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I had just cleared out almost all of the covenant, and thought, "well, just a couple more jackals and I'm off to the banshee". I guess I assumed to much. I was at the bottom of the pyrmid, and you know that thin column that runs straight up the pyrmid? Well I was hiding right up against the base of that. Then I saw something heading toward me from the left side of my radar, of course I thought it was a jackal, because I thought I had killed all the elites and grunts. So I had everyright to believe that it was indeed a jackel. So what happens? I step around the corner and prepare to hit the jackal with my SG. Instead I saw an elite, and believe me It was terrifiying, It literally made me jump and say "WTF"! So, I thought I would post this incident, and see if anyone else has had such a horrible encounter with a covenant soldier.

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  • 09.24.2004 10:19 PM PDT
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I've done that, but I replied with an overcharge PP shot an a Plasma Grenade.

  • 09.25.2004 2:00 AM PDT
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I have been surprised by a wraith. Yes, a Wraith, one of those big purple things that try to kill you.
I was playing two betrayals on legendary, and I was at the last big battle with two wraiths and a quazillion covenant. I was standing behind some rocks and shooting rockets at one of the tanks (it dodged every rocket. I hate those things). Suddenly something is shooting at me. I almost get a heart attack before i discover it was just a grunt. I killled it and went back to missing tanks. I didn't think much of it, except that I thought it was very strange since it never had happened to me before.
After a while, I see a big blop on my motion tracker. Thinking it was just another grunt, I walked towards it. I walked around a corner and suddenly I was face to face with a wraith.
That was terrefying.

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  • 09.25.2004 4:41 AM PDT
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havnt don that with covenant but with the flood about a million times & im sure that every1 has don that before

  • 09.25.2004 7:46 AM PDT
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this kind of thing is a testament to halo's achievements. A game where, wjust using the same old engine, saem old enemies, same old guns, brand new things can happen everytime.
Like that battle, Rolling Thunder, taking the marines up towards the dip for cover, we get stuck int he middle and get attacked by ghosts and grunts, i shoot the crap out of one, then turn round and- a banshee nose-dived me into the ground. I cacked myself!

  • 09.25.2004 8:12 AM PDT
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I was in AOTCR looking for the 2nd hunter in one of the rooms, I could hear his foot steps but I just couldn't find him, just when I turned around he was right there filling up the whole screen, then gave me a good whack with his shield. scard the -blam!- outa me!

  • 09.25.2004 8:54 AM PDT
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What the heck is a matter with you peoplel don't youi know that you must expect the unexpected in halo. Oh no an elite!! you kill it and then you move on gosh you must suck if you are scared of an elite by himself. And when you fight a wraith tank you want to be with in 2 feet of it so it can't shoot you come on this is sad.

  • 09.25.2004 10:43 AM PDT
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you know AOTCR right on legendary well when you reach the romm with grunts sleeping after the bridge well i though i killed all the grunts and jakles so i attempt to kill the elite and suddenly out of knowhere all thiese grunts needle me to death the jakles charge and rappid fire me and the elitete meleed me and guess what the neeldes blew up all 8 of my grenades and everyone died

  • 09.25.2004 11:12 AM PDT
Subject: "I thought it was a jackal...until I nearly got the BLAM scare...
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Posted by: killtheguy42
What the heck is a matter with you peoplel don't youi know that you must expect the unexpected in halo. Oh no an elite!! you kill it and then you move on gosh you must suck if you are scared of an elite by himself. And when you fight a wraith tank you want to be with in 2 feet of it so it can't shoot you come on this is sad.


I know how to best kill wraith tanks. But going close with a shotgun doesn't work where I was, because of the 6+ elites shooting everything that gets close (on legendary, that's bad odds in open terrain). I just said the tank scared me, I didn't say it killed me. I killed it. The easy way.
And it's quite hard to expect something that haven't happened in any of the 10+ times you have played a level on a certain difficulty.

  • 09.25.2004 11:15 AM PDT
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What I did is on AOTCR I just went in front of the tank with the warthog then he shot it killed my marines i survived and I was like F U and shot him with the rocket launcher the marine in the turret helps kill him before his death

  • 09.25.2004 11:28 AM PDT
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Yo, killtheguy. The reason people get surprised or scared is because they didn't expect what happened. It's not like were wusses. Think about it.

  • 09.25.2004 11:57 AM PDT
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Posted by: killtheguy42
What the heck is a matter with you peoplel don't youi know that you must expect the unexpected in halo. Oh no an elite!! you kill it and then you move on gosh you must suck if you are scared of an elite by himself. And when you fight a wraith tank you want to be with in 2 feet of it so it can't shoot you come on this is sad.


dude think of different things like. he might have had 1 bar of health. and also when ure expecting a jackal and jump straight at it and all of a sudden theres an elite screaming(specially if u play with max volume) then for one split second there, ure gonna feel this cold shiver runing down ure back. oh and if u stand 2 feet away from a wraith it can still kill you by shooting right behind u. the concucion is enough to kill u.

  • 09.25.2004 1:02 PM PDT