Hijackers Should NOT Be Invincible

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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In a Halo where players are faster and more agile than ever, it is extremely easy to out-maneuver an enemy vehicle. This first began to develop in Halo: Reach with the addition of sprint as an armor ability, and then again in Halo: 4 with sprint as a default feature. Meanwhile, the vehicles are more or less the same as they’ve always been. Now we’ve reached a point where players can hijack and destroy enemy occupied vehicles with ease.

I am willing to accept this as a necessary change for the evolution of Halo, and I recognize that the newer installments try to provide more open space to compensate for the addition of sprint (although arguably not enough in some cases), but to make hijackers INVINCIBLE?! Is this really necessary?

What happened to being able to smear hijackers alongside cliff ledges with the banshee or blow them off of the wraith in close quarters? These are defensive strategies that have been used since hijacking was first a thing, and now they’ve become completely redundant and I can’t help but to ask, why? Does the hijacker really need that much of an advantage?

In game modes like Warzone in which there is barely enough room to maneuver a scorpion tank, how do you expect the classic slow-moving scorpion to defend against a bunch of Usain Bolts with jetpacks? Teamwork you say? Well, that doesn’t always work as you’ll see in a moment.

In the previous Halo games, hijacking was an art. It required a skillful approach because players had to jog their clunky metal -Yoinks!- over, and now that players finally have a significant advantage over vehicles you’re going to take it a step even further by making them completely invincible to the driver?

And not just to the driver! I have witnessed numerous incidents in which a team has attempted to save their friendly scorpion or wraith by shooting the hijacker only for nothing to happen. Here is an example of one of such cases:
http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Aerogata/video/14313199

Please, 343, let us kill those pesky hijackers!

Thank you for reading.

Edit:
It seems from other players’ experiences hijackers are not completely invincible, but rather highly damage resistant. My argument still stands, however.

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I agree the scorpion really suffers in this game from being a sitting duck to speedy infantry, the wraith still has its boost to splatter attackers from the front and put distance on attackers from the rear, but it’s still a lot more vunerable than it used to be, re-adding the ability to get your boarder off by blasting a wall is something i hope 343 consider, because i honestly felt it was fair, if i board a wraith from the front, and he’s got the reaction time to slam into the nearest wall and blow me to bits before i can plant a nade, thats on me.

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> I agree the scorpion really suffers in this game from being a sitting duck to speedy infantry, the wraith still has its boost to splatter attackers from the front and put distance on attackers from the rear, but it’s still a lot more vunerable than it used to be, re-adding the ability to get your boarder off by blasting a wall is something i hope 343 consider, because i honestly felt it was fair, if i board a wraith from the front, and he’s got the reaction time to slam into the nearest wall and blow me to bits before i can plant a nade, thats on me.

I’d understand if they were to remove that ability in previous Halo games, but now that it’s so much easier to get to the enemy vehicle I feel that it would be fair.

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Agree with you OP, 100%. Also, in the case of tanks, the boarder should have to melee the tank first to then drop the grenade.

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OP I agree with you 100%. It is rare I spawn a Scorpion or Wraith now since they are boarded so easily. In previous Halos I would simply go to the nearest wall and fire. Not anymore… :frowning:

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I have no idea why they changed it in the first place, all it does is piss people off

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> I have no idea why they changed it in the first place, all it does is piss people off

Another example of how great the “343’s change for the sake of change” state of mind is.

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You can kill someone boarding your Scorpion by shooting in their direction at a wall. It’ll hurt you, but it should kill him.

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> You can kill someone boarding your Scorpion by shooting in their direction at a wall. It’ll hurt you, but it should kill him.

No, it was like that in reach, and I think the other games, but not halo 5

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> You can kill someone boarding your Scorpion by shooting in their direction at a wall. It’ll hurt you, but it should kill him.

I can ensure you it does not work in H5.

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I’ve done it several times. Next time I do, I’ll record a video of it.

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> I’ve done it several times. Next time I do, I’ll record a video of it.

Do you mean before they board?

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Once both me and a friend both had scorpions and someone boarded my friend. I shot a direct hit on the hijacker with a tank round and he didn’t die until he got off of the tank where I shot him again.

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> Agree with you OP, 100%. Also, in the case of tanks, the boarder should have to melee the tank first to then drop the grenade.

Now you’ve got something, your Spartan would have to punch a debt into the tank and lodge the grenade in.

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100% support.
If they fix the scorpions hijack points too.

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> > You can kill someone boarding your Scorpion by shooting in their direction at a wall. It’ll hurt you, but it should kill him.
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> No, it was like that in reach, and I think the other games, but not halo 5

Actually if you back up to the wall and fire (needs to be close by or you wont have time) it will kill them, i’ve done it. Also hijackers aren’t invincible; while I have hijacked and grenaded alot of tanks, I have also been shot off quite a few too. It’s all a matter of circumstance, do your teammates try to help you? Or do they watch you get grenaded like big ol’ derp-a-derps

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Fix please

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hijackers are invincible?

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Hijackers are not invincible and there are ways to prevent hijacking. This is literally a cause where you need to get better at the game. There’s even a medal for killing hijackers.

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> > No, it was like that in reach, and I think the other games, but not halo 5
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> Actually if you back up to the wall and fire (needs to be close by or you wont have time) it will kill them, i’ve done it. Also hijackers aren’t invincible; while I have hijacked and grenaded alot of tanks, I have also been shot off quite a few too. It’s all a matter of circumstance, do your teammates try to help you? Or do they watch you get grenaded like big ol’ derp-a-derps

I have never in halo 5 been able to stop someone from highjacking me, I’ve tried everything I possibly can.