What do you think of the marines in Halo 4? Do you think they are better than the Halo reach army troopers?
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They are definitely better than the soldiers in Reach.
Looks or A.I. function?
the KI and Health for Marines in all Halo’s is bad, but somehow unique, i remember in h2 and h1 always trying to save all marines, though it was impossible on legendary hehe they fell like toothpicks
marines driving warthogs in h3 was the funniest thing i can remember hehe
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Honestly, the only mission I remember them being in was the one where you get an achievement for keeping them alive. And they sucked pretty hard, so I’d say they’re worse than the Halo: Reach army troopers.
They also looked worse.
They are better in A.I.
In all the other halos (CE to Reach) even when u give them good weapons, they are yoikers
but in Halo 4, had the chance to make all of them survive in the 4 mission
(i just give them LR’s, Rail guns and heavy weapons) in Heroic.
for my surprise…the achievement pop in the screen.
they are not bright, but at least they move better than in the other Halo’s
The Spartans last longer, but the AI in halo 4 is pretty bad overall in my opinion (watching banshies get stuck against walls lol), however it seems to be fairly balanced between the foes and the allies so the marines do okay.
I think, appearance wise, the best looking marines were in Anniversary & Reach. I like the Halo 4 marines, but their get-ups seem a little odd to me. There really aren’t any instances in the game where you get to go off with a marine or two during a mission (remember Halo 2 gondola ride across the lake? And Halo 3 where Chief, Arby, Spark, and 2 marines seek the Cartographer?) … so you don’t really get to see too much of how they fight on their own … well, a bit in Spartan Ops.
I personally think the Halo 2 marine AI was the best, those marines were gung-ho, dove right into the fight, and lasted the longest.
I think the attitude towards Marines in Halo 4 is insulting.
Marines only appear in “Infinity”, “Reclaimer” and “Composer”, and I’m not even sure the ones in “Composer” actually help you in any way, other than opening that door. Of course they are also present in Infinity’s hangar but they are just standing around. So there really are very few occasions on which they are useful in any way other than cannon fodder. You fight three quarters of the game alone, excepting turrets and Sentinels, because they are AIs.
> They are better in A.I.
^Exactly this^
Now, I, for one, don’t like any of the Marines in all the Halo games, b/c they tend to get killed too quickly, and what i hate most of all, there will be a time, where they betray you on purpose. Has happened a few times, in Halo CE/CEA and Reach. 4, not so much.
Their AI is still notoriously downgraded (have they no strafe? And I’ve only seen them seek cover when I betrayed them)… but on the bright side, they do full damage with any gun (compared to Reach allies), can do damage with their melee (which is still too slow), and the enemy AI have been nerfed enough that they need the support of their mooks to seriously pose a threat to marines.
Infinity holdout fight with Crawlers sidelined and the marines armed with LightRifles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BxJL4l9NgQ
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> They are definitely better than the soldiers in Reach.
No idea why that needed to be edited, moderators here make no sense. It was on topic. Stating that the Halo 4 Marines are better than Reach isn’t ‘reviving’ an old thread, that’s silly.
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I think they AI is pretty bad, a lot of times I see them get killed almost instantly for running off towards a knight on Legendary. What’s up with that? Not to mention the dialogue is kind of cheesy and lame. (Halo 3’s was way better.)