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Subject: Armor abilities are completely useless

I'm not racist, I own a colored TV

They cause more problems than they solve (Beating a dead horse for sure)

Sprint- Up the movement speed and you don't need sprint. Downing the moving speed makes strafing ineffective.

Armor Lock- I don't know why they even added this. You are protected for 10 seconds or so and once you come out, you are dead anyway.

Evade- Seems fine, until someone evades into you just to melee you to force you to trade kills

Hologram- Nobody falls for this 2 years after it's release

Camo- Gives good camo if crouched and only when crouched. If you crouch, why is the radar jammer up? Useless perk.

Drop Shield- A dumbed down weaker version of bubble shield.

Jet pack- Map control destroyed, used to get to unfair locations (I've seen a lot of snipers who think they're "good" jetpack to the same location [usually on hemorrage] and fire 3 whole clips to get one kill. Fantastic, that they know how to use the sniper to support their team (I can only dream).

Not to mention, if you get their precious sniper, they will betray you to sit in the back of the map with it.

Thanks Bungie and 343. I appreciate it.

Thoughts?





[Edited on 04.16.2012 5:04 PM PDT]

  • 04.16.2012 5:03 PM PDT

Leon > HUNK > Wesker > Ada > Jill > Claire > Chris

Sprint's fine the way it is. Calm yourself, strafing is very effective. I kill people running at me trying to AR pummel all the time.

AL is stupid. It might have worked if it was only usable in short bursts instead of slowing down time and potentially getting killed by an enemy's teammate.

Evade isn't needed. We don't need the ultimate strafe leap that doesn't involve firing our weapon.

Idiots still fall for Hologram.

Camo was so much better in Halo 3 when you could move and still be invisible.

Useful for healing teammates and protecting objectives.

Jet pack is stupid. It was designed for flanking and moving across gaps quicker, but the only thing that happens is tards flying around trying to out-DMR you.

I guess Bungie/343 can't fix stupid players.

  • 04.16.2012 5:13 PM PDT

bungie has proven that a bunch of monkeys sitting in front of keyboards can randomly type out a masterpiece. the thing is, when you go to play the masterpiece, you cant help but notice all the monkey s**t smeared all over it.

it gets real old having to wait months for someone like mlg to clean off all the monkey poo.

they arent useless, they are extremely effective at doing what they are designed to do, level the playing field between good and bad players. its boring if every time you try to walk around someone shoots you to death, so its good that you can cartwheel across the map to safety or armorlock until your teammates all spawn on you and lolololhehasnotenufbulletshimtodeath. and it would be impossible to snipe with the snipers little aimer thingy if you weren't 200 feet in the air outside the map. without perks it better players would do better, which is imbalanced.

[Edited on 04.16.2012 5:20 PM PDT]

  • 04.16.2012 5:14 PM PDT

Mediocre Backpacker
56% W\L
2.86 k\d
3.18 DMR
7.29 God Magnum
7.79 Sniper
5.34 Needle Rifle

Strafing is WAY more effective in H3 for sure. Otherwise I agree entirely. Only ability I use nowadays are Sprint.

  • 04.16.2012 8:13 PM PDT

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Posted by: eraseme
without perks it better players would do better, which is imbalanced.



Oh god........ I fell out of my chair laughing.

  • 04.16.2012 8:15 PM PDT

Useless is not the word you are looking for. Perhaps you would like a "poorly designed" or "stupid".The word "idiotic" might also work nicely.

  • 04.16.2012 8:18 PM PDT

Posted by: erasemeNot sure if trolling.

  • 04.16.2012 8:26 PM PDT

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Posted by: eraseme
without perks it better players would do better, which is imbalanced.



Oh god........ I fell out of my chair laughing.

  • 04.16.2012 8:31 PM PDT

Forget it man, and get with the countdown. Shake this square world and blast off for Kicksville.

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Posted by: erasemeNot sure if trolling.

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  • 04.16.2012 8:42 PM PDT

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Posted by: eraseme
and it would be impossible to snipe with the snipers little aimer thingy if you weren't 200 feet in the air outside the map. without perks it better players would do better, which is imbalanced.


1. The sniper in reach is the easiest one in any Halo game.
2. No, just no to the 2nd part.

  • 04.17.2012 12:11 AM PDT

I'm not racist, I own a colored TV


Posted by: Leon Kennedy85
Sprint's fine the way it is. Calm yourself, strafing is very effective. I kill people running at me trying to AR pummel all the time.


HA! I laughed.

Strafing worked because the had an AR. Strafing is less effective than Halo 3, which is weird, do to the fact the DMR is easier to use and perfect than the BR. You would think strafe speed would be slightly faster, due to the fact it is single shot.

Oh and the drop shield was destroyed by one grenade. So, not very effective tbh.

[Edited on 04.17.2012 4:01 AM PDT]

  • 04.17.2012 4:00 AM PDT

I'm not racist, I own a colored TV


Posted by: Blackdog Rker
Strafing is WAY more effective in H3 for sure. Otherwise I agree entirely. Only ability I use nowadays are Sprint.


Same, and I personally would rather just start out faster in general.

People just want it to act as a scape goat to run away from a gunfight you should of lost.

  • 04.17.2012 4:03 AM PDT

I'm not racist, I own a colored TV


Posted by: Ice Penjamin

Posted by: eraseme
and it would be impossible to snipe with the snipers little aimer thingy if you weren't 200 feet in the air outside the map. without perks it better players would do better, which is imbalanced.


1. The sniper in reach is the easiest one in any
Halo game.
2. No, just no to the 2nd part.


1. Player movement speed decreased
2. Most people use jetpack :( or at least the ones I play with
3. Correct, slow player speed/strafe speed is a bad combo for sniper

  • 04.17.2012 4:05 AM PDT

I'm not racist, I own a colored TV


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Posted by: boomdeyadah
Posted by: erasemeNot sure if trolling.

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Still contemplating...

  • 04.17.2012 4:05 AM PDT
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RIP Bungie Service Records. You shall be missed.

This thread is more useless than armor abilities.

/thread

  • 04.17.2012 4:39 AM PDT