As of the moment, Halo 5 had made changes regarding boarding, though it seemed to be more in favor towards those that board, rather than those that pilot the vehicle itself. With the introduction of Halo 2 when boarding made its inception into the single and multiplayer sandbox, depending on the vehicle, the way that each one was boarded was based on a vehicle to vehicle basis. In this game, a player had to melee the hatch off the tank or its back plated generator before they could plant a grenade into it, thus giving the owner’s team the time needed to remove the threat before they could make the kill.
Between Halo 3 and 4, the armored hatch destruction tactic was completely removed, giving the immediate option for a boarding player to punch through the hatch with a grenade, trapping the owner inside as it detonates, kill all players within. But since the boarding animation was somewhat slow, the owner of the tank, so long as it was against a solid surface, could use the main gun to remove the threat by blasting a nearby area in its proximity before the grenade could be planted, or the chaingun user could shoot them off the front beforehand.
In Halo 5 now, the option of using the main cannon to remove the threat is completely removed, leaving just the chain gun to remove the threat, meaning if you have no other players to remove the threat before the grenade could be planted, or if you have no gunner, then you are out of luck. If they reintroduced the original Halo 2 boarding mechanics, then the tanks would be a feared force on the battlefield once again. Well, so long as there are no splasers and rockets nearby (But that is what they are there for anyways)
I completely agree with this. Halo 2 had the best boarding system (minus of course the ability to jump out of your vehicle when boarded)
Halo 5’s boarding sucks. You can seemingly be boarded from miles away and there’s practically no escaping it. I hate using vehicles in Halo 5 now because they just feel useless.
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> I completely agree with this. Halo 2 had the best boarding system (minus of course the ability to jump out of your vehicle when boarded)
> Halo 5’s boarding sucks. You can seemingly be boarded from miles away and there’s practically no escaping it. I hate using vehicles in Halo 5 now because they just feel useless.
If you are being boarded on the back, I could understand being able to jump out, but otherwise I agree. I think vehicles still have their role, but its not as prominent now only because of the lack of communication these days online.
Yep, those things made sense. I like how I can blow up my team mates scorpion with my wraith trying to get the boarder off his back, but the boarder survives my mortar. In what universe does that make any sense? Cuz it isn’t the Halo universe.
I can’t believe you can’t use the cannon to kill the boarder anymore. Just… WHY?
Not only does it just make sense that you should be able to shoot a nearby wall to kill the boarder with the splash damage (while also damaging your vehicle) it’s also just freaking cool.
I always shot boarders off my wraith in Halo Reach by driving into a wall and firing a mortar.
If anything, it just seems like the vehicles are supposed to be weak to infantry. In a lot of previous Halo titles, if I saw a warthog driver and gunner, I ran like hell or tried to do what I could to use the terrain and a few well placed explosives to flip it over. That or I find another vehicle or a weapon powerful enough to take em down. I can’t tell you how satisfying it used to be when I stuck the gunner with a sticky or got that well timed Splaser shot, or when my team tossed stickies at a tank with a few rocket shots trying to take it down before their team got too many points. We yelled and screamed in frustration then, but the shouts of victory over the vehicle were all the sweeter afterwards
Whenever my buddies and I hop in a warthog we yell “Who wants a triple kill?!”
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> Whenever my buddies and I hop in a warthog we yell “Who wants a triple kill?!”
How many people verbally responded?