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Posted by: JDYeash937 MkII
Posted by: ferrrari
Didn't that frigate in long night of solace take like 20 plasma torpedoes and still stay intact up to a point?Gameplay, and was not canon.
Plus, they weren't plasma torpedoes - those things are huge balls of fire. These seemed to be the equivalent of Archer missiles, whilst a plasma torpedo is the equivalent of a MAC, in terms of purpose and capability.
That was one of the most pathetically-scripted pieces of the campaign, for various reasons.
Just because it happens while you are playing the game does not make it gameplay, it was a scripted event, just like Foe Hammer getting shot down in Halo:CE, and is the same as a cut-scene. And frankly if the Covenant was really as powerful as they are in the books they would have completely, totally, and utterly steam-rolled the UNSC into oblivion and the UNSC would have had no victories at all.
And while I think that gameplay and some of the cut-scenes they're a little weak in power, they are powered more realistically. I'd say it's a balance between the two, books and games, you can't either one is the definitive power of the Covenant. Bungie has also said that even though the games and books are on fairly equal level canon wise, when it comes to small details the games take authority over the books or other published media.