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Subject: How many Elite players think power-ups are for losers
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I myself would be perfectly ok with bungie abolishing power-ups in mulitplayer. I hear a lot of elite players like no shields as well but im an elite player and i think no shields is only good for shotguns. What is everybodies thought on power-up abusers?

  • 05.16.2004 10:58 PM PDT
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i never usually use the AC or OS so i really dont care but sometimes it can save u at just the right time so i think it should be a choice to have in the game, maby.

  • 05.16.2004 11:01 PM PDT
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abusing powerups is a good strategy...cheap, but a good tactic. but i dont really use them much

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  • 05.16.2004 11:01 PM PDT
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I like powerups, especially the invisibility. I don't like getting it as much as I like when other players get it. I have a very good eye and can easily spot someone from a good distance who is invisible. The reason I say I like it is because they get invisibility and think they won't be seen and so they drop their guard and all of a sudden are being slaughtered. I can't count how many times my brother has screamed "how the -blam!- did you see me", or "that's bull-blam!-" because he thought he had me because he was invisible. And I do this without looking at his screen to try to find him, because that lessens the experience for me.

  • 05.16.2004 11:20 PM PDT

Not to be an @$$, but if your an "elite player" shouldn't you be able to handle someone who picks up a few power ups?

(Meant in as joking of a nature as possible:)

[Edited on 5/17/2004 12:48:15 AM]

  • 05.17.2004 12:47 AM PDT
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I leave the shields on, and the powerups, all of my friends are worse than me (admitting i'm the best in my area, but not best in the world) so i leave the powerups on, but walk by them, completely dont use tham, and encourage my friends not to too. (2 toos.. :S).

But if my rather, cheaper friends who think theyre good collect em, i go all out ignore everyone else and go killing spree on their a$$es. It's good, they get p'd off, and complain because i am only killing them, screwing over their game plan, i just tell em you collected it, it was your fault.

So even though it may even up the playing field, i have seen players who would be crapper than me beat me because even though the game may be even, or i may be losing, power ups are CHEAP! It is not in my playing field to use them, i win with skill and honour... no dishounorable looking in screen crap for me, or using the powerups, i even avoid therocket launcher if my friends dont use it on me and die, if they die, i pillage their corpse for it. (hell i have to give them an advantage because i dont enforce usage of overshields)

One more thing, straight from IGN's most recent review... ooh, its gonna take me ages to find this, i saved it on my computer, but it got wiped since, off i go to find it.... FOUND IT! ha ha, it took about 5 mins, because i went reading through the whole thing again =)

And, oddly enough, there are no power-ups in Zanzabar. That doesn't mean they don't exist, but to be honest, I really hope they are gone. Yeah, it was very fun to go camo in Halo, but the experience of Zanzabar was truly about as good as I could possibly have expected and part of that is because those power-ups sort of cheapen the tactics in some ways. Okay, yes, it can be strategic to know where an overshield power-up is and find a shortcut to it, but the hour we played getting our nuts handed to us by Bungie was made all the better because it was based on pure skill. And that meant that when I smoked one of them, it was me and him, even grounds and no-holds-barred with nothing but our skill determining who won out. That's how it should be.

There ya have it, from a professional game reviewer at IGN, power ups are cheap.... if they do have them in Halo 2, i hope theres an option in halo 2 to turn them off, after all there are too many times when i hear "if theyre in the game we can use them, theyre there to be used" so i want them NOT IN THE GAME, or turn offable.... =)

  • 05.17.2004 1:09 AM PDT
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I disagree, the shield and cloak bring a degree of uncertainty to the game and they also help new players get into the game a little easier. I also class myself as an A rated player like most of us who play Halo regularly and I also get p1ss3d off when a newbie sneaks up behind me an whacks me up the back of the head with his pistol. I hardly ever use the power ups myself but I still like them in there because they mix things up a bit, bring a little chaos to the programmed order of multiplayer.

  • 05.17.2004 1:46 AM PDT
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I agree that zanzibar should not have powerups, but i believe that they should still be in the game, at least an option to have them on or off.

  • 05.17.2004 2:11 AM PDT

♠The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's friend's enemy♠

I use power-ups all the time!!! I practicly live on power-ups!!!

  • 05.17.2004 2:50 AM PDT
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When did they say that power ups werent going to be in the next game? I only read that they werent in the demo, and just because of that, that doesnt mean they won't be in the game at all. Bungies not finished with the game yet. They might still add them in.

  • 05.17.2004 3:24 AM PDT
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It must suck being such lame -blam!- s....i hope being L337 is consolidation enough for you.
hahaha
Powerup disgussion is fair enough but when u have to be "Elite" to talk about it thats when u get laughed at.

I guess im too n00b for u to take any real offence to this so i wont bother with the "no offence" bit

  • 05.17.2004 3:35 AM PDT
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i dont use power ups a lot probably because im too busy pwning everyone but having one is a great advantage for elite or new players but i think that they are balanced because both of them drain out after a period of time
i mean elite players should love back whacking people while being invisible

  • 05.17.2004 3:43 AM PDT
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Not quite goin with the topic of power ups but i agree MR SUPERIOR.

  • 05.17.2004 3:44 AM PDT
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i definitely think there should be an option to turn on/off power-ups in a level. granted, power-ups mix it up a bit, and provide for a luck/edge factor. but if i had my way, i'd probably play without them. items like those tend to result in camping, and, well you guys know all about that. i couldn't believe the first time i saw a guy pull out a clock at a tournament, though. apparantly power-ups respawn after a defined period of time (regardless of whether it's been picked up 2 seconds earlier), so every 2 minutes (or whatever it was) he'd know there would be an overshield/camo on the way. i'm not one to knock another for using whatever they can to their advantage, but, cmon. that's a bit over the edge.

  • 05.17.2004 12:30 PM PDT
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I dont understand why you all dont like power ups, lots of elites use them, I know alot of real elites that use them, therefore, i think your not all elites.

  • 05.17.2004 1:00 PM PDT
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i don't think there should be any power ups in story mode, to unreal. but in multiplayer i think there should be, people that hate power ups are usally people that don't know how to counter them or use them very well..... and also if you are an "elite" player, why does it matter?

  • 05.17.2004 1:19 PM PDT

My thumbsticks will be your Doom.... sorry 'bout that.
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I think this thread is dumb. Who cares if you're a Power Up whore or 2 Cool for them. So what if you go around fragging everyone else who's not as good as you.


The Question is should they be an option when setting up modes?
(like next to the infinite grenades option.....hello??)

That way all you guys who are SooOooo good can really prove it by playing against me over Xbox live... with the Power Up option turned off.

oh P.S. they should remain in Campaign mode because they have direct ties to the story (the AC and OS work with the elite&Spartan armor it's not just any marine or grunt who can use 'em.... although there were invisible Flood forms but i reason it's cause they still had there elite atire on)

[Edited on 5/17/2004 1:23:57 PM]

  • 05.17.2004 1:20 PM PDT
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being a grade a player i think that certain powerups are good but if u live off them then i will go rockets on ur ass LOL

  • 05.17.2004 2:11 PM PDT
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canadians r punks but we arnt cheep ya little #### woimz

  • 05.17.2004 2:13 PM PDT
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i really only grab the AC for sniping or trying to get that bastard that keeps bugging me. the MP overshiled sucks. depetes too quickly to be useful for very long.

  • 05.17.2004 2:15 PM PDT

bah

I think there is a reason they put them in the middle of the map, it balances the gameplay a bit. If you have a good camper on your team, you'll discover that the enemy never really quite makes it to the overshield in time.

  • 05.17.2004 2:17 PM PDT

♠The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's friend's enemy♠

[color=red]I love power-ups, they give you a certain "edge".[/color]

  • 05.17.2004 2:19 PM PDT

Posted by: woimz
and i think your a dumb ass


So he is a dumb ass for having a different opinion than you? Think about it, and you'll see how arrogant that made you look.

  • 05.17.2004 2:22 PM PDT

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