Current Events > The best part of Halo is the outdoor levels, in vehicles.

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I wish they didn't put in so many indoor, or non-vehicle levels.
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Riding the Warthog with the marines was always a good time. Especially when you had a good driver or gunner.
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The whole seamless indoor-outdoor thing is what makes it great. It's a perfect balance of two different types of gameplay.

Battlefield is much bigger on the vehicle thing and its infantry/indoor stuff suffers as a result.
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The best part of Halo is when you turn it off.
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Assault on the Control Room was the GOAT Halo 1level.


The Covenant was the GOAT Halo 3 level.


Checks out.
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I always thought it was weird that people loved the Warthog but hated the Mako

They are basically the same thing
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eston posted...

I always thought it was weird that people loved the Warthog but hated the Mako

They are basically the same thing

The Mako was much worse though the Warthog is pretty unwieldy. Anyways, I never used the Warthog if I could help it. Definitely avoided the Mongoose.
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Xelltrix posted...

eston posted...

I always thought it was weird that people loved the Warthog but hated the Mako

They are basically the same thing

The Mako was much worse though the Warthog is pretty unwieldy. Anyways, I never used the Warthog if I could help it. Definitely avoided the Mongoose.

The Warthog handled great from Halo 2 onward.
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No Wraith or Ghost fans? Plowing grunts over is still a guilty pleasure of mine
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weapon_d00d816 posted...

Xelltrix posted...

eston posted...

I always thought it was weird that people loved the Warthog but hated the Mako

They are basically the same thing

The Mako was much worse though the Warthog is pretty unwieldy. Anyways, I never used the Warthog if I could help it. Definitely avoided the Mongoose.

The Warthog handled great from Halo 2 onward.

Better, but still not the best. And it certainly wasn't as fun as any of the other rides. Ghosts. Banshees. SCORPIONS. All the new vehicles in the later Halos. Superfun.
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The hell is a Mako?

I only liked the H2 Ghosts

Warthogs got worse after every game, especially Reach
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MechaKirby posted...

The hell is a Mako?

I only liked the H2 Ghosts

Warthogs got worse after every game, especially Reach

Nah, they were definitely better in later games than in Halo 1.
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Xelltrix posted...

Assault on the Control Room was the GOAT Halo 1level.

I just replayed this like two weeks ago and I would beg to differ. It was the same corridor and outside bridge section like four times in a row. so boring.
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Xelltrix posted...

weapon_d00d816 posted...

Xelltrix posted...

eston posted...

I always thought it was weird that people loved the Warthog but hated the Mako

They are basically the same thing

The Mako was much worse though the Warthog is pretty unwieldy. Anyways, I never used the Warthog if I could help it. Definitely avoided the Mongoose.

The Warthog handled great from Halo 2 onward.

Better, but still not the best. And it certainly wasn't as fun as any of the other rides. Ghosts. Banshees. SCORPIONS. All the new vehicles in the later Halos. Superfun.

Most people disagree and think the Warthog was definitely the most fun.

I'm thinking you had trouble with the driving controls (left stick gas, right stick look to steer).
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The hell is a Mako?

It was the vehicle from Mass Effect that drove exactly like the Warthog but also allowed you to jump and fire your own weapons (both of them) while driving
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weapon_d00d816 posted...

Xelltrix posted...

weapon_d00d816 posted...

Xelltrix posted...

eston posted...

I always thought it was weird that people loved the Warthog but hated the Mako

They are basically the same thing

The Mako was much worse though the Warthog is pretty unwieldy. Anyways, I never used the Warthog if I could help it. Definitely avoided the Mongoose.

The Warthog handled great from Halo 2 onward.

Better, but still not the best. And it certainly wasn't as fun as any of the other rides. Ghosts. Banshees. SCORPIONS. All the new vehicles in the later Halos. Superfun.

Most people disagree and think the Warthog was definitely the most fun.

I'm thinking you had trouble with the driving controls (left stick gas, right stick look to steer).

No they wouldn't... what's the fun in a vehicle when you're only the driver and can't shoot anything? Especially in campaign.

And I know the controls, they just weren't anywhere mear as fun as any other vehicle and it wasn't as intuitive as other vehicles in the game.
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MechaKirby posted...

Warthogs got worse after every game, especially Reach

How does someone come to this conclusion?

They were barely different from Halo 2 onward to begin with, and got very slightly better if anything.
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SicSlayer posted...

Xelltrix posted...

Assault on the Control Room was the GOAT Halo 1level.

I just replayed this like two weeks ago and I would beg to differ. It was the same corridor and outside bridge section like four times in a row. so boring.

That could be said for Halo 1 in general since you traverse half of the same maps with variations. And some maps require you revisiting within the same level. I know a lot of people liked The Silent Cartographer but, for me, Assault was easily more fun since I got to use all those vehicles and weapons. Same with Two Betrayals for the same reason. After that, probably Truth and Reconciliation since the sniping was so fun.
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they had some great campaign set pieces
but the best part of halo is invariably the tightly designed arena maps i.e. midship the greatest map ever created
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Breaking it up is what makes it good. If it was only outdoor vehicles it would get tedious and repetitive.
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I loved Sidewinder and Blood Gulch (everyone loves Blood Gulch, obviously) the most. I din't think there were many maps I didn't like. Maybe the one with the river and the indoor one with teleporters since I barely played the latter and wasn't too keen on the former.
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weapon_d00d816 posted...

MechaKirby posted...

Warthogs got worse after every game, especially Reach

How does someone come to this conclusion?

They were barely different from Halo 2 onward to begin with, and got very slightly better if anything.

Maybe 3, but Reach and 4's Hogs were really bad
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Getting a Ghost stuck in the bottom of an elevator shaft during Assault on the Control Room and getting in an endless fight over it with my cousin was my most memorable Halo 1 experience.

But Silent Cartographer is still the definite Halo mission for me.
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Super strongly disagree.
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The most memoriable part of CE for me was in Assault on the Control Room(I think). There was a part called "If Only I had a Super weapon (or something like that), you could grab the invisibility thingy from the previous corridor, and steal the banshee on the bridge from under the elite standing near it.
Also in Halo 3, the area where you have to take down 2 of those spider mech things. It's possible to get into a Pelican(I think that's what they are called) land it on top of the first mech shoot it's weak spot, get back on the Pelican and fly to the second mech and repeat.
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Racing to beat the Elite to the Banshee was intense.



And that's The Covenant. Easily the best Halo level ever. Two Scarabs, using a Scorpion and a Hornet, teaming up with The Flood and the immediate betrayal afterwards. So cool.
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My favourite multiplayer mode remains Halo 3's Big Team Battle Heavies. Absolute chaos.
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VectorChaos posted...

My favourite multiplayer mode remains Halo 3's Big Team Battle Heavies. Absolute chaos.

Heavies was terrible.

It was pointless because there were Spartan Lasers everywhere so stepping into a vehicle was a total death sentence.
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I can definitely see why people like The Silent Cartographer, but I still think it falls flat after the beach raid all the way to Unlocked Door

I think Levels 3, 6, 8, and especially 5 are better
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Lockout was clear cut the best map in halo

I never used vehicles in actual matches if I could help it. Felt really lame and cheesy.
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Xelltrix posted...

I never used vehicles in actual matches if I could help it. Felt really lame and cheesy.

I remember in Halo 3 on certain maps it was a race for the Ghost almost every time. And whoever got it became public enemy #1.
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Xelltrix posted...

I never used vehicles in actual matches if I could help it. Felt really lame and cheesy.

Lol, what?

They were balanced with plenty of anti-vehicle weapons. The vehicles were placed like power weapons and were meant to be used. They weren't cheap at all.
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The best part of halo is when Master chief kills covenant because he doesn't want the rings lit. But, he lights a ring anyway at the end of halo 3.

weapon_d00d816 posted...

VectorChaos posted...

My favourite multiplayer mode remains Halo 3's Big Team Battle Heavies. Absolute chaos.

Heavies was terrible.

It was pointless because there were Spartan Lasers everywhere so stepping into a vehicle was a total death sentence.

git gud
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weapon_d00d816 posted...

Xelltrix posted...

I never used vehicles in actual matches if I could help it. Felt really lame and cheesy.

Lol, what?

They were balanced with plenty of anti-vehicle weapons. The vehicles were placed like power weapons and were meant to be used. They weren't cheap at all.

Boy, you just have to be contrarian to every comment in here, eh? Sure there were plenty of power weapons, but there weree also plenty of people playing so id someone else was hogging them and you were up against a vehicle, you were out of luck. Either way, I hated using them over being on foot. I did particularly love killing people who just spent their matches in vehicles making themselves easy targets when you have a good weapon or if they suck at driving... which is true for most of the people who stuck to vehicles.
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GregShmedley posted...

Best Halo CE level was the Silent Cartographer.

End of discussion.

that fucking beach assualt

could play that part over and over
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any level that had the Halo theme playing during combat got me fired up. In that moment in time I WAS Master Chief.
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weapon_d00d816 posted...

Xelltrix posted...

I never used vehicles in actual matches if I could help it. Felt really lame and cheesy.

Lol, what?

They were balanced with plenty of anti-vehicle weapons. The vehicles were placed like power weapons and were meant to be used. They weren't cheap at all.

Yeah vehicles have been balanced well for most of the series until Halo 5. In Halo 5 vehicles are a little less powerful than they should be due to a variety of reasons. You've got the absurdly powerful BR, all the movement options Halo 5 offers for traveling on foot, and vehicle weapons just being plain weaker. The Warthog got hit the hardest by all of this

Halo's always been at its best with large campaign and multiplayer levels though, I agree. I haven't really cared for any small non-vehicle arena style maps since Halo 2, where I loved Lockout and Ascension. Funny thing is I don't actually use vehicles often, I just like their presence. And that's why I primarily play BTB. Too bad MCC's BTB is ruined, and Halo 5's was an afterthought.
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EvalAngell posted...

any level that had the Halo theme playing during combat got me fired up. In that moment in time I WAS Master Chief.

Yet another reason The Covenant is the GOAT Halo level. That piano theme kicking in as Truth tries to hold the Control Room with everything he has left and a pair of Scarabs drop in to stop you in the middle of a melee between the joint UNSC-Sangheili and Covenant vehicles/aircraft for control of the light bridge.
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Easily the peak of the series.
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It's always fun to manipulate Covies vs Flood fights

Did anyone actually like the Flood?
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I liked the Flood, Guilty Sparks was one of the most intense experiences ever.

That said, the full flood levels are usually not my favorites. I didn't hate Halo 2 and Halo 2'a flood levels but I definitely hsted Cortana in Halo 3.
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