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Subject: Halo: Reach beat downs.
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The Halo trilogy that we have played for over a thousand times has one ugly thing: The way you beat someone down.

In Halo: Reach the engine will be better than in Halo 3's engine. So I think it's time to make that much better because it looks awful. You can kill someone with an elbow in the face of a well protected man, Master Chief. A knife in Halo: Reach is no option but thing like beat your opponent with your weapon or with your fist is better.

What do you think of beat downs?

[Edited on 08.28.2009 6:37 AM PDT]

  • 08.28.2009 6:36 AM PDT
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I think it's fine, all it needs to be is an animation to convey the damage dealt, as opposed to nothing.
The beatdown does not need to turn into some extravagant animation for killing your opponent.
That would be stupid (*looks at Gears of War*).

  • 08.28.2009 9:07 AM PDT
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Agreed

  • 08.28.2009 9:10 AM PDT
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Yarr, I'm a pirate.

The beat down animation is fine. If it isn't broken then there's no need to fix it.

  • 08.28.2009 9:11 AM PDT

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Bring back the Halo 1 melee with the power of the Halo 3 melee (if it takes skill like in H1 it wouldnt be overused or overpowered like it is in Halo 3).

[Edited on 08.28.2009 9:28 AM PDT]

  • 08.28.2009 9:12 AM PDT

I think a simple fist punch would be nice.

  • 08.28.2009 9:27 AM PDT

I actually don't like the beatdowns from halo 1-odst.
Not because of their effect but because of how they look.
How can you kill someone with just tipping your weapon against their armor?

[Edited on 08.28.2009 9:34 AM PDT]

  • 08.28.2009 9:33 AM PDT

Just enjoy the damn game!
Who cares about BR vs AR

I was sooo young when I played Halo: CE, and cannot remember the melee. How were they back then?

  • 08.28.2009 9:34 AM PDT

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There was no lunge in Halo 1 so you had to aim your melees rather than just press the B button for an instant hit. In Halo 1 and 3 there were momentum melees (they would cause more damage if you're running or jumping). Though there was no lunge, you still had the same melee range as Halo 2 and 3's with lunge included, it just actually took skill to land one in Halo 1.

  • 08.28.2009 9:42 AM PDT

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There was no lunge in Halo 1 so you had to aim your melees rather than just press the B button for an instant hit. In Halo 1 and 3 there were momentum melees (they would cause more damage if you're running or jumping). Though there was no lunge, you still had the same melee range as Halo 2 and 3's with lunge included, it just actually took skill to land one in Halo 1.

In short
Halo 1: no auto-aim
Halo 3: auto-aim

  • 08.28.2009 9:44 AM PDT
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I think the animation of beatdowns should be better and there has to be more difference between these animations. Now it looks very ugly, isn't it?

  • 08.29.2009 8:09 AM PDT

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I actually don't like the beatdowns from halo 1-odst.
Not because of their effect but because of how they look.
How can you kill someone with just tipping your weapon against their armor?
You have to keep in mind that Spartans and elites are quite strong, so their melee attacks would be, too. It may look like a simple flip of the game, but the strength behind that hit is tremendous.

If you want to get realistic, it should take about 3 or 4 hits to kill someone (based on the idea that 3 or 4 hits from the butt of a rifle could kill a real soldier).

  • 08.29.2009 8:20 AM PDT
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I don't want that the times to hit will become realistic but I want that the animations of the beatdowns will become realistic. Now, in Halo 3 there are 2 or 3 animations of different ways to beatdown but I think that this should be more, like when you are a little bit beside a player you beatdown your opponent down in a different way than when you are in the front of him.

  • 08.30.2009 12:29 AM PDT

Posted by: Luukvg
I don't want that the times to hit will become realistic but I want that the animations of the beatdowns will become realistic. Now, in Halo 3 there are 2 or 3 animations of different ways to beatdown but I think that this should be more, like when you are a little bit beside a player you beatdown your opponent down in a different way than when you are in the front of him.

I agree. My cousin was in the Army a few years ago and I read through some of the training manuals he had lying around, and all the examples of strikes with rifle butts were in a horizontal motion from left to right parallel to the ground, not vertical at all. I mean as-is it's not broken, but if they're going out of their way to improve the engine they can fix this kind of thing too.

  • 08.30.2009 12:39 AM PDT
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Ok that's true

  • 09.20.2009 9:55 AM PDT

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The Beat Downs look cool actually :D

  • 09.20.2009 9:57 AM PDT

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I actually don't like the beatdowns from halo 1-odst.
Not because of their effect but because of how they look.
How can you kill someone with just tipping your weapon against their armor?

Spartans are super-soldiers. People like you and I couldn't kill someone like that, but a Spartan is another story. Plus, often you've already pumped a few bullets into the enemy you're killing.

  • 09.20.2009 10:25 AM PDT

FuNkymIk

It would be great if they brought back the halo 1 pistol beatdown

  • 09.20.2009 10:32 AM PDT
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Yeah the beatdown with the turning pistol but with more varaints of beatdowns and also more variants of beatdown per pistol.

  • 09.25.2009 6:35 AM PDT