I did NOT want to try and come up with a version that's the sound of two pieces of styrofoam being rubbed together, because that's like an alternate chalk scratching sound.
I remember when Spartan costumes were made of paper craft cut outs painted in fiberglass resin and filled with expanding foam insulation. Now you can 3d print the parts.
Yeah, I flipped that around. Long day. Especially weird mistake for me as I'm building my own ODST kit. Almost done too save the helmet and chest piece.
It's actually easier than you think. Half the ODST gear is just generic biker protection. The shoulder pads are trickier and I need a decal for my blood type. I might leave the helmet and chest plain and use temp stickers to look like different characters.
Spartan IIs, yes - but, deep cut lore, there were no Spartan I's. The original project was called ORION, and was such a dismal failure on all fronts (costs, rejection of implants and modifications, dumpster level cost to performance ratios) that they scrubbed the entire project. When Halsey came around with her ... war crimes to get better numbers, they rebranded it the Spartan II project.
Then there's the deep deep lore of the kids of the ORION dropouts that are a bit superhuman and get together to fight the Covenant as an unsanctioned hit and run group. Then again I may be misremembering the iLoveBees audio files.
Mk 3s were an overall step backwards, technologically. Their aim was to save cost and attrition with smaller and less advanced augments implanted in existing soldiers. If I remember correctly, they operated like current day Special Forces, where existing troopers had to go through a selection process. Spartan 4s, on the other hand, were more like 10X, where a soldier could conceivably test into it while in boot camp and get trained from the ground up; but I may be misremembering.
Yeah Halo 4 and the Spartan 4's just didn't interest me narratively. I still haven't finished 4 and I've played every other game dozens of times. Except the ones after 4.
The 3's also had Mirage armour, giving them stealth abilities like elites. They didn't have shields though but were heavily amped up on drugs. Like one guy gets nearly burned in half by plasma fire and just goes "I think I'm hit." before dropping dead. This happens in front of the other 2's which confuses and angers them.
Probably. It was still experimental tech at that point, and the drugs are likely just the built in autodoc overcompensating rather than built as standard combat stims (though I haven't read many of the novels, so I could be wrong). Even the Spartan II armor didn't get energy shields until the Mk. V, and for that they had to reverse engineer Covenant tech.
JeanieGoldWeddingPlanner
Damn he fucks I bet
backrideup9
Blarg chicka honk honk.
MrSatisify
Rufferstuff
nulmerningster
Sooooo......aim for the black areas..... gotcha!!
hell0
demisebyneedlework
Enough. Juuuuest enough
LenWeirdracin
HollerinAtTheVoid
Steve? That you?
ProbablyCrazier
Stupid sexy Master Chief
NotaCPA
Master Chief is S-117.....This Spartan is clearly S-069, OH YEAH
TheLark
I mean it's flipped but it is clearly 052, but that ain't Jorge. Don't remember what number Jerome is, but could be him
Iamnotacreativeman
The ability to gyrate with your armor on is a measure of how advanced a civilization is.
agonarch
Which way round is more advanced?
HostMigrationPleaseWait
*sadface from space marines*
Sureletsgowiththat
https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2018/11/27/984732-Space%20Marines%2C%20SpaceMarineParty.jpg
SisyphusRollin
Kinda hypnotizing.
MaleProstateMilker88
https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1Mno2NXEzbGxnaXRzd3ltcGc2em12cXhxNTI3cHNsMnBueHk4b2NoaCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/4n5Y5fC3TeOU8/200w.webp
m4a2000
Tucker!
EverNotRelevant
zafner
Ah. cassiopeiaquinn.com
MuffinProof
zafner
The heck is this
EverNotRelevant
Panel from a guest comic for "Cassiopeia Quinn"
friendsofsandwiches
klank klank klank klank
CyberHexx
It's plastic so it's Klack Klack Klack klack
friendsofsandwiches
I did NOT want to try and come up with a version that's the sound of two pieces of styrofoam being rubbed together, because that's like an alternate chalk scratching sound.
CyberHexx
I remember when Spartan costumes were made of paper craft cut outs painted in fiberglass resin and filled with expanding foam insulation. Now you can 3d print the parts.
friendsofsandwiches
I know that SOUNDS easier, but now there's new steps involved, and lord help you if the printer starts fucking up the project.
CyberHexx
New printers are almost idiot proof. The Centauri Carbon has been the best 400 dollar purchase I've ever made.
4vie
.... Guy's a little wiry for a spartan...
PorterPickUp
Oh no! Master Cheeks has returned
4vie
Lies! He didn't take his helmet off!
codenameRadical
So ... perfect teabagging flexibility?
7EO5NdvX9
Iran would surrender if a thousand master chiefs rolled into town! lol
suiseiseki
Nice Halo Wars style Spartan Vs (or IVs I forget)
CowboyRooster
I think you're looking for Spartan-2, MJOLNIR MKIV. The Spartans are the guys wearing the armour, the armour is MJOLNIR.
suiseiseki
Yeah, I flipped that around. Long day. Especially weird mistake for me as I'm building my own ODST kit. Almost done too save the helmet and chest piece.
CowboyRooster
Noice. Really admire the work some costume people do.
suiseiseki
It's actually easier than you think. Half the ODST gear is just generic biker protection. The shoulder pads are trickier and I need a decal for my blood type. I might leave the helmet and chest plain and use temp stickers to look like different characters.
Cptbluebeard7
Aren't the halo wars Spartans the spartan 2s? (mk 5 armor) 4s came about just before halo 4.
Eiladar
Spartan IIs, yes - but, deep cut lore, there were no Spartan I's. The original project was called ORION, and was such a dismal failure on all fronts (costs, rejection of implants and modifications, dumpster level cost to performance ratios) that they scrubbed the entire project. When Halsey came around with her ... war crimes to get better numbers, they rebranded it the Spartan II project.
TheLark
Except that everyones favourite Halo marine (after Chipps Dubbo) Sgt. "Long, Hard" Johnson is an ORION/SPARTAN I reintegrated to the marines
TinkerThinker42
Then there's the deep deep lore of the kids of the ORION dropouts that are a bit superhuman and get together to fight the Covenant as an unsanctioned hit and run group. Then again I may be misremembering the iLoveBees audio files.
burnsep
“One. Point. Oh!”
suiseiseki
Yeah that's what I meant. Mk IIIs appear in Reach for some reason even though they're supposed to be on Onyx.
Eiladar
Mk 3s were an overall step backwards, technologically. Their aim was to save cost and attrition with smaller and less advanced augments implanted in existing soldiers. If I remember correctly, they operated like current day Special Forces, where existing troopers had to go through a selection process. Spartan 4s, on the other hand, were more like 10X, where a soldier could conceivably test into it while in boot camp and get trained from the ground up; but I may be misremembering.
suiseiseki
Yeah Halo 4 and the Spartan 4's just didn't interest me narratively. I still haven't finished 4 and I've played every other game dozens of times. Except the ones after 4.
suiseiseki
The 3's also had Mirage armour, giving them stealth abilities like elites. They didn't have shields though but were heavily amped up on drugs. Like one guy gets nearly burned in half by plasma fire and just goes "I think I'm hit." before dropping dead. This happens in front of the other 2's which confuses and angers them.
Eiladar
Probably. It was still experimental tech at that point, and the drugs are likely just the built in autodoc overcompensating rather than built as standard combat stims (though I haven't read many of the novels, so I could be wrong). Even the Spartan II armor didn't get energy shields until the Mk. V, and for that they had to reverse engineer Covenant tech.