- Sardonic13
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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]