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Subject: New Driving controls for vehicles! Your Thoughts?

Someone get the ghost. I call warthog driver. We need someone to get the laser before the other team does. I need a gunner. . . . . No wait- . . . . I NEED A GUNNER . . . . oh . . never mind. I'll just splatter people. <"SPLATTER SPREE">

Poll: New Driving controls for vehicles! Your Thoughts?  [closed]
Yes:  5%
(3 Votes)
No:  95%
(52 Votes)
Total Votes: 55

The driving controls for the vehicles in Halo seem kinda . . . bland.

RT shoot or honk
LT nothing, boost, or drift.
A flip or nothing
LS drive in that direction
RS look in that direction

I think there should at least be an option for players to change the controls of the vehicle.

I think it should be more like this:

GROUND VEHICLES

RT Gas
LT Brake or reverse
A honk or boost
B drift or brake or shoot (if you're in a tank, you don't need to drift and you won't ever go fast enough to need to brake)
LS steering
RS camera
click RS changes to first-person driving mode (great for videos and for people that like something different)

These control are more realistic and would be more fun to play with I think.



EDIT1: After receiving much negative feedback from the community about changing the controls, I have come to this idea. The controls will be changeable per vehicle. I for one think it would be great for warthogs and mongoose. But the first person part would be something new.



Your thoughts?

[Edited on 11.14.2009 8:06 AM PST]

  • 11.12.2009 7:38 PM PDT

"Spartans don't die. We're just missing in action."

Don't fix it if it isn't broken

  • 11.12.2009 7:40 PM PDT

I like how it is.

  • 11.12.2009 7:40 PM PDT

hell no halo has the best driving controls dont mess them up

  • 11.12.2009 7:40 PM PDT

The vehucle controls are designed for a first person shooter not a racing (Which is what those controls are based around)
The current controls are actually pretty standard for shoters

  • 11.12.2009 7:41 PM PDT
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Don't fix it if it isn't broken

  • 11.12.2009 7:41 PM PDT

I'd like to be half-man half-tree in an octopus' garden in the shade.

Shoot with B? No way. Switch Brake with Shoot, and I'm fine with it.

  • 11.12.2009 7:41 PM PDT

Someone get the ghost. I call warthog driver. We need someone to get the laser before the other team does. I need a gunner. . . . . No wait- . . . . I NEED A GUNNER . . . . oh . . never mind. I'll just splatter people. <"SPLATTER SPREE">

It would be a setting. Not permanent. I know a lot of people would want it the same.

  • 11.12.2009 7:42 PM PDT
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I wouldnt change any controls from Halo3. Because then I would have to learn new controls. Then when I would go and play Halo3, then I wouldn't play right.

  • 11.12.2009 7:43 PM PDT

-I was here

all i want is the first person in vehicles option.

  • 11.12.2009 7:44 PM PDT

Halo has the easiest controls ever for vehicles, any body could figure them out, there is no reason to change them. ever play section 8? try those driving controls, then think about halos again, and tell me which is worse, its a fps, not a raceing game, the controls are fine.

  • 11.12.2009 11:58 PM PDT

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People here need to realise that Bungie should not fix what isn't broken... Bungie will end up breaking it.

  • 11.13.2009 2:42 AM PDT
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different control systems will be confusing and a waste.

If I want controlls like that I'd play Forza or something...

  • 11.13.2009 3:48 AM PDT
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Halo 3 ground vehicle controls are by far the best I have ever used. Don't change it if it is perfect I say.

Though I do believe that with the Hornet, the thumbstick buttons should control Alititude.

Click the Right thumbstick to go up, Left one to go down.

  • 11.13.2009 3:59 AM PDT

SuedElf

Please lock this thread dont want bungie to change the controls.... thank you..

  • 11.13.2009 4:08 AM PDT

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Posted by: GRC Tribulation
Halo has the easiest controls ever for vehicles, any body could figure them out, there is no reason to change them. ever play section 8? try those driving controls, then think about halos again, and tell me which is worse, its a fps, not a raceing game, the controls are fine.


S8 actually got the controls right for the vehicles; the Heavy Armour used the same stick layout as the infantry and Halo vehicles (dication via camera angle), while the tank got a layout akin to the Legacy control scheme; a 1:1 relationship between left stick and body, and right stick and turret.

If the Scoprion adopted those controls, I would not be complaining. It takes getting used to, but means you can do more things with the tank, such as doing drive-bys while going in a straight line, or turning 90 degrees while still looking at something else, which is a bit tricky with the Scorpion right now (the body tries to fight the sticks, not helpful). However, I assume Bungie wouldn't do this for just one vehicle.

  • 11.13.2009 6:25 AM PDT

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Posted by: goatman327
all i want is the first person in vehicles option.

This.

I like the way stuff drives now.

  • 11.13.2009 6:33 AM PDT

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I... Think it's good the way it is.

  • 11.13.2009 7:03 AM PDT

Damn you 353 guilty spark! You killed the greatest stereotypical african american gun toting sergeant ever to tread upon a fictional futuristic setting!

They've had the same controls for four games now, what would be the point in changing them? We are all used to them by now, and they work quite well.

  • 11.13.2009 7:12 AM PDT

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Don't fix it if it isn't broken

  • 11.13.2009 8:36 AM PDT
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I would like to see 1st Person driving/flying Beta-Tested when compared to 3rd person driving/flying.

The game is a First Person Shooter after all.

Not sure how it would change game play. I think it would at least prevent people from just running around ina vehilce aimlessly and racking up the kills. At least it would require skill and better map knowledge if someone was in 1st person.

I think it should be considered and then Beat-Tested. I think it would add a greater depth and requirement for skill when driving. As it is, noone can mess up in Halo vehicles, IMO.

[Edited on 11.13.2009 8:46 AM PST]

  • 11.13.2009 8:45 AM PDT

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Posted by: R0ll1nThund3r
Don't fix it if it isn't broken

  • 11.13.2009 9:01 AM PDT

its would actually be pretty hard to strafe with rs and shoot with b u have to use the same finger for both.i like the contols as they are

  • 11.13.2009 9:02 AM PDT

Posted by: The BS Police
People here need to realise that Bungie should not fix what isn't broken... Bungie will end up breaking it.

Pessimistic much? -.-

Though I will agree that vehicle controls aren't something that should really be messed with.

  • 11.13.2009 9:12 AM PDT

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