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Subject: Ammo sharing ( another Halo 3 idea) good or bad?
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I was thinking of some cool features for Halo 3 and i came up with one. Say in a normal team snipers match you run out of ammo. "Oh no" you might say. You could go look for some ammo and get sniped or you could ask a team mate for ammo. You can stare in his direction and their could be a controller shortcut for you to ask him. If he says yes then a small ammo clip is thrown at you, if he says no then tough luck.

There is a up side to this and a downside:

Good side:

Can make you feel like you are in a real team.
You can make new friends.
Its handy
Makes life easier
Good in sngle player because to get my marines ammo i would just kill him so it would save some lives.
Bad side:

Some stupid American kids (the 7 year old kind) could be annoying and go " no its my ammo you nub" (what the *** is a nub)
It could start fights.
You might get mad at a team mate for refusing you the ammo, and kill him for the ammo instead. (easy option)
Could butcher the rep system even further.

What do you think? i would like Bungie to incorparate this feature as i think with patience it could be pretty cool.

  • 07.22.2006 2:26 PM PDT
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Only if it doesn't slow the gameplay down. Even then I don't know.

  • 07.22.2006 2:29 PM PDT

ya i think its a good idea.....

  • 07.22.2006 2:29 PM PDT

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Yeah sounds cool.

  • 07.22.2006 2:33 PM PDT
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Good idea, would come in handy in that certain situation, but idk if Bungie is gonna do anything like that or not.

  • 07.22.2006 2:34 PM PDT
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Wow, that's actually a really cool idea that I hadn't considered before. It's so crappy when you have a weapon you love but no more ammo for it.

  • 07.22.2006 2:37 PM PDT
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if that was an option it would make the game more realistic, with the fact that you interact with your team. but it might take away from the game and someone could just camp and p0wn the whole entire game. And if you could do that how would you? like what would be the controls for it?

  • 07.22.2006 2:43 PM PDT
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Hoew about teammate swapping? Go up to a teamate and hold X, thrn that teammate holds X to complete a transition, weapons swapped.

  • 07.22.2006 2:44 PM PDT
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It's so crasy....it just might work!!! Good idea.

  • 07.22.2006 2:47 PM PDT
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american kids arent the only annoying kids in Halo 2

  • 07.22.2006 2:50 PM PDT
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Posted by: Blackdog
american kids arent the only annoying kids in Halo 2


Because they are the only ones speaking English. I run into plenty of racist Europeans that hate on Americans for no reason.

  • 07.22.2006 2:53 PM PDT
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  • 07.22.2006 5:07 PM PDT
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Well, they should have an option to drop ammo or toss it when u are close. Or a money system and buy ammo like in CS.(well, in CS you buy weapons, but they should input that system. Well, a gametype like that)

  • 07.22.2006 5:13 PM PDT
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you can already get ammo from marines, you don't have to kill them. But other then that, it might work.

  • 07.22.2006 5:20 PM PDT
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Naw just in coop campaign

  • 07.22.2006 5:22 PM PDT

wow, this is the first idea I actually liked, congrats.

  • 07.22.2006 5:24 PM PDT
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ok personaly i think the idea is ok but with one problem. when im sniping i like to know where the other snipers are. even if i have no ammo id rather die knowing where the shot come from so i can get him when i spawn. now if u run outa ammo and ur looking at ur teammate.... u are fubar if they enemy shoots u. ull have no idea about where the shot came from. also not only will you be distracted but the team mate ur asking ammo from will become partialy distracted. so it would be like 2 of ur teammates doing nothing for a few seconds, which is enough time for a good sniper to take out both of them

  • 07.22.2006 5:27 PM PDT
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It would be kind of hard for it to work but I like the idea, think about it, how are you going to know how much ammo to give, one clip, two, or how about 12 shots for the BR. It could be good in campaign or something, but halo is about the run and gun style of play, ammo swapping might slow it down some but you never know, it could work.

  • 07.22.2006 6:09 PM PDT
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Wouldn't work.

  • 07.22.2006 6:28 PM PDT
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I think that would be cool for single player.

E.G. Say you run out of assault rifle ammo in H3. Then you just find an ally who also has an AR, then you PRESS X TO BORROW AMMUNITION. Of course, since the AI players never run out of ammo, there would have to be a limit on how much ammo you can borrow, but that can be done.

Another thing I just realized is that for multiplayer, if someone wanted to borrow ammo from you, thered have to be a popup message asking you whether to give them the ammo or not, which would lead to jerks cluttering up your screeen with requests, messing up you game. Imagne, you about to get a killtacular, whes some jerk fofrm your team starts mass pressing the borrow button, and screws up your shot. It would be pretty annoying right? So I say that they just limit ammo sharing to the campaign.

[Edited on 7/22/2006]

  • 07.22.2006 6:31 PM PDT

that which is not dead can eternal lie, but with strange aeons even death may die.

I like it, I mean if your player LEGIT TEAM SLAYER, and its a tough 4 on 4 game with ACTUALLY team stratagy involed,

note: I have played a few of those...they are like once a year things...

I think that if you could "trade ammo" by going up to your teamate and just like switching weapons in halo 2, If they press the button ,(D-pad maybe?) it will give 1 or 2 clips,

In the start menu you could a-sign how many clips you would want to give.

Big downside....
if bungie keeps the lame thing of only being able to carry like 3 clips, then this is impossible.

I mean for halo 1 this would have been a great thing, because if you had 600 AR ammo, you could spare some, but in halo 2, with your lame tiny 108 BR ammo, you have to horde and use sparingly you bullets, so even if you wanted to...you wouldnt have anything to trade...

I mean I can understand only holding 6 rocket ammo, hell It would be more realistic with only 2...but thats beside the point.

I think its a great Idea.

  • 07.22.2006 6:34 PM PDT

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It's a well thought out idea, I like it , it would add some much needed team work to the Halo series.

  • 07.22.2006 6:41 PM PDT
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I was thinking for controls both people hold both triggers down while facing each other then the person will automatically throw 25% of his ammo to the person and say a grenade or 2. This could be very fast and helpful.

  • 07.23.2006 12:40 PM PDT
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Posted by: Karttikeya
Posted by: Blackdog
american kids arent the only annoying kids in Halo 2


Because they are the only ones speaking English. I run into plenty of racist Europeans that hate on Americans for no reason.


we have our reasons

we dont really hate you, its just that bush is an idiot who cant mind his own business - we tar you all with the same brush

the idea is great, if used around mature people, if not, like you said, it could start fights

[Edited on 7/23/2006]

  • 07.23.2006 1:13 PM PDT