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Subject: Why does everyone complain about armour lock?

Just an honest question, I haven't played Halo long enough to know what armour lock looked like before its changes. I think it's quite humourous but not the most useful of loadouts. Any simple answers?

Feel free to troll elsewhere if you don't care to answer the question :)

[Edited on 08.01.2012 2:12 AM PDT]

  • 08.01.2012 2:10 AM PDT

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Honestly, I'm probably one of the few who don't mind it.
I mean, I've gotten a Yoink! whilst coming out of it and because I used it again in another match to get the final kill me and my team won.

  • 08.01.2012 2:21 AM PDT

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I think the most irritating circumstance involves me popping the shields of somebody without them landing a single shot, and then they AL right before death, and get saved by all three team members.

I realize it's a legitimate strategy (RvB anyone?) but it's frustrating to be beaten by someone clearly worse than me, after I outplayed them. To me that indicates a striking lack of balance, and I think therein lies many people's issue with it.

  • 08.01.2012 1:08 PM PDT

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Well this thread is very original!

It grinds killtimes to a grinding halt. It's -blam!- annoying as -blam!- too. Oh hey I'm about to kill this guy! Oh wait he's just gonna armor lock and waste 6 seconds of my time so I can finally kill him! That is of course if another enemy teammate doesn't come in and clean up the kill (me) because the -blam!- armor locker couldn't do it himself.

[Edited on 08.01.2012 1:29 PM PDT]

  • 08.01.2012 1:24 PM PDT

It sucks and makes the game suck.

  • 08.01.2012 1:34 PM PDT

All AAs are detrimental to Halo gameplay.

  • 08.01.2012 2:07 PM PDT
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Halo multiplayer sucks!

Based on campaigns

Halo 2 > Halo 3 ODST > Halo 3 > Reach/CE tied

With or without it, it's still a terrible game.

  • 08.01.2012 2:56 PM PDT

Posted by: AngryBrute1
Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

1. You can hide with it and most times more enemy teammates will come and kill you.
2. It takes your shields down.
3. It destroys everything.

  • 08.01.2012 3:25 PM PDT

Armor Lock gave me cancer.

  • 08.01.2012 3:43 PM PDT

Wake me,....When you need me....

Its bad.....and you should feel bad.

  • 08.01.2012 3:43 PM PDT
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Posted by: CellarDoorProse
I think it's quite humourous
fire a rocket
armour locks
survives
wasted a f***ing rocket

not humourous, annoying

  • 08.01.2012 3:45 PM PDT

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Think of it as Second Chance in CoD, but worse.

  • 08.01.2012 3:58 PM PDT
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i plai 4 fun gtfo

Posted by: Sanuel Jackson
It sucks and makes the game suck.

  • 08.01.2012 4:14 PM PDT

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  • 08.01.2012 4:28 PM PDT

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Posted by: Sanuel Jackson
It sucks and makes the game suck.

  • 08.01.2012 5:05 PM PDT
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It wasn't in previous games OP.

  • 08.01.2012 5:15 PM PDT


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BUNGLE gave me cancer.

  • 08.01.2012 5:57 PM PDT


Posted by: Mythical Wolf

Posted by: burritosenior


BUNGLE gave me cancer.
Armor Lock also killed my family and raped them all before that. Without any lubrication. The beast.

  • 08.01.2012 6:16 PM PDT

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If you have any other questions, feel free to ask.

Oh yeah, and boot Zome.

Because I suck at Halo and clearly can't adapt. I can't counter it no matter how hard I try. Every time somebody armor locks I furiously punch them but then they use hacks and double pummel me in a single beat down animation or something. What else am I supposed to do? When I play Halo I like to pretend I'm playing an updated Mike Tyson's Punchout mixed with dodgeball with grenades. Bungie is stupid for giving us guns. Who wants to pull the right trigger? It's so icky.

I'm mad because I'm bad, but I play for fun and assassinations. Stop sweating so hard, you filthy, filthy tryhards.

  • 08.01.2012 6:45 PM PDT
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  • 08.01.2012 6:49 PM PDT
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i think armor lock is really useful. u can use it to smash ghosts freeze vehicles take down spartans shields and block grenades

  • 08.07.2012 9:00 AM PDT

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Run into a brick wall at high speed in a warthog = barely anything.

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Does that answer your question?

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  • 08.07.2012 11:14 AM PDT

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Posted by: snip3r dud33
Honestly, this is a good cover up for all the idiots who won't know its a cover up .


Posted by: A Blind Wolf
Oh hey I'm about to kill this guy! Oh wait he's just gonna armor lock and waste 6 seconds of my time so I can finally kill him! That is of course if another enemy teammate doesn't come in and clean up the kill (me) because the -blam!- armor locker couldn't do it himself.


People who do this are doing it wrong.

The point of armor locking is basically a shield. You can use it as a defensive tool or a weapon, like a shield punch. By this, I mean playing CQC, wait for someone to try and pummel you, AL for an instant, EMP their shields, pummel, and move on.

  • 08.07.2012 12:21 PM PDT

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