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The Halo 3 Beta Thread
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GunFingers
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Damn are people quit to boot. Tonight I dropped a power drainer to take out a guy coming up on me and it wound up eventually taking out my own teammate. I had long moved on and forgotten about the power drainer, when I hear "betrayal" and get booted. Son of a.
Other than that, I had three really good games of BTB tonight. Everybody was well behaved and having fun it seemed. On nights like this, Halo is the best game known to man.
Other than that, I had three really good games of BTB tonight. Everybody was well behaved and having fun it seemed. On nights like this, Halo is the best game known to man.
IF you have a good warthog driver, you are nigh invincible. I have a buddy who's pro at driving the thing (all he does in Halo 2 MP if given half a chance), and with him driving and me gunning, I on a regular basis rack up 40-50+ kills a match. Grenades stopping it are a joke, and the missile pod is usually easily avoided, the only thing that ever stops us is the laser, and very occasionally another warthog if they get the upper hand.
Usually I can manage to take out the other team's warthog with the missile pod (this is assuming they control the laser), but if they have a good driver it's very hard. Banshees aren't that great against Warthogs as-is right now, the turret rips banshees apart pretty badly.
Usually I can manage to take out the other team's warthog with the missile pod (this is assuming they control the laser), but if they have a good driver it's very hard. Banshees aren't that great against Warthogs as-is right now, the turret rips banshees apart pretty badly.
CreepingDea7h
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They need to make the missile pod do more damage to it - hitting it with a whole salvo should destroy the thing, not just take out the driver (this happened to me today).
I don't know how anyone could deny the Warthog is overpowered at this point. It's an unstoppable killing machine on Valhalla. There's been plenty of examples posted in this thread alone where the warthog gunner alone has gotten 20 or 30 kills before being taken out. That SHOULD NOT happen no matter what.
CreepingDea7h
Member
Hmm, it was right in front of me so I assumed they all hit. The gunner took me out right after the driver died and someone then finished the gunner off. Maybe I died before firing all of the missiles, but I'm pretty sure I fired off at least 5.SailorDaravon said:
I disagree, it should happen if the opposing team sucks a lot and the people in the warthog are very goodSean said:
:lol I dunno what you want man.urk said:
We've already said that if the other team has nothing from that long ass list of weapons/items and like to run single file into Warthog fire then yes, it's pretty unstoppable. No one said it couldn't use some tweaking.. It's just that it isn't "OMG they have a warthog! Game Over man! Game Over!".
Maybe Bungie should let you be able to pop the tires and have it flip over Crackdown style. :lol
raYne said:
These are all indeed ways to stop a warthog, but I still think it's overpowered. Trying to drop a power drainer in its path is basically a suicide mission. You have to be close to the warthog to ensure that it's going to drive through the drainer's radius which means the gunner is most likely seconds away from killing you. Missile pod is slow (plus it seems like you need to make a few direct hits to stop the thing) and from my experience the brut shot is not very effective against the thing.
I know the plasma pistol stops vehicles, but does it disable the warthog turret?
Really, I just think grenades should do more damage to the warthog. I shudder to think how invicible the scorpion/wraith is going to be.
Given that the laser is VERY effective at taking out the warthog, and we've established most of the other methods are unreliable (missile pods generally easily avoided, plasma pistoling it is probably harder and the turret would just mow you down anyway), maybe they should just add a rocket to Valhalla? They don't track anymore, but it's a possible alternative if you don't control the laser/middle.
For the record, being shorted out has never once gotten me killed in the warthog; the turret just kills however fired the shot. It'd really only work if it was a coordinated attempt between people to have someone short it then everyone converge on it, and quite frankly if you're that coordinated you have better options anyway.
For the record, being shorted out has never once gotten me killed in the warthog; the turret just kills however fired the shot. It'd really only work if it was a coordinated attempt between people to have someone short it then everyone converge on it, and quite frankly if you're that coordinated you have better options anyway.
siamesedreamer
Banned
urk said:
My buddy Uno Ill Nino and I do it every match on Valhalla. I consider myself to be pretty skilled at driving, so I just make constant laps while he mows everyone down. If we get killed, then we just mess around until it spawns again.
There are definately ways to stop it. I've had several instances where guys will shoot us with a chraged plasma pistol. From what I've experienced, skilled teams can do it without taking much more than 7-8 kills.
The warthog can definately help tip the balance for a short period of time though.
siamesedreamer
Banned
Yeah, rockets would be a good equalizer......
StrikerObi
Member
urk said:
har har
Buttonbasher
Member
I wanted to post thisSailorDaravon said:
BrodiemanTTR
Member
I played this for a few hours at a friend's house earlier. I'm hardly the biggest Halo fan (in fact I found the first two grossly overrated) and not much a fan of console dual-analog FPSes in general, but I had quite a bit of fun playing splitscreen with my friend over Xbox Live, something that I noticed a lot of other people doing. Big Team Slayer and Crazy King on High Ground in particular were a lot of fun, very fun frantic map. The other two not so much. So yeah.
BrodiemanTTR
Member
Striker said:
Well we still had a good time, and it made coordinating as a team when we played 2vs2 a little easier.
I had an awesome Double Team match earlier tonight, my partner quit the first time he died, seconds into the match...they jumped out like 10-0, but I managed to beat them, took basically every second of the match.
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=4544011&player=DaAnswer3
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=4544011&player=DaAnswer3
Had an easy time with Valhalla team slayer. Seriously, with a good driver (me!) and communication, the thing is unstoppable. Sucks that I don't get driver assists like in bf2, though. 
:lol I like how after he betrays them, he starts looking around like "I...I didn't do shit..."goldenpp72 said:
Bless you, kind sir.DopeyFish said:there's a reason why i don't use a mic in CS
soulja224466
Member
Ramirez said:
damn! nice job dude.
reminds me of one match in team slayer, where it wound up being 3v3 at the start. thats bad enough, but 2 of my teammates decided to quit not long after dying alot and really racking up the deficit. it was 3v1 for most of the match, but i held my own until the very end where it got away from me. then that eminem douchebag wanted to teabag me and punch my body every time he killed me like he was doing something special :lol