I thought thruster pack felt natural and complimented Halo gameplay. I think if we got rid of Sprint and made everyone have a TP it could be fun.
Fyi I’m 23 and have played halo since ce lan. Just offering my opinion.
That is my hope actually. I am hoping that the ‘spartan abilities’ will take the form of default thruster pack rather than sprint(Preferably first person as well).
Unlike sprint, a the thruster pack could actually add something to firefights and was not simply a mere travel tool.
Sprint does absolutely nothing that cannot be done through other, more gameplay friendly needs. I have actually seen thruster used to pull of some awesome plays, but the only thing sprint I have seen sprint used for is travel from A to B and there are so many better options to speed up travel than sprint.
I’ll take both. let 343i work it out.
I would much rather have a default thruster than sprint. So far, it seems like Spartan Abilities all use the thruster pack but we’ve only seen a CGI teaser so it’s hard to say.
I think it might be used to give a ‘realistic’ visualization of the melee lunge instead of just having a Spartan shoot ten feet in front him for seemingly no actual reason.
I’d love to have Thruster Pack as a base trait for everyone! It was fun to use, balanced and you could perform some really neat tricks/plays with it.
Get rid of sprint for good, increase base player speed slightly (making strafe etc more meaningful), add in Thruster and I am a happy man.
I’d be a firm advocate of default first-person thrusters replacing sprint.
Thrusters offer far more to the game. Imagine the possibilities that could come from it; uber-ninjaing, trick jumps, being able to change course in mid-air.
So many benefits…
IF thrusters are in H5 they need a long cool down because if every encounter turns into someone trying to be cool and ninja me then I will get fed up with the game pretty fast.
Also if every encounter turns into a giant battle of thrusting everywhere that will also be annoying. Imagine Titanfall with long kill times.
I can only see the bad possibilities from default Thrusters and none of the good ones.
> IF thrusters are in H5 they need a long cool down because if every encounter turns into someone trying to be cool and ninja me then I will get fed up with the game pretty fast.
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> Also if every encounter turns into a giant battle of thrusting everywhere that will also be annoying. Imagine Titanfall with long kill times.
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> I can only see the bad possibilities from default Thrusters and none of the good ones.
I find that cqc battles typically end before the person has enough time for a 2nd thrust. Halo 4 has pretty good downtime for Thrusters. It’s slower than average kill times in Halo, so you shouldn’t see people jumping around frequently, unless they are obviously already charged up. Even then, you wouldn’t get far with thrusters unless you were a few yards away from cover.
i guess its a bit of a double edged sword. on one hand, everyone has thruster packs. on the other hand… well, EVERYONE has thruster packs. i think its universally agreed that the thruster pack was a good AA, didnt screw the flow of gameplay, wasnt a HUGE movement so it didnt often result in people living when they should have died, but now and then it would shine. it was over all a cool thing to have. that and if everyone had it, obviously it would be fair. but then again, like someone else here said, so many people would use it to try and be cool and itbeing default would mean it would (hurr durr) be used a lot more, meaning alot more lost kills through dumb situations, resulting in an angry you. plus hearing that noise again and again and again would get incredibly frustrating. i dunno i supposed we’ll see how it’s implemented but for now i wouldnt mind too much if it is indeed in the game.
> IF thrusters are in H5 they need a long cool down because if every encounter turns into someone trying to be cool and ninja me then I will get fed up with the game pretty fast.
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> Also if every encounter turns into a giant battle of thrusting everywhere that will also be annoying. Imagine Titanfall with long kill times.
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> I can only see the bad possibilities from default Thrusters and none of the good ones.
The dilemma that you describe would depend entirely on execution. With the Halo 4 thrusters, the ones that offer a burst of quick movement, then yes, there’s be some pretty big gaping problems. However, the thruster that I always dreamed of was one that moved the player slower, yet also maintained their inertia and didn’t stop in mid air.
I honestly can’t see it getting any more annoying than people jumping.
Trust saves lives, and does not punish you for your mistakes. #TrusterPackIsNotHalo
> Trust saves lives, and does not punish you for your mistakes. #TrusterPackIsNotHalo
Sigh…
How is something that can potentially allow the player to barely escape the blast radius of a weapon “not Halo?”
No thank you, neither sprint or thruster. I would prefer nothing, but I know that won’t happen, so I am hoping for something like default slide where you can shoot at the same time.
> Trust saves lives, and does not punish you for your mistakes. #TrusterPackIsNotHalo
It doesn’t save you, it helps you to save yourself. You can still suck with it.
Gonna get hate from this maybe.
> > Trust saves lives, and does not punish you for your mistakes. #TrusterPackIsNotHalo
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> It doesn’t save you, it helps you to save yourself. You can still suck with it.
> Gonna get hate from this maybe.
343 is going to put the H3 Overshield as a spawn feature in H5 that gives you 4 seconds of invincibility every time you press X.
The overshield doesn’t save you, it helps you to save yourself. You can still suck with it.
I don’t care for it, personally. TP might have been one of the better AA’s in Halo 4, but that’s not saying much; certainly not enough to make it a base trait.
The way I see it, it will cause havoc for melee combat and CQC. It will still give players a get out of jail card when being attacked from a distance.
It could be great, but color me skeptical until I see how it behaves in Guardians all-new everything.
> > > Trust saves lives, and does not punish you for your mistakes. #TrusterPackIsNotHalo
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> > It doesn’t save you, it helps you to save yourself. You can still suck with it.
> > Gonna get hate from this maybe.
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> 343 is going to put the H3 Overshield as a spawn feature in H5 that gives you 4 seconds of invincibility every time you press X.
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> The overshield doesn’t save you, it helps you to save yourself. You can still suck with it.
Yes, that’s it xD
That’s almost like the same thing as thruster.
And how is everything always a mistake if something happens. You spawn and a grenade falls from somewhere, it’s your mistake for spawning there, don’t use that thruster.
Suddenly halo is like real life.
Well, looks like you got what you wanted!
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> Well, looks like you got what you wanted!
Indeed, but in future please don’t revive really old posts like this thanks 