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Well said. Far to easy to kill in H1 and H2. I hope Bungie at least gives them more health and increases there speed a bit. Also that orange part to shoot them at is fairly big. They look cool though ^.^

  • 06.02.2006 3:29 PM PDT

Here are some ideas that I thought up about what could be done with the Hunters, keep in mind that these are just ideas that I'm putting out there.

My thoughts on a possibe Hunter ranking idea. Ranks are noted by armor color. Here are the ranks:

1.) Blue Armor- Same as now accept fires a BLUE beam. (Minor)
2.) Red Armor- Same as blue accept fires a RED beam. (Major)
3.) Black Armor- Same as now accept can ingauge active camouflage. Fires a PURPLE beam.(Spec. Ops.)
4.) White Amor- Supreme Hunters. Fires strong bright GREEN needler like bullets that have splash damage. Also, have spiked shields that do more melee damage.
5.) Shield Generators like those of the Elites but just larger in scale.

*Notes:

- Hunters of the same rank will be in pairs as always. Example: 2 red, 2 black, 2 blue, etc.
- All are able to alternate between cannon (fire similar to the lobbing shots of Halo:CE) and a stream beam at their will.
- Will toss objects at you by hitting them with their sheild when at close range and agitated.
- Are able to stop in the middle of a melee attack.
- As new move, Hunters could do a side roll attack like a summersalt using the spikes on their backs to impale you.
- The higher the rank, the stronger and smarter a Hunter is, just like the Elites.
Energy shield generators like those of the Elites but just larger in scale.

  • 06.02.2006 3:48 PM PDT

Johnson: Marines im going for a walk what will you tell somebody if they come looking for me
Marines: That your on the Covenant Homeworld
wading through waist deep piles of Covenant dead as you unleash you ungodly fury on their poor souls
Johnson: Your Damn Right i am
We are . We are the Shadows. We are Ghosts. We Are the Mirratord.

For the Honor of the Mirratord

nothing much IF we fight them in H3 thay must have a smaller hole in there back and they should return to H:CE weapons and THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO FALL ON YOU WHEN THEY DIE.

  • 06.02.2006 4:50 PM PDT

"You have been measured, you have been weighed: And you have been found lacking."

Posted by: YakZSmelk
Hunters sided with the Elites, so I don't think were going to need to kill them. But.....
Could be another crazy plot twist, I think they should make some type of Flood form of the Hunters (Juggernaut).


-shoots- Did you miss the elites shooting at you in High Chairity!


Personally I'll be looking forward to another suprise about the hunters.

First time playing through I tried the old hunter death trick, was rather suprised to have them flip around and smack me silly

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  • 06.02.2006 5:43 PM PDT
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make the holes in their backs smaller,give them less health, but make their guns really powerful with heaps of splash damage, like in the books.

  • 06.02.2006 6:41 PM PDT
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I think the Hunters should have blue armor and orange skin...that would be awsome.....

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  • 06.02.2006 6:43 PM PDT
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Posted by: MAS73R
I think the Hunters should have blue armor and orange skin...that would be awsome.....


that would be awesome!

but it'll never happen.

  • 06.02.2006 6:44 PM PDT
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Posted by: AsidBurnn
hunters are way too easy to kill on legendary h2. They should be made so you go like


"ah shat, im fooking dead now"

when u see em.
Ya they were even easier in Halo CE.

  • 06.02.2006 6:44 PM PDT
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Posted by: SPARTAN 101
Posted by: MAS73R
I think the Hunters should have blue armor and orange skin...that would be awsome.....


that would be awesome!

but it'll never happen.

awww man. Wait....how about giving them spikes, now that would awsome.

  • 06.02.2006 6:47 PM PDT
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yeah, the hunters should be on the humans side, and i hope that bungie remembers 2 make more covenant aliens; drones, brutes and jackals alone could hardly cause a potential threat. heres a question, how do the covenant breed? lol! anyway, thats a great idea for a flood version of the hunter. and the flood are going 2 be on earth (hopefully, i like a challenge), so the flood WOULD be the biggest problem, even if the covenant werent.

  • 06.02.2006 6:58 PM PDT
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I dont understand how in the book "the flood" they make no mention to the hunters being worms that work together. it was so annoying and confusing the whole time. and why dont they just spew out of that whole in the armour. so confusing.

  • 06.02.2006 7:53 PM PDT
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lol. i think the hunters should be a little harder but not toooooo much harder. definately not Mini-Bosses.

  • 06.02.2006 9:03 PM PDT

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The hunters in halo CE were fine. They were easy to kill, if you knew what you were doing, but there were more of them just in Truth and Reconciliation than in all of halo 2. In halo 2 the size improvement was cool, as were the new melee's. But their cannon was nurfed, and the fact that they were effected by grenades and plasma was terrible. Grab two Plasma rifles, or just stick one and snipe him as he is stunned or turns around, and its all too easy. I hate that they are mini bosses now.

  • 06.02.2006 9:13 PM PDT
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I think hunters should be like they were in Halo CE. BUT, that weak spot needs to be MUCH smaller. I like the fact that you could kill them skillfulyl but i think that you should actually need skill to do it. Maybe they could have a reflex action so that to access an opening to that spot you have to risk everything on making that shot or you die. That would be cool. Then only people who backed themselves enough could make the shot and not some wuss with a sniper on a rock or use the old dodge-to-the-side-and-bullet-in-the-back routine.

  • 06.02.2006 9:19 PM PDT
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bungie should unleash the beast with the hunter in halo 3, make it into a 12 foot nightmare with a cannon on its arm, with no 1 hit kills, if u shoot it in the gaps it should do more damage but not instant death, the only thing that take it down in one hit is a rocket or anyother anti tank weapon.
make the hunter into a raging bull and humanity is wearing red

  • 06.02.2006 9:25 PM PDT
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I like the regular hunters in Halo 2. The only reason why they are 'weak' without being rediculous is because they are faced alone!!. Even the Halo 1 hunters were deadly on Two Betrayals at the final battle (with all the wraiths, flood, and other Elites). I think Halo 2 hunters should stay the same, but be paired not only with each other, but also be in a group of Elites (or even grunts!!!). Imagine the annoyance of grunts' needlers while you are trying to avoid fuel rod shells.

I think there should be one "mini-boss" in Halo 3 of 2 suped up Hunters. Equipped with black armor and a rapid fire fuel rod gun (the power of Halo 1, but fired at about three times the speed). Also equipped with a rechargable energy shield covering the orange spots (nowhere where they have armor, so it recharges). And some badass melee moves.
- If you shoot a rocket at them, they will knock it at the last second with their shield, avoiding most of the damage, but leaving them open for a second rocket. Of course, try firing the second rocket while its mate rains hell on your position.
- The setting would be inside or next to a (preferably) human make-shift, with plenty of random bits of cover from a crashed spaceship.
- No Arbiter; cloaking would be cheap.

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  • 06.02.2006 9:38 PM PDT
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Posted by: YakZSmelk
Hunters sided with the Elites, so I don't think were going to need to kill them. But.....
Could be another crazy plot twist, I think they should make some type of Flood form of the Hunters (Juggernaut).


now THAT would be cool, if not hard... it's true we've never seen what happens to hunters when they get infected...

  • 06.02.2006 9:55 PM PDT
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Posted by: Paradox621
Posted by: YakZSmelk
Hunters sided with the Elites, so I don't think were going to need to kill them. But.....
Could be another crazy plot twist, I think they should make some type of Flood form of the Hunters (Juggernaut).


now THAT would be cool, if not hard... it's true we've never seen what happens to hunters when they get infected...


hunters cant get infected, because a hunter isnt one organism, it's made up of many small worm things incased in armour, so unless they cant be turned into a flood

  • 06.02.2006 10:55 PM PDT
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Posted by: SweetTRIX
was it just me or did the hunters seem weaker in halo 2


Pfft, no. Halo 1 had the pistol. 'Nuff said.

  • 06.02.2006 11:06 PM PDT
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oops

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  • 06.02.2006 11:44 PM PDT
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Posted by: MAS73R
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Posted by: MAS73R
I think the Hunters should have blue armor and orange skin...that would be awsome.....


that would be awesome!

but it'll never happen.

awww man. Wait....how about giving them spikes, now that would awsome.


if only the could have claws an electric power and invisiblity and infinity ammo and dk mode.

  • 06.02.2006 11:45 PM PDT
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I think they should keep the Halo 2 hunter but give him the Halo 1 hunter's weapon. THAT would rock.

  • 06.03.2006 12:02 AM PDT
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dude, lets get a variant of the hunter, and make him faster, say brute like speed, that shield swing would be deadly then, cuz in h2 it was too east to out manouvre them.

but then again isnt a fast hunter just a peeved brute?
from bungies point of view it would a waste. why make more hunters when u can throw in a brute?. but then again, it makes a bigger more immersive game. but then again bungie needs to think about how much can be squeezed onto the dvd. but then again why doesnt bungie make the game on 2 dvds one for campaign and one for multiplayer

  • 06.03.2006 12:19 AM PDT
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I liked the old fuel rod style gun, not this beam that is claimed to be related to a mortar.

  • 06.03.2006 12:26 AM PDT

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"Just like chiropractors!" Caboose - funny -blam!-

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Whispering marine - "you'll give away our position!"
sarge - "I'll do as i damn well please!" (kills grunt with sniper rifle)
elites rule, MCs r cool

I think they just need to be smarter. Imagine on the last part of outskirts before the tunnel, on the beach if there were two hunters. You get bored of trying to dodge their shots with the warthog so you head straight for them (run them over) but they dig their shields into the ground and you just go flying over them. AI like that would be SWEET and i don't doubt bungie is pulling it off. fingers crossed. :P

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  • 06.03.2006 2:59 AM PDT

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