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  2. Banshees Have Air Brakes?

Thu, 03/18/2004 - 02:35 by narcogen

Brandon "vector40" Oto, Psyrixx, and Orion are giving credit to Jester for a prime tip on flying the Banshee: the jump button functions as an air brake, scrubbing off speed. This isn't mentioned in the manual, or in the help window that pops up the first time you pilot a Banshee in the single player campaign.

It's not clear just yet if this is a real advantage over just releasing the throttle; but it is strange to note that after nearly two years after Halo's release, some pretty competent online Banshee pilots still didn't know about this undocumented feature.

UPDATE: Ok, it looks like this is less an item about a new technique, and more an item about how a bit of supposedly obvious knowledge (like a brake key that works the same way on most vehicles, banshees included) can go unnoticed by parts of the community while other parts use it regularly. To wit: Louis Wu at HBO already knew about it and has used the technique, but never posted about it since it was too obvious. (For half credit, we did check the HBO archives before posting this supposed tidbit, but didn't find anything.)

Bottom line? Move along, people, nothing to see here.

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Claude Errera

You gotta be kidding me. E

Thu, 03/18/2004 - 03:45

You gotta be kidding me.

EVERY vehicle responds by braking to that key. How can it be that people didn't notice this?

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narcogen

No idea

In reply to: You gotta be kidding me. E Thu, 03/18/2004 - 04:17

I have no idea. I never did. Vec never had.

If you knew it, I'll take the whole thing right off the front page and tattoo "dumbass" on my forehead, though :)

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