Because after they fix MJOLNIR armor you have to, otherwise they know how it works.

I meant finish it as have it in game as it was meant to be.
it has holding animations for the plasma pistol but it holds then inside it's chest.

Well, the title can mean many things. It can mean he's trying to put ODST engineers in Halo CE, or it could mean that he has one screenshot of an engineer, not a whole thing with subtitles and everything.

Also, way to be an ass.

Either way there's going to be images of the ODST Engineers. Reading "Aw Nuts" and "Whoa" isn't spoiling the game. If you can tell what the story of the new game is going to be just off of those 3 words then you have a gift.

I was talking about in CE.

could be a good idea and as for them holding weapons yeah probaly not instead I would mimic how there used in ODST I would give them shields and the ability to give surronding units shields.

Engineers shouldn't have any weapons, yeah.

although now that I think about it there are kamikaze engineers in ODST. The brutes like rig there armor so that it blows up that would be cool to put ingame.

I'm sure the Prophets would let the Brutes rig up Forerunner creations with explosives.

Actually that means it has NO holding animation for the weapon, or if I'm wrong there, then it's just some quick fix thrown in.

Go look at DarkZealot's Sidewinder mod called "Sentinel valley".
All weapons are held in the VERY CENTER of the the Sentinel. You may need flycam or devcam if you can't get anyone on that level for you to get a good look.

Yeah, I've tried finishing the engineer, but it doesn't have a marker on any of it's tentacles to hold a plasma pistol. It also has no animation for holding a weapon labelled pp so it defaults to holding at the "origin" or center of the body.

someone should make an engineer with explosives strapped to it and runs at you like a suicide bomber

engineers can't 'run'.

right they slowly drift towards you. Also its not a proximity bomb it detonates after the engineer has been killed.

Engineers weren't made for war. They were made to 'Fix' things.

I wouldn't think so.

That was sarcasm. Since the engineers are forerunner creations, they can be assumed to be revered by the Covenant, and thus not strapped with explosives.

Yet they are mostly left alone, and not directly considered high in status or anything.

Yeah even if they are created by the forerunners there status in the covenant is pretty low there ranked somewhere among the grunts and also for some reason the Brutes hate the engineers so its not unlikely that they would use them as kamikazes.

Engineers are filled with Methane gas, so they already are, naturally, an explosive.

hate to post a spoiler but it is proof. Really I wouldn't worry its not that big a spoiler so don't worry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vDRhyb09fg

It's not really an "Easter Egg", just a unique encounter. I remember seeing it from fp view in a vidoc, or some other video. The brutes say something along the lines of "It's armed" when they let the engineer go, which is when you get near.

im working on the engineers. Not for public use unless you rip it off the map(s) im going to use them on. But im probably going to make them explode when they die instead of a death animation. though i could combine the two :O
EDIT: woops didnt see the 2nd page, i was meant to reply to olly's last post on the 1st page. soz gaiz D:
Edited by sierra117 on Sep 16, 2009 at 05:02 AM

eh that will work. Thats pretty close in ODST how it works is they have there own energy shields and theyll try to get as close to you as they can before there shields drop then wheen you kill them a few seconds later the bomb explodes so a death animation isn't absolutely neccesary.