- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Shadow_WarriorX
The Battle Rifle is a enhanced AR and dont even try to put spin on it's logistics it's a freaking game. How do you explain the new SMG the new tracking on the rocket launcher the ATVs and gauss hogs let alone the covenant adding a whole new race to it's fold along with atleast three new weapons a whole new dropship a shadow a creep and new boosting technology in a few months not realistic is it?
The Battle Rifle is a prototype in design for a hopeful replacement of the MA5B in the coming years of the war, not the replacement within a matter of weeks and I will put whatever spin on logistics I want, so try and stop me. I can explain the new Sub Machine Gun, it is called another prototype, just like the Battle Rifle. This was explained in First Strike.
Tracking has always been on the rocket launchers, at least on the Jackhammers. The Jackhammer is another weapon from the books (mainly in The Fall of Reach). Also it isn't that hard to produce only new munitions in a weapon that probably meant to track its targets anyways. It is a much different story to replace an entire firearm and its munitions.
The ATVs may not be as common as you might think, hell for all we know the UNSC may have kept those suckers around and were never mentioned in the books. The gauss gun can be easilly added becaseu fot he modular type of platform the Warthog is. Besides who said that the Gauss gun would replace everything? Hell it may also already had been in production long before Reach, just never really used because it was so expensive. Which leads me to believe that the Gauss gun will be more rare.
Plus the Covenant have been quite quiet on their different races up until 2552. From Feb. 2525 till June of 2552 we only fought Grunts and Jackals. It wasn't until July 2552 that we even ran across our first Hunter or our first encounter with an Engineer. Then the first time we saw an Elite was on August 30th, 2552, which is when Reach was attacked. Meaning technically the second time we fought Elites was at Halo, whcih was just a scant two weeks after Reach was attacked. And Brutes were first encounter on the Unyielding Heirophant. They easily could have been around for hundreds of years. All the Covenant are doing right now is "pulling back the stops" on their warrior caste.
Also what three new weapons? The Covenant lose 500 ships, a space station along with them, multiple Forerunner artifacts (the bigest of which is Halo and that weird crystal thingy), also an entire armada at Halo, dozens if not a hudred ships at Reach and the Prophet of High Truth declares it a minor set back! They have the capability to mass produce things up the ass, unlike us right now in 2552. Also how do we know that the Carbine, Slug Launcher and this other weapon you are referring to wasn't already around? Hell they could be old weapons reserved for specialty units that are now just being distributed.
Plus the new dropship could have already been around, just never used. Actually there was a mention of a ship on Sigma Octanus IV that was very similar to the Phantom in description. Larger ships that the Chief didn't recognize. These ships past over him and the Spartans as they crawled through the mud. Sam excuse goes out for the Creep, heck it may also not be used all that much in combat.
And the boost, the Covenant are already light years ahead of us, why can't they make a minor adjustment with their super technological race? I mean they are able to do it with their facilities. Not to mention the ships coming after us are on " The Great Journey " and that sounds to me like they get all the " special toys. " You might also bring up the point about the Needler being quicker in fire rate. Well that is possible to do. A minor adjustment like that to a weapon in the game is possible. Besides in the books it seemed like those hings fired that fast anyways.
We are losing this war, our production facilities are limited with Reach gone and we won't have as many of the new guns as you saw in the E3 demos. It is just not possible to have all MA5Bs and M6Ds just disappear from the face of the UNSC. Bungie knows this and won't -blam!- up.
All of that is pretty realistic. You just don't see it.