Official Halo 2 Thread

andrewgpaul · Post by **andrewgpaul** » 2004-11-19 07:15pm

I keep blowing up my own Marines with plasma grenades by accident (in Halo 1, PC).

Mind you, they're claustrophobic - every time I enter a structure, they stand outside on guard. The Silent Cartographer level, for example - I took a Warthog down the tunnels as far as I could (till you get to the locked door), and he just waited on the turret till I got back. Echo 4-19 left him behind, though

I pinched one Marine's sniper rifle in Halo 2 (just after you kill the Hunters in the courtyard), and he took my Needler in exchange. I nearly shot him about 3 times, because I thought it was a Grunt sneaking up on me. He held onto that thing throughout the level, though.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2004-11-19 07:39pm

Losonti Tokash wrote:Maybe the UNSC has created a MJOLNIR-Lite armor that doesn't kill non-Spartans? Hell. Maybe the cries of mercy (or agony) when marines died did not fall on deaf ears at Bungie.

I'm pretty sure that in the books they mention adding a gel-layer to the Marines' body armor at some point, to disperse heat from the plasma. Since, obviously, it worked so well on the MJOLNIR equipment and was a good idea in the first place.

Probably.

Certainly needed to.

Course hearing that Elites are same health as enemy versions on Legendary makes me wonder how fast does the final fight go down.

Losonti Tokash · Post by **Losonti Tokash** » 2004-11-21 11:58am

Ghost Rider wrote:Probably.

Certainly needed to.

Course hearing that Elites are same health as enemy versions on Legendary makes me wonder how fast does the final fight go down.

Councillor elites survive one, maybe two hits from the gravity hammer. They still can't hurt him unless his shield is down, and he still smacks them around like toys. Mostly, I just used them to kill the Brutes that would jump onto the level every now and then. Took me about an hour to finally kill the bastard, though.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2004-11-21 11:12pm

Losonti Tokash wrote:
Ghost Rider wrote:Probably.

Certainly needed to.

Course hearing that Elites are same health as enemy versions on Legendary makes me wonder how fast does the final fight go down.
Councillor elites survive one, maybe two hits from the gravity hammer. They still can't hurt him unless his shield is down, and he still smacks them around like toys. Mostly, I just used them to kill the Brutes that would jump onto the level every now and then. Took me about an hour to finally kill the bastard, though.

Ouch. But he was a bitch with that shield...course it was funny playing Boss battles in Halo.

SpacedTeddyBear · Post by **SpacedTeddyBear** » 2004-11-21 11:47pm

Just run around the area in front of Sarge. His 3 rifle shots brings down Tartarus' shields for a few secs. It took me quite a while to put enough beating into him. Either that, or I had one hell of a lucky shot to the head.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2004-11-22 07:39am

SpacedTeddyBear wrote:Just run around the area in front of Sarge. His 3 rifle shots brings down Tartarus' shields for a few secs. It took me quite a while to put enough beating into him. Either that, or I had one hell of a lucky shot to the head.

Cool tactic.

Sadly on Normal...I know I didn't do shit to him, and then suddenly I was watching the ending.

At least on Heroic...I had to fight him.

Losonti Tokash · Post by **Losonti Tokash** » 2004-11-22 09:32am

There is apparently a glitch that involves the plasma sword. Johnson needs to bring Tartarus' shield down while the brute is focused on an elite. When the shield goes down, you have to slash him repeatedly. I have huge doubts about this, but it allegedly kills him in 30 seconds (whether your ammo [or you] would last that long is debatable).

The glitch is that while you're attacking him, Tartarus keeps going through the "being hit" animation and can't fight back.

SpacedTeddyBear · Post by **SpacedTeddyBear** » 2004-11-23 02:15am

There is apparently a glitch that involves the plasma sword. Johnson needs to bring Tartarus' shield down while the brute is focused on an elite. When the shield goes down, you have to slash him repeatedly. I have huge doubts about this, but it allegedly kills him in 30 seconds (whether your ammo [or you] would last that long is debatable).

The glitch is that while you're attacking him, Tartarus keeps going through the "being hit" animation and can't fight back.

I actually tried doing that ( on Legendary). All I ended up with is a hammer on my head.

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2004-11-23 02:46am

Okay, I beat it on Normal. I have no idea what to say. From one stand point that sucks. Then again that's totally fucking awesome. Luckily that was only about 20% why I got the game. So no biggie. Still kicks ass though.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2004-11-23 07:25am

Cal Wright wrote:Okay, I beat it on Normal. I have no idea what to say. From one stand point that sucks. Then again that's totally fucking awesome. Luckily that was only about 20% why I got the game. So no biggie. Still kicks ass though.

Yeah, I know the feeling. After winnign I got my friends to put in their controllers...and proceeded to ass rape them with the sword.

Losonti Tokash · Post by **Losonti Tokash** » 2004-11-23 08:00am

I am told that the third and final act (i.e. the actual ending) was cut for the game to make the November 9 release date.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2004-11-23 08:03am

Losonti Tokash wrote:I am told that the third and final act (i.e. the actual ending) was cut for the game to make the November 9 release date.

DON7 YOU EVER SAY 7HA7 ABOUT BUNGIE! 7HEY ONLY RELEASE GAMES WHEN THE GODDAMN GAMES ARE READY, HERE7IC! THIS GAME WAS DELAYED BY OVER A YEAR AS I7 IS! BURN!!! BURN HIM FOR BESMIRCHING 7HE NAME OF 7HE HALLOWED HALLS OF BUNGIE!! DIE! DIE!

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Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2004-11-23 08:04am

There there my sugar laden Chardock...go back to the pixie sticks and Halo goodness.

As for a real ending...eh. We'll see it in Halo 3...where in likely we'll be MC to finally destroy the last Prophet and whatever uber thing the Flood brings up.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2004-11-23 09:51am

Chardok jus7 can'7 handle 7he 7ru7h.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-11-23 12:31pm

Look at it from my perspective... after kicking ass on the Covenant ship, the vast majority of the MC part of Halo 3 will take place on Earth.

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » 2004-11-23 12:41pm

DPDarkPrimus wrote:Look at it from my perspective... after kicking ass on the Covenant ship, the vast majority of the MC part of Halo 3 will take place on Earth.

Oh, how i hope. I also hope the Sangheili will join the humans.

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2004-11-23 12:47pm

Well, Id certinly not what the Sarge behind me if they dont...

not much of a choice for the Ol' Arbiter

Steven Snyder · Post by **Steven Snyder** » 2004-11-23 01:37pm

I was thinking that the humans could, at a very high price, destroy the covenant and The Flood in a single stroke.

Simpy tell the MC to abort his mission and have all slipsteam capable craft to make the jump to the location of the destroyed Halo 04 installation.

Since Halo 4 is no longer capable of participating on the Halo network, there should be a safe zone of area around it.

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » 2004-11-23 01:42pm

Steven Snyder wrote:I was thinking that the humans could, at a very high price, destroy the covenant and The Flood in a single stroke.

Simpy tell the MC to abort his mission and have all slipsteam capable craft to make the jump to the location of the destroyed Halo 04 installation.

Since Halo 4 is no longer capable of participating on the Halo network, there should be a safe zone of area around it.

There are also huge chunks of Halo still floating around. If by some chance there is still atmosphere, or if not, they can make sections capable of supporting life. Remember there are huge networks of tunnels and other underground places.

Losonti Tokash · Post by **Losonti Tokash** » 2004-11-23 02:29pm

But what would stop the Covenant or Flood from following them?

Edit: Would it be possible to figure out the most efficient placement for the rings, considering that the Milky Way is about 100,000 ly across, and each ring has a range of 25,000 ly?

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2004-11-23 03:16pm

Steven Snyder wrote:I was thinking that the humans could, at a very high price, destroy the covenant and The Flood in a single stroke.

Simpy tell the MC to abort his mission and have all slipsteam capable craft to make the jump to the location of the destroyed Halo 04 installation.

Since Halo 4 is no longer capable of participating on the Halo network, there should be a safe zone of area around it.

Apparently, even without Installation 04 the Halo network is capable of wiping out all life within three radii of the galactic centre

The forerunners were not fucking about when they built those things.

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2004-11-23 05:12pm

Vendetta wrote:
Apparently, even without Installation 04 the Halo network is capable of wiping out all life within three radii of the galactic centre

The forerunners were not fucking about when they built those things.

Wow then what we need is a Halo game for every Halo installation and in every installation we need a healthy dose of the Flood because we all know how much players like fighting the flood

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2004-11-23 05:14pm

thecreech wrote:
Vendetta wrote:
Apparently, even without Installation 04 the Halo network is capable of wiping out all life within three radii of the galactic centre

The forerunners were not fucking about when they built those things.
Wow then what we need is a Halo game for every Halo installation and in every installation we need a healthy dose of the Flood because we all know how much players like fighting the flood

ARGH...quiet you

.

Still g otta wonder what they are gonna do...though interestingly, I wonder truly how much they planned for games and what for miscellanous materials.

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2004-11-23 05:22pm

Ghost Rider wrote:
ARGH...quiet you .

Still g otta wonder what they are gonna do...though interestingly, I wonder truly how much they planned for games and what for miscellanous materials.

Well it gives them alot of room to make sequals. After all the game is named Halo. There is a ton of stuff that they have to sort through now

Lt. Dan · Post by **Lt. Dan** » 2004-11-23 05:36pm

thecreech wrote:I got a kil frenzy one time and that was in a CTF match i was in a wraith, I run down two guy at the same time with it and fired my cannon and killed three others. I managed to kill every member on the team it was great. Other than that i have only gotten double kills

Shad-ap. Lucky shot, thats all it was. Fucking hell, I took your flag, killed two of your members in the prosses and missed dying just to have the whole team wiped out by a lucky fucking shot........Utter bull shit. Your gunna get yours though, your gunna get it.

And the dual weapons, your combo is really good. Lays them out fairly quickly. And, I do like having two Magnums, although they seem to run out very quickly. But I think the best is plasma rifle and SMG. Rips through the shields and hits the tender flesh.