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Subject: Jackals' Shields

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In the Halo Books, the spartans used anything and everything around them to kill covenant, and the jackals' shields have been a tool of their mighty destruction. Should the spartans in Halo Reach be given this ability? The use of the shields could be endless!!! Matchmaking would be very fun and interesting with them. Does any one else agree with me, or have any other interesting ideas?

  • 07.05.2009 1:12 PM PDT

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that would be fun but the spartans have shields anyway so it would be abit unfair to have extra

  • 07.05.2009 1:15 PM PDT
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Considering Halo: Reach is an event which is from the book The Fall of Reach, I'd say that Spartans should be able to pick up Jackal Shields.

  • 07.05.2009 1:16 PM PDT

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Oh hell yes. I think that they could replace overshields in matchmaking, because that would be fairly balanced. But you'd probably have to crouch while using them, because jackals are almost literally a third of the size of spartans. And another thing-make it so that getting hit doesn't make you stand up. That's the only thing that realllyyy bothers me about Halo 3.

  • 07.05.2009 1:18 PM PDT

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Posted by: DarthMaul380
that would be fun but the spartans have shields anyway so it would be abit unfair to have extra


well...you are right, but what if we could just use things in the environment to kill other people with, and stop!!! i know that there are already fussion coils and other devices like that, but what if we could pick them up and place them where we wanted to before a wave of covenant or something. The jackal shield thing was just a stupid idea i had that sounded good in my mind. That seems to happen to me a lot lately

  • 07.05.2009 1:19 PM PDT

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or maybe they could be used as deployable covers like in halo 3 or gears of war 2?

  • 07.05.2009 1:20 PM PDT
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Posted by: dawgs2
or maybe they could be used as deployable covers like in halo 3 or gears of war 2?

The current deployable covers don't work very well. Them not being in matchmaking pretty much says that. Now, being able to hold that cover, but also making sure you've got someone covering your back, that would work.

  • 07.05.2009 1:46 PM PDT

It sounds like a good idea. The things I'd like to see with it are:
-Only usable with a dual wieldable weapon (SMG, Plasma Rifle, Magnum, etc.)
-Once it's gone to red its destroyed. It can't just pop back to life.
-You can raise it with LS. Holding it down keeps it up but restricts your vision.

  • 07.05.2009 1:55 PM PDT

I think the Jackal shield idea is pretty cool, but Halo is nothing like Gears. If there was some way to be able to activate the shield while crouched, that would be cool. But the shield's power would have to be pretty limited, like it can only block small arms fire for awhile, anything like a rocked would destroy it instantly. I think it would add and interesting twist to the game.

  • 07.05.2009 3:50 PM PDT