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Subject: Covenant Primer and some suggestions
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Since I can't seem to edit my post, I meant to say "it might be a little tricky to have a long, uninterrupted run-through of the level, (which is the whole point of, say, an E3 demo)..."

  • 05.04.2004 12:16 AM PDT
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Posted by: Nedus
YOU werent there either!!yeah fire is understandable,but cavemen figured out how to create atmosphere and giant gravity-creating machines,and build a GIANT ring like 5000 miles across,and then launch it into space??yeah thats SOOO believable,isnt it?

1. Gravity can be "generated" by Halo spinning around its axis, the trick would be to get the spinning motion to produce ~1G normal, and to sustain the motion as the rotational energy is leeched away from micro meteorite collisions etc. We can create artifical gravity through this method right now.

2. I would imagine that it would only be practical to build a Halo structure in space. it would require a phenominal amount of raw material to create however, one would hope that the Forerunners had some form of matter conversion technology so that planetary bodies could be converted into the appropriate materials rather than requiring "mining" of the appropriate materials

3. Atmosphere is a collection of gases at various ratios, bound to a celestial body by gravity. Atmospheric gasses are something that is well within our ability to mix as we please. Chemical reactions can greate gasses we need as well as harvesting them from the atmosphere. Halo is in orbit with the gas giant Threshold, a vast resource of matter and interesting gasses just waiting to be harvested. Microbes can convert (what we consider) noxious gasses into more acceptable forms (as our very own Earth demonstrates) so creating an atmosphere for a ring world is no where near outsides the bounds of possibility.

4. Lets not forget that we have terraforming that also needs to be done to create habital land masses, and considering the planning that went into these masses with the "artifical" structures that start up top and continue down into the recesses of Halos subterranean machinery, its something to be impressed by (if we assumed this was real).

Right now our limitations are on the scale on which these things must be done. Both in time and resources, and the correct technologies to create them, and set the plan in motion. We are so hampered by the economic concerns of building, and researching new technologies (not to mention the egotistical side of research as well) that many grand things that we have the technology to build, or the ability to research, simply wont be beacause of the cost involved to do so. If only the cost of things such as these could be considered in non monetary terms and perhaps a few egos being suppressed then we could achieve so much more. Of course we can get wildly off topic proceeding along this tangent :)

And exactly how did the Forerunners suddenly become cavemen? Considering the (now) artifacts that they created, they are acheivements are hardly on the cavemen level. (If we supsend our disbelief for one second and assume that this is all real).

  • 05.04.2004 6:51 AM PDT
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Any body know if its possible at all to drive wrath tanks? oh yeah Frankie great update man really good. Keep up the good work!!!!

  • 05.04.2004 11:32 AM PDT
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Man that would be sweet to drive a wraith, but I'm not sure I like the idea of having a couple of pissant grunts stick me with a pair of plasma grenades and go out of the game that way. Seems like you'd be a bit of a sitting duck for anything that's within oh say a hundred yards of you. Driving a scorpion is way fun too, but Bungie put just the right amount into Halo 1 to make it so that you're a bit of a sitting duck in one.

My boss thinks I'm nuts because I've already booked 2 weeks holidays off for the release of Halo 2. (I won't tell you what my girlfriend thinks about it). But I told him that the thought of rotting at work while the game was sitting in my XBOX at home would drive me crazy and I wouldn't be able to do any work at all!!!

Reading FRANKIE'S postings really helps add to the excitement and build up. Good job buddy.

Later folks. I've got your six on XBOX Live.

  • 05.04.2004 11:41 AM PDT
Subject: The Covenant Primer
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If anyone has read Halo: First strike by Eric Nylund, then you know what the brutes are for. I guess they serve as a royal guard to the prophets, and are much stronger than the Elites.

  • 05.04.2004 1:06 PM PDT
Subject: Covenant Primer and some suggestions
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what orange ultimate weapon? ok ok ok so the foruners were really smart and stuff. but they obviously were full of themselves thinking they could contain the flood. they thought so much of themselves that it led to their destruction

  • 05.04.2004 1:07 PM PDT
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nobody knows if the flood destroyed the Forerunners, only that they were contained on halo. Hell, they couldve found another equally powerful race, and obliterated one another, leaving only their relics and artifacts in the aftermath.

  • 05.04.2004 1:10 PM PDT
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im opening a thread to discuss wether or not the forunners were fools or not. join!!!

  • 05.04.2004 1:10 PM PDT
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all i know is, ive seen the new halo 2 screen with the jackals, and i will tell you one thing: they do NOT need to have plasma rifles! u ever see how fast they shoot with the pistols on legendary? not fun.

  • 05.04.2004 1:13 PM PDT
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yup they are really fast. geez i just beat truth and reconciliation on legendary and PHEW

  • 05.04.2004 1:54 PM PDT
Subject: Grunts being tough
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Thanks for the info frankie, but whats funny is how it said something about grunts being tough. One time on truth and reconcilliation i was invisable and saw a grunt walking up to the door where the marines were. He walked real slow and his gun hand shook, I don't think that he could be real tough if he shook like that.

  • 05.04.2004 2:04 PM PDT
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Yes i did see that E3 demo, that was one awesome vid. And the brute part was funny when he ripped out the marines, then mc stole a ghost (and killed that one brute)!

  • 05.04.2004 2:06 PM PDT
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I wonder if prophets can attak, even though they don't need to, a thing that size can scare the hell at of ya

  • 05.04.2004 2:12 PM PDT
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hello?

  • 05.04.2004 2:14 PM PDT
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If they could, I believe they wouldn't be as much a threat as a grunt is, but from the information Frankie said, they would have guards around them 24-7.

  • 05.04.2004 2:14 PM PDT
Subject: The Covenant Primer
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will there be any more halo 2 sneaky pics. i am dieng to see some of there new hunters and grunts but any thing would do.

  • 05.04.2004 2:16 PM PDT
Subject: Grunts being tough
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yeah but like i said they look scary, they look like they're about to blow u up with thier mind

  • 05.04.2004 2:16 PM PDT
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Wait, maybe they can do stuff with their minds, like levetate objects to make way for the guards

  • 05.04.2004 2:18 PM PDT
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That would be a sight, now, wouldn't it?
Posted by: Liton
yeah but like i said they look scary, they look like they're about to blow u up with thier mind

  • 05.04.2004 2:18 PM PDT
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I'm just saying they look deadly, when i heard prophet my mind heard gonna kill u

  • 05.04.2004 2:20 PM PDT
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halo 2's gonna rock

  • 05.04.2004 2:22 PM PDT
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Yeah... I thought that too...

  • 05.04.2004 2:22 PM PDT
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Posted by: SPARTAN 00029
Yeah... I thought that too...


DUH!!!

  • 05.04.2004 2:23 PM PDT
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The description for brutes was really different from the one in Halo:first strike

  • 05.04.2004 2:23 PM PDT
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I knew you'd say that

  • 05.04.2004 2:24 PM PDT