holding my breath.

  • 06.06.2009 3:04 PM PDT

Here we are again bro... Just you and me. Same kind of moon same kind of jungle. Real number 10 remember... Whole platoon, 32 men chopped into meat... We walk out just you and me, nobody else. Right on top huh? Not a scratch... Not a f**kin' scratch. You know who ever got you. They'll come back again. And when he does I'm gonna cut your name right into him... I'M GONNA CUT YOUR NAME RIGHT INTO HIM!

Posted by: alexbulluk
Well, it's not impossible, I suppose.

But I'm not holding my breath.


No please dont, this war has seen enough dead heros :D

  • 06.06.2009 3:06 PM PDT

Posted by: D Generator
Posted by: picklepop19
I'm sure that pelicans did not evolve on reach. Plus it would not fly, seeing as you will be a spartan wearing almost a half of a ton of armor the little feathered rat wouldn't be able to lift you.


I am going to assume that you are joking and actually have played the Halo games and were not so incompetent not to notice that the Chief flies in Pelicans all the time. Also in the books.

That said, I would like to see some freakin Pelicans "stretch their wings."

Of course he's joking, it's a play on the fact that a Pelican is an actual bird. Funny.

  • 06.06.2009 3:16 PM PDT

You can't spell "Slaughter" without "Laughter"

I hope we get to fly the pelican that brings the Spartans down to reach, before John left orbit. You know, where they had to bail and crash land in their armor? I think it would be awesome to have a short sequence of flying the pelican only to have to stand up, walk back to the hatch, and jump.

As far as multiplayer goes, I don't think the pelican is a good idea. I suppose I wouldn't mind it very much if it were included though... as long as it is well designed for multiplayer.

  • 06.06.2009 3:19 PM PDT

Here we are again bro... Just you and me. Same kind of moon same kind of jungle. Real number 10 remember... Whole platoon, 32 men chopped into meat... We walk out just you and me, nobody else. Right on top huh? Not a scratch... Not a f**kin' scratch. You know who ever got you. They'll come back again. And when he does I'm gonna cut your name right into him... I'M GONNA CUT YOUR NAME RIGHT INTO HIM!

The pelican cockpit has two seats so one could fly and fire rockets while the other could use the chin turret. They could also have the rear door permanently open and have a detatchable turret like they have in the Halo 3 cut scenes. The possibilities are all good in my opinion. The only problem I could see is that the balance might be off in multiplayer soooo, bring on the flyable Phantom! God opposing dropship arial combat guys, think of it.

  • 06.06.2009 3:29 PM PDT

Perception is everything.

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Posted by: alexbulluk
Well, it's not impossible, I suppose.

But I'm not holding my breath.


No please dont, this war has seen enough dead heros :D
That's from somewhere in halo...did cortana say that near the beginning of Combat Evolved?

  • 06.06.2009 3:35 PM PDT

Here we are again bro... Just you and me. Same kind of moon same kind of jungle. Real number 10 remember... Whole platoon, 32 men chopped into meat... We walk out just you and me, nobody else. Right on top huh? Not a scratch... Not a f**kin' scratch. You know who ever got you. They'll come back again. And when he does I'm gonna cut your name right into him... I'M GONNA CUT YOUR NAME RIGHT INTO HIM!

Posted by: SlayersBane
Posted by: SPARTAN DELBOY
Posted by: alexbulluk
Well, it's not impossible, I suppose.

But I'm not holding my breath.


No please dont, this war has seen enough dead heros :D
That's from somewhere in halo...did cortana say that near the beginning of Combat Evolved?


Yeah when Keyes wants to go down with the ship Cortana says it

  • 06.06.2009 3:38 PM PDT

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Posted by: SlayersBane
Posted by: SPARTAN DELBOY
Posted by: alexbulluk
Well, it's not impossible, I suppose.

But I'm not holding my breath.


No please dont, this war has seen enough dead heros :D
That's from somewhere in halo...did cortana say that near the beginning of Combat Evolved?


Yeah, when Keyes wanted to crash land on the ring (I think).

Also, I don't think pelicans would be that un-balanced...they are pretty slow, have very little weaponry relative to their size, and are very visible.

  • 06.06.2009 3:39 PM PDT

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Sounds like a bunch of Justin Bieber wannabes in here. I bet you all wear skinny jeans too.

Posted by: picklepop19
I'm sure that pelicans did not evolve on reach. Plus it would not fly, seeing as you will be a spartan wearing almost a half of a ton of armor the little feathered rat wouldn't be able to lift you.

I see what you did thar

  • 06.06.2009 3:40 PM PDT

If you already live in heaven, Where do you go when you die?

Posted by: jesus u jew
bungie doesn't love us enough to let us fly pelicans


Or they know how impossibly hard creating good working physics for flying such a load of bolts would be. And they also know how little we would ACTUALLY get to effectively use something like that in a Halo game... multiplayer or not. The thing is just too damn big.

Even if you could fly the god forsaken thing in Halo 3 maps... the only two maps you could ever comfortably fly it in would be sandtrap and sandbox. Even VALHALLA is a bit small for the flying turd...

Having such a large set of wings would force level designers to increase the size of all the levels, campaign and customs, to gigantic proportions... making the budget go to -blam!- and turning all the rest of the game, graphics included, into little more than a boring game of tetris

good luck, whiny bastards...

  • 06.06.2009 4:00 PM PDT

Here we are again bro... Just you and me. Same kind of moon same kind of jungle. Real number 10 remember... Whole platoon, 32 men chopped into meat... We walk out just you and me, nobody else. Right on top huh? Not a scratch... Not a f**kin' scratch. You know who ever got you. They'll come back again. And when he does I'm gonna cut your name right into him... I'M GONNA CUT YOUR NAME RIGHT INTO HIM!

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Posted by: SlayersBane
Posted by: SPARTAN DELBOY
Posted by: alexbulluk
Well, it's not impossible, I suppose.

But I'm not holding my breath.


No please dont, this war has seen enough dead heros :D
That's from somewhere in halo...did cortana say that near the beginning of Combat Evolved?


Yeah, when Keyes wanted to crash land on the ring (I think).

Also, I don't think pelicans would be that un-balanced...they are pretty slow, have very little weaponry relative to their size, and are very visible.


I dont think they lightly armed:

1 Chin-mounted Rotary-cannon:
40mm Rotary-cannon (optional)
70mm Rotary-cannon (optional)
2 ANVIL-II ASM Pods (6 missiles each)
1 AIE-486H HMG

if anything I think they might be too heavily armed but I think its slow speed would balance that out.

  • 06.06.2009 4:03 PM PDT

@Helveck

Just an Average Joe...

Posted by: Capitan Morgan
Posted by: jesus u jew
bungie doesn't love us enough to let us fly pelicans


Or they know how impossibly hard creating good working physics for flying such a load of bolts would be. And they also know how little we would ACTUALLY get to effectively use something like that in a Halo game... multiplayer or not. The thing is just too damn big.

Even if you could fly the god forsaken thing in Halo 3 maps... the only two maps you could ever comfortably fly it in would be sandtrap and sandbox. Even VALHALLA is a bit small for the flying turd...

Having such a large set of wings would force level designers to increase the size of all the levels, campaign and customs, to gigantic proportions... making the budget go to -blam!- and turning all the rest of the game, graphics included, into little more than a boring game of tetris

good luck, whiny bastards...


You evidently know absolutely nothing as to the topic in which you are speaking of.

Oh, and call people bastards for no good reason, it makes you look tougher on the internet.

But on topic, I do wish to see at least some areas where you have to control the pelican at least in campaign. Maybe some sort of chase through a narrow tunnel? Or something to that nature...

  • 06.06.2009 4:03 PM PDT

Reach. Reach. Reach.

nope the closest you will get is the hornet

  • 06.06.2009 4:12 PM PDT

Destruction has Arrived!!!
(I mispelled the name.its supposed to be KingDestroyer4747!!!)

it would be great but that is kinda impossible(it could happen but not likely). that will take time. besides if you make pilotable pelicans you have to ahve pilotable phantoms too for the covenant.

  • 06.06.2009 4:15 PM PDT

peli-can not peli-cant


:D

[Edited on 06.06.2009 4:17 PM PDT]

  • 06.06.2009 4:17 PM PDT