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  • Poll [24 votes]: Do you want the plasma thrower to be in halo 3?
Subject: Halo 3 weapon: Who wants the PlasmaThrower?
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Poll: Do you want the plasma thrower to be in halo 3?  [closed]
yes:  17%
(4 Votes)
no (to flame & plasma):  67%
(16 Votes)
I want the flame & plasma thrower:  12%
(3 Votes)
i want the flame thrower:  4%
(1 Votes)
Total Votes: 24

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A new Cov. weapon thats simply devastating. The Cov stole human the flame thrower design and intergrated their own plasma technology into aid in battling the flood.

It'll have an integrated power source, just like the PR and PP. Holding the trigger for too longer will cause it to overheat.

It'll be duel-mode, the primary being the name, throws plasma around. The secondary will be a charged shot that uses up 20% of the weapons energy and creates a mass of plasma the size of a basketball at its nozzle. If hit dead on with this plasma at a range of 5-10ft, you'll be instantly incinerated. The weapon will overheat from this charged shot and be temporaily out of commision for 3-4 seconds after this shot.

I haven't been able to think of a better name for it yet, but if anyones got any good ideas, post em.

[Edited on 7/7/2006 by Anton P Nym]

  • 07.07.2006 9:40 AM PDT
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Read the effin stickies.

  • 07.07.2006 9:44 AM PDT
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Posted by: Wuyie
How about a better weapon than that?...one for anti-spammin...it'd fire a projectile that would crawl up your ass and die..


What a CHUMP. I like Wuyie's idea though, he really should shoot himself with it.

I like the Plasma-thrower idea... the flames need to be more powerful then the Halo PC version... you could only fry someone if they were right next to you or coming right at you in that game, and forget about trying to chase somehow down, you hurtself more then anything else. Make the flame thrower and plasma thrower more like a huge butane torch and that'd be sick.

Also like the duel-mode idea.

  • 07.07.2006 10:11 AM PDT
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1) The flamethrower is a very in-efficient weapon, very uncontrollable, and hazardous in the field.

2) The Flame Thrower is our first attempt at a plasma weapon, the covenant have advanced plasma weaponry, why make a primitive version.

3) If they do make one, can i use it to melt away your brain for coming up with a relatively stupid weapon that really has no place in the Halo universe.

  • 07.07.2006 10:16 AM PDT
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A plasma thrower? Aren't the Covenant weapons already plasma throwers? Unless you just want a steady stream, in which case it would be like a really hot super soaker.

  • 07.07.2006 10:20 AM PDT
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You need to stop making new threads. Post this in the weapon ideas thread. You are spamming.

  • 07.07.2006 10:21 AM PDT
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i got a better idea instead of a wierd plasma spewing and then falmethrowing weapon how bout this.. a sticky flamethrower imgine the stick factor of a plasma grenade but with the action of burning instead its like using a fire hose to shoot napalm at people. that sounds cooler to me if u agreee just recopy wat i said and i say.i agree with him

  • 07.07.2006 10:23 AM PDT
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he's talking about making the flame and plasma stronger then the Halo PC version. While its dangerous and hazardous, its necessary against the flood.

I think hes saying the flame and plasma would serve different purposes, since the flame has tankes and the plasma would have a built in energy core and a secondary mode. Plus if the flame was more like a butane torch it wouldn't be all that primitive

as for having no place in the halo universe, lets let the polls and bungie decide that.

  • 07.07.2006 10:24 AM PDT
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Posted by: arvn76
i got a better idea instead of a wierd plasma spewing and then falmethrowing weapon how bout this.. a sticky flamethrower imgine the stick factor of a plasma grenade but with the action of burning instead its like using a fire hose to shoot napalm at people. that sounds cooler to me if u agreee just recopy wat i said and i say.i agree with him


thats what a plasma grenade does, it melts onto the suit before it explodes. I defiently like the idea of the plasma from the thrower sticking to their armor before doing damage by exploding... defiently could imagine some sick effects to accompany that.

what everything think of the secondary duel-mode, ya know, a charged shot... like you create a basketball sized plasma grenade... or maybe even just a normal size plasma grenade that could stick to the person if you shot them directly... ithe second mode could be almost like a plasma grenade launcher

[Edited on 7/7/2006]

  • 07.07.2006 10:27 AM PDT
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Butane... compared to covenant weaponry, that is primitive. They can already send heavy amounts of plasma at an enemy with thier Wriath, Ghost, plasma rifles, etc. Plasma burns, it eats away, it is no different then fire. The only reason it is less effective on the flood is because it isnt quite as precise as ballistic weaponry is, and it cant be fired at quite as rapid a rate either.

If you think about it though, the Plasma Sword completely desintagrates a flood. That is because its a large, solid column of plasma, making it intensly hot and would probably boil skin just before it came in contact with anything.

  • 07.07.2006 10:28 AM PDT
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if its efffective against the flood, all the more reason to have it in the game, and make it a good weapon.

  • 07.07.2006 10:31 AM PDT
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Yes, but your thinking about it as effective against only 1 enemy, which means the weapon would only have a place in the military as a specialed Flood killing machine. It wouldnt make sense.

A weapon cannot have that kind of use, it must be effective in all areas. Besides, the covenant have a whole arsenal of very efficient plasma weaponry, the plasma and flamethrower just wouldnt have a place in this game.

And another thing, i feel that the flamethrower really was an out of place addition to Halo PC. It didnt add anything to campaign, and it was a very neglected weapon in multiplayer. The fact of the matter is, we just dont need it.

  • 07.07.2006 10:39 AM PDT
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Plasma - In laymen's terms really friggin' hot energy controlled by pinpoint slipspace ruptures.

thrower- thrower-

WTF?

How does this idea even work.
Letting lose a massive and unguided burst of plasma would be completely ignorant!!!

Why are mortars from wraiths spheres? Plasma must be contained or it dispurses rapidly.
So, really, maybe the flame-thrower would work against skwiddies, but I'm fine with a good old shotty myself.

  • 07.07.2006 10:40 AM PDT
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when i say good weapon I mean effective against all enemies. Whats good about a thrower as opposed to a shotgun or sword in close range is that you can continously fire since theres no recoil. This is very helpful, especially against multiple enemies (flood tend to attack in packs) and could be useful on small MP levels.

Napo... you're thinking too realistically man... explain how the PP works or PR works.. theres no scientific bases for how they would work yet... as for the plasma thrower, it wouldn't be completely unguided plasma, there'd be some sort of nozzle, and the plasma would rapidly dispurse after being shot.. thats why it'd be a close range weapon

[Edited on 7/7/2006]

  • 07.07.2006 10:46 AM PDT

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The flood are a big and unique enough threat to develop technology to counter. Anyway, you're talking from the perspective of human military conventions, the Covenant would feel different about it, especially when you take into account religious motives.

Regardless of realism, I personally would F-wording love to pwn flood with any sort of flamer-style weapon. They'd run around burning and waving their arms....................awesome..............
XD......

  • 07.07.2006 10:49 AM PDT
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the PP and PR are explained in the books.
They are basically scaled down versions of the ships' plasma salvos.

and there is a difference between being too realistic and using common sense.

As of right now the PT would not guide plasma. a nozzle would only direct the plamsa.

Remember, plasma destroys atmosphere. (recall when they glass planets)
So rapidly letting out anything but a bolt would be completely unpredictable in my opinion.

I don't believe the Cov. could invent a weapon, they ARE imitative, not innovative.

[Edited on 7/7/2006]

  • 07.07.2006 10:54 AM PDT
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That's just a miniature version of the " for lack of a better word beam-cannon" the ships have.

emulation at its finest.

  • 07.07.2006 11:02 AM PDT
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use your common sense and tell me how guided and directed mean different things in that context...they are synomyns after all. I'm sure you were making a valid point, but you just didn't explain it well at all. Anyways, it could have a magnetic coupling collar to guide the plasma, since as we know right now, the only thing close to being able to contain plasma is magnetic fields. Well then, the collar could guide the plasma out of the storage contain and throw it... or perhaps launch it (gotta love synomyns)... Plasma Launcher... I like the sound of that.

also, it wouldn't really be innovative, since the Cov would of copied the flamethrower design and applied their plasma technology to it. Sounds pretty imitative to me.

  • 07.07.2006 11:03 AM PDT
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Also, it would have to be one powerful flame/plasma thrower. If you recall in Halo 1 when the Pillar of Autmn is being attacked, theres a part when you run into an elite and a group of grunts. The room explodes in flames and you have to go through. The flames don't do much damage against the sheild. It would be cool but the thrower would have to be similar to hand held torch. Most flame throwers that we've seen in games and movies, just spray the fire out slowly instead of forcing it out quickly, like the smaller torches. It would also be hard to get distance with flame that small. But when you say plasma thrower I think of a Plasma grenade launcher which would be cool. Especially since you could stick enemies from a long distance away.

  • 07.07.2006 11:04 AM PDT
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You mean thier Fuel Rod guns? Yeah, in halo 2 you could say that i guess.

  • 07.07.2006 11:04 AM PDT
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2500... just playing... haven't you heard of fusion? the reaction that powers the sun and creates plasma... people are experimenting right now to try and use magnetic fields to contain a fusion reaction. A magnetic coupling collar would basically be a small device that creates a magnetic field that would guide the plasma out of its containment field.

  • 07.07.2006 11:13 AM PDT