Least liked halo fact

JNDreher wrote:

Ado Ulamee wrote:

Since someone decided to make a favorite Halo fact I decided to try the opposite. So what would yours be? Would have to say mine would be that they retconned the Covenant over the years from being able to fully glass a planets just taken out small areas. It felt in the older lore that it added more weight to the actual battles that took place during the war.

That and the fact humanity has been doing just fine after a 30-year war that devastated them so badly.

I disagree with the assertion that the Covenant's ability to glass planets was retconned. Look at the global devastation on Meridian. That entire world was slagged, the areas we visit being describes as where the glass was thinner, and this is what was considered a rush job.

Reach was also glassed from pole-to-pole, with the exception of the location above where the Forerunner crystal was hidden.

Master Chief also watched the glassing of Jericho VII, and that glassing even describes the boiling off of the oceans and atmosphere.

The Covenant can definitively glass entire planets.

As for humanity's condition after 30 years, take into account that everywhere the Covenant attacked was pretty much destroyed. (look at Harvest). Utter devastation across the galaxy doesn't mean the ships and worlds that haven't faced the enemy would look like they had 30 years worth of being overwhelmed behind them. The sinking of a fleet doesn't make a ship that wasn't present look like it barely survived.

I think looking at the lore through a different lens will improve its appearance to you.

Falconx03 wrote:

Not exactly a fact but that Halo 5 essentially retconned the Halo 4 Spartan Ops. When Halo 4 came out I poured countless hours into it and read up on the lore of it but then Halo 5 comes out and killed all of it in 60 seconds.

How was Spartan Ops retconned? Its story arc was concluded in the comics (not a good choice in my opinion, because story arcs should be concluded in the medium they were started in). And that was before Halo 5 was released.

tL Armada wrote:

DentingSleet28 wrote:

I don't like the fact that 343 guilty spark is alive, it just seems implausible, and yes 343 gave reasons about how his body was broken but his mind matrix remained, but come on. It ruins some of the finality of halo 3's ending, with spark being "alive" again it makes another part of the original trilogy have less weight.

It doesn't trivialize Halo 3, though. The 343 Guilty Spark we knew was killed in Halo 3. What was reawakened from that destruction was Chakas. Chakas -- or Spark as he goes by now -- isn't the same as the protocol-driven, insane caretaker of Installation 04.
I think what 343i has done to Spark has only enhanced his character, not detracted. I understand your mileage may vary on that, however.

Ado Ulamee wrote:

Noobbula wrote:

JNDreher wrote:

Ado Ulamee wrote:

Since someone decided to make a favorite Halo fact I decided to try the opposite. So what would yours be? Would have to say mine would be that they retconned the Covenant over the years from being able to fully glass a planets just taken out small areas. It felt in the older lore that it added more weight to the actual battles that took place during the war.

That and the fact humanity has been doing just fine after a 30-year war that devastated them so badly.

I disagree with the assertion that the Covenant's ability to glass planets was retconned. Look at the global devastation on Meridian. That entire world was slagged, the areas we visit being describes as where the glass was thinner, and this is what was considered a rush job.

Reach was also glassed from pole-to-pole, with the exception of the location above where the Forerunner crystal was hidden.

Master Chief also watched the glassing of Jericho VII, and that glassing even describes the boiling off of the oceans and atmosphere.

The Covenant can definitively glass entire planets.

As for humanity's condition after 30 years, take into account that everywhere the Covenant attacked was pretty much destroyed. (look at Harvest). Utter devastation across the galaxy doesn't mean the ships and worlds that haven't faced the enemy would look like they had 30 years worth of being overwhelmed behind them. The sinking of a fleet doesn't make a ship that wasn't present look like it barely survived.

I think looking at the lore through a different lens will improve its appearance to you.

Falconx03 wrote:

I don't think the 'glassing planets thing' was retconned, it's because the fragmented Covenant don't have the ships, fuel, or crew to do that anymore. You hear it explicitly in the books. (Thursday War)

Was talking of the original Covenant, not the new groups.

Snockooz wrote:

I dislike the fact that Master Chief is 7,1 feet tall, Has musculature that is stated to be 2 times the density of normal human musculature, has bones reinforced with Metal Plating and yet Only weights 286 pounds... Mind you the average weight of a 6,2 football player is 243. Then we have a 7,2 Bodybuilder who's body is realistically what a Spartan should look like and he weight over 300 pounds.(Look up The Dutch Giant). Based on this Chief should at least weight 350 pounds if not almost 400 pounds.

Chief's height and weight numbers come from the character info cards that came with the limited edition of Halo 5.

Snockooz wrote:

I Wasn't talking about the Mass of a Spartan's Muscles. "Protein complex is injected intramuscularly to increase tissue density and decrease lactase recovery time." My point is the higher an objects Density the more it weighs. If you doubled the density of your muscles than those muscle should weight twice as much.

Archon Vaxal wrote:

343 establishing that Elite Combat-Harnesses enhance the wearer's capabilities. If it weren't enough that the Sangheili track-record has been crap for 18 years, they were apparently also operating at full capacity the entire time. Fantastic...

GreenleafCM wrote:

The fact that H5's story is a thing that exists.