Need confirmation of the PILUM rocket launcher

Assuming that this is either;

a) Sarcasm (in which case well played)
or
b) Trolling.

mattrl117 wrote:

I know you’re trolling, but there’s nothing about this series that has ever tried to be hyperrealistic.

How am I trolling? You can’t expect marines and ODST to be lugging around spare SPNKr tubes? I am being dead serious.

Trolling aside, I was pretty stoked to see the SPNKR. I was also sort of hoping the spartan we saw behind it was Fred... similar looking armor but maybe not quite similar enough. Hoping that we get to see the old shotgun and magnum as well as a DMR that looks more like Halo Reach than.... whatever that was in Halo 5.

Hoping to see Blue Team and the rest of our favorite characters!

Last time I checked, Halo was far from being realistic! 😂

The majority of people prefer the SPNKr rocket launcher look and design (including myself) to the ugly, generic looking PILUM rocket launcher. Sorry, You're in the minority here.

Oh and if you wouldn't buy or play Halo Infinite just because your rocket launcher isn't in the game, is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. I'm sure you'll still play and buy it if your as hardcore as you say 😉

I think it's awesome. I've wanted them to go back to the old art style so I'm happy with the mixed style Infinite has. Maybe the H5 launcher will be there too, we don't know. I liked the update they gave us a lot, minus the coatings bs.

I disagree, Pilum nver felt like an actuall "Halo" rocket launcher to me

JohnDang55 wrote:

Why is nostalgia more important than realism. In the game since it has no volume or mass it’s not a problem but when you start going into other media such as books and comics you start to see how ridiculous it is.

One of the most notable rocket battles was in the book Halo:The flood the novelisation of the first game and its hard for me to imagine soldiers defending Alpha base from 200 or so ghosts using the SPNKr when the PILUM makes more sense.

343 should have shown both rockets.

Realism matters less in games because truly realistic games aren't fun to most people. When i'm playing Halo, i'm not like "How can marines survive after being shot with plasma? They should at least be incapacitated!" The reason people think you're a troll is because this community has realism on the backburner. It's just not important.

JohnDang55 wrote:

Why is nostalgia more important than realism. In the game since it has no volume or mass it’s not a problem but when you start going into other media such as books and comics you start to see how ridiculous it is.

One of the most notable rocket battles was in the book Halo:The flood the novelisation of the first game and its hard for me to imagine soldiers defending Alpha base from 200 or so ghosts using the SPNKr when the PILUM makes more sense.

343 should have shown both rockets.

Realism isn't all important. We are able to reload a new magazine of ammo after every single bullet. Spartans don't move remotely as they should in the Halo lore.

Im sure someone reloading a rocket launcher with a tube is an irrelevant problem.

JohnDang55 wrote:

Why is nostalgia more important than realism. In the game since it has no volume or mass it’s not a problem but when you start going into other media such as books and comics you start to see how ridiculous it is.

One of the most notable rocket battles was in the book Halo:The flood the novelisation of the first game and its hard for me to imagine soldiers defending Alpha base from 200 or so ghosts using the SPNKr when the PILUM makes more sense.

343 should have shown both rockets.

I think you miss the point of escapism. We are leaving reality mentally speaking, and joining a world imagined by someone else. It doesn't need to be excessively realistic, it just needs to be cool and interesting.

Plus this game isn't even that realistic to begin with. Humans wouldn't even be using bullets 500 years into the future well modern technology is already looking into alternatives. Not to mention were fighting fanatic space aliens on a giant anti SOB hoola hoop.

I do agree that both designs should be catered too, but when it boils down to it cool is more memorable then real, as real will fade into obscurity like all the many FPS cod clones out there.

Edit : here's another example for my point. Imagine yourself walking through a neighborhood, you've marched past at least a dozen brown houses that all look pretty much the same. Then you come upon a bright pink mansion that looks like it's literally just reflecting sunlight.

Which out of all the houses are you most likely to remember?

Granted the bright pink house isn't very realistic, but can you even tell me what color all the other houses were without going back and checking? One of them is definitely going to stand out in a crowd.

sniper945 wrote:

JohnDang55 wrote:

Why is nostalgia more important than realism. In the game since it has no volume or mass it’s not a problem but when you start going into other media such as books and comics you start to see how ridiculous it is.

One of the most notable rocket battles was in the book Halo:The flood the novelisation of the first game and its hard for me to imagine soldiers defending Alpha base from 200 or so ghosts using the SPNKr when the PILUM makes more sense.

343 should have shown both rockets.

I think you miss the point of escapism. We are leaving reality mentally speaking, and joining a world imagined by someone else. It doesn't need to be excessively realistic, it just needs to be cool and interesting.

Plus this game isn't even that realistic to begin with. Humans wouldn't even be using bullets 500 years into the future well modern technology is already looking into alternatives. Not to mention were fighting fanatic space aliens on a giant anti SOB hoola hoop.

I do agree that both designs should be catered too, but when it boils down to it cool is more memorable then real, as real will fade into obscurity like all the many FPS cod clones out there.

Edit : here's another example for my point. Imagine yourself walking through a neighborhood, you've marched past at least a dozen brown houses that all look pretty much the same. Then you come upon a bright pink mansion that looks like it's literally just reflecting sunlight.

Which out of all the houses are you most likely to remember?

Granted the bright pink house isn't very realistic, but can you even tell me what color all the other houses were without going back and checking? One of them is definitely going to stand out in a crowd.

Halo as a whole has been trying to be excessively realistic as possible they even got those Machine Accelerating Cannons calculations worked out.

Every finite detail has been explained, Halo isn’t sci fi nonsense like Star Wars; where you are made to believe that a Star ship less than 2km long can blow up a planet when 2 or 3 decades ago they needed a 120 diameter Death Star to do the job.

I’m trying to explain this in a bigger picture because Halo as a whole is a franchise it isn’t just games, when they are multiple tv shows, movies, cosplay’s and more books the PILUM rocket launcher will be needed more than the SPNKr.