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Subject: Halo 2 PLAYED AGAIN.MORE INFO IF YOU WANT( PLAYED AT FANFEST TOO!!)
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dang guys i meant my last halo 2 info post to spread the word on halo 2 not to be shut down. (F-U kia grunt you dont always have to be such an ass)
i work at gamestop and go to e3 everyyear first off. Second yes, halo 2 demo is closed to only media by appointment only. I stood by the exit door for one of the theaters for 2 hours to see if someone left early or didnt show up to play. I went in and got 2 friends in to watch. today I did the same thing for another 2 friends and it still worked, maybe if they post will you believe them.
-second now i have also played halo 2 at fanfest for another 30 minutes.
I waited in standby for 2 hours to get in.
Heres some stuff i didnt quite explain last thread. and i try to answer the questions too...ill do my best cause there so many... and ill be at e3 all day tom too...
1) Health is no longer it seems. ALl there is is a shield bar, you get shot-the shiled depletes then towards the end the shots you take get extra bloody( which is cool) then you die. IF you dont die it seems that your shields just recharge and thats that. No more health packs from what I played.

2) When I said the game is slower I mean how everything is, the units seem to run a little slower, it just has a slower pace. no too much of a noticable difference and once you get into it you wont even notice.

3) the chief jumps a lot higher, he can clear ghosts.

4) the needler is the -blam!- now. It basically has the smae fire rate as an smg. The needles travel a lot faster, and are still homing.

5) palsma sword is sick. Its scary to face one. you can lock onto someone about the distance of the top of a bloodgulch base and lunge for a one hit kill. or two hits with a side swing by pressing melee by stangind close to them.

6) there was no lag in the game what so ever.

7)My opinion: In multiplayer I believe that the graphics are turned down adn a lot of the animations are "dumbed down" I think this is to help accomodate for xbox live. The walls and stuff dont seemd as textured as the 8 min from last year and a lot of the explosions from grenades (especially plamas) dont have the same effect.

8) the walls in most places seem to be destructable. By the turrets if the warthog fires a missle all the walls in front crumble and disapear.

9) there was no sprinting.
10) no new grenades that i found. only covie weapons i found were the plasma sword, plasma rifle, and needler.
11)the ghost is the same as before but the boost is fast and you absolutely cant turn. cant board ghost with flag which i think sucks.
12)in the demo level there was no pistol. The new assault rife in zoom mode is pretty close to a pistol in accuracy and range. Plus is shots as fast as you can pull the trigger with singel shots. when its not zoomed if you just press trigger for a sec it does a 3 burst fire and if you hold down the trigger its automatic with bad recoil.
13) recoil will take some getting used too
14) BOARDING VEHICLES: I couldnt do it. I kept getting ran over. My friend did it a couple times on a ghost. Here are some cool points: The guy who gets his ride jacked took no dmg from the takeover. In fanfest the was a guy who started yelling that he knocked out a passanger from the warthog and said that he was riding with the enemy. But i didnt see it with my own eyes.

thats all i can think of right now... Fanfest was really fun this year my second year going. Everyone that went got to play halo 2 so if you dont belive me finally ( which you can all suck my coc k for bashing me so much) and read somone else thread that went to fanfest.
Thanks to bungie I meet the voice of guilty spark and sgt johnson. won a halo soundtrack which i already have. Ate some weird ass pizza and water( no soda?) had a great time playing halo 1 lan. and played halo 2 again for 30 minutes which by the way seems like 5 mintues when your in there.
the chic that was there that runs the bungie store ( alta i think her name was?) was really cute...I think im in love but i dont have the balls to talk to her:( she seems a littld old for me, probably married or something.
And I got a free red vs blue dvd.
All in all- really great night.
p.s. post questions -blam!- i might not of mentioned, and ill be on tom -after 11 pm those of you who get hostile when I dont answer in 3 hours or less- sorry! a holes

[Edited on 5/14/2004 12:36:48 AM]

  • 05.14.2004 12:23 AM PDT
Subject: Halo 2 played againg more info for you guys, played at fanfest also...
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Yeah, did anything else happen at fanfest besides a lan party? I wanna see some more videos posted or something. If fanfest consisted of the fans there, what a jip. Also, what do you think of vehicle boarding? Is it too easy? Does it happen too often? Will it make the multiplayer overall less fun?

  • 05.14.2004 12:35 AM PDT
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We saw the voices of 343 guilty spark and sgt johnson. There was a rafle and some lucky bastard won the limited edition box (empty of course) and we played halo 2. that was all. As for so limited people there is only so many seats for everyone to play h2, and we played for 30 minutes each so the 2 1/2 hours we were in there the rooms were filled.
As for the vehicle hijacking, i tried and never got it. Got ran the f*** over each time. My friend claims to have done it twice. I never saw it done in any of the games i played, mostly just death by grille

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  • 05.14.2004 12:40 AM PDT
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Couple of questions.
1) Was there a warthog in the game you were playng( may be a dumb question) and could people steal it from you like they do with the ghost in the video?

2) What dual wielding options were availible ( smg + needler) what about the battle rifle or other human weapons?

3) How many xboxes were system linked ( were there "empty" boxes like on halo where more xboxes could be connected )what did the menus look like?

4) What are the new icons on the HUD and what do they mean? How do they work with CTF

5) Is the lock on feature only against vehicles or everything?

6) Does the warthog rocket launcher have lock on?

7) What human weapons did you get to use? Any thing new with the sniper rifle?

8) How does the new warthog handle? I heard something about a handbreak or something? Horn?

9) Was any voice communicator being used? This referrs to the thing Frankie mentioned about being able to find your teemates faster in battle. Any idea what he meant?

10) What happened if you drive vehicles in the water, Any cool water physics (spashes, wake)?

Well I guess thats more than a few questions, Hopefully you can answer some of them for all of us. I have been holed up all week for finals week and thinking of nothing but you lucky guys at E3. Thanks

  • 05.14.2004 12:46 AM PDT
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1)yes there was a warthog and 2 ghosts. It drives the same and the l trigger is a brake now. I didnt drive in the water, adn i didnt drive the hog to much because to me the map seemed really small and the hog always attracted hails of bullets. My friend stole a ghost twice, I died like 6 times in a row trying to do it.
2) you can only dual wield single handed weapons, I couldnt pick up smg and shotgun. and the new ar counts as two handed it seems.
3) therer were 10 boxes all on seperate tvs. Menus were completely different. One interesting thing is that at the end the was only the score of kills and deahts for the team- not individuals. but maybe just for demo i dont know.
4) there wer lost of icons at times but i didnt know what they meant. They seemed to only go on when we had the flag but I really didnt pay attention to them. Th flag icon which was easy folower the flag carrier, and it had a icon iwith a flag with an x that marked where the flag was dropped. The icons are like nav indicators with different symbols that i didnt know what each one meant. There was no communicator, And I think the symbols tell you who each player might be or possibly what weapon they moght have.
5) the warthog launcher didnt have lock on, I never found the rocket launcher. the sniper rifle is the exact same.
6) the water was kinda bland just like assualt on control in halo 1. I never drove or did anything in the water.

  • 05.14.2004 12:57 AM PDT
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is there surface deformation? like being able to blast holes in the ground and then crawl in

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no...

  • 05.14.2004 1:00 AM PDT
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Thanks,

Sorry but I got a few more questions,

Was there any difference in shooting a sparton or an elite? ( cause the elites seem like they would be a bigger target)

With the plasma sword there is a lock on and a melee attack. Is there any way to link the regular melees ( In the video he seems to do a couple of different swings like a regulat upper cut in the begining when they introduce the elite)

Was there any use for that big circle spinning thing in the middle of the map? ( It looks like you might be able to use it to get somewhere or something?)

Did you see or hear anything past a Killtacular?

Sorry for all the weird questions, Im just really curious, and extreamely jealous.

  • 05.14.2004 1:10 AM PDT

The entire fleet is engaged Cortana, with respect what the hell sorta reinforcements have you got?

could you see ur feet when you looked down?
i think i saw a clip were you could

  • 05.14.2004 1:14 AM PDT
Subject: Halo 2 PLAYED AGAIN.MORE INFO IF YOU WANT( PLAYED AT FANFEST TOO!!)
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Question, if there are grenades lying on the ground and you shoot them, do they explode? I really wanted this in Halo first time I tried it, but it doesn't work, does it now?

  • 05.14.2004 2:21 AM PDT
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Actually, there were at least 30 boxes, all with their own TV's. During Fanfest the festivalers were taken into the closed room for 15 on 15 CTF. Shiska, one of the mods confirms.

Wow...15 on 15 !!

  • 05.14.2004 4:03 AM PDT
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There wasn't 30 people playing at the same time, it was said to be 4 v 4 CTF

  • 05.14.2004 5:22 AM PDT

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An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.

I would appreciate it if those of you who played the demo could tell me everything you know about the controls in the demo.

I really want to hear about dual-wielding: how do you manage, cycle through, and switch dual-wield'ables.

If you are dual-wielding a Needler in your left hand, and the SMG in your right.. How would you walk up a Plasma Rifle and switch it out for your SMG?

Or, just the opposite.. how would you switch out the Plasma Rifle for your Needler?

If I start out with an SMG, but I want to later dual wield the SMG in my left hand... Do I have to walk up to a dual wield'able, and press 'x' first (to pick up the other weapon and drop the SMG), before I can "re-pick up" the SMG to dual wield it in my left hand?

  • 05.14.2004 5:35 AM PDT
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is the sniper rifile still plain black?

[Edited on 5/14/2004 6:32:24 AM]

  • 05.14.2004 6:32 AM PDT
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how about melee combo's?
since there is no more health, does plasma still tear through shields?
exactly what weapons were in the game?
if you have, for example, 2 needlers equipped and a battle rifle as your other weapon, can you switch to the battle rifle while hanging on to both dual wielded weapons, or do you have to drop one before you can switch?
any potential problems you may have perceived?
and for gods sake, please tell me dual needlers is the $hit!

[Edited on 5/14/2004 11:00:26 AM]

  • 05.14.2004 10:54 AM PDT
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Hmm no split screen for Halo 2 is a major problem.

  • 05.14.2004 11:08 AM PDT
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What is this, a joke? You take damage once you get kicked off the ghost. There's proof of it in the 20 sec multiplay video.

  • 05.14.2004 11:18 AM PDT
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who said there was no split screen for halo 2? ive never heard that anywhere

  • 05.14.2004 11:29 AM PDT
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Posted by: Gunklap17
Hmm no split screen for Halo 2 is a major problem.


What are you talking about. Where did you here this?

  • 05.14.2004 11:36 AM PDT
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Hey Snyperwolf, sorry, but I was one of those who ragged on you, saying that you couldn't have gone and played Halo 2. I just thought it wierd that a fan was able to go play.(I thought you were just a fan cause you didn't mention you worked with Gamestop.) So sorry for the a-holeness.

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  • 05.14.2004 11:41 AM PDT

Posted by: HaloHeaven
Hey Snyperwolf, sorry, but I was one of those who ragged on you, saying that you couldn't have gone and played Halo 2. I just thought it wierd that a fan was able to go play.(I thought you were just a fan cause you didn't mention you worked with Gamestop.) So sorry for the a-holeness.


You apologize too quickly. I still don't beleive a word he says.

  • 05.14.2004 12:30 PM PDT
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can someone tell me wtf gunklap was talking about there being no split screen, im sure its not true but why would he say that?

  • 05.14.2004 12:33 PM PDT
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i believe nothing he says. there is no proof. and saying that you work at gamestop is not proof.

  • 05.14.2004 12:40 PM PDT
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I believe him about the being no health shields only, mainly because i like this idea and want to believe that its true, but also because the gamespy review mentions a new shield system

  • 05.14.2004 12:56 PM PDT
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Unless he has a high ranking job there I doubt working at gamestop will get anyone into e3.

  • 05.14.2004 1:00 PM PDT

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