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Subject: shouldn't the covenant and UNSC use eachother's weapons?

When I broke my ankle, I needed crutches to walk. I called them "Armor" and "Lock"

Think about this. Covenant weapons are great against sheilds, but not so good at delivering the killing blow. UNSC weapons are great for killing unshelided targets, but not quite as good at stripping sheilds. The Covenant use sheilds much more often than the UNSC, and the UNSC usually sends out unsheilded troops except for spartans. Don't you think the UNSC would start making their own plasma-based weapons to take out the Covenant's sheild using troops, and the Covenant start using bullet shooting weapons to take out the UNSC's unsheilded Marines?

Just a random thought.

  • 04.01.2011 6:00 PM PDT

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the covenant use their weapons because they come from the prophets, who get them from forerunner relics, so they are supposed to be holy items, bestowed upon covenant soldiers by the prophets. They only get weapons from forerunners. The forerunners didn't have bullet firing weapons, so the covenant don't use them. however, the heretics seem to have realized the same point you have here. also, covenant weapons are actually great against marines. the plasma burns and melts through skin, crippling and slowly killing the marines, perfect for the covenant's purposes.

humans do sometimes use covenant weapons, and pretty effectively. many spartans co in the books and sometimes in the games, one example being the truth and reconciliation level in h1.

  • 04.01.2011 6:21 PM PDT

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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.

The UNSC has no problem in using Covie tech, but the Covenant on the other hand is rather reluctant on using ´´heretic´´ tech.

  • 04.01.2011 6:23 PM PDT

Those are mostly gameplay mechanics. Plasma Weaponry would do just as good, if not better, against unshielded targets. This also includes vehicles.

Seriously, an overcharged Plasma Pistol projectile would melt through the hood of a Warthog, melting the engines.

  • 04.01.2011 6:45 PM PDT

http://www.halo-forum.com

Gameplay is not always canon. Relatively speaking, an AR is much more powerful than any game displays, same goes for plasma weapons, which would easily melt any unshielded object in canon. But in gameplay they do not, for balancing reasons. Do not confuse gameplay mechanics for canonic realisation.

  • 04.01.2011 10:30 PM PDT