Armor lock should go back to normal at least in Big Team Battle Heavies. Armor lock is almost useless in BTB Heavies, because of the title update.
No thanks, I don’t like the other team having a pause button regardless of how underpowered it apparently is.
> No thanks, I don’t like the other team having a pause button regardless of how underpowered it apparently is.
Everyone has a pause button; it’s on the controller to the right of the guide button.
Way to change the subject, my OP talked about Armor Lock not the pause button.
yessssss
> > No thanks, I don’t like the other team having a pause button regardless of how underpowered it apparently is.
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> Everyone has a pause button; it’s on the controller to the right of the guide button.
> Way to change the subject, my OP talked about Armor Lock not the pause button.
Armor Lock is effectively a pause button. I can’t pause an online multiplayer match for 6 seconds, why can they?
> > > No thanks, I don’t like the other team having a pause button regardless of how underpowered it apparently is.
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> > Everyone has a pause button; it’s on the controller to the right of the guide button.
> > Way to change the subject, my OP talked about Armor Lock not the pause button.
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> Armor Lock is effectively a pause button. I can’t pause an online multiplayer match for 6 seconds, why can they?
Technically you could, if you chose to take armor lock as well 
> > > No thanks, I don’t like the other team having a pause button regardless of how underpowered it apparently is.
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> > Everyone has a pause button; it’s on the controller to the right of the guide button.
> > Way to change the subject, my OP talked about Armor Lock not the pause button.
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> Armor Lock is effectively a pause button. I can’t pause an online multiplayer match for 6 seconds, why can they?
So you are saying that everyone else can use armor lock, but you can’t. Wow!
Armor lock doesn’t pause the match at all.
For example, Player X has a rocket launcher and Player Y is using armor lock. If armor lock is a “pause button”, then when Player X fires rocket launcher at Player Y; Player Y activates armor lock which pauses the game. Since the game is paused, the rocket is suspended in midair until Player Y’s armor lock wears off and the rocket then hits Player Y in the face.
Armor lock doesn’t pause the game in any scenario. If an enemy goes into armor lock, time a grenade and headshot him. It’s not that hard.
Armor lock should go back to normal in Big Team Battle Heavies, because of all the vehicles and power weapons.
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I’m not going to bother pointing out everything that’s wrong with your post, anyone else with a brain that reads this topic should get a good laugh from it.
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Translation: “I have no rebuttal, but if I insult you then that will obviously prove I’m right and you’re wrong since I was the first to say it. Not only that, but it will force everybody else into my way of thinking because I’m implying it’s an ultimatum that everybody has to choose between saying they’re smart or saying they’re dumb. I win.”
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Anyone with a brain would understand that armor lock is not a “pause button”!
> Armor lock is almost useless
And that’s the way it should be.
With TU Armor Lock, it’s block button, not a pause button and it’s better this way. The old way breaks up the flow combat and is used as crutch. Most who use AL are not very good players either.
When you can force players who abuse the crutch because they get outplayed, they are punished for it. This forces the player to be smart about using it and not just charge in blindly like you can in vanilla Reach.
However OP, its still viable to kill vehicles that charge at you with Armor Lock and your screw anyways against tanks in both settings anyways. You can stay block banshee fire with AL in TU as well.
> With TU Armor Lock, it’s block button, not a pause button and it’s better this way. The old way breaks up the flow combat and is used as crutch. Most who use AL are not very good players either.
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> When you can force players who abuse the crutch because they get outplayed, they are punished for it. This forces the player to be smart about using it and not just charge in blindly like you can in vanilla Reach.
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> However OP, its still viable to kill vehicles that charge at you with Armor Lock and your screw anyways against tanks in both settings anyways. You can stay block banshee fire with AL in TU as well.
The non-updated armor lock is a block button also. With the TU armor lock, one shot from a gauss warthog or scorpion tank takes down your armor lock and then they just shoot you again. With the non-updated armor lock, in the 6 seconds that you are protected; your teammates could destroy the troublesome vehicle. The non-updated armor lock can distract heavy vehicles better than the TU armor lock.
Armor Lock should be have been removed from the game completely. What are you going to do in Halo 4 when you can’t use your pathetic noob lock at all?
> Armor Lock should be have been removed from the game completely. What are you going to do in Halo 4 when you can’t use your pathetic noob lock at all?
Adapt. Because I’m actually capable of doing that.
> > Armor Lock should be have been removed from the game completely. What are you going to do in Halo 4 when you can’t use your pathetic noob lock at all?
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> Adapt. Because I’m actually capable of doing that.
Exactly
> > With TU Armor Lock, it’s block button, not a pause button and it’s better this way. The old way breaks up the flow combat and is used as crutch. Most who use AL are not very good players either.
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> > When you can force players who abuse the crutch because they get outplayed, they are punished for it. This forces the player to be smart about using it and not just charge in blindly like you can in vanilla Reach.
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> > However OP, its still viable to kill vehicles that charge at you with Armor Lock and your screw anyways against tanks in both settings anyways. You can stay block banshee fire with AL in TU as well.
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> The non-updated armor lock is a block button also. With the TU armor lock, one shot from a gauss warthog or scorpion tank takes down your armor lock and then they just shoot you again. With the non-updated armor lock, in the 6 seconds that you are protected; your teammates could destroy the troublesome vehicle. The non-updated armor lock can distract heavy vehicles better than the TU armor lock.
That 6 seconds right there is why people look down no AL (including me). It breaks the flow combat and if you make big mistakes (i.e push by you’re self against 2 or three guys) and you can just AL and wait for team mates. Or die by grenade but it’s the fact that players have to wait at all is the problem. Its quite simple to counter but that doesn’t detract from the negative aspects of AL.
Let’s not forget the plasma grenade sticks bouncing off either. While i find such things hilarious, it’s also doesn’t sit well with me once you considered how broken ES really was before the TU. Armor Lock was abused like crazy because of the things you can get away with.
At least the TU Armor Lock you have to be smart about it’s use. At least that’s what came up when i experimented with it as i died trying to use typical vanilla tactics such as challenging by you’re self.
However, don’t mistake me as close minded as you can very well disagree and keep using AL. It’s just how i view things and it belongs in Reach (no point in removing it and piss off players). However, it has no place in the future of Halo as introducing elements that stop the flow of combat and increase kill times is unnecessary.
As for the Gauss Hog example. Your dead either way, so why wait the extra six seconds and delay the death? That thing will pwn your teammates as they attempt to help you 
However, I’ll leave at this and i hope you don’t think i am coming off as condensing. If i am, i apologize because that is not my intent here (explaining why i disagree with you is).
We agree to disagree.
> > > Armor Lock should be have been removed from the game completely. What are you going to do in Halo 4 when you can’t use your pathetic noob lock at all?
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> > Adapt. Because I’m actually capable of doing that.
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> Exactly
That’s a laugh. What exactly is the point of this thread then?
> Armor Lock should be have been removed from the game completely. What are you going to do in Halo 4 when you can’t use your pathetic noob lock at all?
Im going to find a completely new way to spank peoples virtual Spartan butts.
> > Armor Lock should be have been removed from the game completely. What are you going to do in Halo 4 when you can’t use your pathetic noob lock at all?
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> Im going to find a completely new way to spank peoples virtual Spartan butts.
I use Hologram. Even the best players sometimes fall for trying to win fast and waste a rocket or something while I keep shooting.