» Thu Jul 22, 2010 1:34 pm
In all fairness, Exterminations happen in Halo 3, and that has killtimes 10x longer. I can see it happening in Impact if you get the right situation.
It's not the killtimes, but the amount of players, level design, speed and the weapon power.
In Halo you have a rocket launcher, a sword, a sniper, and a bunch of vehicles that can easily string multiple kills together in single hits. Not may people are getting Exterminations just with a BR or DMR. Grenades are much more powerful, faster and numerous too. On top of that people regularly travel in groups with a lot slower movement speed in wide open levels with little cover for them to escape to.
In Crysis 2, nobody sticks together, there are no power weapons to speak of, and you can sprint to cover or go invisible very quickly no matter where you are. I'd get double kills in most games of Reach, and even Quad kills weren't too uncommon, and my K/D for that game was much lower than for Crysis 2.
Also in an 8v8 environment you have to kill a smaller percentage of the enemy team to get a 6 kill than you do to get a 5 kill here. A 6 kill in Halo requires you to take out 75% of the enemy team at once in much more favourable conditions. In Crysis 2 a 5 kill requires you to take out 83.3% of the enemy team, making it much more difficult. A Halo quad is the same as a Crysis 2 triple - 50%.
An Extermination is difficult, but not as hard as a Psycho.