X button?

black_scorp · Post by **black_scorp** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:32 pm

it has to be sprint. on a screen shot from the et tu brute? film there was a pic of the HUD with 4 grenades. That 4th shaped like shield.

fishface617 · Post by **fishface617** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 1:18 pm

Tural wrote: Correct. It is not displayed as a grenade on the HUD. It was a long, long time ago, but in recent images, it is not. Only frag, plasma, and spike grenades are shown now. Also, being a standard grenade type would be unbelievably unbalanced. You would be able to pick them up from other people, and could go through a whole game just using those, never getting hit. This is why it is only balanced if used, say, once. Such as a special feature, like the X button. Self-destruct wouldn't help you if you were losing, it would hinder you.

On that note, do you think it will have to be "charged up" or you will be able to use it right when the game starts?

INSANEdrive · Post by **INSANEdrive** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 2:29 pm

This conversation seems oddly familiar >_>

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 2:41 pm

black_scorp wrote:it has to be sprint. on a screen shot from the et tu brute? film there was a pic of the HUD with 4 grenades. That 4th shaped like shield.

Bungie specifically said that everything is subject to change, and recent images show that it is not there. It is not a grenade type.

Again, sprinting isn't something you activate, nor does it have anything to do with doing well in a game.

sneakyn8 · Post by **sneakyn8** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:57 pm

The Loaded Gun wrote:maybe the "X" button calls for reinforcements? or a mortar or something, i remember a picture that had a mortar in the sketch plans

Edit: 1 up.com pic
also take note of it says "warthog dropoff", maybe a pelican LZ?

i think "big ass mortor gun" means man cannon and "warthog drop off" means where sum1 jumps out of a hog to run into the base and pick up the falg and come back to warty and then to scorezone

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:16 pm

sneakyn8 wrote:i think "big *** mortor gun" means man cannon

No.
http://media.1up.com/media?id=3090602&type=lg
http://media.1up.com/media?id=3090594&type=lg
http://media.1up.com/media?id=3090595&type=lg

That is the mortar launcher described in the image, this is a man cannon:
http://media.1up.com/media?id=3090577&type=lg

trepdimeflou · Post by **trepdimeflou** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 5:49 pm

I was thinking, the x button may very well be a temporary active camo. This theory fits in with all the speculation, and ties in to the GOO's SPI camo idea.

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 5:58 pm

I think it'd be a cool idea to do temporary active camo, but say something like it requires all power to be diverted away from the shield system...so if you use it, your shields are drained.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 7:01 pm

If it's a good active camo (A lot more camo'd than Halo 2's v_v), that would certainly be a cool feature.

Geo · Post by **Geo** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:17 am

I thought it was Camo for a while, hence my post on the previous page.

1nevitablEnd · Post by **1nevitablEnd** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 2:11 am

hey you guys i know this is a huge bump, however old the topic, i was reading the bungie.net forums on the "X" button and i stumbled onto the best "real", "X" button theory:

Still Langley wrote:Melee with your left hand? I hope there's some way in Halo 3 to melee without dropping your dual wielded gun. This way you could pound someone with both hands making melee fights more interesting!

It would make sence, to melee with the left gun you press "X", and to melee with the right gun you press "B"
3rd post

neodos · Post by **neodos** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:15 am

Maybe the X button discharge your shield to activate the spherical shield just for many seconds(like on the halo 3 trailer) to survive to a rocket or a wraith shoot but after that spheircal shield you are "no shield" so you have to wait the shield reload again.

Or your spehrical shield get loaded after picking an overshield or it takes some time to load so if you survive enought time you can use that shperical shield.

Just some ideas xD,that would be cool

and also a balanced gameplay.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:22 am

1nevitablEnd wrote:hey you guys i know this is a huge bump, however old the topic, i was reading the bungie.net forums on the "X" button and i stumbled onto the best "real", "X" button theory:
Still Langley wrote:Melee with your left hand? I hope there's some way in Halo 3 to melee without dropping your dual wielded gun. This way you could pound someone with both hands making melee fights more interesting!
It would make sence, to melee with the left gun you press "X", and to melee with the right gun you press "B"
3rd post

No. That's not something that "activates" and it has nothing to do with winning or losing. Read the 1up quote I've posted a few times.

1nevitablEnd · Post by **1nevitablEnd** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:43 am

Tural wrote:
1nevitablEnd wrote:hey you guys i know this is a huge bump, however old the topic, i was reading the bungie.net forums on the "X" button and i stumbled onto the best "real", "X" button theory:
Still Langley wrote:Melee with your left hand? I hope there's some way in Halo 3 to melee without dropping your dual wielded gun. This way you could pound someone with both hands making melee fights more interesting!
It would make sence, to melee with the left gun you press "X", and to melee with the right gun you press "B"
3rd post
No. That's not something that "activates" and it has nothing to do with winning or losing. Read the 1up quote I've posted a few times.

they could be lying, trying to trick us. they have done stuff like this before

Geo · Post by **Geo** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:53 am

Like when?

Tural, please quote that 'activating' thing in your sig, I'm sick of people's theories that are not gonna be anywhere near accurate.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 12:38 pm

Done and done.

newbymodder · Post by **newbymodder** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:59 pm

it can't be a reload bungie said it was special left bumper reloads duh read the threads i think mabey its for like kicking u know since u can mele already y not a kick?

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:02 pm

You haven't read any of this thread, have you?

DarkMetal · Post by **DarkMetal** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:00 am

If you think about it, they never said the X button activates something in a sense, they said they never had to activate the X button as an entity, meaning never use it.

warlord · Post by **warlord** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:58 am

is it possible that you can pick up the health packs not use them and then use the x button to activate the health pack?