Halo (series)/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

** The Forerunner's extinction was totally part of the plan. They knew what the rings would do to them.

** Nor was some ignorant alien shmuck blinded by religious dogma and unable to read the warning signs pressing the "Open" button.

* It's implied that the Didact was considering activating the rings as a last resort.

** They did activate the rings, during the battle between Mendicant and Offensive Bias. That was the actual pivotal moment in the battle that let Offensive Bias win.

** Just because the Gravemind is speaking to the Master Chief, it doesn't mean that he's using some psychic goobldygook. Its entirely possible and significantly more plausible that the Flood are using a biological analogue to radio; we ''know'' that animals are sensitive to magnetism, radiation, and high-frequency sounds humans can't hear, so its no stretch to imagine the Flood developing a simple biological method of transmitting/receiving data. Communications over interstellar distances are easily explained by the use of Covenant interstellar communications tech.

*** How is a "biological analogue to radio" that you receive in your brain [[Sufficiently Analyzed Magic|different from telepathy in any way besides name]]?

** Except for two things: 1) your EEG spikes and flatlines in funny ways while receiving one of Cortana's 'transmissions', and 2) nobody else: not the Marines on their helmet radios, not the comm sections of the Tsavo base or the ''Forward Unto Dawn'', not Commander Keyes in the Pelican, reports hearing any transmissions whatsoever. If Gravemind is communicating with you on RF broadband, you'd think someone would have ''noticed''. As for 'psychic gobblydegook', we are in a game with portals that instantly bamf starships a quarter of a million light-years away, energy swords, a parasite species that is flat-out impossible to have evolved naturally anywhere (NOT TRUE! There is a parasite that does the EXACTLY (Brown skin and all) the same thing to ants, takes them up high, and releases spores. The Flood also start as spores.) , and nine-foot-tall reptilian alien badasses who can flip over tanks with their bare hands. This is ''not'' the game setting for strict scientific realism. (Compared to most Sci-fi I'd say this is fairly hard. Not counting plotholes, few things of what we know today say that these things absolutely don't/won't exist one day.)

*** Also, the principle behind something having basic telepathy isn't really ''too'' implausible, especially for a hyper-advanced, ludicrous, borderline [[Eldritch Abomination]] species like the Flood. All it requires is an extrapolation of Gravemind's demonstrated ability to control or direct the Flood to its whims.

*** He needed a human to activate the control systems, in the form of Johnson, and he had to go through his sermon before firing it. [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|Scary Dogmatic Alien]] and all.

**** That raises the question of why the Covenant, who have known since the last game that you need a human to activate Halo, just take a human, any human with them? They could have just nabbed any schlub off the streets of New Mombassa and had him turn on their galactic death machine. I mean what exactly were they planning once they got on the other side of that portal?

*** Alternatively, they ''were'' fired already. Remember at the end of Halo 2, there are several minutes between when Tartarus forces Keyes to enter the Index in the console and when the ring would've fired, had Keyes not ganked it. It's entirely possible that Truth doing the same with Johnson on the Ark is the exact equivalent; the rings were just building charge until the could fire, and John canceled it before it could finish, just like Keyes did.

*** Why didn't Johnson stop Truth after all the brutes had run off to fight the chief, he just sits there cradling Miranda whilst an unarmed weak alien trys to destroy the galaxy. Also there's plenty of time for Mirana and Johnson to hop into the Pelican and fly away.

** The same way humans nowadays can carry two hundred 5.56mm rounds in a large box magazine and it's still light enough to carry. Ammunition is heavy, but not ''that'' heavy.

** But there's still no way 60 rounds could fit into a magazine of that size.

* To quote [[Mass Effect|another game]] that likes balistic weapons over directed energy: "This is a 20 kilogram ferrous slug... every five seconds the main gun of an ''Emperor'' class dreadnought accelerates one to 1.3% of lightspeed. It impacts with the force of a 38 kilotonne bomb. That is three times the yield of the citybuster dropped on Hiroshima back on earth. That means: ''Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son of a bitch in space.''" Seriously. Fuck lasers. Kinetic energy will ruin. Your. Shit.

* I think a better question is "Why are UNSC guns exactly like modern day guns?". It's a perfectly legitimate question when you compare the differences between a Matchlock musket and a modern day H&K Battle Rifle. They're both still guns, but in terms of sophistication and capability they're worlds apart. The best explanation is that they want to give the player human weapons that will be recognizable.

** The same reason the Colt 1911 and M1 Browning, both almost 100 years old, are still used today. They just work.

*** They're not 300 years old though. As for the grenade launcher it suffers from the same problem as the other human weapons, fancy ammo rubbish gun. Yes it can hurl stuff at the enemy but it could do it better with a magazine so it wasn't single shot. And surely there have been some advances in grenade technology over 300 years. You're not telling me they couldn't have shrunk the grenade a bit so a magazine could take more for example. The launcher is a very 1940's gun, it just has a fancy grenade in it.

== Why is the insurrection in the books but not the game? ==

After all, it's a shooter, more enemies equals more fun, well usually. But still, having humans that hate the UNSC and as Master Chief, you must shoot through them while also fending off the Covenant. I'm not whining that they aren't in the game, the games are awesome. It Just Bugs Me that they would have a faction in the books that's nonexistant in the game.

== That boat in Halo 3. ==

It looks like you can get on it, but I can't pull it off. It's in the level before the flood show up, so could someone tell me if anything is on it?

 

== How exactly does a man in half a ton of armor float in a creek? ==

 

== Why hasn't Kamal been drafted? ==

** Clearly, he's a draft dodger. This would earn him a trip to Firing Squad Land.

** Not everyone who turns eighteen will necessarily be drafted. Arming every single able-bodies adult over eighteen would be nightmarishly expensive. Kamal probably just got skipped over.

** In the first game, Cortana says that ''she'' believes that the Covenant think that Halo is a weapon. She adds the caveat that "If I'm analyzing this correctly...." Cortana isn't infalliable, as the rest of the game shows, and she wasn't analyzing it correctly. She probably confused all the refernces to "cleansing fire" and "divine light" as references to weapons.

** The Covenant think it will send all true believers on the great journey while wiping out the rest of existance. They still think it's a weapon, just that it works differently.

 

== What happened to all the flood? ==

** Please remember, all 16 guns over Reach were capable of engaging the covenant fleet.

*** Likely to be non-canon now. In ''Reach'' Jun is incredulous that the SPARTAN-IIs are being deployed to protect civilian transports. It's probable it was a cover for whatever was going down with the ''Autumn''. Most likely scenario in regards to the MAC guns is {{spoiler|the Covenant supercarrier ''Long Night of Solace'' destroyed them after Noble Team disabled its cloaking shield.}}

**** If they only had twenty I'd assume they were mobile. The ones in Earth orbit weren't, beccause they had enough to cover the entire planet. If they were mobile, then the ''Long Night of Solace'' probably destroyed them with its fighter contingent, and took down anything larger than a corvette itself. (I haven't read the revised edition of ''The Fall of Reach'', so I don't know if the MAC Cannons were actually used.)

*** Read the revised edition, all 20 super MAC guns still up and running till the final battle.

* The real question is why does he tell it's not loaded when it really is. You walk away without having passed any visible amories, and Master Cheif pulls out the pistol with half a magazine already loaded in it, and a few magazines ready for backup. WTF Keyes, you liar?!

** The Chief probably picked up ammo on the way to the bridge or had some on him after the battle at Reach.

 

== Where did Spartan Lasers come From? ==

== Do the humans know the Arbiter was the one that led the Covenant that bombed Reach? ==

It seems that the Chief wouldn't be so cozy with him if he knows that the guy that has his six is the one that murdered most of his team...

 

== How come you never fight humans in the Halo games? ==

 

Also, when the Arbiter catches up to Refumee trying to escape in a Seraph, why did Refumee stay and fight? Why didn't he just get in the Seraph, where it would be near-impossible for the Arbiter to stop him?

 

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