Banshee suggestions

Games Other Halo
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It is ridiculously overpowered in matchamking.
Who came up with the idea to make it so manuverable and able to easily evade EVERY anti-vehicle weapon? (except the sniper, but it’s all too common for a teamate to be sniping enemies, not use it as an anti-vehicle weapon)
It’s all too common to get -Yoink- teamates who either lose the banshee to a player on the defending team or to trash it and only get 1 kill.
Either take away its evading ability or make its armor a lot weaker. Or spawn it behind a freaking shield.
Better yet, remove the fuel rod cannon. That thing is overpowered in matchmaking.
It really ruins games.

2

LoL

If its on the map and you hate having to deal with it so much, then get it and use it.

3

Actually its still very easy to take down with DMR fire… Just get your whole teamm to start dumping their clips

Problem solved in less than 5 seconds.

More balanced banshee fixes are:

  1. add time delay of at least 0.5 seconds more between evades (making FlipFlipBombFlipFlip less effective yet still reliable)

  2. slow down evade animation by about 5%

  3. slow down normal speed but increase boost speed

These are all changes that aren’t drastic

4

What if your team is stuck with useless needle rifles and needlers? They seem to not even dent the banshee’s armor. The plasma launcher is impossible to use against it, and because it has boost and evade, the concussion rifle can’t be used against it.The rocket isn’t able to track as it evades, because it’s too easy for the banshee to avoid it. The only viable solution is the the Scorpion, but if the other team has been able to steal the banshee, then they probably are able to kill the driver and scorpion before he can do anything.
And it is nearly impossible to get your whole team to effectively coordinate an anti-banshee attack. Remember, it isn’t usually possible to get a team that can play smart. Or a team that can fly a banshee without it being stolen by the enemy team.

5

You are obviously talking about invasion

  1. the banshee is always in a place near elite spawns…

  2. if the elites allow the spartans to obtain the banshee, then they kinda deserve to lose

"Remember, it isn’t usually possible to get a team that can play smart. " - your right… Maybe. Idk. I live in a team bubble so I think in a different context. When I think of Invasion, I wouldn’t dream of going in with teammates that don’t know what they are doing. You are talking about searching with idiots that end up on your team.

So when I talk, its always assuming both sides are made of equals… Anything other than that is a pointless argument based on “my team was out classed by players that worked as a team, can we take away some of the tools the used?” No. The reason to balance things is if the map/ guns/ vehicles favor one side over the other so much that when 2 teams are equally skilled can see an obvious disparity (like if Spartans always win)

Truth is 50% of the time you start as an Elite and the other 50% as Spartans. If one set of weaponry was the main factor on in victory… Then people should win about half their games and lose half their games. Yes?

But it’s not true. Invasion is a team based game. Elite or Spartan… If your team is better at working together your team will win at least 80% of the time.

We’re we do agree however is there are some problems with the banshee. Especially if a tiny bit of lag kicks in. FlipFlip tactic is very ridiculous however the adjustments I recommended at the beginning address it two ways. The evade animation needs to be slower and after its down should have a tiny delay before the pilot can enter his next evade animation. Much more balanced than just removing the evade function, that would make the banshee just a flying coffin.

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> that would make the banshee just a flying coffin

With the banshee in the sky, most other vehicles are coffins.
Sadly, I have no friends who are ever online and want to play Reach, so I am stuck with the idiots that make up matchmaking. I had a game of Invasion Slayer ruined because some -Yoink- quit and the game took forever to revert from the black screen and all the other wimps quit.
And yes, I have realized Invasion is a team effort. What I am complaining about is how unfair it is to allow the other team to gain a ridiculous advantage. It is incredibly frustrating being spawn-camped by the banshee and you can’t do anything about it.
Since the majority (at least from what i’ve witnessed in my many games of Invasion) of the Invasion population is comprised of people who don’t play smart, there obviously needs to be a few changes geared towards them to balance the playing field out. The banshee fix is one of them.

I love the game mode, but most games are very dissatisfying.

7

Your best tools for finding teammates are

  1. freelance thread in recruiting forum. Make a post and send a butt ton of messages.

  2. www.halotracker.com has leader boards. Search by win ratio… I played with some of the guys that hold world records for k/d… They will CUASE you to lose, they don’t play to win. Search by win ratio. I’m somewhere up there with 93% wins but I don’t play anymore.

  3. Or try to get recruited by teams that beat you. Fight them tooth and nail then after game over… “Good game, party up?” And bam… Play smart and try to add peeps that play. That’s how I found my last team.