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Subject: Have you ever sniped a banshee pilot before?
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well.....................has anyone done it before?


I know that when the elites bank off and come back for another pass to shoot you, that you can see their legs and feet at the back of the banshee, but I have never been able to shoot them down with a sniper rifle and get the undamaged craft..........

love to know if anyone has.

  • 09.17.2004 6:38 AM PDT

bah

You can't. It's impossible and anyone who tells you otherwise is a damn liar.

This coming from the guy who's sniped red Elites in one shot. Bah, probably a glitch.

P.S. Allow me to clarify. AotCR co-op, infinite sniper ammo, and a banshee stuck in a tree. Fired too many shots to count, never scratched it.

[Edited on 9/17/2004 6:45:24 AM]

  • 09.17.2004 6:43 AM PDT
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right..............I thought it was near impossible.

I mean, I am not the best sniper but I can nail invisible elites in the head all the time.

anyways, thanks for clearing that up.

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  • 09.17.2004 6:53 AM PDT
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hmmmmmmm i like a challenge

  • 09.17.2004 9:28 AM PDT

bah

It's not a challenge, it's impossible. I sniped every square centimeter of the rear end of that thing, and it never hit the Elite's foot. I have come to the conclusion that people who say they've done it are dirty liars. Show me proof, and I might believe you. But experience tells me it's impossible.

[Edited on 9/17/2004 9:30:13 AM]

  • 09.17.2004 9:29 AM PDT
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i never said i did ti but its friday and i have a weekend that would otherwise be filled with homework and being nagged by my girlfriend..... just a fun timekiller, maybe if a plasma nade got stuck to the elites foot it would blow up the elite and only heavily damage the banshee

  • 09.17.2004 9:33 AM PDT

Posted by: The Rip Saw
I sniped every square centimeter of the rear end of that thing, and it never hit the Elite's foot.


I've experienced this frustration also. Once when playing AOTCR, one of the banshee pilots on the natural bridge (in the same canyon as the control room) got himself stuck down in that crevice where there is a good stash of human weapons. I went down there and tried to snipe the elite out of the banshee. I shot it from what I thought was every possible position, and couldn't snipe the pilot out. Because of this, I came to the same conclusion as Rip Saw, and figured the game just is not capable of letting you kill a banshee pilot without destroying the banshee.

However, while playing the level Halo on the normal difficulty setting one day, I managed to shoot one of the first two banshee pilots out of his banshee without destroying the banshee. This was more luck than anything, as I was just trying to shoot the banshee down with my pistol. I don't know whether there is a glitch on the level Halo that sometimes registers hits on the banshee as hits on the elite, or it comes about because of a programing difference in Halo banshees versus AOTCR banshees (since even if you manage to kill the pilot and keep the banshee intact on Halo, you cannot get into or fly the banshee).

Since it seems to be something that just happens every once in a while, and is not reproducable through any collection of set circumstances or any measure of skill (since as Rip Saw and I have said, on AOTCR, you can't hit the fish in the barrel, no matter how small the barrel), I believe that it is some sort of tiny glitch that is characteristic only of the banshees on the level Halo.


Sorry Rip Saw, I don't have any film of it.


[Edited on 9/17/2004 11:15:45 AM]

  • 09.17.2004 11:14 AM PDT

bah

Well, if it happened with a pistol I highly doubt you were the cause of his death. The pistol can't snipe them out because you would need to hit their feet with every shot. He most likely brushed up against something while moving upwards past verticle.

  • 09.17.2004 11:30 AM PDT
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its impossible, how do i know?, me and my friend played co op on two betrayals, he got in the banshee just hovered on the ground, i could even see his feet w/out having to zoom in, i shot at every exposed part he had, trust me, u cant

  • 09.17.2004 1:34 PM PDT
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wow, it really is impossible..... i want those 2 hours of my life back

  • 09.17.2004 4:15 PM PDT
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i have tryed you can't do it it inpossible if you have you are just a liar

  • 09.17.2004 5:27 PM PDT
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I have and I kiled 75 % of the elites without harming the bashee before

  • 09.17.2004 6:40 PM PDT

I like my Covenant like i like my woman, screamin and with a sticky on there face.

well if your so good u can just suck my dick

  • 09.17.2004 7:27 PM PDT
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*cough*bull-blam!-*cough*

  • 09.17.2004 7:35 PM PDT

I'm not saying that it is possible on any level with any Banshee. Like I said, I've been in the position to snipe an elite out of a banshee on AOTCR and know how impossible it is. I'm saying that not all banshees are created equal and the first set of banshees on the level Halo are a bit quirky. I can't believe that noone else who has ever seen the Halo banshees come down intact has posted yet. We have previously had threads about them, really.

  • 09.17.2004 7:44 PM PDT
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I, myself, would have to say that I am a good sniper. As one of you have mentioned before that you have shot invisible elites in the head (good job I say) I've done that several times. Also I have sniped everything from SP to MP experience. But over all my experience of sniping...I haven't yet to be able to take out a banshee in mid-flight with a single rather several shots. As I am considering it......it can not be done. But for all of you that believe it can be, good luck and good shooting. That's my two cents, on the subject

  • 09.17.2004 7:44 PM PDT
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as am i..i have even tried it on co-op wit my friend in the banshee...wit the infinite ammo glitch..i was there 4 3 hours...nothing

  • 09.17.2004 7:56 PM PDT
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I shot an elite out of a Banshee on Halo ( 2nd Level ) with an asault rifle.

  • 09.18.2004 2:30 PM PDT
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Some people think they can shoot the pilots out. It's a gitch. Occasionaly when you shoot a Banshee (doesn't have to be with a SR) they'll just fall out. It doesn't happen often. I don't know why it does that.

On the second level I shot a Banshee with a pistol. It was so far away that the rectical almost covered the whole thing. The Elite just fell out. I went up to the Banshee and tried to get in. It won't let you. You can only flip it like the wraith.

There is a way to make the glitch happen in co-op by killing each other like a thousand times. They game can't handle having that much stuff on the map so the enemys (not their vehicles) dissapear. That's not what I did though. I just fired one pistol bullet and the Elite fell out. It's a very rare glitch.

[Edited on 9/18/2004 3:13:14 PM]

  • 09.18.2004 2:47 PM PDT
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Posted by: davidbevans
I have and I kiled 75 % of the elites without harming the bashee before


well i believe him, ive done it before on AotCR with that banshee that comes at you after you kill the wraith.

  • 09.18.2004 7:14 PM PDT
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two hours of 100% sniping says it cant be done ive proved it to myself... if someone can do it alot of the time then record your attempts and try to post them somewhere... and get into the banshee to prove its not a glitch, im not saying your a liar, im just saying that i require proof to believe it, which basically means i think your liar but im giving you the benefit of the doubt

  • 09.18.2004 8:01 PM PDT
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On AOTCR, I was too lazy to take out the banshee on legendary, so I juat had the marines snipe him, it took alot of shots but he came down in flames.

  • 09.18.2004 9:57 PM PDT