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I know this is gonna sound stupid, but I think just a no topic forum would be nice. Y'know, just talk about what you want, and your latest absurd tangent doesn't have to fit in with the section you're typing in. I'd like that at least. If this IS a bad idea, then admins can just delete it. But in case you guys like the idea, this page is here, so just get going and talk about the stuff you want to. I guess I could start.

I think I'll talk about the Nerfile. Really starting to like it. Can snap people out of scope faster than the DMR, has a fun supercombine, and seems to have a solid kill time. Used it recently in a TU team slayer game, and had some awesome moments. Like this one time I'm opening up on a guy and he throws a sticky at me, but there's so many needles in the air it detonates like as soon as he throws it, and I finish him off right after. Awesome. What do you guys think of it? This is craZboy557, signing off. 14:05, 24 January 2013 (EST)

I have to admit, I had to read your last paragraph two times to get that you were talking about the Needle Rifle. Yeah, I was kind of bummed that it didn't reappear in Halo 4 as a Covie DMR.

Speaking about Covie stuff, does anyone else think that 343 made the Harvester overly insectoid in its appearance?Missing Mandible (talk) 16:44, 24 January 2013 (EST)

Probably. I've only seen the page picture but it doesn't really look that smooth, like other covenant vehicles. I'm more frustrated over the fact that 343 is giving the UNSC and the Storm stuff that it should have no way of getting. Liches? Several hundred spartans? The storm rifle? The Infinity? And, of course, the harvester. It makes no sense to me that a fringe group and a government that barely survived 50 years of war with a technologically superior genocidal alien race. This is craZboy557, signing off. 08:49, 25 January 2013 (EST)

Ok, yea, probably too insectoid. This is craZboy557, signing off. (again) 08:51, 25 January 2013 (EST)

Well, if you think about it, the construction of Infinity started way before the end of the war. The population of the S-IV made sense to me since there were probably still plenty of humans in the galaxy, what didn't make sense to me is how did they create an augmentation procedure that wasn't harmful to adult humans just a few years after the HCW. All the vehicles the Covenant remnant had were probably for the large amount of ships they had. Since every past UNSC encounter with the Liches resulted in the total destruction of the UNSC forces, it makes sense hundreds of Liches survived the war and somehow made it into the hangar of the CRS-class cruisers. What I didn't like is the absence of even mentioning Arby. "I thought we had a truce with the Covenant. Captain Del Rio, where is the Arbiter?" I have plenty of things to rant about Halo 4, but it's a good game overall. I guess. —SPARTAN331 09:31, 25 January 2013 (EST)

With regard to the SPARTAN augmentations, they were working on those long before the war started, going back to the ONI's reactivation (under the guise of the then-mostly defunct Colonial Military Authority) of the ORION Project in 2491, from which came several graduates, including Avery Junior Johnson. The Spartan II augmentations were simply an intermediate step in the evolution of this process wherein they tested various refinements from the prior program on live subjects, the successful results of which were put into service to aid UNSC forces, first against the Insurrection, then the Covenant. ONI's science geeks continued to refine the process for the next 50 years or so with Project CHRYSANTHEMUM, which was able to achieve many of the same results chemically (ie: with less surgery) through the use of drugs applied through strategic injection points across the subject's body. The SPARTAN II Program was never meant to be anything more than a step on the path to mas-produced supersoldiers, due to the exclusive and exacting genetic requirements of its candidates, and the still-experimental nature of the technology up to that point... After the program was shut down, ONI took the research generated from the program & refined the procedures, applying then-current techologies & created Project CHRYSANTHEMUM. The goal of Project CHRYSANTHEMUM wasn't to go beyond the SPARTAN II Program... In other words, they weren't trying to create superhuman living weapons in and of themselves. The MJOLNIR Armor would serve that purpose. The goal of CHRYSANTHEMUM was simply to augment the average soldier to the point where they could use the armor effectively, without killing themselves. As for the armor costing as much as a starship, well... Anyone on here who's old enough can tell you about how much the Pentagon used to pay for hammers & toilet seats... Just because the number is on paper doesn't mean it's true or accurate. Especially when you have an asteroid belt, Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud packed FULL of raw materials to make just about everything you'll ever need.

I still think the size of the Infinity is ludicrous. I mean, the covenants CORVETS are about the same size as one of the UNSC's heavy frigates! And now we have a ship that actually not one dwarfs covenant ships, but actually can safely plow through them? How does THAT make sense? And while we have yet to know exactly how many spartan IVs there are, we do know they aren't using any SPI stuff, this is full blown MJOLINR. That stuff costs like, a starship each, right? This just seems way too expensive, or the UNSC is really bad with priorities. As for the Storm, even if there ARE lots of Liches hanging around, how could NOONE notice them stealing that?! Sure the got away with the Unflinching Resolve, but getting a whole fleet with so many juggernaut-type-stuff on it? That just seems absurd. Even post schism Sanghelios can't have security that bad, especialy with a dangerous fringe segment on the loose. Just sayin'. This is craZboy557, signing off. 09:49, 25 January 2013 (EST)

@S331: It seems as though Halo 4 failed to explain anything in the game whatsoever except for the Librarian & some of Humanity's history. A new timer would not know what "the mantle" is/means, who the "Didact" is, nor why the Covenant are there, how they got there, etc...Everything was thrown into the novels with no thought as to how many "fans" would buy them. In fact half of the story of Halo 4 (Jul 'Mdama/Covie remnanat) is still waiting for release in the 3rd novel of the Kilo-Five trilogy while the other half is in Halo: Silentium. It's almost as if 343i did too much at the same time they did little. Nonetheless I do like their effort. @CraZboy557: The Infinity took years to build so its size in that time build is logical. The Infinity had shields (which are probably stronger than Covie shields) so smashing through a smaller ship with little mass connecting the bow of the ship to the main body is possible. Also the covenant Corvette is larger than the UNSC frigate.--Killamint [Comm|Files] 12:52, 25 January 2013 (EST)

1: IKR? 2: Ok, then i'm going with they just are horrible with their priorities. 3: KK, thought so, but figured being wrong about them being the same size was better than being wrong about the corvete being bigger. This is craZboy557, signing off. 12:58, 25 January 2013 (EST)

From what I understand, the Remnant is not just a splinter/rebel group, but a full blown faction. Seeing how split apart the Sangheili were in The Thursday War, I would not be surprised if the Remnant has enough numbers to cause quite a bit of worry between both the "good" Elites and the UNSC. Missing Mandible (talk) 14:00, 25 January 2013 (EST)

Just to advise, you guys can also chat about random stuff like this on the IRC channel. Just throwing in my two cents here ;) - File:Major.png Nìcmávr ^(Tálk) 14:02, 25 January 2013 (EST)

I like it here better. :D This is craZboy557, signing off. 15:13, 25 January 2013 (EST)