Not voting until mlg variants come out since the things that I've found myself complaining about should be fixed (i.e. spawns and armor lock, as anyone who's played with me probably got an earful about ).

no you don't complain about that at all

Hump.

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8. i dont like that the first 3 maps that i played, ive played about 1000x back in halo 2

and LOL wth is wrong with armor lock? It's so useless. if i see someone use it i just stand behind and wait for the assassination

This post was edited by Koldhearted on Sep 17 2010 03:33am

its good to dodge grenades and shit

and i voted 7, im just going to say, as broken as the host system was in h3, and how much it lagged, i still like h3 more then reach so far

It takes all the skill out of bait-and-switching. There's no skill in running into a room, weakening one or two guys, and then going into armor lock for several seconds while a teammate comes running in and cleans up. It gives a no-risk scenario, which is just stupid.

The only thing they could do to make it better is reduce the total duration by 2-3 seconds and force you to use it all at once, so at least a single person can easily beat the armor lock guy by timing it and putting a grenade at his feet. It shouldn't last long enough to start recharging your shields.

I think that it creates more strategy tbh. I don't use it myself, but even though it is annoying at times, it's a good tool for strategy - doesn't decrease it. After all, weakening an opponent and then going into armor lock is actually a bait and switch...

No, it's saying "I'm going to run into this room here without any knowledge of what's inside, but no matter what I can't die." While it's true it can be incorporated into a strategy, it's also cheap and doesn't have much of a drawback (hence my suggestion to shorten and make it full use at once).

It also slows down the course of the game considerably. If you're trying to attack a base with someone inside and you have to run across mid-map to do it, you'll be shooting the person in that base but probably be getting shot by someone elsewhere on the map. If the person you're shooting goes into armor lock, you can't go running into the base since he'll knock out your shields when he comes out of armor lock, and you can't stay mid-map since you're getting shot by his teammate. It completely discourages any sort of aggressiveness or map movement whatsoever.

I raped the fuck out of a sword guy with Armor Lock. I locked down as he lunged at me, it lowered his shields I unlocked and meleed him. It was epic.

Watch the clip in my file share, then come at me.