In Halo 5 Guardians, the Promethean weapons that was introduced in Halo 4 was changed from the previous game. For example, the Boltshot now fires in three round bursts and no longer has the charge up ability. Is there a canon explanation how the weapons changed from Halo 4 to Halo 5 Guardians? Thanks!
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> In Halo 5 Guardians, the Promethean weapons that was introduced in Halo 4 was changed from the previous game. For example, the Boltshot now fires in three round bursts and no longer has the charge up ability. Is there a canon explanation how the weapons changed from Halo 4 to Halo 5 Guardians? Thanks!
We don’t know reason why they changed but Forerunner weapons are very adabtable and can be changed to fit in the situation at hand. For some reason prometheans changed their weapon tactics from halo 4. On the other hand canonically there may be multiple different settings on these weapons but the gameplay might only reflect one of those.
Same reason applies to the new Knight forms in Halo 5.
I can’t remember where I saw this but it said that the Prometheans modified themselves and their weapons shortly after the Didacts disappearance. Probably talking about what happened in the Escalation comic not the ending of Halo 4
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> In Halo 5 Guardians, the Promethean weapons that was introduced in Halo 4 was changed from the previous game. For example, the Boltshot now fires in three round bursts and no longer has the charge up ability. Is there a canon explanation how the weapons changed from Halo 4 to Halo 5 Guardians? Thanks!
I always thought its implied that Cortana upgraded them to better suit fighting the enemies she wanted to use them against?
Hence why soldiers know how to drive UNSC vehicles and use UNSC guns; she taught them how.
Yet another question that has been asked multiple times in the past. I shall just leave this relevant quote here:
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> > Definitely agree. It seems that, in their hesitation to bring in the Flood again, 343i is really reaching for enemies by bringing the Forerunners back. Hope they don’t resort to bringing the Precursors back via space magic. The Flood is the #1 threat to all life, be it Human, Sangheilli, Forerunner, Precursor, etc. It’s why the Halo rings exist in the first place, for goodness sake!
> > EDIT: Oh, and I get your thread title… Bit of dark humor today? :o
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> At least the Forerunners/Prometheans are interesting and logically included; being isolated on Requiem until opened, and all that.
> Plus, something REALLY cool about them. Notice how drastically different the Prometheans, and their weapons, function differently in Halo 5? Obviously gameplay reasons, but they DID create a lore-based reason for it. The Prometheans we encounter on Requiem were adapted to fighting the Flood; they were as functional against flood as possible. (For example, the suppressor had a LOT of spread in order to handle swarms of infection forms, which only needed singular hits to be killed)
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> While in Halo 5, the Prometheans have been modified(by themselves, or Cortana, or Warden Eternal), to be more effective against humans and Covenant. With the recent destruction of the Composer meaning more limited numbers of Knights, the Knights have been supplemented by Soldiers, with the Knights becoming less common, but more powerful. (And the suppressor, for example, now has little to no recoil, because, unlike the flood, the humans/Covenant don’t usually bunch up into swarms that can be dispatched by singular hits.)
So basically the Halo 4 versions are adapted to fighting Flood, while the Halo 5 versions are adapted to fighting Humans/Covenant.
Alien magic?
“that wizard came from the moon.”
i guess there is no Real explanation for that, at least based on lore but i guess its for the gameplay reasons and that 343i is trying to push Halo farther from its roots.
Most likely that were upgraded by Cortana when she took control.
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> > In Halo 5 Guardians, the Promethean weapons that was introduced in Halo 4 was changed from the previous game. For example, the Boltshot now fires in three round bursts and no longer has the charge up ability. Is there a canon explanation how the weapons changed from Halo 4 to Halo 5 Guardians? Thanks!
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> We don’t know reason why they changed but Forerunner weapons are very adabtable and can be changed to fit in the situation at hand. For some reason prometheans changed their weapon tactics from halo 4. On the other hand canonically there may be multiple different settings on these weapons but the gameplay might only reflect one of those.
Most definantly gameplay. Could you imagine the amount of balancing that would be needed if you could swap firing modes of a Forerunner weapon mid-battle? Not to mention the amount of additional coding and testing work for it…you’re looking at employee-killing levels of additional work there.
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> “that wizard came from the moon.”
> i guess there is no Real explanation for that, at least based on lore but i guess its for the gameplay reasons and that 343i is trying to push Halo farther from its roots.
Question is how did prometheans weapons change.
Replies with… 343i trying to push halo away from its ‘roots’, whatever that means.
I fail to see the logic here.
Forerunner weapons are configurable/adaptable. The Lightrifle, in halo 4 it fires three burst or slower shot. in halo 5, it appears the normal mode is the special mode from 4, but the scoped mode in 5 is this wider shot. I believe the universe entry or a cannon fodder mentions something about the weapons being modified by the prometheans. So there’s also likely a bunch of other modes we don’t know about.
I’m pretty sure either the REQ card descriptions or the Universe articles for each weapon mention that they are modifications done by the Created. Will have to check.
Edit: Seems to be nothing. Closest it gets is to the Boltshot description stating, “This new functionality appears to be related to other adaptations the Prometheans have displayed since the disappearance of the Didact.” Could have sworn that I read somewhere that the new functions are a result of Cortana’s influence. Maybe from Halopedia. I dunno.
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> > Alien magic?
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> > “that wizard came from the moon.”
> > i guess there is no Real explanation for that, at least based on lore but i guess its for the gameplay reasons and that 343i is trying to push Halo farther from its roots.
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> Question is how did prometheans weapons change.
> Replies with… 343i trying to push halo away from its ‘roots’, whatever that means.
> I fail to see the logic here.
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> Forerunner weapons are configurable/adaptable. The Lightrifle, in halo 4 it fires three burst or slower shot. in halo 5, it appears the normal mode is the special mode from 4, but the scoped mode in 5 is this wider shot. I believe the universe entry or a cannon fodder mentions something about the weapons being modified by the prometheans. So there’s also likely a bunch of other modes we don’t know about.
the “pushing away from the roots” is this new gameplay that comes with changed weapons and a few other things.
havent seen any forerunner weapons adapting to the new threats before the prometheans. Like the enforcers and sentinels still had either high spread, AoE, or continuous beams in their arsenal while those things still fought various species. Though these could be just dumber, mass produced models or kept the flood as the only foe worth fighting (even though humanity was destroying the rings which were the Ultimate, last resort means to stop the flood).
“We exist together now, two corpses in one grave…”
quote is there just in case this turns out as one of those neverending arguments. Though probably not.
What I would like to see is 343 explaining ridiculously weak forerunner weapons and vehicles in gameplay but also in lore by saying that not only they were hugely mass produced but they’re also on energy saving mode since they’re cut out of wireless outside power source which no more exists. Third reason could be that they’re only used to destroy unshielded flood biomass.