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Sorry if this topic has been posted already.
What are your thoughts on the destructable vehicles shown in the video? Do you think these will be customizable in MP (like shields are now?) It looked great to me, but I'd be interested to know what you can do with it.

  • 05.11.2004 10:10 AM PDT
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Never thought of that... sounds like a really cool idea to me. You could have it set to 50% or 400% damage taken.

  • 05.11.2004 11:39 AM PDT
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What would be really cool is if players could be killed by the falling debris an exploding warthog kicks up. Like being taken out by a falling hubcap or something. That would be some serious braging rights.

  • 05.11.2004 11:48 AM PDT

bah

Or infinite. I would still like to play games with the vehicles not being blown up. And I would like to see vehicles damaged by hitting stuff at high speed. Like if a ghost went full speed at a tank, I would think the ghost would take some serios damage when it hit, or when it landed! :)

  • 05.11.2004 11:48 AM PDT
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Who cares about indestructibility! *lol* They take the damage instead of you. Indestructibel vehicles means that you take rocket damage when the rocket slams into your rear bumper. You die instantly. With a destructible vehicle you may take a bit of damage, your Warthog gets busted up but your can still keep fighting.

Further the vehicles respawn. You saw the thing respawn instantly every time they blew it up. Just go grab another one! And if we're really lucky we can set the vehicles to 400% health and play with their spawn times and what variants are available in each game!

Maybe before complaining about what we don't have.... we should look first at what we do have and how it benefits us?

  • 05.11.2004 11:54 AM PDT
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Good idea about playing with respawn times.
My guess is they will do something to eliminate the destructable vehicles...otherwise there won't be as many user movies out there!

  • 05.11.2004 11:57 AM PDT
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Ah.... Warthog jumping. Well, warthog's when damaged only deform. They don't vaporize. You can always slug up that huge mangled carcass of a chassis as high into the air as you want. It just won't be drivable when you get it but then... that's not the point in a warthog jump. After all, in a good warthog jump you use up all the grenades in a level. You can't repeat the process without reverting to save anyways.

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ok, but the real question is this. if the warthog gets put out of commision, can the MC pick up the chaingun/rocket launcher/whatever and use it anyways? i'm going to guess not. and if they're going to make the vehicles take damage, maybe they're considering putting a finite amount of ammo for them also? i'd also like to be able to pick up a warthog tire and melee with it. ALSO, if you're riding out in a warthog and you've got people in the passenger's side and gunner's spot, and an enemy kicks you off and takes your seat, what happens then? i don't remember the passenger being able to turn far enough to the side to shoot the driver, and i know the gunner couldn't do anything. maybe the passenger can crawl over and boot the driver off too.

  • 05.11.2004 12:02 PM PDT
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HA - melee attack with a tire. That would be fun to watch...MC running around with the tire trying to b*tch slap an elite who is hitting back with the rear fender.

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Or play bowling with elites as the pins...

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Posted by: Draerden
Who cares about indestructibility! *lol* They take the damage instead of you. Indestructibel vehicles means that you take rocket damage when the rocket slams into your rear bumper. You die instantly. With a destructible vehicle you may take a bit of damage, your Warthog gets busted up but your can still keep fighting.

Further the vehicles respawn. You saw the thing respawn instantly every time they blew it up. Just go grab another one! And if we're really lucky we can set the vehicles to 400% health and play with their spawn times and what variants are available in each game!

Maybe before complaining about what we don't have.... we should look first at what we do have and how it benefits us?


I assumed that the vehicles respawned so that they could keep on showing off without having to restart the demo. The days of Warthog jumping are limited anyway! A clever tactic to stop us getting off the map though! I'm assuming that debris does cause damage because the secondary explosion from the Ghost flew right through the Elite killing him.

  • 05.11.2004 12:42 PM PDT
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hmmm....

seems though that the vehicles are slower when damaged? true? No?

also do the vehicles respawn after beeing tooled?

MS

  • 05.11.2004 2:27 PM PDT
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OK i think its pretty damn awesome
And I think that it was respawning that quickly to show it off
But to tell you the truth
So far, Bungie has done like everything anyone has wanted in this forum or elsewhere aight
So duh
I am sure that you will be able to change respawn times and add different options guys

  • 05.11.2004 2:32 PM PDT