I’ve been playing Halo for a long time now and somehow this never occurred to me before: grunts breathe methane! Their grunt blood should be full of methane like our blood is full of oxygen! So why don’t grunts (or at least their methane tanks) explode when you shoot them with plasma? This should happen in oxygenated worlds…
Obligatory pout over Halo 5 not having exploding grunt blood!
No one cares about realism. It’s a damn alien
I just want to shoot things…
Me too. I just wanted to be a part of the community and complain about something ridiculous!
Humans don’t light on fire from plasma despite being combustable also.
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> No one cares about realism. It’s a damn alien
He’s right, Sci fi games aren’t always realistic
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> No one cares about realism. It’s a damn alien
^this
O2 is extremely flammable, but you don’t see people catching fire when they get shot, do you? In any case, I’m pretty sure that dissolving methane in a bloodstream would eliminate most of its explosive properties.
As for the tank well, didn’t the grunt explode in the E3 trailer?
In Halo Reach if you shoot their tank the grunt will fly through the air.
I could be wrong but I think you could also break them off in Halo 3, it’s been awhile. They wouldn’t explode but they would leak.
Cows fart methane… do cows explode?
Seriously, I’m asking here, do cows explode? I’m curious now.
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> Cows fart methane… do cows explode?
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> Seriously, I’m asking here, do cows explode? I’m curious now.
They explode out of my…
Cows aren’t full of methane like a grunt is. If the cow farted into an open flame then the fart would catch fire. Methane will ignite with a single match, reacting with the oxygen around it to produce carbon dioxide and water. Oxygen in an environment of oxygen isn’t likely to ignite, and while dissolved methane in the blood may lose some of its combustibility, a grunt’s lungs are still full of the gas in its natural form… in other words, a grunt has two methane-filled balloons in his chest that will explode when exposed to heat (match or plasma) and oxygen.
And on the note of breaking off their tanks, yes it’s possible, but I haven’t waited to see if the grunt will asphyxiate for lack of air. It probably doesn’t happen, even though it should…
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> I’ve been playing Halo for a long time now and somehow this never occurred to me before: grunts breathe methane! Their grunt blood should be full of methane like our blood is full of oxygen! So why don’t grunts (or at least their methane tanks) explode when you shoot them with plasma? This should happen in oxygenated worlds…
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> Obligatory pout over Halo 5 not having exploding grunt blood!
They do in Halo 3, ODST, and Reach. Not sure about Halo 4.
Who’s to say their circulatory system works anything like ours?
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Hey oh! You went there! Lol. Gotta give you props for that.
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> And on the note of breaking off their tanks, yes it’s possible, but I haven’t waited to see if the grunt will asphyxiate for lack of air. It probably doesn’t happen, even though it should…
They do after a bit.
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