I have seen a lot of people complaining about how incompetent Jul M’dama’s zealot bodyguards were at the end of the first mission when Osiris mopped the floor with them. After all, doesn’t an elite have to have killed hundreds of enemies and be the best of the best to be a zealot (like the Arbiter was)? Nowadays maybe not. Here is what I think happened. In-game someone says that Jul Mdama’s popularity with his followers took a hit when the prometheans turned on him, and I imagine that a lot of elites thought about giving up on him and leaving the covenant because of that. I think that Jul handed out quite a few undeserved promotions to “buy” the loyalty of some of his followers. The reason those zealots were so unzealot-like and dumb is because they were just run of the mill goons whom Jul promoted just to keep them from leaving him, sort of like paying someone to be your friend. What do you guys think ?
I think that’s an excellent theory. I have so much extended lore to catch up on that I wonder if I’ll think something different when I do, but for now, I really think you’re onto something with this!
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> I think that’s an excellent theory. I have so much extended lore to catch up on that I wonder if I’ll think something different when I do, but for now, I really think you’re onto something with this!
Anything to explain their obvious lack of skill. I guess I will be happy as long as all elites don’t become incompetent as a rule.
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That still doesn’t explain why they weren’t even attempting to look at the ONLY ENTRANCE TO THE PLATFORM. Not to mention the fact that there was a Phantom easily within jumping distance floating there the entire time.
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> That still doesn’t explain why they weren’t even attempting to look at the ONLY ENTRANCE TO THE PLATFORM. Not to mention the fact that there was a Phantom easily within jumping distance floating there the entire time.
I guess Dzol R’hoham, the pilot, was asleep at the controls. When he wakes up everyone is dead. Sensing awkwardness he surreptitiously leaves the scene and is never seen or heard from again.
Elites in Halo 5 are fickle at best, I mean look at Warzone! Everyone who has played warzone can tell you the Ranger Commander, a damn ranger, is a god! That thing has a Storm Rifle with seemingly unlimited range and needle like accuracy not to mention unlimited ammo, plus the guy has over 300% base shielding with Lore like reaction time. Then there are the Elites like the Covert Major or Zealots which have paper thin shielding and you can laugh at them will tea-bagging their corpses and have only spent one mag of ammo or less.
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> Elites in Halo 5 are fickle at best, I mean look at Warzone! Everyone who has played warzone can tell you the Ranger Commander, a damn ranger, is a god! That thing has a Storm Rifle with seemingly unlimited range and needle like accuracy not to mention unlimited ammo, plus the guy has over 300% base shielding with Lore like reaction time. Then there are the Elites like the Covert Major or Zealots which have paper thin shielding and you can laugh at them will tea-bagging their corpses and have only spent one mag of ammo or less.
Don’t forget poor Gaxelblarg, who always gets mobbed in Escape from ARC.
I figure it’s because this Covenant Remnant doesn’t have the training of the Covenant Empire.