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  • Poll [28 votes]: Should there be escort missions of any kind in Halo 2, why?
Subject: Escort Missions?!!(Hate them or love them?)
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Poll: Should there be escort missions of any kind in Halo 2, why?  [closed]
Yes:  18%
(5 Votes)
No:  82%
(23 Votes)
Total Votes: 28

I personally loathe escort missions of ANY type and on ANY game. The mission where you have to guide Captain Keyes was enfuriating. Not only do you have to protect your sorry butt but HIS too?!! Besides every time you have to protect anyone their AI drops to a script along the lines of: "Get in the crossfire as much as possible and reduce life bar to 1/100 th".

  • 07.19.2004 11:16 AM PDT

i'd love to try it.

  • 07.19.2004 11:17 AM PDT
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I voted no... you wanna know why...well if the people are like the marines in halo 1 whats the point of the mission they will die because of there stupidness

  • 07.19.2004 11:19 AM PDT
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I am a mixture of both, i hate escort missions if you have to "babysit" people, but i love it if they can defend themselves, so hopefully, with Halo 2's new AI it will be awesome

  • 07.19.2004 11:19 AM PDT
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Video Game escort missions blow! I hope there are none in H2.

  • 07.19.2004 11:24 AM PDT
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Why not Halo 1 had em and it didn't make it less of a game. Although Keyes is a little to gung-ho on ledgendary charging sword elites isn't smart.

  • 07.19.2004 11:26 AM PDT
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No I hate them espiccaly with bad AI

there shoudent be any objectives in halo that u have to start over if u fail like keep all the marines alive or get to all the locations befor the time runs out your only objective should be to surive

  • 07.19.2004 11:29 AM PDT
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If I'm escorting anyone they better fight for themselves, like Keyes. That didn't feel like an escort mission because a) it was short, b) Keye's actually shot covies, and c) you had other marines to escort him, so you weren't solely responsible. Kudos to Bungie on that, everyone should make their escort missions like Halo.

  • 07.19.2004 11:29 AM PDT
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i don't like escort missons but i like it when you have to protect an area for so long
like in operation dessert storm your heli gets shot down and you and your squad has to defend the injured for 10 min or so and make sure the enemie dosen't kill the injured or you lose that was my fav mission hands down on that game
Basicly here is the situation i would like you and alot of marines (you have plenty of suplys like grenades rockets health and ammo )are stuck in a cave exit with somebody you have to defend untill a pelican can come and jet you all you have to do is make sure nobody makes it to the cave to kill the guy and you can tell marines to go in advance (set up a perimiter) infantry won't be a problem but tanks ghosts and banshees will take out your troops fast i would kill to see this in halo 2

  • 07.19.2004 11:30 AM PDT
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i no wat ur sayin, i hate T&R, but do u not think it wood be kool to ave 2 escort like a convoy of warthogs or sumthing, like hiding in a tower with a sniper rifle or on foot with a rocket launcher or in control of the rail gun. one minute its quiet, next, buildings in New Mombasa blowing up, dead marines everywhere, smoldering warthogs, Sgt johnson running around kickin ass. i think it wood be amazin

  • 07.19.2004 11:30 AM PDT
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Escort missions do suck but what about a mission where you have to protect a base or something like that

  • 07.19.2004 11:44 AM PDT
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Escort missions in video games have traditionally blown.

I wouldnt mind it if they had AI like an elite. They hang back behind cover, and let you destroy everything. they would move away from active grenades, and not come out until it was 100 percent safe. It would be even better if they were armed, like with a sniper rifle or something. It would give the game a unique feel, an objective that is traditionally a burdon, but instead is hiding behind a rock, sniping the hell outta jackels.

So what i'm saying is, if they greatly improved the ai to the point where it can take care of itself like areal human would, and could maybe even help you out, i'm all for it. If they AI is still a big bag of meat following five feet behind you, well, no thanks.

  • 07.19.2004 11:47 AM PDT
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The T&R escort wasn't too bad, but I don't to escort things too much. But what would be cool is that you would have to defend an entrance to a cave or something, like previously mentioned.

  • 07.19.2004 11:51 AM PDT