Do you remember in previous Halo games when you’d hear a Warthog driving around and frantically start looking for somewhere to hide? I sure do! Reach and Halo 3’s vehicles made the game so much harder when good drivers would stalk around maps, looking for unlucky, lonely victims. A good driver/gunner combo would prove deadly in any BTB match, plus even a ghost would prove a formidable foe at times.
Now, what are your thoughts when you hear a vehicle driving around? Is it fear and you feel intimidated? Or are you like me and the adrenaline kicks in cause you hear a free kill driving around? I’m personally not a huge loadout hater, but I do believe it gets pretty unfair at times and kinda doesn’t belong. Weapons is one thing, but a plasma pistol and stickie combo has made a bunch of players real ballsy when it comes to wrecking vehicles.
There’s absolutely no need for team shooting or strategy against vehicles anymore. Just have the guy with the right loadout stick it a couple times after a well placed EMP and bam! Threat neutralized! The tables have literally turned. It’s vehicles that run scared now, hoping they don’t run into that individual with that deadly loadout. I notice 343i has been doing a lot of changes in every aspect of the game lately, trying to please the community as a whole. I’m addressing this one issue, personally because my vehicle commendations sucks and I wanna drive around a bit. So speak up! Let 'em know! How do we fix this problem?? Take out all loadouts? That’s gonna piss off a big crowd. Make vehicles stronger? But then it might make it too easy. What to do…what to do…
could not have said it better. I hardly ever use vehicles in BTB but even I know that a sticky/plasma pistol combo is just plain wrong and breaks the game.
IF you manage to get a good driver you can still do really well with a normal hog. I’ve had times runnin round with it gettin 7 or 8 kills in a single run because of good drivers who know not to drive right next to people or near close quarters areas. If you do it right… PP/Plasma is not a threat at all. Though splasers are still scary, fairly easy to avoid the other power weapons though
If you have Operator loadout item you cut down the EMP time and can take a little more damage so it helps out.
As for skill of driving, I’m still good as a Hog driver on certain maps. I’m just not that Great with the Mantis yet but I can understand the issue of feeling helpless against an ambush of P.P. users followed by a ton of stickies.
It is mostly the Chain Gun Warthog that seems vastly underpowered. I can do quite well with the other vehicles. I definitely wouldn’t mind an occasional Slayer variant with UNSC-only loadouts though.
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> Just sprint and thruster pack out the way
> then PP, or SG. Rinse and repeat.
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> But I do miss flipping vehicles with grenades… really was the only vehicle counter that you spawned with
Read before you answer bud, you sound like a fool right now.
> If you have Operator loadout item you cut down the EMP time and can take a little more damage so it helps out.
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> As for skill of driving, I’m still good as a Hog driver on certain maps. I’m just not that Great with the Mantis yet but I can understand the issue of feeling helpless against an ambush of P.P. users followed by a ton of stickies.
The problem is that even with that extra time cut off in the EMP, there would be all kinds of stickies flying your way. I just feel like an idiot driving around and blown up in seconds. I’m not a pro driver, but I’m also not a bad driver. Maybe they’re just the greatest at EMP who knows hahaha