It’s all happened to us. We’re driving along, gunning in our trusty warthog, when all of a sudden, your driver is hit by one too many stray bullets. You are now left in the middle of ‘Blood Gulch’ with no driver and no cover. One doesn’t stay alive very long in those conditons.
Sure, you could hop out and run over to the front of the hog and hop in the driver’s seat, but typically the person who killed your driver is looking to kill you next, and when you hop out of that gunner’s seat, you’re even more outgunned. Inevitably, what ends up happening is you die and some jerk on the other team makes away with your precious ride!
Sucks, doesn’t it?
So, what can we do about it?
Well, I propose 343 puts in a feature in which we players are allowed to switch from our seat in a vehicle to an open seat in our vehicle. This could be done by pressing ‘A’, just like in Battlefield, for those of you who have played it. This is a pretty useful feature, and could be utilized well in the heat of battle. I think that there should be, ‘seat-switch animations’ just to enhance the mood of the fight, and to also make it so that 343 isn’t just stealing DICE’s feature.
How cool would that be? I mean, picture this:
You’re riding shotgun with your buddy in the driver seat of a warthog when all of a sudden an enemy hog swings next to your hog and begins peppering it with bullets. Without stopping the vehicle, you could move into the gunner’s seat and bring the fight to your foe.
Let me know what you think. I would prefer constructive critiscism instead of angry rants, but quite honestly, if you need to vent because you think this is a hideous idea, then by all means, vent.
> It’s all happened to us. We’re driving along, gunning in our trusty warthog, when all of a sudden, your driver is hit by one too many stray bullets. You are now left in the middle of ‘Blood Gulch’ with no driver and no cover. One doesn’t stay alive very long in those conditons.
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> Sure, you could hop out and run over to the front of the hog and hop in the driver’s seat, but typically the person who killed your driver is looking to kill you next, and when you hop out of that gunner’s seat, you’re even more outgunned. Inevitably, what ends up happening is you die and some jerk on the other team makes away with your precious ride!
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> Sucks, doesn’t it?
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> So, what can we do about it?
> Well, I propose 343 puts in a feature in which we players are allowed to switch from our seat in a vehicle to an open seat in our vehicle. This could be done by pressing ‘A’, just like in Battlefield, for those of you who have played it. This is a pretty useful feature, and could be utilized well in the heat of battle. I think that there should be, ‘seat-switch animations’ just to enhance the mood of the fight, and to also make it so that 343 isn’t just stealing DICE’s feature.
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> How cool would that be? I mean, picture this:
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> You’re riding shotgun with your buddy in the driver seat of a warthog when all of a sudden an enemy hog swings next to your hog and begins peppering it with bullets. Without stopping the vehicle, you could move into the gunner’s seat and bring the fight to your foe.
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> Let me know what you think. I would prefer constructive critiscism instead of angry rants, but quite honestly, if you need to vent because you think this is a hideous idea, then by all means, vent.
I believe such idea has been discussed before. The reason you can’t do that because the story has two parts:
Ballad of the people in the car
Adventure of the guy who wasted lots of ammo on killing the driver of that stupid warthog that has been rolling around the map for past 20 minutes, killing all of his teammates over and over.
In games that allow for seat transfer, you can’t kill just the driver in most vehicles anyway.
> Off-topic: I wonder how the Halo purists will find a way to complain about this idea?
I’m guessing It’ll go something like this
“WAAAAAAAH I WANT MY DOUBLE KILL WAAAAAAAH”
I honestly believe this I idea makes sense, I mean why would a seasoned battle hardened spartan jump out of a vehicle run around to the other side, then get back in, instead of just jumping from one seat to another.
> > Off-topic: I wonder how the Halo purists will find a way to complain about this idea?
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> I’m guessing It’ll go something like this
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> “WAAAAAAAH I WANT MY DOUBLE KILL WAAAAAAAH”
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> I honestly believe this I idea makes sense, I mean why would a seasoned battle hardened spartan jump out of a vehicle run around to the other side, then get back in, instead of just jumping from one seat to another.
Or they’ll just say something like “Way to rip off battlefield”.
Also, I think this would make for some cool animations.
It’s not a bad idea, except for I could see my getting annoying getting a great snipe on the driver of a warthog just to watch with continue to drive away into the sunset.
It is a brilliant idea from the warthogs perspective but I would imagine its going to cause noting but pain for the enemy. If you could switch spots it would have to take a decent amount of time and also what happens if you want to change from gunner to driver but you end up in the side seat - all that time wasted for nothing. Don’t get me wrong i like the idea but it has some major drawbacks that would make it frustrating for both sides. I also confer to ‘Laughin Garry’ previous post for other drawbacks.
