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Subject: Water Realism
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After reading the Weekly Update, i began to wonder about the water in halo 2, and how real bungie are going to make it:

can the Cheif (or marines, covenant, etc) drown in the water?
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do the physics change under water?
or are both of these answers no like in the original halo? cos water only effected how things looked and sounded then, is it going to be different in halo2?
i wonder....

what does everybody think?

i doubt that the cheif can drown (because of his suit), if the grunts have their masks on they should be fine, but everthing else (marines, elites, etc) should be able to drown.

another thing, do vehicles run differentlly underwater? if the warthog has a petrol engine, it wont work under water, but if it has diesel, it shud be fine. if the they use electricity, then it would short circuit. the same would happen with weapons, guns cant fire under water cos they need oxygen 2 ignite the gunpowder. and most of the guns seem 2 have sum form of electronics, so that would be fried underwater as well.

again, what does every1 think?

  • 07.24.2004 3:28 PM PDT
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I think there jus' gonna make the water graphics more real than last time.

  • 07.24.2004 3:31 PM PDT
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I wonder if they will have realtime reflections

  • 07.24.2004 3:39 PM PDT
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i don't know, but have you heard of waterproofing?

  • 07.24.2004 3:42 PM PDT
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Yeah. Better looking water... thats about it. Though, at one time I heard some things about boats and such being in Halo 2. As for guns working underwater, the year is 2552, I think both Humanity and the Covanent would have figured out how to get guns to work underwater. However, if you drive a vehicle into water it should be affected. Slowed down a great deal. I think the marines should drown, they have open faces, no masks, that means they drown.

[Edited on 7/24/2004 5:16:44 PM]

  • 07.24.2004 3:42 PM PDT
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of course i have heard of water-proofing james, but have u heard of something called combat damage?

  • 07.24.2004 4:45 PM PDT
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its been reported that when cars are driven into lakes, the radio will continue playing 10 minutes after it has been submerged. im sure in the future the military can make cars that wont short circuit underwater. also, there are guns nowadays that can fire underwater.

  • 07.24.2004 4:50 PM PDT
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no matter what u do, normal guns dont work underwater properly cos the bullets slow down too much, and the guns wouldnt be designed for use underwater (who fights underwater in the real world?). rocket launchers wouldnt work for obvious reasons.

the covenant weapon, cos they rely on plasma (which is extremly hot, high energy 'gas') whould create huge amounts of steam (cos they r hot) and wud look rather cool, if they even worked because of their reliance on electricity. and when they overheat, the water would get in and fry them.

another thing i thought of, will rockets stop when they hit the surface of the water and explode (as in halo 1) or will they go thru and hit the bottom.

  • 07.24.2004 4:59 PM PDT
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In the official Xbox mag, when they cover halo 2(When they first covered it, i think) They asked one of the sound guys what do bullets sound like underwater, and the guy replied "awesome". And i remember reading somewhere i think it was in the oxm mag that they said there could be an underwater level in halo 2.

  • 07.24.2004 5:03 PM PDT
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okay: first of all who remembers the water in SUPER MARIO SUNSHINE? best damn looking water ive ever seen in a game

i think there will be a warthog variation that floats on water, at high speeds, making it a sort of boat.

there will be a lot of water in this game, if not a water LEVEL!

just my thoughts.

  • 07.24.2004 5:07 PM PDT