[QUOTE=SpartanXC9;37099067]I never really understood how the SIII's were cheaper then the SII's since they just put them all on suicide missions all the time. Wouldn't that make them more expensive?
Honestly I don't think Halo really needs a love story I mean the whole Linda thing was bad enough.[/QUOTE]
Presumably, the price of augmentation, training and gear was low enough for the SIIIs by comparison to the SIIs that they could be fielded en masse, and effectively. Think a very large Spartan-esque corps that can be deployed in significant numbers to deal with Covenant installations and forces that are either too large for standard UNSC forces to hold up against (let alone defeat), or are too risky to send 'true' Spartans against.
[QUOTE=Arachnidus;37099099]Presumably, the price of augmentation, training and gear was low enough for the SIIIs by comparison to the SIIs that they could be fielded en masse, and effectively. Think a very large Spartan-esque corps that can be deployed in significant numbers to deal with Covenant installations and forces that are either too large for standard UNSC forces to hold up against (let alone defeat), or are too risky to send 'true' Spartans against.[/QUOTE]
But with the amount of losses of Spartan III's wouldn't that eventually add up to being more costly then Spartan II's?
You'd think that, and the funny thing is that's basically used to show you how fucking expensive the SII project was.
even with all the SIII suicide missions, it's STILL cheaper than the SII program.
[QUOTE=No Party Hats;37099239]You'd think that, and the funny thing is that's basically used to show you how fucking expensive the SII project was.
even with all the SIII suicide missions, it's STILL cheaper than the SII program.[/QUOTE]
Huh, I never really thought of it that way. Thanks!
Haha, anytime man.
-snip nig-
[QUOTE=SpartanXC9;37099067]I never really understood how the SIII's were cheaper then the SII's since they just put them all on suicide missions all the time. Wouldn't that make them more expensive?
Honestly I don't think Halo really needs a love story I mean the whole Linda thing was bad enough.[/QUOTE]
Wait, did something other then her and chief being friends happen?
[QUOTE=No Party Hats;37099239]You'd think that, and the funny thing is that's basically used to show you how fucking expensive the SII project was.
even with all the SIII suicide missions, it's STILL cheaper than the SII program.[/QUOTE]
Wasn't the Spartan II program the price of an entire Battle Group?
John did save Earth, destroy an entire fleet of Covenant, captured a Covenant command ship with him self and two other people capable of fighting.
If you look at it that way, he does also close to death so many times it's not funny.
Let's compare the average Spartan III to John for example.
John had 390 pounds of body mass without his armor, and almost every single pound of it was pure muscle.
Without his armor he stood at 6'8, which is damn tall.
I'm going to list Carter's body mass which was 250 pounds without his armor.
That's bit of a difference, 140 more pounds of muscle, plus John had SII training, Cortana, and a much more risky but potent Augmentation. Most Spartan III's were kids who were conscripted in, had 6-7 years to train and then they were augmented. Most of them died on their first or second missions due to the sheer suicide it was.
SIII's go through a severe training regiment, don't think otherwise (Read 'Ghosts of Onyx' for a good look into SIII life), but the shit that SIIs went through was sheer insanity. I can't recall the death rate just from the injections, but i know most of them didn't survive it.
There was around three hundred per company, and three company's at the most. A lot less of the III's died from the missions.
Spartan-II's had 75 before augmentation and 33 after.
Still question the logic of making super soldiers that need regular injections to keep sane, regardless of how expendable they are.
[QUOTE=KingKombat;37097298][B]Actually, Portal 2 and that greek myth was intentional, if only evidenced by that painting which contained the same person from the greek one.[/B]
[editline]5th August 2012[/editline]
WELL, MY NIGHT IS FUCKING RUINED.
[url]http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Parisa[/url][/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLqk4aqpXlQ&feature=player_detailpage#t=2836s[/url]
Leaked video of Spartan Laser. See it before it gets deleted.
[video=youtube;SO0iZO1B9GA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO0iZO1B9GA&feature=player_embedded[/video]
The new walking sound sounds better, more like a giant pile of metal walking around than the one I'm used to.
[QUOTE=Doctor Dave;37114832]Leaked video of Spartan Laser. See it before it gets deleted.
[video=youtube;SO0iZO1B9GA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO0iZO1B9GA&feature=player_embedded[/video][/QUOTE]
Wow, I love those sounds.
There are so many different pre-order bonuses from different stores it's ridiculous.
That said, the battle rifle skin is pretty cool. Too bad the nearest EB Games is way too far from here to drive to.
Halo 4 truly has the best graphics on the Xbox 360:
[thumb]http://filesmelt.com/dl/1344309124422.jpg[/thumb]
[thumb]http://filesmelt.com/dl/1344309162444.jpg[/thumb]
[QUOTE=Doctor Dave;37114832]Leaked video of Spartan Laser. See it before it gets deleted.
[video=youtube;SO0iZO1B9GA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO0iZO1B9GA&feature=player_embedded[/video][/QUOTE]
Not a fan of that Sniper Rifle sound.
Wait, is that me, or do I see hint markers in that screenshot?
Also, what's with all the black boxes added in the video? Hiding something that could give away the leaker's identity?
[QUOTE=ZombieDawgs;37095362]And the covenant are decimated, I'm sure earth has cleared up the stragglers and sent them back to their world and apart from the remaining "rebels" they're not exactly a strong force any more.[/QUOTE]
They can barely maintain their ships anymore because the very believable plot TWEEEST they pulled with the engineers just going "lol they all went away because dunno". With the [sp]ONI mixing up the things for them even more[/sp] it's going to take a loooong while before they can stand up to the UNSC without being killed by everyone and their grandmother in the galaxy while few ships they have are away. Doubt that once they have fixed their social structure they have that many ships anyway save for some outdated, half-functionin pieces of shits.
Sure, they have the Arbiter's supercarrier, but it's only one ship.
[editline]7th August 2012[/editline]
They can't pull post-ww2 Japan because they don't even have a chain of command anymore.
[editline]7th August 2012[/editline]
I somehow feel sort of sorry for them for being so fucked twelve ways to Sunday and back actually.
[QUOTE=SpartanXC9;37116068]Halo 4 truly has the best graphics on the Xbox 360:
[thumb]http://filesmelt.com/dl/1344309124422.jpg[/thumb]
[thumb]http://filesmelt.com/dl/1344309162444.jpg[/thumb][/QUOTE]
Both of those screenshots look terrible.
But that is what halo reach looks like when you take away the specularity and the cubemaps. The two things that attempt to hide the low resolution of the models.
[QUOTE=SpartanXC9;37116068]Halo 4 truly has the best graphics on the Xbox 360:
[thumb]http://filesmelt.com/dl/1344309124422.jpg[/thumb]
[thumb]http://filesmelt.com/dl/1344309162444.jpg[/thumb][/QUOTE]
Those screens are low res and terrible, but you are right. Halo 4 is probably the best looking Xbox game.
[editline]7th August 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=certified;37118291]
Also, what's with all the black boxes added in the video? Hiding something that could give away the leaker's identity?[/QUOTE]
Yeah, to hide the leaker's identity so 343i can't trace the leak.
Thanks for the box blessing Spartan, you have blessed the entire page with it. [sp]Douche[/sp]
Oh shit, just realized! We hit page 100! Cheers to another 100 pages in the Halo thread series!
It's almost as if they weren't scaled down to look nicer.
I wounder if this means that Halo 4 will have texture pop as bad as the Unreal Engine.
[QUOTE=SpartanXC9;37123510]It's almost as if they weren't compressed to look nicer.[/QUOTE]
I thought you were going to refrain from rating posts and start using your head
[QUOTE=Muntu;37123563]I thought you were going to refrain from rating posts and start using your head[/QUOTE]
That'll be the day.
Its also a pre-release beta, don't expect it to look awesome.
Hey anyone up for a game of Halo 3/Reach/Wars?
We should do some co-op games
As much as Halo 4 looks beautiful (IMO), there's only so much they can do with a 7 year old game system. We'd reached the Xbox's limits long ago, Durango is necessary if the platform is going to remain viable.
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.
