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Re: Reach Banshees
Posted By: RocksliderDate: 10/18/12 6:27 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Reach Banshees (Louis Wu)


: You write this as though you think there's a specific block of memory
: allocated to Banshees (and their pilots).

I don't know what made you think that, but it wasn't my picture at all.

: Reach takes WAAY more memory than the original CE - EVERYTHING is more
: complicated, everything is rendered at a higher resolution.

And the Xbox 360 is way more capable. Apparantly not capable enough for what Bungie would've ideally liked, but I contend that significant gameplay elements should not be lost at the expense of other things - such as including so many Banshees that you have to skimp on pilots (if that's indeed how it went). Having pilots in any Banshees the player deals with should be considered as one of the fundamentals around which the rest of the design should be obliged to fit.

Anyway, H3 had pilots and also lots of Banshees. So really, it might be more appropriate for us to question the loss in moving from H3 to Reach, rather than from H1 to Reach.

: Personally, I'd rather have Banshees flying around empty than not flying
: around.

I would've been happy if they'd cut back on Banshees if that would've meant they could uniformly include pilots in the ones you deal with. But actually I don't remember coming under any massed Banshee attacks on any level (except maybe the one with all that space combat, but I'm not really concerned with that), so I'm not sure quite what the situation with Exodus was.

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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