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Subject: *Halo 3 Plasma-LAUNCHER & Flamethrower: New Weapon Speculation ...
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Poll: Should Halo 3 include the flamethrower from Halo PC  [closed]
HELLS YES to both:  36%
(34 Votes)
NO (answer this at your own risk):  30%
(28 Votes)
Plasma Thrower Only:  12%
(11 Votes)
Grenade Launchers:  1%
(1 Votes)
I want the Flame Thrower:  21%
(20 Votes)
Total Votes: 94

Aite, take some time to vote and then help me speculate on what the flamethrower might be like for Halo 3.

I envision the ultimate Flood destroying weapon here and a great power weapon for MP. Basically, it'll follow its predecessor, but with a more powerful burst of flames that runs out slightly quicker. The more powerful burst will also help to prevent flame from hurting you, as was the case in Halo PC. THemore powerful burst will be balanced by smaller full tanks, therefore requiring more reloads.

I also believe there should be a duel-mode, with the flame burst the primary and the secondary being a wide-spray. MC would activate the second mode by twisting the nozzle of the flame thrower, and you'd do it using the bumper buttons on the 360 controller.

The wide-spray would send flames out a 2-inch think wave between 90 and 135 degrees infront of you. It would have the same rate of fire as the burst and cause less damage to one enemy, but it would allow you to take on many enemies at once, as is the case when battling the flood.

The Cov. Plasma Launcher would be similar to the human version, except it unleashes Blue or Red STikcy Plasma ( like the nades) from a tank contained complety in the weapon ( as most COV weapons work). The plasma sticks to an enemy when they get sprayed and then explodes ( kinda of like the needles and the plasma nades)

The second mode would be a charged shot that unleashes 25% of the energy at once. The plasma collects at the nozzle into a sphere (roughly same size as the plasma grenades) and shoots it straight, like a grenade launcher would. The plasma will stick to someone when it hits them and will only explode afer its stuck to something.

This could get rid of the need for a plasma grenade launcher as well, since alot of people are opposed to the idea of adding frag and plasma grenade launchers as duel-modes to other weapons.

alright, vote and help me improve my ideas

Also would like to note that these weapons could be explosive, which gives a disadvantage to using them.
it'd be sweet if you shot the tank of someone wearing a flame thrower or plasmaLAUNCHER with a sniper/beam rifle or hit the person dead on with an explosive round (such as then tank, guass, plasma mortar that the wraith fires or they step directly on an exploding grenade/ a plasma nade is stuck to them), it cause the weapon to explode. Not to mention these extra explosion effects would be awesome.

It'd be a cool extra and prevent players from abusing the weapons. The explosion of the weapon could be stronger then a normal tank/guass shell or nade, which means its really dangerous to go near someone wearing these, cause you could get messed up too. Just a though.






[Edited on 7/15/2006]

  • 07.03.2006 12:10 PM PDT
Subject: *Halo 3 Flamethrower & Plasma-thrower Speculation Thread*
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Why do people insist on having a covie/human counterpart for every single weapon? I want a sword. I want a covie shotgun. I want a covie flamethrower. Jeez. No.

However, the flamethrower would be a very kickass weapon if they can get it in this time.

  • 07.03.2006 12:15 PM PDT
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Flamethrowers would cause to much lag, and you can't throw plasma. It's basically super (extremely hot, like the sun) hot fire. Without it being contained with magnetics is would kill you just for having the gun.

  • 07.03.2006 12:15 PM PDT
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PLASMA-THROWER people!

hey, we're talking about improved versions of the Halo PC flamethrower.... no shark decal... it'd be all black with some sweet flame effects, and there'd be less lag.... we're talking about the xbox 360 here man... its engine is superb

also, there'd be a more powerful flame blast that puts it on equal footing with the Halo 1 Shotgun...



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  • 07.03.2006 12:16 PM PDT
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Nah, not at all.

I found the flamethrower in Halo PC to just be way too cumbersome and short-ranged a weapon to be used effectively, not to mention slow. It also seemed sort of comical with its stupid shark decal when matched up with the other weapons.

Potentially, maybe something like a weapon that would fire a stream of burning hot air, and there could be a nice heat blur effect emitted from the barrel. But I doubt that, too.

  • 07.03.2006 12:17 PM PDT
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A plasma thrower?

What, you mean like a plasma rifle?

  • 07.03.2006 12:17 PM PDT
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Stronger then the PR, with different plasma effects as well...it'd more like a COV. version of the human flamethrower.

  • 07.03.2006 12:20 PM PDT
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Posted by: prophate
Flamethrowers would cause to much lag, and you can't throw plasma. It's basically super (extremely hot, like the sun) hot fire. Without it being contained with magnetics is would kill you just for having the gun.


dude, all COV weapons use PLASMA. They shoot it in a different form, whether it be short-range bullets, charged shots, long range bullets, etc. Bungie also offers no explanation for how they work (in the manuals, it simply says they work by a yet to be determined method).

a plasma thrower would fit perfectly into the arsenal and I won't go threw skematics with you, but it could possibly work in real life (think of the MAG cannons that surround Earth in Halo 2... you could launch Plasma with the same method), and it defiently can fit into the halo universe. It could be the COV's answer for fighting against the flood, much the same way the flamethrower is the humans perfect weapon for taking on the flood.

as for lag, the xbox 360 is incredibly powerful, and can defiently handle the effects from flamethrowers... hell, my busted old computer handles the HALO PC flame effects just fine w/o lagging.

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  • 07.03.2006 12:26 PM PDT
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I don't want to see Flamethrower or Plasma-thrower in Halo 3.

  • 07.03.2006 12:44 PM PDT

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We already have a Flamethrower in Halo 2. It's called the Sentinel Beam Gun, and it sucks.

  • 07.03.2006 12:48 PM PDT
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I hated the flamethrow in Halo 1 MP, But a Plasma Thrower actually sounds fun to use.

  • 07.03.2006 12:50 PM PDT

wow....the halo flamethrower basicly was god awfull and who ever thought it would be a good weapon was mistaken... why bring it to halo 3 so it can be horrible again?... and then what would be the point of having a cov flame thrower so we can have a human and cov. flamethrower that is basicly worse than using the pistol in halo 2.... great idea if anything bring the fuel rod back

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  • 07.03.2006 1:37 PM PDT
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Posted by: prophate
Flamethrowers would cause to much lag, and you can't throw plasma. It's basically super (extremely hot, like the sun) hot fire. Without it being contained with magnetics is would kill you just for having the gun.


I've played with flamethrowers, it doesnt cause lag.. banshees cause ALOT more.

Why are you able to hold a hot steaming blue plasma grenade?

Lol.. master chief should make his own weapons, like live out in the wild and fight off bears..

I think they should include an emergency fire axe in some levels on the walls, it would be realistic.. maybe a secret weapon or something..you break the glass, bam an axe falls out and WOOHOO CHOPPING TIME

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  • 07.03.2006 1:38 PM PDT
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Why aren't there any bathrooms in human space ships?

  • 07.03.2006 1:40 PM PDT
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I think it would be cool also having a grenade launcher that would work with the grenades you had with you that way it would be even it could be on the assault rifle!

  • 07.03.2006 1:44 PM PDT
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Posted by: GUNSLINGERBUNNY
I think it would be cool also having a grenade launcher that would work with the grenades you had with you that way it would be even it could be on the assault rifle!


You should join the army.

You know, the fact that we speak english doesnt matter, because if we spoke an other language you wouldnt tell the difference.. you'd be brought up to live with this and you would be brought up to think a certain way, just like now you are brought up to be overly patriotic and supporting murder, as long as its not of your own people.

  • 07.03.2006 1:46 PM PDT
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I think bungie may as well put a flamethrower in the game. Many people would want to use it and many people wouldnt. There is no harm in having one. If you want to use it you would pick it up, if you didn't you wouldn't. Everybody is happy that way. If there was no flamethrower half the people here would be disappointed. Having said this i am totally against the idea of a plasma thrower.

  • 07.03.2006 5:25 PM PDT
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you're against introducing anything new to Halo 3. Halo is Combat: Evolved... start evolving.

  • 07.03.2006 5:41 PM PDT
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Posted by: Carnage SWAT
you're against introducing anything new to Halo 3. Halo is Combat: Evolved... start evolving.

No im not, there are many new things i would love to see in HALO 3

  • 07.03.2006 6:26 PM PDT
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i wanna clear out a base in MP with the flamethrower.

but that's just me.

  • 07.03.2006 6:31 PM PDT

Don’t get mad if I flame you because you cannot spell, or because my three year old has better grammar and etiquette than you.

They already have the sentinal/PEE beam.

Have you even played Halo 2?



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  • 07.03.2006 7:03 PM PDT
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i would love it if they put the flamethrower in

  • 07.03.2006 7:04 PM PDT
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No

  • 07.03.2006 7:05 PM PDT

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