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They’re AI, do you expect them to play the round for you?
Hanging around them and giving them better weapons and can make them last a bit longer but yeah they are pretty much useless.
> They’re AI, do you expect them to play the round for you?
Not necessarily, but finishing the first wave would be something even marines, on easy, in the Reach campaign could do. I usually cant even find these guys and the first thing I do is rush around and kill the grunts that are spawning. Then I head to base and only find their corpses.
Is it too much ask for them to just survive round 1? That seems pretty fair, to have help for the first third of a firefight set.
Yeah, I would like to see them last a little longer. Not quite have them play the game for me, but at least not die from 4 or 5 shots from a Grunt’s Plasma Pistol.
> Yeah, I would like to see them last a little longer. Not quite have them play the game for me, but at least not die from 4 or 5 shots from a Grunt’s Plasma Pistol.
The only thing I have found them useful for is holding on to ordinance, though they die before I can give it to them usually, or they cant trade for it anyway.
I remember that my teammates always killed those ODSTs.
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> wow they are soooo bad they die before wave 1 is complete who ever scripted them did a terrible job
I would have to agree, only since such a big deal was made in the videos, about CEA, and how they were adding this map with this particular AI feature.
Most of us have played Halo:Reach on Legendary, and the AI ODST Marines seem to last longer within the campaign, like Swordbase, or Exodus, or even on LNoS, but on Installation 04, FF, it almost like WHY are they there to begin with???
Just played halo 2 campaign again and the marines are so much better in it. They can spawn with battle rifles and literally slaughter grunts and jackles on legendary. They also say much more awesome dialogue.
I still don’t have Anniversary(don’t laugh), are they worse than the Halo 3 ODSTs?
The video that was released before the map came out showed the marines actually killing things. I have yet to see them kill one enemy. I watched a single jackal kill every marine. They shouldn’t be on the map. They are useless
I was excited to see marines in there. First tried playing by myself and they lasted a few waves (probably because I stayed near them and killed like everything). I started giving them better weapons to use, then the very first wave where elites or brutes came around they all were dead and I was like wtf??? I seem to remember a game where AI marines fighting with you were capable of fighting off quite a bit! Halo 2 namely. I always handed marines some weapons to work well with what I was using and I prided myself in keeping them alive through the entire level or as far as they could go. Even if it was legendary they at least were upgraded as well and could still last for a bit. Not nearly as long, but enough to still be useful. In this map, they were like an after thought! Aren’t ODST’s supposed to be some super bad -Yoink- space marines? I don’t recall guys with those titles dying to one grunt and his plasma pistol.
> I still don’t have Anniversary(don’t laugh), are they worse than the Halo 3 ODSTs?
Yes, they die near instantly and do almost nothing. I often catch them staring into the sky while getting hit by enemies.