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[Grifter_7]

[spoiler] Unfulfilled Halo 2 Wishlist

[fugitivesoldier]

Fall damage is present in Single Player (just try exiting a Banshee in midair to board another and missing).

It was removed from MP because when someone with a sword would lunge to a lower height to attack, they would hit the ground so hard that the fall damage would kill them. This was talked about a little in a Weekly What's Update.

[Fenwicked]

Re: [spoiler] Unfulfilled Halo 2 Wishlist

[weephun]

Consistency. From the "canon" books to the "canon" gameplay, let alone the "non-canon" (but better scripted) ILB story.

AKA:
-MC's order from top brass to NEVER kill a prophet under any circumstances.
-The reason for following Regret = "find out why he came to Earth", then after finding out that he was going to activate Halo, killing him because "he's told us all we need to know" ????? ???? Wha? hey, remember Earth anybody???
-Mjolnir armor (w/out shields) being able to handle small weapons fire w/out any problem whatsoever.
-No fall damage anytime (seeing as how Spartans can survive an orbital drop just fine in the books).
-Consistency in gameplay. Not the network speed deciding whose actions happen first, or shotguns being totally unreliable in how much damage they cause, or melees being great sometimes and useless other times, etc, etc, etc. Basically all the code problems that allowed for all the glitches being exploited now.

I can understand why some things needed to be put in for gameplay (like taking damage from small arms fire), but I really wish they could just stay consistent with their story, and with their previous game engine (you know the one that produced the same result from the same actions every time )

[Fenwicked]

[Grifter_7]

[ubersaurus]

Re: [spoiler] Unfulfilled Halo 2 Wishlist

[weephun]

[Nova]

Closure would be nice. I would be very surprised if they didn't do a Halo 3. MC goes to Earth, offs the Prophet and their Brute lackeys, the Elites we now have sympathy for after playing as them and watching them get screwed over in H2 and the other remaining Covenant join up with humanity to stop the Flood and their floating city. The Flood get blowed up, and without the prophets around the humans are accepted into the covenant and peace ensues, everyone lives happily ever after. And then Durga gets Jersey's dad home. Oh yeah, and Kelly comes back from her wacky deep-space adventure with the key to stopping the Flood, if they decide to follow the books at all.

Seems pretty straightforward to me and, like I said, I'll be surprised if they don't do another game to close the story.

[DreamOfTheRood]

That's so beautiful.

[Nova]

I am also disappointed that the friends list in H2 doesn't have 'page up' and 'page down' functionality. And that you have to go searching through all your lists to find who it was who just sent you a message. Why not create a fourth 'inbox' list that shows all those who've sent you a message? Or just put the message folks at the top of the list?

[Fenwicked]

[Anton P. Nym]

[krystyn]

When your friends list exceeds a certain length is full, looking for new messages is a total bear.

Sigh.

[water10]