- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Your guys reasons for why a Human sword shouldn't be in the game are so stupid!
1.) You keep saying that a sword wouldn't go through a Elites armor, yet bullets do! Do you know anything about theories of Force Shields? They wouldn't stop the tip of a knife going through them because of the pressure per milimeter would exceed what they can stop, while a bullet(which is not sharp tiped) would have a lower pressure per milimeter and thus take more to penetrate a Force Shield. After all, you can punch thruogh the elite shields can't you? Should that be taken out of the game cause it's "unrealistic" to you? There's also a sharp end to the Brute Shot and that goes through Elite Armor, so should it be taken out as well?
2.) Also, how far in the future do you think this is? Halo takes place in the year 2552, it's currently 2006. That makes these games only 546 years in the future. Now look at the past, swords have been used since the begining of recorded time, before that even, and they haven't disappeared from culture yet, why would they in only 546 years?
3.) Heck, We still use swords and knives in the military today! In Dress uniforms for Navy and Marines a Sword is sometimes pressent at things like ceremonies, and combat knives are common in special forces personell! Combat knives are used frequently by Navy Seals and such because of their stealth.
4.) Combat Knives have already been in Halo. While making Halo: CE, bungie had a Machete. The ODST's carry Machete's in Halo 2. And in the books there's a Spartan that uses only Combat Knives!
5.) And how do you guys think that the Shotgun is the Energy Sword? Yeah they can both be instant kills, but the Shotgun kills a lot less then the Energy Sword. If you had two guys in a perfect scenario go head to head, one with a Shotgun and the other with an Energy Sword, both experts in the weapon their using. The Energy Sword would win everytime! From far away the Shotgun does less damage, but with the Energy Sword you can lunge and instantly kill each time from far away. The only time their equal is in close range, other than that the Energy Sword is better!
6.) And what's your problem with equal weapons? For every war that's taken place, both sides have equivalants to the opponents weapons, until one team get's something the other team doesn't and wins the war(such as the Atom Bomb in WWII). Anyway, the weapons don't need to be equal, the humans could have both the M6D and M6C Pistol but the Covenant would only have the Plasma Pistol. There wouldn't be the same amount of weapons for both teams, but the weapons would have equivalants. The M6D, M6C, and Plasma Pistol all would be slightly different but equally balanced in the game. Same for the AR5B, AR3B, AR2B, Elite Rifle, and Brute Rifle. And for the rest of the weapons...
[Edited on 5/10/2006]