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Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Posted by: Fantomfox64
Posted by: OrderedComa
Posted by: Vegerot
This is a small problem I have, and I don't know that answer to it!
How the hell is Sprint canon?!
Mjolner armor has some sort of speed limiter that won't let a Spartan run at their fastest as with the armor it would injure them, just look at what Chief did to himself in Mark V test, and the Sprint AA allows them to temporarily overload the limiter and basically turn it off. That's how it works to my understanding at least, and keep in mind that gameplay limits how the AA would really work and what a Spartan can really do outside, so don't act like Spartans need an Armor Ability to be able to run.
Oh come on, please don't defend that lame attempt of a cover up of why a basic ability was not so basic anymore.
An armor wouldn't completely stop someone from sprinting in a combat zone just to stop them from getting injured. Either it is a torn ligament (and the only reason MC had that in the Mark V test is because he was injured beforehand), or death.
It is simply backward to think that that MJOLNIR armor would have any protocol that would limit the ability of a Spartan, especially considering their tolerance for pain as well as other considerations.
Plus, how do you run so fast that you injure yourself?
Boosted by the armor, they can move faster then their body can handle, hence the torn ankles.
Also, when Master Chief ran that fast, guess what? He was seriously -blam!- up afterwards. That and smacking the missile aside (If I'm thinking correctly) made it to where he literally had to wait for medical evac, and couldn't go far on his own.
I'd rather a 'speed' limiter then going super fast to evade something and then losing a chunk of my agility and speed.
In response to 'seeing' the whole picture. We do not have every detail of the battle of Reach. In the Fall of Reach, we witnessed the major space battle, when the defenses fell. In Halo Reach, we witness a different aspect of the battle, one which does not contradict the book's version. At most we simply have this correction "On August 30th, a massive Covenant fleet arrived in system and destroyed any defenses, marking the fall of Reach."
Not an exact quote, but I can get the video produced by 343 and waypoint which says just that. If it clashed so horribly with the rest of canon, 343, which has stated the lore is one of their major things, would not accept Reach.
I never talked about the loss of reach, only the sprint.
Also, the thing is, MC was already injured before he sprinted, and was hurt even more by having done so. Also, we have no way of knowing whether or not he would have hurt himself by simply walking to the goal.
Their body could handle the speed, proven by everyone always running in the novels without getting injured.
And, to reiterate, there is no way that combat armor would have an inhibitor on one of the most essential parts of combat: movement. If there is a choice between torn achilles heel and several plasma grenades wrecking me, I'd take the hurt foot.
Finally, MC wasn't seriously messed up after sprinting, for a
spartan. Spartans had a high tolerance for pain, i.e. Kelly was "fighting when she should have been in a coma". I'm pretty sure that a torn heel wouldn't slow down the chief too much (yay puns)