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Subject: What are these creatures?
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Posted by: veggieman
They are grunts. Their proportions are too stocky to be a brute, not to mention the wa they hold their new guns is exactly how a grunt holds a plasma pistol.


This is what I asumed myself at first, and then I did some freeze framing at work on my huge LCD monitor and came to the conclusion they are deffinatly not grunts. They look short and are in a gruntish stance, but a larger, closer looks shows that they are Brutes, the first two anyways. The third thing in the line I cannot tell, looks real big though. And hairy too...maybe Bungie knew what scared us the most and dropped Shishka into the game. Cant wait to kick the blam out of it. Woot! :)--~

The person who started this thread did bring something new to my attention however, in the top left hand pic, is that the MC standing in the background? Can only see his top half in the one pic...didnt notice that before, weird.

  • 06.18.2006 12:03 AM PDT
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looks liek armored brutes to me

  • 06.18.2006 12:16 AM PDT

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but anyways...they appear (to me) to be grunts...in new armor...perhaps because they have new allies?? i think they are human armored grunts...it would be a cool twist...cuz they are kinda like hitting a dog in the road when you kill one...you feel kinda bad after...

  • 06.18.2006 12:25 AM PDT
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ITS A GRUNT

  • 06.18.2006 12:30 AM PDT
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  • 06.18.2006 12:39 AM PDT
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There's been a lot of speculation as to what these things are. Personally, I don't think it's a new species. Not just because Bungie wouldn't reveal one now, but it wouldn't fit anywhere in the story line to adopt a new species just as the Covenant is breaking apart and finding what they've sought after for so long.

I had compared this image to the action figure model of the Ranger Elite, and, while they do look similar, I still can't make any defining connections. My next guess is that they're Brutes in airtight armor with Covenant thruster packs. It only makes sense. The Covenant need a warrior who can venture into comprimised atmosphere since the Elites disbanded from the Covenant, taking their Rangers with them. Just like the Brutes took the honor guard position, they took the Ranger position as well. Even if these characters we're debating aren't "Ranger Brutes", I'd be willing to bet that there are some in the game.

In addition, I think the reason these look nothing like what we're used to seeing is because Bungie was able to redo a lot of things with the '360's amped up processing power and whatnot.

Just a theory, mind you.

  • 06.18.2006 12:41 AM PDT
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You know... I wouldn't put it past bungie to just make up some conglomerate of pixelated junk, and deliberatley put it in the video just to stir up speculation.

  • 06.18.2006 12:43 AM PDT
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Posted by: Vertigo540
You know... I wouldn't put it past bungie to just make up some conglomerate of pixelated junk, and deliberatley put it in the video just to stir up speculation.


You're absolutely right. The entire thing could just be some random mass of parts assembled from the other characters in the game, just to throw us.

Bungie am evil.

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I wonder why they are in a straight line..carrying some kind of gun...looking in a position...who they aiming at?

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I think when the game is finnished the brutes will be nice and hairy. Think of King kong and how great his hair looks. What ever these things are, (probably brutes) they are not finnished. They are brown like brutes but are lacking hair...thats what is throwing people off. If they had 6" of brown fur protruding from them, this wouldnt be a debate. Early model, give it time, soon we will know for sure. As you can see from the land around them...this is not a finished product.

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Look at the second alien in the line its holding a new gun oooooooooooooooooh

and its a grunt, it head and mouth look just like a grunt, its no way a brute.

brutes are huge, built ape things and grunts are short and fat with crapy weapons, like it is holding

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  • 06.18.2006 1:11 AM PDT
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I'm thinking grunts. You say you see no methane tanks? Maybe it's on the grunt homeworld!

  • 06.18.2006 1:25 AM PDT
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Forerunners perhaps? their heads are to big to be grunts

  • 06.18.2006 2:00 AM PDT
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maybe they are little brutes in training...

  • 06.18.2006 2:19 AM PDT
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I reckon they're brute rangers, you know? Brutes but in the jetpacks the elites had.

  • 06.18.2006 2:58 AM PDT
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Posted by: M4tthijS
maybe they are little brutes in training...


Baby brutes in training...I have to go throw up now haha.

  • 06.18.2006 3:12 AM PDT
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And how do we know these things are from halo3? and not some other game in development trying to rip the design out of halo!?!?!?

No we don't. stumped. owned.

  • 06.18.2006 3:41 AM PDT
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they surely dont look like elites to me but there sweeeet

  • 06.18.2006 4:29 AM PDT
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They could be redesigned, less cartoony grunts.

  • 06.18.2006 6:32 AM PDT

wtf is with the floor; its like Chessmaster.

  • 06.18.2006 6:39 AM PDT

Quick as a razor, sharp as a bullet.

STOP THESE DAMN "WHAT'S THE THING IN THE PICTURE?" THREADS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 06.18.2006 6:54 AM PDT

Well I have a lil render I made. It does not prove anything about race but It does show some similarities.

Brute Ranger???

The first part is a elite ranger helmet. comparing the design I think it is safe to say that this creature is most likely of ranger status. The second is of a brute in a similar stance to what is shown in the other image.

  • 06.18.2006 2:46 PM PDT

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These are grunts. If you've never seen a grunt without its mask on, well now you have! That image is a grunt. believe it or not!!

  • 06.18.2006 3:26 PM PDT

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