Halo Reach Review

[Ilyich Valken]

1. Again, the simple reason that they wanted them to be stronger doesn't make any sense chronologically.

2. You confused BR with DMR =P That's what I was pointing out.

3. Alright, let's say you choose a hologram to begin with and immediately, you're killed by a sprinter with a sword. Hologram couldn't save you there. Paper beats rock. To prevent this from happening in the future, you decide to go with armor lock. The next time you're charged you immediately use armor lock, drain his shield, stop him in his tracks and clean up the kill. Scissors cuts paper. That isn't really situational awareness, that's trial and error.

First, it makes total sense chronologically. Like I said, going by gameplay of Halo 1-3 alone doesn't do the Elite any justice in the end of it. They changed it to better fit how the Elites are in Halo lore. They changed it to better fit the story.

Second, I didn't confuse anything. It's called an example. In Halo 3, everyone grabbed the BR because it was a better weapon than all the rest. I never once said or implied that the BR was in Reach, so stop putting words in my mouth.

Lastly, you're only using them in the most basic of examples, and somewhat poorly at that. 90% of people STILL fall for the Hologram. You can't immediately melee/shoot right out of using sprint. Sure, there may be a seemingly small recovery time, but there is a recovery time.

Say someone sticks you, you can go into armor lock and it flings the grenade off of you. A rocket or plasma launcher is shot at you, hit it at the right time and the projectile flies back at the shooter. You see a vehicle coming at you, wait until it's too late and hit AL, and bam! Dead vehicle.

There are lots of useful things you can do with the armor abilities, you just have to look beyond the obvious and use some creativity.