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I liked the Hal:CE hunters fuel rod better than the Halo 2 hunters
the halo 2 hunters looks cooler but its easy to avoid even on legendary and it only did damage on legendary on any other difficulty its easy to kill them

  • 06.14.2006 11:59 AM PDT
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well what if they just sped up the fuel rod that the hunters have in halo 2?

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How about both weapons? They seem fairly limited if they're supposed to be walking tanks.

  • 06.14.2006 12:01 PM PDT

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IMO, the Hunter "beam" type weapon was a crock o' -BLAM!-. I mean come on, it does look like a tractor beam, and the sound it made sounded like a car with a loose belt. I thought the Halo:CE Hunters were a bit more bad a**, they could actually attack you from range, unlike the H2 Hunters. Ever played The Silent Cartographer on Legendary? The Hunters attack you from a LONG way away.

The only reason they throw things around to get to you in H2 vs. H:CE is because of the improvements to the physics engine allowing dynamic objects in the first place.

In H2, you still get the 1-hit kill if you use the BR55 to the orange spot on their backs.

In H:CE, the fuel rod gun wasn't inaccurate, it was just relatively slow flying, making it semi-easy to dodge. However, its area of effect was quite large so it was more likely to cause damage rather than some pidly beam that sounds like a squeaky door.

  • 06.14.2006 12:04 PM PDT
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I say keep the H2 ones. but with improvsions.

Like gold beams.. "golden Showers" that shoot multiple beams at you, at once.
Oh and eye beams. that track your body heat.
Oh and obviously a jetpack... they can barley walk up the stairs at start of outskirts. takes ages. specially on legendary. they die beforehand.

  • 06.14.2006 12:10 PM PDT
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They can carry one fuel rod cannon, and one glowing thingy. DUEL WEILDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 06.14.2006 12:25 PM PDT

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Posted by: PlasmaPistool
I hope that Bungie brings back the old Hunter, the one that had the Fule Rod Cannon
I mean what is this tracter beam thing?
First of all they only take one shot ever 3 minutes. Second after the take they shot they cant change direction and have to wait till its over. It barly hurts u if it hits you.

I liked the old hunter. Were it took 2 or 3 shots in accsession, was more accuurate, And the hunter movied faster maknig another challenge in the game. Also i have to addmit it looked better in halo one. Also make it harder to kill. In the books they portray this massive tank like warrior that is almost impossialbe for the master chife to kill. Yet in both Halo one and two you faced with them on a regular bacies. And also another thing i hate is when u stick them in halo 2 they frezze up, one shot in the back and there dead. At least in halo 1 you had to avoid there metal shild and then shoot them in the back. And maybe they should make the orange spot in the back dissaper or smaller. And give them more of a face. lol i mean in halo 2 and 1 it was an orangle blob.

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Post you opinions weather we should get a Hunter based on Halo 1 or Halo 2.


and have you ever played on atleast heroic?

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  • 06.14.2006 12:30 PM PDT
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I think that the hunters should work more in unison aswell, and possibly like someone suggested they both have different weapons. The Halo CE hunters were a push over, you dont even need to get behind them. The second they raise their shield to hit you, just pop em in the stomach. The H2 ones were hard dont get me wrong, but mostly only on legendary. I think teamwork would definetly increase their difficulty. In H2 you could easily lure the hunters away from each other. I want to see you try to get behind a hunter and the other hunter is waiting for you with his cannon. Then when you try to dodge it the other hunter has recovered and he's charging you. Thats the kind of stuff i read in the novels.

  • 06.14.2006 12:42 PM PDT
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Obivously, most of you have never actually played on Legendary. In Halo 2, one smack for a Hunter would kill you, and getting hit by the Fuel Rod Beam would take your shields down to zero. On the other hand it takes about 3-4 shots to the midsection to kill them.

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I totally agree, except i think teamwork is the key to making them challenging on any difficulty.

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Yeah your right i especcially want them to make them faster, i mean they do move really slow.

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Oh yeah and i really want them to have better face features :) Even though they are just an entity of worms

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  • 06.14.2006 1:38 PM PDT
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Halo 1´s hunters were much cooler...

  • 06.14.2006 2:22 PM PDT
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Halo 1´s hunters were much cooler...


Finally someone who agrees that the halo one hunter was cooler! cuz it was it may have been easeir to kill but it was muich smarter/fast

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  • 06.14.2006 3:16 PM PDT
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They should improve from the H1 hunter, like keep the design but make the orange spots smaller and put 1 small one on the top of the neck so u can't just snipe it from directly behind, put 1 under chin, only vunerable when it jumps up to attack, and one on the stomach behind the sheild. they should also make bullets bounce off their sheilds like in H1 but make them able to do damage like improve the H1 hunter cannon make it do more splash damage. keep the cannon fron halo1 it was more accurate. make players fear the hunters when they see them, not just as something u can just kill w/ 1 shot in the back.

  • 06.14.2006 3:38 PM PDT
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The H1 hunter was just emberassing. If you look at it, its like 5 feet tall looks like crap and would pick boogers and fling them at you as a weapon.

  • 06.14.2006 3:41 PM PDT
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Posted by: PlasmaPistool
I hope that Bungie brings back the old Hunter, the one that had the Fule Rod Cannon
I mean what is this tracter beam thing?
First of all they only take one shot ever 3 minutes. Second after the take they shot they cant change direction and have to wait till its over. It barly hurts u if it hits you.

I liked the old hunter. Were it took 2 or 3 shots in accsession, was more accuurate, And the hunter movied faster maknig another challenge in the game. Also i have to addmit it looked better in halo one. Also make it harder to kill. In the books they portray this massive tank like warrior that is almost impossialbe for the master chife to kill. Yet in both Halo one and two you faced with them on a regular bacies. And also another thing i hate is when u stick them in halo 2 they frezze up, one shot in the back and there dead. At least in halo 1 you had to avoid there metal shild and then shoot them in the back. And maybe they should make the orange spot in the back dissaper or smaller. And give them more of a face. lol i mean in halo 2 and 1 it was an orangle blob.

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Post you opinions weather we should get a Hunter based on Halo 1 or Halo 2.


1.It IS the Fuel Rod, just another version of it.
2.Stop playing on easy.
3.They don't have a "face" because they are made up of tiny wormlike creatures.

  • 06.14.2006 3:43 PM PDT
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If you read my post up above it says " I understand that the Hunters are Wroms, But they could altlesat give them more of a face feature."

And buddy i dont play on easy so u can shut-up i tested out this on Legendary and it was easy to kill them on both games so maybe you should stop playing on easy.

  • 06.14.2006 3:58 PM PDT
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I think that the hunters on halo 1 and 2 are easy to kill even on legendary. For Halo 3 I think the hunters need armor on their orange spots that way they take longer to kill. I'm sick of seeing people prancin around these things and playin grab ass with them. I want a cold bloody firefight goin on that actually requires skill to overcome.

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I like the Hunters. My friend and I play co-op a lot, and we're always trying to find new ways to kill them. Much riskier ways, I might add.

Did you know, if you dodge the shield melee, but stay in front of the Hunter, then run forward and start melee'ing it in its stomach, as long as you keep meleeing, it stuns the Hunter? It doesn't deal damage, but they recoil from the melee impact and can't move. It's kinda wierd, but also kinda cool for co-op, and it looks funny as heck from a different screen.

I'm currently working on trying to shotgun a Hunter in the stomach without getting slapped by the shield. The only level I ever seem to have this opportunity on is Regret for some reason.

I think the Hunters' weapon should change a little, but I think it should stay a beam. The beam is cooler than the cannon, to me, but I think they should make the beam's initial impact with an object/the environment/ the player be explosive. Think it'd be kinda cool.
o.O Picture this, you've got your back to a wall across from a Hunter, he shoots and you side step the beam, but then this huge explosion erupts from the wall behind you, and your shields drop, then the beam starts chasing you until the shot is over. O.o
And by the way, Hunter pairs aren't "brothers". The Hunters are a sexless hive of organisms taking form inside the armour. The Hunter pairs are mates, love partners, sex buddies. They aren't genderless, but they're like snails, I think is right. They're basically both sexes, but they need a mate anyway.
^_^ Hunters are cool.



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Posted by: PlasmaPistool
If you read my post up above it says " I understand that the Hunters are Wroms, But they could altlesat give them more of a face feature."

And buddy i dont play on easy so u can shut-up i tested out this on Legendary and it was easy to kill them on both games so maybe you should stop playing on easy.


"Second after the take they shot they cant change direction and have to wait till its over. It barly hurts u if it hits you."

Hmmm only 1 shot every 3 minutes? Barely hurts you? Sounds a lot like easy mode to me. Sure their easy to kill if you have the right weapons or grenades, but they were easy to kill in both games so I don't see why the H1 Hunters were "better".

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Posted by: Hobbeses
lmao hunters with plasma rifles would be too easy to kill. I like the current halo 2 hunters, maybe with some better graphical upgrades and some gibbing damage, and a flood version >D


Hobb, If you look around on the disc you can see a flood called "jugernaut form" (flood hunters? they were supposidly taken out cuz you cant kill them worth -blam!-..) and since they are made up of intergalactic worms how could they be turned into a flood form? The flood have to use the spine to get into the brain, especially with hunters but being made up of worms it doesnt seem like they have a spine.. And they should use both kinds of hunters in H3.... They just need to make it so that H1 hunters can kill you without having to melee you, after all their fuel rod cannon does -blam!- dmg when it does hit you.

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And by the way, Hunter pairs aren't "brothers". The Hunters are a sexless hive of organisms taking form inside the armour. The Hunter pairs are mates, love partners, sex buddies. They aren't genderless, but they're like snails, I think is right. They're basically both sexes, but they need a mate anyway.
^_^ Hunters are cool.


Actually in the book Hal First Strick and other things posted on bunige it talks about how there 'Blood Brothers' which i geuss means all the worms are connected in some spiritual way? From the same mom? I Or they just have a very good connection.

Hmm now that i think about it. How big are the worms? Are they like Earth Worms or are the Like the size of Eels?

Well i hope that after Halo 3 they come out with like a bool that explains everything about all The Covenant and other things u encounter in the Halo Trilogy

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Posted by: Hawaiianiced12
I think that the hunters on halo 1 and 2 are easy to kill even on legendary. For Halo 3 I think the hunters need armor on their orange spots that way they take longer to kill. I'm sick of seeing people prancin around these things and playin grab ass with them. I want a cold bloody firefight goin on that actually requires skill to overcome.

You'd think with the Covenant's technology, they could completely armour their "most powerful ground-based assault troops" right? Well, I do too, but I read somewhere that Bungie's excuse for leaving the weaknesses ( so we have somewhere to shoot ) was it allowed the Hunters movement and flexibility, while still maintaining most of their armour. Oh, and if you want a cold, bloody firefight people . . . just stop using precision weapons. Try to kill the Hunters with Plasma Rifles, SMG's, Needlers ( Oh, that's a good time right there. Needles! ^_^ )
Don't complain about the Halo 2 Hunters, because they are stronger, faster, and harder to kill than the Halo 1 Hunters, and PlasmaPistool, -_-, they're nearly identical looking to the Halo 1 Hunters. They BARELY look any different, except maybe taller, and not as bulky. Beyond that, it's just the graphics.
So stop saying the Hunters are pitiful, in Halo 1 or Halo 2. Just try to come up with some new ways to fight them, stop attacking their back, and actually challenge yourself/yourselves to kill them in a way that you already know will be difficult. Ever try to kill one with the Energy Sword? o.O It doesn't work, but it's fun as Hell. Try to stop they're melee once or twice with your own melee. It's cool when you get the timing right and you and the Hunter bounce off each other. ^_^

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