Hydranockz
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This is a bug that has been repreduced many times as of late. Even looking at the map pack trailer, you can see a banshee getting a laser kill. Your video is still hilarious mind you, but damn Bungie :/NOKYARD said:
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Halo: Reach |OT3| This Thread is Not a Natural Formation
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squidhands
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:lolDirtbag said:
What's really weird is that you got a laser kill while using an AR. I guess Dax was right about the AR all this time...NOKYARD said:
The AR needs to be on par with the SMG from Halo 2. That gives spawning players a chance at defending themselves from a banshee without ever actually destroying it, unless its close to death or has a stupid driver in it.
The banshee could then keep its bomb.
I am on the side that thinks AL is great in vehicle orientated maps. In small maps like sword base, Reflection etc etc it proves the game breaker. Adjusting it (which I described in a previous post a few pages back) wouldn't nullify it, but would make it on par with the other abilities.
The banshee could then keep its bomb.
I am on the side that thinks AL is great in vehicle orientated maps. In small maps like sword base, Reflection etc etc it proves the game breaker. Adjusting it (which I described in a previous post a few pages back) wouldn't nullify it, but would make it on par with the other abilities.
Zeouterlimits
Member
Strong chance I might be an XBL-less or at least closed-NAT & high ping accommodation From February until June.
Zeo = :'(
Also, Banshee bomb just needs to go, turret power increased. Happened with the Hornet's rockets, should happen here too.
Zeo = :'(
Also, Banshee bomb just needs to go, turret power increased. Happened with the Hornet's rockets, should happen here too.
Hypertrooper
Member
You can skip it.LosDaddie said:
Hydranockz
Member
Zeouterlimits said:
Zeouterlimits
Member
Brother, don't I know it.Hydranockz said:
Grimm Fandango
Member
My XBL runs out in February and I'm strongly considering not to renew it...
maybe I can donate it to you!
maybe I can donate it to you!
Zeouterlimits
Member
Actually, that does remind me, a good third of that year sub I got back in August will be gone to waste. Not that I paid full price, so it's truly not the important loss here.Grimm Fandango said:
Didn't post, but was great getting the challenges with Grimm, Gui and Shogun last night, fun times.
electricpirate
Member
aDDiKt24 said:
Use the DMR instead, It drops a banshee right quickly, and in all the maps where you see a banshee, you spawn with a DMR.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Grimm Fandango said:
What?!? Why?
Blue Ninja said:
Why the hell not!!!!!
Oh man, MLG goes live today!
Miggytronz
Member
Alienshogun said:
no lie Ive had the same thoughts.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Mikasangelos said:
You people are crazy! I have a PS3 and still have never thought of dropping XBL, not ever in the 8 years I've been on it.
Crazy talk!
Miggytronz
Member
Alienshogun said:
pretty crazy i know.
Miggytronz
Member
equil said:So uh are we ever going to have like double credit weekends?
THIS
I wouldn't hold my breath.equil said:So uh are we ever going to have like double credit weekends?
And Grab Bag is pretty much the Double Exp Weekend that H3 had, for Reach.
Every week or 2 , a different playlist will appear in Grab Bag.
Probably next week the playlist will be just Community maps from the Forgetacular Contest.
Halo Reach Mythbusters: Episode 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdDLEMkSxvU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdDLEMkSxvU
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Zennshi said:
Thanks!
:lol :lol
Wait till Ram sees that bloom. :lol
Shake Appeal
Member
Where is my MLG playlist?
The Librarian
Banned
On the bottom of your shoe. You should be able to scrape it off with a fork or something.Shake Appeal said:
electricpirate
Member
aDDiKt24 said:
Let me get this straight, It's not that the banshee lacks a counter, but that it isn't countered by your weapon of choice?
I know, opinions etc, but that's some seriously small beer there.
press y to have fun
Edit: typo fixo
Bregmann Roche
Member
equil said:So uh are we ever going to have like double credit weekends?
I would be willing to be that something like this is in the works. They're probably just waiting for a few months so that once the majority of the population has hit a credit wall they can woo them back with double cR action.
I'd be down.
Urk - I'm not a big objective guy, but would it be possible to get an objective-based weekly challenge? Something like "capture X flags in multiplayer matchmaking this week"?
Hydranockz
Member
Promotes bad behaviour. People will betray you for the flag.Bregmann Roche said:
Bregmann Roche
Member
Hydranockz said:
Well, not YOU you, but your team. So you get 1 point towards the challenge every time your team scores. Would that even be possible?
Like I said, I'm not an objective guy, but that's the sort of challenge that would get me to try it out.
Edited to ask: Dax, would a Mountain Dew sponsorship change your mind? Something like "Mountain Dew-Dax Brew" as a new flavor? The can could have Star Trek and Halo stuff on it.
The Librarian
Banned
That was in jest (as all my jabs at MLG are, even though I do vehemently hate the type of gameplay in it). <3 you tashiTashi0106 said:
electricpirate said:
Seriously, the DMR doesn't do enough damage to a banshee to call it a "go-to" weapon. We shoot at it with the DMR as it's the only weapon that does any slight damage.
The AR takes 7 and a half full clips to kill a banshee with every bullet hitting its body. That is horrible. It is too weak against the banshee. The DMR is good for medium to long distance shooting at the banshee. At close range to the banshee, the AR should show its advantage over the DMR due to the quick fire clip, but doesn't. Its simple balance.
Hydranockz
Member
It's an Assault Rifle.. not an Anti-Air Rifle.aDDiKt24 said:
RebornYeti
Member
Tashi0106 said:
Just stopping by to say THIS!!!
I hate playing with randoms that don't know that team shooting a Banshee is super effective.
True...in a game of Stockpile the other day there was a guy on my team who would pick up the flags in the scoring area move outside of it and back in to get the points...Hydranockz said:
Edit - can someone direct me to the video showing the uses of the grenade launcher? The one that shows the skull on the gun?
Grimm Fandango
Member
Alienshogun said:
Well I'm playing 360 (consoles in general) a lot less lately due to graduate school. And MS jacking the price up $10 just rubbed me the wrong way. I really only play Halo online. If I can find Live for like $35 or so I might come back.
squidhands
Member
Tashi0106 said:
Of course this works. Team of 8 people shoot anything and its going to make short work of it. We all know this!
Sometimes it doesn't exactly work like that. I go back to a game I had on Breakpoint (Elite Slayer). Me and 3 other guys continuously shot a Banshee with our Needler Rifles but it was doing barely any damage. Spawn in the open snow, would basically mean death within 5-10 seconds.
The whole banshee vs player balance was handled much better in Halo 2.
6 years later and we have gone backwards!
electricpirate
Member
aDDiKt24 said:
Elite slayer is a special case, as the needle rifle doesn't work on vehicles. In that case, yes, banshee's suck.
Well generally, Elite slayer just kind of sucks. It should just be removed outright. But every halo has had some pretty awfull gametypes that somehow survived through Matchmaking.
Speaking of the bulk of Banshee situations, where you have spartans, or have a battlefield littered with DMRS, I find 2 people with DMR's is enough to drop a banshee, or at least to get him to bug out.
aDDiKt24 said:
Ok but I think we can all agree that more often than not team shooting a banshee DOES work. And you don't need all 8 guys shooting it to at least have the banshee fly away to escape. Spawning in the open snow doesn't sound like a Banshee problem, it sounds like a problem with the spawn system or the map itself.
Bregmann Roche
Member
ShinAmano said:
The realization of what that little skull guy meant single-handedly saved Sword Base as a map for me. I was getting very tired of the typical camp the lifts play of that map, but once you drop an exploratory launcher shot in there to find out how many dudes are hanging out in there it makes for some very good times.
Pro Pipe indeed.
Shake Appeal
Member
Like two people shooting at a banshee with DMRs will cause the pilot to bail out of the area pretty quick.
I was taunting him with sporadic DMR shots to remind him i was still alive after surviving several Wraith bombs. When i ran out of DMR ammo waiting for the Plasma Launcher to respawn the AR seemed to be an adequate replacement for this task.Louis Wu said:
To your original question "What the hell were you thinking?". I was replaying in my mind all the old HaloGAF AR arguments like a Vietnam movie soundtrack while i emptied that useless piece of well, useless on that map anyway.