Nah he managed to trash this suit in 5 days. It was in perfect condition when he left Reach, it was garbage 5 days later after he blew up the first Halo. He got Mark VI upon reaching Cairo Station and the Mark VI lasted till halo 5, though since Cortana upgraded it I call the Halo 4/5 suit Cortana Tech mkI.
@@themastermason1 actually wasn't his suit in 5 the same suit from 4 but with the Gen 2 operating system? Cause it still literally had all the same battle damage that went back to halo 3. It wouldn't make much sense to make him a new suit and damage it exactly the same as his old suit
I have long wondered why the heck a personal suit of armour cost more than a UNSC destroyer, then it occurred to look up something comparable. A Formula 1 car costs an average of $10.5 million, while an M1 Abrams costs a little under $9 million.
@@legaroojack1251 Would you really though? I mean if it looks cool then yea def take it just for the looks however, there are legal consideration and tanks are gas guzzlers in steroids...
The UNSC and ONI also grabbed intact covenant elite combat harnesses with intact energy shielding. This made it much easier to research this technology.
If I remember right, "Fall of Reach" actually references jackle shield gauntlets as the basis for early UNSC Sheilds, course in the books Cheif's sheilds and armor were much more bullet resistant too compared to even the in game version
Glad I got introduced to you via that Eckhartsladder collaboration. A hard science breakdown of my favorite game series. Please cover more UNSC ships and vehicles. If I had one particular request, I'd say the halberd-class destroyer.
I would love to see a most detailed breakdown of the halo universes CRYOSLEEP how it works and its history. As important as a tool as it is in the universe and to UNSC space travel, it would be awesome to get a better understanding of that system
Presumably he and the other spartans were given brand new suits and reactors for the mission the Pillar Of Autumn was supposed to go on, but the covenant turned up just before they left, so Chief and two others had to do what was technically a fairly basic EVA to an abandoned spacestation to destroy an isolated nav computer, one of them got hit and lost to space and the other got shot to death, the chief grabbed the other spartan and a certain Sergeant Johnson, took a parked pelican to reboard the autumn, both spatans got frozen with the hopes that the other spartan could be revived at a later date. The remaining spartans went to defend reach, their pelicans got shot to bits on the way down, requiring them to exit their damaged craft a bit too early resulting in a high casualty rate. Chief had his hushed casket unsealed after the autumn got to the halo system after about 2 or 3 weeks, got a tiny bit of zapping before actively repelling boarders and jumping in the escape pod starting the main events of CE, which culminated in the obliteration of the halo, seemingly leaving just him and cortana stranded in the system in a longsword fighter. He did another quick spacewalk to retrieve a cryopod ejected prior to the crash, which curiously enough contained the other technically dead spartan, then hooked up with a surviving pelican containing, among others, the one and only Sergeant Johnson. Chief and the occupants decided that to escape the halo system required the capturing of a local covenant ship, because it has a slipspace drive they need, which they make happen. During that, his shield system actually failed completely, but was fortunately repaired soon after they finished taking the bridge and engine room by a curious huragok, after that there was a bit of running back to Reach, retrieving a couple of the surviving spartans and doctor Halsey from the surface who had come into possession of a wacky space distorting crystal thing. Then more running around for parts, some wildly hazardous EVA in a peculiar distorted slipspace in which one of the rescued spartans died from a close pass of a capital ship plasma blast, then decanting from slipspace in a reenforced covenant tuning fork dropship to embark on a hell of a mission to destroy the enormous covenant space station, The Unyielding Heirophant, and a massive fleet local to it, losing another spartan, before finally returning to earth for tea and medals, and a brand new Mark 6 (possibly with very early prototype Mark 7 functionality) MJOLNIR. I think thats basically everything that happened to chief, and a few others, condensed into long, mad, very rambling paragraphs
Dude. You are criminally undersubscribed. So far, I’ve been Geeking out on your channel, picking up more Halo lore and analysis on your channel than any other creator on UA-cam. I’m really hoping to see you hit the stratosphere with your content, because while the information you provide is very technical, you go back and describe the same subject in less physics driven language. You’re doing an outstanding job man, keep it up!
My Favorite Aspects of Mjolnir Armor: 17:05 21:07 27:20 29:11 29:56 These aspects are my favorite because they can be applied to almost any high-tech armor.
Why was humanity never able to upscale the tech for use on ships during the war? Miniaturization usually occurs once the macro versions are perfected and micro versions are then developed. This happened in the reverse order. Upscaling should have been easy.
you have to remember that ONI was leading the research into covie tech and spartan armour is specially tailored for few units, the backwards engineered shields are stronger than covies personal shield. If had read first strike they executed a covie engineer after it repaired chiefs suit due to the tech being classified top secret. You need to look at manufacturing process of war machines a good example would be ww2, how when you upgrade ships it can take years of work that removes an asset out of your armoury. The bigger it is the longer and harder in is to work on.
Also the square-cube law. A bigger, thicker shield (to take the kind of punishment ships get hurled at them) would require an exponentially greater amount of energy and resources to produce and maintain. The logistical limitations of the situation just didn't allow humanity to start producing shielded ships. Postwar, the UNSC was freed of the limitations of a losing war of extinction and (with the decimation of most of the human fleets) the need to refit existing ships. The nut was swiftly cracked and new ships were built with the system in consideration.
It might have partially been because the UNSC's supplies were stretched thin and major manufacturing hubs for ships were either overloaded or glassed by the Covenant. So they were probably cornered into brute forcing the miniature version, especially with the energy shields since they only had the jackle energy shield gauntlets to work from with no examples of ship scale implementations since the Covenant ships were hard to capture at the best of times
In addition to what’s been stated, Spartans were their greatest asset during the war. The key role they played is preventing naval battles from occurring between UNSC andd Covenant forces to begin with (via special strike operations).
Man, believe it or not, I'm not fanatical about the Halo universe. I'm not even a gamer, well, not anymore anyway. I had an original Xbox, and a 360, and I played Halo 1-3. I really enjoyed the games, and love the look of all the tech. I was intrigued by a video you did in colab with Eckarts Ladder "forgive possible bad spelling" and found myself just stuck watching lol. I am a HUGE HUGE Sci Fi fan, and I'm a technical/mechanical kinda guy, so this was right up my ally. The level of detail and breakdown you are able to report on in these videos is truly astonishing! I would love to know if you'd consider, as the channel and resources grow, branching out into other franchises? You're just on a level no one else is even close to with these breakdowns, and it's got me hungry for what you'd do with say Star Wars tech, or even Star Trek. Maybe a look at Mass Effect, or Fallout. I understand if that's not in the cards for you, but man, I'd sure love it. That being said, you've inraptured me for hours now, with microlevel detail on a franchise I'm not even really all that invested in! That I think is probably one of the best compliments you could receive. Great great work my friend, keep at it, and I'll keep watching. Maybe I'll have to sub to whatever streamer Halo is coming up on. I probably will look like an expert, making my friends wonder how in the world I know this stuff lol.
Masterful video. My only gripe is that very little footage of the Mark V is shown. The majority is of the footage is of the vastly more popular MJOLNIR Mark VI (which overshadows it) and even a fair amount is of the Mark IV. I am aware that there's a lot less Mark V in the games and other media, especially cosmetic instances where it's only the Mark V helmet on a different suit.
Liked and subscribed. I would’ve enjoyed playing the Halo campaigns even more had I known this level of detail about who and what I was playing as. Well done, mate.
As someone who loves doing versus matches with my friends, you have proved an invaluable resource. Right now I’m trying to prove that a Spartan team could take the Last City from Destiny, or at least cripple it to the point a standard UNSC marine deployment could take it following. The only things I’m missing now are: Spartan IV & I augmentations.
@@derp4616 They most certainly could. One Fireteam. Four guys, any Gen past I. They wouldn’t even be detected until they were halfway done with the entire corps.
my only gripe is practicality in irl sense. If one can develop a miniaturized energy shield that can envelop a human, then larger ones are stupidly easy. the real problem irl is making something like this small enough as the power sources, miniaturization of complex components etc is the real bottleneck. With the tech and power, they had during the project they should have had energy shields on warships by then a ship is alot easier to shield due to a few features uniformity of the frame's shape, large energy sources and more resources at its disposal
I think the concern in scaling was the strength of the shield. Like, they would have had no problem getting a MJOLNIR strength shield around a destroyer, but anything that can pose a threat to a destroyer in the first place would rip right through the shield like a gunshot through wet toilet paper. The square-cube law strikes again, a larger, thicker shield would take exponentially more energy to fill. This would also become problematic for the emitters as they would either need to project a truly titanic amount of energy or have that load distributed amongst a similarly massive number of emitters. Either solution would likely have technological and logistical issues. Then there's the problem of refitting the fleets with this new system in a time when resources are dwindling, time is extremely limited, and you need your ships out doing things. Note that it didn't take very long at all for humanity to start producing shielded ships after the war ended, they just needed the pressure to taken off long enough to work out the last hiccups and be implemented.
@@chuchulainn9275 A typical UNSC vs Covenant battle (in the early days, and specifically in the attack on reach) was akin to rifle line formations shooting at each other from long distance, in those situations it might have been useful for blocking direct attacks, and the shield generator could have been mounted on gimbals to have some ability to defend from flanking attacks. Similar to how the jackals use them dirtside
@@andrewbutton2039 You're not taking fighters into account as well as the vast difference between the Covenant's and the UNSC's slipspace capabilities at that time. It makes more sense to devote a shield that envelopes a whole ship than a shield focused in one spot. Jackal shields are easy to get around. Ships with shields like that would have the same weakness.
although I am new (found out from EckhartsLadder's channel) I just can't stop talking about halo when i heard from EckhartsLadder that these videos we're highly detailed he did not lie and watching these videos makes me want to go back and play through the story (and halo wars) again. The level of detail is astonishing and to anyone new to halo wanting to know things about halo id recommend watching this a few times just to let that level of detail sink in lol
Glad I see the colab between you and Eckhartsladder really well made videos and well explained. Question where in the lore you get this informations( I know part came from your knowledge of your academical formation) is there any way to part of all this come from The Spartan field manual?
This is where lore and game mechanics clash. In the game files for Halo, the shields on the Mjolnir armor are inferior to the Elite's shields. They have fewer hitpoints, and take increased damage from plasma weapons.
when things get explained like this it really makes you think back to all the campaign moments, really makes you wonder how it would feel to be a spartan in those suits
You have the best halo lore you stay on point with the lore and topics at hand. You stray from the lore/facts a little or not at all when i come to learn about halo lore thats what I'm going to get halo lore not 20 different personal opinions just straight facts you spoiled me with that thank you.
The blame isn't yours. Its the UA-cam Algorithm. Eckhart was kind enough to extend an olive branch which will help the channel do better. You're here now, that's all that matters.
@@Installation00 im here as well from ekharts ladder and I'm very much loving the content I'm binge watching the very detailed series and look forward to more of the content on your channel
It would've been nice to see the armor's structural integrity decay near the end of the second half the first game. Overloading the reactors in the two betrayals should've caused permanent damage to our power supply which in turn made our shields recharge alot slower. The banshee crash in the beginning of the maw could've fried the gel layer after taking so much punishment throughout the game. You would be more susceptible to fall damage because the layer is too viscous at this point, it can't shape itself fast enough before impact. Guess there's always room for a mod.
If he had a brand new armor for the PoA mission that was scrapped because the covenant turning up to Reach, it endured a bit of zero G EV combat, a little bit of CQC, a bit of repelling boarders, a screwy landing in a bumblebee, a shit-ton of ground combat, the shield being rejigged into some kind of EMP emitter 3 times, the power supply being used to teleport, a nice relaxing spacewalk to retrieve some cryopods, a bit of CQC in which his shield system actually fails, a field repair off a covenant engineer, a bit more CQC, a wild magnetic flux to make covenant plasma canons work, dropping out of slipspace in a slightly re-enforced flying tuning fork, a shit-ton of CQC combat, almost getting smushed in hand to hand combat with a brute, then escaped the ensuing massive explosion of the unyielding heirophant. The fusion reactor is supposed to last 15 years, and he had to use it so heavily it nearly failed in only a few weeks, and the shield system actually did fail.
i have a question how does the hud tell the bullets in the assault rifles, etc and how does it really tell the ammo of covenent weapons. Is there any canon explanation or it is just for the gameplay?
I think he covered it in the Mark IV video, but basically the HUD smart links through the gloves with the electronics in unsc weaponry ( the same ones that produce the assault rifle's ammo readout) and for covenant weapons it makes a physical scan of the weapon and compares it to the database to determine which weapon it is and how far it is below a fully loaded example
UNSC weapons all have built in systems that link with the Mjolnir, ODST and Marine BDUs also benefit from this. As for Covenant Weapons, they do have standard configurations and readouts that the suits sensors can Identify and utilize to help the user aim, track ammo and heat, and so on, and Cheif has the added benefit of having Cortana to help, any covenant weapons with a wireless uplink she could detect would probably be pulled open wide for Chief to use
Ohhhh I always thought those little lights on the Spartan suits were status lights for the wearers, that's why they ceased glowing when the wearer died but now it makes sense. Those shield emitters turn off when the wearer dies because it no longer needs to produce a shield as their is no wearer as in the suit is not in service.
I would guess the suit has a cryo mode, perhaps the mode relaxes any liquid storage bladders to prevent them rupturing and turns off the temperature regulation so the suit doesn't try to maintain body temperature during the freezing process. As to the cold screwing with the temper of the metals and composites, Doc Halsey would probably have contingencies built in for emergencies, but removing the armour for freezing is probably standard practice.
16:31 here we are in Halo: Infinite and the Spartan 4s Mk7 armour is left everywhere across the Halo, some empty and looking like they have been studied after being stripped from the spartan alive or dead
Based on the energy shielding numbers presented here, if the original version of the shield was able to absorb 8MJ of energy, and a standard 7.62x51mm round (modern M80 ball, which we can assume has similar kinetic energy to the M118 FMJ-AP of the MA5B) it would take, at approximately 2500J kinetic energy, 3,200 rounds to breach the shield. Plasma projectiles of course we have no way to know their energy properties. where did you come up with these numbers for shield strength? or am i misunderstanding the energy absorption mechanism?
So can energy shields. Can they protect against acidic properties. Old debate on the "alien" xenomorph blood how effective would it be ve against spartan mk5 and up armor.
i like halos style it´s large, like it should be and so many elements that make it feel realistic. Machinegun>Laser, MAC>Phaser, Titanium-A>Schields Only bad that they used alien scrap in their ships :( It would have been cooler if the UNSC recieved another advantage, maybe A.I. related or smth. also, i hated the "A.I. bad " cliche´ and the Cortana turn i´d have liked halo to explore the idea that A.I. have rank and individual equality. i liked that A.I. cared but it feels so generic that good intentions go wrong, a machine supremely intelligent that is so stupid i really hated that. My favorite ship remains the Spirit of Fire, pls do that!
AI are vulnerable to the flood. I forget the term but they can be corrupted. Smart AI are also essentially scans of human brains backed up by a super computer. They're very close to human in the way that they posses flaws like vanity and pride.
Not sure ill get a response, but could you explain the reasoning behind the armor "diaper"? I assume that its to protect the catheter or to limit the range of movement that the spartan can make in an attempt to reduce the chance of hyper extension of the user. Loving the videos and look forward to watching the rest you have already uploaded.
@installation00 do you know if the sapphire crystal visors in these suits are bulletproof to some extent? I know its a really hard crystal alloy that supurcedes the inferior gorilla glass it is compared to.
Do the individual Spartans choose their personal armour variant from a sort of catalogue, or are they assigned a particular variant with the variant perhaps having been designed explicitly around their particular skillset?
I think in the books they're allowed to choose certain parts, I know there were a few that chose to wear different helmets. I think overall, they're given the option to upgrade as soon as there's a new suit, and they're capable of getting to it
One question has bugged me for a long time. Why does Jorge 052 move so clumsily in his Mark V(B) armor? Why isn't he moving at the same rate as the other SIIs like Chief or Fred?
Does the antiseptic biofoam used in Scifi First Aid need to be removed before treatment can begin or does the body simply push it out through the open wound?
I would expect it gets sprayed with a softening agent and removed before treatment starts, otherwise it would likely block treatment since its intended to seal and hold a wound together until it can be treated
Bio-foam breaks down biogradably, so critical time is bought with its application; but you need CASEVAC as soon as possible like normal, its just a better first aid device than what we have today.
All of this but how does a Spartan take care of waste removal? Is 117 wearing a diaper?. That's a pretty relevant question that I have seen no answer to
the answer is sort of disgusting as their suits have been in systems that takes the waste and reuses it for nutrients etc and more. I believe naomi or one of the spartans has said she was catheterized.
Military rations tend to be mostly carbs, fat and protein with little if any fiber content. So you tend to go for long periods of no shitting and then shit rocks when you eventually do. I imagine the same holds true for UNSC rations. It's partially intentional as you don't want to be caught with your pants down in a warzone.
Your not wrong some would say were decades away from viable fusion energy which although true really isnt far like you said when you consider how long it took us to go from just wood to coal then coal to gas then gas to nuclear fussion the only reason we use fission and not fusion is because with fission we get more energy than we put in its alot easier to separate atoms than to bring then together.
Love your videos but I have one suggestion. Please turn off or cover the subtitles for the background video; they are extremely distracting for me and I'm sure I'm not alone. Keep up the great content!
45 minutes Vs 15 seconds without air in a vacuum is a monumental advantage, and it can be boosted further with apropriate additional equipment so that 45 minutes is just your emergency backup or unexpected tactical advantage, don't forget it also recharges as soon as you get back into atmosphere too
Biofoam injection ports were in the Mark V. They allowed biofoam to be injected via an external biofoam canister. Chief used one of his onboard the ascendant justice in First Strike. The Mark VI had internal biofoam injectors.
@@Installation00 Ahh, ok. I just remember reading somewhere that the suit didn't incorporate that feature until the Mark VI was developed. (It was their reasoning for no health packs in Halo 2).
Wait... Why was it the humans who first thought to cover a man in a 'bubble' of shielding? The Covies had the tech, why not? I'd love to see a Hunter with an Energy Shield Wrapped around its back and gun arm, along with the ability for the player to shoot the hell out of its gun to stop the fuel rod cannon from firing.
None. Exoskeletons were not used by any S1s, a point which irritates me greatly because the claim as to why is because the exoskeleton technology wasn't advanced enough. They were big, slow, and had to either be tethered to a generator, or have power wirelessly projected to them. Yet we are getting perilously close to being able to make powered exoskeletons now. 500 years in the future, we can travel at faster than light speeds, terraform planets, perform advanced augmentation technology and maintain an empire spanning 800+ colonies, but we still cant manage to create usable powered exoskeletons! So in short. They didn't.
Locke and chiefs fight scene is not appropriate for this, as lockes armor and lack of augmentations makes him severely slower than chief, and chief should have been around 3,000x faster
Ye, in game you never see a 15Mj shield. Should be something like 1200-1500 rifle projectile to take down it. that would mean that il should impossible to take down elite or spartan unless take by a direct hit from tank... in fact even that probably is insufficient to destroy a 15Mj shield 😂
When you realize that Chief managed to trash this suit in 3 months.
Makes sense, he wiped out two armadas.
While the Chief is Navy Spec Ops, he's still a ground-pounder so field gear always has a short life-span.
Nah he managed to trash this suit in 5 days. It was in perfect condition when he left Reach, it was garbage 5 days later after he blew up the first Halo. He got Mark VI upon reaching Cairo Station and the Mark VI lasted till halo 5, though since Cortana upgraded it I call the Halo 4/5 suit Cortana Tech mkI.
@@sorrenblitz805 Till Halo 4, Chief got a Gen 2 lookalike for Halo 5. Now he has a Gen 3 suit.
@@themastermason1 actually wasn't his suit in 5 the same suit from 4 but with the Gen 2 operating system? Cause it still literally had all the same battle damage that went back to halo 3. It wouldn't make much sense to make him a new suit and damage it exactly the same as his old suit
I have long wondered why the heck a personal suit of armour cost more than a UNSC destroyer, then it occurred to look up something comparable. A Formula 1 car costs an average of $10.5 million, while an M1 Abrams costs a little under $9 million.
MBTs are pretty useful.
I would take the M1 any day.
Thankyou for that I never knew that, thats insane though. The cost vs what you get. Think about it
@@legaroojack1251 Would you really though? I mean if it looks cool then yea def take it just for the looks however, there are legal consideration and tanks are gas guzzlers in steroids...
Damn.
The UNSC and ONI also grabbed intact covenant elite combat harnesses with intact energy shielding. This made it much easier to research this technology.
If I remember right, "Fall of Reach" actually references jackle shield gauntlets as the basis for early UNSC Sheilds, course in the books Cheif's sheilds and armor were much more bullet resistant too compared to even the in game version
Glad I got introduced to you via that Eckhartsladder collaboration. A hard science breakdown of my favorite game series. Please cover more UNSC ships and vehicles. If I had one particular request, I'd say the halberd-class destroyer.
I would love to see a most detailed breakdown of the halo universes CRYOSLEEP how it works and its history. As important as a tool as it is in the universe and to UNSC space travel, it would be awesome to get a better understanding of that system
Try commenting that on a newer video, if this hasn't been made I'm sure he'd love to make it.
Can we all take a moment an appreciate that chief fried that reactor after CE. Dude how!?
It happens in the novel Halo operations first strike
Read first strike
Probably with all the little floodlings it shocked and we took for granted to conserve ammo in the library lmao!
Presumably he and the other spartans were given brand new suits and reactors for the mission the Pillar Of Autumn was supposed to go on, but the covenant turned up just before they left, so Chief and two others had to do what was technically a fairly basic EVA to an abandoned spacestation to destroy an isolated nav computer, one of them got hit and lost to space and the other got shot to death, the chief grabbed the other spartan and a certain Sergeant Johnson, took a parked pelican to reboard the autumn, both spatans got frozen with the hopes that the other spartan could be revived at a later date. The remaining spartans went to defend reach, their pelicans got shot to bits on the way down, requiring them to exit their damaged craft a bit too early resulting in a high casualty rate.
Chief had his hushed casket unsealed after the autumn got to the halo system after about 2 or 3 weeks, got a tiny bit of zapping before actively repelling boarders and jumping in the escape pod starting the main events of CE, which culminated in the obliteration of the halo, seemingly leaving just him and cortana stranded in the system in a longsword fighter.
He did another quick spacewalk to retrieve a cryopod ejected prior to the crash, which curiously enough contained the other technically dead spartan, then hooked up with a surviving pelican containing, among others, the one and only Sergeant Johnson. Chief and the occupants decided that to escape the halo system required the capturing of a local covenant ship, because it has a slipspace drive they need, which they make happen. During that, his shield system actually failed completely, but was fortunately repaired soon after they finished taking the bridge and engine room by a curious huragok, after that there was a bit of running back to Reach, retrieving a couple of the surviving spartans and doctor Halsey from the surface who had come into possession of a wacky space distorting crystal thing.
Then more running around for parts, some wildly hazardous EVA in a peculiar distorted slipspace in which one of the rescued spartans died from a close pass of a capital ship plasma blast, then decanting from slipspace in a reenforced covenant tuning fork dropship to embark on a hell of a mission to destroy the enormous covenant space station, The Unyielding Heirophant, and a massive fleet local to it, losing another spartan, before finally returning to earth for tea and medals, and a brand new Mark 6 (possibly with very early prototype Mark 7 functionality) MJOLNIR.
I think thats basically everything that happened to chief, and a few others, condensed into long, mad, very rambling paragraphs
He could have fried his power supply overloading those generator things in Two Betrayals during CE.
It just occurred to me, all UNSC weapons and systems have Bluetooth.
DavidELD I wonder what ramifications this has
MA5C is requesting to pair with your helmet.
Whenever he uses a Covie Gun, a bit of UNSC Intel gets sent to the Covies. How do you think they found Earth.
First name Last name What are you talking about?
Good, cuz my phone doesn't have a headphone jack.
This armor and its lore is amazing
You are so underrated my guy
absolutely
I love your channel, I would love for you to do an in-depth on the UNSC Infinity.
I don't even think 343 thought about how that ship works.
Dang, I had no idea the lights on the mjolnir were actually shield emitters
29:43 Urine purification.
"Master Chief? You mind telling me what you're doing on that ship?!"
- Sir, pissing my pants.
Dude. You are criminally undersubscribed. So far, I’ve been Geeking out on your channel, picking up more Halo lore and analysis on your channel than any other creator on UA-cam. I’m really hoping to see you hit the stratosphere with your content, because while the information you provide is very technical, you go back and describe the same subject in less physics driven language. You’re doing an outstanding job man, keep it up!
My Favorite Aspects of Mjolnir Armor:
17:05
21:07
27:20
29:11
29:56
These aspects are my favorite because they can be applied to almost any high-tech armor.
Why was humanity never able to upscale the tech for use on ships during the war? Miniaturization usually occurs once the macro versions are perfected and micro versions are then developed. This happened in the reverse order. Upscaling should have been easy.
you have to remember that ONI was leading the research into covie tech and spartan armour is specially tailored for few units, the backwards engineered shields are stronger than covies personal shield. If had read first strike they executed a covie engineer after it repaired chiefs suit due to the tech being classified top secret. You need to look at manufacturing process of war machines a good example would be ww2, how when you upgrade ships it can take years of work that removes an asset out of your armoury. The bigger it is the longer and harder in is to work on.
Also the square-cube law. A bigger, thicker shield (to take the kind of punishment ships get hurled at them) would require an exponentially greater amount of energy and resources to produce and maintain. The logistical limitations of the situation just didn't allow humanity to start producing shielded ships.
Postwar, the UNSC was freed of the limitations of a losing war of extinction and (with the decimation of most of the human fleets) the need to refit existing ships. The nut was swiftly cracked and new ships were built with the system in consideration.
It might have partially been because the UNSC's supplies were stretched thin and major manufacturing hubs for ships were either overloaded or glassed by the Covenant.
So they were probably cornered into brute forcing the miniature version, especially with the energy shields since they only had the jackle energy shield gauntlets to work from with no examples of ship scale implementations since the Covenant ships were hard to capture at the best of times
In addition to what’s been stated, Spartans were their greatest asset during the war. The key role they played is preventing naval battles from occurring between UNSC andd Covenant forces to begin with (via special strike operations).
Man, believe it or not, I'm not fanatical about the Halo universe. I'm not even a gamer, well, not anymore anyway. I had an original Xbox, and a 360, and I played Halo 1-3. I really enjoyed the games, and love the look of all the tech. I was intrigued by a video you did in colab with Eckarts Ladder "forgive possible bad spelling" and found myself just stuck watching lol. I am a HUGE HUGE Sci Fi fan, and I'm a technical/mechanical kinda guy, so this was right up my ally. The level of detail and breakdown you are able to report on in these videos is truly astonishing! I would love to know if you'd consider, as the channel and resources grow, branching out into other franchises? You're just on a level no one else is even close to with these breakdowns, and it's got me hungry for what you'd do with say Star Wars tech, or even Star Trek. Maybe a look at Mass Effect, or Fallout. I understand if that's not in the cards for you, but man, I'd sure love it. That being said, you've inraptured me for hours now, with microlevel detail on a franchise I'm not even really all that invested in! That I think is probably one of the best compliments you could receive. Great great work my friend, keep at it, and I'll keep watching. Maybe I'll have to sub to whatever streamer Halo is coming up on. I probably will look like an expert, making my friends wonder how in the world I know this stuff lol.
What would win?
Mc's helmet
Or
The back of locks hand
Halo 5 PTSD INTENSIFIES 😫
I mean... the helmet did stay on
I like your use of Fan images as well as stuff from custom edition (Wieldable jackal shield)
Masterful video. My only gripe is that very little footage of the Mark V is shown. The majority is of the footage is of the vastly more popular MJOLNIR Mark VI (which overshadows it) and even a fair amount is of the Mark IV. I am aware that there's a lot less Mark V in the games and other media, especially cosmetic instances where it's only the Mark V helmet on a different suit.
You just earned yourself a subscriber. Keep it up.
I have only watched the overview so far and I’ve already subscribed lmao
Liked and subscribed. I would’ve enjoyed playing the Halo campaigns even more had I known this level of detail about who and what I was playing as. Well done, mate.
As someone who loves doing versus matches with my friends, you have proved an invaluable resource. Right now I’m trying to prove that a Spartan team could take the Last City from Destiny, or at least cripple it to the point a standard UNSC marine deployment could take it following. The only things I’m missing now are: Spartan IV & I augmentations.
A Spartan team can’t. But a unsc fleet can lol
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They most certainly could. One Fireteam. Four guys, any Gen past I. They wouldn’t even be detected until they were halfway done with the entire corps.
@@SchneeflockeMonsoon Spartans then get nova bombed.
You’d be better off arguing that 40k Astartes could get the job done. Guardians would be well disciplined psykers in their eyes
Great work on this video @Installatin00 !! way to underated channel
my only gripe is practicality in irl sense. If one can develop a miniaturized energy shield that can envelop a human, then larger ones are stupidly easy. the real problem irl is making something like this small enough as the power sources, miniaturization of complex components etc is the real bottleneck. With the tech and power, they had during the project they should have had energy shields on warships by then a ship is alot easier to shield due to a few features uniformity of the frame's shape, large energy sources and more resources at its disposal
I think the concern in scaling was the strength of the shield. Like, they would have had no problem getting a MJOLNIR strength shield around a destroyer, but anything that can pose a threat to a destroyer in the first place would rip right through the shield like a gunshot through wet toilet paper. The square-cube law strikes again, a larger, thicker shield would take exponentially more energy to fill. This would also become problematic for the emitters as they would either need to project a truly titanic amount of energy or have that load distributed amongst a similarly massive number of emitters. Either solution would likely have technological and logistical issues. Then there's the problem of refitting the fleets with this new system in a time when resources are dwindling, time is extremely limited, and you need your ships out doing things. Note that it didn't take very long at all for humanity to start producing shielded ships after the war ended, they just needed the pressure to taken off long enough to work out the last hiccups and be implemented.
@@duddude321 perhaps directional shields would have been easier to implement, like the jackal shield they are based on.
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I don't think that would be practical on a spaceship where you can be attacked from all angles.
@@chuchulainn9275 A typical UNSC vs Covenant battle (in the early days, and specifically in the attack on reach) was akin to rifle line formations shooting at each other from long distance, in those situations it might have been useful for blocking direct attacks, and the shield generator could have been mounted on gimbals to have some ability to defend from flanking attacks. Similar to how the jackals use them dirtside
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You're not taking fighters into account as well as the vast difference between the Covenant's and the UNSC's slipspace capabilities at that time.
It makes more sense to devote a shield that envelopes a whole ship than a shield focused in one spot. Jackal shields are easy to get around. Ships with shields like that would have the same weakness.
although I am new (found out from EckhartsLadder's channel) I just can't stop talking about halo when i heard from EckhartsLadder that these videos we're highly detailed he did not lie and watching these videos makes me want to go back and play through the story (and halo wars) again. The level of detail is astonishing and to anyone new to halo wanting to know things about halo id recommend watching this a few times just to let that level of detail sink in lol
Glad to see it return
Glad I see the colab between you and Eckhartsladder really well made videos and well explained.
Question where in the lore you get this informations( I know part came from your knowledge of your academical formation) is there any way to part of all this come from The Spartan field manual?
This is where lore and game mechanics clash. In the game files for Halo, the shields on the Mjolnir armor are inferior to the Elite's shields. They have fewer hitpoints, and take increased damage from plasma weapons.
All for what? B A L A N C E D G A M E P L A Y.
I like how it took 6 generations for them to think of putting a flashlight into the helmet.
I just want to know why they decided to downgrade from seamless night vision to a fucking flashlight.
when things get explained like this it really makes you think back to all the campaign moments, really makes you wonder how it would feel to be a spartan in those suits
not being able to take a shit
You have the best halo lore you stay on point with the lore and topics at hand.
You stray from the lore/facts a little or not at all when i come to learn about halo lore thats what I'm going to get halo lore not 20 different personal opinions just straight facts you spoiled me with that thank you.
Nice Video man. Please do ODST BDU's next!
Simply incredible. I want very much to be a part of the creation of this technology with regard to your future plans with this project.
Great videos, I'm only sorry it took us so long to get here.
The blame isn't yours. Its the UA-cam Algorithm. Eckhart was kind enough to extend an olive branch which will help the channel do better. You're here now, that's all that matters.
I was brought here by Ekharts ladder actually. both great channels, I hope you have nothing but success in the future.
@@Installation00 im here as well from ekharts ladder and I'm very much loving the content I'm binge watching the very detailed series and look forward to more of the content on your channel
True5
This was the best looking Chief armor in my opinion
It would've been nice to see the armor's structural integrity decay near the end of the second half the first game. Overloading the reactors in the two betrayals should've caused permanent damage to our power supply which in turn made our shields recharge alot slower.
The banshee crash in the beginning of the maw could've fried the gel layer after taking so much punishment throughout the game. You would be more susceptible to fall damage because the layer is too viscous at this point, it can't shape itself fast enough before impact.
Guess there's always room for a mod.
You know how much gear like this costs son?
If he had a brand new armor for the PoA mission that was scrapped because the covenant turning up to Reach, it endured a bit of zero G EV combat, a little bit of CQC, a bit of repelling boarders, a screwy landing in a bumblebee, a shit-ton of ground combat, the shield being rejigged into some kind of EMP emitter 3 times, the power supply being used to teleport, a nice relaxing spacewalk to retrieve some cryopods, a bit of CQC in which his shield system actually fails, a field repair off a covenant engineer, a bit more CQC, a wild magnetic flux to make covenant plasma canons work, dropping out of slipspace in a slightly re-enforced flying tuning fork, a shit-ton of CQC combat, almost getting smushed in hand to hand combat with a brute, then escaped the ensuing massive explosion of the unyielding heirophant. The fusion reactor is supposed to last 15 years, and he had to use it so heavily it nearly failed in only a few weeks, and the shield system actually did fail.
And he fried the optic sensors and they found flood goo in the hydrostatic gel layer
This is insane, well done
You’re getting into stuff I’m going to college for 11:15 . And you’re talking about a game XD lmao
Mark V is my favorite.
Got a soft spot for the Mark IV myself.
@@Installation00 Nice. Iove your videos btw i cant always understand them. But where do yoj get all your info from?
My favorite armor
When shit in Halo can be explained with science and other games say shit that is fiction.
Good job Bungie.
And great video, very informative and cool!
Probably because Halo's tech is a bit closer to reality then most other Sci-fi works like Star Wars or Warhammer 40K
i have a question how does the hud tell the bullets in the assault rifles, etc and how does it really tell the ammo of covenent weapons. Is there any canon explanation or it is just for the gameplay?
I think he covered it in the Mark IV video, but basically the HUD smart links through the gloves with the electronics in unsc weaponry ( the same ones that produce the assault rifle's ammo readout) and for covenant weapons it makes a physical scan of the weapon and compares it to the database to determine which weapon it is and how far it is below a fully loaded example
UNSC weapons all have built in systems that link with the Mjolnir, ODST and Marine BDUs also benefit from this.
As for Covenant Weapons, they do have standard configurations and readouts that the suits sensors can Identify and utilize to help the user aim, track ammo and heat, and so on, and Cheif has the added benefit of having Cortana to help, any covenant weapons with a wireless uplink she could detect would probably be pulled open wide for Chief to use
such fascinating concepts
I love this.
Ohhhh I always thought those little lights on the Spartan suits were status lights for the wearers, that's why they ceased glowing when the wearer died but now it makes sense. Those shield emitters turn off when the wearer dies because it no longer needs to produce a shield as their is no wearer as in the suit is not in service.
I wonder if going into cryo wearing the mjolnir effects it’s integrity or electrical systems over time.
I would guess the suit has a cryo mode, perhaps the mode relaxes any liquid storage bladders to prevent them rupturing and turns off the temperature regulation so the suit doesn't try to maintain body temperature during the freezing process. As to the cold screwing with the temper of the metals and composites, Doc Halsey would probably have contingencies built in for emergencies, but removing the armour for freezing is probably standard practice.
I don't think so, if the suit can handle outer space it should be able to go into cryo.
16:31 here we are in Halo: Infinite and the Spartan 4s Mk7 armour is left everywhere across the Halo, some empty and looking like they have been studied after being stripped from the spartan alive or dead
I don't know if I missed something in the helmet section, but can somebody please tell me what the practical use of the spikes above the visor is?
coolness B)
Based on the energy shielding numbers presented here, if the original version of the shield was able to absorb 8MJ of energy, and a standard 7.62x51mm round (modern M80 ball, which we can assume has similar kinetic energy to the M118 FMJ-AP of the MA5B) it would take, at approximately 2500J kinetic energy, 3,200 rounds to breach the shield. Plasma projectiles of course we have no way to know their energy properties. where did you come up with these numbers for shield strength? or am i misunderstanding the energy absorption mechanism?
The MK V has such nice aesthetic.
How do you get all this info for these videos? I may sometimes get lost by your explanations but your videos are the best for this reason.
Love these videos
UNSC marines armour 20th attempt I will not stop
So can energy shields. Can they protect against acidic properties. Old debate on the "alien" xenomorph blood how effective would it be ve against spartan mk5 and up armor.
i like halos style it´s large, like it should be and so many elements that make it feel realistic. Machinegun>Laser, MAC>Phaser, Titanium-A>Schields
Only bad that they used alien scrap in their ships :(
It would have been cooler if the UNSC recieved another advantage, maybe A.I. related or smth. also, i hated the "A.I. bad " cliche´ and the Cortana turn
i´d have liked halo to explore the idea that A.I. have rank and individual equality. i liked that A.I. cared but it feels so generic that good intentions go wrong, a machine supremely intelligent
that is so stupid i really hated that.
My favorite ship remains the Spirit of Fire, pls do that!
AI are vulnerable to the flood. I forget the term but they can be corrupted. Smart AI are also essentially scans of human brains backed up by a super computer. They're very close to human in the way that they posses flaws like vanity and pride.
Not sure ill get a response, but could you explain the reasoning behind the armor "diaper"? I assume that its to protect the catheter or to limit the range of movement that the spartan can make in an attempt to reduce the chance of hyper extension of the user. Loving the videos and look forward to watching the rest you have already uploaded.
@installation00 do you know if the sapphire crystal visors in these suits are bulletproof to some extent? I know its a really hard crystal alloy that supurcedes the inferior gorilla glass it is compared to.
would you be able to do a break down on the unsc red horse?
Best looking Mjolnir Armor. Don't @ me.
Mk v is my favorite helmet variant in halo especially the reach mk v
Do the individual Spartans choose their personal armour variant from a sort of catalogue, or are they assigned a particular variant with the variant perhaps having been designed explicitly around their particular skillset?
I think in the books they're allowed to choose certain parts, I know there were a few that chose to wear different helmets. I think overall, they're given the option to upgrade as soon as there's a new suit, and they're capable of getting to it
One question has bugged me for a long time. Why does Jorge 052 move so clumsily in his Mark V(B) armor? Why isn't he moving at the same rate as the other SIIs like Chief or Fred?
He might have been one of the Spartans IIs that initially failed the augmentations and later got rehabilitation to enter active service with Nobel
Does the antiseptic biofoam used in Scifi First Aid need to be removed before treatment can begin or does the body simply push it out through the open wound?
I would expect it gets sprayed with a softening agent and removed before treatment starts, otherwise it would likely block treatment since its intended to seal and hold a wound together until it can be treated
Bio-foam breaks down biogradably, so critical time is bought with its application; but you need CASEVAC as soon as possible like normal, its just a better first aid device than what we have today.
You should do a most detailed video on Halo Marines
Mark V still my favourite armour in Halo!
Mark IV is amazing just because of the design. Red team looks sexy in it.
All MJOLNIR armor has a rebreather capacity of 90 minutes of air which can recharge once the Spartan enters an air-filled environment.
You said, "Retarding Electric Field 😆". That some power
All of this but how does a Spartan take care of waste removal? Is 117 wearing a diaper?. That's a pretty relevant question that I have seen no answer to
the answer is sort of disgusting as their suits have been in systems that takes the waste and reuses it for nutrients etc and more. I believe naomi or one of the spartans has said she was catheterized.
They don’t eat. No need for waste
Jesse Lee yes they do, but they will only eat once in a great while. They eat a huge bar full of nutrients and carbohydrates.
I’d imagine that spartans are fed a ‘low residue diet designed to be completely digested without waste. Catheters take care of the rest.
Military rations tend to be mostly carbs, fat and protein with little if any fiber content. So you tend to go for long periods of no shitting and then shit rocks when you eventually do. I imagine the same holds true for UNSC rations.
It's partially intentional as you don't want to be caught with your pants down in a warzone.
We aren’t far from fusion tech, will be interesting to see if humanity today will begin down this line of military tech.
Your not wrong some would say were decades away from viable fusion energy which although true really isnt far like you said when you consider how long it took us to go from just wood to coal then coal to gas then gas to nuclear fussion the only reason we use fission and not fusion is because with fission we get more energy than we put in its alot easier to separate atoms than to bring then together.
Love your videos but I have one suggestion. Please turn off or cover the subtitles for the background video; they are extremely distracting for me and I'm sure I'm not alone. Keep up the great content!
The MarkV had one essential thing that all other models lacked: mag pouches!
Seriously where did chief put the extra ammo when wearing the MarkVI?
The suit has magnetic points to holster weapons and store ammo/grenades. In the books they also use webbing gear, backpacks and duffle bags
When you realize mkIV & V are exoskeletons and mk6 and the 2nd Gen "S-IV" are just bodysuits with armor attachments.
NGL, I lost count of all the layers this suit has. Is there room for a dude or dudette under all that?
is there a video on the training of a spartan?
27:59 what’s this from?
Only 45 minutes of rebreathing capabilities?
That's surprisingly limited
45 minutes Vs 15 seconds without air in a vacuum is a monumental advantage, and it can be boosted further with apropriate additional equipment so that 45 minutes is just your emergency backup or unexpected tactical advantage, don't forget it also recharges as soon as you get back into atmosphere too
Is it just me?
Or does CE graphics and artwork seem more superior than the Anniversary Edition?
Biofoam injectors weren't in the Mark V. That didn't start until the Mark VI came out. Just letting you know.
Biofoam injection ports were in the Mark V. They allowed biofoam to be injected via an external biofoam canister. Chief used one of his onboard the ascendant justice in First Strike.
The Mark VI had internal biofoam injectors.
@@Installation00 Ahh, ok. I just remember reading somewhere that the suit didn't incorporate that feature until the Mark VI was developed. (It was their reasoning for no health packs in Halo 2).
@@Rammstein45 My guess is that the health packs in Reach/CE are intended to be Biofoam.
Marines have fusion packs ?
chief burns through suits
Great video ong
Rewind feature exposing yall
Wait... Why was it the humans who first thought to cover a man in a 'bubble' of shielding?
The Covies had the tech, why not? I'd love to see a Hunter with an Energy Shield Wrapped around its back and gun arm, along with the ability for the player to shoot the hell out of its gun to stop the fuel rod cannon from firing.
Should've mentioned the person they had to test the suit out first didn't have any augmentations and was crushed to death by the suit
Seems to me that that power unit is vulnerable to being used to do what it is designed to do to keep the suit from being captured.
What power armor did the S1's use?
None. Exoskeletons were not used by any S1s, a point which irritates me greatly because the claim as to why is because the exoskeleton technology wasn't advanced enough. They were big, slow, and had to either be tethered to a generator, or have power wirelessly projected to them. Yet we are getting perilously close to being able to make powered exoskeletons now. 500 years in the future, we can travel at faster than light speeds, terraform planets, perform advanced augmentation technology and maintain an empire spanning 800+ colonies, but we still cant manage to create usable powered exoskeletons!
So in short. They didn't.
strangely, none of this guy's videos will load. Every other video spools perfectly. this sucks I really wanted to check this channel out too
When you say torch, I know you mean flashlight.
*and a built in torch*
I wonder if I can charge my phone on that armor. You think it got USB C?
Who remembers brute force the game between halo and halo 2?
Locke and chiefs fight scene is not appropriate for this, as lockes armor and lack of augmentations makes him severely slower than chief, and chief should have been around 3,000x faster
MS8 Studios also Locke is gay
@@gub4941 Locke invented gay he sucks
1:30 Mark VI removes the codpiece.
Downgrades, people, downgrades!
Nothing makes a good barbecue like grilled sausage.
Hey look a Mark 5!
Ye, in game you never see a 15Mj shield. Should be something like 1200-1500 rifle projectile to take down it. that would mean that il should impossible to take down elite or spartan unless take by a direct hit from tank... in fact even that probably is insufficient to destroy a 15Mj shield 😂
Where did the UNSC get the Titanium after Reach was glassed?
Likely recycled from all the damaged and destroyed ships. Just takes melting it all down again and forging it from scratch.
Titanium is like the ninth most abundant metal on earth.
The stockpiles they had and stuff they already had built didn't disappear, and after the war work to reclaim Reach was probably swift
its weird but your videos have a problem loading on my mobile :/ i tested other videos of similar lenght etc no problems, something up with youtube