Hello Halo fans! It has been just over a week since Halo 4 came out. This has given us plenty of time to tinker and test the armor abilities and such. One particular armor ability I would like to bring up is the thruster pack. I feel this armor ability has excellent potential, but been modified below such potential. Let me list the pros and cons:
*Pros: Allows for quick dodge or lunge. Relatively fast recharge.
*Cons: Only one use per charge (understandable). Distance traveled is very short. Forcefully switched to third-person. Cannot use weapon (again, understandable).
Now if or when 343 industries makes a patch for Halo 4, I propose a slight adjustment. One option is to remove the third-person animation. The animation can be very disorienting and make it difficult to continue aiming at the target. Another option is slightly increase the travel distance. The distance is long enough to dodge a grenade, but not to avoid any sort of gun fire. A final option is a combination of the two, but that may be overpowered if done wrong.
I do understand that the thruster pack has to not be overpowered, but I feel it to be underpowered. Now give your honest, yet polite, opinion.
> Here’s what I think, It needs to be over powered for Spartan Ops. The rest of the MM game types can choke for all I care.
While I do agree on supercharging the thruster pack for Spartan Ops, it still doesn’t solve the big question. Should we power up the thruster pack in multiplayer?
i find only one use for the thruster pack, seeing as you cant do anything while boosting, it makes it pointless to move closer for a lunge you can just get punched in the face while your “thrusting” lawl. The only fun and useful thing i find with it is to jump and boost over a player and then shoot them in the back. Thats about it, it doesnt carry your momentum after you jump so you cant get onto a ledge if your right past it, it usually just shoots you a little further and then straight towards the ground.
> i find only one use for the thruster pack, seeing as you cant do anything while boosting, it makes it pointless to move closer for a lunge you can just get punched in the face while your “thrusting” lawl. The only fun and useful thing i find with it is to jump and boost over a player and then shoot them in the back. Thats about it, it doesnt carry your momentum after you jump so you cant get onto a ledge if your right past it, it usually just shoots you a little further and then straight towards the ground.
What if your put in a scenario where an entire enemy team is spamming grenades? One standard thruster boost won’t keep you alive. Or how about when an entire enemy team is firing on one person? You would only have about a second to find cover. These things, by the way, happen in almost every other game (at least for me anyway). I could name more ways that the thruster pack could fall short of a life saver. I personally like the thruster pack in Flood. It has good range, and has a balanced charge time. What I’m saying is, the thruster pack is good for two things: life saving dodges and ninja tricks. With it’s current strength, it is very hard to pull off either one.
Am I doing something wrong? I can’t see the poll’s results except the total (I only see tiny icons) and I can’t vote.
As for my opinion on the topic, I believe the distance should increase, I almost never get far enough to dodge grenades and other exploding stuff. It needs at least a few more feet. I don’t think we should be able to use weapons with the thruster pack though, it’d be OP with a sword/shotgun.
I have seen the YouTube videos of players using the pack to great and hilarious results, but it seems few and far between of those who mastered the pack and the guys like me who just suck with it.
It’s really good for getting to cover quickly during a firefight - getting pasted by enemy dmr/br fire? Thrust to the side to get behind cover, screw their any buy yourself some precious time to re-think and re-evaluate the situation.
It’s also good for trolling with stickies. Run up to someone, throw a stick in their face, thrust backwards and watch the fireworks explode!
That being said, last night someone stickied me in game, and I reaction thrusted to my left. Ended up killing my entire team…LOL! What a Halo moment that was!
Thrust pack is one of the best abilities when combined with grav lifts. I can do some awesome moves with it. I dont find any AA espeically useful so just roll with thruster alot
Just have it be like a horizontal version of the jetpack. Not that it boosts you as quick as in flood mode, but you’d float in the air in a kind of fast pace (bit faster than sprinting) It doesn’t happen instantly, but you’d need to hold the button thrust further and it would have a somewhat slower recharge.
To each their own. I tried using it on MP but found it to be pretty useless. Either extending the distance traveled or shortening the recharge rate might have made it viable, but in it’s current form it’s pretty much a bad joke to me.
> To each their own. I tried using it on MP but found it to be pretty useless. Either extending the distance traveled or shortening the recharge rate might have made it viable, but in it’s current form it’s pretty much a bad joke to me.
You can change your load-out so your power-up recharges more quickly. As for useless, try using it more often, you might get the hang of it, for example, I hear lots of people saying that the pulse grenade is useless but I got more kills with it than the plasma or frag ones, trying a few times something can’t tell you how much potential it has.
> i find only one use for the thruster pack, seeing as you cant do anything while boosting, it makes it pointless to move closer for a lunge you can just get punched in the face while your “thrusting” lawl. The only fun and useful thing i find with it is to jump and boost over a player and then shoot them in the back. Thats about it, it doesnt carry your momentum after you jump so you cant get onto a ledge if your right past it, it usually just shoots you a little further and then straight towards the ground.
Actually, you can slice with the Energy Sword during the thrust.
^ Are you sure? I did something wrong then, I’m sure I tried and couldn’t use the sword with the thrust (sounds OP imo). Are you sure you’re not talking about Parasite only? In this mode you can attack with the thrust pack ON but in Assassin I don’t think so…