One thing that bugged me about forerunner tech in h4 is how smooth everything forerunner looked, especially the prometheans, and even the new sentinels more or less. They also had an over-usage of the light lines.
The War Sphinx, or whatever it is in the HX0 trailer has a more notably blockier appearance than the forerunners did in h4, while still keeping the random floating bits. It still has hints of the lights without going overkill.
Sorry, just thought i’d make a positive thread.
I think they nailed the Forerunner/Promethean look in Halo 4.
> I think they nailed the Forerunner/Promethean look in Halo 4.
I liked the archetexture, though at the times it simply looked too much like Tron.
The prometheans though just didn’t look forerunner. Too rounded, too bug-like.
They all fit what was described of forerunner technologies in the novels.
> I think they nailed the Forerunner/Promethean look in Halo 4.
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CEA architecture was miles better.
Last I checked, blocks aren’t aerodynamic and a lot of forerunner objects tend to float.
I thought the Prometheans looked pretty cool. And they topped it when it came to the Didact’s combat skin.
I loved the Forerunner design in Halo 4, it went a long way into showing us the distinction between the differences between how the various castes design their architecture. From Halo CE-3, we primarily saw Builder architecture while now we’re seeing more of the Warrior-Servants’.
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Shield Worlds were the Didact’s/Warrior-Servants plans.
Requiem was the capital of all Promethean/Warrior-Servant operations, the HQ of the Forerunner Military.
> > I loved the Forerunner design in Halo 4, it went a long way into showing us the distinction between the differences between how the various castes design their architecture. From Halo CE-3, we primarily saw Builder architecture while now we’re seeing more of the Warrior-Servants’.
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> No, I don’t think warrior-servants built Requiem or its infrastructure. I think it’s more along the lines of the builders using different styles/material to complement different habitats. I think I read, or heard, that Halo 2 delta’s brown ruins, were used to complement that area. The reason why Requiem might have been on the shiny side, is because it would have served as a city or country or whatever.
Well The didact contract builders to make his worlds but they are clearly in his image. The ruins on delta halo clearly aren’t forerunner and we think they are reminiscent of the city’s humans were building.
Requiem is a military base.
> I think they nailed the Forerunner/Promethean look in Halo 4.
Wasn’t a huge fan of the interior of didacts ship.
Seemed too much like a cathedral, not enough like a military vessel for the most elite of forerunner generals.
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> Last I checked, blocks aren’t aerodynamic and a lot of forerunner objects tend to float.
What makes them float has nothing to do with aerodynamics.
> > Well The didact contract builders to make his worlds but they are clearly in his image. The ruins on delta halo clearly aren’t forerunner and we think they are reminiscent of the city’s humans were building.
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> The base in the middle of the lake used the same/similar material. It’s impossible that anyone other could have reached it and have created those underwater traveling things. If you’re implying that a Egyptian/Mayan civilization built it based on the looks, they mastered underwater/air travel before they mastered iron, which seems a little ridiculous.
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> What I mean is that it will serve as a city where the Forerunner civilisation will live, like all shield worlds. This is the same as people living in apartments with heaters and hot water, as opposed to huts and igloos.
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> This is just my opinion, of course…
Maybe you should think about it in full context before blabbing.
> “You know, I think the Forerunners built these new structures around the old, to protect them, to honor them. Pure speculation, mind you. I’d need to make a thorough survey to be sure.”
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> “I wish I had more time to decipher these inscriptions. The Forerunners revere this place, that much is clear. But was it a temple, or a university… I can’t say.”
We know Humans were on the rings and we know they were thriving on them. These structures could be leftover from that time and as the forerunners were reseeding the galaxy they built over them as cortana suggested. Unless my memory is extremely crappy the gondolas and water tubes are not the same architecture as the buildings and they were clearly added by the forerunners.
How can it do that when Requiem was destroyed? The only forerunners that knew where requiem was were the warriors and it is not a world suited for living like that. There are many types of shield worlds so generalizing them is inaccurate.
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Oh don’t pull that card with me with your sarcastic statement
" If you’re implying that a Egyptian/Mayan civilization built it based on the looks, they mastered underwater/air travel before they mastered iron, which seems a little ridiculous. "
I was specifically talking about the buildings you see prior to that which have no if very little forerunner influence. Because the forerunners couldn’t have built that afterwards right? I really don’t care for the tubes and gondalas since you see time and time again ancient structures that clearly aren’t forerunner. When Halo legends came out we instantly connected heian to installation 05. Which we clearly knew were human structures due to the forerunner novels.
We don’t even know if the lake was always there in all honesty. We see 343 changing the landscape of his ring in the terminals due to him being bored.
They are “Different” because that is the first time we have been to a true forerunner installation and not a rugged superweapon. We have their technology being “active” in kilo 5 and kurt (for some reason) thought a mural he saw on onyx was depicting the future.
The WS didn’t live on requiem they just gathered there when needed.