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  • Poll [40 votes]: What do you guys think about the locking system?
Subject: The target lock system, good or bad.
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Poll: What do you guys think about the locking system?  [closed]
Definitely good:  48%
(19 Votes)
I would say it is bad:  10%
(4 Votes)
Not sure:  42%
(17 Votes)
Total Votes: 40

I mean it is cool and all but come on. You can blow up a vehicle with 3 shots or so from a rocket launcher. What do you guys think of it.

  • 05.23.2004 3:06 PM PDT
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This is to balanace everything out. We'll have the technology by 2552 to do that. And with more vehicles/bigger maps, it is just to make everything even if you don't have a vehicle.

  • 05.23.2004 3:09 PM PDT
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i think its good. it will have to make the driver more aware of everything around him or go -splat-

[Edited on 5/23/2004 3:10:43 PM]

  • 05.23.2004 3:10 PM PDT
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Yeah, I agree the dudes at Bungie are all about making sure that there are good checks and balances with everything.

  • 05.23.2004 3:11 PM PDT
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Its one of those features i really diddn't think halo needed. The whole point and satisfaction of the rocket launcher is timing the rockets so that they meet their targets. The lock on mode looks way to easy.

Either the rocket launcher will be hard to get or.... the targeter will take quite a long time.... or maybee you have to stand still to target? i don't know how they'll balance it but it looked like a very easy kill in the video's.

On the flip side, i have faith in bungie so i'll only comment when i use it myself ( i voted not sure).

  • 05.23.2004 3:13 PM PDT
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Posted by: IroncladPhalanx
Yeah, I agree the dudes at Bungie are all about making sure that there are good checks and balances with everything.


Right, they have been playing Halo2 non stop for a while now to make sure it is all even and balanced. If it wasn't balanced they would know by now and would have taken it out.

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  • 05.23.2004 3:14 PM PDT
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yes but in halo if you are aware that a rocket is shot at you than you can easily dodge it

[Edited on 5/23/2004 3:14:52 PM]

  • 05.23.2004 3:14 PM PDT
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The targeting feature, I believe, is only used against vehicles, not infantry. I bet people will figure a way to dodge it in a vehicle anyways.

  • 05.23.2004 3:42 PM PDT
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Of course it's good. If you watch the video, Joe (no offense) still missed a few times, even from relatively close by. Target tracking would be fine, it's not an instant kill/instantly destroyed vehicle anyways. Plus it does help, because its not the easiest thing to take a moving, zigzagging hog down with a rocket from like 500 feet away, is it?

  • 05.23.2004 4:16 PM PDT
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Joe plays Halo 2 a lot so he probably is realy good at stuff like that. it is most likely harder than he makes it look

  • 05.23.2004 4:21 PM PDT
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My thoughts:
In my perfect world, i sould use it only on flying vehicles, and make it like the half life 2 demo showed: You fire the rocket, and keep your aiming reticule on the target. But maybe im thinking in terms of halo 1. in halo 1, the warthog did not handle very well, and the two maps with warthogs (Blood gulch, Sidewinder) there were teleports to the rocket launcher, and a good, wide view to use them and line up your shots. In halo 2, it will be much easier to avoid hits simply because vehicles will control better. So maybe the rocket is neccessary to counterbalance better vehicles. i simply wish for the option to turn it off, if this is not the case.

  • 05.23.2004 4:34 PM PDT
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I would say that this is a great addition to the game. It also, if your worrying about it being to easy, will lock as good as a plasma pistol shot.

[Edited on 5/23/2004 4:49:31 PM]

  • 05.23.2004 4:49 PM PDT

Me: "OMFG, Dude... wtf!"
AbolitionofMan: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to betray you."
Me: "That's the 4th time in this game alone!"
Chris: "Third, besides he had the flag I was trying to stop him, how was I supposed to know you were there."
Me: "I said, 'I got the Flag, don't shoot.'"
Chris: "Well those Wraith shots take a while to reach you."
Me: "You were right next to me, I had killed him and a minute passed before you decided to shoot."
Chris: "Hahahahaha, yeah... that was great."

I heard that you can choose to just fire the rocket normally and let if fly at the normal speed in the orignial Halo.... cause the lock on rockets fly slower to thier targets than normal unguided ones... so you can choose to use it or not...

Can anyone back this up?

Achilles

  • 05.23.2004 5:13 PM PDT