that's two different types of protection though

one was optimized to protect from close range slashes and bludgeoning

the other for med-long range pinpoint penetration

todays modern armor is much more practical
1) lighter/more flexibility
2) reduces heat profile
3) quiet
4) armor where it is needed, concentrated armor, rather than a thin shell

anytime.

http://youtu.be/qYNGUj4SxDM
Shaders are being done as we speak. Trying to fix that marker problem, a bit frustrating...

Design is perfect for Promethean Knight blade slashes.
It's 26th century.
It's not that hard to believe that humans have a found a way to combine the best of both designs.

A la MC, but until this point, the majority if weapons have been projectile based, and the only thing that can deflect energy swords are energy shielding.

retooling armor for an enemy that they encountered days beforehand is not practical, when combined with research, testing, and deployment.

And for those who don't like videos:

Did you somehow lower their IQ?
They don't seem to be wide-awake.

Just wondering, is there a release of the reach grunts with all the armor perms, for example ultra, heavy ect.?

Who the heck are you talking to?

I don't see anything wrong with the legs.

It's always frustrating trying to get the marker right, but I never thought about importing a weapon. Thanks, I'll try it later today.

It's an a opinion,not fact.

No,it's not.
I think it's fine.You think it's bad.
How we judge is different from one another.
Simple as that.

Yup thanks Waffles that fixed the marker problem. Thanks!

And now the Marines will look 50% smarter.

Exactly. A SWAT Team would not cover every single square yoctometre of their body with kevlar, because that would be hella ugly, hella heavy, and hella inflexible.

Medieval Knight armor was perfect for it's use, which was to basically be a tank: invulnerable to normal weapons like swords and daggers, and pretty good for maces. The way they fought was not that agile, it was basically bludgeon the enemy till he either converts to christianity, or becomes tomato soup. Modern warfare (and probably future warfare) is, if you stay still, you will die. Move and survive. Except for Hunters.

Being fully armored does not affect a Spartan's speed.
They are faster than most humans,with or without armor.
A Spartan is basically an agile tank.


Thus,combining the best of both forms of protection.
Speed.strength and durability (and excellent protection for most parts of the body).
Edited by Dumb AI on Dec 24, 2012 at 02:23 PM

Yeah, but Spartans also have to be flexible. While the Mark VI, my favorite, was made in a way that a spartan should be able to twist and flex a lot, but the Mark VII makes him a lot more agile, flexible, and fast; being able to sprint would represent that. In Halo 4, in the cutscenes, the Master Chief is just so much faster and agile.

Anyway, Mark VII is admittedly more tank than VI. I don't know why, but it is a tank.

Master Chief is animated using mo-cap,thus the animation are more fluid and seem more agile and fast.

His armor is still a Mark VI,but it has all those fancy Cortana upgrades.
I call it the Mark 6.5

and the lore states that there is a gel layer that enhances movement 5 times or something, so armor weight doesn't factor all that much.

that and it's powered armor, which means assisted movement

Halsey's journal stated that when a normal person tired to use one, the suit amplified his movement so much that he ended up liquefying himself.

As you can see,the amount of protection does not affect a Spartan that much.

Therefore,it's acceptable and reasonable for them to wear more armor than most people do.

Speed,mobility and agility are not hampered by the "extra" armor pieces.

In fact,the armor gives them even more speed and agility (I can not say the same for mobility).

spartans weigh a few tons, explain to me how MC could walk across flood tendrils in H3?

Incorrect.

They weigh around half a ton (more or less,depending on body weight).


As for the walking on tendrils thing...
Most likely only possible for gameplay.As for cutscenes and whatnot,the tendrils are possibly stronger than they seem
Edited by Dumb AI on Dec 25, 2012 at 05:43 PM

It ended the moment I finished editing my post.

Kay,everyone!
I'll show everybody my l33t multipurpose maps for the H3 Spartan!

V9000
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/shoodawoop/Alpha104/h3mc_copy.jpg

V1
http://www.mediafire.com/view/?p4g4o4hwpuurs1b

BTW,v9000 is actually a Photoshopped render of the Halo 3 Master Chief.
Just sayin', for the peoples who can't tell the difference between the real thing and the CE port.



Edited by Dumb AI on Dec 30, 2012 at 02:50 PM

Has anyone made anything from the Mac World 1999 Halo Demo? It would be interesting to see how close we can get an accurate copy of the game from that era.

I got this but it's atrocious.

That's good, you could do a bit of work on it, but I bet it would look better with textures.

v2 of H3 Spartan shaderz...
Most shaders for H3 Spartans are too shiny IMO
JPG really sucks.

Edited by Dumb AI on Dec 30, 2012 at 03:03 PM

No OS, made long time ago.

Not a pretty combination of grass and that color I call zombie olive.And JPEG quality.
Permission to vomit violently?

MS Paint is too old to handle it.

Not exactly worth the time to wait for GIMP/Photoshop to load.
Edited by Dumb AI on Dec 30, 2012 at 03:23 PM

gimp takes a whole 30 seconds to load.. what?

It's too bad I took the picture in sapien. Never said anything about the map looking great. Also said it was a long time ago. I use my own test maps now.
Edited by XlzQwerty1 on Dec 30, 2012 at 03:29 PM