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This is really old stuff, but I just got it :P and I have a question:

In last year's E3 when they showed the New Mombasa mission, why did that Phantom shoot the sign in the cutscene then try to go under it and die?

  • 05.16.2004 6:32 PM PDT
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You know, the New Mombasa sign?

  • 05.16.2004 6:34 PM PDT
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Perhaps the pilot does not understand the concept of gravity. I wondered the same thing myself a while back.

  • 05.16.2004 6:36 PM PDT
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Ooh...silly pilot. Trix are for kids! Err..gravity is for you!

  • 05.16.2004 6:37 PM PDT
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Because the phantom was trying to drop the sign on the chief. That and the fact that the driver was a frappin' moron. Plus, Bungie wanted to add something cool to the demo and show the chief decimating any covenant he encountered (even if it's their own fault)

  • 05.16.2004 6:37 PM PDT
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...because the Covenant are psychotically driven to kill the parasitic humans before they spread. First they shot the sign to get past it. It didn't fall but they can't let the human slip away... Now they are presented with two options, go under the sign or go over the sign. The covenant, filled with bloodlush don't think and follow the Chief as closely as they can.

These are aliens, psychotic aliens in a holy war that don't value their own lives. They are not calm rational humans.

  • 05.16.2004 6:37 PM PDT
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Covenant go BOOM

  • 05.16.2004 6:38 PM PDT

Play as a team win as a team or die as a team!


I bet it was a Grunt driving that Phantom and he was smoking some really strong stuff!!

  • 05.16.2004 6:41 PM PDT
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That's the way to go!

  • 05.16.2004 6:42 PM PDT