Posted by:ScubaToaster
Posted by: HipiO7
This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
/slow clap for respect
:)
The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.
Posted by: ajw34307
Posted by: raad face
Posted by: ajw34307
Kat's shields were taking constant bombardment from the radiation produced by the Covenant's glassing beams, 90 million roentgens is enough to kill an unprotected human in seconds. All of Noble Team were vulnerable, Kat was the unlucky one because of her lapse of situational awareness - too busy contemplating Holland's orders to notice the Field Marshall in the Phantom.
I believe Kat's death was the most meaningful one in Reach, it shows that no matter how much Spartans are propogated to be super-soldiers they are still very much human and death can snatch them away at any time.
good theory, just wish they expressed that better in the scene, like it could have been leading up, still mainiting its unexpectedness, but there could have been small signs of kat saying like 'my sields r getting fried' b4 they went down the elevator
but what doesnt make sens still is why didnt the zelot or whoever had the needle rifle, just shoot everyone else down there, if they were all vulnerable, the guys prob got good accuracy if they could have hit kat from up there, and after kat was shot, the team kinda just stayed there w/ kats body for a sec giving supprt fire, and really the support fire coming from carter jun and emile was nothing to that phantom, they could have just hovered there and sniped them all rite?
Perhaps the Field Marshall was intimidated by the Halo CE Pistol? :P
I thought the mo-cap animation of 6 shooting and looking at the empty magnum, then throwing it away and grabbing Kat was brilliant. Animation looked really well done.
Anyways, probably the Field Marshall did not have a clear shot on the rest of Noble. He wasnt just going to stand there while he had four sharpshooters shooting at him, especially Spartan's, it was obvious of him to bug out. He also probably thought that killing one of them would piss the rest off enough, getting revenge for his lost team back at Visgrad Relay.
Yes, I think to much into these things.
[Edited on 02.20.2011 5:04 PM PST]