I wonder, what would happen if say… a ghost would try to run over someone using a hardlight shield, what would happen? Would you get run over or pushed? I can’t imagine a shield destroying a vehicle.
I’m hoping it would crush him, the hardlight shield is more for tanking some weapon fire.
I’m pretty sure it functions like a bubble shield, it’s just smaller and attached to the player.
Probably the shield would fail, followed soon after by the hood of the Ghost caving in the shield user’s chest.
It might protect from a slow vehicle.
I won’t mind if it bounces the vehicle back like a one-way shield. But if it damages the vehicle, EMPs or destroys it I’m gonna be all kinds of p/o’d
I’d like it if it knocked the vehicle back but the shield fell down and stunned the shield carrier for a few secs.
I hope it does anything but what the armor lock does.
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So basically the hard light shield is just that, a shield held in your arms. I know spartans can flip Scorpions but keep in mind a vehicle going high speed straight at you will splatter you, the shield may absorb damage BUT it would cause the player to fly backwards and possibly still kill you
maybe it just pushes the user (not the vehicle) without damaging the vehicle.
Well we’ve seen that melee attacks go through the hard light shield, so it’s safe to assume that vehicles will do the same.
> Well we’ve seen that melee attacks go through the hard light shield, so it’s safe to assume that vehicles will do the same.
Really? Wow, there goes the whole point of HARD light, it’s supposed to be a solid wall of light. Those bridges you cross? THOSE are hard light, not penetrated by bullets, melees, plasma, or falling vehicles. Unless it’s a different type of hard light
Due to extensive research done by the UNSC Infinity’s Materials Lab, hardlight has been confirmed as the hardest metal known to man. The research is as follows. Pocket-protected spartans built a wall of iron and crashed a ghost into it at 400 miles per hour, and the ghost was unharmed. They then built a wall out of hardlight and crashed a ghost made of iron moving at 400 miles an hour into the wall, and the wall came out fine. They then crashed a hardlight ghost made of 400 miles per hour into a wall, and there were no survivors.
They crashed 400 miles per hour into a hardlight traveling at iron ghost. Western New York was powerless for hours. They rammed a wall of metal into a 400 mile per hour made of hardlight, and the resulting explosion shifted the earth’s orbit 400 million miles away from the sun, saving the earth from a meteor the size of a small forge world that was hurtling towards mid-western Zanzibar at 400 billion miles per hour.
They shot a hardlight made of iron at a ghost moving at 400 walls per hour, and as a result caused over 9000 wayward banshees to lose track of their bearings, and make a fatal crash with over 9000 buildings in downtown Valhalla. They spun 400 miles at hardlight into iron per wall. The results were inconclusive. Finally, they placed 400 hardlights per hour in front of a ghost made of wall traveling at miles per iron, and the result proved without a doubt that hardlight was the hardest metal of all time, if not the hardest metal known to man.
I’m thinking it functions like the sentinels on Onyx (if anyone read that)
The spartans could throw rocks at the sentinels and it would bypass its shields but when they shot the shields would register its high velocity and block it.
So i’m thinking thats how the shield will work. Melee and driving will splatter but bullets are temporarily useless
> maybe it just pushes the user (not the vehicle) without damaging the vehicle.
Well, according to physics, they would both take damage, but the person standing would take far more damage than the vehicle. Because the vehicle is bigger, F = m x a, the person is being thrown in the other direction much much faster than the vehicle is being slowed down. Yes the person would provide resistance, but they would still go flying off the ground. This didn’t apply to Armor Lock because while you were in Armor Lock you were immovable I dunno what “magic” made them stick to the ground, but since the person would not move the vehicle was forced to decelerate so fast that it went from practically 60 mph to 0 mph, the force from the deceleration would tear the vehicle to shreds and cause the engine/gas tank to combust, thus the explosion.
> I’m thinking it functions like the sentinels on Onyx (if anyone read that)
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> The spartans could throw rocks at the sentinels and it would bypass its shields but when they shot the shields would register its high velocity and block it.
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> So i’m thinking thats how the shield will work. Melee and driving will splatter but bullets are temporarily useless
That actually makes a lot of sense (the only Halo book I actually read). Small ballistic projectiles with small mass and high velocity would be nullified, but Large mass at a somewhat lower velocity, the overall force would actually be much greater.
I think hardlight will probably function like deployable cover only weaker. Any vehicles moving at full speed should be able to splatter the hardlight user.
> I’m thinking it functions like the sentinels on Onyx (if anyone read that)
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> The spartans could throw rocks at the sentinels and it would bypass its shields but when they shot the shields would register its high velocity and block it.
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> So i’m thinking thats how the shield will work. Melee and driving will splatter but bullets are temporarily useless
Well the Onyx Sentinels didn’t really have their shield on all the time. They just enabled it any time they sensed anything really fast moving toward them, which is why you could just throw a rock to destroy it since it can’t sense things slower than a bullet.
The hardlight shield in contrast is enabled pretty much for as long as you want (until it runs out).
> > I’m thinking it functions like the sentinels on Onyx (if anyone read that)
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> > The spartans could throw rocks at the sentinels and it would bypass its shields but when they shot the shields would register its high velocity and block it.
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> > So i’m thinking thats how the shield will work. Melee and driving will splatter but bullets are temporarily useless
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> The hardlight shield in contrast is enabled pretty much for as long as you want (until it runs out).
im sorry but that sentence completely contradicts itself 
i think my point is still valid
also, the sentinels actually always did have their shields on all the time i’ve never seen anything that said they didn’t. It would be illogical also. Does master chief only have his shields on when he hears “wort wort wort”? nope