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Subject: P. Sword just might be Dual Wieldable...
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I was just going through my old OXMs and I happend to come across this little tidbit of information on page 13 of July 2004.

"Here is a quick rundown of what they showed"
Then it says some junk...
"Dual Wielding with a Battle Rifle and a Covenant Elite Sword, the latter of which you could use to perform a devasitating lunge move"

Now that EXPLICITLY SAYS that the P. Sword is dual wieldable.

If this has been posted before sorry.

  • 07.31.2004 5:21 PM PDT
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Bungie has also explicitily said that things can change.

  • 07.31.2004 5:23 PM PDT

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Neither the battle rifle nor the energy sword are dual wieldable.

  • 07.31.2004 5:23 PM PDT
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yeah i didn't think you can dual weild BR's, so i think that's changed

  • 07.31.2004 5:23 PM PDT
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Well it was worth a shot...

  • 07.31.2004 5:24 PM PDT

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It has not "changed". It was never true to begin with. OXM are just very bad at wording things I guess.

  • 07.31.2004 5:25 PM PDT
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now i explicitly say that the article is WRONG

  • 07.31.2004 5:25 PM PDT
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but if you look at the screens it shows mc holding the PS in one hand. why can't he carry a gun in the other?

  • 07.31.2004 5:26 PM PDT
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Posted by: nightrider25
but if you look at the screens it shows mc holding the PS in one hand. why can't he carry a gun in the other?


Why would he need to?

  • 07.31.2004 5:28 PM PDT
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Posted by: nightrider25
but if you look at the screens it shows mc holding the PS in one hand. why can't he carry a gun in the other?

thats a good question.

  • 07.31.2004 5:28 PM PDT

SB-117

He refuses to pick up another weapon because he knows it will unbalance the game. Whats the point to making you have a melee weapon if you can use a longer range weapon along side it. You would be too powerful.

[Edited on 7/31/2004 5:29:43 PM]

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Posted by: ash55
He refuses to pick up another weapon because he knows it will unbalance the game.


The Next person I hear whining about balance is going to get the CRAP knocked out of them.

Halo 1 was horribly unbalanced and look how great it was.

  • 07.31.2004 5:30 PM PDT

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Posted by: Lord_Nerdious
Posted by: ash55
He refuses to pick up another weapon because he knows it will unbalance the game.


The Next person I hear whining about balance is going to get the CRAP knocked out of them.

Halo 1 was horribly unbalanced and look how great it was.


Why not just make weapon that has a blade to one-hit-kill upclose, an auto-fire function, a sniper scope to pick off long range enemies and put a rocket launcher on it too? Heres why because it will be unbalanced and everyone would use it so theres no variety and no strategy. It would suck. The first Halo was quite balanced and thats one of the great things about it. So bungie are trying to make Halo2 as balanced as possible to make sure its even better.

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Why not just make weapon that has a blade to one-hit-kill upclose, an auto-fire function, a sniper scope to pick off long range enemies and put a rocket launcher on it too? [/quote]
great idea!

[Edited on 7/31/2004 5:38:08 PM]

  • 07.31.2004 5:37 PM PDT
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Why not just make weapon that has a blade to one-hit-kill upclose, an auto-fire function, a sniper scope to pick off long range enemies and put a rocket launcher on it too? Heres why because it will be unbalanced and everyone would use it so theres no variety and no strategy. It would suck. The first Halo was quite balanced and thats one of the great things about it. So bungie are trying to make Halo2 as balanced as possible to make sure its even better.

See thats taking it to the extreme. First off since you can only dual wield one handed weapons you wouldn't have something like a sniper or a RL. You would have a P. Pistol. So you would be damned good in close range but you wouldn't be unstoppable. Some one could easily snipe you/ rocket you. Even in close range someone with two SMGs could take you down it wouldn't be that tough.

And Halo 1 was balanced? MP was all about the pistol if you used anything else you were a fool.

  • 07.31.2004 5:42 PM PDT
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what if the P. sword could absorb certain amounts of plasma fire? that would be coolm, i dont mean an over change from the p. pistol more like 10% of the shots, and what if rockets could be deflected by a lunge at the right time, taking some minor damage of course.

[Edited on 7/31/2004 5:46:14 PM]

  • 07.31.2004 5:45 PM PDT
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my mystical psychic powers say... OXM is full of -blam!-

  • 07.31.2004 5:51 PM PDT
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Actually this guy does have a good point. Only one handed weapons are supposed to be dual wieldable. But the Plasma Sword is a one handed weapon. So it seems like you would be allowed to use a Pistol or SMG in your left hand. In this case it would'nt really be unbalanced either. You will still only have the firepower of a normal one handed weapon user but you would just be deadly in Melee range.

Or maybe it just does'nt fit in Bungies system. In any case I want to dual wield Jackal's shield an Plasma Swords. The Swords gametype will likely suck otherwise...

  • 07.31.2004 7:49 PM PDT