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> > "It shouldn’t be that easy to put on a Spartan helmet!"
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> > Master Chief takes his helmet off with ease at the end of Halo CE
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> > Master Chief puts his helmet on with ease is Halo 2
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> > Master Chief puts his helmet on with ease in Halo 3 “Starry Night” trailer
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> > Noble Six, Kat, and Carter all put their helmets on with ease in the opening of Halo Reach
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> People were complaining about this?
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> > "How could they possibly fall that far without being injured or dying?!"
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> > Noble Six falls flat on the ground (as opposed to a steep slope) from the Covenant ship Long Night of Solace, located in Reach’s orbit (far higher than Infinity was in the Halo 5 opening), and suffers zero longterm injuries
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> > Master Chief falls from orbit in a very similar fashion to Noble Six, except his armor locks down for some time and he is knocked unconscious. No longterm injuries are sustained.
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> > Spartans already have nearly-unbreakable bones, Osiris came down on a steep slope, Buck and Vale rolled and jumped right after making contact, Locke and Tanaka used their Thrusters to soften the landing.
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> The very next scene shows Noble was hurt. Mjolnir is build with all sorts of crap that could compensate but DO remember that this was a no other option scenario.
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> This team decide to jump in, in the middle of combat. And in the middle of combat there is no assurances on how stuff happens.
> This was more like a Captain America scene. Which is also stupid.
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> > "The Covenant pushed Humanity to the brink of extinction, they shouldn’t be that easy to kill!"
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> > Miranda Keyes kills a fully-armored Brute with one shotgun shell from ~5 feet away, then drops another’s shields, bringing him to his knees, again with a single shell but from ~15 feet away.
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> > Throughout the spartan Ops cutscenes, Fireteam Majestic and Sarah Palmer easily dispatch groups of Elites:
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> > 1. Spartan Thorne takes on a large group in hand-to-hand combat, successfully taking a few of them down before being knocked unconscious.
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> > 2. Majestic opens fire on another large group of Elites and has no trouble whatsoever holding them at bay while Thorne goes after Halsey.
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> > 3. Thorne kills an Elite with a very short burst from his assault rifle, right before Palmer shows up and kills another Elite with a few pistol rounds.
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> > Plus other examples from the novels/comics that I obviously cannot post video proof of. Not to mention the element of surprise from Osiris dropping in behind their lines.
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> Miranda killed a Brute that was hit by a pelican and shot a Brute who was standing there because they have orders not to kill humans.
> Vale is taking down Zealots and Generals like they are Minors, TREMENDOUS difference.
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> Also, dont use Halo 4 as an example, that was bad as well.
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> > "They run way too fast!"
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> > Kelly can maintain a consistent running speed of 38 MPH.
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> > Master Chief has reached a maximum speed of 70 MPH.
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> > Spartans have heightened reflexes as well, which allows them to make every standard motion (joint movements) much faster than regular humans.
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> Dont know how fast they were running, my problem is that they were going down hill and they should have been leaning back cause they would’ve been falling over. Or at least they should have thrusters firing in front constantly.
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> BTW, is maximum speed a speed they can use in combat or just the max they can run at?
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> > Just saying’ guys, Spartans were always like this. Also, the reason the Covenant was able to push Humanity back so far was because of their superior naval force and their superiority to regular Marines on ground. Spartans were always a superior fighting force on the ground. Spartans just weren’t as plentiful as they are now with the Spartan IV’s (Spartan III’s were as plentiful, but they were expendable, less efficient, and were often sent on suicide missions), and the Covenant is just a remnant of its former might, so naturally they aren’t as much of a threat as they once were.
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> > Just wanted to leave this info here for anyone interested. Bring on the hate.
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> The Covenant almost won cause they are better at pretty much everything. There are a few things that are equal but thats nothing compared to the overwhelming resources they have. They have a bunch of fleets made up of hundreds of ships.
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> The 343 halo story dealing with the Covenant is really bad. The idea of all of sudden them having nothing makes absolutely no sense.
Getting a Pelican into the middle of this conflict between the Covenant and Prometheans probably would have ended far worse.
Air dropping in behind enemy lines for a surprise attack down the hill was a pretty brilliant strategy.
And Osiris landed on a snowy slope, which alone automatically decreases the damage they would be taking from landing after already slowing down with thrusters, but most of them roll into it too, further decreasing the stress they’d have taken on the landing.
A Shotgun still kills/disables an enemy in one hit, and Buck was using a shotgun for all his kills down the slope. They were also weakening enemies through ground pounds and assisting fire.
Vale boarded a Phantom, completely catching the Elites by surprised, blocked a swing, and unloaded her entire clip into its gut and then kicked it out of the Phantom. I wouldn’t exactly say that it was easy or the Elites were pathetic. It’s not like she one shot them with her magnum. And when Vale rejoins the scene, the other Elite is still alive in the Phantom. Osiris isn’t exactly looking to kill them all, they’re just blasting past them and taking advantage of the element of surprise.
Every single Covenant soldier on this mountain has absolutely no idea that Osiris is making their way down. They’re concentrating on the Prometheans shooting at them. Chief deflected a missile with his arm once, so it’s not like Spartans can’t take advantage of situations and react incredibly fast to what’s going on.
Chief ran that speed in the middle of a combat zone, though it’s not something they can sustain for long. Just an emergency sprint. But with Thrusters and improved tech, maintaining a speed closer to or higher than Kelly’s might be feasible.
The concept that the Elites don’t have anything and don’t know how to operate anything more advanced than a toaster was introduced in the Kilo 5 trilogy… and pretty much got gradually retconned right after that. The concentration of ships in this battle shows that, and the capacity for the Arbiter to wage war against Jul’s Covenant shows that they have a lot of stuff and abilities left.