So a while back I had this awesome idea and never talked about it. I call it the FlameHog! like the normal Warthog, but with a red strip goin down the middle from front to back and a Flamethrower for a turret. The flame turret would only have an effective range of like 100-200ft(or maybe just 100ft. max). But how awesome would it be to just ride around burning everyone. It would make an effective CQC suppressive vehicle and a good foot soilder defense. It would also burn passengers of other Wathogs if you get close enough to hit them. I really think this thing could work and would love to see it really come to life. I’m not saying that it’s gonna be in Halo4, but I would love for this to be in future Halo games. Please comment and give me your thoughts.
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I would also like to see the 2-wheel version of the Mongoose we see Tex ride in the RVB Project Free Lancer vids. That thing looked so awesome. I think it should be called the Weasel. make it be a super fast bike that can carry 2 spartans, but isn’t all that fast on rough ground amd make it get epic air time when it hits a ramp/hill/cliff.
also make the Mongoose have a burst fire AR turret with no over heat. make it different than the Weasel and a slightly offensive vehicle.
Not a bad idea, but 100-200 ft. seems a bit ridiculous for a flamethrowers. Considering how fast they kill, that would be a bit overpowered. Maybe 25-50 ft.
Not bad idea at all, it could be made balanced for matchmaking & for custom it could be so great, perhaps add option to scale the lenght of flames etc.
> Sounds like a sweet idea regarding the flamehog as long as it doesn’t cause frame drops like it did in Halo 3 & Reach.
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> As for the two wheeled Goose, bit redundant if the Mongoose is still around.
flame drops… in reach? you never see any real damaging fire in reach. no flamethrower either. OH! i know what you mean by flame drops now! the spot of fire you would get from burning the walls/ground… yes it will have that, but the fire will die quick unless it has a vehicle or person to burn. as for the 2wheeled goose, i had another thread where i said they should make the goose a slightly offensive vehicle. add some kind of weaponry to the goose. and the weasel (with no weapons) would be the fastest vehicle in the game… in a mostly straight, not bumpy line. i will now add in the offense goose to the 1st post.
Sure, it would make a nice addition to the vehicle sandbox, and frame drop shouldn’t be an issue if the flames are coded in the right way…especially if the game has dedicated servers so host/connection of teh host won’t be an issue.
Also, shouldn’t it be sweet if the flame hog could over heat other big vehicles, like a wraith or tank, and hence make them slower of freeze them or the turret) in their tracks?
In order to balance the vehicle, the flame thrower ought to over heat over time.
The "2 wheeled mongoose could be nice, in order to balance it I would make it faster then a mongoose, but more fragile, have no weapon and make it impossible to carry objects (flags). Hence it could be used to rush out for power weapons or for quick attacks, but not a good CTF vehicle.
The mongoose should get a little more protection, so it’s a bit harder to kill the driver at least, armoured mongoose. Still no warthog, but somewhat less fragile front but more exposed back (easier to kill a flag stealer, but not the driver).
@ DERK 91
Not flame drop, frame drop (notice the R), making the game show less then 30 frames per second, hence “lag”.
I feel really stupid for not thinking of this. Plus it would be great for killing flood, an we will probably have some to deal with. Perhaps we could get vehicle with essentially a powerful sentinal beam on it that can burn flood.
Piss off. It’s an awesome idea. Anyways, why the hell do all of you criticizers and flamers always -Yoink- about anything that sounds like it’s from another game?
“Oh no, Halo has sprint. -Yoink- of Doody Modern Horse Sh*t 3 has it too! OMGZWTFBBQ Halo’s so unoriginal!!!”
