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Subject: Stupid Covenant
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I just thought I'd ask people to share some of their experiences on stupid Covenant. If you got any examples, just post them here.

Here's a few of mine:
* I was playing 'Two Betrayals' on Legendary yesterday (Single Player). Some Grunt tried to throw a Plasma Grenade at me; thing is, he was stood directly behind a Plasma Shield so it bounced off and landed at his feet. The Grunt realised the danger he was in and leaped to the right; although at this point, the right of him was quite a large drop (to where the Warthog is) so he fell and died.

* All Covenant can't see through the Plasma Shields, even though you blatently can.

* I was playing 'AotCR' in Legendary about a week ago. Came out of the cave into the 2nd chasm, and some Grunt behind a tree tried to tag my Warthog with a Plasma Grenade. He hit the tree, it bounced back, stuck to a fellow Grunt and blew them both skywards.

* I was playing 'AotCR' in Heroic about 3 days ago. I came to the first Gold Elite (the one with the sword) on the bridge in the 1st chasm. He started to chase me, but a Grunt in one of the Shades shot him in the back by accident when aiming for me and knocked him down the little gl-blam!- (glass smashed earlier by me).

* I was playing 'Truth and Reconciliation' about a month ago. Some Grunt threw a Plasma Grenade, but by chance some Elite ran about 1 foot infront of him just in time for it to stick to his head. The Elite then turned around, growled at the Grunt and they both blew up.

  • 08.29.2004 4:16 PM PDT
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ive had jackal fire charge up plasma shots when they are right in front of an elite thus making my job easier :)
they also throw nades around at stupid times, although on keyes on legen the elites are quite good throws

  • 08.29.2004 4:32 PM PDT
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ive seen golden elites with swords swing at me and miss and end up killing fellow grunts in the area which is quite funny or when u throw a plasma grenade and they jump off the sides of the bridges on AotCR

  • 08.29.2004 7:28 PM PDT
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i was on AOTCR and you know how you go across those bridge things well one time i was going across one of them on heroic when i shot a elite with a pistol and a grunt ran away and fell off the bridge and i never saw him again and i was playing on heroic on the pillar of autum and a grunt whipped a plasma gernade into a group of grunts then ran to them and the plasma gernade went off and they all died. it was really funny!

  • 08.29.2004 8:27 PM PDT
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I was playing the maw on legendary today and in the cafeteria area (theres a hunter at both doors going in it) after i killed the hunters i stood on one side of the room and my buddy stood on the other, two grunts had fuel rod cannons and aimed at us, they blew each other to the walls

  • 08.29.2004 9:08 PM PDT
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dude i make hunters jump off stuff and shoot other hunters and/or grunts and if you do this correctly you can make them jump ontop of eachother its freackin hilarious

  • 08.29.2004 9:13 PM PDT
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Mines pretty damn funny. I was playing Keyes on Legendary, and right after the we see Captain Keyes as a huge bugger (thats what he looks like), well the Flood comes out and you have to fight them, or you can go to the door early and the Covenant will come in, and then they end up fighting eachother while you can relax and just watch. Anyway, when you open that door theres always those 2 Grunts right there and they lob some stickies (thats what I call the plasma nades). Well since the Flood was already out, it looked like one Grunt was going to throw a sticky in one direction (diagonally right), and the other Grunt was going to throw ther other direction (diagonally left), but then all of a sudden the turned and threw the stickies on eachother. It was hilarious to watch.

  • 08.29.2004 9:23 PM PDT
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One time I found a group of grunts so I ran in and killed all but 1, and when I turned to kill him he was like "friend?" I felt so sorry for him that I let him live =)

  • 08.29.2004 9:43 PM PDT
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I once saw a tank shoot its own banshee down, that was hilarious.

  • 08.29.2004 9:44 PM PDT
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hmm
in AotCR on legendary, on the first bridge we need to cross, an elite trying to get me jumped off the bridge without me throwin a nade. and on the bridge in front of control center, when the hunters come out, i lure em to the edge and they melee themselves off the bridge

  • 08.29.2004 10:08 PM PDT
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ya i was playin legendary at two betrayals and there were 2 grunts left after a complete massacre...by me of course. they started to run right next to each other so i shot one down and the after shots of it dying killed the other....it was funny

  • 08.29.2004 10:30 PM PDT
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The AI in Halo is generally fantastic (the best I've yet seen), but they do do some dumb things, seemingly as if it's intuition:
* Grunts always scream "Grenade!" when they toss plasma grenades, alerting you to the fact that they threw them.
* Grunts, when they/you throw grenades, ALWAYS dive to the side, no matter if there is a cliff for them to fall off of.

  • 08.29.2004 11:39 PM PDT
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i was playing T&R: in the belly of the beast on legendary. i had gotten past the hanger and was making my way up to the second level. i came to the part where i knew there were 2 camo' elites and 3 grunts. i throw a grenade and kill 2 grunts, run up and shoot the last with my AR. the elites had run up the corridor, so naturally, i chased them. i got a check point and opened the door to the hanger. whiped out my SR and started to shoot everything in sight. i had to reload and a jackal had charged up a pp. i was pulling the trigger furiously hoping to shoot before he shot me (i hate reloading).......the jackal shoots........a camo' elite falls to his knees.....i shoot and kill the jackal, then realised what happend i laugh my head off (needless to say the other camo' elite kills me while im laughing)

  • 08.30.2004 12:25 AM PDT
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[quote] Posted by: Captain K Mart
I once saw a tank shoot its own banshee down, that was hilarious. [/quote[
Yeah, this happened to me too. I dunno why I didn't mention it. I was playing 'Two Betrayals' and came to the part where you have to get the Banshee in the 2nd Chasm. I killed the Elites guarding and started on the Grunts and their Shade turret. The Wraith fired and it was coming towards me, I was like "Holy Crap! Its gunna get me!" . A Banshee swooped down for some reason and got blown up by the huge Plasma blast, also taking the shot which would've most definitely taken some health or killed me. Then to make it better, the Banshee fell and crushed one of the Grunts below.

I also had a similar experience to 'Dragoon Nz'. On 'The Silent Cartographer' in Legendary I came to the point where I needed to get to the Security Panel. There's that group of mixed Covenant in the little patch of woods, I noticed that one Jackal had a charged Plasma Pistol, so I got out my Human Pistol and quickly took him out. Thing is, he fired his charged shot, it hit an Elite and took out his shields. I then just moved onto the Elite and killed them both with less than 1 clip.

  • 08.30.2004 6:56 AM PDT
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ok im down in the lower part of a bridge on aotcr and theres an elite p.o.ing me so i chuck a gernade to his left and he jumps straight of the bridge like a birdy!!! its a great way to get rid of em.

[Edited on 8/30/2004 7:39:22 AM]

  • 08.30.2004 7:38 AM PDT

Let grunts Sleep!!!

I was driving a warthog and the jackels usualy jump out of the way but this one jumped in front of the worthog and died.

  • 08.30.2004 8:27 AM PDT
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a grunt tries to peg me instead it hits an elite

  • 08.30.2004 9:32 AM PDT
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everyones more or less mentioned everything except when you throw a grenade next to an Elite....they just look at it!

  • 08.30.2004 10:16 AM PDT