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Posted by: sarmen 203
Halo 1 marines should be in Reach. Why? Because the Marines in Halo 1 were from Reach because the PoA escaped from Reach meanwhile in Halo 2,3 and ODST there from Earth and because there from Earth and Earth isn't a Heavy Military Installation like Reach, they suck. The Halo 1 Marines are from the POA, a ship whose classification is a joke within the fleet. The Reach Marines are from Reach, humans #2 stronghold and #1 military spaceport.
And the Halo 1 Marines' AI is terrible and anyone who disagrees hasn't played the series on Legendary. I'll leave the explaining to Bad Cyborg (who has played more H1 campaign than anyone, and hates H2 more than anyone).
"As for combat skills, on any level above Normal a Marine is barely a match even for a Grunt. They rarely fire in any sort of aggressive manner, or get around to actually putting down an enemy (which is agonizing when you're waiting to reload and you can quite plainly see that an Elite only needs one more bullet). Nor do they grasp the concept of cover. In fact, it seems to me that they spend half of their time rolling around like Chinese acrobats, rather than doing anything useful, like firing. As the Elites close in, you want to shout to your Marines "Use the trigger, dammit!". But no, they just fire the occasional burst and proceed to get annihilated.
And when they do get around to firing, they're just as likely to shoot fellow Marines in the back. You can see this at first hand, up on the plateau in the rockslide megabattle. Just stand at the back and watch your Marines cut each other to pieces. And it's no wonder, the way they keep moving in and out of each other's lines of fire. But it's not just single shots in the back; it can be whole bursts, one after another, as if the shooter is clinically blind. It would be quite amusing, if you weren't putting your life on the line to save these bozos.
And then there's the grenade reaction business. If they react at all to an incoming glowing blue ball, they'll probably still hang around inside the blast radius, even the guy who raised the alert! And why do they dive to the ground when it's just Master Chief lobbing a grenade at the enemy? Heck, I'm not that bad a throw, surely.
Marines also sometimes run around making a racket or shooting, when you're trying to be stealthy. Now that's really annoying.
And don't even get me started on the business of Marines jumping into Ghosts and running me over! Nowadays I'm liable to just send a rocket their way before they can get any speed up. "Oops! Sorry!". Actually, a less drastic measure is to grenade unused Ghosts beforehand, so they're turned over and Marines can't get in; but that always feels rather artificial."