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Subject: 2 new weapons in Halo Reach (covenant)

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I have an idea for two covenant weapons in Halo Reach
Please give me feedback on these ideas and express your opinion if anything should be changed.

Weapon- Hunter assault beam
Class- heavy weapon
ammo- battery (overheats after continued shot for 5 seconds)
projectile- hunter cannon beam
description- This is the hunters assault beam from halo 2/3. It would act like a turret in that you rip it off of a dead hunter and use it with two hands like a turret. It would take about 1 second to charge the shot and then would fire out as very destructive beam which would kill a brute( if it was a consistant hit) in about 2 seconds. The weapon's main disadvantages would be that since its a heavy weapon like a turret it would slow you down considerably and it also would have quite bad recoil. This weapon could be found off of dead hunters by holding down the weapon pick up button where it would go into a small animation to show you ripping the hunter's arm off.

Weapon- Jackal personal defence gauntlet
class- defensive weapon/dual wieldable
ammo- battery(shots taken by the shield would drain the battery)
projectile- none
description- This is the shield that the jackals use in all of the halo games. It would be duel wieldable so that you could use another duel wieldable weapon with it such as a plasma pistol or SMG. You would use the shield by crouching which would put you in a defensive position and the shield would cover most of your body. The battery would drain when it was hit by shots and it when it runs out of battery the shield would deactivate and would have to be left to charge for about 30 seconds. The disadvantages with this weapon is that when you crouch to use it, it covers up quite alot of your HUD so it would be difficult to be accurate if you were using the shield. This weapon could be taken off of dead jackals by using the weapon pick up button where it would go into a small animation showing you take the gauntlet off the jackal's arm and using some kind of device to reactivate the shield again and then you would put it onto your arm.


  • 10.03.2009 10:59 AM PDT

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So not really new. Just the most commonly asked for Covenant weapons(ish?) in any Halo Game since Halo CE.

Yeah, I think we should get the Wristband, but not the Assault Beam (I don't see how a human could ever trigger it...)

  • 10.03.2009 11:11 AM PDT

the Jackal shield as a definate.

In Fall of Reach, Chief takes one from a killed jackal and uses it. After he gives it to Hansley she puts it in the mjolnir.

The Hunter fuelrod would be a little tricky to implement though. Do you just beat the heck out of a hunters arm to break it off?

  • 10.03.2009 12:41 PM PDT

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Posted by: Annihilated You
the Jackal shield as a definate.

In Fall of Reach, Chief takes one from a killed jackal and uses it. After he gives it to Hansley she puts it in the mjolnir.

The Hunter fuelrod would be a little tricky to implement though. Do you just beat the heck out of a hunters arm to break it off?


no what would happen is that when you kill the hunter you would go over to it's dead body and pick it up like any other normal weapon apart from that it would do a little animation to show you ripping it off(i think a spartan would be strong enough to do that) To use the cannon i think that maybe the spartan you play as could be given special training on how to use the cannon and shield while other spartans have no idea how to use them. This would make sense because after reach master chief would have no idea how to use these weapons because only this spartan knows how to use them.

  • 10.04.2009 1:43 AM PDT
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What about a forerunner freeze beam which stops the opponent for a couple of second and he gradually dies.

  • 10.04.2009 1:53 AM PDT

The shield sounds awesome but I dont think the Hunter beam is as good

  • 10.04.2009 1:57 AM PDT

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The trick is to somehow introduce new weapons without ruining the plotline for the rest of the games.

  • 10.04.2009 2:19 AM PDT

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Posted by: mastercraig
The trick is to somehow introduce new weapons without ruining the plotline for the rest of the games.



Maybe the new weapons added in reach could be sortof prototype weapons or weapons which would be outdated(such as maybe a BR which only fired one shot at a time).
The other way it could work is like having the weapons manufacturing, research, and factory headquarters on reach(because we all know what happens to the planet) that way the weapons wouldn't have been able to be used off of reach.

  • 10.04.2009 2:24 AM PDT

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did bungie read my post?

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according to the new leaked stuff(not discussing it just checking) there is a br which fires only one shot lol

  • 11.14.2009 10:50 AM PDT

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  • 11.14.2009 10:53 AM PDT

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meh, i guess
im just being a bit silly :P
i didnt really think they saw this lol

  • 11.14.2009 10:55 AM PDT

Jackal shield gauntlet would be cool, but the hunter assault cannon can't be used by human anatomy: Even if the integrated cannon is torn off the rest of the hunters armor, there'd still be no way how a human could trigger a weapon designed to be used dozens of symbiotic worms...

But as said before: the jackal shield would be cool.

  • 11.14.2009 12:40 PM PDT

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I believe we should be able to carry the duel wield weapons on our armor when we aren't using them. Also the jackal shield could be a more weaker version of the riot shield in Cod mw 2. That would switch up game play a lot. The hunter beam as a turret will be a thing also because I always wanted to blow up a wrath or some vehicle with that.

  • 11.14.2009 12:44 PM PDT