- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I analyzed it as best I could, and I'm not claiming to be 100% right, but I just strongly doubt that those are brutes.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/SCGhost05/eh.jpg
It's all in the face. The eyes of a brute ar slightly back from the mouth, this creatures are almost right at the front, like an elites (assumptions nonwithstanding). Also, a brutes head has a high cranium which slpes donwards. In this picture, the creatures armor has no such bulge at the back. Compare it with any brute picture on the web, and youll see the armor can't possibly be covering up the correct angle or hight difference between the top of the skull and the mouth of a brute. Therefore it's either a new species, an elite, or a grunt (i know the arms are bulgy but that could possibly be armor or who knows. the model may not be finished yet).