Halo 4 (SPOILERS)

^ Given that the Librarian was using a Binary Rifle against her husband in the time right before the Halos' firing and using it to great effect against full Forerunner armor that might be more the normal and less the god-powers allegedly given in the books. After all game media is more canon than dead tree media game manuals notwithstanding.

I agree with Tom. In the books plasma is far more devastating, IIRC there's a scene in The Fall of Reach where a bolt from a Plasma Pistol quite literally boils away one of the Spartan's arms.

It's a bolt of plasma from a Hunter, plus it was before the MJOLNIR armor had shields. As seen at Chi Ceti the first iteration of the armor could hold up to at least several bolts of plasma.

edited 9th Mar '14 2:28:54 PM by theLibrarian

Ah. Well there you go.

And yet that is far more consistent with the games than alleged Forerunner God-weapons. The plasma bolt from a Hunter can kill you in one shot, I'd imagine a graze could probably take one or more limbs off.

Isn't like the canon mode Heroic or something?

I dunno, stuff is inconsistent

Ally and player damage towards enemies is something on like Easy. Player health/shields is sorta composite Easy/Normal. Enemy aggressiveness and numbers are Heroic/Legendary. Enemy damage towards Red Shirts is Legendary. Enemy intelligence is Whuppopotamus.

In composite, somewhere around Normal/Heroic.

edited 9th Mar '14 6:57:47 PM by MajorTom

I've always imagined Legendary is canon. Chief's just that good.

But the Red Shirts canonically are not as bad as in Legendary. Especially the ODST's.

Whuppopotamus is a great word. Where did they get it from?

edited 9th Mar '14 7:01:27 PM by LeGarcon

Yes, well... that's not as funny to imagine.

edited 9th Mar '14 7:01:22 PM by kingtiger522

Forerunner vs Flood vs Ancient Humans would make a good game.

I still want to know what the Elites were like in the Forerunner era. I remember a video from early in Halo 4's development which depicted voice-recording for the Didact's awakening scene (with a completely different guy voicing him), where he converses with Jul and mentions the Sangheili present being "Second Form".

Obviously there were some plot changes but I wonder where they were going with that...

^ Halo CE Anniversary final terminal has a conversation between Spark and an Elite and Spark notes how "melodramatic" his people have become.

Well, everyone here probably already knows this, but the rest of Majestic is back for Escalation:

"The Fall of New Phoenix”—eight months ago, an attack on Earth left seven million dead, including the family of Spartan Gabriel Thorne. Today the city has been opened from quarantine, and Thorne is going home to see what’s left . . . and what it has to do with the Master Chief."◊

I just hope the comic doesn't spread itself too thin trying to cover all these plot points.

I get the feeling starting in Halo 5 we're gonna get a team-up with Thorne and John.

I'm okay with this. Thorne is a bro.

Hell he may be leading Majestic now.

I would have thought leadership fell back to what's his name or that chick....I kinda forgot who the Not-Thornes are.

Apart from Thorne Majestic are non-entities, yeah.

If they take the deuterotagonist route again it has to be the Arbiter, if he doesn't get his own game. Thorne should have a separate game.

The trailer for Halo on Xbox One had Master Chief taking a journey alone, so I doubt he'd team up with Thorne thus.

Real quick, has anyone here not seen the Pastebin maybe-leak about Halo 5?

http://pastebin.com/kbdMKrP3

edited 19th Mar '14 4:17:53 PM by kingtiger522

Gross.

I sense trolling in that "leak".

Aw but Mass Effect was awesome.

Still though, bit iffy on it. I say linear story but massive maps and tons of different ways to approach your mission.