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Subject: Seraph confimed!?!?!?!
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I just finished reading first strike and noticed the covenant used seraphs a lot, are they confirmed for Halo 2 and multiplayer?!?!?!

  • 08.04.2004 9:25 PM PDT
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Maybe in a scene in the SP.... but as MP no... you wont they are to big for a MP map

  • 08.04.2004 9:26 PM PDT
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there is alot that hasnt been confirmed... if bungie were to release everything about the game... playing it would be, well.. -blam!-... about hte seraphs no, no they havent

  • 08.04.2004 9:27 PM PDT
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I doubt you know this for a fact

  • 08.04.2004 9:28 PM PDT
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Nobody knows anything about it for a fact... all that we can be sure on seeing is a game called Halo 2 in the near future.

  • 08.04.2004 9:30 PM PDT
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I still think it's a stupid idea to have dropships are any sort of large aircraft. Why? Because halo is a FPS not a flight simulator.

The reason the banshee is in MP is because its small, HIGHLY manuverable, and has a decent arsenal. A human aircraft doesn't really have any of these capabilities. If they made one, it would be cool but..who cares?

Also, in SP it would just be stupid to me. I don't want to fly some stupid ship and drop nukes on the covenant...would be way too boring. MC usefullness isn't flying ships its advanced combat strategy (on foot or land vehicles).

Really, what would you do with a large aircraft in Halo? Waste time doing lame crap when you could just be doing fun HALO stuff.

  • 08.04.2004 9:33 PM PDT
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The Seraph is the Covenant equivilent of the Longsword. Neither would work well in the game, since you would have to be in the air, and that just couldn't happpen very easily, although it would be fun to have a little dogfight...

  • 08.04.2004 9:42 PM PDT
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They're not dropships, so whoever was under that impression needs to check their facts. They're simply space fighters. The Covenant Seraphs or the Longswords probably won't make it into the game as playable vehicles. Would they work well? Perhaps, if used properly on maps large enough. Anyone who has played Battlefield 1942, it's mods or the new version for Vietnam knows that fighters can work well in first-person shooters if the maps are large enough and are tailored for it.

Now, that being said, of the Halo 2 maps we've ran into thus far: Waterworks, Lockout, Burial Mounds, Zanzibar, Midship and Ivory Towers, none of them seem to fit the bill of being workable with the two aforementioned fighters.

What will we see? Well you can rest assured that there will be another flying aircraft in the new Halo game, as Pete Parsons, Studio Manager, all but confirmed it during an E3 2004 interview. The new flying craft will more than likely be human and there are a range of possibilities with it, from a helicopter-like vehicle hovering above the ground like a Pelican (which is confirmed to not be pilotable) or it could be a more classic, two-man fighter like those in World War II. Instead of being a normal flyer like the Banshee with one man doing the shooting and the flying, this new vehicle may have two compartments like a Warthog, allowing for a person to fly and another person to gun. The Longsword and the Seraph are simply too large for what maps we've seen so far.

  • 08.04.2004 10:29 PM PDT