Heres your spartans, bro

I will never forgive them for changing the Covenant designs.
They got my hopes up with that Halo 2 anniversary cutscene where it showed them as the original Elites.

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If they were just the halo 1-3 marines complete with aussies and mexicans but in power armour, there would be no problem whatsoever.

wasn't the whole lore of master chief is that all the other spartans got BTFO'd and only the bald generic white male survived?

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Then they aren't Spartans. Its like ODST but better. In fact, didn't they absorb ODST? Why bother name dropping Halsey's shit? Its not the same, its not even for the same purpose. Its like inventing a tank and calling it the Jeep2

Even during Halo 1 Chief wasn't the only Spartan left

>lol just make all the aliens look like dinosaurs
What the fuck were they thinking? They're fucking aliens they shouldn't look earthly at all

HW2 elites are still busted facewise, their forehead is 4 times as big as it needs to be and they have a face shaped like a snapping turtle.
They should just have kept the reach elites for all the later games.

he was during halo CE and then they had to retcon it

>following this shit heap after 3

I don't think they dropped ODST's outright, unless its stated somewhere. I just know Bucks squad got offered to join the program, and all survivors of it did after Rookie died

They'll have their helmets on the whole time and I'm not playing them, who cares.

IIs

I could see it being done for propaganda purposes.

This thread just reminded me of the most retarded scene in Halo 4, where the dumbass captain tries to get chief court martialled, despite him being the saviour of humanity that everyone knows of cos of UNSC propaganda.

All Halos are riding on the coattails of 2 and CE.

Art Books:
>Art of Halo 3
imgur.com/a/OOF1r

>Art of Halo 5
imgur.com/a/6FqzO

>Art of Halo (Original)
drive.google.com/open?id=0BzxNZWWqyX42ZUJSdjgxUXctZ2s

>Art of Halo (CE to Wars/Reach)
imgur.com/a/Pb9Vq

>Art Compilation from CE to 4
drive.google.com/open?id=0BzxNZWWqyX42ckt0ZDdWaG1WSkk

Lore:
>Warfleet
drive.google.com/open?id=0BzxNZWWqyX42Sk9iamNQaW81V3c

>Halo Books
drive.google.com/open?id=0BzxNZWWqyX42aUIwbUZxWHJ0V1E

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they're called spartans still because oni wants to pr spin them into non child abductees that volunteered and have humanity,

Two.
Kirk did his damndest with the Spartan IIIs even though they were technically made to be expendable. A couple made it out and were pretty fucking good though.

>Halo lore discussion in 2019

I'm sorry your life has come to this, lads. Hope you feel better.

They should have kept "chief goes rogue" as the them of 5, leave cortana dead and have chief liquidate ONI, those guys were always cunts

Did Akerson do anything wrong? Or did Ackerson do EVERYTHING wrong?

Halo 3 perfected Halo CE and 2.

*casualized

look OP, its just a total coincidence that the popularity quality and sales of Halo went downhill the exact same time they started making a shooter about diversity politics.

It's ALSO a coincidence that it happened the exact moment a affirmative action hire was put in charge of the games.

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*perfected

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>Halo went downhill the exact same time they started making a shooter about diversity politics.

Since when was it about diversity politics? Because there's a female spartan and a nigger?

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But that's wrong, ODST and Reach are the worst selling FPS Halo games and Halo 5 was hated because no one gave a fuck about Locke, Osiris, and Blue Team except some Lore and ODST faggots.

So this is the power of the console master race

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>jeff gerstmann is a spartan now
works for me, honestly

The only thing Nu-Halo did right was making Cortana hot. Other than that they retconned and ruined the lore and made the story and gameplay worse.

2s is the only "true" spartans. 3s were made to work in squads and be expendable. The few that dodged the suicide missions were pretty badass. and 4s blow ass.

Halo 5 is the worst-selling mainline game

This

Are 2's the ones from Ghosts of Onyx that had to be given specific drugs regularly or they turned feral? Iirc their armour was worse and didn't have shields as well.

No, it's not.

The gameplay is what sucked about that game.
Lorefags are less than 1% of halo buyers so you would have to be dumb to believe thats why it sucked.

3's*

Well yeah Halo is made for the dudebro "Semper Fi mothafucka bix nood" type that don't even follow the plot of what they're playing.

The little lore section in the game's manual explicitly states that Chief is the last surviving Spartan and the game itself provides absolutely zero evidence to the contrary.

based
thank you nigga

Halo 5's campaign sucked for a lot of things, from Blue Team, to Locke, to Osiris, to the Warden, to Cortana being the villain, to the gameplay, to the short ass campaign, to the non-combat levels that served no purpose, to filler, to Arbiter being shoved into the game for no reason whatsoever, to the campaign being another linear ass pile of shit with an ending worse than Halo 2 and 4's QTE ending. 3 Chief levels, fuck that shit.

>using females as soldiers right after you finished a war that wiped out 95% of your population

that isnt why players didnt stick around though.
games can survive shitty campaigns, just look at 2 and reach, while 4 had a """good""" campaign to the average normies, that game died instantly.
5 just played like shit and not like halo and that is why it failed.

>spartan with full beard
How does he put on his helmet?

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Isn't this the halo 4 design? I didn't play any halo game after 4

the tranny on the right is visibly retarded

2 obviously followed by 3. Spartan 4s haven't felt like the power houses or disciplined soldiers of the older generations but every now and again there's one decent 4, like Thorne.

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Rippetoe claims another victim

Cortana was right when she said that the spartan 4 were basically like children with toys in contrast to the spartan 2s

this guy and lasky had 0 personality so theres no reason to care for them.

Spartan 4's are just glorified ODSTs.

best spartans coming through

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>spartan 4's are portrayed as incompetent
>still destroy high ranked elites and covenant armies with 0 effort
What is this meme? are they only stupid in some obscure book or some shit?

>that snowflake hair
>that beard
we destiny now?

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heres your spartan for halo galaxy (halo 7) bro

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They wanted wisecracking Marines to appeal to the COD audience which went against the Spartan lore so they instead made Spartan 4's which were literally that and of coarse it all blew up in their face because everyone hates Spartan 4's and hopefully they'll all die hilarious deaths in Infinite.

I'd rather you didn't insult ODSTs like that. I can guarantee a well trained squad could kick the fucking shit out of an average Spartan IV.

>bald generic white male

Isn't Chief actually a pasty redhead?

Spartan-IIIs came in 3 companies: Alpha, Beta, and Gamma (don't ask why Delta was skipped). Alpha was the first try, using armor that didn't have a nuclear reactor strapped on the back. They did a few missions, then were wiped out. Kurt, the S-2 who trained them, was devastated, and decided teamwork would help this next class survive longer. He improved by 2 Spartans of Beta surviving their second mission.
By Gamma's turn, Kurt said "Fuck it." and secretly introduced illegal drugs into the kids during augmentation. These illegal drugs would make them gain the "feel no pain" perk at the cost of them being forced to inject suppressive drugs every 12 hours, lest they become "animalistic."

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>That scene in Halo 5 where Locke somehow managed to fight toe to toe with Chief
Still annoys me to no end. Spartan IIs are fucking busted to the point where they've survived falls from orbit with no chute and only received medium injuries. Their skeletons are on par with titanium, their suits are running at operational speeds that would shred the muscles of IIIs and IVs, and yet I'm supposed to believe these fucks can stand up to the peak of human genetic engineering in a walking mechanical suicide machine?

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I'm not sure if this is canon, its supposed to be.

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Why don't they just have ODST squads comprised solely of Spartans?

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that seems to be the case, yes

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Halo lost its charm for me when it went for the generic soft sci-fi shit for humanity.

I skipped Halo 5. How was the campaign? For as much shit as H4 gets, I actually liked the campaign.

That “fight” was straight from FanFiction.net.

Chief is the protagonists and so he can have as much plot armor as he wants. Other spartan II's aren't so lucky and die in droves to basic shit like brutes, elites and jackals. Locke being able to stand toe to toe with chief was just done for plot reason.

I was honestly amazed by the fact that they didn't bother MoCapping any actual punches. They're so blatantly pulled and don't have any weight to them, to the point where fucking Rooster Teeth did it better nearly a decade ago

Some of the players of 2 went back to CE, Reach lost half of its players, Halo 5 lost its playerbase because it had less features at launch than Halo CE.

That fucking cutscene. Definitive proof that motion capture has a time and a place. If they seriously wanted to have the two of them fight, and not just as an in-game boss, it absolutely had to have been traditionally animated. That cutscene doesn't involve two genetically modified powerhouses going toe-to-toe, it involves two bulky morons waddling around throwing weak punches and pathetic kicks.

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>tranny
343 don't add trannies or gays to their Halo games.

I hated these fuck bags and Marcus Lehto trying to push them at Chief's level when he makes them looks like shit in comparison, he even has a better body.

that on top of having bad gameplay.

some of them went back to CE, but 2's multiplayer was still massive success compared to CE despite it having a worse campaign.

Chief looks like his canon self

That fight was Brian Reed's fanfiction, and you wonder why he no longer has a job there.

>after 2

That is true but in Halo 5's case it literally had nothing at launch when it came to multiplayer, they took too long to add anything so people said fuck them and left.

Wait a minute, Master Chief isn't supposed to be the last one?
Also one of the cinematic showed how hard their training was and that they had their hair cuts.
Spartans wouldn't be happy like that.

Even still, Spartan IIs hit a lot harder than IVs. Sure, if you're a Grunt in the Covenant army you're not going to notice a difference, but an Elite or Brute would.

If we're talking pure fist fighting and unbridled potential, Chief should have had Locke down on the ground within seconds. He's operating at mental and physical speeds beyond any IV, with significantly more experience to boot considering he's been trained since he was a child to kill.

this. Spartans are living non-feeling war machines. Chief doesn't talk because he has nothing to say.
They don't have emotion. They don't laugh and they don't smile

>trying to push them at Chief's level
What are you talking about, they all die like idiots besides 7.

This, glad 343 are putting Spartan IVs in their place, Brian Reed kept giving those worthless fucks plot armor and it pissed me off.

It is I just looked it up the only number I could get for Halo 5 was 5+million. You want to know what the second lowest was? Halo Odst at 6.2 million. The fucking expansion sold more than Halo 5 so eat shit chump

Before the game release Bungie kept trying to say they were equal or greater than the Chief and it pissed us off, when they died we made fun of them and Bungie for dare putting on Chief's level.

literally not one has died

Stop using VGChartz, reddit, ODST sold 5 million and stop, Halo 5 sold more than 10 million and is the Xbox One's best selling first party game.

just like nobody gives a fuck about UAC marines but everyone loves doomguy/doomslayer, nobody gives a fuck about spartans

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>They don't laugh and they don't smile
Kelly and fred kinda do that sometimes, it's just chief and others like Linda being autistic

>They don't have emotion. They don't laugh and they don't smile
That severely limits any sort of character development or personality. You can tell they tried to give him emotion in 4 and 5.

This, Master Chief is the only one that matters, just like Samus is the only one that matters in Metroid, not other bounty hunters.

2s. They're literally built to be the perfect soldiers, were kidnapped at a young age to begin physical and mental training + chemical therapies to boost their strength, speed, stamina and intelligence immediately. 3s were the cheap mass produced models, and 4s are just jarhead that signed up for the program.

I wasn't even using vgchartz retard nice dodge of with the assumption. And bull fucking shit it sold more than 10 million sold the same numbers as halo 3 or even close to it.

Get you 343 cock out of your mouth and start paying attention

Look at the reply chain, he's talking about III's, not IV's.

Post a source or shut up, this reeks of something you'd hear on a school playground.
>us
>we
Yep, sounds about right.

Autistic Spartans are the best Spartans.

Halo 3 sold more than 14.5 million, how is that even close? You're using VGChartz.

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What even made 343 decide to design them like that? Is it because they lacked brutes and wanted someone else to take their place as the big scary dudes?

>We've got to reinvent the golden goose of a franchise laid onto our laps

Play the games again and you'll notice Chief has a pretty deadpan sense of humor in the cutscenes.

kenneth scott

Spartans were originally never intended to be 'characters'. There was Chief, an empty husk for the player to inhabit, then there were the actual characters of the story like Johnson, Keyes, Miranda, etc.

Change for the sake of change, don't put a lot of thought into it. I imagine it was a Microsoft mandate to push the polycount as high they could.

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I know it was said somewhere but I can't find it, it was said sometime in 2010. Damn it's hard to find.

In universe because Covenant fell and no-one is supplying them fancy armor so they had to dug up ancient stockpiles.

Muh artistic license. Same reason the jackals look like Godzilla now instead of weird beaked lizards, and why the grunts look like wretches from Gears of War. And then instead of just saying "well we fucked up, nobody liked that art style so we tried to dial it back to the original" 343 came up with the reasoning that those ugly motherfuckers are subspecies of the old ones, giving them an excuse to stick around and continue being ugly.

?

If you can't see the the unsubtle pandering of some CEO executive making fanficiton spartans because some marketing focus testing said that black madden players and Sims4 women can't "identify" with Master Chief being the protagonist I envy you for your blue pill life

>Change for the sake of change, don't put a lot of thought into it. I imagine it was a Microsoft mandate to push the polycount as high they could.
this, they worthless lore they come up with is just to justify the changes for all the autists.
Theyre most likely going back to reach looking grunts since the doom 3 art director has left

i hope Cortana kills them all

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Alright, I found something, they said they wanted to make Noble Team more iconic than Master Chief ever could be on their developer commentary.

This thread made me look up the Spartan generations and found read about Lucy-BO91, a girl thirsty for covenant blood after they glassed her home world and her family and friends along with it. She has pale skin, dark hair, and is SUPER short, standing at only 160cm (5ft 3in).
What I wouldn't do to go to poundtown with Lucy-BO91...

Microsoft and Kenneth Scott but things have changed at both Microsoft and 343.

FPS Halo game that shows the game from the perspective of an up and coming marine? It was always a pleasant surprise learning how the scale of things worked, how plasma in lore was a fucking horror show and MAC cannons worked.

The Spartan IV's are carried by their suits which are miles better than the one Chief has, it's the only thing letting them fight on par with a Spartan II.
If chief was in GEN2 MJOLNIR he'd be unstoppable and I don't know why he was never issued any

STOP HE'S ALREADY DEAD

I must

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Old Halo was diversity done right.

He was wearing Gen 2 in Halo 5, the Halo 4 and 5 armor are not the same, Spartan IIs don't get the same benefits, the Gen 2 works like the Gen 1 for them, it's mostly their strength so they were still on par with Spartan IVs in suit.

Thorn was the perfect straight man to the comedic shitfest 343 Halo UNSC is.
None of the retardation, always looking and talking to the other characters with extreme skepticism.

She's the best, and closest we've gotten to seeing a spartan snu snu a odst

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Never ever. If it ain't chief its shit according to most halo fans. Also halo games are literal power fantasy so you;ll never be a normal human, even in odst you played like a spartan

They're neat designs to be honest. Just not in tune for a Halo game.

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Delta isn't skipped. The order of the greek alphabet is Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, Zeta, Eta, Theta, Iota, Kappa, Lambda, Mu, Nu, Xi, Omicron, Pi, Rho, Sigma, Tau, Upsilon, Phi, Chi, Psi and Omega

This but it was good confirmation from Bonnie Ross that mainline Halo games are Master Chief and spin-offs are other characters, means I can just stick to playing mainline games, she even acknowledges that Halo 5 should have been a spin-off with no number.

Master Chief is Rorschach?

This chick made me diamonds whenever I played 4

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>those tits

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I hope Offensive Bias kills Cortana.

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>Halo 3: Spartans look like a natural step up from the marines with very little aethestic disconnect between the two
>Halo 5: Spartans are everywhere and look like borderline power rangers
>almost no pictures of marines in the entire art book

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eh, i kinda liked Daisy a bit more

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I'm glad Marines are back in Halo Infinite.

worse than 4, dont ever buy it unless you want to see the series dead and buried.

Mass production over quality. A trade off that their military was willing to make.

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Multiplayer is fun, campaign is terrible.

The scene would have been kino if everyone in Osiris dog-piled him at once and Chief still manhandled their asses like they were toddlers fighting a linebacker.

unironically true, the campaign would still be a trainwreck though.

>chick

I actually don’t mind the designs in this image and OP’s. They look like a combination between halo reach armor from the waist down and the shoulders too. While the chest plates and helmets are arguably the best designs taken from spartan 4 armor sets, just extremely simplified which makes them even better.

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In halo 5 I love the differences between blue team and the other team. You can tell how much discipline blue team has.

she looks like she has some sort of developmental disorder

>IDENTITY POLITICS!
>IM TRIGGERED

is that a woman?

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Because Microshaft is in cahoots with US government and US government wanted to use Halo to push War on Terror. That meant that all the globalist and more immoral aspects of UNSC and the brainwashed robotic nature had to go in effort to make spartans superhero nation-defenders that everybody could relate to.

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Oh no, Spartans who I'm not going to play look ugly, now I am mad because these Spartans from a concept art look ugly and chances are we may not even see them without their helmets on in the final game, I'm so angry man.

it's the hair, it makes them look like the come from destiny

I thought this was a dude at first, well she is a Spartan IV.

we all lose

No bully pls. I have a thing for girls that look like dykes

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Taking money from the military is something that every movie with a soldier does. It's not exclusive to microsoft.

Oh no, crappy hairstyles from Spartans I won't be playing.

Also the covies are also crazy religious zealots that attack in jihad for no apparent reason. Fit the narrative perfectly.

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>No bully pls. I have a thing for being a faggot.

still pretty shit design tho

True, but they're Spartan IVs so I don't care.

>liking women is gay

>that's a woman

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>women
>posts a man
???

Far as I know, out of the two of you, you'll be the one bending over..

That's a man.

They were less crazy jihadists before Halo 3. In CE I got the impression that they were some sort of militarized new age ascension religion. Halo 2 turned that a bit towards roman empire led by scheming prophets. Then came Halo 3 and they changed Truth's VA and character completely to make him purely insane rambling jihadist. They also aren't really technologically advanced, just using forerunner tech, humans are much better at reverse engineering it anyways :^)

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What if I'm into pegging

Then I have nothing else to argue.

Weird that humans are better at reverse engineering in both Halo and Metroid, hmm.

How does everyone feel about Halo Infinite going back to what made Halo CE-3's campaigns great and dropping Halo 4 and 5's direction in campaign?

Pretty much every nuScifi burgerian scifi setting, desu. Even Mass Effect went full "humans are the most special and diverse and likeable group of people in the universe" for a while. It's all so tiresome.

I feel its like going backwards desu. It comes off as being so incompetent that you have to use nostalgia to make any headway with fans.

My favorite Grunts were Halo 3's.
>Best mix of cute and ugly
>Less silly dialogue than Halo 2 but still plenty amusing
>Iconic triangular methane tank and gas mask
>Canonically crab-dudes with tough exoskeletons, and quite strong compared to an average human
>Cool gameplay quirks like exploding gas tanks, grenade volleys, and suicide charges

They shouldn't have changed it in the first place.

Also grunt birthday party

Text on back of the first Halo states.
"bred for war, built for combat you are the last of your kind." But to be fair its not that hard of a retcon since they simply added backstory to it instead of removing. Chief actually thought he was in canon if Im not mistaken.

I prefer this if only because it divorces the elites from the sexualization that you morons attach to them

This

I get what they were trying to do with elites in 4 and 5. They weren't you r allies anymore so they tried to make them more monstrous but it didn't really work that well.

r34 only uses the 343 model in sfm.
basing your opinion about what others dislike is retarded aswell.

>heres your elite bro.
A-at least it wong get sexualized, r-right?

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2 or 3. 4 have the dumbest armor in any video game ever.

2rd gen. *sip* Yeah, they don't make spartans like that anymore.

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Halo 1 was best Cortana. She got progressively sexualized in a very stupid way as the series went on. 1 was sleek, but still feminine. 4 has these saggy old lady tits and a flat pancake face.

she looks like tyler

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She was a naked sassy mommy gf since forever. That's plenty sexualized.

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Easily one of my favorite shorts. Its tied with prototype for me.

kek

Are we ever going to get another comfy Human-Covenant war game? The thought of nu-halo forever is disheartening.

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The Prototype > Origins II > Origins I > The Babysitter > The Package > Homecoming > The Duel > Odd One Out

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t. homo

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>if you aren't paranoid and autistic like me i pity you
here's what actually happened: they just made black and female characters. That's all there was to it.

>That one Gamma SIII who had his chest blown open by a Needler and didn't feel a thing

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That's about right but I don't think Homecoming should be that low.

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The best we can hope for is that Cortana’s faction can knock down humanity back to being under dogs, then the rest of the major races in the galaxy can btfo cortana but not completely destroying them, in the process ONI’s secret shit gets revealed causing other races (mainly the Sangheili) to not consider humanity allies, eventually the mantle of responsibility starts to become a attractive idea for all races with each of them coming up with their own interpretations, eventually 3 main factions plus a bunch of side factions start competing for it.
All this would open up tons of room for new games and we could get some kino stories diving into war and in-universe politics.

Patrician tastes user

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Don't worry, that will probably be Halo Infinite.

Going through the lists off Spartans. 1's didn't get the results that ONI was looking for though they were still effective. Sergeant Avery Johnson is one of the examples of Spartan 1s. However they can be killed just as easily as a normal human even with their augs.

Spartan 1.1s, technically not a project but various Spartan 1s children were augmented via injection. They proved to be better than their parents. One of them was slated to become a Spartan 2, however her father killed the kidnappers/agents.

Spartan 2's were the cream of the crop, originally there were going to be 300 of them but due to either Hasely having a conscience or ONI not having a enough funds for the project, only 75 were picked. And out of that 75 only 33 were useable. So while they were the best all round, they lacked numbers.

Spartan 3's were produced as suicide troops and were made in mass. The 3's had expectationally individuals among their ranks and succeeded in their task of buying humanity the time it needed. Their training was much greater than that of the 2's though many weren't prepared for plasma weapons thus losing an entire company to the Covenant. Overall they earned their place to be alongside the 2's.

Spartan 4's mass produced from the best of the unsc supposedly. Though they failed at nearly every turn on Requiem, it could be argued that was on the commanders but their performance was greatly lacking. Eventually killed Jul but only after he had been cornered by the Prometheans. Failed to stop Master Chief but being fair he is a 2. Overall though they don't have a good track record compared to the 2s and 3s.

Final ranking 2s, 3s, 1s, 1.1s, 4s. 4 would have been higher because of their armor and augs however their record of combat isn't that great compared to the 1s. While the 1.1s are better than the 1s, they weren't a part of the military and saw very limited combat.

What ruins Homecoming for me is the idea that ONI would waste a perfectly good Spartan by transferring him to be a marine to punish him. Especially when they were late enough in the war that Spartans were a necessity

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Nah ODSTs are still around, roughly a thousand soldiers were made into 4s. That's nowhere near a enough to replace the ODSTs.

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>Halsey
>Having a conscience
Good one

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They acknowledge in one of the recent books that Chief was holding back

Most of the original Spartans are dead, a few survive, mostly Chiefs old team. Chiefs power is that he abilities of a main character and well rounded.

She's very pragmatic but she does have a conscience. And as it would turn out her creations prevented humanities extinction.

Also, fuck hypocritical glow in the dark ONI niggers.

Go to bed, Karen Traviss.

>You know remember Karen Traviss
Thanks user, I really fucking enjoy Clone-Jedi lovebabies

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Feels good that Brian Reed's shit is being retconned. I said that Chief was holding back before Bad Blood was even made.

This

Are you talking about Tom or B312?

why is Chief such a chad?

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>it's always the same elite poster

Miss the dabbing pics

imagine placing value in human life. 200 dead humans for 1 Master Chief level spartan that can decimate entire civilizations seems entirely worth it

She's not a bad writer in form or creativity. But, boy does she fucking love to ruin characters and lore for the sake of it.

Because he has God genes, I bet he can get the Goddess Samus to fall for his dick as well.

He just is. Some are born to succeed.

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>Dante brought up the rear, limping into the room, one hand holding his side. He stood up straight and saluted Kurt.
>"Sir," he said, "I think I got nicked."
>Dante's bio signs flatlined and he collapsed.
>Kurt dropped to Dante's side and unlatched his SPI chest piece. He'd seen him grazed by plasma on his left side, and sure enough, there were second- and third-degree burns there that had boiled off the liquid-ballistic layer. Under his arm and across his chest a half dozen needler shards had lodged and detonated. The bones of his rib cage were exposed, and deeper, black congealing blood pooled.
>He was limp. Cold. Bio signs flat.

Who was the best author in halo literature?

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>Spartans were originally never intended to be 'characters'.
The Fall of Reach was published a month before Combat Evolved came out.

He was a washout, meaning most of the augs didn't take. He was better than your baseline human but couldn't compete against a 2.

So when the FUCK are we getting more halo infinite news?

Also post ideal story predictions- for me it’s that Cortana has the logic plague and shes subduing the whole galaxy so the flood are unopposed when they return. Storyline could climax with humanity/arbiters guys fighting against an alliance of aliens, Prometheans, and flood. I think the created storyline actually has potential if they do it right, all is not lost

Nylund was always the most entertaining to read, but I haven’t read fall of reach in years. Not sure if it still holds up.
Is silent storm worth picking up?

> logic plague
yikes.
fresh from the cringy youtube lore boat?

E3 2019 most likely where we're getting a lengthy demo that shows off some of the engine capabilities, we'll also most likely hear about the story as well.

Who cares the primordial quantum flood bullshit is uniroincly retarded.

>chief is agent 47

Also, I can see Cortana being replaced sometime in the campaign either by the Didact or the Warden that way we can have three enemy factions, the Covenant, the Flood, and the Prometheans, the Created may be controlling the Covenant for now.

>1 trillion years later
>Yea Forumsermin are still angry about women and minorities existing
It will never stop getting funny

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Nylund does digestible military nerdbait pretty well.
Staten did a good job in-game and in Contact: Harvest.
Buckell did ok in Evolutions and Cole Protocol
O'Connor is pretty meh

Greg Bear writes damn well, but the Forerunner trilogy shits entirely on the foundations of the games' lore.

logic plague is bungie lore

3 have best customization options.

The best thing to come out of the 4s besides Crimson and maybe Shadow Team being the only ones to ever get shit done is Cortana asking Buck why he’s babysitting the rest of the Osiris retards

This

Yes and it's always been retarded. Especially when they try to 'scientifically' explain how it happened. Again, fuck everything primordial. The Flood should have just been the Flood, a little mystery doesn't hurt a story.

That sure didn't stop Bungie from shitting up the Covenant in Halo 2, they might as well.

Except 343 has hinted at this multiple times, but who knows. Can’t see why this wouldn’t work, would be a cool way to connect the trilogies.

Nylund is the first writer and pretty much the foundation of the halo universe in terms of a written foundation and the universe interacting with eachother outside of the games.
I love every Halo book he has written.
Staten did fine. Greg is a good fucking writter, but as someone else said, it sort of fucks with the Forerunner lore.
THAT BEING SAID I really like a lot of the cool fucking concepts he writes about. I was thoroughly intrigued in every book. the lamest thing about Greg's books are the origin of the Flood being basically a dust that infected pets and somehow became bigger over time. In a way I guess it's fine that it's not a big evil reveal but it's still kind of lame.

Fireteam Shadow has literally one sentence of story on the wiki and have only been canonically depicted as LEGO people.

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didnt we already have female spartans though? I remember reading about them in the books also ODST i think had that one-armed russian one with the nice ass.

I just remember them blowing shit up for you during Spartan Ops to be honest

>Cortana asking Buck why he’s babysitting the rest of the Osiris retards
This was my favorite line out of 5 and it's the only one i remember.

343 also seems to be going back to the storylines they dropped after Hal 4 which makes me happy, seriously where the fuck did Halo 5's story even come from?

Reach had the best designed spartans, fight me.

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this one is different.
looks like gay californians in power armor.

Yes. That's not what the op pic is about though.

I liked the concepts

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>stick a grunt
>they flail around screaming and sometimes try to suicide you
Classic

I liked Halo 3's better.

How come you never see any of the halo wars vehicles in the mainline games? I want to use a grizzly or vampire

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*skewers a 300lb Locust soldier lifting him off the ground completely on a the bayonet retro lancer*

*then tackles the Grenadier next to him overpowering him and punching him so hard his head explodes*

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Why they didn't added online dogfight mode? The space battle was the most memorable mission in Reach

Probably something to do with some vehicles working better in FPS and others working better in RTS.

Grizzly's in SPV3

Halo?

Fuck SPV3. That dude stole designs without giving credit.

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I can only imagine how kino halo 5 could’ve been if they’d stuck to the original idea. Didn’t people find some files in the game that show pieces of a totally different H5 campaign? I believe Halsey and ONI were going to be the villains originally, guess we’ll never know

>Masterz is an egregious cunt
Who could've guessed?

I actually kinda liked how unassuming the flood’s origins was, kinda wish it was slowly built up with little hints to a big reveal though.

didn't that nigga also unironically like 5's campaign?

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Why did 343 trash this beautiful thing?

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It's free, so idgaf about the drama

Could be, SPV3 plays a shitload like Reach. So he may be into less classic Halo

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oh.
I thought we were doing the whole unrealistic scenario in gaming stuff.
this is just a halo only thread?
on that note I would like to ask that uh.

can you fuck "hard light"? Like the stuff Cortana made a body out of so she could finally touch John and stuff?

could you impregnate a solid hologram? or like would your babyjuice just "datatize" itself and disappear into the ether? or would it just fall straight through her like a ghost?

could Cortana eat food theoretically?

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>female spic and mystery meat
Yep, somehow they just pop up suddenly everywhere now.

>It's free, so idgaf about the drama
Imagine trying to have your name be known, then some faggot just uses your content without a peep.

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If you copied every single detail of human anatomy down to the tiniest cell and turned it all into hardlight then yeah, you could totally fuck hardlight.

Atleast we’ve got the chad bearded lumberjack spartan in the back

>killed off the ODST Rookie
>in a shitty book
I’m still fucking mad.
I will forever be mad.

ODST > Spartans

How triggered would /vpol/ get if this was release nowadays?

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You will care when you read his incest fanfic lore collectables

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Oh, god, I hope so

More common than you can ever imagine. "Good artists copy, great artists steal"

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The abilities in SPV3 felt like shit and it had too many weapons that just overlapped with one another.

the hologram? no, Cortana in 5 gets a physical body somehow, a shame she was mental by that point tho

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He's no better than them

I never bothered with the data logs. Does it say Keyes is boning his daughter or something?

He wants to 'infect' her, yes

what?

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>More common than you can ever imagine. "Good artists copy, great artists steal"
You're going to defend that shit?

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because spartans and ODST's have shakey relationships, and ODST's are usually doled out in somewhat large numbers at the start of a battle. Would have made for terrible teamwork.

No, it was always that way, those guys just mistook Brian Reed for a good writer. Brian Reed can't write for shit.

ODST was a good game. I don't see what spergs on Yea Forums have against it.

It felt lazy after Halo CE-3.

no, it became shit when 343 took over. everything they did, even CE reskin was shit

Sit down, son

Never said it was justified. It's just how things are. Protect your work from thieves.

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>caring about halo after the dumpster fire that was 4
you did this to yourself.

Yikes!
Cringe and bluepilled

There should be a drinking game every time Nylund mentions "motes of light" in space battles.

>ODST > Spartan IV
Yes

>ODST > Spartan III
Yes

>ODST > Spartan II
No

What will halo's battle royal mode be like?

Shoving Bucks ass into a mainline Halo game was to get a bunch ODST faggots to buy into the game because of "muh Nathan Fillion", the entire campaign was one huge fanservice because Brian Reed can't write.

take a shot every time something turns into a "silver cloud of vapor" or something similar. Every space battle would put your BAC in the double digits.

The only problem the game had was the starting price. I only paid like 20 bucks for it, so I didn't feel cheated. I really enjoyed sneaking around the city while the main theme played. It was relaxing and nice to see the game from a different point of view. I feel like they should have toned up the feeling of being a normal human, even if a well trained one though.

Maybe a squad of ODST's could take down a S3 or two, but not 1v1

Spartan 3's still had bones made of unobtanium and shittons more training. And Mjonir suits.

They are a big deal compared to an ODST's basic loadouts.

Admit it Yea Forums, they will never make another good Halo game

I have hope for Infinite. But not much hope.

I admitted that after halo 3

They should have made it play like something else and not Halo, like a third person game or a first person game but you felt like a Human.

The arcade game was fun.

Spartan 3s were well trained enough as 8 year-olds to beat ODSTs in power armor even before their augmentations.

They may, now the question is can they make a Halo game that can either surpass or be on par with Halo 3, that's something that will be very hard and we'll have to wait on Infinite to see if they can.

I liked Reach.

I was talking about as in I like them better, not a one on one fight.

that's fair. ODST's are pretty fucking cool in general. I'd rather be one of those than a spartan 4 desu

shouldn't the women be focused on replacing mankind's lossess after the war? you'd think that after losing billions upon billions they'd be developing super virility drugs.

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I mean they're still constantly at war. There are a fuckload of mini Covenant factions that popped up and still wanna start shit, Darth Forerunner basically declared war and vaporized a megacity on Earth in 4, the shit with Cortana and the AI revolution after 5, etc. When your population is really that low it probably makes more sense for every able-bodied adult to fight for the species instead of only going halfway, failing, and then having the defenseless women and children slaughtered anyway.

Pretty sure that webm is some random reporter, not an actual solider.

>hair
>facial hair
absolutely not

Did she die? Why didn't her colleagues warn her?

>bodysuit no longer stretches to the chin again like in Halo CE-3 and Reach
Good.

quick, post your favorite parts of your least favorite halo title!

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We're so mad that we filtered seventy unicode variations of "s.o.y.", a word used to deride males who put pussy on a pedestal and think all sexes and ethnicities are totally equal.

Hey wait a sec...

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>here are your female soldiers bro

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I liked how the relationship was close, but absolutely not romantic or sexual, all the way through Halo 3.

thsi has now piqued my curiosity and i want to know what this is indicating
from what i can see its that the "pack mules" should be at the back of the column

Two guys are carrying the two girls at the back kit along with their own on a march.

Yes I know they are still shit, but at least post real ones.

wasn't even implying it was one

The name of the file is literally "women in the army", you goober.

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it's how i organize my files jackass

The girls can't do the march and need the men to do it for them because diversity is our strength.

girls at the back making the guys up front carry their rucksacks because it would be misogyny to make them carry their own shit

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metal Halo best Halo

>getting triggered over female spartans

There was always female spartans afiak. It was referenced in the lore as far back as 2001 with the most prominent probably being the sniper on unyielding hierophant between the events of Halo 1 and Halo 2.

Also, I just want to say. Halo Infinite is actually shaping up to be a really good game. The developer commentary shows that they're putting a lot of effort into it. But apparently tits trigger you so it'll be bad. Quit being a faggot.

>British tabloids
not even once

what do you mean? how did bungie shit up the covenant?

bbc.com/news/uk-25078544
good to know the BBC is considered a tabloid now, explains all the shit they keep on spewing

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By expanding on them past the evil alien trope.

O'Conner called this thing a Cyclops Mark II apparently

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Halo Wars 2 was great.

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>saggy old lady tits
Lay off the porn junior, these are great and normal.

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Sure if you were one of five people who liked halo wars 1.
Including me

Black roman soldiers weren't that rare, to be honest. Looked down upon for being inferior though.

It'd be interesting to see which period they're talking about because, during the Roman war between the Caesarians and the Pompeyans, Caesar's right hand man Labienus fled to what we call today Tunisia to mount a rebellion before fleeing again to Spain when they lost. This was just after his Caesar's sex vacation with Cleopatra down the nile after spending 3 months+ putting down the rebellion there.

But there, I've named 3 countries. Two directly on the continent of Africa and one with a land so close to each other anyone can cross with a decent enough sail boat in an hour or two.

Also, it's surprising the /pol/ gets triggered about Romans being portrayed in this manner because, in all likelihood, you do not share ancestry with them if you're from the UK or U.S. Romans honestly believed they were superior and, with that, all annexed territories were treated as inferior people fit for nothing more than slaves regardless of the pigmentation of your skin. They proved that most English DNA had Saxon and Norman DNA, but very little Roman DNA. Point was, Brits, Gauls, and whatever other group you can think of were just not good enough for the Romans to have sex with them.

The right is horrible. It looks like a generic doom demon.

There seems to be an incessant issue with later devs wanting to make their dudes as cool as the original dude.

Yes they were thoroughly rare, and no they were not looked down upon any more than other provincials. The only place they (if Legion) would have been found is among a legion recruiting from Egypt like the Theban Legion and St Maurice, but would have likely resembled brown or mulatto blacks like Nasser at the most. Past that and the only black auxilia ever known/depicted are Blemmyes (Not the headless ones) on Constantine's Arch. That's it.

of course he was holding back. chief is a hero, he isn't going to beat some guy to a bloody pulp over a misunderstanding. that said the scene was still embarrassing

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>wholeheartedly accepting the program
spoken like a true npc

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Didn't we get confirmed female Spartans more than a decade ago?

which book is that artwork from

I mean, we can theorise as much as we want but we do know that African legions existed and that they were looked down upon from the few surviving records for having slave traits.

Also, we have to keep in mind that the history of the Romans are not fully known or understood as the history speculates quite often over events. They don't even know where and how the Battle of Alesia definitively happened bar the accounts written by Roman historians who loved to exaggerate such as tacitus who always inserted grandiose speeches into his accounts. It's highly doubtful that scholars of that era would be talking about minority rights or even acknowledging minorities bar the fact that there is some evidence that traders, slaves and such were, most likely, part of the baggage trains and colonisation efforts of annexed territories.

History is a white wash.

HW was great. Rippy's soundtrack was max comfy

Humans in Halo, despite having massive plot armor through being favored by certain Forerunners and given the ability to interface with certain Forerunner tech, still almost went extinct. Only after the Human-Covenant War were they able to realise their ability to understand Forerunner tech, and that made them the new galactic superpower.

Ghosts of Onyx. Kurt's death

>Just more animalistic wookies in halo 2
>Shaved mohawk-lets in wearing shiny power armor in halo 3
>Fat down syndrome gorillas in halo reach
>back to being animalistic wookies but face is redesigned to be more expressive in halo 2A
>Same design as halo 2A but face and teeth are slightly restructured and back to being mostly shaved
Will halo infinite be the first game where brutes are finally visually consistent?

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underrated

>Chief is one of the lost primarchs

Emil couldn't be anymore kickass

2 or 11?

So will the Covenant join the Created in Infinite or will they stay their own separate faction, not Jul Mdama's since that faction was wiped out in Halo 5?

Banished will most likely replace the covenant because it would be retarded if atriox took ALL his forces to the Ark. 343 also mentioned that the grunts have been accepting resources from the created so there is potential for a kino grunt rebellion faction.

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what the fuck is that

I don't see it, 343 want to keep the stories self-contained now and with the whole "spiritual reboot" thing going on, I can see the Covenant coming back. Cortana is the perfect resource for the Covenant to get back on their feet. The Covenant's tech was based on reversed engineered Covenant tech, I can see Cortana supplying them with advanced tech that will put them in the same direction they were in when they were an empire. That or Sali Nyon, whatever the hell 343 will do with him since most of Jul's faction went to him when his Covenant died.

3’s. give me some badass toys and point my to my death please

But why would the covenant accept help from ai which they considered taboo, also the fact that cortana is a human ai that desecrated what could be considered the holy grail for the covies. Also I’m pretty sure everyone including 343 forgot that Celine Dione exists.

That's true, so chances are I can see this guy being the new leader of the Covenant since he was hinted at several times.

halopedia.org/Sali_'Nyon
halopedia.org/Sali_'Nyon's_Covenant
youtube.com/watch?v=ZqQID0OxQA8
youtube.com/watch?v=8xrAZtCQ9Do

Nah, canonically Linda was still around in a cryo pod and he knew it

Does anyone have the full Halo Mythos PDF?

DEAD in a cryo pod.

They better develop the hell out of this guy because I bet everyone would riot if the covenant suddenly came back being led by some generic mook.

almost dead, iirc

I don't have my books on me right now so i can;t take a picture for proof, but her vitals had flatlined. She was put in the tube to preserve the corpse. Then through fucking science magic, Halsey revived her with new organs and shit a couple weeks later.

True, it does come out next year so they may make a book on this guy, I can also see them adding a codex that explains everything that went on and currently going on in the universe in the game. His faction gets indirectly mentioned in Halo Mythos which is why I hope someone has a PDF of it.

Do you have Halo Mythos?

Clinically dead according to first strike. She gets flash cloned organs later on in the novel.

>can only see the world in black and white

>can only see in black

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>"I must defeat the Brutes!"
>"No Thel, you are the Brutes."

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Not at the time, user.

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>generic white male
Yes because women and browns are so interesting

Dammit

Holy shit Europe is a joke now. Most of those illegal migrants are military aged men with no jobs or families to take care of, so showing those little kids and women is misleading as fuck.

Good goy, remember, every european and Mediterranean culture's heroes and people of importance were all black.

These threads are completely controlled by PR or it would be almost exclusively 'spiritual successor' discussions connecting the dots from the Siren designs from Bourderlands to the Halo MMO concept art then onward to Titan/fall and Destiny.
In fact if it isn't actually a group of insiders specifically earning intern points by surrounding me specifically, if you are actual individual human posters, then I guess you're really blessedly herded by supernatural Sheppard and I can only be tremendously disappointed to be the Judas intelligent enough to put the silver pieces together.
Glad to be a part of your story, Boss.
Get me a production team.

Why did (((they))) kill Rookie? Why did (((they))) put in canon that most ODST join the Spartan 4 program? Why do (((they))) hate ODST?

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it is, they're just too brainwashed to see it

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Canonically 3's.
>1's aren't really Spartans and a lot of people got fucked up so the project was canned
>2's produced the single best Spartans, but at fucking monumental cost and the iffy augmentations nix'd half of the fucking pool
>3's benefited from experienced Spartan II instructors and more successful augmentations, producing the most cost effective Spartans for the price that were basically all tossed into "cannot be allowed to fail" suicide missions
>4's are ODST with some augs and a better budget but also really fucking gay looking because of 343i armor design

>8 foot tall super soldiers bred to put down rebellions on behalf of an authoritarian dictatorship
>look like the hippie girls who work the counter at the local co-op

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>Why did (((they))) kill Rookie?
They wanted to push Fireteam Osiris, it failed so they put Buck back with his old team.

I legit thought this was Spy Kids 3D fanart for a minute

The covenant was right, they tried to warn us, mankind needed to be wiped out.

>doesn't acknowledge the rest
hilarious

they want to turn us into america style mutt nations

>ywn b an ODST grunt and have a spartan 3 sit on your face after a long battle against the covenant

I don’t want to feel these feels, bro.

Nah those are pretty shit