Yeah Gamma just wondering will the Spartan III'S have shields or are you using the Book concept where they can cloak but have no shields.

They won't have much shields. After all, in MP, when you shoot a cloaked opponent, his shields give him away.

what gun they usin?

O are they using that one single shot assault rifle thingy from the books (forgot the name)
Or some silenced weapon like the odst smg?
Edited by joshvaliant on Aug 10, 2009 at 12:06 AM

Ma5k and no it's the H3b assault rifle.

We decided on BR actually.

We who? xD anyway why BR? will the actors be able to fire it right?

No they won't, because I totally don't know how to set up an actor variant for a battle rifle wielding Spartan-III. /sarcasm

I vote they use a silenced SMG

If you read the thread the SMG is silenced

Only if I get someone to UVW your SMG, texture, and animate.

I'm just gonna come out and say it.

The Battle Rifle sucks.

No matter how you use it, it's a crappy weapon. The only use it has is on legendary, and that's only when combined with the plasma pistol, which leaves you vulnerable to all kinds of other attacks. The battle rifle has very little effect on shields, and the only thing it's good for is headshots, and by the time you waste an entire clip to get an enemy's shields down, you could have already killed them with a better weapon anyway.

Battle Rifle sucks. Don't give it to AI. Better yet, don't even put it in at all.

For the Spartan III's, I vote silenced SMG. That would make more sense, if they're supposed to be "stealthy".

My battle rifle shoots nukes. /sarcasm

While I've been playing this level over and over again, I've seen that it's been underpowered. So I'm going to upgrade it to have the same potential that the Halo 1 pistol had. Yes, you'll have an overpowered 3sk rifle.

Screw the Battle Rifle. If you've got the H1 pistol, you don't need it anyway.

Problem is, there isn't a h1 pistol in this map.

be glad you remembered that Dennis is Watchin' us

It would be a problem if he set his heart on using the h1 pistol.

It's a problem because the battle rifle, which you are replacing the pistol with, fails.

It's a problem, because you don't realize that the damage caused by the battle rifle is equal to the overpowered h1 pistol. However, to balance it out, it expends ammo at a quicker rate.

I'm not comparing the pistol to the battle rifle, and I'm not saying you need an H1 pistol. What I'm saying is that the battle rifle is a crappy, useless weapon. Always has been, always will be.

And yet, it's been an iconic weapon to Halo 2, much like the assault rifle is to the other games. You can consider it useless, but in MP matches in both Halo 2 and one Halo 3 game I've played, the Battle Rifle was a rather useful weapon.

It was an iconic weapon in Halo 2 because they removed the assault rifle in Halo 2. It's an overused and overrated weapon, and is good for almost nothing.

If you made the battle rifle more powerfull it would be a pretty decent weapon. Also the spartan III'S use silenced MA5K'S. So if possible gamma see if someone could help modify the MA5K skin and sound to look and sound silenced. Also might be better if you upped the power on the MA5K.

Lies. There are no silenced MA5Ks. The Spartan IIIs used standard MA5Ks, and whatever weapons they could find. EG: Rocks and other blunt projectiles. And I'm not putting in the MA5K, due to 2 main reasons.

1) Tagspace.
2) HUD.

I might be able to circumvent the first reason, but for the second, I'll need Jesse to make me a HUD for it, AND have L28 add a new button in the pause menu.

Oh sry your right I was using the Ghosts Of Onyx cover and the muzzle kinda looked like a silencer. my bad

Due to certain problems faced in writing the random weapon scripts, I'm setting several free weapon points as fixed, and not random, due to the lack of weapons. There will be several parts with random weapons, mainly wave 10, but waves 5 and 15 will be fixed in place.

And yes, you read correctly, I've gotten off my lazy butt, and continued work on the map.

I don't think it'll make much difference, since for the first 'random' weapon I've only ever gotten a AR.. unless it was fixed then?

and, hooray for work! :D

It was meant to be random, but it didn't work out the way I expected. I tried using that "random" method when making the personality buddy, and he only said one thing. I re-wrote it using a different command, and using the personality buddy as a test, created the new scripts.

Good to hear it's workin out, and i would like to see spartan III's use silenced smg's Now if only there was some one with a battle rifle.

The Spartan III uses a battle rifle...

And here's a look at the new marine with an assault rifle. For 500 points, down from 800. Cost has been cut by 300 for all marines.

http://www.xfire.com/video/10ca19/

wow that looks good, btw they will throw nades? or just shoot

o wow thats really nice, but yea you might wanna remove limping so they can shoot back when being shot.

no i think limping is a good idea to keep in. cause then they would be just like chief and couldj ust runaround w/ out stopping.

Assault Rifle sounds like a toy

Blame Bungie then. That's how it sounds in Halo 3.

Noy in Hi Definition. It actually sounds like a serious weapon in HiDef.