Thread 718711081

what a piece of shit

skill issue

>>718711081 (OP)
Plasma pistol

>>718711081 (OP)
>plasma rifle muzzle velocity too low to actually be used as a weapon at vehicle engagement distances
vidya weapons should have 1000m/s muzzle velocities and I stand by that. No more of this 250m/s crap

>>718711081 (OP)
i can run faster than this

current gen banshees have shields.

>>718711081 (OP)
I liked how they could get wrecked by snipers in 2 onwards

>>718711081 (OP)
I want to travel whole ring on this . Alien gf is optional

>>718711081 (OP)
Their bomb was a one-shot, wasn't it?
Everything else about them sucked though.

>>718711081 (OP)
Weren't Banshee sounds inspired by Stuka dive bombers? Pretty cool if so.

banshee is insanely overpowered in reach

Vrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

>>718716190
They were also extremely good for splattering players. In the absence of any of its hard counters a good banshee pilot was an absolute menace, especially since not many people seemed to know that the assault rifle fires the same bullets as the warthog's chaingun and is therefore remarkably effective at taking down a banshee when two or three people focus fire on it.

this vehicle has an erotic shape

banshees were slow as shit in the games but every other piece of halo media portrays them as fast-movers

>>718717468
In the lore, Master Chief and most of the other Spartans were fucking Superman, the Covenant could probably go toe-to-toe with a good chunk of 40k and the Flood was actual, biblical Satan.
None of that transferred to gameplay tho

>>718711081 (OP)
>banshee launching while playing on headlong with friends
simpler times

>>718717648
>None of that transferred to gameplay tho
Marines almost always eventually eat shit against the Covvies without the player's intervention, so that at least lines up with canon.

>>718719665
Depends on the game. They eat shit in CE because they usually have ARs and ARs are shit. They're much better off in Halo 2 and 3 because you can swap them out for weapons better suited to their scripted engagement distances. Giving them all battle rifles lets them deal with most enemies. They still drop hard to covenant precision weapons like carbines and beam rifles though.

Useless whenever people spawn with BR/precision weapons. Just like everything else that's fun in the sandbox.

>>718721720
I will never forgive 343i for making every single playlist a BR start in MCC when it was the complete opposite in the actual games. The BR (and the carbine) is a pseudo-power weapon in multiplayer and should be treated as such.

>>718711081 (OP)
Look at you flying in your flying banshee
Rocket locked on, you're next in my spree

>>718719998
>because you can swap them out for weapons better suited to their scripted engagement distances
I would classify that as player intervention; we can only assume that the weapons they spawn with are supposed to be a broadly accurate representation of what Marines are "supposed to be" carrying in each situation.

>>718722929
It's usually battle rifles anyway, an smg here or there

>>718719998
They also eat shit in CE because the Marines in that game specifically have incredibly low flinch thresholds. They flinch from pretty much every attack and effectively get stun locked from sustained fire.

>>718722981
In Halo 2 yeah, with Halo 3 reintroducing the AR it's more of a mixture and IIRC the AR was normally the most common weapon.

>>718722192
based
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VmyrHNEmFI

>>718711081 (OP)
Maybe elites are just shitty pilots. They're insanely powerful in the hands of a player

>>718723973
It's because the Covenant AI (and their weapons) were first and foremost designed to be fun to fight against, not to ruthlessly crush the player's balls by using their tools as effectively as possible.

>>718724550
Drones were never fun to fight, that's why they didn't come back

>>718724847
Then why did brutes keep coming back

P-51 would boil this puddle of dogwater

>>718711081 (OP)
>run away if you shoot them
>obnoxiously harass you if you ignore them but aren't strong enough to actually kill you
>if you try to hijack them they have a jank hitbox that instantly splatters you
absolute king of trash campaign enemies

>>718711081 (OP)
>It's cool
>It flies
>Absolutely broken with mk on h3 MCC like all vehicles
Wtf you talking about?

>>718725025
I liked brutes. We needed more shit like them and Elites. There were too many random fucking bugs and shit, the bug people can fuck off before the brutes for sure.

>>718717648
the canon reason to why a single Spartan can operate a Scorpion alone is really funny

>>718725264
Could a P-51 run down an enemy infantryman at top speed and keep flying? I don't think so. Banshee>every real world aircraft ever made

>>718726451
Elaborate.

>>718726451
Quick rundown? Just cybernetic shit?
Captcha said gay

>>718716263
>shoots you with a sniper rifle twice while you're flying in the open

>Look at this 'beaut roight 'ere!
>Cheeky buggah almost hit me with his plasma grenade!

People think the Banshee is supposed to be a Covenant equivalent F-16 but it's actually this

>>718726902
it's literally gaylo now

>>718726451
I'm actually curious what the lore says about this.
I always assumed cortana was helping out chief, but then I remembered other spartans don't get AIs and there's parts of halo 3 where you drive a tank without her in you.

Today, I will remind them that nobody has found "Pimps at Sea", which is the other hidden half of Halo that BUNGIE created for their "World domination" plan.

>>718728275
IIRC it's because all Spartans have some neural port that lets them plug their brain into the tank. Regular humans can have it too but it's much less common, I think Keyes has one visible on the back of his head.

>>718728585
>I think Keyes has one visible on the back of his head.
No wait I got it wrong, it's Lord Hood.

>>718725880
>aren't strong enough to actually kill you
The plasma cannon disagrees as do h2/3 banshees on legendary

>>718728489
what's pimps at sea?

>sci fi space units
multi million ton capital ship with infinite delta-v and FTL drives that can liquify an entire continent in minutes
>sci fi ground units
stuff no better than what we used in desert storm but with futuristic body kits
>sci fi air units
the most useless shit you've ever seen

>>718728708
>what's pimps at sea?

Did you never play Halo 3? After Halo 3 launched, the Xbox 360 profiles of BUNGIE employees showed them playing a game called "Pimps at Sea", this was hinted at the time to be an "Alpha" version of Halo 3, that only the developers could play.

However, now, because of the new knowledge from my FROM SOFTWARE lawsuit exposing that games have hidden games hidden in them, it becomes obvious that BUNGIE wanted in on what Japan was doing, and created another entire game hiding inside Halo 3. We call that game "Pimps at Sea". Nobody has publically found it yet, but according to BUNGIE's official website, it may be tied to their search for Ling-Ling's skull in their World Domination plan.

I'm playing Halo ODST for the first time and I have a rough relationship with this game. In one hand, it's fun flanking enemies with the pistol, on the other hand, everyone's so goddamn tanky on Heroic and the angle plasma grenades are thrown is just weird. I just finished the Micky mission and it was a pain in the ass. Thank god for Needlers.

>>718726451
Bungie kind of forgot that they made the Scorpion a two-man vehicle for regular humans, only the CE version has a seat for a second crew member visible. In 2, 3, and Reach the Scorpion very clearly only has one seat for the driver and that's it.

>>718728809
Sounds exactly like early 20th century warfare

>>718721991
it's what happens when nobody on the dev team actually plays video games. i dropped MCC early too, specifically for that reason.

>>718728809
Sci fi warfare be like
>I punch your robot in the face with my robot in masculine noble combat for control of this planet
Real life warfare be like
>fat troon who cannot do a single pull-up presses button to launch tomahawk at blip 700 miles away to blow up a house where soldiers who went through 5 years of combat training are sleeping before logging on to read a mandatory powerpoint titled "how to implement aboriginal culture into strategic peacekeeping goals"

>>718731164
Modern warfare is so gay. How the hell did globohomo manage to turn war lame, of all things?

>>718731530
Globohomo is about entropy maximalism. It is the spiritual death which brings about the mental death which eventually brings the physical death. It inverts all things, all aspects of nature, creating figurative antimatter, annihilating into waste thermal energy which cannot be directed toward any meaningful work. /v/ is too dumb a board for me to go into the metaphysics of this, but give it some thought.

>>718731981
So, they're basically the antispiral?

>>718732354
The anti-spiral was able to manifest greatness and manliness in its final moments to defend its worldview at least. Globohomo in the same situation would've kept attempting to scold, gaslight, shame, confuse, and distract Simon until they could find some hole to hide in. I guess globohomo could be accurately thought of as antispiral + the combine but any cool or aesthetic elements removed.

>>718732865
>The antispiral but without any honest intentions at all
Alright, got it. Thanks

>>718725880
>if you try to hijack them they have a jank hitbox that instantly splatters you
The hitbox is fine. You can hijack them midflight, you just have to do it from behind.