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No, but if you hit it hard enough the secondary just happens at the same time.
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NinetySevenA posted:the latest video is when i realized that i have never actually played all the way through halo 3. Megillah Gorilla posted:This is as far as my knowledge of the series extends, too. TwoPair posted:Aside from like one more cutscene and the very ending, we're officially past the point where I know anything about Halo canon so I'm real excited to see where things are going from here. I'm really glad that there's so many people who are flying blind at this point. I'm very interested to see what you guys think about the rest of the game/series.
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And also, happy one year thread-iversary! Have some gifs. https://i.imgur.com/b45O5bg.gifv https://i.imgur.com/EU1gilX.gifv https://i.imgur.com/He71sir.gifv https://i.imgur.com/M3gpe2H.gifv https://i.imgur.com/oorqU9C.gifv https://i.imgur.com/E6ITwYU.gifv https://i.imgur.com/vA2oGDj.gifv https://i.imgur.com/KKCa7Xz.gifv https://i.imgur.com/7bq2vg2.gifv https://i.imgur.com/WdQ0JsO.gifv https://i.imgur.com/jdah5ez.gifv https://i.imgur.com/3IZ7cno.gifv https://i.imgur.com/G8Uk5oA.gifv FrenzyTheKillbot fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Jan 9, 2022 |
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FrenzyTheKillbot posted:And also, happy one year thread-iversary! Have some gifs. I can just imagine the thought process for the Banshee pilot being like "that fucker just stuck a grenade on me! Uh uh, we're gonna die together" It would have been even more spectacular if the pilot succeeded, I feel
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Kibayasu posted:I know its mostly a space war and planets just end up getting blown up but with tanks like they have you have to wonder how the humans lost any battle at all. Since the tanks are the most Brigador-esque thing in the series it’s no wonder they’re so effective.
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Aces High posted:I can just imagine the thought process for the Banshee pilot being like "that fucker just stuck a grenade on me! Uh uh, we're gonna die together" As the person who was playing and recording that level, gonna have to disagree with you here.
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 07 - The Ark (Part 2) The Human forces continue their push towards the Ark's Cartographer.
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...I never realized you could ramp onto the scarab, and trying to take out a scarab in a scorpion or wraith is not fun. Incidentally, you can target the scarab's two main guns, at the head and tail, and damage them. You can't destroy the guns, but damaging them does slow down their firing rate.
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The flame grenades don't appear in matchmaking, but you can place them in Forge. The flamethrower only shows up on one map (Construct, incidentally) by default, but again, can be placed in Forge.
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Yo Spartan jump over that big rear end ramp!
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Kibayasu posted:Yo Spartan jump over that big rear end ramp! It's HIT that big rear end ramp! I miss Chip and Grant
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 08 - The Covenant (Part 1) The UNSC and the Elites stage a joint operation to bring down the defenses around Truth's stronghold. Samovar posted:It's HIT that big rear end ramp! Is that from Blood on the Sand?
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I remember replaying these last few stages quite a few times with the 4-player co-op because those vehicular (especially the aerial vehicle) combat sections were so much fun.
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When I noted that The Ark is one of my two favorite levels in all of Halo, this is the other. For me, it's the music and the fun of Halo 3's vehicles that set these missions apart from the other Halo games, and I think 3 also has the best cinematography of the series for its cutscenes.
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They did not know about the Covenant when they started training the Spartans, who were abducted at the age of 6 (give or take). The project was intended to combat Insurrectionist activities. First contact occurred when the Spartans were 14. This level takes so goddamn long. It's a good level, don't get me wrong, but good god it takes forever.
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FrenzyTheKillbot posted:Is that from Blood on the Sand? Ayuh, that it was. I'll tell you, every time you pass up a Brute shot in this level, I feel sad. But at the start of the level, the pilot says there's 'active triple-A'. Anti-aircraft... activity? Did they just pull a 'PIN number' situation?
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Samovar posted:It's HIT that big rear end ramp! No, Kibayasu was right FrenzyTheKillbot posted:Is that from Blood on the Sand? Indeed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgSXldDcLdY
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Samovar posted:Ayuh, that it was. Anti-Aircraft Artillery.
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Okay, those Hornets look like a shitload of fun.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Okay, those Hornets look like a shitload of fun. They have helicopter controls (move in the cardinal directions, go up or down) so you can't swoop with them the way you can with a Banshee. They do pack a satisfyingly larger punch than their Covenant equivalent though, with their big rockets. They are fun as heck to use.
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I'm more amazed you didn't take a moment to outfit the other Hornet rider with a better weapon than the pistol.
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All marines are given portable velcro kits to aid in standing on the side of flying and/or fast moving vehicles.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Okay, those Hornets look like a shitload of fun. Loxbourne posted:They have helicopter controls (move in the cardinal directions, go up or down) so you can't swoop with them the way you can with a Banshee. They do pack a satisfyingly larger punch than their Covenant equivalent though, with their big rockets. They are fun as heck to use. They really are a whole lot of fun. I do kinda wish the missiles were faster though. It seems like a lot of the time Banshees dodge them by moving normally and often I've blown stuff up with the guns before the missiles even have a chance to get there. AradoBalanga posted:I'm more amazed you didn't take a moment to outfit the other Hornet rider with a better weapon than the pistol. Haha well I wouldn't want them to be too effective, or I wouldn't get to show off the Hornet as much.
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Hornets are rad simply because you can bring friends with guns on them.
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I don't think the game ever addresses this, but food for thought: the only way for ships to get here is via the portal. On Earth. High Charity was in-atmosphere at Earth.
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Cythereal posted:I don't think the game ever addresses this, but food for thought: the only way for ships to get here is via the portal. On Earth. High Charity was in-atmosphere at Earth. It actually wasn't, apparently. It made the jump somewhere around Mars. That raises the question of why it needed to be in the Sol system at any point, but maybe it just needed telemetry or something. e: God I forgot how bright that bridge is, just why Ablative fucked around with this message at 03:16 on Jan 29, 2022 |
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Serenity came out in 2005, so it definitely lines up with Halo 3's dev cycle timeline. And I completely agree with the "I'm a thief, but I keep what I steal." line being very important, Frenzy. When the new Halo ring appeared at the end of the level, I immediately realized what Cortana is talking about when she said that line.
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Cythereal posted:I don't think the game ever addresses this, but food for thought: the only way for ships to get here is via the portal. On Earth. High Charity was in-atmosphere at Earth. Ablative posted:It actually wasn't, apparently. It made the jump somewhere around Mars. I think Bungie kinda wrote themselves into a corner here. I mean obviously the Flood had to show up, and they did have to head to Earth because otherwise Cortana's message was a lie. But they don't want them to use the portal because if High Charity was in Earth's atmosphere there's no way they wouldn't have infected the planet and the UNSC would not be able to do anything about it. Of course, High Charity shouldn't be able to jump to the Ark for a bunch of reasons. For one thing, the Flood isn't supposed to know where it is. Secondly, the Forerunner dreadnought was High Charity's main source of power and (as I understand it) its Slipspace drive. And lastly, it's so drat far away that it should take literal years to get there even through Slipspace. As deus ex machina-y as it is, it probably is the "cleanest" solution to say that the Flood showed up in our solar system, saw the portal and realized what it was and where it lead, used space zombie magic to determine the end point, and then jumped there without engaging Earth.
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Huh. I was under the impression from the cutscene that the Ark portal was inside Earth's atmosphere and that was the only way to get here.
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FoolyCharged posted:Weren't the flood attacking earth already? Half jaw glasses a continent trying to stop them, I think. The Flood that spilled out of the cruiser we boarded have all been incinerated from orbit by Halfjaw, yes. I thought Hood's "half a continent" was hyperbole, but New Mombasa and the area around it have clearly been sterilised. Halo 3 has some stitching around changes in the arc and this is the most obvious and most clunky point. From the original Halo 2 concept material we see that the Prophet of Truth was planned to die at the end of 2, in a whole cut set of levels in an "Ark" that was the structure on Earth. It's unclear from the concept art if it was still a portal, but the control centre for the Halos was in the Earthside section. Halo 3 then has to rush through the remaining bits of 2 in its first act. At a guess, I'd say the structure outside the galaxy was still planned to be the setting for Halo 3 but it may not have been the original "ark". The bit about High Charity jumping from Mars is pretty clearly a story patch to avoid having to address why there aren't any Flood on Earth (or deal with the believability problem of saying the Flood didn't drop any spores off on the way though). But we also get the rather painful story contortions to let the Brutes capture Johnson and Miranda a second time so they can go through the whole business of the Halos needing a human to fire them. We also end up with the rather weird question of just what Truth thought he was trying to do - in Halo 2 he clearly believed that lighting the Halos would start the Great Journey, but seemed to have no idea that it would kill everyone. This is a bit more believable than Halo 3, where he seems to fully understand that setting them off would exterminate all life in the galaxy and intended to be out of the way of the effect. Did he think the Forerunners would swoop down from Precursor Heaven afterwards and scoop him and his fellow Covenant elect up, like space Rapture? (This gets even worse in the tie-ins, which make it very clear that Truth knew full well that Forerunner technology recognises and activates for humans and humans alone, and has mandated humanity's extermination basically to avoid having to think too hard about the implications. That's believable as religious dogma - how dare this species be more exalted than us, the Prophets and chosen ones - but still leaves the question of what he thinks is going to happen when the rings go off. Presumably that the Forerunners are so impressed with his efforts that they overlook all that awkward genocide and haul him up into Heaven on the spot?) Still a well-written death scene though. That was a good way for one of the primary setting villains to die, puppeteered by the Gravemind as he sees the Chief undo his life's work with a single button press. Loxbourne fucked around with this message at 03:38 on Jan 31, 2022 |
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Loxbourne posted:The Flood that spilled out of the cruiser we boarded have all been incinerated from orbit by Halfjaw, yes. I thought Hood's "half a continent" was hyperbole, but New Mombasa and the area around it have clearly been sterilised. It is in fact hyperbole; the only part of Earth glassed to contain the Flood was Voi, basically. I always figured by this point Truth was so far gone he'd started believing his own hype to the exclusion of all reality.
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I've got a question about the Flood arriving on the Ark. How did the Gravemind get off the High Charity and slither to where Master Chief was? They were above a massive drop. And why did it leave immediately after waving its tentacles around a bit?
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I've got a question about the Flood arriving on the Ark. Basically, it didn't; it effectively is High Charity at this point. And High Charity is massive. As for why it retreated, who knows? Maybe it saw the ring coming too and got spooked. Maybe some Sentinels got off their asses and gave it a good zappin'.
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Just marathoned this over the past day. God drat I love the Halo series
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Forerunner tech authentication sucks. Like, we've seen this twice now with Keyes in Halo 2 and Johnson just now; they both resist activating rings but all it takes is someone forcefully jamming their hand onto the big glowing button to start up the doom system. The Covenant (and Spark) keep saying they need the humans to activate the rings but really all it looks like is that they need to cut off a human's hand to activate... I don't know, I guess a fingerprint scanner?
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TwoPair posted:Forerunner tech authentication sucks. Like, we've seen this twice now with Keyes in Halo 2 and Johnson just now; they both resist activating rings but all it takes is someone forcefully jamming their hand onto the big glowing button to start up the doom system. The Covenant (and Spark) keep saying they need the humans to activate the rings but really all it looks like is that they need to cut off a human's hand to activate... I don't know, I guess a fingerprint scanner? Maybe, but then chief just mushes his big armored ham on the button and that turns it off? It kind of feels like Mass Effect where all these other alien species existed for thousands of years and stumble across technology left behind by an even more advanced race from millennia ago, but none of it works until some humans stumble across it
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