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Subject: RE:Over-Shields and Camoflage Cloaks...oh my!

They said you're a pistol-betch, whatever that means.~WebMaster
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You must have balls, I mean, you'd have to for posting a link to a beta pic...

  • 08.07.2004 6:27 AM PDT
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Posted by: mastapoopdog
i hat the power ups, they was no reason for them to be in game, it is too weird (even for the covenant) to have geometric shapes with spheres in the middle, and u just get enhanced walking over them, too out of place


Yeah, I think though, they could make them smaller (like grenade size) and it would be less annoying.

  • 08.07.2004 6:33 AM PDT
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Posted by: Jibberwalk
You must have balls, I mean, you'd have to for posting a link to a beta pic...

That isnt a beta pic, that was taken by some people at e3,
to mjolnirV yeah my sig is from dune

  • 08.07.2004 11:00 AM PDT
Subject: Over-Shields and Camoflage Cloaks...oh my!
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I hated over-blam!-s. They were so cheap. Plus they make a game less about skill.

  • 08.07.2004 11:04 AM PDT
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Posted by: lobsterok
Powerups were cheap, even worse than the SPNKr, I would like to see them gone completely from Halo 2.


you mean worse than the pistol. the SPNKr was not that bad and easily countered if you are skilled.

  • 08.07.2004 11:05 AM PDT
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I hope to God that there are no power-ups in Halo 2, all they do is uneven the playing field. You don't have to use near as much skill with those things.

  • 08.07.2004 11:05 AM PDT
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Posted by: Horazonblade
Camo did piss some people off... but are you going to dare say that it didnt have some beautiful moments with it? Killing 4 enemies and watching there buddies run around shooting randomly and throughing nades at each other. Or how about that time you are sitting there and you blink.. but you saw something! a blur! Random fire and a corpse appears on the ground... and you hump... oh did you hump that corpse.
I know it sounds like I enjoy necrophelia too much, but I'm just trying to say its for the best, it adds alot of fun... at times of course. If anything, unless they can think of something balanced, creative, and non-cliche (is that a word?) such as.. .say.. strength power ups, speed boosters, or say... a mushroom that makes you grow in size. At best, they should have those items to be able to be turned off when you create your game mode, but it would be dissapointing to see them completely removed...

And they may have removed it from a later build, but there is a Kikizo Halo 2 MP video in which you see a guy invisible, so in that build it was there, and that would be quite a waste of time if they had to re-write the code to match the new engine and chars, and make sure the dynamic lighting works and refracts from invisibile people, just to throw it out cause some people dis-liked it. I think it will be an option to have on or off.


can you give me a link to that video? its not that i dont believe you i just want to see it on the new halo 2 graphics engine.

  • 08.07.2004 11:07 AM PDT
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Posted by: bentfishy
Posted by: lobsterok
Powerups were cheap, even worse than the SPNKr, I would like to see them gone completely from Halo 2.


you mean worse than the pistol. the SPNKr was not that bad and easily countered if you are skilled.
I think the pistol is going to be more powerful in Halo 2 than in halo. If you've read FS there are new magnum pistols. mmmm....

  • 08.07.2004 11:08 AM PDT
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Posted by: zachthebeaver
I hope to God that there are no power-ups in Halo 2, all they do is uneven the playing field. You don't have to use near as much skill with those things.


if you cant counter them then you really suck. besides if you are playing with fairly decent games the only levels where you would have enough time to grab them and actually utilize them to their fullest extent without getting killed right after you grab one would be on the bigger slow-paced levels like sidewinder.

  • 08.07.2004 11:13 AM PDT
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Posted by: bentfishy
Posted by: zachthebeaver
I hope to God that there are no power-ups in Halo 2, all they do is uneven the playing field. You don't have to use near as much skill with those things.


if you cant counter them then you really suck. besides if you are playing with fairly decent games the only levels where you would have enough time to grab them and actually utilize them to their fullest extent without getting killed right after you grab one would be on the bigger slow-paced levels like sidewinder.

First i don't aprreciate that. I haven't lost a round in a good six months. I just hate things that make the playing field unbalanced. Where the skill in having 3 times more shield than the next guy. Or having a rocket launcher/sniper rifle with the invisibility.
I bet you agree with looking at other people's screens.

[Edited on 8/7/2004 11:16:04 AM]

  • 08.07.2004 11:15 AM PDT
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Posted by: Pez
Posted by: bentfishy
Posted by: lobsterok
Powerups were cheap, even worse than the SPNKr, I would like to see them gone completely from Halo 2.


you mean worse than the pistol. the SPNKr was not that bad and easily countered if you are skilled.
I think the pistol is going to be more powerful in Halo 2 than in halo. If you've read FS there are new magnum pistols. mmmm....

We think the orrigional is toned down a little and then they have the magnum which is more powerfull, allthough i am sorta glad that they are making it so u can have a really powerfull gun like the mag without it turning into a pistol war like H2, my favorite weapon will still be the magnum but it would be kinda annoying if everyone went around with it.

  • 08.07.2004 11:17 AM PDT
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they should put new powerups in multiplayer, but take them off the main game, because you need an edge against other people, but not AI

  • 08.07.2004 11:21 AM PDT
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To make everyone happy, let's have powerups be an optional thing that can be turned on/off

  • 08.07.2004 11:24 AM PDT
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i wish u could have camoflague like the elites in the books it last foever and u can turn it on and off

  • 08.07.2004 11:26 AM PDT
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Posted by: ODST
i wish u could have camoflague like the elites in the books it last foever and u can turn it on and off

ya that would be cool

  • 08.07.2004 11:27 AM PDT
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You really...these power ups dont make the playing field unbalanced much as long as your a good HALO player I'd say your fine plus even with a camaflouged MC with a sniper rifle...when he shoots look for his trail...and get your own sniper rifle...zoom in check out the map for some little blurs going across the terrain cmon!

  • 08.07.2004 11:39 AM PDT
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Nah cause then every schmuck in the game would be cloaked 24/7 which would be lame as crap...oooo how about thermal goggles we need those so I can shoot cloaked ppl in the face...I always hit them in the or side

  • 08.07.2004 11:41 AM PDT
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who was it that called the overshield an 'over-blam!-' that is really the most immature thing I have heard all day,

  • 08.07.2004 12:12 PM PDT
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lol the cat. thats daft, are these poele complaining about over shields perhaps people who are not skilful enough to take someone out using an over shield?

  • 08.08.2004 4:06 PM PDT
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Just because someone doesnt like the powerups doesnt mean that they must suck at Halo. I know how to get around an overshield and an invis, but I still dont like them. I'd like it to either not have them at all or at least have the option to disable them. Use em in your games online if you want, I'll play ya with em on, but I want them off when we lan.

  • 08.08.2004 4:14 PM PDT
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yes well for alot of people that IS an excuse!

  • 08.08.2004 4:54 PM PDT
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You guys are so lasy. Over shields didn't "cheapen" the game. You had to have skill to find/get them and have skill to counter attack them. Some of you just want everything taken out of Halo 2 so it becomes some -blam!- boring game where there is no stragedy and nothings different. You're the ones who say the over shields are cheap and then turn around and kill someone with the pistol in 3 shots. Why don't we take out vehicles cause you have an advantage when your in a tank as opposed to on the ground. Yeah who ever says that can suck em.
(Sorry about the tangent but I like emotion in these forums)

[Edited on 8/8/2004 5:06:41 PM]

  • 08.08.2004 5:02 PM PDT
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AMEN TO THAT!! the first real decent person post a decent post!

y do u want an easy ride to the game u people jus complain once u complete it that its too easy and theres nothin left, its then u wish they included these ideas!

  • 08.08.2004 5:09 PM PDT
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I really wish they would make power-ups go away in Halo 2 but if not, i hope there is a option where we can choose not to use them.

  • 08.08.2004 5:11 PM PDT
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Doctor Mario, you and me bro. We will be the ones to dominate in Halo 2 because we can think. (Going on tangent again). A lot of you complain how the over shield gives an unfair advantage. Then by your standards its unfair to kill a person who's shield has been depleted by a previous battle. Maybe there should be a rule that only allows 2 people to engage each other only if their shields are full and have the same amount of health. Then it would all be based on skill. Oh wait, better make all of the weapons the same too, so its not unfair there. Wow, this will be fun!!!

  • 08.08.2004 5:15 PM PDT

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