I would really, really like to have the panting noise replaced with much louder footsteps. These are Spartans, not guys who haven’t ran in a year starting to run a mile. The panting is just kind of annoying. That’s my reasoning.
…So, yeh.
I’ll throw a tonne of armour on your back and watch how you do.
> I’ll throw a tonne of armour on your back and watch how you do.
I would agree with you except that ton of armour your talking about actually makes them stronger and faster. And yes they are already spartans so their already super strong. I agree with the OP louder footsteps sounds more appropriate.
I think it’d be more realistic to. Hearing metal boots clank the ground would make me feel more like a spartan bad -Yoink- then a fat noob. Maybe one small huff at the start of the sprint, and one small huff at the end. If you just stopped sprinting and started again the huff gets slightly louder. But straight panting? Come on, we’re spartans.
> I’ll throw a tonne of armour on your back and watch how you do.
Give some incredible genetic and physical agumentations, along with some super powered armor that literally moves itself and I’ll get back to you.
I think the louder breathing is fine.
Reminds me that they’re still human, a clump-de-clump thudding
would feel out of place like a big gumby robot.
Yes. I’m sick of the -Yoink!- noises it’s annoying.
> I’ll throw a tonne of armour on your back and watch how you do.
MK VII Armor , dude . Light weight enhancements compared to previous models if I remember correctly .
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If you’re running properly across anything but a completely flat surface, your feet barely make a sound as your strides cushion your decent in preparation for the launch forward that is running.
If you’re making noise, you’re slapping your feet and bound to buckle your knee on a change in the ground level. -
Being super strong or fast doesn’t mean you don’t need to up your O2 intake when trying to do a task more demanding than walking.
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Spartans have an increased metabolism due to their muscle density and physique and as such they must oxygenate their bodies more than a “normal” person would doing any identical task.
That doesn’t mean Spartans will pant while walking, but it does mean they burn more energy (you need O2 to burn stuff)
4)A running Spartan, like any other human, needs to breathe harder and/or faster to offer the 02 required by the muscles to burn calories that cause locomotion.
You know even if the armor was as light as a feather (hint, it isn’t) it wouldn’t make sense for Spartans to NOT make any noise while sprinting. Remember guys these are still humans despite the augmentation and armor.
From a gameplay standpoint, we all know everyone has sprint now. However, when sprinting, we need to know who is Sprinting around the map and this is how other players know is by the noises they make. This tells us (the player) who is coming at us and how.
Try running at full speed with heavy armor on and see if it doesn’t tire you out. Your going to be breathing much harder as you exert you’re self. I could be wrong since the armor does increase strength of the wearer. No big deal if i am (some of you need to lighten up though).
> 1) If you’re running properly across anything but a completely flat surface, your feet barely make a sound as your strides cushion your decent in preparation for the launch forward that is running.
> If you’re making noise, you’re slapping your feet and bound to buckle your knee on a change in the ground level.
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> 2) Being super strong or fast doesn’t mean you don’t need to up your O2 intake when trying to do a task more demanding than walking.
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> 3) Spartans have an increased metabolism due to their muscle density and physique and as such they must oxygenate their bodies more than a “normal” person would doing any identical task.
> That doesn’t mean Spartans will pant while walking, but it does mean they burn more energy (you need O2 to burn stuff)
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> 4)A running Spartan, like any other human, needs to breathe harder and/or faster to offer the 02 required by the muscles to burn calories that cause locomotion.
Don’t forget that their shields also cover their feet. Just standing makes them feel like they’re floating.
> > 1) If you’re running properly across anything but a completely flat surface, your feet barely make a sound as your strides cushion your decent in preparation for the launch forward that is running.
> > If you’re making noise, you’re slapping your feet and bound to buckle your knee on a change in the ground level.
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> > 2) Being super strong or fast doesn’t mean you don’t need to up your O2 intake when trying to do a task more demanding than walking.
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> > 3) Spartans have an increased metabolism due to their muscle density and physique and as such they must oxygenate their bodies more than a “normal” person would doing any identical task.
> > That doesn’t mean Spartans will pant while walking, but it does mean they burn more energy (you need O2 to burn stuff)
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> > 4)A running Spartan, like any other human, needs to breathe harder and/or faster to offer the 02 required by the muscles to burn calories that cause locomotion.
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> Don’t forget that their shields also cover their feet. Just standing makes them feel like they’re floating.
Spartans can control how much shielding is applied to certain areas of their bodies. Spartans usually minimize the shielding on their feet so they can actually move comfortably. They will make noise because they are clad in titanium weighing half a tone.
Huffing and puffing from the moment sprint starts to the moment it ends makes no sense, either. Maybe the heavy breathing doesn’t need to be entirely, but having it start up near the end of sprint would give an indicator that the Spartan would need to slow down, as well.
I still would like loud footsteps for sprinting, though. It doesn’t have to be a super heavy pound of the ground for every step, but just making it slightly more noisy would make more sense than having the loudness of fast steps being the same magnitude as regular walking pace. It’s hard to walk silently unless it’s on a soft surface or the person is moving very slowly, and I say that as a -Yoink- who used to sneak up in my friends and scare the crap out of them.
> I’ll throw a tonne of armour on your back and watch how you do.
In a way, the Mjolnir armor moves the Spartan. It is POWERED armor.
And I agree with OP and have even suggested this before. Louder foosteps > Panting.
Heavier breathing would be more realistic, but the loud panting is just obnoxious and makes them sound like they’ve never run before in their life.
I mean, Master Chief runs at around the same speed as a sprinting Spartan in Reach, and he doesn’t pant. And he does that for practically the entire game, while the unfit Spartans in Reach can’t maintain the same speed for more than five seconds without breaking down.
Even more unrealistically, they pant annoyingly loud when they run and stop panting immediately when they stop. When someone runs at top speed for short distances, he doesn’t pant during the run - or if he’s already tired, he’ll pant much more quietly than the Spartans in Reach do. The panting usually comes after he stops sprinting, where he’ll breath much heavier to take in more oxygen. That’s realistic. That’s what should happen (except that Spartans are supersoldiers, so they shouldn’t pant at all).
So basically the Spartans in Reach have a bizarre physiology where making loud noises and expelling the air from the lungs makes them go faster, and the moment they stop running they cease needing air.
I’d personally prefer of the footsteps overall got louder (not just when sprinting). Not for effect just so we can hear where are people coming from.
> I’d personally prefer of the footsteps overall got louder (not just when sprinting). Not for effect just so we can hear where are people coming from.
Footstep volume while crouching should remain the same however, so that stealth is still an option if you’re willing to sacrifice speed.
It was already stated in a bulletin from awhile back that “A Spartan sprinting across concrete should sound like a stealthy whisper”
> > I’d personally prefer of the footsteps overall got louder (not just when sprinting). Not for effect just so we can hear where are people coming from.
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> Footstep volume while crouching should remain the same however, so that stealth is still an option if you’re willing to sacrifice speed.
Of course! That goes without saying.
> It was already stated in a bulletin from awhile back that “A Spartan sprinting across concrete should sound like a stealthy whisper”
And yet they want to make us feel like we’re stepping into a jet when we’re inside the armor, that’s the exact opposite.
If people want to be stealthy, they should move slower IMO.
I agree that it shouldn’t be the loud BA-DUMP BA-DUMP noise from Gears of War, but they could at least get rid of the annoying panting by making the footsteps just a bit louder.