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Do you trade weapons with Dare? ...and Buck?

posted 15 years ago by Abuhin
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In Data Hive, when you join Cap Dare, she's only got a pistol. Do you give her another weapon, and do you think one helps win the mission better?

I asked my friend this, and he pointed out that she's quick getting shots off with the pistol. Then he thought, and did say that it's handy to give a NPC a grav hammer, since they can't harm themselves.

So what do you like to give Dare and Buck in the last levels? Aside from the obvious rocket/fuel rod gun so that they'll have infinite ammo.

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[–] scarpred 15 years ago

Yeah, I do, but it wouldn't let me give anyone the hammer. Gave Buck a Sniper and Dare the rockets.

[–] kbraeden 15 years ago

I actually like the pistol. It didn't occur to me to supply an NPC with weapons, though it makes sense as they're invincible and have unlimited ammo.

[–] xPhenomenusx 15 years ago

Well, I only played on normal so there wasn't any real strategy but I took her pistol, I don't remember what I gave her.

One thing that bothers me is if you take her pistol, it still shows her holding the pistol in the cutscenes kind of like in Halo 3 when you get the vidmaster achievement on the final level using ghosts instead of Warthogs, it still shows a warthog on the cutscenes, it annoys me.

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[–] the_troll_of_lundamyri 14 years ago

Well on the highway level a rocket launcher can be found near the start. So when you get the building that needs to be defended you can give it to Buck, and his rifle to Dare. It comes in handy in harder difficulties.

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[–] Verbal-17 14 years ago

I usually give Dare the red Covenant machine gun, which has alot more killing power than her pistol- it allows her to take down the drones alot faster.

I don't give Buck anything, because he usually has a pretty good assault rifle on him. As for the idea of giving him the rocket launcher, I tried giving the rocket launcher to NPCs in Halo 2, and they always ended up blowing themselves up with it by accident, so I don't do that anymore.

One thing that does work really well is, during the level where I play Dutch in the nature preserve, I drive the Warthog and give my Spartan Laser to whatever soldier is riding shotgun. That way he's got infinite ammo with the Laser and he takes down alot of tanks, turrets, etc. as I drive through that level.

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[–] Abuhin 14 years ago

Turns out you gotta be careful when you do this in Data Hive. Like ReallyGoodName said, the cutscenes still show her with a pistol. Then when gameplay resumes, sometimes she really does have her pistol again, and whatever weapon you gave her just disappeared. Was fun watching her use the FRG on Drones, though. Also, a little time consuming.

Don't remember if it happened on Coastal Highway, but I gave her a Sniper after the drive for the last stand and Buck another FRG. She usually hangs in back anyway. Worked out pretty well.