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Posted by: Wikked Navajoe
My problems [with Reach] are basically just full parties, mlg, and people who go out of their way not to get killed.
Posted by: L3377MA573R
Are you kidding me? In Halo 3 on Heroic, I could beat 2 hunters with just a Carbine or BR, due to the fact that you can dodge them like crazy. They charge you? Jump over them. They shoot? Just strafe: you're too fast for their shots to follow.
In ODST, you can't jump over them, their melee range is increased, and they seem to be a lot more aggressive. Yeah, grenades work wonders, and so do rockets, fuel rods and lasers, but if you lack any of those, you're screwed.
They reason that the Spartans had such a hard time with hunters in the books is:
A.) They hadn't faced them before, and thus didn't know how to kill them. Plus...
B.) They were poorly equipped. MA5B's against their front side didn't do much, and since the lack of experience with them meant they may not have known weapon effectiveness, weak spots, etc. they had a hard time. By the time the UNSC had figured out how to kill them, Reach was done. In Halo: CE, you always had some kind of weapon for hunters. (Sniper, Rockets, etc.)
The reason that you can kill them with a certain degree of ease as an ODST is because you've killed hundreds before in past games. All you had to do is spam them with explosives or power weapons, regular bullets don't do much.
I do agree with some of your suggested changes, though. More health, (though 2x would be ridiculous, that's what Mythic is for) a special melee with their spines would be sweet, and some more moves would be cool. Bring them to life. But I think the best way to make them hard would be the same way the books did. When you first meet them, it should truly be a shocking moment: you have small arms, you're either low on or out of grenades, and both your team and the Hunters have their backs to the wall. Inside a building.
Give me an Assault Rifle and I'll drop Hunters. In the books they struggled against them because the Hunters are HUGE. They have more than one fighting style, and they were actually insanely fast.
Hunters are an annoyance right now. They are like Drones, but Drones waste your weapon ammo and Hunters waste your grenades.