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Subject: Should air vehicles be included?
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Basically should Bungie include the Pelican, Longsword, Seraph, and Phantom.
Yes the maps would have to be huge, but it would be very easy to implement them. Have you ever flown the Pelican on Halo 1 Custom Edition ofr PC ? The Longsword, they handle just as if they were put in by Bungie.

For thos who don't know, the Longsword is the black spaceship MC escaped on in the end of Halo 1.

  • 06.18.2006 2:57 PM PDT

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The Pelican is rather hard to control. I remember flipping it over, doing donuts with it for no reason.

  • 06.18.2006 2:59 PM PDT

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it would turn into battlefield2. just bomb the base and kill em when they spawn.

  • 06.18.2006 2:59 PM PDT
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Well, that's why you don't give them bomb so you can't do that. DEE-DEE-DEE.

  • 06.18.2006 3:03 PM PDT
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Hard to control? I also forgot you have to have common sense to fly, probably why it isn't in Halo 2. And to the other poster, have you actually played a game with them included? It's not just bomb everything, if you cant fly youll end up getting stuck and you WILL die.

  • 06.18.2006 3:05 PM PDT

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Similar to tanks on big levels, aircraft ('cept banshees) should only be allowed on the hugest of levels. I'm sure, with the power of the 360, there will be at least one level thats like containment mulitplied 2.

  • 06.18.2006 3:08 PM PDT

Sigs are stupid.

I want to fly the pelican and phantom in campaign.
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  • 06.18.2006 3:08 PM PDT
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the two space fighters shouldn't be included, no real point for them...the phantom, and pelican definately would be useful on large maps..

  • 06.18.2006 3:11 PM PDT
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They should include the pelican only, for Big Team Battles. It would be sweet to have someone driving, the passengers in first person waiting to jump out. The pelican flies over the enemy base as the Spartans exit the dropship. The Pelican should only be able to unload passengers if it is landed, and the have one 50cal on the back. One rocket will damage the pelican, and kill those which the rocket comes near. two rockets destroy the pelican. Pelican should fly kinda slow, so rushing wouldn't be too powerful of an option. It should have a weak spot in the rear. Hijacking spartans can jack the front, looking much like the Scorpion hijacking were the spartan melees the pilot hatch. They can also hijack from rear where the player latches onto the unloading bay, lobs a grenade in, killing spartans inside, or if there is someone on 50 cal, the player rips him off of his turret, throwing him out the back, and then lobs a grenade in.

  • 06.18.2006 3:14 PM PDT

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I think the pelican would make games interesting, but I agree with him the Longsword is too powerful.

As to the phantom the only problem i see is that there isn't a place to keep people. i mean yeah the thing unloads people but theres no way to distinguish the areas for different positions like driver seat or gunners seat or passenger seat.

  • 06.18.2006 3:15 PM PDT
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Yes, if they didnt have weapons, or had restrictions on what they could attack, like for example, the guns will not fire unles you are shooting at a very strong target, like a tank or sumthing, and should have limited ammo. And the space craft? They are fun, but yea no real point for them as being they are so friggin huge.

  • 06.18.2006 3:16 PM PDT
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PELICAN PELICAN PELICAN!!!!

  • 06.18.2006 3:17 PM PDT
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Posted by: MasterChief487
Yes, if they didnt have weapons, or had restrictions on what they could attack, like for example, the guns will not fire unles you are shooting at a very strong target, like a tank or sumthing, and should have limited ammo. And the space craft? They are fun, but yea no real point for them as being they are so friggin huge.



No no no no... Halo should remain simple like it always has, it's what makes it a good game.

  • 06.18.2006 3:22 PM PDT
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i think there should be the dropships. BUT the dropship pilot should have no way to attack. having only turrets on the side manned by other players to fire and having players inside just sitting or even being able to walk freely or stand off the side and shoot but now heavy shooters PLEASE.

  • 06.18.2006 3:23 PM PDT

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AFTERTHOUGHT: If Bungie were to include the Longsword they should balance it out with some type of serious Anti Aircraft weapon.

Also, remember that as you add vehicles like the Pelican and the Phantom you'll need more players to make it work. This is unrelated but if anyones ever played on the Halo CE map Coldsnap you know what I mean.

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personally, I would like the pelican, but even if there was something smaller that can hold a couple people would be fine.

but make the vehicle have barely any firepower cause it would just make it unbalanced. Make it so the pelican or any other flying vehicle only good for transporting people.

[Edited on 6/18/2006]

  • 06.18.2006 4:17 PM PDT
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Posted by: masterAl3x
No no no no... Halo should remain simple like it always has, it's what makes it a good game.


So you want Pelicans flying around a base killing everyone that spawns?

  • 06.19.2006 9:39 AM PDT
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No more thoughts?

  • 06.19.2006 9:55 AM PDT
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i like the thought of a pelican / phantom but a spaceship would be a bit too powerful unless they included space - style maps

i love the phantoms way of unloading people in grav chutes and really want to see it in halo 3

  • 06.19.2006 10:01 AM PDT
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Yes they should...If we can get a map the size of the entire Oblivion map. No, I am not against it, I would love to have every vehicle blasting away at each other in a game that could literally take days to complete. But, for Technical reasons, I am sure the 20 square mile MP map with 300 players is still way into the Future.

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  • 06.19.2006 10:07 AM PDT
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Definetly, just think of the multiplayer

  • 06.19.2006 10:07 AM PDT

Not really...

  • 06.19.2006 10:10 AM PDT
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the pelican would be sweet, and if its hard to control, thats a good thing. If the pelican does become flyable, I hope its first person view ! Because that would just make it more sweet, even being in the back and looking out the back, shooting at your enemies. Man, It would just be so cool.

  • 06.19.2006 10:25 AM PDT
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if i go down ill take some gamer with me

at the most they should have ONE human fighter to combat the cove banshe.

i can see it now, TWIN chain guns and cluster rockets. or perhaps it could drop some goodies?

  • 06.19.2006 10:26 AM PDT
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I understand that, it the pelican could use all the weapons on it, it would be sooo unbalanced. That's why I said it should only be used for transportating people. At the most, it should have a turret on the back to shoot down banshees. It will be good enough with just the shooting of people in the back.

  • 06.19.2006 10:29 AM PDT