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Reach Banshees
Posted By: RocksliderDate: 10/18/12 5:00 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Maybe due to grenade chasing? (JonnyOThan)


: A full-blown biped represents a LOT of object memory.

But presumably it represented a lot of memory also in H1. And yet, there we had the splendid satisfaction of seeing an Elite go flying out of the destroyed Banshee.

: We were way over budget with real banshee pilots on Exodus.

I forget how many Banshees play an integral (rather than cosmetic) part in Exodus, but in Winter Contingency (a level I'm properly familiar with) and Firefight maps, Banshees don't occur in high numbers, and I wouldn't have thought there would be a pressing need to omit pilots, when weighed up against all the other personnel about the place. If an unusually Banshee-rich level triggered a decision to omit pilots completely, that just wouldn't seem a good decision to me. And as for such a level, perhaps something could've been done to fix things acceptably, though that's another matter of course.

From your answer, I take it that Reach Banshees were not meant to be a covie drone design then, and pilots were omitted purely out of memory concerns. But in that case, the lack of a pilot flying out on destruction doesn't just reduce the satisfaction level, it also badly damages realism. Every time you blow one of those things up, you get the discrepancy of a missing pilot.

Bad Cyborg


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H1 freakiness and fun *VID*Rockslider 10/17/12 12:55 p.m.
     Re: H1 freakiness and fun *VID*JDQuackers 10/17/12 2:55 p.m.
           Re: H1 freakiness and fun *VID*Rockslider 10/17/12 3:04 p.m.
     Re: H1 freakiness and fun *VID*Captain Spark 10/17/12 7:57 p.m.
           Re: H1 freakiness and fun *VID*Rockslider 10/18/12 3:18 a.m.
                 Re: H1 freakiness and fun *VID*Louis Wu 10/18/12 10:48 a.m.
                       Re: H1 freakiness and fun *VID*Rockslider 10/18/12 12:22 p.m.
                             Re: H1 freakiness and fun *VID*pete_the_duck 10/18/12 2:07 p.m.
                                   Re: H1 freakiness and fun *VID*uberfoop 10/18/12 3:37 p.m.
                                   Re: H1 freakiness and fun *VID*Rockslider 10/18/12 3:45 p.m.
                                   Re: H1 freakiness and fun *VID*Captain Spark 10/18/12 6:14 p.m.
                                   Re: H1 freakiness and fun *VID*Mator 10/20/12 11:20 a.m.
                                         Re: H1 freakiness and fun *VID*Rockslider 10/20/12 11:55 a.m.
                                               Re: H1 freakiness and fun *VID*Mator 10/20/12 12:12 p.m.
                 Re: H1 freakiness and fun *VID*Captain Spark 10/18/12 12:35 p.m.
           Clever girl... *NM*Chewbaccawakka 10/18/12 5:19 a.m.
           So that's no accidentscarab 10/18/12 1:05 p.m.
                 Maybe due to grenade chasing?Rockslider 10/18/12 2:08 p.m.
                       Re: Maybe due to grenade chasing?JonnyOThan 10/18/12 4:03 p.m.
                             Reach BansheesRockslider 10/18/12 5:00 p.m.
                                   Re: Reach BansheesLouis Wu 10/18/12 5:08 p.m.
                                         Re: Reach Bansheesuberfoop 10/18/12 5:19 p.m.
                                               Re: Reach BansheesLouis Wu 10/18/12 5:25 p.m.
                                                     Re: Reach BansheesWarbow 10/19/12 8:09 a.m.
                                                           !!!Louis Wu 10/19/12 9:27 a.m.
                                         Re: Reach BansheesRockslider 10/18/12 6:27 p.m.
                                               Re: Reach BansheesLouis Wu 10/18/12 6:42 p.m.
                                                     Don't know what you guys are talking about.Leviathan 10/18/12 6:54 p.m.
                                                     Re: Reach BansheesRockslider 10/18/12 7:05 p.m.
                                                           Re: Reach BansheesLouis Wu 10/18/12 7:10 p.m.
                                                           Re: Reach Bansheesuberfoop 10/19/12 11:14 a.m.
                                               Re: Reach BansheesFyreWulff 10/18/12 8:49 p.m.
                                                     Re: Reach BansheesRockslider 10/19/12 4:33 a.m.
                                                           Halo 3 is detail-limited by lighting.uberfoop 10/19/12 12:17 p.m.
                                                                 Re: Halo 3 is detail-limited by lighting.Rockslider 10/19/12 4:23 p.m.
                                   Re: Reach Bansheesuberfoop 10/18/12 5:23 p.m.
                       Re: Maybe due to grenade chasing?scarab 10/19/12 5:23 a.m.
                             Re: Maybe due to grenade chasing?Rockslider 10/19/12 6:21 a.m.
                                   Re: Maybe due to grenade chasing?scarab 10/19/12 5:47 p.m.
     GRUNT VANDALCody Miller 10/18/12 11:08 a.m.
     The high flying Elite was definitely my favorite! *NM*Lurono 10/18/12 5:48 p.m.
     Re: H1 freakiness and fun *VID*PerseusSpartacus 11/23/12 1:58 p.m.
           Re: H1 freakiness and fun *VID*Rockslider 11/28/12 11:30 a.m.
                 Re: H1 freakiness and fun *VID*PerseusSpartacus 11/30/12 12:10 a.m.
                       Re: H1 freakiness and fun *VID*Rockslider 11/30/12 11:49 a.m.
                             Re: H1 freakiness and fun *VID*PerseusSpartacus 11/30/12 4:08 p.m.
                                   Re: H1 freakiness and fun *VID*Rockslider 12/1/12 6:12 a.m.
                                         Re: H1 freakiness and fun *VID*PerseusSpartacus 12/1/12 1:23 p.m.



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