Why do people like vehicle sections?

[SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE]

I'm strictly speaking on legendary difficulty. People seem to praise the vehicle sessions in every video, review etc but they're usually not reviews on legendary or only say things like "fun and breaks up the walking sections" but for me they're purely frustrating and not as interesting

In warthogs you either drive or shoot, if you drive the AI sometimes refuses to shoot when you need him to which causes you to die, if you drive they have 0 brains and basically hold W resulting in you dying

If you get in a ghost you basically have to pepper things from a range since otherwise your ghost gets melted pretty quickly by brutes or elites or even a grunt overcharge shot then getting stuck

If you arrive at a combat section with low vehicle health you potentially have to go large expanses on foot since going into the fight with the busted vehicle is essentially instant death

Also a huge kicker is some vehicle sections have fantastic weapons like snipers, lasers and rockets lying around which makes not using vehicles even better.

I want opinions on vehicles sections. Is it something I'm not getting?

[Squirtle]

I've always been the designated driver (Campaign and multi-player) of my childhood friends so I mastered the vehicles, their weapons and their weaknesses. One nice thing about vehicles is their unlimited ammo so you can conserve your precious ammo on Legendary difficulty. Ultimately, imo, vehicle sections are too few in the Halo games*, I can't get enough of sniping enemies across the map with the scorpion tank.

(*Not counting Warthog sections in Single-Player as OP isn't wrong, the AI sucks at driving, however, they're not the worst shooters, they just don't always know to focus on the enemy whom is the most threat to you at the time)

[Sifer2]

Legendary or LASO is mainly for bragging rights, and not how the game is meant to be played. Even on foot combat isn't very fun on Legendary, as it's mostly a game of peek a boo, and spamming the plasma pistol overcharge. So no surprise Legendary vehicle segments are equally frustrating in their own ways like what you listed. Most of the time I just try to speedrun warthog segments on Legendary seeing if I can speed past all the enemies to the next checkpoint.

[FuscusNight]

I don't think anyone considers the vehicle sections on Legendary to be good, Bungie never put any effort into testing and balancing out Legendary to be enjoyable especially when it comes to the vehicle sections.

[An Irate Walrus]

I mastered the Warthog's handling back when CE launched, and ended up being the default driver for my group of friends during LAN parties (and online MM once 2 came around; I was on XBox until I built my first gaming PC about a decade ago). Something about the handling on both the Hog and the Scorpion just feels natural to me, so driving them is fun.

Now, those "final run" sections can take all the walks off all the piers, solely because they're Warthog rollover traps, but other than that, I dig it--and I guess it's because I'm good at it.

[Squirtle]

Originally posted by An Irate Walrus:

I mastered the Warthog's handling back when CE launched, and ended up being the default driver for my group of friends during LAN parties (and online MM once 2 came around; I was on XBox until I built my first gaming PC about a decade ago). Something about the handling on both the Hog and the Scorpion just feels natural to me, so driving them is fun.

Now, those "final run" sections can take all the walks off all the piers, solely because they're Warthog rollover traps, but other than that, I dig it--and I guess it's because I'm good at it.

Pretty much the same thing I said. Nice to meet another designated driver.

[Pyrocitor]

Another driver reporting in. Something about the way the vehicles handle just "works" for me.
I even try to force vehicles past barriers to use them in places where I'm meant to be on foot, where possible.

[An Irate Walrus]

Originally posted by Squirtle:

Originally posted by An Irate Walrus:

I mastered the Warthog's handling back when CE launched, and ended up being the default driver for my group of friends during LAN parties (and online MM once 2 came around; I was on XBox until I built my first gaming PC about a decade ago). Something about the handling on both the Hog and the Scorpion just feels natural to me, so driving them is fun.

Now, those "final run" sections can take all the walks off all the piers, solely because they're Warthog rollover traps, but other than that, I dig it--and I guess it's because I'm good at it.

Pretty much the same thing I said. Nice to meet another designated driver.

New Mombasa Drift Crew, represent!

[Director Bison]

Personal I’m a fan of when you get in the worthog and the music is all like

DUH DUH DUH DUUUUH - DUH DUH DUH DUUUH

[Pyrocitor]

Originally posted by An Irate Walrus:

Originally posted by Squirtle:

Pretty much the same thing I said. Nice to meet another designated driver.

New Mombasa Drift Crew, represent!

i should start collecting racecourse maps and do lobbies.

[DroopingPuppy]

Well, although it is not literally true, but the sections you are allowed to drive a Scorpion makes you king of the world and the death incarnated. ALL Halo games what I did(Reach, CE, 2, 3, and ODST) does, seriously. It is one of the most delightful part of the game personally.

I have struggle on some parts on Reach, though, but usually you have not much problems while you are on a Scorpion. It smashes everything it can face.

For Warthog, it is good because it is fast. As long as it can run, or you have rush through the firing line of Wraiths' plasma MG, you are probably safe and able to kill stuffs. It goes much better if your shotgun have a heavy weapon(sniper rifle or ROCKET LAUNCHER). Also roadkill the grunts, elites and brutes are rather fun. Just be aware of the blind plasma grenade if you try to trample them. Also, always keep its balance; if it was overturned during a fight, you or your precious AI teammates are probably dead.

[Mistfox]

There are 2 types of vehicle runs in Halo, the shooting kind, which the OP seems to have problems with the AI (not an insult, the AI really is... quirky) and the "You won't die unless you screw up" speed runs.

The shooting runs are similar to normal gameplay but the speed runs feel a lot different since 1- you don't focus on killing enemies and 2- they are very unlikely to kill you, so you can outright ignore most of them. It's because of this that a vehicle speed run feels a lot different from a "blitz" or a "thunder run".

[Knavenformed]

Your first problem is basing it off of legendary.
Normal is the baseline which a game should be reviewed first and harder or easier difficulties are things you sign up for and know it will be gimped in one way or another.

The vehicles are unique and they are a great pace changer, sure on Halo 3 it's very clear vehicle gameplay is balanced for Normal which is a bit sad since CE has amazing balancing, but signing up to a harder difficulty and critiquing a whole gameplay element for it being less fun than intended it a bit silly.

Sure I hate how inconsistent the weapon balancing in the games are even though Halo CE has such a good balancing that makes even Legendary fun, but even then if it's fun on normal it's basically in working order.

[SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE]

Weapon balancing can be great even in legendary

Halo 3's campaign has a lot less energy shields to deal with resulting in pretty much every weapon being fantastic to pick up and use. Sure some are better or worse but either way you can pick up anything and it will still be effective

But for vehicles they could have scaled vehicle health to prevent vehicles falling apart instantly or reduced bleed over to actual health from taking vehicle damage. There's ways to make legendary fun but challenging

[Drain]

Conserving ammo on guns you like seems like the best benefit.