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[Arteen]

Too late.


Yeah, I've said that's how it should have been done from the beginning. It should be enough to deflect a single rocket or a close range hammer melee, but not enough to make you invulnerable from any attack for several seconds.

Armor lock should either:

1. Not exist
2. Only work in very short bursts (time it right and you can block a rocket or incoming vehicle, but you can't use it as a stall tactic)
3. Leave you momentarily vulnerable after you exit (no holding it down for the full duration, letting your shileds recharge, and then hopping behind cover as soon as it deactivates)
4. Not exist

1 or 4 are the best options, but 2 or 3 would at least be tolerable.

[p0lar_bear]

How does a fist punch hard enough to pulverize flesh in two hits through energy shields and titanium ceramic power-armour? It's a game.

I'm not questioning vs. reality, I'm questioning the counter-intuitiveness of it. The sword has always been a (limited use since Halo 3) fuck-you stick that feels like it was meant to roll some heads and limbs. Distance is the only true counter to the sword; if you're within distance (which probably needs to be reduced some), pressing that button should speed you at your target doing 80 miles per hour for a satisfying kill, not a 50/50 chance to be cockteased and then shot in the face because your victim was flailing their arms around like a stereotypical gay man in a slap fight.

[=sw=warlord]

Or how about having the sword not have melee lunge at all?
It's a one hit kill weapon as it is, the distance you can be from the enemy should be enough to serve it as it is without having the ability to fly at the speed of light at your opponent.

[Hotrod]

The Sword was fine in Halo 3, I see no reason why they decided to add in any way to block it without having another sword. After looking at the changes being made in this update, I'm starting to wonder what the hell Bungie was thinking when they made this game...

[t3h m00kz]

They knew what the players wanted better than they did obviously.

[Arteen]

The title update won't be applied to BTB?
Well if they don't come out with a big team variant for the update I guess I won't have reason to go back to Reach...

Between the long-range, pinpoint accuracy of the DMR and NR, the anti-vehicle sniper rifle, the broken-as-hell banshee, the awful vehicle health system, and Hemorrhage, BTB can't be salvaged,

[t3h m00kz]

Permit me to disagree and appreciate the fact that I can actually kill vehicles in reach with something other than a rocket launcher.

[Arteen]

The greater variety of weapons that can do damage to vehicles isn't the problem. That's actually great. The issue is that the spartan laser was the absolute worst aspect of BTB in Halo 3, and now the sniper rifle is basically a mini-splaser. Terrible idea.

Also, damaged vehicles are basically deathtraps, instead of the damage being mostly aesthetic. Combine that with the underpowered chaingun and useless missiles, the warthog's just a novelty vehicle in this game.

[t3h m00kz]

I was never big on vehicles myself, so I never noticed. I'm the profag everybody hates who sits around with sniper rifles and dmrs and picks people off from the corners of the map.

[Kornman00]

I think we should all look at the bigger picture at hand:











'da fuck?