sci-fi bullshittery

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bump comin straight from the underground

>>34816065
>smart link scope
>aim down sights

>>34816065
Don't care OP, I would have paid money to see that movie.

>>34816065
We have had technology to let you shoot a rifle with a heads up display since the 90s. When people wear night vision they use ir lasers to aim not the sights

The original CE and 2 Marine helmet. From Halo 3 onward they either had jaw protectors that fucked the cheekweld or were fully enclosed, but originally they were lit.

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>>34816065

God I miss the heavy plating of Bungie era Marines.

Halo is my favorite unrealistic universe, they do goofy and well done designs without completely shattering the suspension of disbelief.

It's not overdone like Killzone and it isn't autistic neckbeard shit like 40k.

Nice balance, between fun and realism.

>>34816438
I always liked the Helghast designs. I was kind of let down with the gameplay, because I got the wrong impression from the game

>>34816438
>that armor
>realistic in the slightest

Enjoy dying from having shrapnel cut through the artery you have in your thigh. It's especially stupid since they have greaves instead.

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>>34816961
I dunno, I liked how the Killzone gameplay felt like everything had weight and mass behind it.

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>>34817393

I literally said unrealistic in my post...

Shit is still dope.

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>>34816065
>Sci-fi helmets
>Aim down sights

Nigger have you ever worn Google Glasses? Sights of the future will be a camera fixed to the gun linked to the helmet.

>>34816065
>I'll start
But those still don't let you get a cheek weld at all. FUck off underage faggot

>>34818839
People born in 97 can use 4chan now, what are you still doing here?

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>using sights

>>34816119
>firing from the hip is just as accurate as shouldering the weapon

>>34817482
Don't get me wrong, it's still good. I just thought the Helghast were going to be some kind of horror element, like an unfeeling supercomputer who's able to see your moves five steps in advance.

>>34818833
>republic commando
>only star wars game I ever liked

You're okay. Please stick around.

>>34818610
Fun fact, Sgt. Johnson was in the Orion program. Also known as the Spartan I program

>>34819840
Is that why he's immune to the flood?

>>34819859
Probably. Also explains how he is league's above other marines and even ODST. The Orion program was ultimately a failure. Most of the candidates suffered extreme mental degradation. The program was scrapped and the remaining subjects were then integrated bank into rank and file. Most succumbed to extreme ptsd and the like and were institutionalized. Others made their way to special operations groups. And were sworn to secrecy by ONI. Orion was erased, until it was started back up by Halsey under a new name. The Spartan II program.

>>34819935
Fuck, I need to buy the books again.

>>34817393
>Shrapnel
Aliens use plasma and I remember those plates stopping it from burning through your shit

>>34818833
>>34819319
>liking that piece of shit Medal of honor copy

>>34816065
They have a literal HUD/zoom with an crosshair anon. They need no sights.

>>34819935
>Orion was erased
It wasnt, nobody just knew what it was alongside with shit like Trenchbucket

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>>34819954
I love them. Halo is one of the few games I really love to nerd out on. The lore and story as a whole is just enjoyable.

>>34819172

That's a good point, the cheek weld serves to help the entire upper body stiffen and increase stability with the lower body. Cameras help around corners and over barriers only.

>>34819859

I've got the concept books, and he wasn't part of the Spartan program, he's immune to the flood because due to fighting the covenant for so long, the plasma grenades have made him radioactive AND cancerous. Due to the radiation, the flood can't get a biological grip on him.

>>34820171
>he's immune to the flood because due to fighting the covenant for so long, the plasma grenades have made him radioactive AND cancerous. Due to the radiation, the flood can't get a biological grip on him.
that's pretty fucking neato.
what enhancements do 'spartan I's have?

>>34819859
No, his immunity comes from vast exposures to plasma. That is the explanation they give in one of the books, not sure which though.

>>34818833
>>34819319
That HUD was aesthetic af
>>34820065
Reee fierfeks get out

>>34820171
>>34820219
Can't tell if it was a retcon but from what I remember the whole radiation from fighting Covenant thing (Boren's Syndrome they called it) was a cover up by ONI to conceal the existence of the ORION program.
Also lets be honest, if it was true there'd be at least hundreds (somewhere around 100-200 marines out there I'd say, attrition rates are still fucking high in the Halo universe) would be completely immune to Flood infection.

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>>34816065
nobody posted the DEVTAC Ronin? disappointed.

>>34820171
It's from a single large dose not long-time overexposure.

Originally Johnson had Boren's Syndrome, a radiation-induced CNS disease. He was the last man standing in some ship-board action and used literally crates and crates of plasma grenades to repel waves of Covenant troops. It made his CNS janky and the flood can't take hold.

it's since been retconned to >>34820274

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>>34820219
It comes from vast exposure to plot armor and shoehorning.

Also, Halo 1 was the only good Halo, and the first three books were the only ones worth reading.

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>>34820104

Classic, pre-343i Halo is like the /k/ Star Wars, honestly a fantastic stylized universe.

ODSTs, M6Ds, and Spartan II/IIIs are top tier military scifi.

>>34816065

so where's the pics of ODST larpers aiming their guns?

>>34820804

*Actors mate.

It's from an insanely well produced trailer called Halo Landfall.

>>34820426
>Using eye pieces instead of a visor

Have fun losing your peripherals.

>>34819089
People born in 99 can use 4chan now

>>34820487
Apparently everything got retconned from the original material. Just did a quick google. Wtf happened to the storyline?

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lmao look at this sci fi bullshit, good luck aiming with this on

>>34821602
>aiming with night vision goggles on
What is a peq15 for 300, alex?

>>34821583
I think 343i did a retcon on a bunch of stuff.
Though I think the whole ORION project/Boren's Syndrome retcon was from way back. Like around Halo 2/Halo 3.

May have something to do with the books, IMO. Plus, like I said, if they stuck with the Boren's Syndrome explanation then logically humanity would have hundreds of people they could use to fight the Flood as they could never get infected.

Personally I sort of like the ORION explanation. It gives a lot of reason as to why Johnson is a badass other than him just being a badass.

>>34821692
That's what I'm sayin dawg

>>34819935
Nah he was immune to the flood because of a neurological disease from overexposure to plasma grenade wash. Its covered in "first strike" his nervous system was so damaged that the flood couldn't force its way in.

Those books are god tier. My favorite shit ever in freshman year hs

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>>34821692

Well in the futurr of HUD displays and full face helmets, it's like aiming with NVGs where a cheekweld is optional with a PEQ/ any laser device. It's just point dot to target and pew.

>>34819172
>what is shooting with a PEQ and NODs

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Post your Spartans

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>>34822317

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Master chief or noble six? Who's da bestest?

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>>34820781
All I want is a rainbow 6 Vegas styled squad-based halo game where you are average joe marine set 10 years into the human covenant war. make it gritty as fuck with environmental damage.

>>34823368
>Who is better at their job (typically, fucking shit up)?
Overrated NCO Man.

>Who has better logical thought and silent contempt in their actions?
Noble.

>>34821774
>>34822162
Fuck that ODST book 343i did.

Any of you read it? Basically The Rookie is dead, got taken hostage and was executed. Micky became a fucking innie too.
It was the biggest, "Fuck you" 343 had done

>>34823937
I have wanted this since I was 9 years old. Make it like ODST but not goofy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K24y7R9cUGw

>>34824078
The odsts had their time to shine, the war wasn't won/lost with just Spartans and odsts. Millions were drafted and died during the decades of war. I want a bloody graphic military horror halo.

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>>34824161
I want to play as a Marine in a squad. Preferably in encounters with the flood. A single infection form could one hit kill me if teammates don't shoot it off.

https://youtu.be/ubZE29cOgvc

>>34823937
>>34824078

This would get my to buy an Xbone.

>>34822117
We would have been friends in school then. I hate to admit it but yeah new canon is what >>34820274 said. Sarge was a "Spartan I"

>>34820426
Theres no way that has safe backface deformation or is comfortable to wear or use.

Is it real or airshit?

>>34825144
>armor
Mah nigga. That book is fucking legit and it has one of my favorite endings ever

>>34824061

Didn't read it, but found out after binge reading Halo wiki.

It's more of a gesture of symbolic takeover like how Disney bought over Star Wars and killed EU but gave GA Thrawn an honorable mention in rebels.

In this case, the honorable mention is killing off your favourite characters in a sidestory.

RIP Rookie.

Also the Spartan Gen 2 ODST helmet sucks and looks like librarian's hair.

>>34821602
eo tech/aimpoint with ir nv compatability

>>34821602
Can you imagine being some snackbar caveman fuck and having THAT come after you?

>>34825109
totally real, go do some researcha nd watch some videos

>>34825749
most military optics are compatible with NODs it's just hard as shit to look through them while you're wearing NODs

>>34824061
Found it out the same way as >>34825689
Honestly the only 343i-era book I've ever bothered to get was Cryptum. I like the Forerunner saga as more of peripheral reading and fanfic shit.
And fuck 343 for killing off the rookie. I don't even see much sense in it.
It's basically like how they killed off Jul Mdama in the beginning of Halo 5. It basically fucked over anyone who even remotely liked Halo 4 Spartan Ops.

>>34825162
I swear they based some of the units in ArmA Apex off of that. The helmet looks like a CTRG Stealth Helmet crossed with the CSAT Viper Helmet.

>>34825829
I can't find anything on it thats objective and not by some shitty rag of a newspaper.

Almost everything thats out there is from the company, and the "testing" they show doesn't list ammunition loadings or proper testings for BFD. There's no reviews, no discussion about how they hold up to use and the people in the videos don't inspire confidence in their knowledge of firearms.

Very skeptical, especially given that they don't seem to have addressed the problems that have kept ballistic face masks from use in the past.

>>34823368
Chief. Noble was aight but chief is god-tier. Sure he never fought in any really bad theaters like Reach but he fought on the halos and Noble (even though he did take out a whole Corvette) never had to face the flood.

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>>34826281
Yeah that Jul Mdama shit was annoying.
Spartan Ops did kinda piss me off too, though
>Halsey gets shot in the shoulder
>Elites cut off her lower arm to.. save her life?

I got the book about R'tas because he was my favorite character in Halo 3 and the new book is the first he's been brought up since that game.

>>34825689
Definitely.
I also hate the fucking Spartan IVs. What a lame, boring addition.

>>34827043
Speaking of Rtas, at least Blur still does good by Halo. Shame they're leashed by 343i
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRBGSsHQeAo

>>34820727
First and third you mean. Book two was literally a walk through of the Xbox game. I got one chapter in and gave up.

>>34826649
Chief did fight on Reach in the books, which are canon.

>>34823368
Chief by a long shot. Noble Six never had to face the Flood.

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>Men, we led those dumb bugs out to the middle of nowhere to keep them from getting their FILTHY claws on Earth, but we stumbled onto something they're so hot for their scrambling over each other to get it. Well, I don't care if its God's own anti-son-of-a-bitch machine or a giant hula-hoop, we're not gonna let em have it! What we WILL let em have is a belly full of lead and a pool of their own blood to drown in!
>AM I RIGHT MARINES?
>Sir, yes sir!
>Mhm, damn right I am. Now move it out, double time!
How can one man be so based? I think Halo proved that only good things can come from hiring Sgt. Apone's actor for your game.

>>34827150
I was the same when the books first came out. I eventually read the 2nd out of boredom. It is a walk thru at times but it had it's moments.

It explains what the marines and odsts did after the pillar of autumn crashed. How they delt with the flood, what happened to covenant while on halo. What happened to captain Keyes commanding officers from the first book.

It had it's moments.

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>>34816065
>>34818839
Like that even fucking matters. There isn't any reason why you couldn't use that helmet and those sights together effectively, it just might not be very comfortable. That said if it becomes an issue just raise the sights a tiny bit and then viola! Problem fixed.

You don't need a cheek weld for infantry marksmanship at all, we're not talking about tack driving precision. Even a general "shoot in that direction" is good enough, infantry rifle fire is not some incredible thing that wins engagements, it's the thing that ties down some retard up in the hills until artillery/CAS/mortars/rocket/grenades can actually make the kill. If you really want it to be possible to look down the sights without any encumbrance whatsoever, settle with a helmetcheek weld, because all you're doing is stabilizing the weapon in relation to the head/body. (hence the effectiveness of the chin weld in certain positions)

So in short, fuck your cheek weld. That's not even the thing that should concern you about all this sci-fi stuff. You should be more worried about what that stuff can be used for when exposed to the lowest common denominator.

>unknown alien world
>2358
>marine stumbles back to FOB bewildered out of his goddamn mind
>his helmet targeting computer has been gutted
>actually most of his helmet is fucked, possibly by small arms fire
>whathappened.avi
>marine waves his arms around and moans incoherently
>later rest of platoon comes back
>yay, Pvt. Tardmime is here
>whathappened-2.mpeg
>squad leader explains that Tardmime and his well-bred colleagues were bored
>so naturally they took two service pistols, electronically primed and capable of rapid fire, and fastened them to his helmet and linked them to his helmet computer
>essentially they made a heads-up anti-aircraft turret
>then somebody saw one of those annoying alien birds that everyone hates

Hundreds of years from now grunts will still be fucking retarded.

>>34825109
Real, but made by a Japanese airshiter.

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>>34827059
>mfw I will never fight 8 foot tall aliens in powerarmor to the death

>>34816438
They brought that style of armor back in hw2, not that anyone cares

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>>34829609
>it's a good thing I'm not going to be expected to move my arms today

I also want to point out how they didn't even attempt to hide the clipping on the guy on the right because of how horrible the design is.

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I always really liked the designs of the Marines and Army troops in Reach

>>34819141
>pissdrinkers

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>>34825144
>>34825545
Both mah niggas.

>Were most people didn't make it 5 meters(?) into the teleport wall/field, Felix damn near hits the opposite wall on a combination of fear, rage, and a will to live
>Right into 12 rows of goddamn ants
>Felix's face after

Also the life expectancy explanation of Scouts on Banshee compared to every other job was fucking brutal. First time I'd ever read some shit like that.

>>34820065
>One of the best FPS shooters ever that was designed and produced by completely different companies is a clone of one of the shittiest game series of all time

That is CNN-tier fraudulent news my friend.

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>>34820270
>the screen wiper that would clear rain, debris, and guts from your visor

>>34816438
Back when I played it as a kid I always thought that that armor was rather ad-hoc solution sctictly for dealing with covenants than standard issue.

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>>34816065
You don't need to aim down the sights when you're lugging around a goddamn MG3.

[Buzzsawing intensifies]

>>34816146
It's a real short film. Promo material for Halo 3, I believe. It was cool.

>>34829636
The models actually look slimmer in game.
IDK why they went back to Halo Wars 1 design with the large as portrait in this
>>34829752
Fucking loved that shit.
>>34829761
I think they actually use MG42's or MG34's.
Because nothing says shock and awe like facing with OG German engineering.

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>>34816065
Plebs and using sights to aim. Get on my level.

>>34816158
Stop noguns.

>>34829654
The fucking best

>>34823956
Where was the silent contempt with Noble?

Magnets in the helmet and stock could allow for perfectly repeatable cheek weld every time.

>>34830531
As long as the butt mates to the shoulder pocket as well.

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>>34820065
Trolling this hard, KYS

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Simply thinking that physics don't apply in the future..

More over the biggest fucking annoyance of all is the implication that encountering an alien species no matter how far future flung it might be, we as a military and a species in general would last in any drawn out campaign, let alone encounter one to begin with.

Inb4 >but anon we has space corp now

>fiction is ok anon I like crushing xeno

The whole thing is cringeworthy and for autists, I could sooner believe intergalactic war between far flung colonies of humans than a technologically superior alien species even stopping to Piss on a bunch of hairless space apes.

>>34830910
>spend literally your entire existence as a warring race
>only go to space because not enough war here on earth
>can't fight some aliens because they're different

the brits absolutely slaughtered the savages in africa you retarded piece of shit

>>34830935
Implying we a bunch of apes will actively match any other race?

Bruh your fucking retarded; if we ever encounter another race they will be beyond anything we have or will encounter. We'll be the savages cucktard

>>34831084
>if we ever encounter another race they will be beyond anything we have or will encounter

there's literally zero proof to this.

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>>34820065
Fierfek scum

>>34831098
And your hyposthesis of us being superior is what? A marathon Independance day and men in black?

My suspicion is more sound than yours pal, read up on the theories on how first contact works instead of playing xcom

>>34831121
>And your hyposthesis of us being superior is what?
it's based on the fact that humans are pretty good at war for having done it for the entirety of our existence.

we would reasonably be able to take on any race of equal age or younger especially if we were the invaders.

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>>34827580
>You don't need a cheek weld for infantry marksmanship at all, we're not talking about tack driving precision. Even a general "shoot in that direction" is good enough, infantry rifle fire is not some incredible thing that wins engagements, it's the thing that ties down some retard up in the hills until artillery/CAS/mortars/rocket/grenades can actually make the kill

>neverserved memes.

>>34831157
I believe he is saying that much like we as a species have not waged war on fruit flies, alien species too have not wages war on humans.

The fact that we have not detected signs of intelligent alien life does not mean that it doesn't exist. What if they are hiding from us, and we are simply unable to detect them? Who is to say that there isn't a self-replicating swarm of satellites programmed to ram themselves into planets of intelligent life?

In space, the only move is first attack. If you don't, the enemy can just launch the biggest projectile they have as fast as they can towards your planet, and there is nothing you can do to stop it, ensuring the complete obliteration of your entire race. The only winning move is to spread and propagate as far and as fast as you are able to, and destroy anything that could be a threat to you before it decides to fight back.

What resources do we have that they can't find easier from asteroids floating around? We have absolutely nothing an alien species would want, especially if they have to fight us for it. It's simply easier to instantly genocide opposing alien factions than have to deal with them chimping out on you.

tl;dr other anon is correct, you come off as a highschool summerfag who has done literally zero reading on space interactions. we might have already doomed ourselves because some rogue broadcasting stations launched a shitload of messages out into space a while ago for no reason in an attempt to contact aliens, without thinking that the aliens would just nuke us from space.

Actually one of the more prevalent things in space interaction is that we simply don't have the tech to understand what aliens are saying to us. You could blast radio waves to africa, but unless they have a radio, they can't hear it. Perhaps aliens are blasting us with space-jams, but it just looks like background noise to us with no pattern to it. Time will tell.

>>34831218
>killing illiterate thirdies while on horseback is somehow comparable to cruise bombers, tanks, and ICBM's
really impregnates your boipucci

>>34831157
fucking Christ
Are you retarded?

>we're good at killing each other so we'll be good at killing something we've never encountered

How many pre homosapiens we're eaten by bears before weapons

>how many MODERN Humane are still killed by random carbon based animals on our own planet

Just kill yourself, so this thought tree is thwarted now.

This video is pretty basic it might help you learn something as you clearly are thick as fuck. I hope you don't actually own a gun, you're too retarded to be responsible

https://youtu.be/1fQkVqno-uI

>>34831233
Thank you, at least someone has a shred of perspective on our planet and it's scale and role

>>34831233
>The fact that we have not detected signs of intelligent alien life does not mean that it doesn't exist
this was not my argument

>In space, the only move is first attack
>humans are incapable of doing this at any point in time far into the future

>The only winning move is to spread and propagate as far and as fast as you are able to, and destroy anything that could be a threat to you before it decides to fight back.
>Humans are for some reason incapable of ever doing this

>What resources do we have that they can't find easier from asteroids floating around?
>humans are incapable of mining meteors

we would reasonable be able to fight back against any species as young or younger than ours.
you sound like a young person who does not know about things.

>>34831308
>we would reasonable be able to fight back against any species as young or younger than ours.
Especially the farther and farther our civilization progresses scientifically.
> no matter how far future flung it might be

>>34831308
And where would these young aliens be?
If they have comparable tech to ours, then they don't exist withing at LEAST several lightyears, as in they effectively do not exist as they are too fucking far away that you couldn't get there in a dozen lifetimes.
If they are close but hidden, then they are obviously not comparable on a technological level.
If you are going to be pedantic and spout some this like
>"lul u fuckin idiot i was saying that we could kill on the bateria on MARS r u retarded???????"
then just go ahead and kill yourself

It's okay to admit that you have done zero research or reading into even the most cursory material on this subject.

>>34831327
>"ye but wat if its like a billion trillion gazillion years in the future???"
then it would probably default to standard thought on space interaction, as in "kill or be killed because there is zero room for error when complete destruction is on the line"

>>34831365
>And where would these young aliens be?
either on their planet billions of light years away where we would be attempting to propagate the human species (billions of years from now) or close by as a younger species with less technology.

>there's no way ever that we are ahead of a species anything that exists is better than us
kill yourself regardless.

>>34820104
>The lore and story as a whole is just enjoyable.

Yeah until 343 went full retard

>>34831486
>went
they started full retard.

>>34831493
>>34831486

After the summer fag, that right there made me laugh

>>34831433
We are one of the youngest galaxies, in a young solar system.
The odds are that if another alien species exists, it has been around for far longer than we have. Once you are able to harness the power of a sun, you effectively have unlimited power, and are free to float around sucking up other suns. The one saving grace that we have is that the universe is so fucking vast as to be effectively masking everything from aggressive species.

Lets go over some assumptions of meeting another alien species:
>any species that is spacefaring would be an apex predator, as it was able to out-compete every other species on the planet
>it has managed to get past a great filter that allowed them to engage in vast spacefaring expeditions
>they have managed to manage their own environment to be hospitable to life after any damage they have done to it, or have managed to start collecting resources from space/nearby planets
>they have not decided to just upload themselves to a planetary AI and life forever in the core of a planet, which means that they are not complatent
>they have seen how humans interact and feel confident they would be able to defend themselves against us and our weapons

The chance of there being an alien civilization that is close enough to us to interact with, on a similar technological level, and not hyper-aggressive (like humans are) is so exceedingly small as to be zero.
If we ever meet aliens, one of us will be wiped out before the other is killed. There is literally nothing to be gained.
>give dindus space-tech and they chimp out on you
>anything the dindus have you can get somewhere else easier
>no need for slaves when you have robots, no need for any physical goods when you can just synthesize them
>if they for some reason have something you want, it would be easier to just infect the planet with a virus and then collect the raw materials you want
>"its impossible for an alien race to launch a nuke the size of the moon at us because i say so!"

>>34823368
>Noble Six, the team's most recent addition. My my, so much black ink. Six has made entire militia groups disappear. Curious... 'hyper-lethal.' There's only one other Spartan with that rating...

I really wish it was noble 6 instead of fucking Locke who was hunting .

>>34831433
what purpose would aliens have with us?
look at colonialism, all it did was fuck over europeans in the end, with essentially no benefit past spices and sugar and slave labour. aliens have no need for shit like that if they are able to come to earth, as there are probably a million other planets with water or iron or whatever the fuck else they need, and there isnt any pesky humans running around to fuck things up. they wouldnt need slaves if they can warp across the universe, hell HUMANS dont even need slaves. we have tractors and factories to do slave labour, slaves are just too slow.

You have this idea in your mind that it would be the covenant vs humans, when it would be something like the covenant vs a pen of swine. there is literally no way that the pigs can fight back, and if you are a vegetarian, there is no reason for you to even interact with the pigs. they have noting you want, and are just an annoyance. either you just kill them from afar or you just leave them alone

>>34831533
>That stipulation
>when the original argument was humans will never ever ever ever ever beat aliens for ever and ever

>statistical unlikelyhood is impossibility
>"summerfag argument" was we'd reasonably be able to take on any species of the same age or younger

go on and kill yourself.

>>34831574
correct, humans will never beat an alien species.
Look no further than fucking Earth.
>country tries to get rid of central bank/develop nuclear weapons/go against jewish hegemony/commit wrongthink
>suddenly their economy crashes/viruses infect reactors/gets sanctions/gets assassinated
why would a galaxy superpower just sit by and watch a potential threat develop? Hell, when fucking DEER start getting too uppity we cull them. ISISreal started mucking about and they were obliterated, what makes you think that when humans start chimping out across the galaxy that we wont just be blown up?

We are a young race. As soon as somebody creates a dyson sphere, or even a dyson ring, they effectively control their solar system and surrounding galaxy, unless another power swoops in and kills them all.
You seem to have never taken a statistics course in your life, in addition to not even reading a wikipedia article on this subject.

>humanity le fuck ye xDD
>we r champs fuk u alien scum this is JUST like my videogames
>aliens are bipedal organisms who breathe air and eat food
>there is no way that aliens are effectively ghosts to us and can synthesize a perfect genophage that kills every single human at the same time without being noticed

how can you look at contemporary genetic engineering and think that a race with an extra thousand years, which is effectively no time at all in space, wouldn't blow the fuck out of us?
compare 2017 humans to 1017 humans, and make them fight. there is no scenario where 1017 humans win. what makes you think that 2017 humans can fight 3017 humans?

what makes you think that 2017 humans can fight 20017 aliens that have 300 planets under their control? summerfags should be the first ones shot into space to find other races

>>34831567
>what purpose would aliens have with us?
they might have a planet we want to propagate the human species.
I literally never said we would not be the aggressors in the conflict

Like anon said we'd apparently all out destroy their entire species as to avoid the problems we had with colonialism

>You have this idea in your mind that it would be the covenant vs humans
no. you have this stuck in your head if we encountered a planet that was habitable to us, populated by a species of similar age or younger we'd either seek diplomacy or attack and genocide them.

>>34831648
>>humanity le fuck ye xDD
>>we r champs fuk u alien scum this is JUST like my videogames
>>aliens are bipedal organisms who breathe air and eat food
>>there is no way that aliens are effectively ghosts to us and can synthesize a perfect genophage that kills every single human at the same time without being noticed
all those stawmen

go ahead and explain to me how if we found an alien race inhabiting a planet we could use billions of years away, whose apex species is younger or the same age as ours would win

>>34831651
you are so fucking stupid its actually offensive
what is easier, traveling 100 light years away only to genocide a planet, that way you can live in it
OR
terraform the one next to you and spend all of 5 minutes taking a taxi to it

there is literally no purpose to contacting alien races unless you are out to kill them as a preventative measure. none at all. if we decide to play the diplomat with an alien race, we will be exterminated. maybe not by the nice peaceful race, but perhaps a third race is listening in and decides to launch a moon-sized nuke at our planet after watching how shit out planet is, and how aggressive and pollutant we are.

How far away is the next closest earth-like planet? Why the fuck would we go there instead of just colonizing mars? Once we have advanced to a place where we want to spread ourselves out (to avoid moon-nukes), we would want to AVOID aliens, not seek them out

>>34831673
because they are billions of years away. if we have the tech to travel billions of years away in a reasonable amount of time, we would have a gigantic glowing target on our backs from other alien races who are more advanced than us

i fucking hate talking about space because literal highschool summerfaggots read autistic 40k novels and think that it's like some videogame where everybody starts off at the same level and its a battle royale.
the universe is essentially endless, there is another race out there who may not even realize we are here because we are so irrelevant, and the moment we do something crazy we will be automatically dismantled by a swarm of dyson robots who then surround our sun to leech its energy

>>34831493
Good point.

I've never forget my autistic rage after seeing the designs for Halo 4.

Especially FUCKING INTERCEPTOR ARMOR WITH MOLLE 500 YEARS IN THE FUTURE

>>34831673
I'd like to the see the argument too since it was my original peeve and I've yet to see the detractors give a convincing argument for our success in this xeno-sapien conflict.

Seeing the debate has been amusing and in some cases entertaining.

>>34829727
Armor was so fucking metal. I loved the scene when all the dipshit officers dropped to Banshee because they thought it was "safe" and then proceed to get completely rekt

>>34829752
It was the little things that made that game so great

>>34831546
But then we couldn't have GROUND BREAKING BLACK PROTAGONIST

>>34831710
>terraform the one next to you and spend all of 5 minutes taking a taxi to it

>it's easier to change the mass and atmosphere of a planet than it is to send generational spaceships out to colonize space

>>34831726
>humans and aliens exist in a vacuum
>its impossible for some other race to just exterminate both
>"i cant comprehend being the bacteria to another alien's clorox wipe, the bacteria will find a way to win!"
>there is literally no way that an alien race planted some planetary bomb in the middle of the earth when they saw a bunch of animal running around, just in case humans would eventually become a threat, nope!
>there is definitely not already bombs incoming from light years away that we are powerless to stop outside of leaving the planet
>humans reign supreme! we conquered earth, right?

>>34831710
Hence why my original post >>34830910
People have this delusion that we'd step up toe to toe. It's cringe inducing

From an art standpoint some of 40k can be fun but the lore and all that other shit is autist fuel

>>34831755
>it is easier to spend thousands of years in cryo-sleep to a new planet than it is to just make a moon-base
LARP faggots get out, read some books

>>34831770
>cryo-sleep is the only way for humanity to survive in space

>mining asteroids and recycling water and air for is impossible
you must be literally retarded

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I can't believe no one has mentioned the battleroid security officer from Marathon, although you're all probably too young and didn't have Apple Mac computers. Now he's totally rad.

The Marathon stories were amazing, yes its a shooter, but the depth it went too was wow, if you read all the terminals you'll know why we don't want AI's controlling anything.

As its by Bungie, the Master Chief is definitely by the security officer, although in Marathon he doesn't have the same armour.

>>34831788
>engaging in asteroid mining and setting up a recycling system large enough to sustain drawn out war billions of years away is easier than making a moon base
>any of this larpfagging nonsense is easier than making a moonbase
>a race intelligent enough to travel lightyears away would care about fighting monkeys instead of just making a moon base
>a race with a dyson sphere is incapable of making a new artificial planet or a moon base
>humans are incapable of making a moon base
brainlets like you should go ahead and test it out, set your sights on a planet on the other side of the galaxy and hop in a tin can

>>34831795
this whole post better be bait because you sound like a massive tool. marathon isn't as obscure as you think it.

>>34831819
>>engaging in asteroid mining and setting up a recycling system large enough to sustain drawn out war billions of years away is easier than making a moon base
>any of this larpfagging nonsense is easier than making a moonbase

as was established by one of the two people arguing against humanity

the only way for a species to survive is by propogating space over long distances and eliminating the possibility of extinction from one planets destruction.

even if we had a moon base humanity would need to spread out over larger distances.

>a race intelligent enough to travel lightyears away would care about fighting monkeys instead of just making a moon base
We are centuries or even decades away from being able to create a spaceship that could sustain life on a cross generational colonization mission but do not have the resources on earth to build a Dyson sphere.


go ahead and fuck yourself champ

>>34831879
i dont get how you still do not understand anything about space propagation, it's like you are willfully retarded
>"we can fight any aliens, look we are hundreds of years away from making a spaceship!"
>meanwhile in the vast nothingness of space an alien race completes their dyson sphere
>meanwhile another race has been trying to message us to do something but we seemingly ignore them
>meanwhile a different race is waiting for a benevolent race to contact us so that they can destroy both humans and the nice-aliens in one fell swoop, colonizing the galaxy unopposed

why do you think international politics fail to extend to space? earth is like an african nation. completely irrelevant, yes useful to be in a constant state of chaos and violence so that they do not improve and become a threat to anything. the moment something good happens, assassinations and wars seem to come out of nowhere, as if guided by a silent hand to keep them down.

>aliens will let us propagate because i dont have a brain!

>>34831750
WE WUZ SPARTANS AND SHIET

>>34831933
BIX NOOD SUPAHSOULJAH MUFUGGAH WER DA ALIENT BITCHEZ AT N SHIIEEET

>>34831924
>"we can fight any aliens
strawman

>>meanwhile in the vast nothingness of space an alien race completes their dyson sphere
could just make their own planets don't need to destroy anything

>meanwhile a different race is waiting for a benevolent race to contact us so that they can destroy both humans and the nice-aliens in one fell swoop, colonizing the galaxy unopposed
this race would either be the race with a dyson sphere and not need to conquer any planets as they could just make their own or would be destroyed by the infinite energy race who has a dyson sphere because they attempted to attack beings with infinite energy.


>>meanwhile another race has been trying to message us to do something but we seemingly ignore them
the only species who threatens us as we spook them by leaving earth without saying anything.

>but anon what about your original argument about those alien races that may be close and young
reasonably we could eliminate them or colonize their planet and domesticate them.
especially with all the those species that have the resources to create planets not fucking with us because they have a fucking planet printer.

>>34831933
>>34831985
its funny because there actually are black spartans?

>>34816065
Anyone whose played airsoft with a paintball mask knows that even something thin and with a slim profile will fuck with your ability to aim down sights

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>yfw Halo inspired the next generation of US armor
http://taskandpurpose.com/soldiers-tep-new-body-armor-2018/

http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a27667/us-army-troops-to-get-new-sci-fi-helmet/

>>34831546
Noble Six would be long dead by the time Halo 5 took place.

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>>34832138
>>34825162
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBGcRh08lDM&t=1s

>>34832161
How so? If spartan IV's can survive then I'm pretty sure One of the best spartan III's can.

>>34820196
Augmentations to the Orion super-soldiers include muscular enhancement injections, pulmonary respiratory enhancements, retina-inversion injections, and cochlea enhancement tuning.[5] In addition to the physical enhancements, mental augmentations were performed to enhance brain functions[2] including enhanced learning capabilities to allow a subject to learn at a faster and higher rate and enhanced motor skills to improve body movements.

>>34832306
So everything a spartan has except they weren't stolen as a kid?

>>34832166
all that scifi garbage tier "badassery" still carrying an M4

>>34832230
Because noble 6 is dead

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>>34832320
You say that like it's a bad thing.

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>>34824078
>>34820781
>>34824161

odst was goofy as shit and nothing like the trailer, i fucking hated that game it was insulting

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

They might as well have called it Marvel's Halo: ODST for how fucking obnoxious and quippy it was

>>34832349
This should be considered false advertising.

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>>34832321
You got me there.

>>34832318
the s1 augmentations were less extreme than the s2 augmentations spartan ones are stock car versions of supersoldiers, spartan 2 are formula one

>>34832349
The tone is intense as fuck. Was the game really that different?

>>34832378
I don't remember a single quip
just that the entire game you play as a rookie separated from his squad

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>>34832422
>just that the entire game you play as a rookie separated from his squad

So you didnt' play it? That's half the game. The other half is playing as romeo, buck, etc, and half of that is buck bickering with dare about their past relationship (in the middle of a hostile alien invasion of humanities last planet)

>>34832452
>The other half is playing as romeo, buck, etc, and half of that is buck bickering with dare about their past relationship (in the middle of a hostile alien invasion of humanities last planet)
either I hated that so much I forgot or stopped playing halfway through.

>>34832476
Literally the second level, you play as Buck, and Dare starts bitching at you about your relationship the second you land

>>34832492
then I must have forgotten half of the game.

>>34832349
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGdhtDIVJzY
imo man, I loved walking New Mombasa streets and shit going down in 30 seconds.

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>>34832518
Go to 6:55. This is literally the second he lands. https://youtu.be/Rl9RfDhtjJU?t=6m55s

They don't even act or sound like they're in the military. They're like civilians.

>>34832518
>romeos fucking dying
>lol whatever, he'll say something if he needs help

>>34831750
Just make noble black

>>34832452
>>34832492
>Hates hearing Nathan Fillion talk
Well, you're just a huge stick in the mud, aintcha?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6chJJlMs0jI

>>34832583
>dude you just hate fun xDDD

not an argument

>>34832583
are these the expansions?
I don't remember half of that happening in the original game.

>>34832583
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nktv73HOSPQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGrySj9bqkM

>>34832608
>>34832606

>destiny 2
oh.
Why would anyone buy that after destiny
was already released?

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>>34832551
honestly if i saw a marine get attacked by a gravity hammer i'd assume he's dead

>>34832606
That's from The Taken King. Where they fixed all the mechanics problems from Year 1.

>>34832583
Destiny is shit.

>>34832632
You're shit.

>>34832608
the second one is so fucking bad. is this a childrens game?

>>34832664
>is this a childrens game?
yes, destiny a shit

>>34832664
>has Nathan Fillion in it
yes it would be acceptable for children.

>>34832664
destiny is a piece of shit and downfall of bungie legacy

>>34832664
>>34832686
>>34832688
>>34832697
>Madfags who couldn't get a Gjallerhorn

>>34832138
god just fix the helmet and body armor make those lihter dam it and give us a dam good ruck and better rifle that will acutaully give me firepower

>>34832733
>better rifle that will acutaully give me firepower
fuck off, neverserved

>>34832733
>when your underage

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>>34822317

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>>34825144
>>34825545
>>34829727
>>34831732

Armour is awesome, I spent a good portion of my time in afghanistan reading my way through the top sci fi 100 and top cyber punk 100, for those interested:

Snowcrash- look at the copyright date and don't take it seriously
When gravity fails- lots of cyber implants n shit, the whole series is pretty good
Neuromancer- Druggie hacker fighting sentient AI owned by Megacops that don't even realize their products are sentient
Altered Carbon- Don't really remember, think I accidentally read like the 3rd one first
Starship Troopers- Classic
Hyperion- Classic
Ilium/olympus- Also classic

>That 80s scifi series that reads slow as fuck and has a similar plot to dune but the alien race are hired as mercenaries on starships and a human becomes one of them

>Another series where Old people are given the chance to die or join the defense force and shot off world given green bodies and fight aliens all over the place

Accelerando: Before, during, and after a technology singularity

Thats all I remember for now, I'm 7 beers in so yeah, thats what you get

>>34816065
Found out one of my favorite Halo short stories got made into a video episode thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGKHI7YaESY

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>>34822317
Tis was a better time when it came to armor

>>34832029
there are no close planets within several lightyears that even remotely show bacterial life, much less intelligent life.
there are no close and young planets that we could go to war with.
even if they were a SINGLE lightyear away, it would literally be
>300 marines vs an entire planet
shitposts, because we arent going to send literally the entire world's military to attack another planet. even if we did, if earth2.0 send like a dozen dropships full of troops, we would be able to repel them, or at least outlast them, if we didnt just send a suicide drone to
intercept them once they were detected.

>"but in my super specific non-existant reality there would be an africa-tier planet where mars is that we could conquer before getting glassed by interstellar peacekeeping robots!!!!"
yeah man the first thing you would want to do as a piss poor retard backwater planet is to show the universe that you just want to fuck things up, surely the dyson-sphere owning civilizations won't want to just moon-nuke you to save themselves the trouble of having to deal with you in a thousand years when you can actually get further than a few solar systems

you need to graduate middle school before adding more to this discussion, my friend

>>34833221
>there are no close planets within several lightyears that even remotely show bacterial life, much less intelligent life.
I mean, it's not as though almost all of the exoplanets we've detected are gas giants or anything.

We have microorganisms on Earth that can survive in hard vaccuum, it's entirely concievable to think that there are worlds within our stellar neighbourhood hosting complex life. However, we have nowhere near the tools to detect it yet.

>>34832892
You're talking about Old Man's War

>>34831819
Why do you retards think a Dyson Sphere gives you unlimited power? Stop being a moron, you look as stupid as the guy who thinks we could beat an alien race.

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>>34818833
Google class is just a small smartphone projected into your eye.

Microsoft's Halolens is a real AR unit.

>>34825144
>>34825545
>>34829727
Starship Troopers > Armor

Armor might have been first but SST has a huge cultural impact.

>>34834708
https://www.wired.com/story/google-glass-2-is-here/

Eh, Glass has found its true niche.

>>34832349
I love ODST as a concept but it was so underused
>drop from a pod once
>oh now it's the boring levels from halo 2 basically.

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>>34829654
Agreed

>>34835000
These look nice

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I like the H3 Era marines. The pouches make it look more practical.

>>34832492
But Buck was the one who brought the relationship thing up. Dare just responded in kind.

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>>34823937
Please let this happen

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>>34837519

>>34823937
It would probably be the insurrection

>>34832892
Nice choices anon. I went on a similar cyberpunk and sci-fi kick. You should read some Iain M Banks if you haven't. AI ships wiping out entire fleets of inferior ships because they fucked about. Firing self guided munitions while traveling at .9~% light speed to fuck up invaders. Endlessly battling self replicating AI swarms like a boss. It's all fun shit.

>>34834665
>"why do people think that all of the energy being given off by a sun isn't effectively unlimited power for a single planet/small cluster of planets"
what did he mean by this

>>34832549
>They don't even act or sound like they're in the military.
>I never served the post.

You watch to many military movies if you honestly think people in the military actually speak exclusively in acronyms or other such "military jargon". 70 percent of language spoken in casual conversation between most military personnel generally consists of some variation of the word "fuck".

>>34831533
>We are one of the youngest galaxies, in a young solar system. The odds are that if another alien species exists, it has been around for far longer than we have
Well actually the Milky Way is one of the oldest galaxies, and whether the age of the solar system is relevant depends on which Abiogenetic theory you ascribe to. Either way, the Mediocrity principle still applies - we're far more likely to be average citizens of the universe than we are outliers. This applies to age as well.

>apex predator
Not necessarily. There exist entire ecosystems on Earth that don't have predators at scales larger than insects. There's also also no reason to assume that intelligent species have to develop from predators nor that those that do would be apex predators. Humans are barely apex predators - only recently (on a developmental time scale) achieving that and only on a Racial scale not an individual one.

You're also making the assumption that they'd come here while we were still taking our first steps, while the other guy seems to talking about a future situation where humans are expanding as well.

The line of thought of "We meet aliens because they FTL travel to us -> they have FTL and therefore are technologically superior -> they destroy us" is flawed. For one its unlikely that FTL is even possible. If we ever even meet aliens, chances are it'd be a slowboat of some form and therefore not need technology much in advance of what we have now.

>>34831567
>HUMANS dont even need slaves. we have tractors and factories to do slave labour, slaves are just too slow.
Not saying you're wrong when talking about Type 1+ civilizations, but Humans do currently use a lot of slave and near-slave labor.

>>34831770
A moon-base and terraforming are very different things. Overall we're lucky that Venus and Mars are incredibly similar to Earth and they would still be a nightmare to turn into shirt sleeve environments.

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>>34835793
See, that's what I find appealing about Titanfall's infantry design. It's both aesthetically pleasing and functional in a sci-fi context

>>34837862
He meant that one retard (>>34831819) suggested that it meant they could trivially construct an artificial planet.

Or maybe two retards: >>34832029

>>34837519
Fuck huge shin guards and no thigh protection. Do all ODST get Star Fox style leg cybernetics or do have humans just evolved bulletproof femorals in the future?

>>34825162
>>Altered carbon

Isn't that the Takeshi kovacs saga, from Alasdair renolds ? (or something like that)

>>34839606
Reynolds is Revelation Space, AC is Richard Morgan. AC is badass but the author gets more cucked with every book he writes.

>>34832892
>Altered Carbon
>MFW make it personal

Do you like your main character with a heavy dose of "You made me give a fuck and now you're going to regret it"?

If so then that book has a scene that will astound you to no end. Good trilogy overall.

>>34816158
Plz go and stay go

>>34839629
AC author also wrote Market Forces, a book centered around salesmen in an AnCap world literally running each other off the road in Mad Max style battles to decide who gets a contract.

>>34816146
The guy went on to make District 9, I think he said he liked making the short film for Halo but wanted to make his own thing

>>34832549
>They don't even act or sound like they're in the military. They're like civilians.
They sound exactly like everyone in my unit in Afghanistan did.

Soldiers, Marines, and etc don't talk like monotone robots. They quip, talk shit, bitch, and so much more constantly.

Christ, if you thought those quips were bad I hope you never get stuck in an MRAP with a bunch of Marines for 10 hours.

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>>34816158
heres uir gunb ro

It was the coolest shit in like GROM but that was about it, it looked like a heavy piece of shit

>>34841223
Netflix is making a TV show of it.
Netflix plz don't fuck it up.

>>34832549
You realize most soldiers/marines are guys aged 18-25 or so? So young men, kids. It's the same shit you'd hear guys talking about anywhere, pussy, booze, weed, funny stories and good natured banter. Just because they aren't civilians doesn't mean that they become robots. It helps keep the mood light, and spirits high.

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>>34816065
>What sci-fi helmets and gear actually allow the wearer to aim down his sights?
that is not even space magic, OP

>>34841410
TheHalo film was in development hell as every studio involved wanted all of the money. He said he still wants to do a Halo one though.

>>34829755
It most likely was, by this point humanity has been losing the Covenant War for what 30 years or so?

>>34842244
28 years. Plus they'd been fighting an insurgency for a couple decades before that.

>>34831365
We find new shit own our own planet all of the time. New shit in our solar system. Our understanding of science is incomplete but self correcting. Your rigid stance that humanity could never meet and lesser or equal race makes your argument retarded because there are no rules that say every other race has to be better than humanity. All that aside, no matter what any of us thing, all these ideas are coming from our own very human way of thinking based on our own history with each other. FFS how can you say something is impossible while having a conversation about aliens

>>34822117
That was the coverup for his immunity. After Orion Program was revealed it officially changed to him being a Spartan-I.

>>34832378
You're in a squad of "leh quirky" dudebros. Its more of a whacky action adventure than gritty sci-fi.

>>34832583
I don't hate his voice, but i dislike the fact that only role Fillion ever plays is Nathan Fillion.

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>>34829593
>would never fight 8 foot tall aliens in normal BDU to the death

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>>34837519
>2552
>still wearing Oakley gloves kek

Anyone else dig the landers from Interstellar?

>>34827554
>Usually, the good Lord works in mysterious ways. But not today! This here is 66 tons of straight-up, H.E-spewing dee-vine intervention! If God is love, then you can call me 'Cupid'!

How can 343s space negro even compare?

>>34843230
he cant
also
>send me out... with a bang

>>34832892
Good commitment.

>>34827579
>hey boss, this metal grate that makes up the floor of our main operating base is getting all kinds of shot up by plasma weapons
>are the covenant underneath us?
>we have no idea. No actual idea. We've never seen anything shooting, and we want to believe the covenant are smart enough to use demolition equipment on this instead of just shooting it until it melts
>huh
>well, we should lower some guys down and see what's what
>oh fuck it's the flood

It does have its moments. I don't regret reading it at all, and I've read some shit.

>>34830131
A
FUCKING
STEADYCAM

>>34845789
My love of Halo 1 overrode the "German" (matter-of-fact, practical) writing style. It added more depth and behind-the-scenes context to the game.

>>34831233
>dark forest

My nigga

>>34816146

So would a lot of people. Microsoft had a new blockbuster franchise in their hands, but shut it all down in the last minute. They went with "Forward Unto Dawn". Youtube videos about douchebag cadets and their high school drama. I guess Microsoft hates money.

>>34845789
Ghosts of onyx and the thursday war trilogy were the best Halo books, great characters, different perspectives, including an AI that is as cool as cortana.

>>34832518
The game sucked besides the Mombasa streets, apart from that it felt rushed and not as well crafted. Oh and the music was spectacular.

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>>34822317
Played through reach again the other day. Still pretty great.

>UNSC continued to use physical body armour against an enemy whose main weaponry consisted of plasma and other space magic against which it was all but useless
only thing that seriously bothered me apart from the fact that warthogs aren't real

>>34831723

>Especially FUCKING INTERCEPTOR ARMOR WITH MOLLE 500 YEARS IN THE FUTURE

Even Bungie did this with everything, though. All of the tech that doesn't enable the plot (e.g., FTL travel) is just modern tech beefed up to some scale that implies future advancement. The vehicles, the rifles, the Magnum, all of it is just present-day stuff that's either larger for no reason or has a bunch of stylistic crap bolted on to it.

>>34832664
>is this a childrens game?
well it's a video game isn't it?

>>34820104
remind me the context here.
>officer shoots expensive military-killing-machine that they needed to win inn- i mean the covenant

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>>34822317

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>>34852203
its fan art

>>34832583
>>Hates hearing Nathan Fillion talk
but why is he in (almost) every sci-fi thing
also this >>34843000

>>34839510
>dat smersh

>>34852593
Because of Firefly. I need to to give it a watch.

>>34824244
would love to operate in exosuits with Kruger and fuck shit up for my corporate overlord.

>>34831121
your hypothesis is even dumber. its just as likely we will run into space cavemen who have yet to invent the wheel as us running into immortal space gods. Go fuck yourself you simple minded cunt.

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>>34832349

why were Halo 3 commercials so fucking great?

I remember watching tv at my grandparents and this should would come on. Suddenly im hyped as fuck and start 'rasslin with the senpai.

>>34853445

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX5Kh1f5ksY

whoops forgot link

>>34841775
Is this a fuckin AEK?

>>34820171
That was the cover story, Johnson was one of if not the only remaining memeber of project ORION still fighting by the time of the battle of installation 04.

The whole "kill Johnson to find out why he's immune" shtick was a test to see how far John would go.

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>>34831546
>noble six survives the fall of reach
>and is hunting the chief during the events of 5
>can still be customized like crazy
>imagining that H2H fight in the middle of the campaign
>mfw two "hyper-lethal" killing machines go at it
Why do you have to tease me like that anon?

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>>34831546
>>34853617

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>>34822317
I apologize in advance for the shitty picture, 343 trash, and rvb fanfic garbage.

>>34852203

It's presumably First Strike artwork by Eddie Smith.

At one point Chief tells off an officer after some Spartans die when he's being callous and pompous and the marines have to somewhat hold him back.

>>34854176
Yeah, that ONI cunt got several marines and Spartans killed

>>34853457
yes

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Why season 2 so shit

>>34854591
>that Mountain Dew hiding behind the arm
Do I get free xp

>>34856000
https://gamerant.com/destiny-2-pop-tart-codes-bonus-xp-details/

>>34842142
I don't want a Halo movie anymore. Not even a TV or web series.

Looking at how thoroughly 343i fucked up the franchise, the lore.... everything. There's no way it would be good. It'd by more shit written, poor action, low budget shit like Forward Unto Dawn and Nightfall.

>Sights are zeroed with a specific cheek weld in mind.
>Design helmet to have groove along jawguard.
>Get same exact sight picture on sights no matter with tard easy groove to stock system.
>Design sights on your future guns a little higher so soldier can see them from inside visor.
>Your helmeted future soldier can now utilize iron sights if his fancy hud goes out.
This relies on a helmet that's form fitted to the head so theres nearly zero wiggle inside it. It's the future so it's a thing here.

>>34848914
>thursday war trilogy

Halsey saved humanity by creating the SPARTAN program literally all of UNSC High Command was aware of and supported.

Said High Command now making her out to be le evil mad scientist and pushing moralistic shit we don't care about instead of ODSTs wrecking more alien shit.

Fuck 343.

>>34849632
I guess it's caused I absolutely loved the aesthetic of Halo 2 and 3 Marine armor.

And then we see coyote IBAs with stormtrooper white helmets and leg/arm armor. Looked gay as shit.

Not to mention the officers' dress and utility uniforms were a serious step down from Bungie's.

>>34856110
Did you forget she kidnapped children to do it. Of course career politicians and officers would throw her under the bus.

>>34837745
Banks is soft sci-fi as hell, but it's so ridiculously over the top it doesn't matter. Ships that fight at multiple thousands of c at a minimum? While in an alternate dimension? With their standard armaments being compressed anti-matter and micro black holes? Fuck me, a single shot from either of those could destroy planets, and standard battles involve trying to teleport thousands of those directly onto the enemy ship while they attempt to evade and do the same to you, all within fractions of a microsecond and happening with the combatants lightyears apart. It's fucking absurd.

>>34841775
Is there some context here? Reverse image search just brings up the rifle with no information about the sighting system.

>>34856078
>This relies on a helmet that's form fitted to the head so theres nearly zero wiggle inside it. It's the future so it's a thing here.
Is there a reason we couldn't do this with a laser scanner, foam blanks for the helmet inside and a multiaxis CNC? We do it at work for custom fit equipment storage, could we do it for heads?

>>34856130
Still triggered over how Keyes wears his dress uniform in Halo Anniversary during the swamp mission; while Bungie had him appropriately dressed in fatigues in the original 2001 release.

>>34856391
Didn't want to model a second uniform?

>>34856391
Cause lazy I guess.

IIRC as well none of the Marines has fatigues or boonies. All the same armor.

>>34822201
you still shoulder the weapon and apply a cheek weld with a PEQ and NVG's

>>34823368
Both were hyper lethal. The only 2 Spartans to ever achieve that rating

>>34839557
There is no possible way to armor a femoral that would not seriously hinder mobility.

>>34822162
dat file name

>>34854580
I can't wait for Season 3. There's at least two major battles we'll hopefully be getting.

Unless they pull a Ganymede on us again.

>>34857357
Hopefully they don't* pull a Ganymede on us again.

Jesus christ I should wake up properly before posting

>>34856069
I completely agree. Even up until Halo 5 I thought there was a chance but now I see 343 is irredeemable shit that should go away.

I'd love for Blomkamp to do a Titanfall film instead though. There's even a south african mercenary for him to include already a major character in the universe.

>>34857280
>There is no possible way to armor a femoral that would not seriously hinder mobility.
>What are Cuisses
>What are soft armor chausses
>What are Tassets and Groin Flaps
>What are features historic armor and current ballistic armor has but future war doesn't.

Any of which would be weight better spent than ballistic shin guards.

>>34832597
it legitimately is, man. that was doofy, and annoying, but the dialogue buck had was fantastic and well delivered

>>34856750
Didn't play CE more like.

>>34857414
>inb4 muh "needs a crane to mount a horse" meme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hlIUrd7d1Q

>>34857833
Is that an agreement or a counterpoint?

>>34857899
Agreement. My bad for clarify.

>>34823937
Surprised no-one's mentioned it yet, but if you own Arma 3 try out a mod called Operation Trebuchet. All UNSC vs Insurrectionists. Just had a big update for Scorpions, already has all the classic Halo vehicles and weapons. Fun as fuck.

>>34832357
He canonically got killed by swarms of Elites at the end of Reach.

>>34858120
thanks anon

>>34816158

>Areyouok?Doyouhavebraindamage?.jpg

>>34817482
Is that just a Bizon?

>>34819954
Sgt. Johnson's story is mainly focused on in Contact Harvest. One of the good books along side Ghosts of Onyx and a couple shorts

>>34832349
I like ODST, but now that you mention it, ALL of the trailers for that game didn't fit the tone except for maybe the Rookie open world parts.

>>34821529
Can confirm

I like to think the second spartan in halo 1 and 2 coop was noble 6 if he decided to get on the autumn

>>34832349
There's some truth here. It had god awful writing.

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>>34831121
You're stupid. Human life is less than .000000001% of the life that has ever existed on the planet. You would be lucky to find life that's even motile.

Here's a neat sidethought, life on earth is carbon based, but it's feasible for silicon based life to exist

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>>34822317
God I love asymmetrical shoulders. I don't remember having a robot arm though.

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>>34816065
Nanosuit.

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>>34862072
I also really like the mass produced army nanosuits.

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>>34822317

Reach armor had a lot of potentials.

>>34832349
Wew space SS

>>34853617
>Noble six enters with the rest of the Spartan IV's
>Before any of the Spartan IV can react Noble moves in to intercept Chief
>Steps in front of him before Chief can teleport away
>Without speaking they both nod at each other knowing that they other has to finish their mission and prepare to fight

I imagine it being like the end fight in MGS4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO2Zp4nwsFA

are Halo fanboys becoming just as cancerous as 40k fanboys and furries?

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>>34863101

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>>34844229
>>34843230
>>34827554
Dear Humanity,
We regret being alien bastards. We regret coming to Earth. And we most definitely regret the corps just blew up our raggedy ass fleet!

>>34831546
I don't know, while that would have been nice I sort of like Noble 6's end

>Noble 6 walks out into destroyed outpost
>Sees dead Spartans littering the ground
>Landscape is barren
>Rest of Noble squad is dead
>Reach is being glassed
>Evacuations have saved as many lives as they can
>The planet is completely lost
>6 is the only one left
>Covenant forces are closing in
>6 takes a breath and prepares for a final assault
>The last man protecting Reach
>Fights to the bitter end
>Exhausted he throws his shattered helmet aside
>Shaking off blows and responding in kind
>Even when thrown prone he still kicks back elites with energy swords
>Only when completely overwhelmed with a blade in his chest does 6 finally go down
>Fade to 30 years later
>Grass grows around your untouched helmet
>Pan back to see the recolonization after the war
>Halsey voice over thanks you for giving it your all, your sacrifice saved Chief and countless other lives
>Your courage saved humanity

God I love Reach

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>>34863424
It was a good ending to Halo, let alone Noble Six.

>>34863481
And then 343 came in
>"HEY GUYS, LET'S KILL SOME MORE ALIENS AND ANCIENT GUARDIANS WOOHOO HALO 4, EVERYONE LOVES MASTER CHEF"

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>>34822317

>>34863217

OOHRAH