When I first got Halo:Reach at Launch I was playing thru and got to the scene where Banshee’s are following Carter/6/Emile etc and I saw Carter all bloodied with, what looked like, bullet wounds in front of his armor, so I thought -Yoink!- I must of skipped a cutscene then found out I didn’t to this day I have yet to see a 100% solid reason… how the heck Carter got so shot up. Some people say “Well the Banshee’s were shooting in the ship” but if you look at where Carter is sitting their is another seat behind him that would give adequate cover plus a bulkhead. Tbh when I first saw the blood on the windows and blood coming from his eyes it looked more like Carter’s augmentations were freaking out or something.
Was their ever an official answer as to how Carter got so beat up?
It honestly makes no sense. Bungie just let it happen and said “itz jus a gaem”
Six and Emile are fine. I’m sure Emile had to protect Six because of the package, but Carter’s all banged up. And he was piloting the whole time, from Halsey’s lab to the Scarab. (or so we were shown)
Bungie skipped a lot (throughout the entire game) and it really made the experience underwhelming.
We are not sure what exactly happened to him, as there’s no official answer. We do know for a fact that he was injured between the two cutscenes, as he was fine at the end of “The Package”, but Auntie Dot tells him to seek medical attention at the beginning of “Pillar of Autumn”. Seeing as they are in a Pelican flying over a hostile area, Banshees are a possible explanation. Any number of things is possible with this. But does it really matter? We know he was shot, and that the injury was bad enough that he wouldn’t have been able to make it to the Pillar without significant help from Six and Emile. Spartans, especially IIIs, have a very distinct thought process when something like this comes into play. The injured member sacrifices themselves, as they know that them relying on team mates could easily get them all killed. Carter basically did this, in order to save the Package. Most likely, the injury was sustained while protecting Six, as he makes mention of the A.I. choosing Six. It may be trying to imply that he thought he would be picked, as NOBLE’s leader. Thus showing that he figured out, by the injury, that Six was the right choice for the A.I.
He still could’ve gotten shot up while Six and Emile could take cover and move around in the Pelican, otoh Carter is static, and has to stay in one spot while Banshees shoot up the Pelican. Also, they could’ve shot through the front.
the OP of this thread is likely gonna get banned for saying the D bomb… I predict this because I got banned for saying the F bomb, oh by the way I thought this over and I concluded that somewhere in the fight carter put it on auto pilot and helped six fight but got shot so he went back to piloting
Simple, he did it to himself thinking how bad of a Spartan Leader he was throughout the game letting a Zealot slip by and escape in completely sealed off relay station, sending 4 Spartans into a an ONI complex and having to rely on the new guy to get the job done, taking 3 Spartans with him into a close quarters combat facility along a beach without his close quarters combat Spartan, sitting around with 4 other Spartans while once again the New Guy gets the job done disabling jammers without any help, and then sits around some more in a city being glassed until it arrives on their doorstep and kills his secret lover spartan, and finally solo piloting a flying turtle into a highly covenant controlled area without escort, especially when the one Spartan he’s relied on throughout the invasion including two high-risk piloting missions sits idly by as a passenger and just happens to be a well-trained pilot, and the other is a close-combat Spartan now practically useless when the Spartan Sniper constantly flying around doing nothing with an anti-armor rifle would’ve been a better choice to safe-guard the spartan carrying the last hope for humanity instead of babysitting a self-righteous Oni scientist.
In all seriousness though, the cockpit/window splattering of blood implies he was shot from behind, although that could’ve splattered from the front, though we see no damage to the cockpit nor canopy windshield. So he was probably sitting in the pilot seat getting hit from behind, just like in the cutscene. Why they’d leave a hardened armor blast door in the rear open allowing the shots to come through to hit their pilot; the guy controlling the flying coffin, is beyond me, save for allowing them to shoot out, though if you’re relying on a guy with a shotgun as his normal weapon, that’s not the greatest idea, but that’s usually why you have escorts for a flying turtle, especially when you just left an area with a bunch of Falcons flying around.
You do know that plasma burns through things right? The ship might not show the damage due to graphical limitations within the game, but I’m sure he was getting shot and injured by the plasma through the seat of the Pelican or some such like that.
