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Subject: plasma pistol, one hit kill?
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i was woundering about this, and i havent seen it mentioned before.

so anyway, will the plasma pistol be different in that it cant over charge? because in halo 1 it takes out your shield dosent it in one hit, and in halo 2, that would mean almost death as theres no "health" any more...

  • 08.12.2004 2:35 AM PDT
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no u still have health u just don't see it but it is still there

  • 08.12.2004 2:36 AM PDT
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I didn't notice you couldn't see your health

  • 08.12.2004 2:38 AM PDT
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"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something, but I can't accept not trying." - M. Jordan

I don't think its like health though. It like a real body getting shot. like 2 good shots in the chest will kill, and one in the head will finish.

  • 08.12.2004 2:39 AM PDT
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I think the MJOLNIR shield is a bit tougher now, maybe it takes two Overcharged shots to take down your new shields, as that would put it on the same damage level as Halo CE. It can be Dual Wielded...I wonder if you can overcharge both?

  • 08.12.2004 2:40 AM PDT
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Think about this Overcharged shot due to weaker health equals longer overcharge rate. But think about this.... Dual weilding Plasma Pistol and SMG Knock down shields first then finish them off with SMG.

  • 08.12.2004 2:40 AM PDT
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I think the health system will be just like the old one but just
without visual health

  • 08.12.2004 2:42 AM PDT
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i belive your rite about one hit kill or it could take like 4 shots i think i read

  • 08.12.2004 2:44 AM PDT
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its not gonna be as unbalanced as you think.. they could do any of the following:

1. Make the charge time longer.

2. Make the charge shot not home-in on ppl as much.

3. Make the charge shot slower.

They are pretty easy to dodge now.. and if they make it slower.. itll be a task to do stuff.. dont worry, bungie has probably thought of (and implemented) some of these

  • 08.12.2004 2:55 AM PDT
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Holly -blam!-. I was wrong, there is a pistol. I was kind of not sure for a while. There is for sure a pistol though. I got to go sleep, no more staying up.

  • 08.12.2004 2:57 AM PDT
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yea i guess your right. i hope it isnt unbalnced with duel wielding too, like mabey you miss easily? casue no melee and nades dosent seem to really even out the fact that you do twice the damage per hit instead of holding one, say a smg...

  • 08.12.2004 2:58 AM PDT
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i'm in the uk so it's 11am

  • 08.12.2004 3:01 AM PDT
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im not gonna believe anything until the 24th when the next issue of OXM comes my way

  • 08.12.2004 3:08 AM PDT
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You're all grossly misinformed. The health bar now appears above the radar. vertically.

I'd post the link, but i'm a lazy mofo. Trust me, you'll se that i'm right later.

  • 08.12.2004 3:39 AM PDT
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You should be able to customise where everyhing goes yourself. Like the is something in options which lets you drag and drop the sheild bar, health bar, ammo display and motion tracker to your liking.
[Edit: like in lots of computor games]

[Edited on 8/12/2004 5:05:30 AM]

  • 08.12.2004 5:04 AM PDT