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Subject: Human flying vehicle to counter Covenent Banshee?
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Well, if they put anything in multiplayer, it would have to be vtol for gameplay purposes.... I'm not sure if this is bungie's style, but has anyone considered mechs? I know some people hate them because they deem them unrealistic, but they do make sense as an effective weapons platform. I don't know, and I'm off topic now... I think that the teams are balanced as is, and I don't think that bungie is going to make a lame mirror image of the banshee for the humans. We all know they are more creative than that.

  • 05.01.2004 12:56 PM PDT
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Longswords are the ships that flew by the Pillar of Autumn in the beginning of the game. They are attack fighters, and I believe they are the counter to the Covenant Banshee. I think in the books they talked about them attacking banshees. But, in the E3 Demo, they made them look like bombers (when they bombed that big ass weapon the Covenant had.) Also the fact that the Longsword looks 3 times bigger then a banshee. I think the Longsword is the counter of the banshee, but I hope they make another human flying machine to better counteract the banshee.

  • 05.01.2004 1:00 PM PDT

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In the FALL of REACH it talks about a Skyhawk jumpjet fighter which attacked MC when oni was testing his new suit.

I would love to see it in MP and HAL0 2.

  • 05.01.2004 1:51 PM PDT
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Posted by: Lifeforce
Longswords are the ships that flew by the Pillar of Autumn in the beginning of the game. They are attack fighters, and I believe they are the counter to the Covenant Banshee. I think in the books they talked about them attacking banshees. But, in the E3 Demo, they made them look like bombers (when they bombed that big ass weapon the Covenant had.) Also the fact that the Longsword looks 3 times bigger then a banshee. I think the Longsword is the counter of the banshee, but I hope they make another human flying machine to better counteract the banshee.


In the books, Longswords attacked seraphs, the covenant space fighter. But longswords are also capable of flying in atmosphere, and seraphs aren't, but......ok I'm rambling. Anyway, Longswords were made before the covenant invasion.

  • 05.01.2004 2:16 PM PDT
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In the book they made it seem as if the Skyhawk was flying at super sonic speeds ..... like i said THERES NOT ENOUGH ROOM! . and all a banshee would have to do is duck down behind a rock ...........

  • 05.01.2004 3:33 PM PDT
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OXM said there wasnt gunna be a flyable Pelican, yet that was a long time ago, a lot has changed. I think Bungie is gunna put its all into this game, so if in the books the Chief could fly a pelican, i dont see why they couldnt, they have already confirmed that you can drive a Chevy Avalanche in Halo 2 mulitplayer, so why not a Pelican?

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Even though the book said that the SkyHawk was a large jet fighter, I think it would be neat for Bungie to make them the human attack aircraft.

When you stop to think about it, the Banshee would really be a piece of -blam!- as actual air support. It's a one-man attack craft, and it's tiny. But, they could make a SkyHawk that was a two-seater, and have one man fly the craft while the other fires the guns, which could be a laag and a rocket launcher. The shortcoming would be that the craft turned slowly and couldn't hover, so the Banshee pilot would just have to outmaneuver the Skyhawk.

There's just something great about the human equipment...

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Posted by: MC 13
They have already confirmed that you can drive a Chevy Avalanche in Halo 2 mulitplayer


I know this is off-topic, but where was this confirmed?

  • 05.01.2004 4:11 PM PDT
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Posted by: mjolnirV
It would be soooo cool if there were playable space battles in Halo 2. Take off from an earth airforce base and rendezvous with a fleet of UNSC cruisers. longswords vs. seraphs *shudders* now thats a long shot, but it would be an aspect they would keep hidden till the release....



That would be cool if you can do that in Halo 2. Fighting in space would be awsome!! When taking on Five covey's against one longsword fighter.... now that what I call fun!

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Posted by: derekw
you guys think theres gonna be a human ship to counter the Banshee in multiplayer? id love to fly a pelican online in multiplayer!


Maybe? Maybe not? Who Knows??!!

  • 05.01.2004 5:49 PM PDT
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what I'd really likw is a lying vehicle that can carry troops. I know the pelican already does that but I'm sceptical that it'll make it into the Multiplayer. On the bright side I wonder if anyone rembers when bungie (at leastI think it was bungie) said that some of the new level will be many times larger than blood gulch or even Death Island...

  • 05.01.2004 5:56 PM PDT

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I think Halo 2 will be cool to fly a Pelican but at the 2003 E3 video it showed the Pelican had a machine gun in the back where the passagers sit and it showed the ODSTs getting ready to kill some ass. So if ur flying from Banshees so guy can shoot behind and take them out. But nothing will be better if u can play Xbox Live and drop ur team off to own and fly like jets and the LongSword that will be cool. And maybe if Bungie made like a Xbox live world let me example. Bungie makes Earth online and every1 on Xbox Live team up with Humans which are the computer and u fight the Covenant which could probably other players but its like Halo 2 online but like everyone in the world playing together but the enemies are harder and the covenant never stop coming and u can fly like in the Pelicans across the ocean to the USA or 2 Europe or Asia or in the ICE Caps and all kinds of places but u know how long that will take. And u can drive boats and u can fly in space fighting the Covenant spaceships and drive warships in the ocean in a way i can put it is like FF11 online like they have a World but my idea will take 4ever I swear the graphs and all dam but it would be cool.

But they are making a game mode that u fight the covenant or humans u pick a side and play one of them and the computer is helping u 2 and u probably get to drive ships and fly things.

  • 05.01.2004 6:06 PM PDT

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