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Posted by: ThePredkiller2
Before we go any further, let us look at the facts:
Lieutenant Commander David Shepard
Age: 31
Rank: Lieutenant Commander
Height: Around 6'
Weight: Between 170 and 210 pounds.
History:
- Single-handedly held off a Batarian assault on the Human Colony of Elysium during the Skyllian Blitz.
- Attained Vocational Grade of N7, the highest degree of special operations training in the Systems Alliance Navy, making him the most elite of the elite.
- Became the first Human Spectre, Spectres being operatives who prove themselves to be the 'best of the best of their species'
- Destroyed Sovereign, a 2 km Reaper dreadnought, killed interstellar terrorist and vigilante Saren, also an elite Spectre agent.
- Was killed, and, cheating death, is then rebuilt two years later in apex physical condition.
- Took down interstellar power broker with armies at his fingertips known as the Shadow Broker.
- Stopped a rogue AI from escaping a planet and causing a technological apocalypse.
- Went on a 'Suicidal Mission', taking down a Collector Army, destroying a second Reaper in its embryonic stage (over 1,000 feet), and successfully escaped the blast radius with his entire team intact (or some if you were dumb and didn't do their loyalty missions)
- Stopped a Reaper invasion just hours before their arrival.
- Defended Earth, Sur'Kesh, Thessia, Tuchanka, and countless other species homeworlds from a Reaper invasion. (Presumed for Mass Effect 3)
Abilities:
- Superhuman Strength
- Superhuman Speed and Reflexes (Soldier)
- Biotics/Dark Energy Manipulation (Adept/Vanguard/Sentinel)
- Omni-Tool Various Attacks (Engineer/Infiltrator/Sentinel)
- Cloaking Systems (Infiltrator)
- Singularity Vortex (Adept)
- Power Armor, Nearly Indestructible (Sentinel)
- Combat Drone (Engineer)
- Biotic Charge (Vanguard)
Equipment:
- Combat Hard Suits and Kinetic Barriers
- Omni-Tool
- Biotic Amp, L5 or L5x
Master Chief Petty Officer John-117
Age: 41
Height: 6'10
Weight: 230-250 pounds (excluding ceramic ossification augments)
History:
- Fought against Insurrectionists for a few battles before encountering the Covenant.
- Fought briefly during the Battle of Reach, before being transported to the Pillar of Autumn for evac.
- Fought against the Flood and then destroyed the Halo ring to stop them, escaping.
- Took out a 2km long Assault Carrier.
- Killed the Prophet of Regret, a physically frail race of despotic leaders among the Covenant.
- Participated in the Battle of Earth, leading an assault which eventually resulted in a whole being punched in the aerial defenses, leading to the Battle of the Ark.
- Master Chief and the Arbiter lead an attack to take down the Prophet of Truth, eventually he is found and they launch an assault on the Citadel. Taking out two Scarabs, the Master Chief and Arbiter fight their way to the Prophet with the assistance of the Flood, Arbiter then executes Truth.
- Master Chief and the Arbiter save Cortana from the Gravemind, and launch an assault on the second Installation to light the ring and destroy the Flood. Eventually the ring falls apart, but the trio escape.
- Master Chief and Cortana uncover a Forerunner world and discover a threat of untold magnitude (Halo 4)
Abilities:
- Superhuman Strength
- Superhuman Speed and Reflexes
Equipment:
- MJOLNIR Armor, Energy Shielding
So now, we boil it down to this one question... can Master Chief even get close to Shepard before he rips the Chief apart with a whirlwind of Biotic energy? Think about it...
An no, there will be no poll, I find them to be misleading in regard to the actual conversation/debate/argument at hand.
Super human tactics and super human stealth.
Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Posted by: thebobafettest
Isn't the canonical Shepard male name John? Just wondering.
Officially there is no canon Shepard yet.
Female, male, name. It's never been stated.
I agree with that Shepard is easily a better leader. Like Kurt, Shepard gets to know those under his/her command for one thing.
Of course, Shepard can, in his/her default loadout, carry a mini-nuke launcher :). My personal one always carried a Black Widow, a sniper rifle that'd tear a human's arm off if fired from anything but a secured, supported prone position. Of course, she fired it standing or crouched.
Master chief can also handle a tac nuke.
Posted by: Elder Bias
Posted by: SC Matt Klassen
Posted by: otterboyz
Out of all the Sci-fi universes Masseffect is probably one of the weakest ones.
Even their super-duper ancient civilization is inferior to some basic things out there.
Any spartan could throw a rock and kill Shepperd, even with all that badass those shields need a tune up.
Do the words KINETIC BARRIERS mean anything to you, otterboyz?
A rock would just bounce off. Guess what the UNSC mainly uses... KINETIC WEAPONRY!
Thel vs Shepard would be a better matchup.
Once again. Kinetic barrier can be overwhelmed by kinetic weapons if it is powerful enough. For instance, even UNSC Frigate's MAC can punch through ME's KE barriers because of higher firepower.
Kinetic Barrier also can be bypassed by slow motion objects such as a rock traveling 850 m/s. So, I'm pretty sure that MC throwing a rock will kill Shepard.
Lol one hit from MC would kill shepard.
Posted by: ajw34307
Posted by: SC Matt Klassen
Onyx Sentinel shields =/= Mass Effect kinetic barriers.
I'm a Halo fan and I'm forced to try and defend Shep... it wouldn't be as simple as tossing a rock at Cmdr Shepard.
I'm not saying that they're the same, I'm saying that they operate the same way. The Mass Effect Codex says:
"These shields safely deflect small objects traveling at rapid velocities. This affords protection from bullets and other dangerous projectiles."
This means that things like Plasma weaponry and rocks would be unaffected by a kinetic barrier, as they repel small objects at high velocities, they've got no protection against heat (as is evidenced in ME1 when you get heat and radiation level warnings on uncharted worlds) so it most certainly would be as simple as tossing some rocks at Shep.