To me and many of my friends, the Splaser has been an almost mythical weapon amongst us, as something of an inside joke. I had a friend Bob, who was truly the master of the splaser, I've never met anyone online or in person, who was as good as he was, he basically never missed with it. I will always remember one big team battle game of splockets on sandtrap, he got 56 laser kills, and still a few more with rockets and melee; keep in mind that BTB slayer games go to 100 kills. In LAN parties if you heard him saying "laser pointer" and a tiny little giggle, you were basically dead no matter what. Damn, that was over 10 years ago now. I miss Bob.
Ah, the Spartan Laser. The ultimate Banshee killer. Remember the days where you would purposefully let an enemy get a Banshee in Ragnarok, just so you can shoot them down with the laser? Good times
Also "hydraulic or pneumatic lifting arm" Not only do we not know which one it is, you really think a battery powered weapon would use hydraulics/pneumatics and not just an electrically-powered linear actuator?
Bthsr71 nonlinear refers to the nature of Photonics and optics. Photons are non-linear particles that comprise light, in this case “nonlinear” is as to mean nonconforming to traditional matter particles physics in that photons don’t cycle through time in the traditional sense when they travel due to time dilation; making their means of travel nonlinear within the flow of time.
Sammie1053 I think it’s just extra redundancy in keeping the internal mechanisms cleaner; I would imagine a hydraulic arm aperture would need less maintenance and thus last longer.
My one real problem with the Spartan Laser isn't with the weapon itself, but the implications of it. If the UNSC has the technology to produce a man portable laser that can burn through vehicle armor in a fraction of a second, there's no convincing reason that it couldn't be scaled up. Why bother with spinal mass accelerators if you can build lasers that can carve up a Covenant ship from half a light second or farther? I'm surprised the UNSC Navy wasn't producing something along the lines of Kris Longknife's battlecruisers by the last few years of the war (programmable metal notwithstanding). It would have been very effective at pushing out engagement ranges.
There are Anlace-class frigates that sport a directed energy weapon as its primary armament instead of a MAC. I can’t seem to find specifics on what form its primary armament takes so if it isn’t a human designed plasma weapon then its probably an upscaled Spartan Laser
@@friedrichsanktgermain7632 Anlace still have MACs. They are Dorsal rather than Spinal. As to why they didn't use lasers as the primary antiship weapon? Well they kind of did. Their missiles, even in the early war, are SPEARS which means either Casaba-Howitzer or Nuclear Pumped Laser warheads. They were not very effective compared to MACs, which depending on the calc and time period are Megaton-Petaton-(infinite energy in a few cases of FTL MAC rounds) weapons. Lasers also have focal points meaning unless you can rapidly adjust the focusing device your laser will be less effective than a kinetic weapon outside of a certain range band. Ships were already aim-dodging the light-speed Energy Projectors as it was.
@@mercury2157 Yeah, and some air vehicles in Halo Wars. Bit aside from pulse lasers on prowlers, the UNSC never bothered with ship scale laser weapons, at least until Infinite, where it appears the Mulsanne class frigate has a laser weapon instead of a spinal mount MAC.
It could also refer to the fact that the battery is not field-rechargable and thus should only be recharged by a trained armory tech with access to the appropriate equipment. Aka dont let some dumb grunt muck around with this expensive piece of hardware (and probably break it in the process) when there are trained people available.
@@kennethbedwell5188 Well we're assuming the chicken is alive and hasn't been frozen yet, but what do we do about all the feathers everywhere? I still don't know what to do with them.
I was going to touch on what you said at the end. Having been developed for spartans, perhaps GUNGNIR intended at some point to have it plug into MJOLNIR and draw power?
We need more spartan specific weapons. There are ever more Spartans running around, and the Swords of Sanghelios would probably appreciate the gift of extra firepower. Maybe a shoulder braced autocannon, or perhaps a heavy portable railgun. Also, a higher max zoom scope on the Spartan Laser would be awesome, unless you're downrange and miss the targeting beam. Then it's worse than the beam rifle. Also, maybe skip the Spartan and just strap dedicated mini-reactors to a few lasers, and set a disco gunnery post.
It doesn't fire any projectiles, it just emits light in pulses. But I think "non linear" may indicate that the laser emitters are not paralell with the barrel, but are deeper in the gun and the beams must be reflected via mirror to align in the barrel for firing. (Therefore the beam path is technically non-linear, even though it is linear once it exits the gun)
nonlinear refers to the nature of Photonics and optics. Photons are non-linear particles that comprise light, in this case “nonlinear” is as to mean nonconforming to traditional matter particles physics in that photons don’t cycle through time in the traditional sense when they travel due to time dilation; making their means of travel nonlinear within the flow of time.
The Spartan Laser was my personal favorite heavy weapon in Halo. I'd always use it in Halo if I was given the option to have it. If you give me a Spartan Laser, you are my favorite person.
Hand-carried lasers in Warhammer: barely penetrates a Guardsman's paper armor, used only because it doesn't jam and require solid ammo. The only version that actually deals heavy damage requires decades-long augmentation processes or a bulky carriage to use. Hand-carried lasers in Halo: literally one-shots everything weaker than an alien heavy tank while being able to be carried by normal people.
Okay, it can go through nine Warthogs bumper to bumper, one shot a tank of hit in the right spot, kill multiple enemies at once.That’s all cool and good and all... But how did it perform on Paul Harrell’s chronograph and meat target tests?
Would be interesting if they implement a system where you could recharge the Spartan laser by draining or turning off your shields to recharge it and once it's charged your shields come back slower or something. Wouldn't be great multiplayer wise cause it's essentially unlimited ammo for a one shot kill weapon but there would be a little bit of a risk/reward scenario to recharging it opposed to getting a different weapon or one with a full charge instead of leaving yourself without shields for a period of time
That would make for an interesting gameplay mechanic. Charging the laser discharges shields. While you get your one hit kill weapon it leaves you open to getting one shotted yourself by anything.
Well not like the suite couldn’t do it. Another idea is tie in suit power to overcharge one time to be super laser. Weapon of course after that be useless.
I just kinda put these vids on in the background when I'm doing chores to pass the time. I get shit done and learn more Halo lore. Keep up the good work my dude!
The good old Splaser! One of the most satisfying weapons to use in Halo! I remember doing some PvP and hit some dude from like halfway across the map when he was flying between the launch ramps(is that what those are called?). Probably one of the best shots I ever made in Halo.
Retrofit the Spartan laser to be mount in back of of Mark 5 power armor and be able to draw power out of the micro fusion reactor to recharge battery would be cool idea of heavy anti vehicle spartan ops
So ever since I saw the SPHA-T for the first time in Attack of the Clones, or rather since I realized that the thing had god awful firing angles for beam artillery, I've had an idea. Admittedly it was inspired by the Debut of GI Joe Sigma 6, but it seems like a good idea, or at least cool enough to justify it in fiction. Have a vehicle fly overhead at just the right time to reflect (or possibly refract for AOE attacks) the beam down at the target. This lets you have beam artillery that can shoot non line of sight targets. You could also try this with electromagnets and plasma weapons.
Interesting how technological development in the real world can make the technology in sci-fi look antiquated. I'm specifically referring to how the Spartan laser is a solid state laser which are notoriously inefficient while current real world laser weapons use fiber optic lasers which are able to reach very high efficiency.
i would think than rather using them on the field it could be used for repel boarders, i mean in a ship or a base with a limitless power output the amunition comes easy and cheap specially using supercapacitors to charge the weapons in seconds. imagin usin the spartan lasser in halo 1 while defending the autum? thats something to think specially if atached to the mjolnir armor mini reactor....
The Spartan Laser can technically be reloaded by replacing the battery, which I believe is the bit right behind the firing grip, tho I could be wrong on that placement. If only we could do that in game
I always loved and still love this weapon, and my friends always feared me during custom games whenever I would pick one up as I would blast them into oblivion lmao
2:29 wait ... if it’s a laser shouldn’t the weight not be effected at all when the battery is charged compared to discharged? If I remember correctly Tom Scott did a video about is a battery heavier when charged and found it was on the smallest amount and it should be nowhere near 3 pounds
Forgot about that one. That’s fair. Though that at least has a physical projectile. Lasers are just a bit out of the ordinary from the rest of the UNSC tools of destruction, as far as I know.
Love the spartan laser! Honestly, I wish the Hawks from Halo Wars 1 would make a come back, because those basically had a better version of spartan lasers mounted to them as their primary armaments.
I was hoping you would make this. Great video. But I was also hoping you could explain: 1: how a "solid state" laser works, like why is it even called that. And 2: how the laser is produced from within the weapon. I ask because I'm not too familiar with laser technology, so, someone please explain. That would be nice.
Nunya Buizness some UNSC vessels like prowlers and corvettes make use of point defense lasers, however, the practicality of having a giant laser in light of the fact that the covenant possessed superior point defense laser tech made the development of energy projection weapons on that scale redundant. It wouldn’t be as effective or versatile as a MAC canon that can fire numerous payloads and projectile types, plus it’s a fire & forget weapon that doesn’t need time to break through varying degrees of energy shielding and hull playing to get damage in. MACs are short burst and the damage is down, but as with a laser it might take longer on the scales you’re talking about. However a giant laser mounted on a ship would have the advantage of being effective at virtually infinite range with instantaneous travel time as well as requiring no solid ammunition that would take up space in a ship, just simply syphoning energy from the reactors, so in that regard it would be useful, but again it’d have the problem I mentioned before of having to stay on target.
@@InveterateMendaciousness I was imagining a laser canon that's as large as your typical ship mounted MAC. Such a canon with the energy needed to fire a MAC round being pumped into it would be insane. Warhammer 40,000 uses such a weapon. They call it a Volcano Canon because the target and everything around it looks like a volcano eruption because it makes everything molten instantly.
I kind a wish she’d go in the Forge to look at these weapons since he is on halo3 weapons now Because I get so distracted by watching him play the actual campaign I don’t pay attention to him just feel like if he goes in to forge he get better footage to correlate what he He’s talking about like get some idle animations in there it might just be me I don’t know When he’s driving around in the warthog talking about the optics sweep I’d rather have a Visual aid of the image maybe go in a theater show it charging up or something I don’t now from a different angle that is all I’m saying
spartan armor has a mini fusion reactor in them right so is it not able to produce enough power for the laser or at least charge the batteries slowly over time?
Cepheus Talks they most definitely can. In fact the concept is drawn in several pieces from Halo Wars 2 Concept arts, including a mounted gauss cannon.
My only problem is that it doesn’t act like how realistic laser guns would be that being with each impactful shot it lessens with each shot. You can’t take out a tank unless you have enough power to energize an entire facility
Take the Spartan laser, Take the reactor from the mjolnir and you have a man portable machine gun or have the as anti-air guns or place them on ships to blow up enemy ships/fighters
Possibly the anlace frigates use energy weapons. We dont know what type of energy weapon but humans tend to use laser based weapons for our energy weapons so it vould be a ship based version of the spartan laser or based on the spartan laser
LordofWolves214 they have. It’s employed on Prowlers and sometimes corvettes for self defense, but they aren’t as sophisticated as covenant point defense lasers and thus not widely used.
@@InveterateMendaciousness but i mean upscaled to the point where the could be considered navel guns meant for weakening sheilds and such as we know the spartan laser can punch through sheilds so i can only assume if you upscalled one it would help melt covenant ships sheilds away so that mac blasts wouldnt be wasted as often
LordofWolves214 it’s only so effective until you realize that laser tech can be countered effectively with sufficient energy shielding, which can actually absorb a significant amount of radiative light such as from laser based weaponry. Funny enough though lasers would pass right through hard light shielding but that’s beside the point. With plasma medium particle shielding, the variety the covenant use, the most effective variety of damage you can do is high energy density electromagnetism, this includes things like thermal plasma conductivity and nuclear radiation (high energy photons, neutrons and others). These easily distort and interfere with the EM fields that maintain energy shielding (neutron radiation can pass right through shields unimpeded). With lasers, while electromagnetic in nature, don’t disrupt shields on a larger scale very efficiently but rather in a very condensed point. In that regard lasers can precision-cut shielding, but this would result in significant loss of damage to the ship’s hull itself as the beam would be utilizing the majority of its energy density breaking through the shields, which would immediately have no issue restabilizing when you might call a “flesh wound” in the field. While on much smaller scales or against unshielded targets, lasers are devastatingly effective, but not so much against larger vessels that have shields. Even kinetic projectiles weapons have more versatility against shielded craft because they can be mounted with EM disruptive warheads and then be swapped for anti-armor rounds. That’s probably the biggest factor the UNSC doesn’t prefer laser based super weapons in capital-ship warfare.
Thomas Gibbs Cap is actually frightening close to the * strength * of unarmored spartan 2s, but is beaten out by them in almost every other conceivable category. Even a naked spartan 3 would be capable of pummeling MCU captain America. Honestly the only generation I could conceivably see cap winning against would be 4s seeing as they’re not quite as strong or resilient and are generally not as sharp as the previous generations, but even then if they were given Mjolnir Rogers would still lose against them.
"its an elegant weapon, from a more civilized age" eyyyy
Christian Mason-Davis dunno looks more like a man portable death star
@@matthewdominguez4350 seems about right
This ain't star wars 00 :P
that's no moon
Wasn't this created during the time that humanity was being genocided by a barbaric space empire.
To me and many of my friends, the Splaser has been an almost mythical weapon amongst us, as something of an inside joke. I had a friend Bob, who was truly the master of the splaser, I've never met anyone online or in person, who was as good as he was, he basically never missed with it. I will always remember one big team battle game of splockets on sandtrap, he got 56 laser kills, and still a few more with rockets and melee; keep in mind that BTB slayer games go to 100 kills. In LAN parties if you heard him saying "laser pointer" and a tiny little giggle, you were basically dead no matter what.
Damn, that was over 10 years ago now. I miss Bob.
#BBB = Bring Back Bob!!!
cool story bro
Damn this is why I love halo
True
…That happened
"Anti vehicle weapon"
O-Oh... well.... Chief may have committed a few war crimes with me at the controls. Those poor grunts.
Luckily there's no Geneva convention for aliens yet. You're good.
@@jackychang9148 Yeah thank God 😂
@@HildegardActual God?
True😂
Nopie. Using antivehicle rounds on infantry isn't a war crime afasik.
Every time I use it I can't stop thinking about "Imma Firin Mah Lazor"
DOCTOR OCTAGONAPUS! BWAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH-
SHOOP DA WOOP
Ah, good times... simpler times...
Ok
Its "ima CHARGIN' mah lazor,".......
Ah, the Spartan Laser. The ultimate Banshee killer.
Remember the days where you would purposefully let an enemy get a Banshee in Ragnarok, just so you can shoot them down with the laser? Good times
Who says it has to be an enemy?
when i say you are every were i mean it alomst every video i watch your there dosent matter if its anime or halo you are there
@@halohotrod7435 he's the UA-cam boogeyman
Wow, a kiddo who doesn't call it Valhalla. Makes me feel old
You sir, are truly everywhere
"non-linear rifle" it's a laser, it shoots in a straighter line than anything else.
"non-rechargeable battery which is recharged by" What the hey!?
Also "hydraulic or pneumatic lifting arm"
Not only do we not know which one it is, you really think a battery powered weapon would use hydraulics/pneumatics and not just an electrically-powered linear actuator?
It's non rechargeable in that it needs a bulky charger to do so, read up on halopedia
Bthsr71 nonlinear refers to the nature of Photonics and optics. Photons are non-linear particles that comprise light, in this case “nonlinear” is as to mean nonconforming to traditional matter particles physics in that photons don’t cycle through time in the traditional sense when they travel due to time dilation; making their means of travel nonlinear within the flow of time.
Sammie1053 I think it’s just extra redundancy in keeping the internal mechanisms cleaner; I would imagine a hydraulic arm aperture would need less maintenance and thus last longer.
0:10 you can just hear the grin on his face when he says "in this episode we look at the spartan laser"
you can hear someone grin?
My one real problem with the Spartan Laser isn't with the weapon itself, but the implications of it. If the UNSC has the technology to produce a man portable laser that can burn through vehicle armor in a fraction of a second, there's no convincing reason that it couldn't be scaled up. Why bother with spinal mass accelerators if you can build lasers that can carve up a Covenant ship from half a light second or farther?
I'm surprised the UNSC Navy wasn't producing something along the lines of Kris Longknife's battlecruisers by the last few years of the war (programmable metal notwithstanding). It would have been very effective at pushing out engagement ranges.
There are Anlace-class frigates that sport a directed energy weapon as its primary armament instead of a MAC. I can’t seem to find specifics on what form its primary armament takes so if it isn’t a human designed plasma weapon then its probably an upscaled Spartan Laser
@@friedrichsanktgermain7632 Anlace still have MACs. They are Dorsal rather than Spinal.
As to why they didn't use lasers as the primary antiship weapon? Well they kind of did. Their missiles, even in the early war, are SPEARS which means either Casaba-Howitzer or Nuclear Pumped Laser warheads. They were not very effective compared to MACs, which depending on the calc and time period are Megaton-Petaton-(infinite energy in a few cases of FTL MAC rounds) weapons. Lasers also have focal points meaning unless you can rapidly adjust the focusing device your laser will be less effective than a kinetic weapon outside of a certain range band. Ships were already aim-dodging the light-speed Energy Projectors as it was.
@@sosogo4real the Ai would aim the Spartan laser cannon on unsc ships
Doesn't the Pelican in Halo 4 have one?
@@mercury2157 Yeah, and some air vehicles in Halo Wars. Bit aside from pulse lasers on prowlers, the UNSC never bothered with ship scale laser weapons, at least until Infinite, where it appears the Mulsanne class frigate has a laser weapon instead of a spinal mount MAC.
The casing of the weapon holds a BA5635PLMD non rechargeable battery, which is recharged with a PP16979AMSH charger.
Wait what?
It could also refer to the fact that the battery is not field-rechargable and thus should only be recharged by a trained armory tech with access to the appropriate equipment. Aka dont let some dumb grunt muck around with this expensive piece of hardware (and probably break it in the process) when there are trained people available.
Don't feel bad I don't I don't know what that means either
"Hope nobody crosses my beam."
And then a marine casually walks into the beam at the last second
"If you see red, heh, MOVE!"
Just remember if you punch a chicken at 5000mph you will turn your kenetic energy into thermal energy and cook the chicken.
Always remember to defrost the chicken first.
@@kennethbedwell5188 Well we're assuming the chicken is alive and hasn't been frozen yet, but what do we do about all the feathers everywhere? I still don't know what to do with them.
DarkBooger
Maybe if you swing your fist faster, the fireball should’ve incinerated the feathers.
@@selvbilde253 Well I was holding back just to be sure, I did manage to leave scorch marks on a few surviving feathers.
Emm... I'think the chicken would disapear...
I was going to touch on what you said at the end. Having been developed for spartans, perhaps GUNGNIR intended at some point to have it plug into MJOLNIR and draw power?
Or add it's own mini fusion plant.
@@bthsr7113 Heh... No. It already costs 218k credits without it.
"welcome to the armory"
warm fuzzy feeling every time
We need more spartan specific weapons. There are ever more Spartans running around, and the Swords of Sanghelios would probably appreciate the gift of extra firepower. Maybe a shoulder braced autocannon, or perhaps a heavy portable railgun. Also, a higher max zoom scope on the Spartan Laser would be awesome, unless you're downrange and miss the targeting beam. Then it's worse than the beam rifle. Also, maybe skip the Spartan and just strap dedicated mini-reactors to a few lasers, and set a disco gunnery post.
You need to do "the hanger" or "garage" and do Halo vehicles! For warships, you can do, "the docks" or something
> Battery is non-rechargeable
> There's a recharging unit for the non-rechargeable battery
Seems legit.
Why do they call it "non-linear" when lasers only go in straight lines?
Huojunta Maybe it references the unusual mechanics and “projectiles” it fires?
It doesn't fire any projectiles, it just emits light in pulses. But I think "non linear" may indicate that the laser emitters are not paralell with the barrel, but are deeper in the gun and the beams must be reflected via mirror to align in the barrel for firing. (Therefore the beam path is technically non-linear, even though it is linear once it exits the gun)
maybe the power level increases exponentially, therefore it's not a linear curve...? your guess is as good as mine honestly
Maybe it relate to the pulse mode of operating rather than continuous(linear).
nonlinear refers to the nature of Photonics and optics. Photons are non-linear particles that comprise light, in this case “nonlinear” is as to mean nonconforming to traditional matter particles physics in that photons don’t cycle through time in the traditional sense when they travel due to time dilation; making their means of travel nonlinear within the flow of time.
Spartan Laser = The greatest battle implement ever devised
ehhhhh
That's a pretty lofty title to claim, even inside one franchise.
What a MAC bombardment?
I’d say the H2 BR or CE pistol
If the unsc could miniaturize this technology and add pulsed power systems and you get a genuinely good infantry laser weapon.
Hopefully we get something like that in Infinite.
The Spartan Laser was my personal favorite heavy weapon in Halo. I'd always use it in Halo if I was given the option to have it. If you give me a Spartan Laser, you are my favorite person.
I love how detailed this guy goes into the lore and history of halo
Hand-carried lasers in Warhammer: barely penetrates a Guardsman's paper armor, used only because it doesn't jam and require solid ammo.
The only version that actually deals heavy damage requires decades-long augmentation processes or a bulky carriage to use.
Hand-carried lasers in Halo: literally one-shots everything weaker than an alien heavy tank while being able to be carried by normal people.
Can you do the BFG 10,000 from Doom Eternal in the Lore Core Mutiverse channel please?
Or perhaps all the different BFG's in a longer video.
You should add an "in layman's terms" line after describing exactly how the weapons fire. Like
"In layman's terms, it kills things to death."
Okay, it can go through nine Warthogs bumper to bumper, one shot a tank of hit in the right spot, kill multiple enemies at once.That’s all cool and good and all... But how did it perform on Paul Harrell’s chronograph and meat target tests?
Would be interesting if they implement a system where you could recharge the Spartan laser by draining or turning off your shields to recharge it and once it's charged your shields come back slower or something. Wouldn't be great multiplayer wise cause it's essentially unlimited ammo for a one shot kill weapon but there would be a little bit of a risk/reward scenario to recharging it opposed to getting a different weapon or one with a full charge instead of leaving yourself without shields for a period of time
That would make for an interesting gameplay mechanic. Charging the laser discharges shields. While you get your one hit kill weapon it leaves you open to getting one shotted yourself by anything.
Well not like the suite couldn’t do it. Another idea is tie in suit power to overcharge one time to be super laser. Weapon of course after that be useless.
I just kinda put these vids on in the background when I'm doing chores to pass the time.
I get shit done and learn more Halo lore.
Keep up the good work my dude!
The good old Splaser!
One of the most satisfying weapons to use in Halo!
I remember doing some PvP and hit some dude from like halfway across the map when he was flying between the launch ramps(is that what those are called?).
Probably one of the best shots I ever made in Halo.
That triple laser kill was amazing
Retrofit the Spartan laser to be mount in back of of Mark 5 power armor and be able to draw power out of the micro fusion reactor to recharge battery would be cool idea of heavy anti vehicle spartan ops
Hands down the best channel on UA-cam. Absolutely no other channel even comes close. Well done!
Could’ve sworn it was powered by a chemical reaction, like those that were mounted on the YAL-1 airborne laser prototype
I love the reference to Star Wars: A new Hope at the end.
Also thank for all the details.
Does it canonically have 5 shots? I'm pretty sure that's for gameplay reasons, and isn't part of the lore.
I think I remember hearing somewhere that the power output can be modified, which would increase and decrease battery usage respectively.
@My 5th Account it would probably destroy the weapon🤣🤣
IMMA FIRIN' MAH LAZOR!
So ever since I saw the SPHA-T for the first time in Attack of the Clones, or rather since I realized that the thing had god awful firing angles for beam artillery, I've had an idea. Admittedly it was inspired by the Debut of GI Joe Sigma 6, but it seems like a good idea, or at least cool enough to justify it in fiction.
Have a vehicle fly overhead at just the right time to reflect (or possibly refract for AOE attacks) the beam down at the target. This lets you have beam artillery that can shoot non line of sight targets. You could also try this with electromagnets and plasma weapons.
Not the most iconic in the series, but it's my favorite.
last time I was this early the forunners still existed
Forerunners*
No you cant just waste the laser on regular enemies
Hahahah laser go vrrrbrrrbbvvr
I'm firing my laser!!!
4:37 "SIT DOWN!"
- the spartan lazer
Interesting how technological development in the real world can make the technology in sci-fi look antiquated. I'm specifically referring to how the Spartan laser is a solid state laser which are notoriously inefficient while current real world laser weapons use fiber optic lasers which are able to reach very high efficiency.
Finishing up with that quote..I love it-
i would think than rather using them on the field it could be used for repel boarders, i mean in a ship or a base with a limitless power output the amunition comes easy and cheap specially using supercapacitors to charge the weapons in seconds. imagin usin the spartan lasser in halo 1 while defending the autum? thats something to think specially if atached to the mjolnir armor mini reactor....
Add a big radiator\cooling system, Targeting Computer, and mount it on a turret with a power cable.
Would be devastating.
My favorite unsc weapon thanks for such a great and indepth video on this
Props on the Star Wars shout out at the end.
I hope to see more UNSC energy weapons in the future.
The Spartan Laser can technically be reloaded by replacing the battery, which I believe is the bit right behind the firing grip, tho I could be wrong on that placement. If only we could do that in game
I always loved and still love this weapon, and my friends always feared me during custom games whenever I would pick one up as I would blast them into oblivion lmao
2:29 wait ... if it’s a laser shouldn’t the weight not be effected at all when the battery is charged compared to discharged? If I remember correctly Tom Scott did a video about is a battery heavier when charged and found it was on the smallest amount and it should be nowhere near 3 pounds
When the spartan laser was originally introduced in halo 3, I as a kid used to call it a laser cannon.
Ah, the Weapon best suited for demolishing shade turrets. Good times.
Extra shots at the cost of shields would be sick, with extra cool down time and shield recharge of course
Probably the “weirdest” UNSC weapon in the arsenal.
i think the sticky launchers probably weirder
Forgot about that one. That’s fair. Though that at least has a physical projectile. Lasers are just a bit out of the ordinary from the rest of the UNSC tools of destruction, as far as I know.
Love the spartan laser! Honestly, I wish the Hawks from Halo Wars 1 would make a come back, because those basically had a better version of spartan lasers mounted to them as their primary armaments.
I was hoping you would make this. Great video. But I was also hoping you could explain:
1: how a "solid state" laser works, like why is it even called that. And
2: how the laser is produced from within the weapon.
I ask because I'm not too familiar with laser technology, so, someone please explain. That would be nice.
I LOVE gungnir armor. I didnt kmow they were produced together!
A shoulder mounted laser would be interesting and gameplay could have it drain a portion of the shield with every use.
“If you see red, huh, run.”
This is my hot topic, The “Spartan” Laser.......
Imma Firin' Mah Lazer
Why didn't the UNSC use giant versions of this weapon on their ships? A giant one in place of a MAC should be scary.
If i remember right one of their ships do.
Nunya Buizness some UNSC vessels like prowlers and corvettes make use of point defense lasers, however, the practicality of having a giant laser in light of the fact that the covenant possessed superior point defense laser tech made the development of energy projection weapons on that scale redundant. It wouldn’t be as effective or versatile as a MAC canon that can fire numerous payloads and projectile types, plus it’s a fire & forget weapon that doesn’t need time to break through varying degrees of energy shielding and hull playing to get damage in. MACs are short burst and the damage is down, but as with a laser it might take longer on the scales you’re talking about. However a giant laser mounted on a ship would have the advantage of being effective at virtually infinite range with instantaneous travel time as well as requiring no solid ammunition that would take up space in a ship, just simply syphoning energy from the reactors, so in that regard it would be useful, but again it’d have the problem I mentioned before of having to stay on target.
@@InveterateMendaciousness I was imagining a laser canon that's as large as your typical ship mounted MAC. Such a canon with the energy needed to fire a MAC round being pumped into it would be insane.
Warhammer 40,000 uses such a weapon. They call it a Volcano Canon because the target and everything around it looks like a volcano eruption because it makes everything molten instantly.
Nice star wars reference at the end.
this video quickly turned into a spartan laser montage
I kind a wish she’d go in the Forge to look at these weapons since he is on halo3 weapons now Because I get so distracted by watching him play the actual campaign I don’t pay attention to him just feel like if he goes in to forge he get better footage to correlate what he He’s talking about like get some idle animations in there it might just be me I don’t know When he’s driving around in the warthog talking about the optics sweep I’d rather have a Visual aid of the image maybe go in a theater show it charging up or something I don’t now from a different angle that is all I’m saying
Imagine a Dual-wielding Spartan Laser and Skewer(Halo Infinite)
I love that Obi-Wan quote!
TL;DR: mah lazzer go schoop-da-woop!
its a "pulse laser" my proof: notice in gameplay if you look in a different direction theres multiple impact points.
Love the Star Wars Referance.
Mr. 00, we should do a crossover between our 2 channels sometime.
There are several laser based weapons that unsc use on its platforms
If the Spunker rocket launcher isn't enough, bring this.
Nice reference to SW at the end there.
There is a scaled up version on the pelican gunship in halo 4
spartan armor has a mini fusion reactor in them right so is it not able to produce enough power for the laser or at least charge the batteries slowly over time?
Cepheus Talks they most definitely can. In fact the concept is drawn in several pieces from Halo Wars 2 Concept arts, including a mounted gauss cannon.
Aw yeah, my favorite sentient space station just released a new video.
@luca kro that's no moon.........
My only problem is that it doesn’t act like how realistic laser guns would be that being with each impactful shot it lessens with each shot. You can’t take out a tank unless you have enough power to energize an entire facility
Ah yes. The precursor to the Sleeper Simulant.
do you mind sharing the link to the outro music? it sounds cool.
Warning: big scary lazer do not point at eye
There should be a lower power pulse function that fires faster for antipersonnel use
I think a variant with multiple emitters, but that could be very potent.
Slow the fire rate and decrease the charge delay
Thing is, it's not a single laser that's fired. but multiple in a pulse.
i have a question why didn't they put a really big version of the Spartan Laser on star ship
Take the Spartan laser, Take the reactor from the mjolnir and you have a man portable machine gun or have the as anti-air guns or place them on ships to blow up enemy ships/fighters
8:45 not as clumsy or random as a blaster It’s elegant weapon for a more civilized age
Gotta ask a laser engineer and a nuclear engineer to make at lease one of these
Hey I have a question (sorry if it is too obvious) but are the halo 5 variants cannon?
I’m disappointed that you didn’t cover that a version of it is mounted on the pelican from H4
That starwars reference st the end
I'm curious if the unsc made a ship weapon version of the spartan laser I bet it be powerful you're thoughts 00
Possibly the anlace frigates use energy weapons. We dont know what type of energy weapon but humans tend to use laser based weapons for our energy weapons so it vould be a ship based version of the spartan laser or based on the spartan laser
Laser point defense systems are employed and featured on Prowlers and corvettes and the like.
@@InveterateMendaciousness pulse laser cannons are on prowlers. I dont know about corvettes though
How come the unsc never adapted the tech from the spartan laser onto their ships?.
LordofWolves214 they have. It’s employed on Prowlers and sometimes corvettes for self defense, but they aren’t as sophisticated as covenant point defense lasers and thus not widely used.
@@InveterateMendaciousness but i mean upscaled to the point where the could be considered navel guns meant for weakening sheilds and such as we know the spartan laser can punch through sheilds so i can only assume if you upscalled one it would help melt covenant ships sheilds away so that mac blasts wouldnt be wasted as often
LordofWolves214 it’s only so effective until you realize that laser tech can be countered effectively with sufficient energy shielding, which can actually absorb a significant amount of radiative light such as from laser based weaponry. Funny enough though lasers would pass right through hard light shielding but that’s beside the point. With plasma medium particle shielding, the variety the covenant use, the most effective variety of damage you can do is high energy density electromagnetism, this includes things like thermal plasma conductivity and nuclear radiation (high energy photons, neutrons and others). These easily distort and interfere with the EM fields that maintain energy shielding (neutron radiation can pass right through shields unimpeded). With lasers, while electromagnetic in nature, don’t disrupt shields on a larger scale very efficiently but rather in a very condensed point. In that regard lasers can precision-cut shielding, but this would result in significant loss of damage to the ship’s hull itself as the beam would be utilizing the majority of its energy density breaking through the shields, which would immediately have no issue restabilizing when you might call a “flesh wound” in the field. While on much smaller scales or against unshielded targets, lasers are devastatingly effective, but not so much against larger vessels that have shields. Even kinetic projectiles weapons have more versatility against shielded craft because they can be mounted with EM disruptive warheads and then be swapped for anti-armor rounds. That’s probably the biggest factor the UNSC doesn’t prefer laser based super weapons in capital-ship warfare.
I have never heard anyone call it the splazer
Doesn't role off the toungh too well
Such a cool weapon
So who is a better super soldier, captain America or the master chief.
Thomas Gibbs chief is, cap would be like the Spartan I’s
Thomas Gibbs Cap is actually frightening close to the * strength * of unarmored spartan 2s, but is beaten out by them in almost every other conceivable category. Even a naked spartan 3 would be capable of pummeling MCU captain America. Honestly the only generation I could conceivably see cap winning against would be 4s seeing as they’re not quite as strong or resilient and are generally not as sharp as the previous generations, but even then if they were given Mjolnir Rogers would still lose against them.
me still waiting on spirit of fire detail ship breakdown
Yus
I call it the spartan laser cannon
One of my absolute least favorite weapons haha I can't hit anything with it and everyone else seems to be an expert.
Certified forerunner monitor killer, u better watch yourself 00.. >;)
Coolest weapon in halo
Elegant? Lasers? All we need now are clean white bedsheets and some dirty boots...