I want the REAL energy sword to make a comeback! I’m talking about Halo2’s sword. Its so depressing how much they dumbed it down, the sword use’d to strike fear and was a weapon to behold. Now its almost worth passing up. Don’t you feel they same?
what the hell happened to the lunge? my cat has a more vicious lunge then you now have with the sword in Reach. I pray they reconsider and give those of us who choose to use a close range power weapon, instead of the long range BS like lasers, rockets, and now hand held rail guns (not that I’m entirely complaining about those power weapons, they are cool, its just they get whored and can be used by anybody no matter the skill level) the sword however, to pull off amazing feats takes skill and I just hope they make the sword a weapon to be feared once again
I dont know if I entirely agree with the counter of the sword by melee with any weapon, but then again thats up for debate, In a one on one battle I guess maybe, but like I said, the weapon should strike fear and make you keep your distance even retreat. Now you can’t even jump into a crowd and clean house like you used to and thats why it was a weapon worth obtaining.
for those of you who are about to say “it was too overpowerd” your probably the same guy who runs for the rocket launcher in the first 3 seconds because you have no true skill.
Point being, it was a very strong weapon, and it was fun to use, and fun to try and get it from its user. now your melee is basically the same thing. I hope 4 does better.
ammo counter should remain, infinite sword is just stupid.
I thought the sword in Reach did it’s job exactly. the aesthetics were a bit off, but whatever.
We haven’t even seen much on the sword, (not that you really need to, there’s not much you can do with it, Swish Swish Stab, it’s a sword, dude, not a fighter jet.)
I would go with the Halo 3 sword. It’s the medium between the Halo 2 and Reach sword. 2’s has infinite ammo and huge lunge. Reach is the opposite with lunge.
Halo3 did good as far as sword block, swords countering sword= great… but yeah i don’t think melee should counter sword
the reach sword had barley any lunge, I liked jumping and just barley having the reticle turn red and flying across the stage, even jumping to levels that would otherwise be impossible. theres none of that with the Reach sword
I could defiantly see limiting its use (a.k.a. ammo counting) but I’m sorry it has to be at LEAST 20 strikes
and honestly, If it was way higher it could be better, like I said, killing the sword user and obtaining it with only a hit or two left makes killing him have little to no reward other than a hard kill.
> I want the REAL energy sword to make a comeback! I’m talking about Halo2’s sword. Its so depressing how much they dumbed it down, the sword use’d to strike fear and was a weapon to behold. Now its almost worth passing up. Don’t you feel they same?
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> what the hell happened to the lunge? my cat has a more vicious lunge then you now have with the sword in Reach. I pray they reconsider and give those of us who choose to use a close range power weapon, instead of the long range BS like lasers, rockets, and now hand held rail guns (not that I’m entirely complaining about those power weapons, they are cool, its just they get whored and can be used by anybody no matter the skill level) the sword however, to pull off amazing feats takes skill and I just hope they make the sword a weapon to be feared once again
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> I dont know if I entirely agree with the counter of the sword by melee with any weapon, but then again thats up for debate, In a one on one battle I guess maybe, but like I said, the weapon should strike fear and make you keep your distance even retreat. Now you can’t even jump into a crowd and clean house like you used to and thats why it was a weapon worth obtaining.
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> for those of you who are about to say “it was too overpowerd” your probably the same guy who runs for the rocket launcher in the first 3 seconds because you have no true skill.
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> Point being, it was a very strong weapon, and it was fun to use, and fun to try and get it from its user. now your melee is basically the same thing. I hope 4 does better.
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Everyone will have sprint in 4 and your worried about it being under powered?
Yeah that makes no sense… like saying it takes no skill to use rockets while praising the sword?
No just no
I thought the Halo 3 sword was pretty reasonable. Reach was kinda sad with barely any lunge. Personally I don’t think the sword takes a measurable amount of skill. However the Nade launcher from Reach was my favorite power weapon ever because you actually had to learn how to use. I think the sticky detonator might be an ok replacement as long as whn you stick it to a wall to set up a trap it beeps like a Halo 3 trip mine.
And I already feel pwer weapons are worth passing up. All except the sniper. I can evade rockets and splasers pretty well so I don’t see the point in using a weapon I know can be easily avoided. 90% of the time I kill the guy sprinting at me with the sword with my DMR or Magnum before he gets close enough to use it so I don’t like using the melee weapons unless its countdown or something similar.
Well, this is a wierd thread. You claim it’s not as powerful as it was, yet forget to mention how deadly it is with Sprint. You also say it’s been dumbed down yet in Reach the threat of Sword Block meant you had to think about the right moment to strike and consider when to use it.
Halo 3 sword was the best it had the right amount of energy and a reasonable lunge distance. You shouldn’t be able to lunge from half way across the map just because you have the sword it really doesn’t make any sense.
