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Subject: Firefight Question, for anyone lucky enough to have played it.

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Has anyone managed to kill a Phantom Dropship yet? Heck, is it even possible?

I know you get the chance to use a Scorpion in Campaign, so they're easier to take out in that respect, but on Firefight, with limited ammo and weaker weapons, what kind of damage could you realistically do to a Phantom?

I'm hoping it's a challenge to actually take one out, and that it yields a high reward in terms of points, but I can imagine it soaks up ammo like no-one's business.

Thoughts?

  • 07.28.2009 9:15 AM PDT

Yes. Turrets can take them out.

  • 07.28.2009 9:17 AM PDT
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Posted by: Homeboyd903
Yes. Turrets can take them out.


Bout how many rounds?

  • 07.28.2009 9:48 AM PDT

MantallKing

It would take forever to take out a phantom with a turret especially because the phantoms are only there for like 5 seconds...

  • 07.28.2009 9:53 AM PDT

X74

i easly take out a phantom in halo 3 with a turret given enough time that is.

  • 07.28.2009 9:55 AM PDT

Im guessing they used 2 turrets to kill the phantom.

  • 07.28.2009 10:04 AM PDT

While I was waiting in line at SDCC, I watched a guy unload on a phantom with a turret from the time it entered the scene til the time it left and it didnt destroy it. I highly doubt its possible in firefight.

  • 07.28.2009 10:10 AM PDT

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Posted by: PsychoTEX
While I was waiting in line at SDCC, I watched a guy unload on a phantom with a turret from the time it entered the scene til the time it left and it didnt destroy it. I highly doubt its possible in firefight.


im sure its possible but realistically when you're playing you would be to consumed trying to kill the convenant it just dropped off. its not like you realy have time in firefight to try to take one down due to the fact that as soon as the covenant drop they are trying to search you out and kill you

  • 07.28.2009 10:16 AM PDT

Posted by: PsychoTEX
While I was waiting in line at SDCC, I watched a guy unload on a phantom with a turret from the time it entered the scene til the time it left and it didnt destroy it. I highly doubt its possible in firefight.


I haven't studied the map in detail very well, but aren't there two turrets on the map?

  • 07.28.2009 10:28 AM PDT
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NO GROUP INVITES!!!

In Halo 3, sometimes the Phantoms are invincible and you can't destroy them by any means (obviously).

When you can destroy them, a turret is a bad weapon for destroying them. Takes more than 200 ammo if you pick it up, if you don't, it takes quite a lot of time to destroy a Phantom.
I think ODST Firefight simply makes them invincible, i mean that's the most likely scenario.
If you have 4 player game, someone has rockets and someone FRG and someone is manning a turret, destroying a Phantom is rather easy. Of course you'd have ammo for only a couple of waves at most...

  • 07.28.2009 11:22 AM PDT

Why does Bungie put us through such avid anticipation?

I would assume about 6-8 rockets would do the trick.

  • 07.28.2009 11:24 AM PDT
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I need a dropshield dropshield

i heard will be scorpions in one map will be easy kill phantoms sry for the bad eng

  • 07.28.2009 11:26 AM PDT

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Surely at least one firefight map will have a Spartan laser?

  • 07.28.2009 11:28 AM PDT

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Posted by: IIPhalanXII
Surely at least one firefight map will have a Spartan laser?

Already confirmed in a weekly update.

  • 07.28.2009 11:31 AM PDT

Charge...BACKWARDS!

I hope so. it would give you like OVER 9000!! points, too. Would be awesome.

Edit: I've only managed to kill them with missle pods and scorpions, so I'm not sure if you could kill it with rockets.

[Edited on 07.28.2009 11:57 AM PDT]

  • 07.28.2009 11:55 AM PDT

The Sausage King of Chicago.

Oh yeah, they can be taken out. I haven't played firefight yet because I'm not obsessed enough to go to a comic book festival (0.o) but I did play it in a dream as freaky as that sounds...

  • 07.28.2009 11:58 AM PDT