I read in the art book that all the non knght constructs can be mass produced and that every Promethean is essentially unkillable as they just reform. Is this true? I mean an immortal and unkillable army is pretty broken.
Do they have the numbers to take on the UNSC and Covenant? I never got impression there were that many of them or that they were more dangerous than marines or elites. Is this the case in the lore r are they meant to be a massive threat?
Note: Just the Prometheans. Not the Guardians and not their new master. Who are both insanely OP.
I’m not exactly sure about this. I know with Knights, they were the composed Forerunner warriors loyal to the Ur-Didact & humans. However, according to Halo 4 when a Knight dies, that flash of light you see is actually a data purge. Basically they are deleted. However, Crawlers, Watchers, & Soldiers are essentially mechanized Dumb AI & therefore can be rebuilt or repurposed depending on the type of damage sustained in battle. However, this may not always be so.
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> I’m not exactly sure about this. I know with Knights, they were the composed Forerunner warriors loyal to the Ur-Didact & humans. However, according to Halo 4 when a Knight dies, that flash of light you see is actually a data purge. Basically they are deleted. However, Crawlers, Watchers, & Soldiers are essentially mechanized Dumb AI & therefore can be rebuilt or repurposed depending on the type of damage sustained in battle. However, this may not always be so.
Yeah that’s what I thought. But the halo 5 art book described them as an undying army.
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Well it’s like a sentinel factory. As long as something can build, in a way they are. That’s why you hit them at their source.
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Yeah, it’s weird, because they’re all automata you don’t think of them as being as much of a threat as say elites or hunters.
I defo think next game they need to add more powerful promethium units, vehicles, mechs and maybe even something similar in scale to a scarab.
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> I read in the art book that all the non knght constructs can be mass produced and that every Promethean is essentially unkillable as they just reform. Is this true? I mean an immortal and unkillable army is pretty broken.
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> Do they have the numbers to take on the UNSC and Covenant? I never got impression there were that many of them or that they were more dangerous than marines or elites. Is this the case in the lore r are they meant to be a massive threat?
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The Promethean Knights are immortal in that they are living minds converted into AI by the Composer, which makes killing them more complicated than shooting them in the head as you would a biological target. If you destroy it, the data lingers and can be recovered by a Watcher, as we see in-game when they attempt to revive Knights. If there are no Watchers to quickly recover the data, however, the Knight appears to be lost and is then dead.
As far as we know, the Prometheans do have the numbers to take us on. There could be any number of installations in the galaxy forging new Crawlers, Watchers, Soldiers, and as-of-yet unseen Promethean constructs, and we don’t know how many Prometheans Knights could be out there… and that’s not counting the millions who were Composed in New Phoenix. They have the numbers.
As for how dangerous they are, it can be hard to gauge based on gameplay. Like the Elites we mow down in game, they are much weaker in gameplay than they are in lore. From what we’ve seen, it doesn’t take many Knights to overcome Covenant forces and even the Promethean constructs can overpower them. From the trouble Infinity has had with the Prometheans, I don’t think the marines are much more effective against them.
In the lore the Promethans are a massive threat, and you can see that by the fact that fighting them off seems to require Spartan-level forces (the Prometheans always seem to have the upper hand in battles until the player shows up) or sheer overwhelming numbers or firepower.
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I guess it’s because so many can be easily made over time and time again.