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Subject: Halo Reach: Flyable Pelican??
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Poll: Do you want a flyable pelican  [closed]
Yes I want the pelican:  23%
(56 Votes)
Yes I want the pelican and be able to attach hogs:  62%
(150 Votes)
No pelicans are stupid:  15%
(36 Votes)
Total Votes: 242

Please give an honest answer.

  • 07.03.2009 5:50 PM PDT

Ugh...

First on a BWU.. yeah, I'm cool.

ODST;MYTHIC Screenshot winner! One of the first to get their hands on the mythic map pack.

Campaign, not multi-player.

  • 07.03.2009 5:51 PM PDT
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Well yes, if not some kind of air transport that is drivible.

  • 07.03.2009 5:56 PM PDT
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I think it would be cool that there is one huge map with 48 players and there are two huge bases with armories and vehicles. When yoy ar playing you attach a hog to the peli then get your team in, fly to the enemy and drop the hog.--or--You get a hog and drive to the enemy.

  • 07.03.2009 6:02 PM PDT

I think that multiple pelicans with attachable veichles should be added mainly for the purpose of Massivly multi-player maps and machinimas.

[Edited on 07.03.2009 6:13 PM PDT]

  • 07.03.2009 6:13 PM PDT

-blam!- Was that actually blammed out? Or did I just type it? You'll never know.

I'd like it. In Multplayer it'd have to have it's cannons gretly weakened or removed completely though.

  • 07.03.2009 6:14 PM PDT

Let there be light, created from fire

I am all i am, i am a team player(when im not pissed), i make great strategies, i will punch you in the face after armor locking, you have to be at sniper distance to not get headshot by my DMR or pistol, wraiths beware, i am DxXOrangesXxD and i am ready to rumble! (When Halo 4 comes out cause Reach is nothing but crap players now)

Pelicans are possible but they would have to be limited to certain capabilities

  • 07.03.2009 6:20 PM PDT
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Argumentum ad populum

Yes, if only to make RvB that much better.

  • 07.03.2009 6:28 PM PDT

Let there be light, created from fire

I am all i am, i am a team player(when im not pissed), i make great strategies, i will punch you in the face after armor locking, you have to be at sniper distance to not get headshot by my DMR or pistol, wraiths beware, i am DxXOrangesXxD and i am ready to rumble! (When Halo 4 comes out cause Reach is nothing but crap players now)

Posted by: napster851
Yes, if only to make RvB that much better.
caboose FTW

  • 07.03.2009 6:32 PM PDT
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It would be cool to have a pelican that is really flyable with out CE.

  • 07.03.2009 6:35 PM PDT

Posted by: napster851
Yes, if only to make RvB that much better.



That is what I'm talking about. Pelicans would not only expand Multi-player to a WHOLE NEW level but it would expand the universe of Halo 3 machinimas to an extent Far greater than anyone could comprehend

  • 07.03.2009 6:52 PM PDT

I will find you doctor phil and i will destroy you

This idea would be for customs... I would not dare taint the matchmaking glory or holyness and risk being called a hyretic...


This is how it would make sense,
Ahem...
The map would be large and the only one that supports 24 players and will be the largest map which no other will surpass.
The pelican would be armed with a minigun in the back [useful for anti infantry] and a 50mm chin mounted gun in the front which the copilot uses [useful for antiarmour and strafing]it would have small blast damage...
It would hold 2 crew and 6 passenger [5 seated 1 rear gunner] and could hold one vehicle but you cant use the rear turret cause its in your way


It would be damaged in these ways

Spartan laser rockets or tank or anything really powerful to the engine... [makes is sway side to side loe and gain altitude useful if someone is trying to extract with you flag or a whole group is trying to evac

Hits to the main armor will damaging but not as effective as engine or cockpilot shots

Ways to be destroyed
3 rocket hits
2 laser hits
2 tank hits unless it hits cockpit

When the pelican is critically damaged a flashing red light will tell the passengers to to get out and sparks and pipes leaking will also warn them. [Pilot is doomed give a salute people to the pilot before you bail out] It will spin out of control until it hits then it will explode

Usefulness gets ure team in fast and you and can give covering fire

K I know I will hear that Xbox cant support but people look at frontline fuel of war... if they made it bungie can perfect it. Also 24 is good cause you can fit 8 people in the pelican k if u play 16 everyone will go for the pelican.

  • 07.03.2009 7:11 PM PDT

Posted by: OPRAH WINPHRY
This idea would be for customs... I would not dare taint the matchmaking glory or holyness and risk being called a hyretic...


This is how it would make sense,
Ahem...
The map would be large and the only one that supports 24 players and will be the largest map which no other will surpass.
The pelican would be armed with a minigun in the back [useful for anti infantry] and a 50mm chin mounted gun in the front which the copilot uses [useful for antiarmour and strafing]it would have small blast damage...
It would hold 2 crew and 6 passenger [5 seated 1 rear gunner] and could hold one vehicle but you cant use the rear turret cause its in your way


It would be damaged in these ways

Spartan laser rockets or tank or anything really powerful to the engine... [makes is sway side to side loe and gain altitude useful if someone is trying to extract with you flag or a whole group is trying to evac

Hits to the main armor will damaging but not as effective as engine or cockpilot shots

Ways to be destroyed
3 rocket hits
2 laser hits
2 tank hits unless it hits cockpit

When the pelican is critically damaged a flashing red light will tell the passengers to to get out and sparks and pipes leaking will also warn them. [Pilot is doomed give a salute people to the pilot before you bail out] It will spin out of control until it hits then it will explode

Usefulness gets ure team in fast and you and can give covering fire

K I know I will hear that Xbox cant support but people look at frontline fuel of war... if they made it bungie can perfect it. Also 24 is good cause you can fit 8 people in the pelican k if u play 16 everyone will go for the pelican.


I belive that with a few minor adjustments, this would be a near-flawless idea

  • 07.03.2009 7:14 PM PDT

I will find you doctor phil and i will destroy you

Thank you I hatched this awhile ago while Halo 3 was still into production, so I scurried it in, for reach.
Could you give me examples of adjustemnts to make this a better idea?

  • 07.03.2009 7:16 PM PDT

I'd love to give examples.


Of course everyone knows that a pelican can hold more than 1 veichle. An example being in the Halo 3 campaign missin "The Covenant" after the first checkpoint where the single pelican drops a Warthog already loaded with marines and 2 mongooses. So, replacing passengers, you could load up to 2 small veichles inside the passenger area with the driver and passenger already on the veichle and a warthog or guass warthog with the driver, passenger and gunner already in the warthog.

There is also the issue of what happens to the veichle when the pelican hits the ground if the veichles are attached or inside. Would the driver be able to detach the warthog before impact and will the drivers of the mongooses be able to evac before impact?

And finally, there is the issue of the safety of the pssengers. When inside, does a door come up from the floor of the pelican in similarity to the Cut-scene between the missions "Floodgate" and "The ark" where the admiral boards a pelican and the door seals shut or does the pelican not have a door?

  • 07.03.2009 7:27 PM PDT

I will find you doctor phil and i will destroy you

Theere will be no rear doors, and if the pelican prematurely hits the ground the worthog will usually be lost, but in case of being shot down it will eject the vechiles. But passengers have the option to do so.
Good idea with the two mongooses, but I have seen them carry in a Scorpion.
Thanks good ideas

  • 07.03.2009 7:31 PM PDT

I will find you doctor phil and i will destroy you

good i like the wraith idea, but the rocket and lazer changers are sketchy
Phantom is going to be something hard to do... I will see about it though.

  • 07.03.2009 7:35 PM PDT

Not a problem. I have been mustering ideas for the Halo Universe myself. See, I find that it's always the little details that the gamers and fans look for. Like sure there might be a pelican, but would the pelican be able to do all the kick ass stuff that it does in the campaign or would it only be able to do transport stuff? That is always a sample question to ask. Once you have the BIG picture, try to look through them more deeply and find things that could improve it.

  • 07.03.2009 7:35 PM PDT

I will find you doctor phil and i will destroy you

It would mostly be a transport jockey, but the both machine guns would pack a punch.
True true...very true

  • 07.03.2009 7:39 PM PDT
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Yes I want Pelicans in Campaign and multiplayer

  • 07.03.2009 7:45 PM PDT

-blam!- Was that actually blammed out? Or did I just type it? You'll never know.

Posted by: OPRAH WINPHRY

I view the Pelican like this:

The Pelican spawns at the beginning of the game, and then every two and a half minutes afterwards. Only on large maps, as you said, and maybe not even on every large map.

It should be armed with the Turret at the back, but a very weak chin gun, most likely how the Hornet's guns are on Avalanche. The purpose for the weak chin gun is that the Pelican should be a transportation method first, a weapon second. You could stil splatter with it and give covering fire, but you couldn't just hop in it and wreak havoc on the map.

It should hold the Pilot, and the pilot operates the chin gun. In the back it can hold six six team mates in the seates and one on the turret. As for a vehicle, I'm not sure how that would work very well. Having a system to be able to pick up a vehicle would take a huge amount of precision, and probably just wouldn't work. Therefore I say no vehicle.

It and it's passengers can be damaged by:
Turret fire. Takes forty seconds of full on fire from a groun based turret to kill it.
Laser fire. Takes three to four laser shots, depending where they hit.
Rockets. Three to five rockets, depending where they hit.
Tank. Two to three tank shots.

All passengers and pilot can bail out at any time. Except when critically damaged, the pilot has an instant where they can bail out. If they can't get out within that frame of time the cockpit fuses and they are stuck to go down in a blaze of glory. Passengers can hop out to get clear of the blast radius. When critically damaged it spirals to the ground and the pilot can try to choose where to crash. Players underneath the Pelican when it crashes will be killed, any nearby the explosion will be damaged.

A Pelican can be used a variety of ways like this. Troop transportation, covering fire, splattering, and kamikaze runs.


  • 07.03.2009 7:58 PM PDT

I will find you doctor phil and i will destroy you

This is the idea I have for the pelican, it had been reviwed and revised countless times.
And I remeber posting this for Halo 3, trying to make my little pelican fly.
But it was grounded.
Here are the Ideas I have.

Ahem....
For this new game Reach I would hope to have a very large map with more Xbox Live support, possibley 24-32.
The Pelican will be armed with a 40mm cannon used for offense, and it is controlled by the co-pilot. It would have a slow fire rate but have decent power, it would have small blast damage it would have a rear machine gun providing the passengers with fire support.
The pelican will have a crew of 2, and six passengers. [5 seated 1 rear gunner.]
You could hook up a Scoprion or Hog to the back, and one mongose inside of the pelican.
[Possible Idea, 1 mongoose at the cost of two passengers. and all vechiles couldnt not be used while in flight.]


It would be damaged these ways:
Any serious weapons Rocket Launchers, Spartan Lasers, Scorpion tank shots, if there is damage to the engines it will gain or lose altitude and have a harder time turning.
[Usefull to stop a flag carrier from getting away...and realistic!]
Ways to be destroyed.
3 Rocket hits [One to the cockpit or one to the engine to cause failure or serious damage]
2 laser hits [unless in the cockpit]
2 scorpion hits [unless in the cockpit]
1 Wraith shot [becasue we now how hard it is to shoot down aircraft with a wraith]

When the Pelican is critically damged, it won't blow up in mid air, but depending on the altitude it will flash a red light in the passenger compartment [pipes breaking and sparks add realism and extra warning] to get out and save yourself.
The pilot must eject the vechiles [if they are stored] or they will go down with the ship and be destroyed or heavily damaged.
[Pilot is doomed give him a salute while you bail]
When the damage is done the pelican will crash to the ground in an explosion

It is usefull to get your team from one side of the map to the other, and some strafing and vechile transport.

  • 07.03.2009 8:02 PM PDT

This is what Custom Edition is for.

  • 07.03.2009 8:07 PM PDT

I will find you doctor phil and i will destroy you

glitchy, bad graphics, very old
Custom Edition...

  • 07.03.2009 8:10 PM PDT

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