Sci-Fi/Game Weapons

>tfw no MA5B that fires 60 rounds of real fuckin' NATO

>>30311334
Halo 1 - Reach are /k/ approved. 4 and beyond are not.

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>>30311371
tfw no pistol that fires explosive ammunition

F.E.A.R and Deus Ex: Human Revolution stand out as games with developers knowing their shit about guns (but consciously deviating from realism when stylistically appropriate of course)

Like, the 10mm pistol in DXHR is pure sex

more halo cgi porn (even if halo wars isnt your cup of tea, the trailer is still good)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjN1eWhzPeA

>>30311334
>you will never shred brutes with a .50 cal rotary gun

>>30311430
Muh fuckin dick

That is by far one of the best game trailers I've ever seen, really good

>>30311334
https://vimeo.com/147365861

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Hopefully the Halo TV series produced by Spielberg is something worth watching.

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>>30311379
I really did like Reach's UNSC aesthetic. Bungie took a really good utilitarian approach as apposed to 343's sleeker designs.

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dqo3SvvMuo
I can't get over how cool that thing is

>tfw you'll never have a dad like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ_GCPaKywg

>>30311630
Omg I agree so much. Halo 4 and 5's unsc weapons are nearly indistinguishable from covenant and forerunner weapons, except for colour scheme

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>>30311677

https://youtu.be/_zuBSUJfpBk

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>>30311379
I'd say you're right about 4, but 5 got quite a bit better with weapon detail, at least.

The magnum actually has a gas piston, bolt face, and slide lock, (It also has a cycling animation in third person), and is held with a thumbs forward grip.

The DMR actually has an ejection port, unlike in 4, and on the rifles, the character does a slingshot with the charging handle on empty reloads, rather than simply shoving the charging handle forward out of the locked position.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtP5J5EbQ_M

Also, the characters actually have trigger discipline for the first time ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYo0WPwa6BI

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>>30311942
They still haven't fixed the shotgun. In previous halos, the gun would have the magazine tube above the barrel and shells would be ejected out through the side. However, in Halo 4 & 5, the design makes no sense at all, as the shells eject through the same way they entered.

>>30312049
To be fair, the Ithaca M37 does work that way, but yeah the Halo 4 shotgun isn't the best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7PpEOxSSH0

>>30312049
The ammo from it is amazing according to the game

I cannot express how much I love halo. Played since the first, read every book, but anything 4 and beyond us garbage

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>>30312144
It wouldn't bother me so much if the shells were loaded into the magazine tube rather than the barrel. I really miss the m90.

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>>30311334
Anything that's past Reach is not /k/. Like, how do you go from this

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>>30312292
To this

>>30312313
I totally agree. It's a problem with so many games now. I mean I love customization of look and loadout in games, but super bright colors and overly sleek and impractical designs just kill the vibe.

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>>30311334
>IT PRINTS IT'S OWN AMMO
>REMOVE SENTINEL

>>30311430
HAAW
WAAW
TWWT

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>>30311430
Dem ODST's though

>Dropping into a hotzone
>smashing through Brute tanks
>charging beside Spartan II's

>>30311536
I thought that was canned years ago?

Crysis had cool weapon designs (to bad the game was kinda trash)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iflmHVj1dzU

http://crysis.wikia.com/wiki/Typhoon
http://crysis.wikia.com/wiki/Feline

>>30313631
Pussy ass Spartans. They get gyros and super-suits and shit. ODST's roll in plate armor only.

>>30312928
That gun was awful.

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What about the FUUUUTTTUUUURRRREEE guns in Black Ops 3?

Some of them are pointlessly complex, but some aren't too ridiculous. For example, the KN-44 assault rifle and the Locus sniper rifle.

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>>30312313
Blue team armor isn't bad

>>30311334
>modding halo CE in the map editor years ago for custom game 1v1s with my freind

Ended up making a needler where the bolts didnt automatically fly at targets leaving the barrel - they shot forward, slowly came to a stop, and would hover in midair indefinitely, they'd then home-in on and 1 shot anything within a certain range.

basically we made a game mode with only needlers setting up ambushes around corners via halo-man seeking needler death mines.

>>30315161
The fuck? They look retarded

>>30315161

The one on the right, mmmph dem hips n thick legs. She can crush my skull with those any day.

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>>30311393
So hyped for Mankind Divided.
>those multiple ammo types
>multipe fire selection added
>more weapon accessories
gon b mint

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>>30311334
Yes

>>30315161
Anyone remember what happened to Linda? I remember seeing something about how she HAS to wear the armor constantly because it's basically keeping her in one piece and keeping her alive. Am I crazy or is that really part of the lore?

Also
>Kelly is best Blue Team waifu

>>30315620
>sangheili porn
I can't believe this is the first time that it's crossed my mind. Well time to sharpen my google-fu for more.

>>30314998
Compared to what, the Hole Puncher?

The gun's perfectly fine unless you compare it to broken weapons.

>>30315627
She was clinically dead for awhile. That's all I remember

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>>30315776
Right, something about what happened at reach or something? They were all groundside or otherwise in the thick of the fighting while Noble Team was executing their mission to get Cortana and Doctor Halsey to the Pillar of Autumn, if I remember correctly. All presumed dead by one way or another, as well. God damn it, 343. Gimme some fucking back story and next time, hype up the story you're actually going to use.

>mfw all that hype around Chief supposedly going AWOL for no known reason, massive fight against Osiris Team, Chief what are you doing, only to get this other bullshit.

Instead, we got "I found Cortana. Let's go do the thing". Rest of Blue team (Oh hey blue team! good to see you! nah, I don't need any backstory since I thought you were all dead) is just totally "Yeah, sounds good".

"Osiris team! We have to do the thing and bring back the Chief!"
"Yeah, ok. Sounds good"
"Chief! I found you! Ha Ha! I'm going to stick this metal thingy to yo-AHJKGFG. Ack, I am defeat. You were right Chief"

"Cortana, pls stop doing the thing"
"no, John. I love not being sane anymore. Huzzah, I am the bad guy now, faggots!"
"Cortana pls"

I was so fucking angry at how they hyped that shit up to tell a near completely different story when the actual game dropped.

>>30311942
I-is that the Brute Plasma Rifle?
Is it as good and fun as it used to be?
Halo 2 had the best stuff.

>>30315645
literally 50% of all halo porn is sangheili porn.

>>30316016
Well halo porn has never really crossed my mind at all to be honest. I don't know why but porn and halo never really clicked together up until now, but HOLY FUCK (besides deviant art bullshit) it's fucking great.

>>30311334
I like to see a Hollywood ODST movie

>>30315161
>Blue team

>Only two are blue
>Two are actually camouflage

Chief is the top dog anyway. IDGAF

>>30315932
Not to mention Buck was about the only likeable character since anyone who played ODST knows how much of a badass he already was even before crossing over. Plus Nathan Fillion might as well be a real life video game character. The guy practically has his own cult following.

>>30315932
The backstory bit was probably left out because it was confirmed blue team was alive in a novel released around the time of Halo 3.

>>30316013
Yes. That is the brute plasma rifle. I haven't tested it out myself yet. Also, do note that the H2:A BR has been added as a loadout weapon, and the CE Magnum (Yes, the anti-tank one) is now a REQ, and can be used as a preset on custom matches.

>>30316079
Originally, they all wore identical green MK IV armor.

>>30311430
Almost on par with the Halo 3 "Believe" trailer.
What is the song by the way?

>>30316088
Yeah, but it was literally just "Chief, here's your team"

"Sup Blue Team. How you faggots been?"

Like, that's it. That's the whole reunion. Then they go do gangster shit and it's never mentioned again. Besides, I hate it when games start outsourcing crucial story details like that. That's important info. Put it in the fucking game, you know? At least a little cutscene of a flashback or something. It's the same bullshit George Lucas pulled with everything that happens between movies. Like all the fucking references that Obi Wan and Anakin talk about in Episode 3. "Oh, like that one time on that one planet? I didn't think we were going to make it out alive"

SHIT. JUST FUCKING SHOW US THAT INSTEAD OF HAVING THE CHARACTERS TALK ABOUT IT IN PAST-TENSE REFERENCES.

>>30316132
Yeah, I get what you're saying. Maybe they're trying to make it seem as if they've all been through so much shit that nothing surprises them at this point? Still a BS explanation.

>>30316124
"I know you" by The White Buffalo

>>30311430
>Dat last scene
>Dat sliver of a Halo visible in the sky

AW SHIT

>>30313631
It is one of my ultimate dreams to drop from near-orbit either with a parachute or a drop-pod ODST style with a full combat load onto a firing range and start firing on targets.

>>30316171
Apparently The Spirit Of Fire somehow turns up at the Ark, so while that might be a proto-Halo, it's probably one of the petals / arms of the Ark.

>>30315587
That would be Kelly, the fastest of the Spartans.
Shouldn't be surprising she'd have dem legs
>>30315161
Who the fuck is the robot looking one? That isn't Linda is it?

>>30316160
>The White Buffalo

Oh boy.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXwgShqzVas

>>30316185
>Apparently The Spirit Of Fire somehow turns up at the Ark

... What? Spirit of Fire was supposed to be flood-infested.. according to some comic

>>30316153
I try to give them the benefit of the doubt. I really do. like all the issues with Metal Gear Solid V: TPP. Based Kojima did what he could with Konami acting like a bunch of cunts trying to run his project and tell him what to do and how to do it. They set budget constraints and time limits that forced Kojima to end up having to leave out the ultra-critical final mission that closes the ties with Eli, the Floating Boy, Sehelanthropustomuncharickandmortywalkingrobobonerthing, and all that shit. Still an awesome game IMO. But that last mission was fucking necessary and Konami basically ruined it for everyone. Fuck Konami. I bet we're seeing all this metal gear shit now because they want to run that name into the ground out of spite for their cash cow leaving them.

>>30316160
Thank you Anon.

>>30316192
Yep, need them extra optics for super sniping.
>>30316200
Dunno, but I didn't read that comic.

https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-au/games/halo-wars-2
>After decades adrift and declared “lost with all hands,” the brave crew of the UNSC Spirit of Fire are mysteriously awoken above an ancient Forerunner haven known as the Ark. In Halo Wars 2, Captain Cutter and his crew will face one of humanity’s most formidable threats yet: The Banished – a fierce and powerful Brute faction led by a cunning and lethal warrior known as Atriox.

>>30312313
Super Sentai Space Rangers!

Seriously, Go Go Power get the fuck out of here 343

>>30315932
Linda got fucked up while EVA on a station/satellite. Plasma and shit. Chief seemed pretty hurt by that one since John and Linda had a hinted "thing" in "The Fall of Reach".

>>30316213
>Decades

Spirit of Fire and everything aboard her is a fucking antique by this time. Jesus.

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>>30315587
I'm just going to leave this here.

http://bravo44.tumblr.com/tagged/techsuit

Yes, this is what all female spartans in Halo 5 look like. (Save for Vale, who is even better)

>>30316079
Kill yourself.

>>30316213
I'm assuming those pictures are of the undersuit alone eh?
Its like 343 is going out of their way to make fap-fuel for the kids who play Halo 5.
To be fair though, Cortana always was since the first game.

>>30316277
Whoops, meant for >>30316256

>>30316240
To an extent; basically they've been adrift from around the events of Halo 1 and have bee asleep for Halo 2, 3 ,4 having woken up around the period of Halo 5.

>>30316300
Halo wars took place well before Halo 1.

>>30311888
The voice acting on that sucked.

That means there are elite early Spartans still alive

>>30316363
>early Spartans
No they're all dead. Johnson was the last original IIRC. Of the Spartan IIs, I think its basically just Blue Team.

>>30316327
>Halo wars took place well before Halo 1.

This. At the beginning of Halo Wars, Spirit of Fire was participating in the campaign to re-take Harvest.

>>30311677

>fire
>a bow

Enough.

>>30316436
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/fire
>The shooting of projectiles from weapons, especially bullets from guns

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>>30316410

>>30316552
That's good to hear.
>only 8 out of 100-something Spartan IIs not dead
GG.

>>30311334
Not posting the full film with sound

>>30316672
>Only 8 out of 100-something Spartan IIs not MISSING IN ACTION

>>30316778
Would ONI ever declassify that shit? Pretty cunty of them to leave that permanently, though ONI a shit always.

>>30311430
ODST guys coming out of the drop pods after landing through a walker... Literally using soldiers as ammo

>>30315608
>"ENTER. COMBAT."

Is it me, or is the Boxguard kinda cute-looking? Must be the beveled shape of the head and lens...

>>30316672
~150 Spartan II trainees were kidnapped, ~75 survived augmentation.

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>>30313844
Nah, it's still being made.

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Halo loser here.

There are still some living Spartan-II's, along with a few Spartan-IIIs. However, after the Human-Covenant War the UNSC is kinda trying to sweep it all away. Some Spartan-IIs had their files declassified and had the option to view where they came from, relatives, childhood before ONI got them, all that. Many choose not to look or kept the files and have yet to read it.

Blue team did survive Reach. Chief took a team to destroy valuable intel on a space station above the planet, only him and Linda made it back to the Autumn, though Linda was so fucked up they put her in cryo. The other Spartan-IIs were sent planet side to defend ground based orbital defenses. Many died, but some regrouped conducted hit and run operations on Cov forces digging on the unglassed side of the planet.

The Spartan-IIs eventually stumbled upon surviving HIGHCOM mebers living in top secret facilities, Dr. halsey was in one of these along with a crazy Admiral who designed himself a massive planet cracking bomb with the intent to give the middle finger to the Cov troops still planet side.

Chief, after Halo 1, was drifting in space when he discovered Linda's cryo pod. During emergancies the pods are all ejected. During the battle most of the crew were out of cryo, but due to Linda's condition her's jettisoned. Along with finding her, Chief also came upon a Pelican carrying Sgt. Johnson and a few others. They ditched the Pelican and crammed into Chief's Longsword fighter. They then infiltrated a Cov ship and took over the Bridge (Co0v ships have the bridge located in the center of the ship). Cortanna vented the atmosphere in other parts and voila, a human controlled Cov ship with a ton of asphyxiated crewmen inside.

Due to the Cole Protocol, all human ships must jump to a random planet before heading to UNSC space from combat and no Cov ship captured may be brought directly to Earth. Chief made the decision to take it to Reach, as it is no longer a functional UNSC stronghold

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>>30317796
He had other reasons too. When at Reach the discovered a Spartan encoded signal and deployed ground side. High jinx ensue that would see the Spartans and UNSC personnel off the planet. The group then went on to destoy a Cov fleet rally point and delay Cov assaults into the inner colonies. Chief then kinda handed command over to his 2nd in command Fred and various reasons have kept the other Spartans and the Chief separated.

The other Spartans remained under the control of various UNSC commands and went on to fight in many major theaters and campaigns.while Chief was off saving the day. After Halo 4 when he is finally brought back into the fold, the UNSC is beginning its attempts to rein the Spartans in, fearing that with the war over they would snap or have some choice words to say about their careers. At the same time, they hope to put a pretty face on people asking questions about their origins by returning to a volunteer program with less augmentation, and more advanced tech. These are the Spartan-IVs, lesser Spartan-II quality with a mix of Spartan II quantity topped with Spartan-I volunteer origins.

Anything else you guys want to know? I literally have just about every Halo book sitting behind me buried in one of my bookshelves.

>>30317862
Were Spartan-II's augmented for the sake of being strong or did they need it to control the armor?

>>30318022
Both, although the armour was somewhat of a add on.

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What the fuck is this autism?
Is /k/ really 13 year old retards who still enjoy shillstudio's attempt at recreating the same game over and over again?

Where my fucking Arma faggots at?

>>30311334
>you will never drive a warthog
I'm too poor to buy a Ford Raptor and I'm too poor to put long travel on my truck. I just want to cruise across my ranch running over sage brush and baby mesquites and not spill my drink in the cupholder.

>>30318022
The body-augments came years before the armor was completed.

>>30317862
I like the halo aesthetics, but I never really got he lore too well. I've only played like halo 2 or 3, and never really finished them except for one I think where you kill the chieftain at the end, who I always died to.

I do own and and finish Halo: Reach, which was pretty good imo.

The thing that bothers me is the spartan 2's were kidnapped as children, and they got replaced by cheap clones or copies of themselves.

Why did they have to recruit kids.

Why not just make proper clones from of the kids that don't die, and raise them from birth to be perfect soldiers, instead of the whole kidnap children from their beds and turn them into super soldiers angle.

It just came off to me as an attempt at edgy storytelling.

>>30318174
Flash clones eventually deteriorate and die after a short while. The deaths were then explained as genetic disorders.

>>30311430
HE'S GOT THE FIST OF RUKT!

>>30312313
I wouldn't mind the colors so much if the armor didn't look so jarringly different from the other games. Not to mention that Reach is basically the most tacticool of them all. Which is a shame because the marine designs were pretty good and the gear upgrades were neat. At least the next one will be on windows 10.

>>30316672
If you wanna hear some other bullshit, at least if I remember correctly; There were only around 33 that survived till Reach, 3 of which were way out doing their own shit (Grey team, likely). And at least as it was written at the time, Chief, Linda, and Joshua(I think) did a mission in space, and sent every single other Spartan groundside. Josh died, Linda nearly died, and of the Spartans that went skydiving sans parachute, only about a dozen Survived. Linda, Kelly, Fred, Will, Grace, Anton, and some others I can't remember. By the time Spartan III's were coming around (which were all top secret, suicide mission spartans) There were only about five Spartans still alive.

So when 343, and whatever writers start pulling spartans out of nowhere (Naomi, Jorge) It really pisses me off, cause there really weren't many to begin with, and it doesn't even make sense for Spartans to operate without other Spartans (Barring Kurt. There was good reasoning there).

>>30318215
Then why not make proper clones of the kids that showed traits they wanted in Spartans?

Also, Why do the "innies" hate the UEG so much? I'm currently watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2gzVlqH8Ag and it seems that their resentment is disproportional.
Why couldn't the problems be solved, was it even possible? Did the Carver findings screw any chance they previously had?

>>30318480
Flash clones deteriorate quickly. They have a few years before there bodies bteak down. Its explained to be caused by the fact that the cells never split and formed natural but were forced, this causes issues with cellular reproduction later that leads to defects which then lead to death.

As for the Innies, they are like the British and early Americans. The outer colonies believe they are treated unfairly and started political tensions over a variety of things. Military officials started sanctioning operations against the more militant colonists, and this of course lead to support stacking up in favor of the Innies. This lead to more black ops and political measures to stifle everything and then next thing you know you have a Civil War brewing in the outer colonies.

>>30318424
>>30318608
Btw, still Halo loser. In phone.

Its thought that there was a second class of Spartan-IIs, as Halsey and CPO Mendez both remained on Reach for a while and had time to graduate another class. How many actually made it is unknown though.

>>30318619
Why are 7.62 guns so weak in halo, or rather how do they justify it and their designs?
I like to pretend that they ammo was made by the Japanese.

>>30317796
>>30317862
Any more about Spartan Grey Team? Last piece of info on them I saw was they were too far behind enemy lines to be called back for the invasion of Reach?

>>30318710
Nothing on them. Bungie and 343 have a tendency to pull the oddest bits of forgotten lore out at weird tomes so we might hear about them more as the current books talks about how the UNSC handles older Spartan-IIs.

As far as we know, they conducted missions behind enemy lines and are either now MIA or ONI has them running black ops.

>>30318696
Its more of a noguns bad decision that lead to the weapon specs being below what we'd expect to see. You can see as the games went on that they tried to be more practical in design and use, but the older lore for weapon and vehicle specs remained the same as theres no real need for them to go back and fix it.

I believe there was a little essay, post, thing were a guy went through all the UNSCs stuff and respec'd it more in line with our stuff today.

>>30318731
Hmmm, one more question since you are here anon, has it been explained how the Spirit of Fire made its way to the ark?

>>30318743
>I believe there was a little essay, post, thing were a guy went through all the UNSCs stuff and respec'd it more in line with our stuff today.
Link?

>>30318761
Not him but we can assume drifting right? I mean they pulled that fucking stunt with Halo 4.

>>30318761
>>30318821
It might be Mendicant Bias fucking around with portals again

>>30318821
Well you could but the ark is way outside the galaxy to keep it safe from halo array firing, but the shield world spirit of fire escaped and drifted from was inside the galaxy, it would take thousand of years to drift that far and since they had no ftl drive they would have no other way of getting there

>>30318761
Drifting, Ship computer making a guess or homing in on some signal? Who know. We'll have to wait till it comes out.

>>30318769
Sorry, don't have link. The guy rechambered some stuff and tried to match Halo equipment with US army stuff

>>30318858
>>30318905

>>30318905
Not even a title? Dam.

Ok whats up with the halo books and whats the deal with "Travis/travisties" That I hear about on /tg/?

>>30318931
Person writing the new books. "Thursday's War" and all that. There are some good ideas in there, but it all kinda falls flat and wrecks the story a bit to most.

ONI's portrayal is pretty horrible, like CIA during the Bay of Pigs horrible. They do stupid convoluted shit with there retard old vagina at the top looking down on the shadow stuff they organization does. The writers can't make up whether ONI is a crazy conspiracy machine or a force for good.

>>30318931
>>30318969
Her writing is fanfiction tier and she has a hateboner for Halsey. She has brutes doing gardening for example.

>>30319028
Yeah. Writing was not as good as Fall of Reach, Flood, and the others. Her writing is pretty teen like.

I did like how she tried to have the crew bond, but some moments were bland or cringe worthy

>>30319113
You mean when the female Spartan IIs asked if they looked fat in their armor?

>>30319127
Was that seriously a thing?

>>30317189
It is, I would definitely adopt a dog sized version to take on walks

>>30319177
Yup.

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>>30318969
>>30319028
>>30319127
>brutes doing gardening
>female Spartan IIs asked if they looked fat in their armor
I regret asking a little now.

>>30319113
As someone who has read halo FF and crossovers with halo, Holy shit, was it that bad?

Good news though, I just checked the two halo books a friend gave me a while back, (3 or 4 years ago?) that I haven't read yet. They are precisely "HALO THE FALL OF REACH" by Eric Nylund, and "HALO THE FLOOD" By William C. Dietz.

That's good right? Kinda weird how they are differently sized.

Is there any other Halo cannon or reading I should concern myself with? I've held off reading them since I haven't played the Halo games properly, and read the books in chronological order.

How different would the Covie/Human war go if Human tech was scaled to our current progress? I mean we already have prototype ship mounted railguns and laserguns and genetical/mechanical augmentation is kind of starting to happen. Who knows what crazy shit we will have in the next 50 years, much less 500. And even then, in the Halo universe the UNSC was doing pretty well considering they were being attacked by several different species with OP tech while all the humans had were bullets and happy thoughts.
It just seems that with todays technological advancement we would be kicking Covie ass into the next Sunday by the time they try to molest us.

>>30318931
/tg/ transient here.

karen T writes action pretty well. But she hates special snowflakes like spartan 2s or jedi or sith. So to counter that she tends to make an army of snowflakes of her own design, then melts down when people say thats bullshit

>>30318070
Out playing milsim airsoft

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How does /k/ feel about
1400MM
ARTILLERY?

Some advanced civilizations made lasers. Some of them used Neutron Blaster Cannons. Some of them said FUCK IT and used REALLY BIG GUNS.

>>30318174
>Why did they have to recruit kids.
Adults or adolescents have societal expectations of what's fair or reasonable. Tell a real life Marine to go charge a bunker by themselves and they'll tell you to fuck off. Tell a Spartan II and they'll do it with confidence and without anywhere near as much fear.

If they could equip MJOLNIR armour with AIs, they would, but AIs are costly to produce and can't be used for long duration counter insurgency missions for which the Spartans were originally intended.

>>30319522
Space niggers cant into missiles and railguns.

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>>30319522
>>30319542
IN RUST WE TRUST

Anyway, there's very few good settings/universes with good space shit.

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>>30319522
Did someone say REALLY BIG GUNS?

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>>30319566
>>30319571
Big guns are only half of the journey. Solid ammo is for backward space cavemen.. Nuclear shaped-charges warheads is where the fun starts.

>>30318480
>why do the innies hate the UEG
Because the UEG and more specifically UNSC are fucking assholes that don't want free people running about.

>>30315046

I like the comically small fire selector

>>30319593
For real. ONI are some evil fuckers

>>30319257
The third book in the original holy trilogy was "First Strike". Find that sucker and read it. Mine is falling apart because of how many times I read through it.
The next in line is "Ghosts of Onyx" and "Contact Harvest".
The prior is a continuation of First Strike, while Contact Harvest fleshes out the first contact of Humans and the Covenant. Both were pretty decent IIRC, but its been a while.

>>30319651
Evolutions is alright, especially the biography of admiral Cole

Motherfucker nuked a gas giant enough to make a star

>>30315161
that's me on the right

>>30311371
I MISS IT SO GODDAM MUCH

>>30319566
The ship design in the LoGH OVA is amazing.

Speaking of Halo books is The Cole Protocol any good?I have it but never read it

>>30319257
Conract Harvest
Fall of Reach
Flood
First Strike
Ghost of Oxy

Thats them in the order I remember chronologically.

>>30320006
Cole Protocol
Evolutions

Also good. There is also some good earlier comics involving ODSTs, Spartans that get shipwrecked, Chief getting to Earth right before Halo 3, and one were some dude tricks a Prophet and uses himself as a target designator for a MAC round.

>>30315161
blue team armor isnt bad because they are supposed to be armor from the time of Reach

>>30319831
Wasn't it 64 rounds?

>>30315627
She was dead, but they cryo froze her before her brain died, then during the time between halo 1-2 Dr. Halsey managed to replace all of her dead organs with whatever growing technique they have in that lore

>>30319651
Ok, thanks, I'll look into them.

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>>30316277
>I'm assuming those pictures are of the undersuit alone

It's SFM porn with the models ripped from Halo waypoint spartan customizer.

Pic related is what it looks like in game (not my gamertag, just found the pic on google)

>>30320056
They're all supposed to be variations of the redesigned MK VI that chief is wearing.

>>30319127
What book is this?

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>>30311334
>>30311371
>>30311379
>Not playing Arma III: Operation TREBUCHET and operating as ODSTs, Marines, and Soldiers, with an MA5 or M73 belt fed LMG, or becoming an Insurrectionist and rebelling against the UNSC with a stolen M7 SMG

Plebs. All of you.

>>30319831
There are rumors about it possibly being added to Halo 5.
>>30320077
60.

>>30318174
more specifically, the children had particular genetic markers that made them better. I think that some of those markers may have been from Forerunner Gaeas, or genesongs. Basically a biologically engineered destiny that manifests itself in the desired individual at the right time because of Space Elf Space Magic. That's why John can interact with Forerunner machinery and controls so intuitively. If I remember correctly, he has no idea how he does it though.

>>30316132
Spartan IIs were literally trained since they were like 6 to be the perfect soldiers. They don't show emotion. Hell, doubt they even have emotions at that point.

>>30318480
>>30318608
Flash cloning is really the only clone tech that is available. Stable clones were not something that could've been produced.

>>30320233
organized ops where?

>>30320366
>They don't show emotion
They do occasionally in different ways like the smiley face swipe they do to their faceplates to show how happy the Spartans felt to see each other again after so long apart in First Strike.
If I ever saw that in one of the games I would squeal in happiness.

>>30312292
>>30312313
The problem there bucko, is that you're comparing the more "sensible" look of the game protagonists "canon" appearance to a bunch of customised Spergtans from multiplayer where everybody tries to out-peacock each other

>>30320056
Blue Team got upgrades, but they didn't buy into the Spartan-IV shit. Spartan-IIs and IVs have a very mixed relationship

>>30312253
The tube is the wide ass tumor on top, that's how it could hold 12 shells initially. The rube under the barrel is just a rod for the pump, also the flashlight.

>>30320463
Try the Operation Trebuchet Subreddit.

>>30320233
Yeah, I checked, I was mixing them up since some guns held 32 rounds and i thought they doubled the amount to 64 or something.

>>30320334
I don't know shit about forerunners and Promethean or whatever, except it relates to covenant religion cult and stuff, and we somehow have some forerunner dna?

>>30320556
They weren't based on the protags, though. Their armor is pretty standard and most of those pieces can be obtained early on. The color tones in Reach were more darker and sensible compared to 4's. Also, the black undersuit makes the spartan's color not splurg at you in the face. The scratches and weathering also help with this a lot.

>>30311334
CE-Reach is awesome
The rest are garbage

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>Sabot round sniper rifle

>>30322539
I liked the rustic look of the Spartan IIIs, mostly because they didn't look like fucking anime characters or some shit like the Spartan IVs.

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>>30311334
>tfw she will never be canon

>>30319307
Gauss hogs withing a decade.

>>30320166
Oversexualized to the point of stupidity, what the fuck 343?

>>30320366
>doubt they even have emotions
Chief was clearly devastated by the death of Sgt. Johnson.

>>30324184
All of us were anon.

>>30324218
;-;7

>>30324184
God, he didn't deserve to be zapped by GuiltyFuck.

>>30319127
What? Can Spartans even get fat?

>>30311677
Why the hell did this have to be a god of war game? No relation to the original canon, different setting and gameplay. Just make a new IP and stop trying to use the old stable to sell the shitty new consoles.

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>>30324357
My question is can they get pregnant

>>30324357
It was meant to be a joke, its a pretty common one actually.

>>30324599
Depends on how well you can handle having your pelvis crushed into powder.

>>30324637
Can they though and how would the baby turn out

>>30324676
Fuck if I know Anon, look it up.

>>30324676
While they could have a baby the augmentation process suppresses their sex drive. Also ONI would be somewhat unhappy with you.

>>30324599
No. The augmentation process rendered everybody infertile.
Government property shouldn't be getting knocked up or knocking anybody up in the first place.

>>30311334
>those tactics

Its not like there aren't a shitton of unemployed combat veterans that would think dressing up in sci-fi military equipment and acting like atcual soldiers would be fun as fuck.

>>30324825
That's not a bad idea actually.

>>30312313
That's what happens when 343 only designs 6 of the armors and outsources the rest of them to some idiots who don't understand the aesthetics of the series.

>>30316552
Also Spartan Fireteam Black got unceremoniously snuffed by the Didact during Halo Escalation..

>>30324814
No it didn't, you're thinking of a possible side-effect which could cause with issues "getting it up" so-to-speak.

>>30324599
>>30324796
>>30324814
I heard that the augmentation process COULD suppress their sex drive as a possible side effect, not that it definitely would.

>>30311334
> that video
I liked the landfall video because it showed how much marines sacrificed just to get the location of where chief will land pinpointed. No badass Spartans, just little marines getting their shit rocked

>>30318070
>where my fucking arma faggots at?
Right here.>>30320233

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Halo loser again.

The Halo franchise has so many good places it could branch out to, they could even take the place of all the books and stuff 343 are putting out. Most Halo players entered Halo 4 not knowing what the hell was happening (same in H5) because they didn't shift through the mountains of books and backstory outside of the game.

Game where you play the captain of UNSC ship and fight in 3 dimensions against splintered Covenant and resurgent Innies near the Outer Colonies to help provide background on why ONI is restarting the same black ops missions they did before the war and to illustrate how much of a bad way both Humanity and the Arbiter are after the War (which leaves them open for a crazed AI to swoop in with her force to make them reunite or perish with their already engaged forces..)

Or maybe you are an ODST brought in to ONI to engage in the aforementioned black ops. Assassinating colonial leaders who are waving words around carelessly, get in ambushes at a behind the scenes funding of arms to separatists forces fighting the Arbiter, stealth your way into Innie hideaways and ships to sabotage them, or maybe watch over research teams studying classified Forerunner ruins with information the UNSC may need.

Or be a regular old marine whose unit is stationed on the Infinity and are deployed to fight all the battles we never see as Chief and Spartan-0IVs are off doing the heavy lifting. Maybe have a squad you can order around the battlefield, show us the human side of those who are veterans of a decades long war that left much of humanity glassed and dead.

So much better then reading yet again about 343's Mary Sues and convoluted ONI fuckery without backgrounds I have to read 4 books for.

>>30326905
I want another ODST game, in the style of Republic Commando.
Muh fucking dick.

>>30325958
It's the brainwashing they get, not the augs, they are essentially organic murderbots.
Halo 4-5 and could have been interesting with seeing how chief, who is made solely for war, would cope without one

>>30317796
>>30317862
>he read the nylund trilogy
My man

>>30326905
Yeah but 343 is obsessed with replacing everything bungie did with their own versions and changes.

>>30327046
Its both. Sex drive repression was a side effect, though it matters little due to the mental state of Spartan-IIs and their anti-social behavior. Its kinda implied that the only people they would really ever be able to hook up with is other Spartans, and even that is neigh impossible as they could take it as compromising their combat effectiveness. However, with the War mostly over, it would be interesting to see Spartans try to retire or start some kind of bonus army stunt demanding compensation for what the UNSC did to them.

Imagine seeing a Spartan in a bar, most of humanity are veterans but you can bet that they are getting free drinks from everyone there. Or see them running for an office, with their genius level intelligence and lifetime service they are taking any election they enter.

>>30327263
>You will never pick up the emotional stunted 6'2 ripped spartan qt at the bar and go back home for some death by snoosnoo

Why even live

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>>30327263
Side note, and its these problems in mind that are causing ONI to dick around the Spartan-IIs and try to completely make the suicidal children of the Spartan-IIIs disappear.

Side note, they only really good (depending on how you look at it) thing 343 did lore wise was the Hunt the Truth audio series. I was amazed at its quality and wish they did more stuff like that.

>>30327263
In my opinion, Chief wouldn't sit in a bar, neither would the rest of Blue Team.
If Chief would drink, he'd probably do it alone in his tiny apartment.

Otherwise, I don't think somebody who has been a trained killer since childhood could ever just settle down. They'd be something like an uber Travis Haley times 10.

>>30327046
The thing is, I feel as if it doesn't COMPLETELY suppress it, as I'm pretty sure it is mentioned in Fall of Reach that Chief thought Kelly was beautiful.

>>30327301
>snoosnoo
>not cuddles
you damn degenerate.

>>30327263
>>30327315
>Spartans form their own PMC units

>>30327263
>with their genius level intelligence and lifetime service they are taking any election they enter.
Like hell I'm voting for autistic war-assets.

>>30327326
Beauty =/= I wanna fug that.

>>30327330
>not wanting to be crushed between her thighs, bleached white from far too much time away from the in her armour.

>>30327326
In the same way I might wear my bad-ass shades and gaze at the majesty of a full-scale nuclear detonation, uttering sweet nothings as the countryside is lit up in atomic hellfire.
Yeah, it's that kinda beautiful.

>>30327301
I shouldn't laugh this hard at this hour.
>>30327337
What else could they do with themselves?
They do point out in Halo 4 I believe that Spartan IIs are loners, not like they could just go join a club or hang out with normal people.

>>30327326
Chief had a thing for Linda though.

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>>30327393
I'd at least ask, man.
Who the fuck wouldn't want a go at that shit?

>>30327404
Well I figure any Spartan II doesn't actually have a choice in retirement. Even the washouts got ONI deskjobs. They work for life dawg.

>>30327346

>UNSC
>Democratic government

Pick one

>>30327495
Aren't they just the entire military at that point, not the whole government? I'm confused.

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>>30327346
You might not say that if they guy running has literally saved humanity or you fought alongside them.

>>30327495
I forget what the governemtn is now, think right before the Human-Cov war the UNSC was basically taking all the power, and then when it happened they became the government. Think Fleet Admiral Terrance Hood is basically the leader of humanity now, with the politicians as window dressing.

>>30327337
Then ONI loses their shit and tries to kill them, all while talking about how Halsey is a monster and blah blah who cares about the greater good they were just children

>>30327429
Any man would trade just about anything to get under the sheets with what is basically the representation of Martial perfection stuffed into womanly(ish) form. Pic related

>>30327301
>6'2"
more like 6'10"-7'2"

>>30327592
7 foot in the armor. Probably more like 6'5"ish.

>>30327495
>>30327539
>>30327578
It goes by the nae if the Unified Earth Government, its a representative democracy
but when the human-covenant war began the UNSC took control of the government, where it swiftly gave back control after the war

>>30327539
>>30327578

Apparently following the end of the Human-Covenant War the UNSC handed over control to the UEG and Dr. Ruth Charet was inaugurated as president. Still...queen of ashes

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>>30319584
>implying shooting rounds the size of small moons isn't cool as fuck

>>30327638
So I do get to vote on the Sperg-lord War Hero. Neat.

>>30327679
I wouldn't call the worst case of lonliness and PTSD plus heartbreak, "sperg".

>>30327578

It's not like the UEG will get any attention, no-one cares about bureaucrats and politicians in a series about super soldiers, aliens and genocide space stations

>>30327717
It's more that in tandem with their upbringing.
I'd probably still vote somebody of Chief's caliber in though.

>>30327901
>Mr Petty Officer how do you propose we deal with the massive amount of rebuilding and rehabilitation we now face since the war is over and we are spread thin?
>Try shooting our way out, mix things up a little

>>30327949

>I have survived a brutal childhood of military training and advanced schooling, fought for the entirety of the Human-Covenant War, and have witnessed every horror know to man.
>And I still find getting bipartisan support the hardest challenge I've ever faced.

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>>30327949
>>30327998
kek

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miss the old bungie forums desu lads

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>>30311334
>Reminder that Bungie was based

>>30328099
It hurts to remember everything up to 4.
Books included.

>>30328099
I wish 5.56 ammo came in battle packs with carry handles.
>>30327998
>>30327949
lel

I'd love a game where you play as an ONI/ODST spook before or right as the Covenant show up.

>>30318022
I think the augmentations were intended for use with the suits. One of the books mentioned an unaugmented human testing the suit out, and when he extended his arm it went out so fast that it broke his arm in several places.

This started him convulsing, leading to bone fractures over his entire body.

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>>30328246
Playing as an ONI team in general would be pretty awesome, but it would have to be an ONI that 343 doesn't give their current writers to much work in. They already bungled the organization up with the recent books.

>>30328341
Haven't been keeping up with the lore in the last five or so years, but it seems like ONI has gone from "bastards who do bad shit for the greater good" to "sadistic assholes who are a parody of the CIA"

>>30328341
>ODST themed Republic Commando

Didn't 343 hire some guys that worked on RC?

>>30320556
Those Reach models look like multiplayer characters to me.

Don't match the designs of any of Noble Team.

>>30328386
They are the MP guys.
The fact that the person in Kats getup is a dude and also has both arms should be a big giveaway

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>>30328246
>>30328341
ODST was pretty decent for this, you even got a shady spook attached to your squad who changes the mission at the last possible second.

>That defense of the ONI building.
>Falling back across the bridge, fighting for every inch before finally blowing it.
>Getting assisted by Marines, ONI security and NMPD.
>Sweep and clear the building as they desperately try to evacuate and burn everything at the same time.

>>30328038
Holy shit, right though?
Was that even real.
Weekly bungie update... oh gosh ;_;

>>30327676
Wasn't the UNSC now the big dog (albeit a wounded one) after Halo 3? Since the Covenant largely cannibalized itself and human tech was really reaching an apex with stuff like the infinity.

>>30328351
Basically. Before they used to do Ops that were pretty deep under the covers, but were practical. They mostly stayed in their lanes and just went as far as they needed too.

Now they just do stupid shit constantly and are made out like some CIA/Illuminati shadow organization.

You should definitely listen to the Hunt the Truth audio bit they did to kinda see the change, its actually pretty good but the ONI portrayal is just...bleh.

>>30328410
ODST is highly under appreciated, but yeah something similar would be cool.

It even answers the same thing above. ONI has their own secret squirrel stuff going on, but the extent of it makes sense and they don't do anything crazy to get what they needed.

>>30328449
Didn't help that the Covenant always just imitated Forerunner designs and never tried improving them.

Shit, Cortana made the plasma torpedoes several times more effective just by changing some settings.

Writefag entertaining the idea of a Halo fanfiction here. Is there anything H4 and beyond worth salvaging or should I just extrapolate from everything in the Bungie era?

>>30328449
Humanity is bouncing back massively, the Elites and others are all engaged in civil wars or retreating back to their own little sections of the world.

Only problem is that now that the war is over, the old Human tendencies are coming out. Old scores to settle from during and even before the war are now giving ONi and the UNSC military as a whole a run for their money.

>>30328478
Its probably all been beaten to death at this point if its Bungie-era.

>>30328478
Humanity's rise from the ashes has some great themes and a lot of the ONI stuff can be handled in a really interesting way as Humanity takes it's place as the new power-player in the galaxy.

Most of the relevant stuff in H4 and H5 focuses around the forerunners, so if that's your thing you're going to have to look into them deeper.

>>30328478
Bungie only man. 343 fucked up hard.
>>30328482
Aren't we also funding all that in-fighting on Sanghelios?

>>30328478
The general idea at and after H4 is good.

UNSC is giving way to civilian government, the military needs to resize to meet the new rebuild and pacification missions, the Navy has to guard space lanes, ONI and politicians are trying to still colonial fires, Spartans-IIs and IIIs have to find a new place for themselves due to neglect, humanity is incorporating vast technological growth while juggling their new diplomatic ties with other races they had fought for decades.

There is a lot of great places to write a story up, you just have to make it better then the shit 343 is throwing out.

>>30328520
>you just have to make it better then the shit 343 is throwing out.
Well that's sounds piss easy for what it's worth

>>30328505
Another of ONIs super smart plans that will totally not be a problem later in the future. I think Glasslands or Thursday's War covers the stupid shit they are doing in that department.

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>>30326946
>mfw that happens in 20 years

>>30328505
>Aren't we also funding all that in-fighting on Sanghelios?

That doesn't sound like an allegory for our interventionist fuckery in the Middle East at all.

>>30328410
>That fucking opening with the drop pod.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_Mpj6IWvko

>>30328497
>>30328500
>>30328505
>>30328520
Yeah I figured 343's stories would be trash.

One idea I've been entertaining for the longest time is actually a crossover (say what you will of that) with Mass Effect and a pinch or two of Firefly.

Probably wouldn't get much recognition, but whatever.

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What is the probability that we will see an ODST like unit in our lifetime?

I mean, Rangers are the ones that most resemble them. Specialized shock troops, send in in company sized elements.

>>30328530
Dude, I think it already fucked up. The guy who they funded was the main bad guy Elite in 4.
IIRC, instead of both sides destabilizing each other indefinitely, the radical Elite used a teleporter on a Forerunner installation and ended up on some Covenant farm world that hadn't heard the good news. Some odd months later and he actually has the Covenant somewhat back together chasing that Forerunner honeydick.

>>30328594
If we actually manage to figure out drop-pods I'll join up, even if its just for fun like parachuting.

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Watch out fuckers, best trailer dropping in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRMUYpH7bQk

>>30328582
If its good, I'd read it anon. I occasionally read through FF when I get the urge to read more on something I like.

There are plenty of times I have read stuff that is at or above the quality of what its about (especially Halo in the 343 age).

>>30328594
When Marines start doing PT to wear plate armor.
Also they need sexy new helmets and pauldrons.

>>30328594
Pretty sure we can build ODST suits right now. We're getting pretty good at working carbon nanotubes, and we've already got a hundred years of bulletproofing knowledge, and 4000+ years of armor building. Only problem is that a torso-sized sheet of CNT weave is like two grand, and thats only thick enough to stop .38 special if Im remembering correctly.

>>30328626
The big issue is that it needs to also be able to act as an atmosphere suit as well as armor, and that's not including the future-soldier shit built into it.

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>>30328611
Nothing will ever top this.

Maybe the Believe campaign. But that's it.

>>30328638
If we're tossing them from an orbiting spacecraft then the pod itself could be enough. Might be cheaper to just have a separate "landing craft" that descends into the upper atmosphere to drop them before heading back up to the mothership, because then we can just give them the same tech we have that keeps high altitude pilots alive when they bail out.

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Am I the only one who really liked that the Marines in Reach had different armor from the army troopers?

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>>30328594
I always liked the idea. The don't have to be dropped from orbit per say, but imagine a high altitude rapid decent directly where they are needed.

I imagine something like a C-130 like pic related. The red is where the pods would be, the blue is equipment lockers. They get the mission inflight, then pull from the lockers exactly what is needed, then drop.

>>30328582
No thank you. Halo's best thing is that its unique, wouldn't fit with Mass Effect or Firefly at all.

>>30328674
Why not reduce costs, maximise payload and just have guys HALO jump?

>>30328615
I'd like to think I'd write it well.

Basic outline I have is that postwar humanity rebuilds (probably with some of the struggles that >>30328520 mentioned) and discovers the Mass Relays, setting up basically the same meeting with the Council races that Mass Effect had (only instead of a greenhorn species, the Turians would be picking a fight with a grizzled galactic superpower that would probably jump to the conclusion that another aggressive species is trying to do the same damn thing the Covenant did)

I just have my work cut out for me working out how both universes mesh together, especially the Forerunners and Reapers.

>>30328677
Yeah, I figured some people wouldn't be on board with the crossover idea. But hey, I doubt I'm the only writefag looking in disgust at what 343 did with the series, anyway.

>>30328674
Makes sense.

iirc the marines were working on a program like that. Probably got scrapped. Let me see if I can find it

http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-space/article/2006-12/semper-fly-marines-space

>>30328715
Space X needs to start doing trans-planetary military deployment research after they get the Martian supply chain set up.

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>>30313631
MFW i learned on average about 27.3 ODST dont even make it to the ground

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>>30328694
The idea is to have not only a rapid arrival, but rapid time to combat.

The guys need to be able to drop, land, then fight in the shortest amount of time possible. No time fiddling with parachutes, door explodes off and your good to go. Plus, the pod can also act as a temporary command center or supply cache if you fit a computer and some space to hold a few ammo cans on it.

Maybe there is not a real need for it, but if it was an option you bet I'd be signing up to get my (what would we use as the badge for this?). Telling girls at a bar I drop in to the battlefield in a pre-made coffin, fight my way out of said coffin, then do a bunch of bad ass stuff would be an instant pantie soaker.

>>30328768
I figure a badge for some shit like this would be like a firey meteor or something.

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>>30328785

ODST insignia

>>30328753
27.3%

>>30328794
I see we're sending ants feet-first into hell now, are we?

>>30328709
Oh for sure, 343 were a pile of shit in terms of lore. Bungie had some great shit, there's a reason Reach was the last good Halo story-wise.

>>30328768
Until you're away on duty jumping out of planes while I'm repeatedly thrusting your girl

>>30328820
Oh Yeah !!!
they're great for infiltration and recon

>>30328829
Thats just asking to get killed by an armored fucker with ULTRA-PTSD

>>30328831
>they're great for infiltration and recon
Right into my damn pantry. I wish winter was here to freeze all insects to death again.

>>30328768
If I managed to mass produce some flags like this, would you guys be interested in buying them?

>>30328829
>wymen at home
>not just jacking it in your drop pod before and after deployment and maybe getting sweaty ODST Poon

>>30328840
Find the nest, leave a pile of gunpowder you've previously soaked in sugar water and let dry. Then introduce fire.

>>30328840
but if they are ODST im sure that they have body heat regulating body gloves

>>30328846
nest in sky, drops from above

>>30328846
I'll just piss in the anthill, same as usual. Then they get bleach cuz fuck the soil in my lawn.

>>30328844
Hell fucking yes.

A while ago I was looking through some different designs for ODST armor and wondering if I could through a set of it together, but try and make it work like actual body armor. If I had a flag, I'd set it up on the wall and lovingly craft armor under it.

>>30328844
Maybe. It depends on when you'd be able to get the ready for order.

>>30328864
Im slowly 3D printing a helmet. Takes forever, because the machine is a slow bastard, and windows 10 broke my slicing program, and the machine caught fire a few days ago.

>>30328672

Yeah it was a nice touch. Most games wouldn't bother having the Army and Marines have separate gear and roles.

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>>30328868
Probably October?

To get a quote, they need an amount. I'll just put 10 for now.

They are standard 3' x 5'.

This would be the design. I would have them do a nice golden border to give it authenticity.

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>>30328942
Seriously? That sounds perfect for me. Sign me up for some Halo merch that isn't 343 shit.

>>30328954
Should I add grommels?

Nah, that seems kinda tacky huh?

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>>30328954
Oh, here's the bigger version of that too

>>30328942
Sign me up friendo, how would you take orders?

>>30328967
Honestly that'd be up to you, but the design looks fine to me so far. Godspeed.

>>30328709
>Halo x ME
A crossover that has so much potential and yet all of the fics are shit.

>>30328999
Trips of truth right there.

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>>30328980
Shit I'm not even sure yet.

I've never done anything like this, so I gotta see.

>>30328983
Yeah, I'll just leave them off. People could always stick it to a wall or something.

This is the edited version. I made the border a little darker to match the inside Gold. Probably not a whole lot of difference but I'm autistic

>>30329013
Im sure you can figure it out. You could even make an etsy store or some shit like that. Looks like you got at least a few customers here, and I bet you can find some more over in /vg/ or something when the time grows near.

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>>30329013
Should it be like a banner, or like an actual flag?

Also, I took out the 19th BN on mine, but should we add something /k/ in there? make this look like a unit flag?

>>30329062
Oh fuck yeah that's a good idea. Dammit I already sent the sample for a quote.

It's cool I can always change it.

So what would be a good little /k/ thing on there?

>>30329062
Maybe add a slogan or motto in an arc across the top.
Something classy.
I'd keep the "19th BN" as it takes up some of the negative space on the actual emblem itself.
After that, you'd just need to tweek the colors and make it HD.

>>30329062
Agree with keeping in the 19th, it takes up some space that otherwise looks pretty vacant. I am a fan of the banner, just like in the original trailer. To me, the design looks more at home on a banner. Id still consider a flag though

>>30311334

No.

LIterally 500 years from now, space faring humans are still utilizing projectile based weaponry, when literally everything else in there society is incredibly advanced.

Just a few things that bug me.

>Can create powered armor systems with internal batteries, but can't provide simple loadbearing exoskeletons to troops
>Can utilize shields on a spartan trooper, but can't figure out how to put it on a star ship, despite the fact that cortana flat out states that they have similar architechture
>Despite having power sources small enough to allow a shipgrade AI inside a suit, they can't figure out how to create their own functional directed energy weapons or create infantry sized MAC guns

>Aliens utilize plasma projectors
>Somehow they aren't getting their shit kicked in because PLASMA DOESN'T FORM COHERENT BEAMS

That's just small arms. Vehicles are even more retarded.

The Warthog is literally a death trap, and no engineer would ever create it, except for game play.

>>30329062
Im going to sleep now, thanks flagAnon. Make a thread tomorrow noon cst or something, ill be around. Keep us updated

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>>30329124
>>30329092
Can someone do it for me?

Sorry, I only have paint and can't into arc text

>>30329166
Jawhol, have a good one buddy

>>30329173
I would but If I'm spending money on anything that would make that look professional.
Adobe is really fucking about selling individual programs and I ain't buying the whole fucking creative suite.

>>30329188
It's cool I'll see if I can torrent it.

>>30329194
If you can find an individual torrent for Adobe Illustrator, shoot me that shit.
I can make that flag look nice and purty If I have my tools.

>>30329205
Look out for the flag thread tomorrow. Sometime around 10am PST.

I'll have the banner as my OP

>>30329229
Sweet. I'll be sure to make an effort, man.

>>30329159
While some of the stuff is a bit out there, the first two points:
>Can create powered armor systems with internal batteries, but can't provide simple loadbearing exoskeletons to troops
The Spartan project (in particular the Mjolnir armor) was prohibitively expensive.

>Can utilize shields on a spartan trooper, but can't figure out how to put it on a star ship, despite the fact that cortana flat out states that they have similar architechture
Shield tech was only cracked just before the Battle of Reach if you go off proper canon lore. It was downscaled specifically for the Spartan IIs and their mission to capture a prophet. The reason it wasn't adapted to ships for Halo 2/3 was that almost all of humanity's shipyards were at Reach and Mars, and all the assets available were pulled back to defend Earth. Most of the UNSC fleet was destroyed at the battle of Reach.

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rate em, boys

>>30329413
The two from 3. 4 looks alright save the helmet. Rest are either too bulky or barely armored.

>>30329413
>There haven't been actual ODST's seen since Reach.

That's just sad.

>>30329413
3 and ODST are where its at.

In other news, just installed Operation Trebuchet and the modified version of DUWS so I can freeform deliver the UNSC dick to the innies. Feels good.

>>30329413
In order of sexyness, first to last;
>Halo 3 ODST
Iconic. Hitting all the right notes.
>Halo 3
It is damn near the same model as ODST, just less iconic
>Halo Reach
Neato, but ODST/3 have better boots
>Halo Reach Spartan
Skin suits ain't got shit on BDU's
>Halo 2 Anniversary
Pretty neato. I miss the bulk though.
>Halo 5 Buck
Buck is still king of shit mountain
>Halo 4
That helmet is yours to lose
>Halo 5 Nightfall
I like it, but it sure as shit isn't Halo
>Halo 2
It was a cool concept, but thank God we got better resources.

>>30328541

Kinda. The ONI also fucked it up when their incompetence allowed Jul Mdama to escape and create his own covenant remnant faction, which had a hand in aiding the Didacts attack on New Pheonix, leaving 6 million dead on Earth.

Think that Kilo5 ONI got shitcanned after they realised they were just rearming neo-Covies, if they were smart.

>>30328709
>Halo vs Mass Effect
Isn't there a HUGE power difference between Mass Effect and Halo ships? Not even counting the Covenant, who use direct energy weapons. But for the UNSC vs the Citadel races?

MACs completely blow mass accelerators out of the water, don't they?

>>30329779
Isn't MAC just an acronym for Mass Accelerator Cannon? They're both just mass drivers right?

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>Playing H4
>Mantle's Approach tanking every shot the UNSC home fleet throws at it
>Wonder to myself how the Hell this is possible
>Read up on the subject, learn just how big the ship is
Jesus fuck

>>30329852
Shame it just looks like a big shiny metal turd

>>30329779
>>30329807
magnetic accelerator cannon, it's a big rail gun.
Mass effects cannons actively defy the laws of physics to fire because lol mass effect.

ME flogs the living shit out most other sci-fi thanks to mass effect related shit essentially just being magic.

>>30329907
I think they were coil guns, but same shit really.

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>>30329907
>ME actually worth shit in sci-fi
Bow down to the true masters of Sci-Fi

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>>30330057
The large mobile fortress on the left with the right economy can be constructed in under a minute, and can in turn construct the large bot in the previous image in under 20 seconds (and keep making more)

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>>30330065
Another scale picture because Supcomm gives me an enourmous murderboner

>>30330057
>>30330065
>>30330069
why I said 'most' faggot
[supersecret] Cybran for lyfe [/supersecret]

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Why haven't we seen the vulture

>>30320085
Just what they called "flash cloning". I think she had fully grown and functioning organs in about an hour.

>>30328999
Which is exactly why I'm carefully calculating how they'll interact together.

Part of me wants to closely follow ME's plot (at least where Shepard would be concerned), but that's also kind of tricky to do, considering a bouncing back humanity could probably rival the entirety of ME's races in military power.

>>30329779
I've thought about that, and while UNSC mass drivers outclass ME's in raw power, ME can deliver a faster rate of fire, and can potentially carry more ammunition as the actual slugs are far smaller, too.

A dreadnought in ME only uses a 20kg (44 pound) slug at 4000 km/s while a much smaller frigate in Halo uses a 600 /ton/ slug at 30 km/s.

I like how /k/ has actual discussions about halo as opposed to /v/ or /hg/ where they just bitch and moan.

>>30330940
Cause we are classy

>>30330863
If you calculate the sheer force the UNSC ones hit with then consider that it often took 2 or 3 of those in quick succession to just down a CRS light cruisers shields (UNSC ships often couldn't survive long enough to make this a possibility), it becomes apparent very quickly that the Covenant would have shat on the assorted alien races. Except maybe the Turians or that massive Asari ship.