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Re: Reach Banshees
Posted By: Louis Wu <halo@bungie.org>	Date: 10/18/12 5:08 p.m.
In Response To: Reach Banshees (Rockslider) : 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. : 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. You write this as though you think there's a specific block of memory allocated to Banshees (and their pilots). Reach takes WAAY more memory than the original CE - EVERYTHING is more complicated, everything is rendered at a higher resolution. Halo has a maximum resolution of 640x480 - Reach goes up to 1280x720. (Well, okay, 1280x640, but still...) Personally, I'd rather have Banshees flying around empty than not flying around.

Message Index

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 accident	scarab	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 Banshees	Rockslider	10/18/12 5:00 p.m.
Re: Reach Banshees	Louis Wu	10/18/12 5:08 p.m.
Re: Reach Banshees	uberfoop	10/18/12 5:19 p.m.
Re: Reach Banshees	Louis Wu	10/18/12 5:25 p.m.
Re: Reach Banshees	Warbow	10/19/12 8:09 a.m.
!!!	Louis Wu	10/19/12 9:27 a.m.
Re: Reach Banshees	Rockslider	10/18/12 6:27 p.m.
Re: Reach Banshees	Louis 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 Banshees	Rockslider	10/18/12 7:05 p.m.
Re: Reach Banshees	Louis Wu	10/18/12 7:10 p.m.
Re: Reach Banshees	uberfoop	10/19/12 11:14 a.m.
Re: Reach Banshees	FyreWulff	10/18/12 8:49 p.m.
Re: Reach Banshees	Rockslider	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 Banshees	uberfoop	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 VANDAL	Cody 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.