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Subject: The Guardians...?
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We've heard the term but don't exactly know what it is. If you play custom Halo PC or Halo CE levels, when an AI kills you, the game calls it a "Guardian." This is all well and good, but in Frankie's "Bungie's Guide to Swords" 10/18/04, he mentions the word again. What is he talking about? Here is the exact text:

"If you're dodging, dodge left or right. A locked-on player can miss if you sidestep at just the right time. Be careful too, when lunging, since foolish dives forward can take you over the edge of a precipice. And you don't want to yell some stabby smack-talk seconds before the Guardians kill you..."

Is he suggesting that there will be bots in a certain part of a level there solely for the purpose of killing anyone who ventures (or falls) down there?

Was Bungie lying in the Q&A and there actually are bots?

Is Frankie just trying to have a little fun with the piranha-like fanbase that gobbles up every bovine of info that wanders into the stream of public discourse?

Maybe the Guardians allude to something in the single player game (Forerunner?)...who knows.


h@1o - Go easy on me, this is my first post. I don't do the forum thing too often.

PS- GAH, New Mombasa Halo 2 forum link didn't load last time, so I thought this was Halo 1 and 2 forum...

[Edited on 10/20/2004 2:10:30 PM]

  • 10.20.2004 2:08 PM PDT
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In Halo, when you were Killed by the Guardians in MP, that was when two people kill each other at the same time, or so increadibly close to that that the XBOX computer couldn't register the time difference. Then no one got the kill. I'm not sure about Halo 2.

  • 10.20.2004 2:11 PM PDT
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Happens when you get in a fistfight and are both swinging for the killing blow at the same time. If the other guy is already swinging when you land your killing blow, then you'll get taken out. I think that's how it works.

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I C, and since a bot is a non-player, the game sees it as one of those unregistered or unmarked kills. I thought they would have fixed the "players kill each other but neither get a kill" bug by the time Halo 2 comes out tho...

  • 10.20.2004 2:16 PM PDT