- sammyb123
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Hahahaha! I am trying not to laugh at the fact that some people in here seriously think that they are better because they can flag bounce. It seriously is not that difficult to do AT ALL. Trying to avoid the points the OP is raising by saying 'lol ur a noob lern 2 pleh' is just indicative of the fact that you have no logical argument to rebut the points he made.
Flag bouncing is undoubtedly an unintended mechanic due to Bungie wanting to give a realistic sense of inertia in game objects, as well as introducing the possibility of passing the flag to other people from a distance. An intended mechanic would 1) Not provide such an unfair advantage over people who are unaware of it, and 2) would never be so annoying on the ears in a match.
The best way they could resolve it in Reach imo, is adding a short delay between the time you drop the flag and you can pick it up again. Just enough time so that picking up and dropping the flag is in fact slightly slower than just running with it as intended. If this was implemented into Reach, the problem would surely be resolved.
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Whether you approve of it or not, it is a tactic and the fact that it shows where the flag runner is makes it fair. I hope Bungie doesn't listen too much to these kinds of threads because if they do, Halo Reach is going to be a AR, no flag running, no BR nubcakefest.
The difference between the button glitches in Halo 2 and the flag bouncing in Halo 3 is that the button glitches were completely unintended, while flag bouncing was the result of the inbuilt physics engine.
The only intended aspects of this were 1) That held objects could be thrown, and 2) That when carrying an objective-related item, you run slower in order to allow the other team to have a better chance of taking out a single-man infiltrator (this happened many times in Halo PC online, and still does when I play it to this day). These two things led to some unintended results, which we are discussing now.
Also, I like how you likened this to the AR vs BR debate, hinting that everyone who doesn't like flag bouncing is, as I explained before, in some way inferior to someone who does. Instead of trying to alter the subject, how about keeping the discussion to whether flag bouncing should be in Reach?
[Edited on 10.16.2009 9:56 AM PDT]