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Subject: Teleporters: shouldn't grenades and rockets go through?
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Poll: should you be able to throw grenades and shoot rockets through?  [closed]
yes:  75%
(38 Votes)
no:  20%
(10 Votes)
undecided:  6%
(3 Votes)
Total Votes: 51

i find that just thinking about the teleporters makes me a little confused. a spartan and an elite can go straight through them, but what about grenades and rockets (among other things)? realistically, if there really was a teleporter in the world, it would transport anything of solid matter from point A to point B, so why not a grenade or a rocket? you may look at it as cheap for gameplay, but it makes sense. maybe not on warlock where one teleporter can directly se the other, but really, why not?

if anyone has any ideas or input, dont hesitate to post.

  • 05.24.2006 2:10 PM PDT

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That would certainly spice the battles up. I've always wanted to run through a teleporter, spin around and chuck a grenade through...unfortunantly for Halo 2, it wouldn't work to well.

  • 05.24.2006 2:11 PM PDT

How would they go through on boards likek Coagulation, and Containment?

  • 05.24.2006 2:15 PM PDT
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Beaver Creek
Red Team: Lets all 4 of us camp at the red teleporter they'll comethrough and die :)

Blue Team: Shoot that rocket chuck the gernades thorugh that tele

Red Team: Pwned

Blue Team: Hehe i got a killtacular

My Point
WE should have stuff going through tele it will change every thing

  • 05.24.2006 2:16 PM PDT
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well, parts of it would only work for the 2 way teleporters, like the possibility of a suicide on the "mirror" maps with teleporters (warlock) but it would definately be interesting on coagulation and containment for ctf, cant catch him, huck a grenade!, makes for a more difficult escape and would put a new level of strategy into halo for the new release.

  • 05.24.2006 2:18 PM PDT
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Posted by: Admiral Slash
That would certainly spice the battles up. I've always wanted to run through a teleporter, spin around and chuck a grenade through...unfortunantly for Halo 2, it wouldn't work to well.


No, but what you can do is chuck the grenade frist, then run thru the teleporter and the frag blows up behind you.

Only works in maps that has a wall behind the teleporter, ie: Warlock, Relice.

[Edited on 5/24/2006]

  • 05.24.2006 2:19 PM PDT
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on warlock you shoot a rocket through the teleporter and it materializes behind you on the opposite side of the map and flys right into your back WTF!!!
basicly yes great idea

  • 05.24.2006 2:22 PM PDT
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1.yakzsmelk-WHAT?

2.sixwashington-it would definately save for the campers on beaver creek, but what about campers for other maps like warlock?

3.wuyie-there is a point, but poeple use the teleporter to camp and pwn ppl who dont know any better, as sixwashington said, but it would change the gameplay cause i know so many ppl that use the teleporter waaay too much for no reason, just cause they can, and they would change their strategy to acomidate the changes.

  • 05.24.2006 2:24 PM PDT
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Posted by: Libarate Humanit
on warlock you shoot a rocket through the teleporter and it materializes behind you on the opposite side of the map and flys right into your back WTF!!!
basicly yes great idea

how often is there a rocket launcher on warlock lol. I think this is a great idea tho, but if you did that, technically even bullets should go through. the problem tho is determining what direction the projectile should shoot on maps without walls around the teleporter (coag).

  • 05.24.2006 2:27 PM PDT
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it would make sense if they did.

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Interesting but I like the idea of going through teleporters for safety. Like when 3 guys are running at you and you have nothing but a needler.

  • 05.24.2006 2:30 PM PDT
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you may not like it, but doesnt it make sense? really, remember how cheap the rockets are if you dont have them, i used to pwn with the dual pistold in H2H (head to head) on foundation before they toned them down...it was a fair fight, rockets vs. my dp's but they changed it....and i got used to it, and now the pistols are pretty useless but you get used to it.

and this isnt a practical thread, its an idea for bungie to consider if they so choose, i am also just speaing my mind, or whats left of it from all the halo i play.

  • 05.24.2006 2:31 PM PDT
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If this was true could you create an infite flying rocket on Warlock by shooting directly at one teleporter. It would fly through, appear on the other side, fly through the center area then right back through the teleporter it started with.

  • 05.24.2006 2:41 PM PDT
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if fish is what you want to talk about, go make a fish thread somewhere, otherwise read the topic and make an effort at input, thx.

  • 05.24.2006 2:42 PM PDT
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that could make a cool game type......make it a red rover thing or a survival of the fittest, fire a rocket (or two one higher one lower) and run across the map, have a jugger to fire them and be the mastre, and see who is the last to die while running back and fourth. like the train on terminal, just much quicker to go back and fourth.

  • 05.24.2006 2:45 PM PDT
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This is probably the coolest idea I've read here.

  • 05.24.2006 2:47 PM PDT

Sometimes in life you just gotta play the cards you're dealt.

The only problem they could come up with bullets and rockets is that it may be moving too fast. A grenade would also be going alot faster (especially thrown by a spartan or elite) than the player running. It could also be a "real" reason for the glitchy teleporters you get on beaver creek where you go through but end up in the same teleporter you just went through. (which is REALLY annoying)

Plus if you think about, a teleporter has to breakdown and rearrange all the atoms that pass through it so something moving too fast could easily not go through.

I also think that to go through it the object must have a certain amount of mass as we all know it can be blocked by someone standing there BUT it should also be blocked by air and gas passing through it.

Sorry, I think it would be a REALLY cool idea BUT Bungie could easily use those theorys for a reason not to do it. (but really they just can't be arsed doing it)

  • 05.24.2006 2:52 PM PDT

Posted by: JollyRogerCanada
i find that just thinking about the teleporters makes me a little confused. a spartan and an elite can go straight through them, but what about grenades and rockets (among other things)? realistically, if there really was a teleporter in the world, it would transport anything of solid matter from point A to point B, so why not a grenade or a rocket? you may look at it as cheap for gameplay, but it makes sense. maybe not on warlock where one teleporter can directly se the other, but really, why not?

if anyone has any ideas or input, dont hesitate to post.





I wonder if it simply was just a constraint of the programming. I wouldn't rule out the possibility that doing so would tax computing resources for very little incremental gameplay gain. I'd have to imagine that putting tons of projectiles through a portal and having them come out the other side with the same speed, path, and position as when they came in would probably use up some computing resources.

With players, it seems like the only thing that they have to handle is orientation. Since if you walk into a portal backwards, you come out backwards.

Just throwing that out there.

Maybe it would work just fine. I'm not really that high a level programmer.



  • 05.24.2006 2:54 PM PDT
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y have it go through the tele when you can shoot it. i was playing with my bro once on turf, so we i n a firefight i threw a grenade and he shhotgunned it and bam! it exploded in mid air!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 05.24.2006 2:55 PM PDT

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