- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Master Kim
Well, you see, when you're playing on a local area network on split-screen or with system link with other Xboxes, pressing the down button on the pad of the controller shows the lowering animation. However, over Xbox Live, if you hold the left trigger (assuming you have no grenades left) it will show you lowering your weapon. So there is a minor quibble, you have to throw away all your grenades before the animation is shown. (Actually, I'm not sure about this, but if you hold down the left trigger after throwing a grenade, the animation can still work, you just have to sacrifice a grenade in order to do it.)
Maybe on H2V we'll have the gun-lowering animation when pressing down the down key on the arrow keys.
Actually, to lower your weapon in Halo 2 like the guys at RvB make their characters do, you just tap down on the D-pad. You can't tell me that Bungie put that feature in without the incentive of helping out machinima. It really doesn't serve any other purpose. :P And there already is a walking animation in Halo 2, so I don't see why they shouldn't have a walk key in the PC version of it.