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Subject: Whats with the banshees?
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well this has been a question in the back of my head since the h3 trailer came out. sry if this is in another topic but i dont wanna go through 500+ topics to find it. anyways why is there no elites in the banshee? if you freeze frame you will find there are no feet coming out of the banshee. did the design change or something? or is bungie just lazy?

  • 07.17.2006 12:24 PM PDT
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tons of answers and none of them would probly be right... lol whos to know really no one here will give yout he correct answer... unless they have a qoute from bungie.

  • 07.17.2006 12:26 PM PDT
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More likely Bunie purposely left the feet out, so we don't know who is flying them (Brute or Elite).

  • 07.17.2006 12:27 PM PDT
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wow your an idiot. really they could be flood they could be controled by guilty sparks or something or they could be grunts or jalkes or elites with there legs tucked in there asses. that an answer worthy of the idiot? Im flicking you off as hard as i can! oh and my nuts... ARE HUGE!

  • 07.17.2006 12:30 PM PDT
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well mabye if this forum had a search button...

also at the moment ur doing more of the spamming.

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well isnt it safe to say its brutes because the prophets are with the brutes and why would the elites continue something that was started by prophets who betrayed them.

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Posted by: Hedwig
More likely Bunie purposely left the feet out, so we don't know who is flying them (Brute or Elite).

Yea thats it.It's not that they forgot or something its just they left it out because they don't want you to know whos flying them.

  • 07.17.2006 12:31 PM PDT
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my last qoute was to the spammer wuwie... lol he had the same pic i thought it was highguy.

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  • 07.17.2006 12:31 PM PDT
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well since when can flood fly a covenant cruiser so well?

i remember in h2 they fly pelicans really s***ty and flip them and such. lol

  • 07.17.2006 12:33 PM PDT

Posted by: Duardo
I'd love to be a 10 year old and tell my mom I'm going on an adventure out into the world catching Pokemon, with her full support. Never mind the fact that there are rapists, criminals, and murders out there, or the fact that I may get killed by a Pokemon.

Luckily I have Pikachu.

The banshees did not shoot at the master Chief, so that leaves to theories.

1. Brute Banshee pilots didn't wanna waist there time on killing The Master Chief because they are to focused on The Arc.

2. The Elites who are allied with the Master Chief are heading over to The Ark to stop Truth.

  • 07.17.2006 12:34 PM PDT
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lol is right *wink*

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"The banshees did not shoot at the master Chief, so that leaves to theories.

1. Brute Banshee pilots didn't wanna waist there time on killing The Master Chief because they are to focused on The Arc.

2. The Elites who are allied with the Master Chief are heading over to The Ark to stop Truth."

well accually wouldnt the brutes not want the Master Chief to go into the "after life" with them? so that means that if it were brutes i think they would kill him.

  • 07.17.2006 12:36 PM PDT

Posted by: Duardo
I'd love to be a 10 year old and tell my mom I'm going on an adventure out into the world catching Pokemon, with her full support. Never mind the fact that there are rapists, criminals, and murders out there, or the fact that I may get killed by a Pokemon.

Luckily I have Pikachu.

Not really, those who are not in The Covenant are not allowed on "The Great Journey".

  • 07.17.2006 12:37 PM PDT

Spartans can also fly banshees, and I'm guessing other UNSC can fly them aswell. Improved forms of camouflage would aslo hid a pilot. We won't know for sure until Bungie says something, or the game comes out.

  • 07.17.2006 12:38 PM PDT
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"Not really, those who are not in The Covenant are not allowed on "The Great Journey"."


well isnt the covenant kinda broken up at the end?

  • 07.17.2006 12:38 PM PDT

Posted by: Duardo
I'd love to be a 10 year old and tell my mom I'm going on an adventure out into the world catching Pokemon, with her full support. Never mind the fact that there are rapists, criminals, and murders out there, or the fact that I may get killed by a Pokemon.

Luckily I have Pikachu.

Yes, The Elites have been booted out of The Covenant.

  • 07.17.2006 12:40 PM PDT
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wat about the hunters and grunts?

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  • 07.17.2006 12:41 PM PDT
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its deffinately a hunter only mini sized

  • 07.17.2006 12:45 PM PDT
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[quote]Posted by: high828
"The banshees did not shoot at the master Chief, so that leaves to theories.

1. Brute Banshee pilots didn't wanna waist there time on killing The Master Chief because they are to focused on The Arc.[quote]

Oooor...maybe the people at Bungie who made the trailer were focusing on more important things like the graphics and sound effects and didn't think it was worth their time to add in a pair of dangling legs for a half-a-second moment that people who were watching the trailer for the first time wouldn't have noticed/cared for anyway. (that's why you had to freeze the trailer in order to see it clearly)

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  • 07.17.2006 12:45 PM PDT
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Verbatim from another one of my posts. Italics are the person I was reponding to in that thread.


This again?


Watch the trailer again. notice that even though the banshees and phantoms come so close to john, none of them even makes an attempt to target john.

similarly, john makes no attempt to take cover, or any sort of offensive action. at the very least, given his military training, he would have went prone to give himself better camoflage and make himself a smaller target.


So? It's more likely they just didn't give a chit about him. Getting to this big Forerunner artifact is way, way more important that wasting time going after this single human infantry unit, especially since these banshees are bodyguards to the Phantom. John knows this, so he doesn't waste his time going for cover, which runs the risk of making him more suspicious to Covenant in the area.

now, if the covenent in the trailer were still enemies with him, he would at least duck for better cover when faced with an armada that size. but he doesnt. he just stands there overseeing the whole thing, meaning that whatever is going on there either has his approval, or he is aware that what they are doing has no negative effect(like, say, remote detonating the 6 remaining halos).

First, going for cover isn't going to matter one whit if a ship sees him and decides to do something about it. The ships would pick him up on their sensors, if they haven't already. A rock isn't going to help against a ship-based plasma torpedo. Again, going for cover just draws attention and wastes energy, so he doesn't do it. The latter part of your post is simply an arguement from ignorance. There are several other reasons why he would just stand there, watching. One is that he is too amazed at what is going on to move. Or (and this is my personal favorite), he just does that because it's a teaser trailer, and him standing at the edge is more dramatic than him peeking timidly over a rock. Along that line of thinking, why would he be walking down the middle of a road, with no cover, ripe for ambush, with his gun slung casually over his shoulder? It's cinimatic effect, done because it's dramatic. It's likely to change between now and release, if the previous teaser trailers are any indication.

Also, the ships could see him and want to do something about it, but won't or can't. Why? The Ark is right there. A shot from a ship at John may damage the Ark somehow, either directly for from rock cast-off from the cliff or anything else.


I I think that there are no pilots for the reason that the Covenant bipeds (including Elites and such in here) aren't done. However, the Phantom doesn't seem very detailed when paused in the documentary, so...

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  • 07.17.2006 12:50 PM PDT

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...Bungie didn't give them a Pilot and just gave the Banshee A.I. Why did they do this? The bipeds weren't polished yet. Or they didn't want to give away a secret.

  • 07.17.2006 12:51 PM PDT