Hey all,
Am I the only person thinking 343 should bring back the falcon (from halo reach) into halo 6? Because I personally loved the idea of it. As a troop transport so we don’t need to just rely on pelican for a short drop off in a local area.
As they could add different version of it like in the Halo Reach campaign they could add a attack version of it and they could add a transport version of it.
Tell me your ideas of a Falcon in Halo 6 (if you want one at all.)
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The Falcon would need some major upgrades to make it viable. As it remains now, it’s big, slow, lacking in weaponry, and the occupants are quite vulnerable to snipers, anti-vehicle weapons, and some vehicles.
Besides acting as a troop carrier, I just don’t see much tactical value when using this.
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> The Falcon would need some major upgrades to make it viable. As it remains now, it’s big, slow, lacking in weaponry, and the occupants are quite vulnerable to snipers, anti-vehicle weapons, and some vehicles.
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> Besides acting as a troop carrier, I just don’t see much tactical value when using this.
I could definitely see it being a viable level 3 or 4 req almost like a warthog. Not to mention the Hannibal/ONI versions have a lot of potential.
the falcon could have 4 main variants not counting special variants
-no chin gun with passenger turrets
-no chin gun with passenger grenade launcher turrets
-chin gun with passenger turrets
-chin gun with passenger grenade launcher turrets
and sure they might not always be practical but they are like the warthogs of the sky, you need to work -Yoink- a team for them to be useful, also the falcon would be a great asset to the clan community
but it would need to be more durable, it would need to be a bit faster and more maneuverable and passengers would need the ability to swap seats and i feel a ballistic shield needs to be added for the gunners to make sniping them out of the turrets harder giving them a chance to do something
hannibal variants could be made off of the falcons with warthog turrets and oni variants could be made off of the grenade launcher variants or all variants, keep in mind this can always be expanded upon also i feel like the altitude lock should stay and left trigger should be the “throttle” so it would feel smoother and it would be more to the original falcon
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> the falcon could have 4 main variants not counting special variants
> -no chin gun with passenger turrets
> -no chin gun with passenger grenade launcher turrets
> -chin gun with passenger turrets
> -chin gun with passenger grenade launcher turrets
> and sure they might not always be practical but they are like the warthogs of the sky, you need to work -Yoink- a team for them to be useful, also the falcon would be a great asset to the clan community
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> but it would need to be more durable, it would need to be a bit faster and more maneuverable and passengers would need the ability to swap seats and i feel a ballistic shield needs to be added for the gunners to make sniping them out of the turrets harder giving them a chance to do something
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> hannibal variants could be made off of the falcons with warthog turrets and oni variants could be made off of the grenade launcher variants or all variants, keep in mind this can always be expanded upon also i feel like the altitude lock should stay and left trigger should be the “throttle” so it would feel smoother and it would be more to the original falcon
Don’t forget about the possibility of a Falcon armed with two Guass turrets. That would be terrifying.
There was a lot of talk about a potential falcon return around the memories of reach update. I would never use it, but I know a lot of people want it. If 343 brings it back, I wont complain about the free triple kills
maybe they could bring it back as cheaper and more modifyable transport vehicle. Though pelicans superiority to it has been seen from something like the pelican at the end of the “sierra 117” taking out 2 phantoms with rockets and if there were any stragglers it shot those too.
but still, addition to the top part the falcon could be brought back as again a cheap vehicle to more of a escort vehicle in addition to the top. It would be much like in Halo: Reach with changing middle missions in that falcon level.
and it can be effective against infantry and vehicles with slow projectiles. There could be many positive sides on it especially if they are accompanied with more of a agile fighter style aerial vehicles.
also, i hope the hornet makes a return, time spent with it on campaign is far too little and i really liked it as expendable light assault vehicle that was most effective at groups against basically anything that is not invulnerable to smaller fire and doesnt have too fast projectiles.