Halo Megathread: 2 new trailers for Halo 5 have been released. 10/27/2015

[Alkatjo]

The jackals aren't nearly portrayed at their 100% peak performance in the game. In the books they could run really loving fast and their sniper eye was dead on. A marine was killed on patrol, it was a sniper jackal with a beam rifle that killed him from 3.6 km away. In the games, they were cannon fodder. Same with the grunts. To Spartans, they were easy pickings. Through the eyes of a marine, a grunt was about 4'8. A jackal was about the size of an average human male. Elites were about eight feet. Brutes were about eight to nine feet. Hunters could go anywhere from 10 feet to 15 feet given the environment.

In context though, the halo 3 jackals were more of a sniper breed. The storm jackals were more aggressive and were easily agitated.
It could be a change in gender maybe to? Female elites don't have the split mandibles but rather a human like mouth. What's to say that female jackals look more birdlike or look more lizard like?

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[Renousim]

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thank god im not the only one that read the books

[ZombiLoin]

thank god im not the only one that read the books

hey HEY i read the flood and the ghosts of onyx too okay?

[Jubel]

Another user in this thread.

Sounds like canon information to me gj.

[blueblur121]

why would they, though? there are no real drastic changes in the way jackals act in the two games, right? do the covenant just like loving lizards?

The skirmishers in Reach were genetically modified jackals or some stuff iirc.

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Sounds like canon information to me gj.

Well it's the only answer I got that was close to making sense.

Also, why are we arguing over this? 343 changed how things look. Big deal.


In other news, RvB season 13 episode 1 is coming in five hours.

[ShadowsfeaR]

Update on Halo Online, Forge has been found and made playable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6FcpDfXuF0

Idk if anyone else posted it, all these signatures are giving me a headache.

[blueblur121]

The Halo 3 forge was stuff. Forge didn't really get good until Reach.

[·::Kishgal::·]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6FcpDfXuF0
Idk if anyone else posted it, all these signatures are giving me a headache.

The people linking to Se7ven in the comments make me want to barf.

[blueblur121]

RvB s13e1 is in 1 minute.
I'm ready for this.

[McJob]

The Halo 3 forge was stuff. Forge didn't really get good until Reach.

What the forget have you been smoking, you thick idiot?

At the time, Forge Mode in Halo 3 was fantastic and was something that wasn't done in many games at all (the only two other games I've played with in-game map editors are Jeremy McGrath's Supercross 2000 and Timesplitters 2). Furthermore, it and Theatre Mode were both last minute ideas, and could have been cut at any point. They fact they both made it into the final game is pretty incredible.

Yeah, Halo 3's Forge had a couple of problems, but thankfully Bungie had 3+ years to listen to feedback and actually rebuild Forge with some new tools that made map design a bit easier in Halo: Reach. That doesn't mean the original Forge mode was stuff, it just means the newer ones were improved thanks to feedback garnered from the old ones.

[Satan From Wreck-It-Ralph]

personal opinion here but 3's forge mode is also the most fun to play in

[blueblur121]

What the forget have you been smoking, you thick idiot?

Halo 2A's forge.

What the forget have you been smoking, you thick idiot?

At the time, Forge Mode in Halo 3 was fantastic and was something that wasn't done in many games at all (the only two other games I've played with in-game map editors are Jeremy McGrath's Supercross 2000 and Timesplitters 2). Furthermore, it and Theatre Mode were both last minute ideas, and could have been cut at any point. They fact they both made it into the final game is pretty incredible.

Yeah, Halo 3's Forge had a couple of problems, but thankfully Bungie had 3+ years to listen to feedback and actually rebuild Forge with some new tools that made map design a bit easier in Halo: Reach. That doesn't mean the original Forge mode was stuff, it just means the newer ones were improved thanks to feedback garnered from the old ones.

I meant compared to what we have now.

[ShadowsfeaR]

Halo 2A's forge.

That is literally the culmination of several years of feedback you stuffter. Of course its the best one, but you also forget that forge isn't "officially" in Halo Online, and that it can receive tons of upgrades close to this version if and when it does hit.

[blueblur121]

That is literally the culmination of several years of feedback you stuffter. Of course its the best one

Yes. That is my point. Halo 3's forge is the worst forge because all of the following ones are better.

[ShadowsfeaR]

Yes. That is my point. Halo 3's forge is the worst forge because all of the following ones are better.

Not really, "Halo 3 forge was stuff" is what you said. It wasn't stuff, its just not as good as the others.