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Re: Maybe due to grenade chasing?
Posted By: scarab	Date: 10/19/12 5:23 a.m.
In Response To: Maybe due to grenade chasing? (Rockslider) : I'm not yet convinced that Banshees are purposefully snuffing out plasmas, : despite how much it looks like it. Rather than being a feature : deliberately added, it might be a consequence of something else, as : follows. In some situations a Banshee will chase a grenade you threw, : and suicidally go up close, nose down, as if to investigate it. With a : snuff-out, perhaps the Banshee is simply engaging in such grenade chasing : behaviour; and the subseqent disappearance of the grenade might be due : to some glitch. : I've never been sure why grenade chasing happens, but Narcogen thought about : it once. I saw a speed run of Keyes. After you kill Keyes on the Covie bridge there are several Flood outside the doors but one door has Covies packed in the corridor beyond. The speed runner went to that door and threw a frag grenade over the heads of the waiting Covies and they all turned to follow it. That let him kill an Elite from behind and run past them. This was the first time it struck home to me that NPCs track grenades in flight. So if units turn and track a thrown grenade that they see AND since Banshees fly in the direction that they look... then its (now) clear to me why they chase grenades. The programmers didn't consider that a Banshee flies where it looks. I think that the 'law' of unintended consequences applies as much to programming as it does to social studies. As for snuffing out... Is it a panic animation with unintended consequences? Though I'm not so convinced about that explanation. : I can't recall experiencing it in H3. And Reach Banshees are just awful , : but that's another story. Quite apart from their ugly stubby appearance, : they wander around semi-aimlessly and don't even seem to have pilots. Are : they actually meant to be unmanned (i.e. a covie drone design), or was : the lack of pilots some sort of technical failing on Bungie's part? Do they grenade chase in h2?

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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 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.