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Subject: Shielded vehicles
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One of the many things which don't make sense to me is why the covenant don't have shielded vehicles. They have shield generators that can fit inside an elites armor, they have shields which can from a solid free standing barrier, and they have shields which actually come about a meter away from the protected surface. Yet, for some strange reason, they didn't shove one of the many varients in their wraiths, ghosts, scarabs, shadows, phantoms, or banshees. I don't know about you, but that doesn't make much sense to me.

For those of you that argue that the boosted gravity perpulsion system takes up to much room for a shield generator... A ghost has a one of those, and we all now how small a ghost is. Add a weapons system and a speed boost, that doesn't leave much room.

Storyline wise, this would also make sense. Logically on an enemys home world, you can expect the fircest and most tenacious resistance. To counter this, they would pull something strange and unexpected out of the box, sheilded vehicles. Also, the elites have shields, and don't need the extra shielding power that a vehicles shield generator would afford. The brutes don't have sheild generators, and it would make sense that the Prophets, in order to prepare for the civil war, would have ordered some such projects cooked up on the back burner, making sure that they would win. Makes tactical sense to me.

I can't think of anything else right now. If you reply, you guys might jog my memory.

  • 06.20.2006 12:38 PM PDT
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It would be an interesting idea!, although i'm not aure how balenced it would be in MP.

  • 06.20.2006 12:41 PM PDT

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because they would be too powerfull thats why.

  • 06.20.2006 12:41 PM PDT
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I'm sure this could be implemented on a vehicle.. but what if the shields have something to do with biological attachment?

  • 06.20.2006 12:41 PM PDT
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compensate by making it a type of weapon. You have a rocket launcher and a vehicle sheild generator, walk up to the vehicle, tap y to put away the rocket and pull out the shield, crouch, and a prompt will come up saying hold x to activate shield, do so and get in. your now running around in a shielded vehicle.

storyline this also makes sense. The brutes and their gang knew what was going to happane, but if these things had been made a part of the vehicles, many elites would have known about them as well, and the force could have been split when the time came for the war to start. Thus, the brutes carried them onto ships, the ring, earth, anywhere and everywhere. Then, when the war started, they just pulled 'em out and had a huge advantage over the outcast covenant members.

if it was biological attachment, then they shouldn't have had any trouble with it. When an elite sits down on a ghost, his thighs are touching the inside of the drivers seat.

[Edited on 6/20/2006]

  • 06.20.2006 12:45 PM PDT