I have always wondered this since Halo 3 I know some abilities Spartans have like enhanced hearing and night vision. The questions I have are.
How fast can a spartan run?
Can they equip armor abilities and equipment at the same time?
How fast can a Spartan react? like dodging rockets and gunfire?
Can Spartans equip more than two weapons?
Do they really suffer from gun recoil?
How durable and strong are the Spartans?
Some of these can be a bit subjective, or at least different depending on each Spartan and each Spartan Class. But I’ll do my best to answer what I can.
Thanks this is very helpful!
“depends on the spartans themselves”
That is very interesting because each spartan wears armor pieces and helmets that suit their combat skill and capabilities.
You know that last point may not be as subjective as I thought. I’d recommend picking up a copy of Fall of Reach and reading through the parts where Halsey details the different augmentations the Spartan-II candidates would be going through. As she goes through them, they have various risks and rewards associated with their implementation. Like the bone augmentations would make them virtually unbreakable, but a side effect if the treatment doesn’t take would be crippling arthritis. Makes for an interesting analysis.
The Spartan Field Manual also has a breakdown of the augmentations I believe for Spartan-IV candidates. I’m fairly confident the S-III candidate augmentations were discussed in Ghosts of Onyx.
I can answer the last question, not very durable against Covenant technology (Will got instantly melted against a Hunter Cannon while he was wearing Mark VI, plasma melts through their armor like fire on paper) but decently against non-AP UNSC weapons (in GoO Blue Team got pinned down and were gonna die bc of AP round turrets iirc). As for strength it varies bc Adrianna was able to smack a Grunt (?) with a Mongoose with relative ease in her amor and in TFoR John was benching a couple hundred with ease. So their strength allows lifting between a couple hundred out of armor to nearing a ton in armor.
Halo 3 Spartans can flip an Elephant is that true to lore?
I wish I could keep this topic open if there are any questions I have here.
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> Halo 3 Spartans can flip an Elephant is that true to lore?
No, it is not. But please do not post multiple times in a row. Thank you!
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> Some of these can be a bit subjective, or at least different depending on each Spartan and each Spartan Class. But I’ll do my best to answer what I can.
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> - Spartans can run incredibly fast. I believe the top speed clocked by the fastest Spartan (Kelly-087) was somewhere in excess of 65 KPH (about 40 MPH). - armor abilities are a Reach thing while equipment was an H3 thing. It’s more of a game mechanic than a lore issue. Are you asking if a Spartan is physically capable of carrying a thruster pack and a bubble shield? My guess would be yes. But again, these are more or less game mechanics than lore things, so it’s kinda like comparing apples and oranges. - Master Chief’s reaction time is 20 milliseconds. He was able to dodge rockets during a test exercise when he first met Cortana. Admittedly, he was pretty badly hurt during the engagement, but considering he was a dude going up against a literal warhead, he fared pretty well. - Spartans can equip as many weapons as they want, so long as they can carry them. The fact that Chief only carries two in the game (three if you count dual wielding) is just a game mechanic. - All things suffer from gun recoil. You can thank Newton’s 3rd Law for that. All things experience an equal and opposite reaction no matter how strong they are. - This last question is extremely subjective, so I can’t reliably answer it. It depends on the class of Spartan, but more importantly depends on the Spartan themselves.
Agree with above posts.
Heroic difficulty… is the official cannon difficulty last I herd an checked. As said by the or a developers or game team Bungie etc. …The way halo was meant to be played… This was a H3 or earlier statement.
All the members of Blue Team are pro trickshots. As a team unit there strategic planning allows them to take on impossible odds, A hunter, Elite or Brute squad might take them out but its usually a noted contender. The MC had made it through the flood saturated Library. Elites mainly Brutes can wrestle or rip them apart. They are tactical masterminds even alone. Jackal patrols have been ambushed numerous times as they are hard to sneak by even in cannon. Jackals an grunts have been taken out with rocks an strikes along with human opponents.
Shadow of Reach Spoilers In the link scroll down to Spartans and Gen 3
Covenant feats are crazy, Elites are like Spartans but just insanely better, sizes and scales as well have always confused me in the games.
Definitely varies from spartan to spartan.