- DecepticonCobra
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Your one stop shop for all of 343's fabulous errors and ridiculous notions in the Halo lore.
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2: The shield was hardLIGHT. It's essentially LIGHT energy that is solidified (compressed photons). That doesn't mean it won't still travel the speed of light. The speed of light is faster than the speed of the explosion. Completely plausible with the most complex AI in the galaxy. The thing is, nothing about hardlight is explained in game; while i appreciate what 343 tried to do with the EU, but making extensive knowledge of the books required for the plot to make sense ESPECIALLY when the plot point in question could easy have been resolved (make chief throw the damn bomb and show the hard light wrap around him(and actually mention hardlight a few levels back0) is just absurd.
Although hardlight specifically isn't explained in the game, many other things are, including the Forerunner-Human War (at a basic level of understanding). People have to resort to terminals to find out more, which I find a reasonably rewarding experience.
They still do mention hardlight in the description of the Forerunner weapons, if I recall correctly.
Of course the Terminals themselves don't make sense of the Forerunner Saga though.
I realize they left out some vital dialogue from the books and the like, however they most likely wanted to make an abridged version for people who didn't follow the Forerunner Saga, and in so doing, may have decided to discard some parts of it.
I still find Halo 4 piecing together with its Forerunner Saga better than Reach did with Fall of Reach.
Not to mention they still have Silentium, which is coming out next year. It might explain things further.
Yeah well, I'm not keen on having to wait until March for Halo 4 to start making sense.