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Subject: Should Halo Reach remove all equipment?

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Posted by: Herr Kawne
Unbalance? I think you're just not used to them.

They provide an interesting side to the game. The trip mine can take the shields off that 'hog trying to plow into you, or the power drain can take down the Banshee when the laser is empty or the enemy has it. The regen can help you get the flag back. The Bubble shield can provide a reprive to combat, but you're still vulnerable to stickies and vehicles. Grav lift lets you get to new places. The deployable cover can give one some small bit of cover while running, but is destroyed relatively easily. Did I get them all?


They don't change the gameplay.

They are a waste of the X button. The X button could be sprint or something like that.

Either equipment has to be as useful as melee, or the X button needs a new function.

  • 10.10.2009 6:08 PM PDT

Keep it in campaign. In multiplayer it slows down the game to a halt.

The current equipment setup in multiplayer is a -blam!- joke.

  • 10.10.2009 6:21 PM PDT

All you need is a well placed grenade :)

Maybe its just me for enjoying equipment. It totally changes the flow of a battle i think. Such as my favorite the Bubble Shield. I use it as a trap, sure shotguns and swords can hide there all day. But whats better then dropping a bubble and letting foolish people follow you into it, drop a frag nade that traps the explosion to only the enemy, and getting a quick kill off of it. The enemy didnt have to gunho it into my bubble, he was just dumb.
Energy Drain isnt effective if the enemy cant see you

Regen doesnt work against everything lol.

I think equipment is fine. It comes down to being equal to nades and guns, it is how you use them is how it is defined for gameplay.

  • 10.10.2009 6:33 PM PDT

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Posted by: turtle3242008
dont remove just add

  • 10.10.2009 6:35 PM PDT

Big Team Battle Multiflag/Slayer on Standoff/Valhalla/Sandtrap/Avalanche = Win

MLG Playlist =/= Halo Matchmaking.

The sooner you all get that, the better. If you can't handle a little trap power drain or go crazy whenever someone uses a bubble shield to save their hide then thats what custom games are for.

  • 10.10.2009 6:45 PM PDT

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Posted by: ZeroDefiance
An excellent question OP, the answer to which is a big YES. Equipments has only served to dumb down H3 gameplay, Reach will be better off without it.


wow Sombody jas a brain.


lol, IRONY?
[Wow, someone who has a brain.]

so anyone who disagrees with you doesn't have a brain? Good luck in life.

why did you even post this? your mind was already set, you obviously don't want peoples opinions because yours is apparently the "right one."

  • 10.10.2009 6:52 PM PDT

I'm a 15 year old stuck in the middle of nowhere. Machinima director, screenplay writer, novelist, jazz musician, and Photoshop junkie.

I was going to vote yes, but I realized your not really making an informed opinion. Rather it's about bashing equipment.

  • 10.10.2009 6:55 PM PDT

Finally, someone understands.

They should remove everything that can possibly give another player an advantage. The only thing that they should leave is the BR. They should also make all maps perfectly geometric and symmetric. And, the game should be in black-and-white, the colors can be distracting.

/sarcasm

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  • 10.10.2009 6:58 PM PDT

Big Team Battle Multiflag/Slayer on Standoff/Valhalla/Sandtrap/Avalanche = Win

Posted by: PlasmaGlory
Finally, someone understands.

The should remove everything that can possibly give another player an advantage. The only thing that they should leave is the BR. They should also make all maps perfectly geometric and symmetric. And, the game should be in black-and-white, the colors can be distracting.

/sarcasm


Now THAT sounds like the Halo we all know and love!

  • 10.10.2009 7:00 PM PDT

My beat downs turn into burns.

rofl its 4 peices not 3

  • 10.10.2009 7:01 PM PDT
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There no match making in ODST because then the ODST would be all like yo we better foo then the Spartans all be like No we better foo then the elites be all like Lets have peace then they shoot elm...but really it should of

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Posted by: creepinNpeekin
Keep it in campaign. In multiplayer it slows down the game to a halt.

The current equipment setup in multiplayer is a -blam!- joke.


Couldn't agree more i am currently revamping all Halo 3 maps without equipment, fixing spawns and changing weapons and their spawn time to make it more balanced.
Wow someone has the same opinion as me and since i think im rite they must be smart!

  • 10.10.2009 7:05 PM PDT

Remove a brilliant part of Bungie's sandbox?

Certainly not and especially if we're talking campaign.I'm guessing more enemy or at least longer lasting encounters so i'd imagine we will need as much help as possible against Elites - these guys are harder to defeat anyway don't forget and if there is as many as there are in the Brute encounters, we're done for

Hopefully moments like that of the great cgi Master chief when he drops a bubble shield and then onto a a group brute

Equipment is masterstroke from Bungie and i sure hope it stays



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  • 10.10.2009 7:05 PM PDT
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Posted by: Xharpan
it doese'nt look nextgen , looks good but not nextgen
If by next-gen you mean crappy, dark and colorless, I agree. It doesnt look next-gen at all.

Im actually mad that some of the equipment from campaign is unavailable on Multiplayer. Same as some weapons.

  • 10.10.2009 7:16 PM PDT
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There no match making in ODST because then the ODST would be all like yo we better foo then the Spartans all be like No we better foo then the elites be all like Lets have peace then they shoot elm...but really it should of

Posted by: BTE
Im actually mad that some of the equipment from campaign is unavailable on Multiplayer. Same as some weapons.
I really wanted a(very scaled down)sentry turret :[

  • 10.10.2009 7:17 PM PDT

Do you really care? you can't automatically see my signature anyway.

Posted by: AK 47625714
Personally, I wouldn't want to see equipment in Reach. However, if it ends up returning, which I'm fairly positive that it will, it needs to be redone.

Example:

Power Drainer needs to be an EMP blast, rather than a continual drain. Once you deploy it, it should beep until detonation. Closer to detonation, it beeps faster.

agreed no more power drain emp grenade. my thought is that all the equipement should be replaced as equipement grenades so they can be thrown instead of tossed in front of you. like the flash it should become a flash gernade and it should actually flash instead of just producing a continous bright light.

  • 10.10.2009 7:21 PM PDT
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Posted by: BTE
Posted by: Xharpan
it doese'nt look nextgen , looks good but not nextgen
If by next-gen you mean crappy, dark and colorless, I agree. It doesnt look next-gen at all.

Posted by: Spearmint

agreed no more power drain emp grenade. my thought is that all the equipement should be replaced as equipement grenades so they can be thrown instead of tossed in front of you. like the flash it should become a flash gernade and it should actually flash instead of just producing a continous bright light.

The idea of throwing a power drainer across a map seems like the perfect way to make equipment overpowered. Also, whats the point of making the flare a flash? Its somewhat useless as it is. Why make it more useless.

  • 10.10.2009 7:29 PM PDT

Big Team Battle Multiflag/Slayer on Standoff/Valhalla/Sandtrap/Avalanche = Win

Flare's would've been incredibly useful, possibly even more useful then a bubble shield CQB wise, if it wasn't for the jump glitch.

  • 10.10.2009 7:31 PM PDT

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I think its a bad idea to remove equipment because its a main part of the game now.

  • 10.10.2009 7:33 PM PDT
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I think it should still be there as an option, but they should lower the amount of it in MM.

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i will remove ur -blam!- with my mout

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i will remove ur -blam!- with my mout

  • 10.10.2009 7:34 PM PDT

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Posted by: POWer PiLL
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Equipment adds alternative styles of gameplay. Its not other peoples fault you dont know how to react to it.


I only plat customs and MLG so no not realy.

I hate the idea that even a complete downy can get a kill with a cheap move like that.
I hate that there is always someone that grabs the spartan laser and doesn't use it on vehicles, but uses it on anyone that's not in one. or the guy that goes for the shotgun or rocket launcher, or spends the majority of their time looking for the sniper rifle. I could go on and on about weapons and vehicles that are fun for the player using them, but not for the players they are used on, but where will that get me? In that time I could play another game of social big team. We all have different opinions: some people like a shotgun, some don't. Some like equipment, some don't. If you don't like equipment, you can just play Halo:CE, Halo 2, MLG, ODST, or custom games. I don't really care if Reach has equipment or not. I hardly ever use it anyway. Just don't hate on people because they disagree with you. and the low rank comments are low: some of the best people I've ever played with aren't even seargents. and yes I have played all the Halo games, and Halo:CE is my favourite for single player. Your point is valid though. I've been killed by a player using a bubble shield (lucky guy)

  • 10.10.2009 7:35 PM PDT
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Posted by: Xharpan
it doese'nt look nextgen , looks good but not nextgen
If by next-gen you mean crappy, dark and colorless, I agree. It doesnt look next-gen at all.

Posted by: YumBuscuitMan
Flare's would've been incredibly useful, possibly even more useful then a bubble shield CQB wise, if it wasn't for the jump glitch.


Or make it that whoever threw the flare is immune to its effects.

  • 10.10.2009 7:41 PM PDT

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