: I really truly don't understand why nobody used the Halo 1 way.
: Indestructible vehicles, but you take damage when the vehicle is hit. So,
: if someone is being annoying in the warthog you can keep shooting them
: with the pistol from across the map. Similarly, you could slow the turning
: of tanks with plasma weapons.

: It was pretty much perfect.

If I remember correctly, the idea was to stop one team getting total, overwhelming vehicle domination just by spamming fire at the vehicles and recovering them once they're empty. Especially rockets/grenades.

They'd have to go for the higher-risk/difficulty boarding, target the driver more specifically, or wait for it to respawn and secure it before the enemy did.

Plus exploding stuff is fun I guess :)

A few years ago one of the Halo designers (can't remember which) mentioned that they did ultimately prefer the Halo 1 system, personally. They said something like it forced you to be more careful with your vehicles knowing you could lose them and face an epic multi-vehicle charge on your base.