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On hiding dead bodies:
Posted by: Psuedo
Posted by: teh Chaz
Inside another dead body. It's the last place they'll lookA corpse within a corpse.
CORPSEPTION.Win.
Posted by: Malachite
The book was better written and predates the game, and fits nicely into the rest of the canon. Plus, Noble Team was just so unbelievably incompetent. Why are their AIs so dumb? Why did they constantly make poor decisions and as a result die cheap, meaningless deaths?AI is dumb for gameplay. Admittedly, it is stupid beyond belief, but if it was anywhere near decent, the game would play itself. If it was realistic (in terms of a SPARTAN), 6 probably would never kill anything.
Let's start with Jorge. IIRC, there's at least a couple of marines present when he & Six mull over what to do about the bomb malfunction (cliche plot device much Bungie?). Yeah, *no* f-ing way. Jorge is too valuable, so guess what, like it or not the marines stay behind and prime the sucker. They're expendable, Spartans aren't. (How is he a Spartan II anyway?)It's never explained how he is in Noble Team. Halsey doesn't question it either, which is more bizarre.
Jorge arming the bomb was a meaningless and stupid plot device. There are many in Reach, unfortunately.
Kat's death was equally as stupid. First off, no way they would just blindly run out into the open like that, especially with Jun on the other side. Why wasn't he covering them? And since when does a single needle rifle shot tear right through a fully-shielded Spartan? Unless for some stupid reason Kat's shields were offline, she should have shrugged that round off and kept going.Her shields were offline, but no-one can agree why.
Some say EMP from the glassing beam, but then people question why the elevator still worked. Others say that she 'forgot' to reactivate her shields, which is just BS.
Then you've got all their equipment, too - As long as they were bringing stuff along, why didn't they stock any armor abilities for John? Who's moron decision was it to save ONE SPARTAN ONLY? You gonna tell me all the marines with Keyes couldn't have gotten out to either cover or go in place of Six?Noble Team's MJOLNIR was non-standard and altered. Some armour plates have been removed, as well as some minor systems. Plus they were able to customise and configure their armour, which they were not supposed to be able to do with the MkV variant. According to what Halsey says in the Journal, it's not even possible.
It most likely wouldn't have been compatible gear for John's standard MkV.
And then there's idiot comment one of the troopers makes about how they "just rigged it up" (the MAC gun). Err, yeah, sure. You just rigged up a freaking MAC on the fly, ok then Bungie. I have a friend in the reserve who does artillery and he calls supreme BS on that.The Mass Driver was likely already there, and is probably the future shipwrecking yard equivalent of the wrecking ball, used to blast off super-damaged armour plates, and also to help separate sections of ships for scrapping. Most likely the 'rigging up' of the gun was merely allowing it to fire into the sky.
The last point I want to make is that even Halo Wars did a better job adhering to the cannon - the 3 Spartans of Red Team Omega fit nicely with the 3 listed MIAs in TFoR.Except for the fact that there are those 3 MIA SPARTANS, then Grey Team has also been MIA since 2551, and then something like 12 or 15 dead SPARTANS (compared to the 3 dead stated in TFOR), and then Black Team are sort of ish MIA.