- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
As far as hunters working along side of jackels, if you want to go into the books continuity. The hunters have little to no respect for jackels or grunts, as they would walk right on top of them crushing them alive under thier lumbering feet for even crossing their path. Hunters have one of the most intresting dynamics of any of the halo enemies as far as they've been developed both in books and in game. So to see a pair of them with buffed up AI covering each others backs in a more in depth way. I at least think they'll be much more intresting to fight against come this november.
As far as the bungie weekly update talking about the creature strong enough to flip a warthog, i honestly don't think we've seen enough of the brutes AI to make a solid judgement that it would be them. But just speaking purley objectively here's my opinion.
Grunts = not flipping a hog
jackels = they're too busy cowering behind their shield.
Elites = they're about as strong as MC so if he can't flip a hog with a melee attack i can't honestly see one of these bad boys doing it either. As far as previous media suggests they'll act more reptillian and archinid like in the game, than the old "oh i'm getting shot, i'll move behind this rock and wait for my shield to recharge mentality" Can't wait to fight em, but don't see em flipping hogs.
Prophets = they're weak and frail, unless they have some telekentic abilities to do it, but even in that case i don't really expect to be seeing these guys sitting around anywhere than a large installation on a covenant world, or abord a covenant cruiser.
Brutes = these guys seem like they'll be strong, but based on the limited movement we've seen in the e3 2003 campaigne vid they seem more prone to lunging around and punching people.
Hunter = if any known race in the covenant is closer to a brick wall it hasn't been mentioned yet. I see these guys standing their ground and decimating anything that comes in proximity of them. I think it would be foolish to assume that they will react with the same insanley easy to overcome intelliegence that they did in halo1.
so my judgement is that it's either a hunter or an unknown species not yet seen in the previous halo game and not yet announced. As you know there has been absolutely no videos showing off the new elite or hunter AI, which i am very glad for, because it gives me much more to look forward to in november.