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Why when all of my marines is kill in the shuttle bay,Cortana does not signal echo 419 to sent reinforcements?

  • 12.19.2006 6:30 AM PDT
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Because, a pelican dropship just cant crash into the ship and explodes just to give reinforcement for chief.How you expect the marines to get into the ship.I bet the covenant already shut the entrance to the ship already.

  • 12.19.2006 6:49 AM PDT
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lol...."When all of my marines is kill"...

  • 12.19.2006 10:19 AM PDT

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Posted by: Marines
Because, a pelican dropship just cant crash into the ship and explodes just to give reinforcement for chief.How you expect the marines to get into the ship.I bet the covenant already shut the entrance to the ship already.
The pelicans do drop marins inside the ship for you through the big hangar doors. And, those doors are controlled by Cortana. So I don't see why she couldn't send you more.

  • 12.19.2006 11:54 AM PDT
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If I don't use sniper rifle in the ship,its still effective right?

  • 12.19.2006 4:22 PM PDT
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Posted by: TUI_Obi_Wan
And it's your connection that's slower than turtle sex.

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Be grateful for what you have you ungrateful idiot! Do you know how expensive marines are today?!

  • 12.19.2006 4:59 PM PDT
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Posted by: MagicGibl3t
Posted by: Marines
Because, a pelican dropship just cant crash into the ship and explodes just to give reinforcement for chief.How you expect the marines to get into the ship.I bet the covenant already shut the entrance to the ship already.
The pelicans do drop marins inside the ship for you through the big hangar doors. And, those doors are controlled by Cortana. So I don't see why she couldn't send you more.
Cortana Barely got control of the ship. In the room where all the doors are locked. she barely got one opened. She seems to be fighting covenant AI in the ship too. Fighting over the controls. So it's quite hard.

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Posted by: TUI_Obi_Wan
And it's your connection that's slower than turtle sex.

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Yeah, but computers are the only things humans excel over The Covenant in, so it should be easier, but there was possibly another copied Covenant AI on there, like the potentially captured Human AI on Ascendant Justice.

  • 12.20.2006 12:10 AM PDT
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Err, It reminds me. It's kinda weird, isn't it? When the covenant knows chief already entered the ship. They should be already be surrounded by an army of covenants. maybe 100+. It is a ship. And everyone knows a ship carries lots of people.It seems in TaR. Most of the crews are missing. They should be EVERYWHERE in the ship

  • 12.20.2006 5:46 AM PDT
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I may be mistaken but, I think in the book (The Flood) the incursion onto the TaR was at the same tmie the Helljumpers were preforming their OP to secure supplies from the Autumn. The Covenent divoted the majority of their military resources to stopping that operation, so that could be why the ship is almost empty.

  • 12.21.2006 2:28 PM PDT
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Posted by Marines:
Err, It reminds me. It's kinda weird, isn't it? When the covenant knows chief already entered the ship. They should be already be surrounded by an army of covenants. maybe 100+. It is a ship. And everyone knows a ship carries lots of people.It seems in TaR. Most of the crews are missing. They should be EVERYWHERE in the ship


You have to consider all of the Covenant that you fight before you get inside the ship. There's a small army of them waiting for you on the way to the grav lift, and several groups of Covenant come down from the lift. Another thing: If the Covenant were everywhere you'd have a hard time killing them all.

  • 12.21.2006 4:31 PM PDT
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well right at the end of the game when u have to get into a warthog and escape the ship before it blows theres at least 100 covernent

  • 01.28.2007 2:01 PM PDT
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Posted by: MagicGibl3t
Posted by: Marines
Because, a pelican dropship just cant crash into the ship and explodes just to give reinforcement for chief.How you expect the marines to get into the ship.I bet the covenant already shut the entrance to the ship already.
The pelicans do drop marins inside the ship for you through the big hangar doors. And, those doors are controlled by Cortana. So I don't see why she couldn't send you more.


because you can handle yourself as the MC, and theres no reason to send more marines on a suicide mission

  • 01.28.2007 5:25 PM PDT
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Hmm, well I don't think that a Covenant AI would be a real problem, because human constructs are way superior to the Covenant's; Cortana wouldn't be horribly troubled to open a hangar door. The reason could more likely be they don't have those troops to spare to back up the chief, and another is how long it would take for reinforcements to arrive. It's not like there is a pelican just outside waiting for the call, right?

Also, if you could keep calling in reinforcements, that would seriously alter the gameplay.

  • 01.29.2007 9:00 PM PDT
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Posted by: MeArbiter
Why when all of my marines is kill in the shuttle bay,Cortana does not signal echo 419 to sent reinforcements?


Are you playing on a hard or legendary difficulty?

The game won't give you reinforcements when all your marines are dead on harder difficulties, if that is every marine that you had with you is dead when you reach the shuttle bay.

  • 01.29.2007 9:07 PM PDT
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I believe everyone in here completely missed the point.. It was a simple question of why the reinforcements were not appearing for him.. Wow.

  • 01.30.2007 6:04 AM PDT
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That's simply what we're trying to answer. That simple question can have a lot of answers, both simple and complex, and we are discussing it.

  • 01.30.2007 1:40 PM PDT
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Posted by: The Kedge
That's simply what we're trying to answer. That simple question can have a lot of answers, both simple and complex, and we are discussing it.


The way it was discussed it seems as if everyone thought he meant for story reasons.. He was asking why the event wasen't triggering...

  • 01.30.2007 2:22 PM PDT
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Yeah, well that was discussed a little, but I think everyone else has more fun discussing the story than why the event isn't triggering. Game-wise, I think he should just get over his lack of marines and continue on.

  • 01.30.2007 3:16 PM PDT
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Posted by: Marines
Posted by: MagicGibl3t
Posted by: Marines
Because, a pelican dropship just cant crash into the ship and explodes just to give reinforcement for chief.How you expect the marines to get into the ship.I bet the covenant already shut the entrance to the ship already.
The pelicans do drop marins inside the ship for you through the big hangar doors. And, those doors are controlled by Cortana. So I don't see why she couldn't send you more.
Cortana Barely got control of the ship. In the room where all the doors are locked. she barely got one opened. She seems to be fighting covenant AI in the ship too. Fighting over the controls. So it's quite hard.


No, Cortana does drop marines inside the shuttle bay. I have had it happen to me before. But then again, it could also depend on what difficulty you are playing on.

  • 02.02.2007 5:16 AM PDT

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It's rather difficult to pull the same trick twice on the same person. Try getting a pelican past a covenant capital ship? Not too easy. Especially since they already know you're there. Plus, ODSTs and marines are being used for the assault on the PoA along with defending Alpha Base.

  • 02.04.2007 1:51 PM PDT
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If you remember Foehammer had covies attacking her when you save Keyes. So she was probably got attacted while you where inside the hanger and Cortana already made Foehammer drop her marines its impossible

  • 02.13.2007 9:14 PM PDT
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Posted by: l KILL GRUNTS
lol...."When all of my marines is kill"...

Sounds like memes, lawl

  • 02.14.2007 12:09 AM PDT