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Subject: REALISTICLY How long would you last as a civilian in New Mombossa?
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I'd go all Anne Frank and hide. I personally think I'd starve before they find me...so a few days?

  • 07.19.2009 10:31 AM PDT

Realistically, I wold be on another country, because everyone was evacuated from the city =D

  • 07.19.2009 10:35 AM PDT

"Nothing is True, Everything is Permited."

Random Civilian B: You are in your apartment and out of work. You are a retired policeman with a reasonable supply of firearms. Including a Shotgun, MA5, and M6D:Halo 1 pistol. The area around you is swarming with Covenant from Regret's ship that didn't make it the the carrier. So you will have to be careful about using those weapons.

If I were in this situation I would grab all the supplies I could carry in a small backpack, along with any non-perishable foods for later on. Once I had gathered my supplies I would sneak out of my apartment with my MA5 at the ready. If I saw any movement I would simply get down or hide behind something until it passed by. I would continue along like this until I got out of the hot zone I was in. After I'm out I could pick up the pace and steal the first car I see.

Actually, the probability of me surviving in an area like that is extremely low...

  • 07.19.2009 11:01 AM PDT

Here to end the borrowed time you've all been living on.

Civilian C has the most chance of survival. I would guess smarts are the most important factor in trying to survive Covenant-controlled city.

I think i would last about a few days then starve or get sniffed out by a brute and shot.

  • 07.19.2009 11:03 AM PDT

FOREVER!

I'm invincible.

  • 07.19.2009 11:06 AM PDT
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Find evac off the planet I wouldn't want to hide on the planet and get glassed, and If I see Covenant Patrol avoid them as long as possible.
I'd think that'd work out

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  • 07.19.2009 11:13 AM PDT
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Rawr Im a dino!

Id probs survive half a day 12 hours then i would get tired and a grunt or brute would shoot me in the back. If i didnt have any weapons id find some bugs spray and a lighter now thatll be fun.

  • 07.19.2009 11:16 AM PDT

“Oh, it’s a little bit of everything, it’s the mountains, it’s the fog, it’s the news at six o’clock, it’s the death of my first dog, it’s the angels up above me, it’s the song that they don’t sing, It’s a little bit of everything.”
- Dawes, A little bit of everything

This brings back memories of my zombie plan...but that always seemed to involve me having a stash of weapons and some kind of secure attic/basement..... So, with that aside, I think I would just have an M6D (w/ a license) and take my small car and try to make it out of the city. But if you take into account that I can't drive under stress I would probably crash...and then be left with no real mode of transportation. Then I'd hide in a blown-out building for a day or two and when I realize there's no help coming I'd probably start to try to find other people....then get caught by a brute pack....and savagely ripped to peaces.

That's why I'd rather be an ODST. :)

  • 07.19.2009 11:21 AM PDT

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Posted by: Guardian Hunter
Based on the parameters of your scenario I'd be:
Posted by: Gottalovec4
Random Civilian A: You are an office worker for Traxus when Regret's ship enters Slipspace. You are in a parking ramp hiding. It colapses, but you are safe, but have a sprained ankle. You were beforehand however armed by an MP. It is just a simple M6G. Covenant patrols in your area are relatively light for the first two hours after the jump.


As an officer worker with no experience in combat I would avoid any combat if at all possible and keep to the shadows and just try and avoid the patrols since they are light. Since I have a sprained ankle I'd most likely try to get a vehicle, perhaps a civilian warthog if at all possible but a regular car would suffice. Since I would be impeded if traveling on foot I'd use my found vehicle to make it as far out of the city as possible speeding past any covenant patrols doing my best to either run into them or strafe to avoid plasma taking out a tire. As a civilian my only real choice would be to get out of the city and go hide up in the mountains by Kilimanjaro. I'd have considered the option of going to space but rejected it considering the covenant are at Earth there wouldn't be a safe place to go so I'd make the best of things on Earth and try to pick up as many people and supplies as I could on my way.


That is highly unlikely. If you got into the car the Brutes and their choppers will most likely tear you apart. Also being immobile is not a good thing speed is what you need to survive. I do not like that particular choice.

That is why I would choose the College Student. Yes he is not well armed, but you can improvise and move fast, but carefully. You may be able to kill a careless Grunt and grab his plasma pistol. Also by being a college student he is young so it would be easier to move out of the city because you are probably in the best of shape. You don't need a weapon to survive you just need faith in yourself.

  • 07.19.2009 11:30 AM PDT

i would get into a place were you have to be small to get in so the brutes cant get in and then kill loads of grunts

  • 07.19.2009 11:30 AM PDT
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If it were me I'd get a match and gas from my grill and pour it all over my house. I'd get a patrols attention and lead them inside. When there all in I'd go out the back door light the match and throw it at the house. While it's burning it will most likely lead other Patrolss near the burning building giveing me time to run away from the scene. When I get about 2 or 3 miles away I'll search for a gunshop and grab two guns. One main one sidearm and some ammo. I'd go to the Police Station and see what I could find if theres one nearby. When I'm done that l'll search for food and shelter. I'd make a barricade and stay there for a few nights and then slowly make my way out of the city.

  • 07.19.2009 11:33 AM PDT
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I would find my friend who has planned for this by sneaking over to his house and we would sneak and find as many people as we can till we find a plane big enough for all of us(if the military cant help us) and go to Lanai in Hawaii

  • 07.19.2009 1:20 PM PDT

Posted by: Bluesman
Also, a few of us were talking during matchmaking and Halo: Reach is definitely going to be, not a first person shooter, not a third person shooter, but a second person shooter. Bungie is going to revolutionize the way you watch other people play games.

I'd last about 5 hours. Then I'd assume the personality of a Grunt and run around yelling "Please don't kill me!" until someone put me out of my misery.

  • 07.19.2009 1:36 PM PDT

I would go to Wal-Mart bunker down and wate with a 7mm rifle and .357 mag for what ever comes through the doors in to my ambush. its eather that or go Rambo style with a big ass knife....

  • 07.19.2009 1:43 PM PDT

Brace for carnage, sweet sweet halo carnage :)

not very long without a weapon im sorry to say :(

  • 07.19.2009 1:55 PM PDT

I choose D... CHUCK NORRIS!!! I would totally just go through the town and the covenant would commit suicide the instant they saw teh chuck norris and i would be the hero not the ODST'S

  • 07.19.2009 9:56 PM PDT
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"You must be mistaken, Reclaimer. I've met your makers, and they don't even know your name..."

If Cote'D'Azur is anything to go by, with a significant occupational force, projected chances of survival decrease exponentially after as little as 24 hours, with over 90% of the population killed, captured, or missing within a week. There are, of course, exceptions to every rule.

  • 07.19.2009 9:59 PM PDT

I wish I was still legendary.

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I chose me. I'm so dang paranoid I know how to beserk and would beat down the grunts with a spoon if I had to. I would take this huge bucher knife thats in my mom's (I'm 13) house Kill a grunt take his ammo, guns, gernades, and his methane pack and use it to kill a brute and a few grunts take the stuff they had, set up a perimiter and try to find a survivor\)


Grunts...aren't small. and they're incredibly strong. and plasma would literally burn through you before you got a chance to do that.

As for figuring out how to arm and throw a plasma grenade without blowing up...hmm.


realistically? I'd last like, 20 minutes if I barricaded myself in an apartment or something.

  • 07.19.2009 9:59 PM PDT

"Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bull-blam!-, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you."-Lemmy of Motorhead

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Assuming you are sneaky, probably pretty easy. Position yourself in a random and isolated location with a near food source. Say near a store, waiting in a sewer, or in an alley with a perpendicular alley hidden by a dumpster and obstruction on top to conceal it.

You would have better chances in Old Mombasa, though. Remember Outskirts? Just hide in the IWHBYD room, as I'm sure there a many towns with those structures. Food would be a problem, you have access to Hotel Zanzibar, though, which may contain some food and all the fighting with the Covenant and UNSC, there may be some MRE's lying around(in Halo, they are the small silver barrels and are labeled with "/reach dessert" and other things)

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  • 07.19.2009 10:09 PM PDT

I would probly go rambo on covenent like run to the marine base at NIGHT and be a stealthy masterpiece and everything. then i would get a turret and kill

  • 07.19.2009 10:11 PM PDT

The Sausage King of Chicago.

Depends on whether or not they have chicken...

  • 07.19.2009 10:12 PM PDT

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They didn't tell us what it was it could have been anything. Frankie gets scared easy incase you didn't know.

-BH-

Been here 6 years, been blacklisted 6 times, that's why I'm not Mythic.

Civilian B: I would barricade my door, waiting for any form of Covenant attack on my apartment, weapons loaded and placed next to me. If I survive the first wave, I'd move outside. From there I would search for any UNSC forces, alive or dead. Dead ones I would scavenge weapons, ammo, and armor. Overall, with no training, depending on the amount of Covenant troops on any street around me, I would last anywhere from 10 minutes to several hours.

  • 07.19.2009 10:19 PM PDT

I hunt for the Prophet of Contentment, the San 'Shyumm that murdered my son, and stole his birthright, his Energy Sword. They call our species Heretics. They claim to all that our tongues sting, our words a vile poison that feeds on the unworthy. I have seen the true face of Heresy. The head of a gallant warrior lay on the ground. His neck scorched and blistered, scarred by his own blade. I shall retrieve the weapon, and drive it through that bastard's heart! Punishment for his sins is nigh.

Option A and C are screwed, option B has a chance to last a little while. If I were option B I would definitely make my way to the station, and hold a defense with my old cop buddies until UNSC support showed up, then I would enjoy a relaxing stay at a UNSC shelter.

  • 07.19.2009 10:27 PM PDT

I hunt for the Prophet of Contentment, the San 'Shyumm that murdered my son, and stole his birthright, his Energy Sword. They call our species Heretics. They claim to all that our tongues sting, our words a vile poison that feeds on the unworthy. I have seen the true face of Heresy. The head of a gallant warrior lay on the ground. His neck scorched and blistered, scarred by his own blade. I shall retrieve the weapon, and drive it through that bastard's heart! Punishment for his sins is nigh.

Posted by: PETEYENG
Id probs survive half a day 12 hours then i would get tired and a grunt or brute would shoot me in the back. If i didnt have any weapons id find some bugs spray and a lighter now thatll be fun.

I'd doubt a bug spray and lighter flamethrower would do ANYTHING.

  • 07.19.2009 10:29 PM PDT

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