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Subject: Why are there two Elite Helmet Types?
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I was just replaying Halo, and I noticed that the blue Elites on the level "Halo" have two distinct helmet types. One is the 'standard' helmet that the action figures have, as well as most photos. The other looks more like a fan, or something. Here's two comparison screenshots I got from the PC version. And yeah, it really took me this long to notice there were two differant helmet types, to those that have known this for years.

http://img506.imageshack.us/img506/5487/helmetcomparison3tx.j pg


I could have just never seen this around, but does each type of helmet mean something, like the colors indicate rank, or what?


Fixed your url. There was a space in it and I made it into a link. - Recon

[Edited on 11/25/2005 by Recon Number 54]

  • 11.24.2005 8:42 PM PDT
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If the link worked...

  • 11.24.2005 8:55 PM PDT
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It is not a link, so that is hardly surprising.

General practice in the case of a link not working would be to copy and paste it into an address bar, would it not?

  • 11.24.2005 8:58 PM PDT

Doesnt work. Not a link, and the page is never available. I think you have to go directly to image shack.com and navigate it from there.

  • 11.25.2005 5:50 AM PDT
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okay, the link works thanks to recon.
weird, different helmets. damn thos honor guards!

i dunno what it means, other than a different helmet. dont jackals also have different helmets?

  • 11.25.2005 9:36 AM PDT
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The one's on the left are of lower rank than those of the right.

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The same for Grunts. Their gas tanks are different.

-TGP-

  • 11.25.2005 8:45 PM PDT
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Two words: honor guards

  • 11.25.2005 9:06 PM PDT

I've never noticed that before. Also, how come the Elites jaw looks like its been put in a blender?

  • 11.26.2005 4:43 AM PDT
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The same for Grunts. Their gas tanks are different.

-TGP-

Ya, curved and straight =) randomized detail is kool!! Maybe if that was done with voice schemes... that happens in halo2 right? I think theres the high balls one off halo:ce and the one that sounds like hes been breathing in helium...


I've never noticed that before. Also, how come the Elites jaw looks like its been put in a blender?

Its called a 4-way jaw or something... reminds me of that pre-rendered outskirts cutscene, where the elite grabs the grunt by the neck and then all of this saliva flies off his mandibles and onto the grunts face as it hyperventilates! Its so cool!!

- grrrr, -blam- I'm trying to post on dialup while downloading sp2!!!!! I can't stand it! Make it stop!

[Edited on 11/26/2005]

  • 11.26.2005 1:55 PM PDT

its to give people like us who type stuff in forums to speculate about. all jokin aside it probably denotes rank in a rank. Take a Minor Elite for instance the fan could mean that he is higher than an Elite without the fan helmet

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I've never noticed that before. Also, how come the Elites jaw looks like its been put in a blender?[/quote]
Its called a 4-way jaw or something... reminds me of that pre-rendered outskirts cutscene, where the elite grabs the grunt by the neck and then all of this saliva flies off his mandibles and onto the grunts face as it hyperventilates! Its so cool!!

- grrrr, -blam- I'm trying to post on dialup while downloading sp2!!!!! I can't stand it! Make it stop!


I never saw that vid, if you have it can you post it please?

  • 11.30.2005 2:34 PM PDT
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I noticed this ages ago, it's with Red Elites also, and I refer to them as "triangle heads"

  • 11.30.2005 2:38 PM PDT
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in the grunts case, is red amour stronger than orange?

  • 12.03.2005 1:23 AM PDT
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yes

  • 12.03.2005 7:18 AM PDT