When fighting the new waves in halo 3 ODST firefight, one of the new ones is Sentinels but when they drop their weapon you can not use it. I could understand when elites drop their swords you can not use it since you’re just an ODST, but can’t pick up the sentinel beam? I don’t agree with that. If that was intentional it’s a very missed opportunity and very disappointing not being able to mow down flood with it.
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> When fighting the new waves in halo 3 ODST firefight, one of the new ones is Sentinels but when they drop their weapon you can not use it. I could understand when elites drop their swords you can not use it since you’re just an ODST, but can’t pick up the sentinel beam? I don’t agree with that. If that was intentional it’s a very missed opportunity and very disappointing not being able to mow down flood with it.
i noticed this as well, especially because you can see the sentinel beam drop and on the ground.
Both it and the sword are unusable as a reference to Halo CE
There’s no 3rd person animations for the Sword or Sentinel Beam for ODSTs, which would look weird to other players in matchmaking and in Theater. Only thing stopping them from making both weapons usable in Firefight.
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> There’s no 3rd person animations for the Sword or Sentinel Beam for ODSTs, which would look weird to other players in matchmaking and in Theater. Only thing stopping them from making both weapons usable in Firefight.
I was able to equip, but not use, an energy sword in flood FF today.
I have had no luck either. Ive heard others that can pick it up but nothing renders in their hands. Id assume that this is a bug or odst firefight hasnt been updated for the player to wield the sentinel beam or sword. i wouldnt see why ODSTs couldnt use it i mean we can wield the hammer
I’ve played halo since 2001 and I can confirm that the sentinel beam/energy sword cannot and has never been able to be used by marines or ODSTs.
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> I have had no luck either. Ive heard others that can pick it up but nothing renders in their hands. Id assume that this is a bug or odst firefight hasnt been updated for the player to wield the sentinel beam or sword. i wouldnt see why ODSTs couldnt use it i mean we can wield the hammer
That was my thought. In what world does it make sense an odst can’t wield a sword or sentinel beam but can wield a grav hammer lol
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> > I have had no luck either. Ive heard others that can pick it up but nothing renders in their hands. Id assume that this is a bug or odst firefight hasnt been updated for the player to wield the sentinel beam or sword. i wouldnt see why ODSTs couldnt use it i mean we can wield the hammer
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> That was my thought. In what world does it make sense an odst can’t wield a sword or sentinel beam but can wield a grav hammer lol
Absolutely I regular sized human wielding a giant death hammer but a sword waaaaaaaay to heavy lol
Its likely due to animation limitations, since the weapons weren’t in the game originally.
It would be great if they made it so ODSTs could weild it as it’d make that Forerunner weaponry challenge a breeze in custom Firefight.
I was busy wondering why the elites dont say anything as you mowed them down one by one with a warthog turret.
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> Its likely due to animation limitations, since the weapons weren’t in the game originally.
Yes I imagine this is the reason, the animation for holding the weapon and using it was never built for the ODST model in first and third person in the Bungie days, it would have to be built from the ground up by 343 now, which I imagine, not sure if they will spend the time on making this happen.
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> I was busy wondering why the elites dont say anything as you mowed them down one by one with a warthog turret.
The Elites are ported straight from Halo 3, so they wouldn’t have any lines to say to hostile humans. There might be some that are “generic” enough to be usable in Firefight, but I don’t think there are many of those.