I’m kind of disappointed 343 didn’t go all the way make some logical, realistic and huge changes to where, technologically, humanity would be at this point.
I mean we’ve just been at war with a technologically-superior Alien species for nearly 30 years at this point. And now we’ve maintained a solitude of peace with the majority of them for 5 years, having just an unnoticeable amount still being hostile to Humans. Shouldn’t the UNSC have joined up with the Covenant or scavenged enough of their superior tech to apply it to their own equipment? And there is also a whole bunch of Forerunner artifacts and tech they have too. It’s completely unlogical this wouldn’t be the case. So Warthog’s should not have wheels anymore and should be able to hover around like a Spectre or Prowler would. It should be the same case for Scorpions and any other UNSC vehicles. It’s completely unrealistic for this not to be the case. It was unrealistic enough in Halo CE anyway, with Humanity being 200 years odd into the future and still having todays type of tech and ideas.
I’m not just counting the hover-feature, they should’ve attributed more things like the Hyper-drives and flying-tech(Banshees), Plasma-based bullets and much more.
Obviously I haven’t played Halo 4, so I don’t fully know if 343 have made some sort of effort like this to upgrade Humanities tech by a lot but seeing the Warthog…I can tell they’ve missed out on one of the huge changes they could’ve made to make that aspect of Halo 4 clear.
I mean this is ‘5’ years after H3, the biggest time-gap between any of the Halo games(Not counting wars as that was an RTS), it would be frustratingly stupid if they just made everything the same as it was in Halo 3. YOU BETTER HAVE NOT!!!
It’s always been intended for humanity to feel less futuristic. Because of this, our enemies and alien technology we discover in-game feel that much more bizzare and futuristic.
> It’s always been intended for humanity to feel less futuristic. Because of this, our enemies and alien technology we discover in-game feel that much more bizzare and futuristic.
> It’s always been intended for humanity to feel less futuristic. Because of this, our enemies and alien technology we discover in-game feel that much more bizzare and futuristic.
I realized that in Halo 3. But to say the UNSC wouldn’t ‘adapt’ to an Alien Force’s superior tech during 35 years of direct contact, 5 of which they’ve been in peace with, is just out right unrealistic and unlogical. We’re gone past the Covenant now, enough of them. We can feel the Alien-y with the other different Species(Ancient Evil, Forerunners, Prometheans, Prescurors) we’ll be encountering in Halo 4, 5 and 6.
In it, humanity had conquered the stars by the year 2000.
You can’t really say what’s logical or not, because it’s designed that way, and I’m pretty sure there’s a perfectly valid reason to why humans still have “low tech” stuff
Also, The human race has been ravaged by civil war for centuries, and has been unable to forfill its full potential because of this. The covenants technological advantage comes from centuries of reverse engineering forrunner tech while maintaining a stable inergalactic empire.
> Also, The human race has been ravaged by civil war for centuries, and has been unable to forfill its full potential because of this. The covenants technological advantage comes from centuries of reverse engineering forrunner tech while maintaining a stable inergalactic empire.
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> Anyway, who would want a warthog with no wheels?
> Also, The human race has been ravaged by civil war for centuries, and has been unable to forfill its full potential because of this. The covenants technological advantage comes from centuries of reverse engineering forrunner tech while maintaining a stable inergalactic empire.
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> Anyway, who would want a warthog with no wheels?
The people driving them, do you realize how easy it would be to drive it then? Anyways it’d work the same and feel the same(but slightly different with the hover-sounds), just it’d be hovering around instead.
> > Also, The human race has been ravaged by civil war for centuries, and has been unable to forfill its full potential because of this. The covenants technological advantage comes from centuries of reverse engineering forrunner tech while maintaining a stable inergalactic empire.
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> > Anyway, who would want a warthog with no wheels?
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> Think Hoverhog.
If there will ever be a hovered up variant of the Warthog, it better be called the Porkchop…
OP, yes, you’re kind of right, but you’re also wrong. Lets look back at a movie called Back to the future, in the future in that movie, there are all sorts of things that we’ve yet to even get to work in real life, and we’re past the year in the movie.
Read Halsey’s journal. We can’t even figure out how a Needler works, I doubt we could figure out how to make vehicles that hover, as well as get them past the prototype stage and mass produce them in 5 years, especially while trying to rebuild. We do have a plasma based weapon though, which may have passed the prototype stage by now, the Rhino.
> > Also, The human race has been ravaged by civil war for centuries, and has been unable to forfill its full potential because of this. The covenants technological advantage comes from centuries of reverse engineering forrunner tech while maintaining a stable inergalactic empire.
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> > Anyway, who would want a warthog with no wheels?
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> The people driving them, do you realize how easy it would be to drive it then? Anyways it’d work the same and feel the same(but slightly different with the hover-sounds), just it’d be hovering around instead.
It would not feel the same, infact it would feel more like a revenant than anything. The covie hovering tech cannot achieve significant acceleration like wheels can, instead relying on boosters for instant bursts of straight line speed. A ‘hoverhog’ would lose the handling and manoeverability it has been known to excel at.
You can’t powerslide in a ghost, thats all I’m sayin’.
> OP, yes, you’re kind of right, but you’re also wrong. Lets look back at a movie called Back to the future, in the future in that movie, there are all sorts of things that we’ve yet to even get to work in real life, and we’re past the year in the movie.
> OP, yes, you’re kind of right, but you’re also wrong. Lets look back at a movie called Back to the future, in the future in that movie, there are all sorts of things that we’ve yet to even get to work in real life, and we’re past the year in the movie.
Yes but this is tech we have direct access with as well as time to figure out how to work with it as well as the Alien’s themselves to help us. Anyways I read somewhere that the director learnt he got the date wrong once he watched the movie, it was supposed to be at least 50 years ahead of that
For the sake of variety I hope they never create hoverhogs. If every vehicle in the damn game hovered off the ground, I’d get bored with the vehicle collection awfully damn quick.
I say no way. It may be illogical, but it’s more interesting imo.
the canonical reason is that what the humans have is not only RELIABLE, but SIMPLE, and CHEAP. the reason the humans have “low tech” stuff (which is really high tech compared to what we have now) is so that when you hold a human weapon you feel like the under dog taking out big bad aliens with your puny ballistic weapons. and plus there was a hover version of the worthog. it was much tougher brute version known as the prowler.
> Read Halsey’s journal. We can’t even figure out how a Needler works, I doubt we could figure out how to make vehicles that hover, as well as get them past the prototype stage and mass produce them in 5 years, especially while trying to rebuild. We do have a plasma based weapon though, which may have passed the prototype stage by now, the Rhino.
Yes but this time there is nothing to occupy and distract us, no war. And we have the Aliens to actually HELP us instead of figuring it out on our own. And this is more simpler than a Needler, just take the Hover-mechanism out of a Ghost or Spectre, out it under a Warthog and there you go.
