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Did anyone else find this feature irritating? Grenades were already weakened in H2, and if you try to throw one at someone dual wielding (particularly with SMGs), there's a fair chance of it getting destroyed. Essentially negating a skillful tactic.

And what about those deaths where you've thrown a grenade, only for a grenade that wasn't there on your screen to cause yours to detonate in your hand, resulting in your death? Grenades should always be a viable option in battle, and throwing them should be less of a punishment.

  • 05.11.2006 9:51 AM PDT

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It was always funny when you did it to someone else.. But.. Ugh.
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  • 05.11.2006 9:55 AM PDT

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I rather liked it. If you had a fast eye with a Sniper Rifle covering your back, they could pick off stray grenades as they were falling. I never had a problem with my grenades hitting unless they were picked off by someone actually aiming for them, and that action got my respect rather than my contempt.

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Not only should they be able to be destoryed in air, if you shoot them on the ground they should explode as well

  • 05.11.2006 9:56 AM PDT

Posted by: WolfmanMaverick
You people have just sent my sides into orbit. A bunch of MLG try hards sucking the dick of some supposed pro half the thread hasn't even heard of. Classic.

It helps balance the gameplay a little bit better. Take it out and people will start complaining that grenades are too powerful. So I say keep it.

  • 05.11.2006 9:57 AM PDT

id like rockets to be dectructable....imagine being in the hogs passenger seat. hearing the swooooosh if impending death. and firing madly to take out any sob close enough, and luckily your shot penetrates the rockets outer hull, breaches the detonation rods causing the thing to blow......well i think it would be cool

  • 05.11.2006 9:58 AM PDT

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i liked the grenades better in halo 1, you could throw them farther than bret favre

  • 05.11.2006 10:02 AM PDT
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I rather liked it. If you had a fast eye with a Sniper Rifle covering your back, they could pick off stray grenades as they were falling. I never had a problem with my grenades hitting unless they were picked off by someone actually aiming for them, and that action got my respect rather than my contempt.

When you consider latency and no auto aim on the grenades to ensure you hit even if you miss on the host xbox, it's more luck than anything else. I'm not saying that it's not skillful, at least if we're dealing with precision weapons here, but online, having to compensate for an unknown amount of latency makes it pretty much impossible. It's hard enough to do it on your own host!

  • 05.11.2006 10:04 AM PDT

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I rather liked it. If you had a fast eye with a Sniper Rifle covering your back, they could pick off stray grenades as they were falling. I never had a problem with my grenades hitting unless they were picked off by someone actually aiming for them, and that action got my respect rather than my contempt.


Hmm, I've had worse problems than you.. If someone is spraying you with the SMG and you toss a grenade, their one stray bullet would blow it up in my face.. I've never seen someone intentionally do that.

  • 05.11.2006 10:05 AM PDT

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I say they should chain-react with grenades on the ground, blow up in midair if shot with more powerful weapons, and be re-directed in midair if shot with, say, an SMG or other "weak" weapon.

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No it shouldn't come back but! it should be only if a BR or sniper is hitting it then it should be destroyable out of the hand or in mid air..but this is halo an FPS not a RPG. Other grenades should not set other nades off in mid air. That part of the nade combat should be H1 combat so when two nades are thrown 1 nade doesn't set off the other in mid air or out of hand. I shoud not have to wait to throw nades in a FPS when somebody is throwning a nade at the same time. It shouldn't be you throw your nade first and then I throw my nade when you are clear from the fire fight. It remindes me of an RPG game and this is Halo not Final Fantasy.

  • 05.11.2006 10:10 AM PDT
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It did kinda suck in h2, especially when i went to MLG LA. All my nades kept on getting shot and then i would get one shotted cuz i had no shield, but i do think it should be the same in HALO 3, because it makes you rely more on your weapon, rather than 'nades.

  • 05.11.2006 10:12 AM PDT
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Posted by: Alexei TND
id like rockets to be dectructable....imagine being in the hogs passenger seat. hearing the swooooosh if impending death. and firing madly to take out any sob close enough, and luckily your shot penetrates the rockets outer hull, breaches the detonation rods causing the thing to blow......well i think it would be cool


Yes! I would love to see destructable rockets!! I also want to see destructable grenades back and destructable 'nades from the brute shot.

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  • 05.11.2006 10:24 AM PDT
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Yes!

  • 05.11.2006 10:32 AM PDT
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I rather liked it. If you had a fast eye with a Sniper Rifle covering your back, they could pick off stray grenades as they were falling. I never had a problem with my grenades hitting unless they were picked off by someone actually aiming for them, and that action got my respect rather than my contempt.


Hmm, I've had worse problems than you.. If someone is spraying you with the SMG and you toss a grenade, their one stray bullet would blow it up in my face.. I've never seen someone intentionally do that.

That has never once happened to me, that's strange.

  • 05.11.2006 10:35 AM PDT
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Destructable rockets would be kickass, and it would help counter the lock-on.

  • 05.11.2006 10:41 AM PDT
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When you shoot a grenade it doesn't explode in reality. All that happens is you put a hole in the grenade. Wow, congrats. So no, we should not be able to shoot a grenade out of the air. Maybe have the grenade drop or slow down when shot, but not blow up in your face.

  • 05.11.2006 10:55 AM PDT