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Posted by: Iggwilv
I'll add that to the list. I can't stand stuff like that, for instance grenade-jumping. Who is there right mind is going to intentionally throw a live-grenade at there feet so they can reach a ledge they normally wouldn't be able to?


Think of all the cool things the Halo community has been able to do because of grenade jumping. Think of all the neat videos you've seen of someone using a grenade-jump to exploit or show off some easter egg in the game.

  • 04.23.2006 6:44 AM PDT
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Double posting won't get you anywhere, Omnios.

  • 04.23.2006 8:27 AM PDT

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It will get him a seat on the blacklist bench.

But, if he would care to go into more detail i.e. What kind of bots, where in the game would you want them, what kinds of things would you want to do, that might generate some worthwhile discussion. If you explain in more detail you may spark an idea in one of the programmers(assuming they read this post) and they may implement something. That's what this post is about, discussing the pros and cons of an idea and come up with a list of suggestions for the developers.

  • 04.23.2006 9:35 AM PDT

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Now your talking! If someone leaves the match and it would make teams numerically unfair, a bot would take its place until anoter player joined. Nice idea now let's go into that further. Here are some things off the top of my head to consider:

1. Skill of players affect the balance of teams. 4 pros can beat 12 newbs

2. When the new player joins will he take over at that instant in the heat of the battle or will the spartan respawn?

3. What actions will the bots take: attack the nearest enemy; try for the flag; get on the back of a hog(drool); run in circles making fire engine noises.

4. How accurate/skilled should the bot be? Maybe the admin could set the skill level. Should it have tactics 'Noob bot' only uses heavies lol

5. Maybe have the team be able to give command to the bots. Defend base, get in the hog.

6. How much programming would it take to do half of the above?

C'mon guys chime in this could be something new. Do any other games do anything similar?

  • 04.23.2006 10:10 AM PDT
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Wow, 5 years old, incredibly, lggwilv hope you added bots to the list, now you forget something, you could do it for videos, or making movies. Ok, in a movie, you could add 15 bots to the map, let them fight, while you record it, you could make a war movie and do that, and do voice overs.

  • 04.23.2006 11:40 AM PDT
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It would be pretty fun if you could control them too, like you say blue team line up, and red team line up, and then they charge at each other and bash like mad, that would be funny.

  • 04.23.2006 11:48 AM PDT
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Posted by: OmniosSpartan
also when you start out with no wepons i would like to be able to puch someone.


They already have a melee attack.

  • 04.23.2006 3:09 PM PDT
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Bots would be a nice touch, but lets think about that for a moment, bots online practicly rule and therefore ruin the online community. I dont want to go to a server filled with bots! make a way to tell if the player is a bot BEFORE we enter the server, I want to play against a real person, not a computer.

  • 04.23.2006 10:41 PM PDT
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I would like to add a voice asking for a return of the Race gametype. Halo PC has a small but very dedicated race community and many of us consider the race gametype as a required feature to buy Halo 2 PC.

Being able to move the flags would be great.

I would love for Halo 2 PC to include a level editor, but put Race in, first.

Other CE features like names of teammates over your head and server message would be nice.

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  • 05.12.2006 4:27 PM PDT
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I wouldn't mind bots much. But I think the host should be given the choice of whether he wants to use them or not.

I'm thinking of a dynamic bot: everytime a bot gets killed, it goes faster, harder to kill, and more aggressive next time it spawns. But everytime it gets a kill, it gets slower, easier to kill, and more passive next time it spawns. How about it, eh?

  • 05.12.2006 7:56 PM PDT
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LoL, well imagine if the whole a 8 player red team spawn camps a bot, after 100 kills it went insane and pro like sticking people on the heads left and right, getting massive kills with a BR doing headshot, the bot would be unstoppable.

  • 05.12.2006 8:14 PM PDT
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Well, like I said, it should be the host's decision to use bots or not. I think Halo 2 PC is better off without bots, actually.

  • 05.12.2006 8:19 PM PDT
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Yeah...imagine the possiblities, guys!

New001:Get Down, Dammit!
Bot001: Firing at target
New001: Ah...crap, now you've done it. They've seen us. My sniping cover's blown.
Bot001: Enemy in range...using Rocket Launcher
New001: No, not at this rang-

Game Over.

  • 05.12.2006 8:49 PM PDT
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I think they should take out Level System. It would only give hackers and modders more desire to hack or mod.

Game Types? Can't think of any.
Weapons? I think they should allow to take out a specific gun. Let's say you don't like Noob Combo, you can just go to a list of "Unwanted Weapons" and select Plasma Pistol. The game then won't respawn plasma pistol and may replace it with a Magnum.
The options they have now on Halo 2 though are really good.

Edit: Forgot. It would be cool, at least for me, if you could use Halo 1 weapons and Halo 2 Weapons at the same time. Of course, if I was Bungie, which I'm not, but if I was, it would make the Halo 1 Pistol a little less powerful. I would make it take 5 headshots to kill someone, it's not the same as the BR that takes 4, but msot of the time, even when it should take four shots, you end up using 5 shots with the BR, also since Halo 1 Pistol shoots pretty fast and it's automatic. Oh, also, should they take out automatic in Halo 1 Pistol? Should also the BR have automatic? I think it would make some sense...

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  • 05.13.2006 10:18 AM PDT
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Al have great idea's, I would like a return of the h1 maps to h2 being able to select them before them atch. Also just like a "gametype" I would like you to be able to toggle the h1pc weapon select. If people want to play with a fuel rod and halo1 pistol they should be able to. I wouldnt mind paying 10 dollars more for this game if it had the old halo1 weapons in it.

Also the halo1 physics were just better. Halo1 had a lot of fun replay value, I flunked many of test in college beacuse i played h1 for tooo long. H2 was fun but it got old after a whileand i eventually quit playing. Im not saying turn h2pc into h1 just make the h1 weapons selectable. Bring back TImberland and ice fields

  • 05.13.2006 1:33 PM PDT
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Halo 1's physics were primitive at best. I think havok is much better, expecialy for mods.

  • 05.13.2006 1:41 PM PDT