Halo 3 Gravity Hammer - Best FPS Melee Weapon Ever?

[QUOTE="Spartan070"]Almost all rifle bullets from conventional rifles travel at supersonic speed, 600mph. Only a few low-powered pistols and submachine guns travel slower than that. Some sniper rifles, like the Remington 700 BDL and the AK47 derived Dragonov, travel at almost twice the speed of sound.

There are few things in this world I know tons about, guns is one of them.

foxhound_fox

As do I... but I think iron spikes being projected magnetically, ala. rail-gun, is a lot more technologically advanced then gunpowder. :P

But anyway, both are cool:D

Its sounds fun can't wait to try on all of y'all online:twisted:MgamerBD

There will be so many Swords vs Hammers matches online! Can't wait:twisted:

[QUOTE="musicalmac"]

Seriously?! I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!! Would you rather play with a crowbar, or the gravity hammer?! Honestly!Magical_Zebra

You make a reference to Zoolander, your ok in my book. ;)

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Spartan070

Screw weapons, thats for wussys.

The best FPS melee weapon is your feet in F.E.A.R. You can swing a hammer all you want, but nothing is more satisfying than KICKING SOMEONE IN THE FACE.

out0v0rder

Only if your Chuck Norris:lol: Other wise, "the Gravity Hammer is mighier than the foot." :P

[QUOTE="out0v0rder"]

Screw weapons, thats for wussys.

The best FPS melee weapon is your feet in F.E.A.R. You can swing a hammer all you want, but nothing is more satisfying than KICKING SOMEONE IN THE FACE.

Spartan070

Only if your Chuck Norris:lol: Other wise, "the Gravity Hammer is mighier than the foot." :P

[QUOTE="Spartan070"]Plus the game takes place in 2552, are we supposed to hold "military grade" to todays standards?:?foxhound_fox

[QUOTE="foxhound_fox"]

It takes place 550 years in the future and we are still using bullets? :lol:

There are already hand-held laser weapons in development TODAY IRL.Rougehunter

*clicks on thread in sig*

:lol: Dang, that's pretty bad!

[QUOTE="musicalmac"]200, 500... Now we're just splitting hairs :Pfoxhound_fox

How do you know that earth did not enter a time of peace, most military advances come during war. Short wave radar, nuclear, missiles. How many technologies came out of WWII? Look at guns today you see that most of the ones are based on the AK-47. How much innovation are you dreaming up?

And Lasers will probably never be practical, the dissapate too easily in the atmosphere. The military has some they fly around in Boeing transport aircrafts, they weigh around 6kg. The power required to shoot them drains them after one or two shots. They only have a range of 20 kilometers. They are not practical in any form.

Sounds kinky.The-0ne

I sure hope there is a "pulse attack" like the one Tartar Sauce used on the Arbiter, maybe that's how the confirmed grenade reflection works? Sure would be better than having to time a slow moving swing.

I wonder if you can use this and the sword while on the back of a Mongoose? Mongoose battle gametypes ftw!D00nut

:o Online Halo clan style jousting matches FTW!!!:D

LOL...TC why would u even want the "pulse attack" to be in the weapon? That would make it extremely unbalanced and ruin the multiplayer. For single player? sure...hell that'd be cool. But for multiplayer? If bungie gives the thing a lunge attack, makes it able to reflect grenades, and also gives it splash damage...plus on top of all that gives it a "pulse" attack....then bungie is striaght up on crack :|duble_Needler23

In all of Halo 2, how many swords was on any one given map in a ranked game? You act like there will be 6 or 7 guys waving around Gravity Hammers causing destruction in multiplayer. There will be one, two at the most, depending on map size and amount of players. I guarntee that one melee superpower won't imbalance the game in MP.

People said the same about the sword and it worked out fine, plus shotguns are far more powerful this time around.

edit: The splash-damage/area-damage, grenade reflecting and lunge attack are already confirmed, the pulse attack I highy suspect and has not been commented on by Bungie.

You know what this thread has become?? just like every other Halo thread, Bungie talks aboutnew content for Halo, and people just bash it just to bash it, because teh Halo is overrated trash cookie cutter FPS, nothing compares to almighty Half Life.

-Sora

Fully agree.

Spartan 070, I share your enthusiasm, don't let the haters get to you. We are all just excited for a new weapon in a game we enjoy. If people think theres something wrong there, they have issues.

[QUOTE="-Sora"]

You know what this thread has become?? just like every other Halo thread, Bungie talks aboutnew content for Halo, and people just bash it just to bash it, because teh Halo is overrated trash cookie cutter FPS, nothing compares to almighty Half Life.

TheCrazed420

Fully agree.

Spartan 070, I share your enthusiasm, don't let the haters get to you. We are all just excited for a new weapon in a game we enjoy. If people think theres something wrong there, they have issues.

Sorry, but Chainsaw and Crowbar are stil winnar.Vandalvideo

[QUOTE="TheCrazed420"][QUOTE="-Sora"]

You know what this thread has become?? just like every other Halo thread, Bungie talks aboutnew content for Halo, and people just bash it just to bash it, because teh Halo is overrated trash cookie cutter FPS, nothing compares to almighty Half Life.

Vandalvideo

Fully agree.

Spartan 070, I share your enthusiasm, don't let the haters get to you. We are all just excited for a new weapon in a game we enjoy. If people think theres something wrong there, they have issues.

I seriously think so. I know most of you will probably think I'm just feeding off the hype of Halo 3 and will find it hard to believe me, that's ok, you're entitled to your opinion. Simply feel free to disagree.

Anyway, back to my reasons:

Negatives:

• It's a melee weapon but it's also two handed so you can't use grenades.

Positives:

• It's very powerful.
• It looks awesome.
• It has a "lunge" attack, similar to the Plasma Sword.(not as far or quick as sword lunge)
• It does area-effect damage on impact, allowing you to severely damage vehicles, stop some uncoming vehicles in their tracks or possibly send multiple groud troops flying with one swing.:twisted:
• It has the ability to reflect incoming grenades, possibly back towards their messenger.:twisted:
• It may have a "projectile pulse attack", similar to the one Tartarus used to push the Arbiter into the pit during the end cutscene of Halo 2s "Quarantine Zone" level. (Remember, it's two handed so the left trigger, normally used for grenades, may be this pulse attack)

The weapon and some of it's abilities has already been confirmed by Bungie, most of this will also be confirmed in the new EGM. let's just say...trust me;)

NOTE - The "projectile pulse attack is all theory on my part but I have reason to think it's very likely.

Halo 3 Gravity Hammer concept art provided by OldParr:D (thanks)

Discuss.

Spartan070

Wouldn't that make it a ranged weapon instead of a melee weapon?

Gravity Gun + Jackhammer (from UT) = Gravity Hammer

WHAT ORIGINALITY! Gravity Gun can repel anything away while the Jackhammer dishes mega melee damage.

In all seriousness, the best melee weapon is Duke's boot.

Sorry, but the best mele FPS weapon to date is till the Alien Headbite from Alien Vs Preador 2 on the PC. Nothing was more fun then crawling down a wall behind somoene in a multiplayer match and 1-shot killing them while regening some of your health back.

That and I miss becoming the Queen Alien if you put the molting cycle on. Man they need to make another Alien Vs Preador game that dosen't suck.

Screw weapons, thats for wussys.

The best FPS melee weapon is your feet in F.E.A.R. You can swing a hammer all you want, but nothing is more satisfying than KICKING SOMEONE IN THE FACE.

out0v0rder

Anyway, the Gravity Hammer seems awesome.

oh and that concept art pic is not concept art, its a pic from an upcoming comic-

This Gravity Hammer sounds like a rip-off of an Impact Hammer from the Unreal Tournament series. It may not look like a hammer, but the concept is exactly the same. Infact, the developers from Bungie just played bunch of other FPS games and copied off their ideas into their games. The worst part about is that these Halo fans think that Bungie is so original-if you are a true fan of FPS genre, then you should know that Halo is just like any other FPS games with nothing special and that most of the ideas were borrowed from other games.MyLargefeet

This Gravity Hammer sounds like a rip-off of an Impact Hammer from the Unreal Tournament series. It may not look like a hammer, but the concept is exactly the same. Infact, the developers from Bungie just played bunch of other FPS games and copied off their ideas into their games. The worst part about is that these Halo fans think that Bungie is so original-if you are a true fan of FPS genre, then you should know that Halo is just like any other FPS games with nothing special and that most of the ideas were borrowed from other games.MyLargefeet

Geez, or maybe its just the badass hammer tartarus used in the last game and they thought it'd be cool to let the player use it. :roll: Why must everything be an evil-bungie-stealing-teh-PC-gamez conspiracy with you people.

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Magical_Guy

That is so last Century.

This Gravity Hammer sounds like a rip-off of an Impact Hammer from the Unreal Tournament series. It may not look like a hammer, but the concept is exactly the same. Infact, the developers from Bungie just played bunch of other FPS games and copied off their ideas into their games. The worst part about is that these Halo fans think that Bungie is so original-if you are a true fan of FPS genre, then you should know that Halo is just like any other FPS games with nothing special and that most of the ideas were borrowed from other games.MyLargefeet

[QUOTE="TheCrazed420"][QUOTE="-Sora"]

You know what this thread has become?? just like every other Halo thread, Bungie talks aboutnew content for Halo, and people just bash it just to bash it, because teh Halo is overrated trash cookie cutter FPS, nothing compares to almighty Half Life.

Vandalvideo

Fully agree.

Spartan 070, I share your enthusiasm, don't let the haters get to you. We are all just excited for a new weapon in a game we enjoy. If people think theres something wrong there, they have issues.

Wait, brought what upon myself? A lengthy discussion? In that case, bring on some more.:D

[QUOTE="MyLargefeet"]This Gravity Hammer sounds like a rip-off of an Impact Hammer from the Unreal Tournament series. It may not look like a hammer, but the concept is exactly the same. Infact, the developers from Bungie just played bunch of other FPS games and copied off their ideas into their games. The worst part about is that these Halo fans think that Bungie is so original-if you are a true fan of FPS genre, then you should know that Halo is just like any other FPS games with nothing special and that most of the ideas were borrowed from other games.baddog121390

What on earth are you talking about??? Where in this thread am I saying anything is new? Huh? Geez, people are seriously attacking me for no reason and with no base evidence.

...then calling me a fanboy....:roll:

Who cares about this matchmaking nub weapon? Real competitve Halo is with BR's and a set amount of power weapons on the map. The weapon will only be used by matchmaking randoms that have never gotten out of team training. Like 90% of the Halo lemmings on this forum. Finale-

Yeah because Team Training is the only matchmaking gametype. :|

[QUOTE="musicalmac"]200, 500... Now we're just splitting hairs :Pfoxhound_fox

Well, there is the Spartan Laser.

This Gravity Hammer sounds like a rip-off of an Impact Hammer from the Unreal Tournament series. It may not look like a hammer, but the concept is exactly the same. Infact, the developers from Bungie just played bunch of other FPS games and copied off their ideas into their games. The worst part about is that these Halo fans think that Bungie is so original-if you are a true fan of FPS genre, then you should know that Halo is just like any other FPS games with nothing special and that most of the ideas were borrowed from other games.MyLargefeet

*ahem*....lol. You could make that case for any FPS...no any game made in the last 15 years.

Besides, where did I say that the Hammer was revolutionary? Please quick-quote me where i did, thanks in advance.

CROWBAR

Magical_Guy

KNIFE

What on earth are you talking about??? Where in this thread am I saying anything is new? Huh? Geez, people are seriously attacking me for no reason and with no base evidence.

...then calling me a fanboy....:roll:

Spartan070

It's because you like Halo, the amount of Halo hate on system wars is absolutely unbelievable. I never thought being a fan of a series as big as Halo would put me in a minority.

I wonder if you can use this and the sword while on the back of a Mongoose? Mongoose battle gametypes ftw!D00nut

:lol: That would own so much.

So they took out the sword, or is this suppose to counter it in a dual? Sounds interesting, but I would wait before calling it the best.coreygames

Nope, sword is still there, awesome as ever.

[QUOTE="D00nut"]I wonder if you can use this and the sword while on the back of a Mongoose? Mongoose battle gametypes ftw!Laughlin_12

:lol: That would own so much.

Online Clan Jousting battles 8)