OP Wazooty
To be honest, I'd disagree with you. H4's Mark VI variant looks a tad more realistic to me than the old one. It makes sense that he has his original Mark VI in H2A, but I must admit, I prefer the newer version of it. It looks a lot more manoeuvrable, rather than just being a toughened case that they put the Spartan into. Still looks badass, to boot.Borb wrote:
In fact, ALL the armors in Halo 4 multiplayer were designed with everything I just mentioned absent from mind. No way in HELL are soldiers going into an actual battle wearing whatever the yoink this is:
http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130114220558/halo/images/c/c8/MJOLNIR_FOTUS.png
The new armor looks significantly better but in halo 2 A it was kept identical to the original for nostalgic reasons....it's ok really....besides it does give b you that sense of progress ( unlike some other game did)Wazooty wrote:In terms of the super awesome looking blur cinematics, his old MK VI looks kind of...out of place to me, a little goofy. I feel like the new Mk VI with all it's realistic nature would look better...
hmm.
OK. Let's just assume Cortana has some way to do that. Let's assume further that her ability to do that isn't hampered by the fact that Master Chief was cryogenically frozen when she would have been doing this. With all that skepticism pushed aside, why didn't she fix the big gash on the right-hand side of his chestpiece? She's giving his armor a complete overhaul while he's wearing it and while he's frozen, but she just can't seem to fix that piece.Mr JVacha wrote:It's realistic to the game. His armor was updated by cortana in h4.
It's not that much big of a difference. The only difference I see notable are the hand guards and maybe some aesthetical scratch marks.Selsiuss wrote:I think they should have made his suit in Halo 2 Anniversary be the same design in Halo 3. It's supposed to be the same suit anyway, it should have had parity between those games.
They did but only after the community self made the idea of it being cortana and nano bots.Willko wrote:Mr JVacha wrote:It's realistic to the game. His armor was updated by cortana in h4.
OK. Let's just assume Cortana has some way to do that. Let's assume further that her ability to do that isn't hampered by the fact that Master Chief was cryogenically frozen when she would have been doing this. With all that skepticism pushed aside, why didn't she fix the big gash on the right-hand side of his chestpiece? She's giving his armor a complete overhaul while he's wearing it and while he's frozen, but she just can't seem to fix that piece.
I think the more likely scenario here is that 343 decided to break canon by drastically changing his armor and then came up with whatever excuse they could muster to cover it up. Either that, or the Cortana theory was thought up by the community trying to justify the new armor. I'm not sure. Did 343 ever say it was Cortana who changed the armor?
The only thing changed by Cortana was the firmwire. 343 already admitted that the change was only aesthetic, but from a canon perspective the hardware is still fundamentally the same as the one in Halo 2 and 3. So technically, it's the same suit, but visually it's different.Willko wrote:Mr JVacha wrote:It's realistic to the game. His armor was updated by cortana in h4.
OK. Let's just assume Cortana has some way to do that. Let's assume further that her ability to do that isn't hampered by the fact that Master Chief was cryogenically frozen when she would have been doing this. With all that skepticism pushed aside, why didn't she fix the big gash on the right-hand side of his chestpiece? She's giving his armor a complete overhaul while he's wearing it and while he's frozen, but she just can't seem to fix that piece.
I think the more likely scenario here is that 343 decided to break canon by drastically changing his armor and then came up with whatever excuse they could muster to cover it up. Either that, or the Cortana theory was thought up by the community trying to justify the new armor. I'm not sure. Did 343 ever say it was Cortana who changed the armor?
Not so. If you read the books, it goes into a bit more detail on the Mark V and Mark VI armors. they were powered exoskeletons. They amplified a Spartan's already super-human abilities. For example, if a Spartan throws a punch, the suit's motors amplified the movement of that arm to put more power behind it. That's why the original Mark V and Mark VI armors were more "bulky" and robotic looking. Compare that to the Halo 4 art design where all the Spartans(Master Chief and the Spartan IV's) were wearing what was basically a form-fitting body suit with armor plates attached to it. If they wanted to change the armor for the Spartan IV's, then that's fine. Maybe canonically, the Spartan IV's just don't get powered armor like the II's did. the whole point of the Spartan III and Spartan IV programs were to make Spartans cheaper and more "mass produced". It would make sense for them to have more basic armor. However, there was no good reason to do this to Master Chief's armor.Johnny Old Hall wrote:Willko wrote:Mr JVacha wrote:It's realistic to the game. His armor was updated by cortana in h4.
OK. Let's just assume Cortana has some way to do that. Let's assume further that her ability to do that isn't hampered by the fact that Master Chief was cryogenically frozen when she would have been doing this. With all that skepticism pushed aside, why didn't she fix the big gash on the right-hand side of his chestpiece? She's giving his armor a complete overhaul while he's wearing it and while he's frozen, but she just can't seem to fix that piece.
I think the more likely scenario here is that 343 decided to break canon by drastically changing his armor and then came up with whatever excuse they could muster to cover it up. Either that, or the Cortana theory was thought up by the community trying to justify the new armor. I'm not sure. Did 343 ever say it was Cortana who changed the armor?
The only thing changed by Cortana was the firmwire. 343 already admitted that the change was only aesthetic, but from a canon perspective the hardware is still fundamentally the same as the one in Halo 2 and 3. So technically, it's the same suit, but visually it's different.
But they do. The external armor plates are irrelevant to most of MJOLNIR's core functions. And since when were there motors?Willko wrote:Johnny Old Hall wrote:Willko wrote:Mr JVacha wrote:It's realistic to the game. His armor was updated by cortana in h4.
OK. Let's just assume Cortana has some way to do that. Let's assume further that her ability to do that isn't hampered by the fact that Master Chief was cryogenically frozen when she would have been doing this. With all that skepticism pushed aside, why didn't she fix the big gash on the right-hand side of his chestpiece? She's giving his armor a complete overhaul while he's wearing it and while he's frozen, but she just can't seem to fix that piece.
I think the more likely scenario here is that 343 decided to break canon by drastically changing his armor and then came up with whatever excuse they could muster to cover it up. Either that, or the Cortana theory was thought up by the community trying to justify the new armor. I'm not sure. Did 343 ever say it was Cortana who changed the armor?
The only thing changed by Cortana was the firmwire. 343 already admitted that the change was only aesthetic, but from a canon perspective the hardware is still fundamentally the same as the one in Halo 2 and 3. So technically, it's the same suit, but visually it's different.
Not so. If you read the books, it goes into a bit more detail on the Mark V and Mark VI armors. they were powered exoskeletons. They amplified a Spartan's already super-human abilities. For example, if a Spartan throws a punch, the suit's motors amplified the movement of that arm to put more power behind it. That's why the original Mark V and Mark VI armors were more "bulky" and robotic looking. Compare that to the Halo 4 art design where all the Spartans(Master Chief and the Spartan IV's) were wearing what was basically a form-fitting body suit with armor plates attached to it. If they wanted to change the armor for the Spartan IV's, then that's fine. Maybe canonically, the Spartan IV's just don't get powered armor like the II's did. the whole point of the Spartan III and Spartan IV programs were to make Spartans cheaper and more "mass produced". It would make sense for them to have more basic armor. However, there was no good reason to do this to Master Chief's armor.
But the newer armor is powered armor, just much more efficient and better... It still amplifies their movements. That's why Frank O'Connor said that if a Spartan II in his Gen 1 armor faces a Spartan IV in his GEN2 armor in hand to hand combat would lose.Willko wrote:Johnny Old Hall wrote:Willko wrote:Mr JVacha wrote:It's realistic to the game. His armor was updated by cortana in h4.
OK. Let's just assume Cortana has some way to do that. Let's assume further that her ability to do that isn't hampered by the fact that Master Chief was cryogenically frozen when she would have been doing this. With all that skepticism pushed aside, why didn't she fix the big gash on the right-hand side of his chestpiece? She's giving his armor a complete overhaul while he's wearing it and while he's frozen, but she just can't seem to fix that piece.
I think the more likely scenario here is that 343 decided to break canon by drastically changing his armor and then came up with whatever excuse they could muster to cover it up. Either that, or the Cortana theory was thought up by the community trying to justify the new armor. I'm not sure. Did 343 ever say it was Cortana who changed the armor?
The only thing changed by Cortana was the firmwire. 343 already admitted that the change was only aesthetic, but from a canon perspective the hardware is still fundamentally the same as the one in Halo 2 and 3. So technically, it's the same suit, but visually it's different.
Not so. If you read the books, it goes into a bit more detail on the Mark V and Mark VI armors. they were powered exoskeletons. They amplified a Spartan's already super-human abilities. For example, if a Spartan throws a punch, the suit's motors amplified the movement of that arm to put more power behind it. That's why the original Mark V and Mark VI armors were more "bulky" and robotic looking. Compare that to the Halo 4 art design where all the Spartans(Master Chief and the Spartan IV's) were wearing what was basically a form-fitting body suit with armor plates attached to it. If they wanted to change the armor for the Spartan IV's, then that's fine. Maybe canonically, the Spartan IV's just don't get powered armor like the II's did. the whole point of the Spartan III and Spartan IV programs were to make Spartans cheaper and more "mass produced". It would make sense for them to have more basic armor. However, there was no good reason to do this to Master Chief's armor.
