So we’ve seen the trailers, at least I think all of us has, and I wanted to point out the things I’ve noticed and or came up with regarding the trailer.
The Huds: The Huds I believe to be the most compelling evidence we have regarding the trailers what they have to tell us. One thing I noticed was that Master chief is using his new Hud. We can tell because it includes his new extra health bar/ secondary shield on his screen. But something else I’ve noticed is that if you look at per se agent Locke’s hud, it has space on either side of his health and sheilds. This is interesting to note, because right of the hud, as we saw in the beta, when a spartan uses thrusters, and Indicater flashes to show that they’re charging. Locke has room for this indicator on his hud, and in Chiefs trailer you’ll even notice his thrusters malfunctioning and firing a lot.
But if you view chief’s hid, the spot where thruster indicators are have no space, implying the chief has no thrusters. Now this isn’t news to some people, because he never had, but some thought he might because in halo 4 for example, he learned how to sprint and assassinate, etc. implying he’ll basically gain the abilities of Spartans in the new game. But 343 has seemingly chosen to respect cannon as they have been doing recently and have chosen to not have chief magically have thrusters. That means that in campaign, chief wouldn’t be able to groundpound, hover, shoulder charge, thrust, and it may have affected his sprinting too.
In the Beta, when Spartans sprinted, their thrusters kicked in to keep them going (btw for all those guys who said halo was not following the definition of sprint you are correct still, but at least this explains why they can keep at a high velocity for so long). Chief not having thruster will mean one of 2 things. Either A, he’ll have limited sprinting like in halo 4, or B, they’ll completely ignore that fact and he’ll be able to sprint forever anyway.
Infinity: This is just a really big speculation here, but noticing again on the huds, Master Chief is shown blank on Locke’s radar, but Locke shows as a friendly on Chief’s. Chief must not be completely away from the UNSC then, because why else would he keep UNSC friendly tags on. Like, even thinking tactically, yes it would show all UNSC troops even if they weren’t moving on his hud, so he’d know better where they are, but the Devs wouldn’t do that because it would be a lot for the player to digest when you realize that the yellow tag the means friendly now can be enemies as well. So why is it still on for UNSC troops then? Well the answer could be one of 2 things. 1, he’s not completely gone and only Oni has him targeted, or 2 (my idea) Infinity has defected with chief.
This can be relevant when you realize that the Infinity is run by Captin Lasky, and knowing Halo 4, Lasky has helped Cheif before. Just this time could be more bold. And as far as I’m concerned about the whole, the Infinity on fire, I can’t help but be nit picky, because looking at it. It just isn’t right. First off all the fire seems to be on the Engines only, like instead of blue lights it’s red. And with all that Damage, how is it still flying? I could be the artists messed up the Engine colors (doubt it though) maybe on purpose so it didn’t clash against the skyline. It could be that the ship is using a different propulsion this time while in atmospere, or maybe it’s actually on fire and I’m just being too picky. This good be a reason though why chief kept friendlies on, because he actually has allies he could use it with. I could add more detail, but just think on that.
Music: Just a little tid bit for all those who think the Halo music went to heck with 343. Did anyone notice that in Chief’s trailer, you can hear modified oldschool halo music. Someone heard that the music was missing a little halo in it, so they’re addressing that. Sure the music is still pretty different, but this also a new generation of Halo.
That’s all I remember I had to say off the top of my head, can’t wait to hear what you all think. Cya in the comments.