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Edited by Aurik Kal Durin: 10/5/2014 9:02:56 AM
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"A Band of Roaming Pikes is Nearby..."

Yes, make Pikes appear more often.

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No, I don't want Pikes.

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Anybody wish this event would occur more often? For those who don't know, it's sometimes possible to get ahold of a Pike in Patrol mode; on the Forgotten Shore on Earth, and the Ember Caves on Venus, you may sometimes get a random event where a group of 2-3 Pikes will enter the area, piloted by Fallen Dregs... and you can kill the Dregs, take one of the Pikes, and go for a joyride if you like. When this event occurs, you see a message in the bottom left corner of your screen, just above the Super bar; [b]"A band of roaming Pikes is nearby..."[/b] and then the Pikes enter the area. The problem? [i]This is an extremely rare occurrence...[/i] and when I say "Extremely Rare", I mean second only to the Vex Mythoclast. I love the vehicles in this game almost as much as the ones in Halo, and the Pike is a very rare treat outside of PvP in the Crucible; the Pike only appears in one story mission and one Strike, and in both cases you only get to drive it for a very short time... not at all like the vehicle levels in Halo. I've hung around these areas for well over an hour sometimes, just killing bad guys while waiting for a Public Event to start or collecting Spirit Bloom, and I think I've only had the Pike appear ONCE on Venus... and not even once on Earth, not even in the Beta. So; should they increase the frequency of this particular random event? There's not enough vehicle action in PvE. A great deal less than what I was expecting from the creators of Halo.

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  • Yeah, I'm a year one player and I've only ran into my first band today during taken King. I've even spent loads of time in forgotten shore in house wolves for those petra bounties and they never ever ever showed up. They should occur more often .

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  • I remember once on Venus during patrol, a few pikes spawned. I had played the game for 4 months and this only occurred to me once before. So I was like "sweet". However, when I went to the Citadel and I had to get of it to grab some spirit bloom, a couple of jerks with Vex Mythoclasts blew it up for no apparent reason. I immediately left the place.

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  • On the moon they appear by the entrance

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    • I didn't even know this was an event to begin with!

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    • Edited by I LEFT CAPS 0N: 10/6/2014 1:39:46 AM
      On Earth in the [u]Forgotten Shore[/u], they normally show up once an hour.

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      • I feel that it happens about as often as one of the interspecies wars happens. I believe it is a placeholder for what would normally be a Public event, much like the war is. It is rarer to happen, but it does happen. I think the rarity of it makes it novel. Giving people too many Pikes to joy ride on through maps seems like an easy way to let them just crowd kill tons of enemies with little risk.

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