Banshee - add a shield and more

Games Halo Infinite
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The banshee in this game feels so pointless and most the time ppl just walk past it.

This is what I’d like to see added.

Banshee buffs:

  • Shield (must be taken down before damage to its health)
  • More Health (a little more but not by much if it has a proper shield system)
  • Hijacking Nerf (should only allow someone to board the banshee but not take it. So basically you’d be on it but you have to melee to kill the pilot)
  • Flipping preventing hijacks (it really needs to be harder to jack a banshee)
  • Control (needs to be easier to fly)
  • Damage buff (a banshee bomb should kill in 1 shot with a decent radius)
  • backflip (shouldn’t have to push forward to do a backflip, revert it to the old ways)
  • Reduce power weapon damage done (no two shot sniper kills, it’s stupid)

Those are what I think the banshee needs, it should be feared and not abandoned. It was always one of my favorite vehicles but the past 3 games botched it.

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Yeah, half the time i walk past it because the health is so bad, but the plasma cannons is really good in my opinion

shield would make it feel like the halo 5 banshee which was INSANELY overpowered
i would just buff the health by a large margin, maybe take 4 shots from sniper before doomsday is initiated.

Grappleshot indirectly makes the banshee balanced in my opinion

Edit: maybe a different buff can be increased rate of fire for plasma bombs with no boost in damage

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It needs something, either a health increase or firerate/damage/vehicle damage increase. you can bomb a warthog before it sees you, and then keep shooting it with the plasma Cannons hitting every shot, but will still die before killing/putting it in doomsday mode. It needs a change of some sort.

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Maybe as a variant, but not on the default.

All the vehicles in Infinite are weaker compared to past games. An unnecessary nerf that needs to be rectified quickly if Halo Infinite is to last on larger maps. Otherwise it is just another run-of-the-mill soldier shooter.

Um… no?
It isn’t a tank where the occupant is safe inside a shell. There is am emergency release that the Spartan exploits.

I can see that with the Grapple-Shot but not with regular boarding.

It is as easy to fly this as it has always been since Halo CE… maybe you just need to enter a custom game and fly around and get a feel for the controls a bit more?

I actually second this.
The Banished-Fuel-Rod system is weak and combine that with how inconsistent the splash-damage is in Halo Infinite; the buff is most definitely needed.

Do you have controls inverted for your pitch control?

Like I said before, vehicles are shockingly weak in the health pool this time around for some reason.
They do need to fix it.

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