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Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Posted by: immadchill
Why didn't the corvette hail, "long night of solace" before it got there
Jammed communications, then the comm center died.
So Bungie are expecting us to believe that the UNSC has ECM so advanced and powerful that it has a larger range than the tactical sensors of a Covenant ship?
They've already lost one Corvette (and don't get me started on how the other Corvette even managed to get within spitting distance of something as important as ONI's Sword base without being detected and destroyed before hand), so I would be stunned if a Covie vessel in orbit, on a war footing, over an enemy planet, in a heightened state of tactical alert, would not have spotted the approaching UNSC frigate and light attack craft well outside the Savannah's ECM range and squawked a notification to the command carrier which was in direct line of sight. And where were its shields...?
I would have found the apparent putting the comms 'relay' out of action far more believable if Bungie had had us do something more than just kill a bunch of Covies. How does that stop the equipment from functioning? This isn't an early 20th Century steam ship where messages have to sent to the telegraph room for transmission by an operator. Besides, they could have easily had us place shaped charges at various locations around this comms relay and blow the thing, or at least shoot out or chuck nades at something. That would have be at least believable in the circumstances, given the mission.
This whole section has simply been dumbed right down for the sake of gameplay. Unless we're expected to believe that although the Covies are so tactically brilliant that they can sneak a supercarrier and corvette through the defences of the UNSC's second most well defended world and down to its surface undetected, and yet are suddenly so dumb and arrogant to not only allow a UNSC frigate and sabres to come within ECM range of one of it's ships and attack it, but then to totally ignore the whole exchange as if it is of no import and allow that very same ship to approach the command vessel on an unscheduled refuelling run... -_-
[Edited on 06.12.2011 6:00 AM PDT]