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Posted by: A 3 Legged Goat
1. They look retarded in Halo 3
2. They're perceivably harder to headshot from behind
3. Bullets can go through their neck

This is in Halo 3. In CE, Halo 2, and Reach, they are not dumb dinosaurs, especially in the latter.

Everything in Halo 3 is childish. Spartans look like Power Rangers.


Get eyes tested please i'm afraid you blinder than a mole.

  • 05.30.2010 11:58 PM PDT

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Posted by: Soundbound64
Wait a minute... Hasn't Bungie already stated that Spartans and Elites are the same model with different skins? How does that make them harder to snipe?

Even if I'm wrong, you can still snipe an Elite, even from behind. The upper back of them will count as a headshot. The neck thing was a rumor and proven to be wrong, and Bungie has told the community this before.

Also, if I'm wrong about the whole model and neck thing, it still doesn't matter. They can still be sniped from behind, like I, and many others on this forum, have said before.

Back to the actual topic. People generally hate Elites because they are a favorite of noobish players. Face it Elites: You may not be a noob or act like one, but the majority of Elites in Matchmaking are/do. Not only that, but over the years, Elites have lost that ferocious look and dawned the Barney suit. They look like retarded dinosaurs with a spine disorder.

Either way, it's your choice as to what you play as. You can play as a Dinosaur, or you can play as a Power Ranger. It's your choice.


The neck thing isn't a rumor.

  • 05.30.2010 11:59 PM PDT

I personally switch between the two just for fun whenever i'm bored. XD
Though, I will say, hate on Elites' appearance all you want, but they make the FUNNIEST screams when they die. XDDD
I always get a chuckle when i hear one go "OWAAAAAAA!"

At any rate, I have a friend that ALWAYS plays as an Elite. I change back and forth. It's just a player model. Who cares? (though I will admit Elites got less and less badass over time. Though I haven't seen them in Reach yet so i have no judgment on that note.)

  • 05.31.2010 12:03 AM PDT

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Posted by: A 3 Legged Goat
Spartans look like Power Rangers.

LOL

As some people already said, many << pejorative term for beginners >> think that Elites are cool, fearsome aliens. Well, they used to be in previous games, but they look like cuddle-dinos in Halo 3. Also, many beginners who play as Elites are unjustifiably treated like << pejorative term for beginners >> even if they aren't, and quite many Elite players actually are << pejorative term for beginners >>. This makes it hard for decent players to be taken seriously when playing as an Elite.

And then you have the many rumors about true or perceived advantages Elites have. Just look at the many threats of people complaining that you can't headshot an Elite from behind, that bullets just go through their necks, and so on. Whether this is true or not I don't know, and I really don't care. Whenever I sniped or shot an unshielded Elite in the head, he died. My guess is that the Elite's appearance just messes with people's aim because the head isn't on top of the shoulders but more in front of their chest.

  • 05.31.2010 1:11 AM PDT
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Probably just the lame general consensus that people who play as Elites suck at the game. I played as an Elite throughout my entire Halo 2 PC experience, and I never got trashed talked once, since Elites were way easier to kill in that game and thus it took more skill to be one.

  • 05.31.2010 1:15 AM PDT

"The Times may change, Your enemies may become your allies, but War.... War never changes." - Fallout 3, the second greatest game ever made.

It's just pixels on the screen.

But anyways, the Spartan armor just doesn't interest me at all. I mean, honestly, with that all that Hayabusa Crap, it basically looks like a tacky Power Ranger Costume. Let me use my Pink Dinosaur in piece, Red Ranger.

  • 05.31.2010 1:28 AM PDT

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Posted by: Serpentgirl16
i mean i love playing as an elite to be different and i think they are cooler than spartans (no offense) but ive found myself getting t bagged and talked crap to often...why? :(
Did you ever play Halo CE on legendary? every time when you're close to a checkpoint there is always an Stupid and ugly Elite in you're way to kill you...

  • 05.31.2010 1:32 AM PDT

Posted by: Serpentgirl16
i mean i love playing as an elite to be different and i think they are cooler than spartans (no offense) but ive found myself getting t bagged and talked crap to often...why? :(


easy answer bro....elites hit boxes are bullshh

  • 05.31.2010 2:46 AM PDT

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I find that dinos tend to be players that are either younger or super chill and play only for fun. There is nothing wrong with being elite in my book.

  • 05.31.2010 2:56 AM PDT

I dislike them because if a Spartan and an Elite get into a BR battle the Elite has the upper hand already.

The elites head wobbles when being shot at so it's harder hence why most bullets go to the neck then hit the soft spot where they can't take any damage.

My opinion - DON'T FLAME.

  • 05.31.2010 2:56 AM PDT


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Posted by: Vehement Jamie
Because only newbs who suck a driving the warthog use them and also those a-holes in team swat that are so hard to headshot and t-bag after every kill.


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i loved elites since halo CE and i used them in halo 2 and in halo 3

  • 05.31.2010 3:01 AM PDT
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" loved elites since halo CE and i used them in halo 2 and in halo 3"

I hear that!!

I have no physical in-game preference, i can kill spartan or shangeilli just the same in xbl, despite not wanting to kill the latter. I play as one because i want to be different, i always have done, and i don't want to be the same as everyone else, thats just boring...However i find me playing as a Shangeilli makes it easier for me to be killed, simply because EVERYONE goes for you, half the time they don't care if your on their team or not...

But as some of you may have gathered from my posts. Outside of physical benefits, i love and always have loved them. Their culture, education, way of life, loyalty to each other the list goes on and on. I command a great amount of respect for them, and if i am in the situation of fighting them in the campaign of Halo 2 or Halo:CE i still have that respect because they are certainly a challange to fight!

  • 05.31.2010 4:00 AM PDT

In Swat, Elites have a perceived advantage which can convince people that they are harder to head shot from directly behind, on equal ground. As we all know, a perceived advantage is just as good as a tangible one on Live.

However, the head being in the "chest area" is just nonsense. Elite's and Spartan's heads are in the same place as far as the game is concerned. Your shots will hit an Elite and Spartan in the head at the exact same reticule height. However, from directly behind, the Elite's back throws off what you think you need for a head shot.

Other than in Swat, I see no real reason to hate on Elites. I guess if you're constantly being stomped by one maybe?

Personally, I use an Elite just because I think they have a cooler BR reload animation.

  • 05.31.2010 6:52 AM PDT

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Posted by: Serpentgirl16
i mean i love playing as an elite to be different and i think they are cooler than spartans (no offense) but ive found myself getting t bagged and talked crap to often...why? :(


Heh, and then add being a GIRL, God forbid, playing as an Elite ... ;)

But I love Elites, always will do. I was angry with the Sangheili community after getting rejected by one of their clans some time ago, and I switched to Spartan armour in protest, but I changed it back after a few games again because it was just boring playing as a Spartan ... There are so many of them around anyway, I vote for some Elite eyecandy to break the monoformity!

  • 05.31.2010 7:04 AM PDT

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I myself don't have a problem with elites. But I have heard people in Halo 3 say that they don't like elites because there "dumb", "invincible", "nooby" and so on. But I think it's just because that the elites are different than Spartans.

  • 05.31.2010 7:09 AM PDT

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Posted by: A 3 Legged Goat
1. They look retarded in Halo 3
2. They're perceivably harder to headshot from behind
3. Bullets can go through their neck

This is in Halo 3. In CE, Halo 2, and Reach, they are not dumb dinosaurs, especially in the latter.

Everything in Halo 3 is childish. Spartans look like Power Rangers.


Get eyes tested please i'm afraid you blinder than a mole.


He asked a question and I answered it objectively. My post is the general consensus. Halo 3 looked really cartoony and childish. All the other games looked darker and more alien than Halo 3. It's the popular opinion.

You can't say Halo 3 looks better than Reach, because it doesn't. There's no contest, and the Elites in Reach look way better than Halo 3. That one is fact.

I do need better glasses though... >.>

[Edited on 05.31.2010 7:51 AM PDT]

  • 05.31.2010 7:50 AM PDT
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Elites most certainly do not smell bad...i would know, i have one in my bed...

[Edited on 05.31.2010 7:55 AM PDT]

  • 05.31.2010 7:55 AM PDT
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Posted by: Pr1m3 Su5p3cT
They're ugly and should be hated.
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  • 05.31.2010 8:19 AM PDT

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  • 05.31.2010 8:34 AM PDT

i have no problem with elites unless i see them in SWAT, seriously, it makes the game so unbalanced. i never play as an elite in SWAT, and i'm a legit 36 in it

  • 05.31.2010 8:37 AM PDT

Oh ze screaming, it is arousing!

1. There IMPOSSIBLE to get headshots off of them, so other spartan players get real angry when you play team snipers

I have a friend who uses the elite model, I can snipe her very easy. If you can't then you must suck with a rifle. <_<

4. It's a sign that that your a noob because you want to be different and if your different, you don't play like everybody else (GOOD)

Since when does being different make you a noob?

2. There ugly

Personal opinion, me and one of my friends think they look like fluffy bunny's. Go on hate and flame it won't make much of a difference

[Edited on 05.31.2010 8:42 AM PDT]

  • 05.31.2010 8:41 AM PDT
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My real gamertag is Stoneenergey. Sorry for the confusion. I didn't know what I was doing. I will try to visit my groups' forums. I am active ,but I don't really recruit members.

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I have been killed countless times by people with BRs. I'm having a hard time believing that it's hard to head shot Elites.

  • 05.31.2010 8:43 AM PDT

Yo.

I have no problems with Elites, who you control isnt anything I should care about. And you shouldnt worry about t-bags, I do that to anyone I kill.

But other 'Extremist Spartans' feel this way. ''You invade my planet in campain! I kill you in multiplayer too.'' He haw, he haw'

  • 05.31.2010 8:44 AM PDT

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PEOPLE THEY HAVE THE SAME HITBOXES AS SPARTANS!

  • 05.31.2010 8:45 AM PDT