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  • Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
  • UNSC Captain Stone lays a daring trap to help even the odds against a Covenant armada.
    Created in Unreal Engine 5
    Edited in DaVinci Resolve
    Voicework by Jarret Raymond
    / brussellstudios
    Disclaimer: Halo © Microsoft Corporation. This video was created under Microsoft's "Game Content Usage Rules" using assets from Halo, and it is not endorsed by or affiliated with Microsoft.

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  • @brussellstudios
    @brussellstudios  10 місяців тому +112

    Edit: New short is out! ua-cam.com/video/l1EkDdrggBk/v-deo.htmlsi=tdZ-OewKQXj8qkFZ
    Second Edit: Just to add to the frustration with this particular video the UA-cam Music song I used was flagged. I misinterpreted that it could be used and so I had to add in a new sound with UA-cam's not very exact editing system. Apologizes.
    The next Halo short is out! This one was largely frustrating with lots of random problems with various parts both in engine and in life. However it ended up close to my original vision and I learned a lot along the way as always. Hope you all enjoy!

    • @NitroDubzzz
      @NitroDubzzz 10 місяців тому +6

      Nicely done. One thing you might want to do is have the camera behind the character as they talk. Lip sync is a huge pain in the ass to do right and it adds a certain ambiance. Good work!

    • @Alfonse-dm6ht
      @Alfonse-dm6ht 10 місяців тому +1

      From Which Planet Is This From His English Sounds Funky
      P.S Why Would They Send A Battle Group To A Trap Doesn't Their Sensor Work

    • @brussellstudios
      @brussellstudios  10 місяців тому +5

      @@NitroDubzzz Yes one of the many issues I had. The capture data was from myself saying the lines and then last minute I got a voice actor. I was too far along to redo it and so it has a different cadence

    • @FowaDeLuz
      @FowaDeLuz 7 місяців тому +3

      @@NitroDubzzz Another good trick is to have lots of movement and quick cuts from different angles during a conversation, which helps to obscure a lot of the detail and reduce the amount of frames where the details of the lip sync will be obvious. Similar to how modern fight scenes are shot.

    • @scott-gaming.8834
      @scott-gaming.8834 4 місяці тому +1

      what was the song you were using?

  • @staniclaw.s
    @staniclaw.s 9 місяців тому +267

    Meanwhile, aboard one of the Covenant ships:
    “Maybe we should tell Shipmaster that a human squadron is hiding in those clouds?”
    “No, why bother him in vain.”

    • @hellogoodnite8447
      @hellogoodnite8447 3 місяці тому +10

      I was wondering how their radar couldn’t detect them in the clouds lol

    • @odo432
      @odo432 2 місяці тому +7

      @@hellogoodnite8447 I can only speak for modern radar systems, but they are generally fairly useless at detecting stationary targets. At least, in a way that can differentiate an actual target from say, for example, a tree. Stationary targets are usually filtered out as potential garbage/clutter. A lot of radar systems will struggle to pick up even slow moving targets such as helicopters. Also, radar systems usually have a limited resolution so a large object such as a ship may be picked up as multiple targets instead of a single target.
      That being said, this is the Halo universe, so I imagine their radar systems are vastly more sophisticated.

    • @Enaccul
      @Enaccul 2 місяці тому +5

      Idk, that planet's magnetosphere was throwing off their instruments or something lol

    • @staniclaw.s
      @staniclaw.s 2 місяці тому

      ​@@EnacculHowever, there is not a word about this in the film.

    • @shadowywarrior
      @shadowywarrior Місяць тому +1

      @@Enaccul to be fair, depending on how closely packed a fleet can be, they could show up as single ships instead of multiple ships.
      its a trick people have done. Stacking up on each other in terms of flights,

  • @TheShockxwave
    @TheShockxwave 10 місяців тому +622

    Dude this is amazing, been dying to see an animation where MAC cannons feel as strong as they are.

    • @Keemperor40K
      @Keemperor40K 10 місяців тому +60

      Covenant ships can tank several MAC shots, specially non-Super MAC varieties.
      The UNSC was forced to develop massed missile strikes in order to bring down the shields to give the MAC shots a chance, with the shields, most Covenant ships could tank 3 or 4 shots before the shields fell.
      The other major issue with the MAC cannons, is that powerful though they are, they are effectively sniping weapons. Awesome firepower, terrible rate of fire.
      It wasn't until the Reach version of the Pillar of autumn, that the UNSC was able to finally shoot more than 1 shot every 10-30 seconds.

    • @michigancube4240
      @michigancube4240 10 місяців тому +39

      @@Keemperor40K MACs are incredibly versatile weapons in lore with varying power scaling depending on what the author is feeling, we have a UNSC destroyer soloing 2-3 covie cruisers in TFoR with MACs that fire basically semi-auto to another book that put MACs at sub km/s speeds and few minute long chargings between shots.
      I believe the official lore since like almost a decade ago is that MACs can be fired at different charge levels to put the inconsistencies to rest... then we got the encyclopedia putting even frigate MACs as firing rounds at substantial fractions of the speed of light that would put WH40k's Nova cannons to shame in terms of impact.

    • @HwangInhoBooNam
      @HwangInhoBooNam 10 місяців тому +12

      @@Keemperor40Kyou know that basically a MAC impact is like a meteor? I mean, It releases more energy than a nuke. The Super MAC of the Orbital Defensive Station could rip into half a Covenant ship even with shields on with a single shot, the only ship which was able to resist such a powerful weapon was the Mantle’s Approach of the Didact, a Forerunner ship

    • @Keemperor40K
      @Keemperor40K 10 місяців тому +15

      @@HwangInhoBooNam And yet the UNSC still was losing, and not just losing, losing hard.
      The UNSC was losing so hard, that they knew that their time was coming unless the war could be changed, because in space Covenant ships could one or nearly one shot UNSC ships and they could tank MAC cannons.
      Yes, the Covenant could tank any MAC cannon, except for Super MAC, which at the time of the war where only used as planetary defense installations.
      And guess what? The Covenant still defeated the Super MAC platforms and destroyed hundreds of UNSC planets.
      The Covenant would have won the war and annihilated Humanity if it hadn't been for the events of Halo, they nearly succeeded and the MAC cannons only slowed the Covenant, it didn't stop them.

    • @HwangInhoBooNam
      @HwangInhoBooNam 10 місяців тому +5

      @@Keemperor40K well, we are not talking about the human factions from EVE Online that could have smashed the Covenant from the first moment so I think you already knew that Super MAC had inmense firepower by sacrificing practicity meaning they were slow and so stations were kind easy to be boarded just how happened in Halo 2. UNSC maybe could have win if they had missiles with that level of firepower capable of instant-kill Covenant cruisers and big ships which could be fired in swarm from frigates or small fighters

  • @gregoryramsey7166
    @gregoryramsey7166 10 місяців тому +241

    The year is 2722. The technology of radar was lost aeons ago. Space battle are fought just on what the commander can see these days. It makes the tactics spicier.

    • @shakirdelph7719
      @shakirdelph7719 6 місяців тому +4

      Is this your fanfiction for this cause humans still do use radar can't remember if the covenant have tho

    • @DoctorLifeMD
      @DoctorLifeMD 6 місяців тому +17

      @@shakirdelph7719 Covenant have a suite of hardware for detecting in space, which was reverse-engineered from Forerunner tech - hyperscanners.

    • @360Vestige
      @360Vestige 5 місяців тому +26

      As soon as the video started I was thinking, "If we're pretending this is Halo, and all they're using to hide a fleet is cloud cover I'm out..." They then proceeded to use clouds to hide an entire fleet and everyone was none the wiser...

    • @xanderortega4359
      @xanderortega4359 5 місяців тому +2

      There is still radar but remember space is a vast distance

    • @Rhakin78
      @Rhakin78 5 місяців тому +2

      I mean dude also used 3 Infinity class ships for the ambush.

  • @noahbluecoat
    @noahbluecoat 10 місяців тому +231

    Halo should have made a series on the point of humans' perspective such as marines and normal people. It would be nice but this animation entertained me well.

    • @tomwhite7983
      @tomwhite7983 10 місяців тому +6

      There was. It was called Forward Unto Dawn.

    • @epicmickey2351
      @epicmickey2351 10 місяців тому +3

      @@tomwhite7983to be honest, they were cadets, but it was still fun to watch!

    • @Poverty-Tier
      @Poverty-Tier 10 місяців тому +7

      Might I point you toward this little game called “Halo 3 ODST”?

  • @Poverty-Tier
    @Poverty-Tier 10 місяців тому +449

    *MAC ROUNDS? IN ATMOSPHERE?*

    • @lamdelmundo8492
      @lamdelmundo8492 10 місяців тому +71

      One way to get their attention

    • @Mayflower-Yev
      @Mayflower-Yev 10 місяців тому +60

      Hang on to your teeth people!

    • @amirhaikal6672
      @amirhaikal6672 8 місяців тому +25

      Technically it's an upper atmosphere but correct.

    • @flemmingjensen4656
      @flemmingjensen4656 6 місяців тому +13

      They did that on Reach to😮

    • @yellowish4353
      @yellowish4353 5 місяців тому +6

      I don’t know much halo lore (sorry), but what are the implications of using MAC rounds in atmosphere?

  • @strixnuktia186
    @strixnuktia186 10 місяців тому +250

    Love your animations, they prove the potential halo has for space combat.

    • @brussellstudios
      @brussellstudios  10 місяців тому +8

      Thank you I agree!

    • @Keemperor40K
      @Keemperor40K 10 місяців тому +8

      Sadly it is a bloodbath for Humans.
      The UNSC always needed better than 3-1 force variety to ensure a victory, anything below that was considered a loss.
      The UNSC sadly never had the tonnage or the firepower to stand up to the Covenant on relative terms. The Covenant's shields and their very effective point defense capabilities, coupled with their near 1 shot capabilities on almost any type of Human ship, meant that the UNSC during the entire war was fighting at a disadvantage.
      Only after the war, with the inclusion of shields for UNSC ships and advancements in missile capabilities and payloads has the UNSC began to close that gap, but Covenant era ships are still more or less superior to anything the UNSC has.

    • @alvinbonny1562
      @alvinbonny1562 10 місяців тому +8

      ​@@Keemperor40Kmy dude ask for a decent space battle not the victory of either side
      And it could just implemant new story where UNSC can take the edge

    • @chiefster11
      @chiefster11 10 місяців тому +5

      Theres a couple mods for Sins of a solar empire and the Homeworld series which add in Halo factions and ships. It's done super well.

    • @ZZMonkeysUncleZZ
      @ZZMonkeysUncleZZ 9 місяців тому +1

      Halo’s space combat potential is already well known, which is why it’s so surprising no game has ever been made focusing more on it. Reach’s Saber missions were a much too short demonstration of what could have been.
      Too bad 343 is in control now.

  • @PeanutGallery762
    @PeanutGallery762 9 місяців тому +33

    While this scenario would never actually happen since clouds wont stop a covie sensor, the animation was quite cool, so props to you for that.

  • @Barrobroadcastmaster
    @Barrobroadcastmaster 10 місяців тому +94

    We need a Halo fleet action game like Battlestations Pacific.

    • @billygrantham5380
      @billygrantham5380 10 місяців тому +14

      Have you tried a mod called "Sins of the Prophets"? It's a mod for a game called Sins of a Solar Empire. In this this mod it simulates the asymmetrical Fleet battles of Halo really well. As the UNSC you need overwhelming numbers to succeed while as the Covenant you need to be more strategic.
      Then you have the flood which of course decimate both factions. It can be a hard game to play but once you learn how to play the factions it'll get pretty fun.

    • @thatretard13
      @thatretard13 10 місяців тому +4

      I love that game. I still play it. My favorite is being able to see your troops storming beaches from the landing boats.

    • @Bernoris
      @Bernoris 10 місяців тому +4

      Sins of the Prophet is cool but it isn't like Battlestation Pacific where you could individually control the ship like in World Of Warships and aircraft/strikecraft too

    • @jasonking3182
      @jasonking3182 10 місяців тому +3

      There was a Halo Wars 3 pitch that would have been this. There’s concept art showing the 3 Fleets that we could have gotten including Flood infested ships. But we don’t get nice things.

    • @Barrobroadcastmaster
      @Barrobroadcastmaster 10 місяців тому +2

      @@jasonking3182 Yeah, all because they couldn't hook enough whales for their dumbass card game in HW2.

  • @DPham1
    @DPham1 10 місяців тому +105

    I always felt like Halo's space battles were underrated

    • @ZZMonkeysUncleZZ
      @ZZMonkeysUncleZZ 9 місяців тому +6

      They weren’t. TONS of people wanted more focus on them, or preferably an entire spin-off game focused on them. Reach gave players a small taste and left us wanting more. Sadly a taste is all we got before 343 took over.

  • @colinwhalen2632
    @colinwhalen2632 10 місяців тому +44

    I know people are busting your balls about the realism, but this stuff is awesome, keep up the good work! Excited to see what you do next

    • @dj11o9er
      @dj11o9er 10 місяців тому +2

      Trying to apply realism to a sci-fi universe?
      What is this, BattleTech?

  • @ivanschaffer4301
    @ivanschaffer4301 10 місяців тому +107

    I mean, the covenant would have been able to detect the fleet that was hiding... but great work!

    • @m4x927
      @m4x927 10 місяців тому +17

      i was gonna say the same, clouds wouldn't do shit.

    • @Teevock
      @Teevock 10 місяців тому +48

      Who's to say those aren't clouds of some molecular tungsten that interferes with Covenant sensors? Clouds can be other things than just water vapor.

    • @vulkan690
      @vulkan690 10 місяців тому +9

      Nah, that isn't this situation

    • @Malachite_Hare
      @Malachite_Hare 10 місяців тому +9

      ​@@TeevockDude, Covenant hyperscanners detect the movement and exact location of ships when they are in slipspace, not to mention some clouds and atmospheres

    • @adarkwind4712
      @adarkwind4712 10 місяців тому +13

      ​@@Malachite_Hare scanners built to filter out and detect through certain things does not mean it can work through all things. Honestly I feel like they were having issues in the H2 mission with Arby at the forerunner station in, I think it was, a gas giant about to go through an electrical storm.

  • @Tallacus
    @Tallacus 10 місяців тому +20

    Epic, but in a rare sight the UNSC Navy actually got an upper hand on the covies

    • @Powerhaus88
      @Powerhaus88 Місяць тому +1

      By the end of the War the UNSC Navy used guerilla tactics, unconventional warfare and asymmetrical warfare to engage Covenant ships, especially in smaller numbers, but early in the war they were more conventional, when they threw massive fleets in just to retake Harvest.

  • @alejandrojimenezmartinez9305
    @alejandrojimenezmartinez9305 10 місяців тому +8

    Just amazing, I feel that in the halo franchise there is a lack of space battles

  • @firestuka8850
    @firestuka8850 3 місяці тому +2

    The covenant attacked en force on every installation or world as the humans were on the defensive, which is always harder.
    Also, it would be an excellent story to have a fleet of covenant hunters. The UNSC takes 30 ships, slipspaces them at places where covenant patrol and just light em up while in the early years. Oni sends an Admiral as task force commander, trying to mop up refueling/rearming stations and disrupt Covenant supply lines and troop transports. This is important as it could have been the reason the attack on Reach was delayed. The ending of the game would be the destruction of the task force and the last ship crew tortured & data banks opened up by engineers to reveal the location of Reach, then assembling the covenant fleet. The task force that attacked Reach was half the size it could have been because of the Oni Task Force.

  • @tnvl5751
    @tnvl5751 10 місяців тому +2

    Great short story, love seeing humanity in HALO like this, wish there was more of epic space battles like this, seeing UNSC in action is always a sight to behold!

  • @xxJacket
    @xxJacket 10 місяців тому +11

    In lore weren’t these like our best weapon against covenant cruisers and even then it hardly did enough damage to larger frigates and cruisers due to their shields. By the time you’ve got their shields down you’ve already lost 2 vessels. Navy side of halo were always getting their ass blasted.

  • @alexandernash7562
    @alexandernash7562 10 місяців тому +4

    Babe wake up, Brussel uploaded another epic halo space battle

  • @avoughtf4u-4corsair19
    @avoughtf4u-4corsair19 5 місяців тому +1

    If this was lore accurate, that whole UNSC fleet would be destroyed without a single Covenant ship lost.

  • @patta8388
    @patta8388 10 місяців тому +38

    Ah yes, a covenant fleet just sitting there, letting the puny humans get into positions without firing a single shot.

    • @blacknwhitehound
      @blacknwhitehound 10 місяців тому

      Because they are smug alien scum

    • @demonicturtl1235
      @demonicturtl1235 10 місяців тому +16

      Honestly I believe it was to show honor if you watch the terminals the arbiter let humans arm themselves before they attacked to give them a chance

    • @basic_avarage_person
      @basic_avarage_person 10 місяців тому +7

      ​@@demonicturtl1235but covenant is doing ambush regularly tho? covenant honor is like our medival time honor

    • @demonicturtl1235
      @demonicturtl1235 10 місяців тому +7

      @@basic_avarage_person honestly the covenant is confusing but I think they understood that the cruiser was out gunned by a lot and was waiting for the first shot

    • @manhphuc4335
      @manhphuc4335 10 місяців тому

      @@basic_avarage_persontheir sense of honor is basically do anything to win. But fight against an enemy that is worth it.
      So they will absolutely slaughter civies that can't fight back, because to them they are undermining an enemy potential recruitment pool and manufacturing capacity.
      But they will definitely wait for a Marine to pick up his weapon before activating camoflage and then stab him from behind with an energy sword.
      Elite honor is pretty weird, and hard to understand for humans, but it's definitely there.

  • @joelmulder
    @joelmulder 10 місяців тому +20

    I guess RADAR has't been invented in the HALO universe?

    • @haloidiot005
      @haloidiot005 10 місяців тому +4

      Did you clearly not see, the Unsc had the fog skull turn on.

  • @Bernoris
    @Bernoris 10 місяців тому +2

    The Covenant must have been confused beyond belief to see a halcyon class in atmosphere lol
    So much so they didn't realize the entire fleet behind it

  • @radapatada5502
    @radapatada5502 10 місяців тому +14

    Love to see the UNSC take a W. Great work

  • @user-tj3vg1fw2u
    @user-tj3vg1fw2u 10 місяців тому +3

    Amazing work, only nitpick is the fact that somehow CLOUDS were supposed to keep the fleet from being detected by Covenant.
    Which should be immposible.
    But grafics and action look amazing, so good job.

  • @PhxSml
    @PhxSml 9 місяців тому +1

    I never understood how these gigantic spaceship can hover inside a planet’s gravity with only back engines

  • @RebelOfTheNorm242
    @RebelOfTheNorm242 10 місяців тому +2

    They’re all gonna die…that’s a super carrier…
    The plasma beam cannons on that thing will tear the frigates to pieces, and the supporting aircraft inside it will slowly tear the shields of the UNSC carriers down, leaving them exposed to the cannons
    Worst still, they’re attacking from below, so the super carrier can fire it’s main planters bonbardment beam and hit everything with a massive EMP.
    Sigh…

  • @shaftoe195
    @shaftoe195 10 місяців тому +27

    Looks promising. This looks like a demo, so I'd focus on good effects, and wouldn't pay too much attention to very poor (basically absent) writing - like how did those ships even manage to hide in clouds from sensors, why didn't the Covenant flank the enemy or open fire, etc. Still, nice work, and hopefully future works will be strong in both respects.

    • @spongmongler6760
      @spongmongler6760 10 місяців тому

      or the simple fact that MAC cannons aren't effective against covenant shields...

    • @Cyberbro665
      @Cyberbro665 10 місяців тому +5

      Easy plot excuse.
      1. The UNSC Captain said they're taking the bait so the Covenant officers aboard were focused on something else at the time, this gives the UNSC enough time to get into position before they're noticed.
      2. Covenant didn't bother flanking because they're arrogant, few Covenant Naval officers had skill and humility to take the UNSC seriously and the UNSC were able to exploit that.

    • @sdoo-ou2ni
      @sdoo-ou2ni 7 місяців тому

      there's actually a pretty strong lore basis for this though the human ships are taking a huge Risk by engaging in this style of battle all of them have only one weapon at the disposal for this style of Engagement are there three Primary anti-ship Weapons the Mac Cannon is the only one that can reach from the atmosphere of a planet into orbit the Covenant by comparison have all three of their Primary anti-ship Weapons at their disposal the plasma cannons the plasma Torpedoes and the plasma Lance also all Covenant ships carry Straight Kraft any of their three Primary anti-ship Weapons hitting a human vessel guarantees that human vessels near or total Destruction depending on the class and size of the human vessel also Covenant sensors are extremely good so if they get a glimpse of you you're dead son cuz you're not going to be able to outrun the I'm a fire in my laser meme level Firepower being hurdle in your general direction and I hope that you didn't launch from a city or there's a city behind your Fleet because it won't be there in a few seconds (sorry for the poorly written wall of text I just couldn't help myself)

    • @OpticBeatz
      @OpticBeatz 5 місяців тому

      @@Cyberbro665doesn’t negate the fact that they’d sense the unsc ships, the fact that halcyon’s had shit weaponry by UNSC standards, all of those ships would probably have to focus to even take out the one battlecruiser and it would still open fire and decimate the UNSC fleet.

    • @Cyberbro665
      @Cyberbro665 5 місяців тому

      @@OpticBeatz It does though, Covenant incompetence is like really, really, really bad. What ever this "Bait" was were apparently enough to distract the Officers.
      The dogma of the Covenant gives little room for their underlings to speak back or interrupt with out consequence. Covenant aren't Humans who think logically and respect their peers/underlings.

  • @tankbuster3
    @tankbuster3 10 місяців тому +8

    This is not just cool, It's lore accurate.
    Cause reminder: That was 5 UNSC Frigates and 3 Halcyon-Class Cruisers needed to take out 4 Covenant Corvettes and 2 Frigates
    Good shit.

    • @user-wn4qj4ql4r
      @user-wn4qj4ql4r 9 місяців тому

      Weren't the two larger ships to the rear Cruisers? Or have I always mistaken them as such?

    • @erikranc4044
      @erikranc4044 9 місяців тому

      Those are CCS cruisers, and not Halcyon, but Autumn-Class Cruisers from Fall of Reach Book, they shot 3 Mac Round in a row bec they are refitted fyi :)

    • @user-wn4qj4ql4r
      @user-wn4qj4ql4r 9 місяців тому

      @@erikranc4044Yeah, that's what I thought, cause the two at back were def not Frigate's, I don't recall seeing a Frigate class/grade ship. Corvettes, Destroyers, Cruisers and Carrier/Super-Carriers, but no Frigates.
      And that's cool, a three round burst MAC battery. Would make sense as at the time UNSC ships could barely go toe to toe trading against Covenant Capital Ships.

  • @hunterh1175
    @hunterh1175 3 місяці тому +1

    PLEASE animate the first battle of Sigma Octanus IV, when Keyes beat 4 Covanant ships with a single destroyer

  • @maverickpincay6428
    @maverickpincay6428 8 місяців тому +1

    Good video.
    The only thing that reminds me (although I'm not sure) ...The Hacylon Class was not prepared to be in the atmosphere, it was only prepared for orbital and space combat, that function at the time was performed by frigates

    • @BuildingStraw
      @BuildingStraw 8 місяців тому

      No class halcyon class autumn

  • @Drownedinblood
    @Drownedinblood 6 днів тому

    In the far far future, there is no way to detect gigantic ships, allowing them to just hide in clouds...

  • @hunterthechezwick
    @hunterthechezwick 7 місяців тому +1

    Makes me want to see the legends of reach mod do atmospheric combat like this

  • @davidgray3061
    @davidgray3061 9 місяців тому

    * This is UNSC Savannah. Our Wings made clipped but we got your back.*

  • @marcelrodriguez2067
    @marcelrodriguez2067 6 місяців тому +1

    Realistically those covenant ships would of sniped most of those human ships out of commission before they even fired lol

  • @JanoschNr1
    @JanoschNr1 10 місяців тому

    Almost expected him to say "Avegers, assemble!"

  • @Milesamanjaro
    @Milesamanjaro 10 місяців тому +4

    Excellent work! Would love to see some interpretations of events from the books, like The Keyes Loop.

    • @brussellstudios
      @brussellstudios  10 місяців тому +1

      Thank you! Working my way to that. Finding the correct models is the main roadblock

  • @ARKHAMASYLUM-qc7bw
    @ARKHAMASYLUM-qc7bw 3 місяці тому

    Finally a battle where we look like a challenge

  • @cashx370
    @cashx370 10 місяців тому

    I’m a simple man. I see Halo content, I’ll happily watch it.

  • @____REDACTED____
    @____REDACTED____ 7 місяців тому +1

    Great video, but one comment towards the plot. One might think a highly advanced space fairing multi-species ancient organization like the covenant, would have scanning devices that would have easily detected every one of those ships, like they tend to do in the lore. Problem with them is they are just so confident and prideful that even if the entire UNSC fleet DID display its full might, the covenant would still accept the challenge since their honor would not allow them to choose any other course. You see UNSC use that against them throughout the books. The way it would have played out is the UNSC would present the marshal challenge The majority of covenant and their far superior ships would have sat back confident that it would only take one or two of theirs to handle the humans, and it still would have been in their favor. The MAC rounds also tend not to be that effective, requiring a one two punch method where one fires to pop the shield and a follow up shot made from another ship breeches that hole before it closes and gut it bow to stern. In almost every naval battle the UNSC lost heavily, even with greater numbers of vessels and the coordinated help of AI. The only captain I know of to give the covenant a run for their money in a head to head WHILE having the odds against them in terms of fleet size, was Keys, a tactical genius. He won a 3 to 1 fight using a nuke in such a creative way while dodging incoming plasma with the chemical thrusters the UNSC ships have for quick lateral evasions.

  • @TokyoAt3am
    @TokyoAt3am 7 місяців тому

    I always wished we got to see more of humanity having the bigger fleet for a change.

  • @smallpeople172
    @smallpeople172 10 місяців тому +1

    FIRE MACRON!
    Good to see la Fronce survives

  • @DK-ig8zi
    @DK-ig8zi 10 місяців тому +8

    Amazing !!!
    It feels like a movie
    You did a great job
    Congratulations !
    However UNSC cruisers cant go into the atmosphere

    • @brussellstudios
      @brussellstudios  10 місяців тому +3

      Not with that attitude they can’t

    • @DK-ig8zi
      @DK-ig8zi 10 місяців тому

      @@brussellstudios sorry I dont understand your answer 😅

    • @THEMasterChiefJohn-117
      @THEMasterChiefJohn-117 10 місяців тому

      @@brussellstudiosyeah well he’s right tho, they cannot hover in atmosphere like the frigates can, they can only go into atmosphere when aided by the booster pods that we see in Halo: Reach, and even then its limited to only being able to get the, into a planetary shipyard & out of one. Still a sick ass animation tho and it is criminal that you don’t even have 1k subs!

  • @Keemperor40K
    @Keemperor40K 10 місяців тому +2

    Beautiful, love it but wrong.
    While the UNSC did win engagements against the Covenant armada, they had an average 3-1 loss ratio.
    Only 2 times are known so far when the UNSC won a victory against the Covenant that did not involve a major force discrepancy.
    These are the fall of Admiral Cole, where he literally destroyed an entire Covenant armada by starting a chain reaction within a gas giant and the second one is Captain Keyes maneuver, where he was able to take the Covenant and beat 3 ships with one Frigate.
    This engagement would feel more realistic and cooler if the Covenant where firing as well, and a few UNSC ships where destroyed in the process.
    Love the Humanity first vibe, but the reality is that the Covenant where going to wipe out Humanity prior to the Halo events and anything before that was a stop gap measure.

  • @mohamedbaradji7504
    @mohamedbaradji7504 5 місяців тому +1

    MAC rounds one shotting covenant cruisers? Covenant ships not firing on the lone cruiser or the frigates following? Covie corvettes not using their long range plasma torpedoes? At this point the end credits should’ve shown CPT Stone waking up

  • @Crazywar54
    @Crazywar54 10 місяців тому +6

    Looks amazing, how do you only have 50 subscribers?

  • @spartan876_A28
    @spartan876_A28 9 місяців тому +1

    They literally annihilated those ships

  • @ateeshJ
    @ateeshJ 10 місяців тому

    Glad to see someone picking up 343's slack.

  • @Ghent_Halcyon
    @Ghent_Halcyon 5 місяців тому

    Even several hundred years in the future, hiding in the clouds is one of the best tactics for hiding.

    • @kenryoshi
      @kenryoshi 5 місяців тому

      IIRC, this worked because the gas giant's magnetosphere provided EM interference. This would'nt have matter if the Covenant's target wasn't close to the gas giant

  • @reilly_sharky_reese
    @reilly_sharky_reese 5 місяців тому

    The way you could fix this scenario from a plot hole standpoint would probably having a nuclear missile strike. While totally incapable of damaging the Covenant ships due to being intercepted by PD and Banshees, the missiles could be detonated pre-maturely. The ensuing radiation and electromagnetic interference would blind most sensors or scanning equipment.
    This would setup Stone's lone Halcyon's seeming attempt to blitz through the approaching formation to escape, only for the converging Covenant forces to be ambushed as shown in the animation.

  • @ThePartarar
    @ThePartarar 10 місяців тому +1

    Dope animation, I think something misrepresented in this and a lot of other modern space animation is the combat range.
    Modern air engagements take place at much further ranges than this. The advanced mac guns and missiles of the halo universe, along with the massive value spacefaring warships represent, would force them to engage from almost beyond visual range, at the least. The formation would likely be spaced out more too, to avoid collateral damage. Sorry, I’m a nerd 😅

  • @SgtOg
    @SgtOg 10 місяців тому

    Captain stone looks kinda scared but who wouldnt when facing a alien force who are more advance then ur own forces i like that aspekt about the animation feels kinda real

  • @HitodamaKyrie
    @HitodamaKyrie 2 місяці тому

    Nice animation. I dont see that fleet actually winning of course.

  • @gorganhorn6872
    @gorganhorn6872 10 місяців тому

    You thought that Mac cannon was bad ass wait till you see the Big Mac

  • @michaelhuynh4953
    @michaelhuynh4953 4 місяці тому +1

    How could the Covenant get surprised by the human ships hiding in the clouds?! Don’t they have radar or anything similar!?

  • @ryankeenan9282
    @ryankeenan9282 9 місяців тому +1

    The Emperor protects.

  • @nimbusshadow-wings
    @nimbusshadow-wings 10 місяців тому

    This shows that if used right human ships are no pushovers and are actually perhaps better designed than covenant ones

  • @Tallacus
    @Tallacus Місяць тому

    I distinctly remembered a different theme @ 1:13 and no more "Fire Mac Rounds!"

    • @brussellstudios
      @brussellstudios  Місяць тому

      Yeah check my pinned comment :(

    • @Tallacus
      @Tallacus 24 дні тому

      ​@@brussellstudiosdam I am sorry about that

  • @mechatech9897
    @mechatech9897 9 місяців тому +1

    Yeah, the MAC cannons are no joke.

  • @adventwolfbane
    @adventwolfbane 4 місяці тому +1

    Are those Halcyon cruisers with a double MAC configuration? Must be the Rapid fire variant of the Light MAC used on the Epoch class for the number of rounds it unleashed.

  • @dataracer1172
    @dataracer1172 3 місяці тому

    Damn man this is dope fresh. The 343 Halo show couldnt even bother to do a 2min capital ship battle. Splice this in, and it wouldve been way better. Damn. Its sad. But this is dope. You need to send this to them and get a job if S3 happens...

  • @jstalk1
    @jstalk1 10 місяців тому +1

    I love this. Phenomenal work! Top notch animation. If I were to make one critique though....Captain Stone's voice sounds a little too...old for the face. If he had a few facial wrinkles and/or grayer hair it would have been slightly less jarring to me. But still A+!

  • @rmat9023
    @rmat9023 10 місяців тому

    "Fire *a* mac round" Each ship proceeds to fire a mac round. hmm

  • @christopherconklin281
    @christopherconklin281 10 місяців тому

    I can't believe they got Chris Pratt to play the officer!

  • @thirstysailor579
    @thirstysailor579 10 місяців тому

    Finally, some ship-to-ship Halo content.

  • @EpicPredator01
    @EpicPredator01 10 місяців тому +1

    Radar has left the chat

  • @JMObyx
    @JMObyx 10 місяців тому

    In an alternate timeline, the war against the Covenant goes on for just a little longer, humanity wins a few more precious victories, buying enough time for the Pillar of Autumn 2 ships to enter service.
    But what other advances were made, I wonder?

  • @cosmicsword2585
    @cosmicsword2585 9 місяців тому

    When i saw the full UNSC fleet i said "I think that those ships are enough and more than enough" until i saw that CAS Carrier

  • @keeganbruce19
    @keeganbruce19 10 місяців тому

    lol @ the covenant not seeing hidden ships in clouds when we know they have radar

  • @Ewan661
    @Ewan661 10 місяців тому

    Highly advanced aliens defeated by clouds

  • @username_etc4957
    @username_etc4957 10 місяців тому +2

    I guess no one in the comments has heard of radar jamming.

  • @deanlawson6880
    @deanlawson6880 10 місяців тому

    Wow! What a great short Halo video!! Excellent!!

  • @lasarith2
    @lasarith2 2 дні тому

    Meanwhile they just killed themselves from the sheer forces of fire the MAC in an atmosphere.

  • @DobbsyLondon
    @DobbsyLondon 4 місяці тому

    Big ass clouds. Hold here, moves forward. Etc.

  • @finnthegamingfox5482
    @finnthegamingfox5482 10 місяців тому

    amazing job it looks so nice with the lighting especially the mac strikes!

  • @gladiator5365
    @gladiator5365 5 місяців тому

    This would look very very good with dynamic clouds. It looks good regardless. I think the textures could afford to be more matte and some sound FX would be nice but overalk it looks good especially the captain and the lip syncing.

  • @inuboy867
    @inuboy867 10 місяців тому +3

    It's a crime you don't have more subs, you are amazing.

  • @mitchellcleveland6182
    @mitchellcleveland6182 6 місяців тому +1

    Are you forgetting that the covenant has sensors?

  • @spartantraveler7251
    @spartantraveler7251 10 місяців тому

    God that Halcyon is sexy. Well the Halcyon type anyway. Just seeing them in full light is just ohhh.

  • @Augment_Failure
    @Augment_Failure 3 дні тому

    Shame MAC systems aren't this powerful in the lore. Would of enjoyed seeing the (now canon) Harpoon missiles utilized. Noticed you placed another shot from above the main gun housing on the Halcyon. That's a detail from Warfleet not many would notice. Was left wondering if it was a short accelerator designed to launch the Shiva missile.
    While the scenario is unrealistic, it is still enjoyable and well animated for a private effort. 👍

  • @dragonback6075
    @dragonback6075 2 місяці тому +1

    Would of been nice to see some ships names
    Very cool though

    • @dragonback6075
      @dragonback6075 2 місяці тому

      😁
      Infinity, or the Pillar of Autumn..
      Jus sayin lol.
      Thank you for Sharing 👍👏👏👏👏👏👏

  • @spectrumstudios4848
    @spectrumstudios4848 8 місяців тому +1

    A Halcyon in atmosphere!?

  • @Armin2012
    @Armin2012 4 місяці тому

    1:03
    Looks like your animation curves are set to automatic ease-out of the motion here, which results in an unnatural slow to a stop, rather than the intended effect of the ship slowly rising at a constant pace.
    Would suggest using a manual spline there to make the motion appear more constant

  • @JoaoSoares-rs6ec
    @JoaoSoares-rs6ec 10 місяців тому +1

    Are you shure this isn't cole our keys in the video

  • @andrewgward7
    @andrewgward7 10 місяців тому

    😮😮😮😮!!! Amazing!!! See, if actual fans made the Halo movies that came out they would have been a lot better. Awesome job!!!

  • @callen1904
    @callen1904 10 місяців тому

    Love the animation. Only thing is the bridge, cannonicly only the pillar of autom had a bridge with a veiw port, all other CIC or bridges were burried in the vessel to maintain survivability

  • @nfldend501
    @nfldend501 10 місяців тому +1

    amazing it's wierd the algorithm hid this

  • @davidfarris8416
    @davidfarris8416 6 місяців тому +1

    What was the original soundtrack before the edit, it was really good

  • @fredbyoutubing
    @fredbyoutubing 10 місяців тому

    If only the UNSC had known about the Covenant's greatest weakness earlier in the war....clouds.

  • @nesoprimus930
    @nesoprimus930 9 місяців тому

    Excellent work 💯. We need MORE

  • @adarkwind4712
    @adarkwind4712 10 місяців тому

    Great animation. Sad part is they still have to be careful that super carrier still has the firepower to wipe them all.

  • @paulbobenhausen8031
    @paulbobenhausen8031 10 місяців тому

    A little-known fact about the covenant is that they're actually extremely polite. Covenant fleets believe it is important to allow the enemy to 'amp up' before a fight! Interrupting your opponent's cinematic is considered a great affront, along with the use of any form of radar! It is only because humanity, rudely, ignored these cultural rules that the war began!

  • @aspopulvera9130
    @aspopulvera9130 Місяць тому

    infinity firing mac rounds animation doesn't look like mac cannon to be honest, it feels like direct energy weapon than being kinetic

  • @jerichosamson8556
    @jerichosamson8556 9 місяців тому

    Would also love to see Admiral Cole's last stand in UE5

  • @BlackironEzekiel
    @BlackironEzekiel 10 місяців тому +1

    I am like 60% sure that the UNSC would have suffered the loss of a few light ships in an ambush like this, but godDAMN does it feel good to see the covvies take a a defeat in a space battle!

  • @Marinealver
    @Marinealver 7 місяців тому +2

    Nice animation, it looks really good.
    Unfortunately I don't know if this is the best way to say it, the voices don't match the faces.
    Also as a bit of a lore hog only one or two Covenant ship should have been destroyed, and only one or two UNSC ship should have survived.

  • @DeeonleeCobb373
    @DeeonleeCobb373 5 місяців тому +1

    When MACs have no cooldown.

  • @nickrael5693
    @nickrael5693 6 місяців тому

    They did not just use cloud cover to hide from a super advanced alien space-faring race. Do they not have I don't know RADER!? Something that has been around since WW1. Also with all those ships firing they have been able to take out 1 of those CCS cruisers with that salvo.

  • @Bernoris
    @Bernoris 7 місяців тому +1

    Revisiting this
    I think the realism part (ik how ridiculous it sounds) could be retcon by simply replacing one of the Halcyon with an Electronic warfare cruiser that the UNSC uses
    Otherwise this is still so cool

    • @brussellstudios
      @brussellstudios  7 місяців тому

      Could also be a planet with a unique magnetic atmosphere that scrambles ship signatures and makes a perfect ambush point

    • @staniclaw.s
      @staniclaw.s 3 місяці тому

      ​@@brussellstudiosHowever, there is no mention of this: neither in the text on the screen, nor in the voice-over, nor in the reports of the crew members such as "Magnetic distortions are still interfering with the radars, captain, both ours and theirs." How can viewers guess this?

  • @Vantud391
    @Vantud391 10 місяців тому

    I wish you added actual impact of the round on the round like show some shockwave or something. You can watch Sodaz's Halo or Mass Effect 3 space battle cinematic for some references.
    Anyway, great work and I hope you inprove.

  • @Somerandofurry
    @Somerandofurry 10 місяців тому

    Ooohhhhh, let’s gooo, another well done animation!!!!!!

    • @brussellstudios
      @brussellstudios  10 місяців тому

      Appreciate you watching them!

    • @Somerandofurry
      @Somerandofurry 10 місяців тому

      @@brussellstudios I’ll always be here for these 🔥 animations! They’re soo nice and smooth to watch!