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Subject: allies need a major ai upgrade.

well, playing halo 2 is fun. so is halo one. but in halo 1, i had to babysit the marines ALL the time. they rarely helped. in halo 2, they were more helpfull, and i could actually rely on them. but still, the idiots would rush in (one by one, to make it worse) into a room filled with snipers and hunters in legendary. i hated losing a good squad of 5 marines in "gravemind" to a cowardly jackal or a retarded hunter. if they actually were a bit cautious, not one would fall victim to the enemy on my watch.

now, how about having them deal with different types of enemies differently? like with a sniper jackal, they could ....well, i dont know, not rush out into the open? maybe they could peek, or something. or with hunters, maybe they can fall back once in a while and not meet the melee head on? just some ideas.

  • 05.17.2006 6:09 PM PDT
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Wow, this exact same post is almost literally right below yours. Read before you post.

  • 05.17.2006 6:10 PM PDT

upgraded stratagies, well just let them have a stratagy, and let them mow down the weak grunts and drones but let them coordinate against larger enemies like elites and jackals
but the brutes and hunters, unless they have a RL or gauss they would get slaughtered w/o your help

also let them change to a better weapon when they find one i saw far too many marines run over a carbine, BR, or covie snipe while carring an SMG or plasma rifle

  • 05.17.2006 6:16 PM PDT

(10:19:49 PM) Scruss: oh and pezza, i saw what you did to that cat
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I didn't read what you said, but yes they do need to get reworked.

  • 05.17.2006 6:17 PM PDT

Posted by: Apocalypse3210
but the brutes and hunters, unless they have a RL or gauss they would get slaughtered w/o your help

yea, thats where the problem is. with the hunters, maybe they could coordinate an attack. one (or two) throws a nade, some others flank, and the thing goes down. maybe thats asking too much though.

  • 05.17.2006 6:22 PM PDT

Posted by: fwankman88
Wow, this exact same post is almost literally right below yours. Read before you post.
wow you are so smart!! what a coincidence, as i clicked the "new topic" that post didnt even exist! it was posted just as i was typing up this idea. nice work detective.


look before you post.

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  • 05.17.2006 6:25 PM PDT
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yea, the allies that are supposudly helping u barely do anything. im in a tight squeez in the game and i think my guys would save me, they stand there and stare...so i kill em myself and then i die.

  • 05.17.2006 6:28 PM PDT

Posted by: thebrandon721
yea, the allies that are supposudly helping u barely do anything. im in a tight squeez in the game and i think my guys would save me, they stand there and stare...so i kill em myself and then i die.
haha yea i do that alot. when the checkpoint reloads, i kill them dead a couple of times over.

  • 05.17.2006 6:35 PM PDT
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At least they don't shoot eachother anymore. Remember Assault on the Control Room, that big cave right after you pick up Fire Team Charlie, you couldn't ever get out of the tank to snipe because Sergeant Johnson would surly kill one or more marines with his sniper rifle. lol

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I just wanna know that why when your mc you go agianst countless strong elites but when your the arbiter you get like 2 elites that duck and cover and hide.

  • 05.17.2006 6:40 PM PDT
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join SWAT? What's that?

  • 05.17.2006 6:42 PM PDT
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If you invite me to your group you will be blocked.

everytime on legendary i had this perfect plan the could never go wrong, and almost every. single. damned. time, the marines ran out into the open and went "look!! they're shooting at us!!" and stood there, making sure the elites knew i was there, or i was coming.

  • 05.17.2006 6:47 PM PDT

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About your little thing on Gravemind.Me and my friend had carbines,rescued all the marines,gave them carbines.It was madness in any firefight we engaged...And with the marines,they dont tend to be stealthy.Everytime an enemy appeared you'd hear the shots fly off.The only thing was at the end of the level,right before the maulseum( spelling?)I had 3 marines due to hunters,and lost those 3 in the fight....Curse the FRC..

  • 05.17.2006 6:51 PM PDT
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Maybe they could stop trying to run in front of me while i'm driving. I'm driving a frakin' scorpian and I still somehow run over the idiots. How come they do that!?
"I'm gonna jump out f the way by jumping into the vehicle!" [roadkill]

.........That's HOT........

Would be very nice if they didn't commit suicide also, I had a few with rocket launchers shooting at the wall because they can't get around the corner, and the explosion kills themseves. Screw killing them on my will, they get themselves in the way.

And one more thing while on vehicles, Me drive ghost on the level after cairo station [haven't played campaign in a whiel] and marines drive warthog. They run over my ghost, blowing it up, killing me. I respawn and drive warthog. Marine in ghost drives in my way and explosion nearly destroys warthog.

First choice of words: "F***ING MORONS! LEARN TO DRIVE!" It's like half of them are illega immigrants or something. And if that offended any illegal immigrats out there, get a green card so it won't offend you anymore.

  • 05.17.2006 6:59 PM PDT
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i beleive their new AI engineer is there to help... i prefered halo 1's marines in some way... they did look cool when they used formations but they were way too weak. in halo 2 they weren'.t cool( and we never had enenought) plyus they tryed to cruoch when fighting even if a berserking brute was running into them. the D-Pad should be used for it, in halo 3. You know,

Hold position
Attack
Use grenade
Get cover

That would do it good huh they would no longer shoot you, but you woukld be able to ENABLE or DISABLE grenading and hide them from snipes( then their upgraded AI should make them kill the sniper one way or another like by throwing one helmet to disturb jacki and then use their own rifle to kill him...

  • 05.17.2006 7:03 PM PDT

Posted by: Chain Blade09
About your little thing on Gravemind.Me and my friend had carbines,rescued all the marines,gave them carbines.It was madness in any firefight we engaged...


i got all the marines past the hunters in legendary...like on the seventh try. usually a hunter would take out one or two. the first one went down in about 20 seconds (i had a carbine, 2 rounds on brute shot, and a few nades) and the next, to my surprise, was taken out by a blast of fire by the marines. it was facing me, ready to strike, and all five fired carbines and took him down....in like 4 seconds. the next room took like 6 tries to have all five with sniper rifles, and unharmed. the jackals were the problem in that room.i currently am on the transporting thing (where in amber clad apears.)

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  • 05.17.2006 7:04 PM PDT