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Subject: LOL you gotta see this!
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Some guy named SampleAndHold posted this on another forum:
But it only took me just a few minutes to set up and do and now I have some interesting, or not so interesting, stats on Halo. Lets start...

If we use the motion track as a way to tell distance, as it says it as 15 meter spread, you can actualy figure out how huge a level is. I chose Blood Gultch for this, for some reason. In after though, I figured that Sidewinder would have made the better choice, but I think my finds are pretty close.

From behind one base to the other side and behind the other bass, Blood Gultch is about 120 meters long, that is about 360 feet. So, from this infromation we can figure out how fast John and the vehicles move. This is is what I found out:

John, at a full run can run 360 feet in about 77 seconds. This is not fast at all. I will break this down for you. John is running about 4 and half feet per second or 280.5 feet per minute or 16830 feet per hour... That translates to be about 3.1875 miles per hour. That means it would take John about 20 minutes to run a mile. So John isn't really running at all, but walking... the entire time.... Even when an enemy attacks him and you are getting pounded, he just walks away. This speed is about the average stride for a person.

Now for the vehicles. This is actualy kind of funny. You would think that the Warthog and the Ghost would be quick and that the Ghost would be the faster of the two. Well they actualy go about the same speed. I calculated that the Ghost and the Warthog have a top speed of about.... are you ready for this?... 10 miles per hour...
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and I just got killed by some one in a Ghost who ran me over at 10 miles per hour?
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I mean getting hit by a car at 10 miles an hour would knock you down but not kill you unless you fell underneath the tires or something... I mean the chance of that being a fatality is slim... But I just got dropped by that in the game?!? WITH AND OVERSHEILD

Now for the Scorpian... That moves about as fast as John does. I calculated the Scorpian's top speed at about 3.3 miles per hour. Just a hair faster then John's "run."

These are pretty ruff calculations as there could and probably is some errors. I would say the real speeds are about a half mile faster or so.

Just some interesting or not so interesting information for you all. Now you know how fast you move in each vehicle and when you snipe from one base in Blood Gultch to the other you are shooting about 270 to 300 feet.

I should calculate how fast the missle goes. In Sidewinder, a friend fired off a rocket at me and i though he missed because for the longest time nothing happend. Then what I though was minutes later I got killed. He fired clear across the entire level and hit me. So the rocket must move and an incredible slow rate as well.

Like I said, I was bored. I think I am going off to work on music now...

  • 10.01.2004 9:27 PM PDT
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LOL, how long did that take him?? OMG i can run faster then the master chief!!

  • 10.01.2004 9:37 PM PDT
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He's going to be faster in Halo 2 but that's still cool.

  • 10.01.2004 9:47 PM PDT
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i can run faster then a ghost barely lol

  • 10.01.2004 10:17 PM PDT
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Keep in mind MC is wearing a half ton of armor. now can you beat his times with that much extra weight!

  • 10.01.2004 10:25 PM PDT
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what your saying isn't true coz a scorpion is way faster then you running and blood gulch isn't flat plus the motion tracker isn't completle right for measuring i. another way of measuring a lvl is to turn nav points on and go as far as you can from each other
also warthogs go 55mph

[Edited on 10/1/2004 11:01:07 PM]

  • 10.01.2004 10:59 PM PDT

"I came back to life for THIS?!" -Sgt. Johnson

Gulch seems more than 100m long. That's a little more than the length of a football field, but you don't need to go to 10x zoom to see someone that far away. Also, to shoot across the level sideways, you often must zoom in, so it's probably wider than whatever the ratio would specify if the level was 120m long.

-yeah, monkeymichael's right. On Race, the checkpoints across the level are over 300m away.

[Edited on 10/2/2004 12:06:24 PM]

  • 10.02.2004 12:04 PM PDT
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you are a pillock the motion tracker's are in metres not feet

  • 10.02.2004 12:08 PM PDT
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Meters, yeah. And I suspect it means that it goes 15 meters in each direction, with the Chief represented in the center. so the radus is 15, but the circumference is 30. that would make more sense to me.

  • 10.02.2004 5:41 PM PDT
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That was a complete was of time for this individual.

  • 10.02.2004 5:47 PM PDT
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i can prove it, had time to think about it
on the maw it says 1.1km not 1.1miles so it is doing distances in metres not feet

  • 10.05.2004 12:32 PM PDT
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Posted by: FOODNIPPLE
You guys have way to much time on your hands

you can say it like that......
although most people call stuff like this a hobby

  • 10.05.2004 3:51 PM PDT
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If you read the Halo books then you would know this but... The MJOLNIER armor actually enhances the Spartans speed and strength. Plus it weighs more then a half ton.

  • 10.05.2004 4:16 PM PDT
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It's MJOLNIR.

  • 10.05.2004 4:22 PM PDT
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1 meter=1.094yards
1 mile=1.609km
1mile=1760yards or 5280 ft

work with that

  • 10.05.2004 8:27 PM PDT
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Lol thats amazing! I mean, we all knew it was possible but who would actually take the time to do it. But couldn't you just use a nav point on CTF?

  • 10.05.2004 10:16 PM PDT
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Posted by: ezoltanl
Keep in mind MC is wearing a half ton of armor. now can you beat his times with that much extra weight!


I believe I could beat his times. I wear over a 100 pounds of extra gear any time I run into the fires to get people out. And the Spartan II's have had major genetic enhancments while I don't.

  • 10.06.2004 4:24 AM PDT
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Uhh, you guys do know that the SR has a range finder when doing two player system link right? For the record, I have calculated the speed of a jackhammer rocket to be around 30 mph. I used the SR to find the distance to a jackal, then timed how long it took for a rocket to travel that distance. Still, a rocket can outfly a warthog, and they are supposed to max out at 55, so my measurement could be incorrect. Measurements made with the motion tracker are most likely to be rediculously inaccurate, though nav markers would be much better. But then, nav markers give you a vertical measurement as well, which will make a horizontal measurement bad. The SR is best. It gives you target distance (total) and target elevation relative to your position. To find the actual horizontal distance, use the pythagorean theorem A^2 + B^2 = C^2, where B = target elevation (make it positive if it is negative) and C = the total target distance, and A = the true horizontal distance. (^2 means squared by the way).

Before you ask if I'm totally insane, I'm a geologist and make maps from time to time out in the field. Having a range finder in a place like Blood Gulch screamed of possibilities for me, but I don't have an accurate enough compass. The AR comes close, but it's too vague. If I could get a compass, I could construct a map of BG accurate to the meter.

  • 10.06.2004 4:26 PM PDT
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I'd wanna see that map.

  • 10.06.2004 5:54 PM PDT
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At our school we do a mile run (you probubly do too).John would probubly get like 20:00 minutes.My worst score was 9:52 in 5th grade.Lol.9:52 to run a mile.

  • 10.07.2004 2:52 PM PDT

-KOS-

hope they fix that in halo 2

  • 10.11.2004 7:25 AM PDT