- MrPinke7103
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- Noble Heroic Member
The less than a second latency of online play is a better system to play off of than more health.
You realize this system is just as host based, right? because if you're fighting host, or someone with a better connection to host, and you each start firing at the same time, his BULLETS will register first, giving him slightly more health if the melees happen at the same time.
So would you rather have the BS of both, or just one?
-HaVOk1228
A few ways to improve grunts for Halo: Reach
-Improve the weapons: If plasma pistols are made into competent stand-alone weapons (not just a green light that can stall vehicles/ only function as a shield dropper) then a squad of, or even individual grunts can actually pose great threats to enemies instead of simply delivering a wall of green spam that will may grind you down if you fail to take cover in time.
-Define their role in the covenant: In the books elites/ brutes frequently send wave after wave of fodder grunts to their demise if only to waste the ammo of human foes. In the games they most frequently behave like living shields around commanding units. I would love to see a group of elites maneuvering around on their own (maybe further back) as they send their grunts on a close up rush to try and flush out players. Grunts are the pawns of the covenant (chess pawns, otherwise everything but the prophets are pawns) they are deployed so that they can take heavy losses to achieve often meager ends. Let us see them used as such.
-Give them more endurance: I personally don't use the BR/ Carbine in campaign because they make fields of grunts simply vanish, though many players to not confine themselves in the same ways I do. Grunts can be made a great deal more interesting if the game's arsenal, or perhaps some head protection, makes grunts something more than an easy kill with a burst of cheating headshot spam. I love filling grunts with spikes or landing a ful magazine of SMG into the little guys and still manage to see a mob of little critters shooting back at me.