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Subject: Does the Banshee actually require skill to use?
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  • 01.12.2012 11:09 AM PDT
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Gamesager and Krusty Pigeon and other Banshee users always say it's easy, but I think it's hard as balls. I always kill like two people and then crash and blow up.

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Gamesager and Krusty Pigeon and other Banshee users always say it's easy, but I think it's hard as balls. I always kill like two people and then crash and blow up.
The same way you say it's so easy to get a doubles 50.

You've mastered the playlist and own it, just like they own their vehicles.

Doubles playlist was my b.itch.

  • 01.12.2012 11:42 AM PDT

not really, people who usually get 30+ kills in the thing usually are up against people who dont shoot the damn thing.

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Posted by: crispyham
not really, people who usually get 30+ kills in the thing usually are up against people who dont shoot the damn thing.

Even against retards I struggle to stay alive in that thing. How do people flip so much and still shoot accurately?

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Posted by: crispyham
not really, people who usually get 30+ kills in the thing usually are up against people who dont shoot the damn thing.

Even against retards I struggle to stay alive in that thing. How do people flip so much and still shoot accurately?
cause ppl just use the fuel rod. the splash dmg is huge. fire and forget

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Posted by: crispyham
not really, people who usually get 30+ kills in the thing usually are up against people who dont shoot the damn thing.

Even against retards I struggle to stay alive in that thing. How do people flip so much and still shoot accurately?

  • 01.12.2012 11:54 AM PDT

If the banshee was sooooo easy to use like tards in this thread are saying it is......


.... why don't they have unfrigs and -blam!-.

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Posted by: crispyham
not really, people who usually get 30+ kills in the thing usually are up against people who dont shoot the damn thing.

Even against retards I struggle to stay alive in that thing. How do people flip so much and still shoot accurately?

Shoot the Fuel rod a fraction of a second after activating the flip and it goes much faster to its target.

Don't you know that already?

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So you think Reach is an actual Halo game, huh? LOL
Jesus! There's a BoB in ma Falcon!

It all kinda depends, its not hard to get kills with it, but its hull is weak as hell. So, in my opinion, I would say it does take skill to survive long periods of time since I have 20 unfrigs with the Banshee. In my biased opinion, I think it takes skill to a certain degree.

  • 01.12.2012 11:59 AM PDT
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I'd say the Banshee has the lowest skill requirement out of all Reach vehicles, but it does require some amount of skill to be effective with it.

Warthog unfrigg > Banshee unfrigg

no, if the hog driver is decent then I would put them on almost the same level. The banshee has mobility, but the hog is a lot tougher. A banshee is a flying ghost with a bomb.

here, I will order them from easiest to hardest IMO

Scorpion
Ghost
Revy
Hog & Banshee
Wraith
mongoose
Wat, how does the Wraith take more skill than a Warthog? The Hog can only take 60 DMR shots (compared to ~30 for banshee) and its requirement of having two players communicating in order to be effective should put it (and the Falcon) way above the other vehicles in terms of difficulty to master. This is also not mentioning the absolute horrid physics the Reach Hog was blessed with like rolling over at the slightest breeze.

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Flying a banshee is easy.

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Flying a banshee is easy.
Nice way of completely ignoring what the OP is asking and say "Flying a banshee is easy" as if it answers the OP's question.

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Posted by: crispyham
not really, people who usually get 30+ kills in the thing usually are up against people who dont shoot the damn thing.

Even against retards I struggle to stay alive in that thing. How do people flip so much and still shoot accurately?


1600 for lessons. :-P

being serious though; it's just practice, learning how to accelerate bombs, and staying alive.

Once you've got the bombs down you can kill everything, after that you just need to keep it alive long enough to make a positive impact. That said, between two good teams it's not going to stay up long, and getting any sort of positive return from it is good.

[Edited on 01.12.2012 12:18 PM PST]

  • 01.12.2012 12:17 PM PDT


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I'd say the Banshee has the lowest skill requirement out of all Reach vehicles, but it does require some amount of skill to be effective with it.

Warthog unfrigg > Banshee unfrigg

no, if the hog driver is decent then I would put them on almost the same level. The banshee has mobility, but the hog is a lot tougher. A banshee is a flying ghost with a bomb.

here, I will order them from easiest to hardest IMO

Scorpion
Ghost
Revy
Hog & Banshee
Wraith
mongoose
id say
tank
banshee
wraith
rev
hog
ghost
mongoose.

but thats because im decent with wraith, and most of my hog drivers are retarded

  • 01.12.2012 12:20 PM PDT

Obviously it takes skill.

  • 01.12.2012 1:01 PM PDT

Boltshot = mini shotgun

Not in my opinion. I've gotten a few easy Running Riots with it before dying from team DMR fire.
But I've also seen people going something like 30-0 with only the banshee.

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It can take skill to be a good pilot, but most 'teams' just let the laggiest person on their team flip constantly, so that he teleports everywhere and can't be hit.

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Hmm... nice assortment of replies I'm having here, thanks for taking the time answering my question.

It's been on my mind for quite some time, it's nice to see other people's opinions on this matter.

  • 01.12.2012 1:22 PM PDT

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Life is a journey, if you spend all of it with your nose in your map, you may miss some of the best parts.

It takes skill to not die in a deathtrap.

  • 01.12.2012 1:23 PM PDT

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