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Subject: NO Scarabs in Firefight confirmed???

I want my steaks Luke...

Posted by: Duardo
maybe it's a final boss in campaign? I think that would be pretty cool.


Eh... Throw in five scarabs and I'd be impressed...
The whole idea of the covenant even being in New Mombasa was for them to try and take it over, having just one or two scarabs there just seems kinda... held back ever since the level the covenant proved to be easy with just the two.

Plus... With all the space in the new free roam-able city, you have to admit, the more, the merrier.

  • 07.24.2009 10:48 PM PDT

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Posted by: Vetto
All I can say is THANK GOD, do you really think 4 odst can take down a Scarab? Hell you gotta use guerilla tactics even as chief to take one down.


They actually could, you just have to use the extremely hard and dangerous technique of destroying those boxes on their legs while avoiding the massive death ray, make the scarab fall down while recovering, then board a close quarters covenant infested battle zone, make your way to the top, blow the heart of the scarab up, and then hi- tail it off that sucker without jumping all the way down because you'd die of fall damage, and when you finally get off the towering monstrosity, you'd have to find the nearest form of cover or risk being obliterated into thousands of tiny bits...

...Way to go Bungie, you just took out one of the most epic things that could've been in firefight...
*sigh*


Totally agree dude!

  • 07.24.2009 10:58 PM PDT

I want my steaks Luke...

Posted by: Nutzninja3
Posted by: TheOffroadDude
Posted by: Vetto
All I can say is THANK GOD, do you really think 4 odst can take down a Scarab? Hell you gotta use guerilla tactics even as chief to take one down.


They actually could, you just have to use the extremely hard and dangerous technique of destroying those boxes on their legs while avoiding the massive death ray, make the scarab fall down while recovering, then board a close quarters covenant infested battle zone, make your way to the top, blow the heart of the scarab up, and then hi- tail it off that sucker without jumping all the way down because you'd die of fall damage, and when you finally get off the towering monstrosity, you'd have to find the nearest form of cover or risk being obliterated into thousands of tiny bits...

...Way to go Bungie, you just took out one of the most epic things that could've been in firefight...
*sigh*


Totally agree dude!


Yeah... If only they had implemented fire-fight in Halo 2... Then we could probably have fought those huge sentinels that could crush vehicles, the scarabs, and the flood juggernaut... Many would have -blam!- their pants and that would have been some insane action...
*Sigh*

But at least they finally thought of the idea and maybe they may even have it in Reach... One can only hope and be thankful for what we got this time...

  • 07.24.2009 11:05 PM PDT
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Posted by: Vetto
All I can say is THANK GOD, do you really think 4 odst can take down a Scarab? Hell you gotta use guerilla tactics even as chief to take one down.


My thoughts exactly. I wouldn't like going through a bunch of rounds to get a couple scarabs dropping in and destroying the whole group in a green glow of death...

  • 07.24.2009 11:12 PM PDT

How come I never get the sniper rifle?!
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My ROFLsniper goes POW!

how would you get onto it? maybe there will be one in campaign.

  • 07.24.2009 11:15 PM PDT

You may be good at _______ but you still suck at life

The maps would not be able to support such a large vehicle. And also, it's pretty hard to code a Scarab with enemies out of thin air you know

  • 07.24.2009 11:20 PM PDT

Posted by: TheOffroadDude
Posted by: Nutzninja3
Posted by: TheOffroadDude
Posted by: Vetto
All I can say is THANK GOD, do you really think 4 odst can take down a Scarab? Hell you gotta use guerilla tactics even as chief to take one down.


They actually could, you just have to use the extremely hard and dangerous technique of destroying those boxes on their legs while avoiding the massive death ray, make the scarab fall down while recovering, then board a close quarters covenant infested battle zone, make your way to the top, blow the heart of the scarab up, and then hi- tail it off that sucker without jumping all the way down because you'd die of fall damage, and when you finally get off the towering monstrosity, you'd have to find the nearest form of cover or risk being obliterated into thousands of tiny bits...

...Way to go Bungie, you just took out one of the most epic things that could've been in firefight...
*sigh*


Totally agree dude!


Yeah... If only they had implemented fire-fight in Halo 2... Then we could probably have fought those huge sentinels that could crush vehicles, the scarabs, and the flood juggernaut... Many would have -blam!- their pants and that would have been some insane action...
*Sigh*

But at least they finally thought of the idea and maybe they may even have it in Reach... One can only hope and be thankful for what we got this time...


Um, I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but I'm gonna say HELL YEAH! But Reach should be cool. I wonder if they'll put in any Halo Wars vehicles like the Cyclops, or Cobra. Anyways what were we talking about... oh yeah no Scarabs in Firefight, lame! LAME BUNGIE LAME!

  • 07.24.2009 11:25 PM PDT

why are you looking at this?

although i am also upset that there are no scarabs, there would be any because even if it were downed, we wouldn't be able to jump onto it.

  • 07.24.2009 11:28 PM PDT
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As much as I wanted it and as much as it would have been awesome... Come on guys. Introducing Scarabs into Firefight would have caused problems. These Firefight missions are being pulled directly from the Single Player missions. Some of these spaces are pretty small. Imagine playing against a Scarab in Crater. It would have been crazy.

Besides, knowing the dudes working on the game, I think its safe to say there will be at least one Scarab in the campaign. And I'm sure it'll be awesome.

  • 07.24.2009 11:30 PM PDT

Posted by: abbbbbbbbippppp
The maps would not be able to support such a large vehicle. And also, it's pretty hard to code a Scarab with enemies out of thin air you know


You're probably right, but Security Zone looks pretty big to me. The area of the first Scarab fight in Halo 3 looked about a comparable size. And if there were a Scarab wave, I'd suspect they would drop from the sky like they did in the Halo 3 campaign, and not spawn out of thin air, which is what I think you meant. Anyways I still think it would've been cool if they were in the game.

  • 07.24.2009 11:39 PM PDT

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