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Subject: Why did the covenant decide to change their scarab?
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  • 12.18.2010 6:22 AM PDT

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The Halo 2 Scarab was a mining vessel. The ones in Halo Reach, Halo 3, Wars and ODST was used for combat.

[Edited on 12.18.2010 6:30 AM PST]

  • 12.18.2010 6:30 AM PDT

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I think what actually happened was that Bungie decided that it would be fun to actually fight the scarab, so they made it destructible.

A canonical answer would be that the combat scarabs were easier to produce, so there would be more of them.

Another reason could be that the way to destroy the mining scarab was to destroy the green pipe like thing on the bottom, something that they were simply unable to do in New Mombasa because it was too close quarters for them to get underneath it easily. The combat Scarab fixed the problem.

  • 12.18.2010 7:52 AM PDT
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Posted by: chotato
smart, interesting, seems out of place.


Official fan of Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty, (Problem with that?) Halo, and Bungie, also a total gaming junkie.

The Halo 3 and ODST versions are the V.2 Variant, while the Halo 2 Scarab is the original Scarab, and better, but took longer to build and cost more because of it's heavy armor. And I think MC just went crazy in the Scarab's control room, he probably destroyed some of the controls and caused the Scarab to go critical.

[Edited on 12.18.2010 8:28 AM PST]

  • 12.18.2010 8:22 AM PDT

Lol, I think they just changed it for balancing reasons, but as someone said, maybe a canon reason is cost.

  • 12.18.2010 8:23 AM PDT

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Perhaps that is what the fleet that attacked in Halo 2 had, and the rest of the universe had the other one.

  • 12.18.2010 10:04 AM PDT

killed the crew who self destructed it so it could not be used against the covenant

  • 12.18.2010 10:28 AM PDT

and [farted] on it to destroy it

  • 12.18.2010 12:29 PM PDT


Posted by: aaz b
And yet, The scarab in halo 2 was less destructible, and the one MADE for comabt let its core wide open
Halo 2's Scarab was more or less part of the environment. Ofcourse it's going to be less destructible.

  • 12.18.2010 1:29 PM PDT

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I think the one in Halo 2 was a super scarab, whilst the ones in 3, ODST and Reach were regular Scarabs.

  • 12.18.2010 1:32 PM PDT