I remember one of the times I played The Storm in Halo 3, during the Hunter section, I turned around after they spawned to deal with some Brutes I had somehow missed and when I turned back both Hunters were dead and there was a Marine with a shotgun standing over one of the bodies. I have no idea what the hell happened but that Marine definitely became a Spartan-IV because holy fuck
The Halo CE Sniper Marines were amazing, if you got one into the side seat of the warthog, they would rapid fire with that sniper with insane precision, form a huge distance.
I honestly liked fighting alongside the civilians during Halo Reach, Halo 3 and ODST, and Halo 5. They function like the Marines but they give a new perspective on the fights you take part in. Also you forgot the Militia from Halo Reach's mission Nightfall. They still functioned like the Marines, Troopers, Airmen, and ODSTs in the game. Fighting alongside Elites Grunts and Jackels in Halo 2, 3, ODST, and 5 was so cool too since you're not with Marines and stuff so you can see the Elites perspective of the fights you're in.
@Commander Cody You are "That Guy" for not understanding what I meant. You know what I meant so I shouldn't need to explain something everyone should know.
@@inductivegrunt94 bro I ain't having a go at you all I'm saying is I don't recall ever fighting alongside with the Grunts or Jacakals in Halo 3, ODST, and 5
So about kats driving in reach, she'll try to drive loosely in the direction of your reticle, so as she makes the 130 point turn a lot of times that is cause by you moving your reticle where she's trying to turn around from
That's if you're IN the same vehicle she's driving, one time on sword base I had her in a Revenant and I was out to hit buttons, and an elite was on one side of me, and Kat was on the other, and she chose to run the elite over...
CE guilty spark sucks as an ally. Teleports you far away from the Index, abandons you to unlock doors (meanwhile Flood are just moving freely through the vents), and doesn't use his weaponry at all until Halo 3
Just a point of detail, in Reach you don't really see Marines till the Pilar of Autumn level (the guys with the clear visor MP helmets are marines. Everyone else is an Army Trooper. But that's splitting hairs.
@@tylerellis9097 Are you sure? I dont think Specialist is a rank in the army. But it is one in the Airforce. But, I think theres a higher chance it's a naval aviator
@@USSCYT pretty much every NPC in reach is UNSC army units. Which is odd since Army units were mentioned in EU lore but we never see them except Reach. It's why you don't have any of the standard gear as the Army units in the UNSC didn't really need the more advanced gear. UNSC army is used as garrisons on planets so 2,3, and ODST should have em too.
9:44 This automatically puts you on the list for worst Halo allies 10:49 How my mom describes me to other family members 14:06 Since Chief can no longer ping pong around in a escape pod to murder all other marines, he had to get creative
Halo 3 Marines are easily my favourite, but that’s mostly because how their AI works Accidentally kill a marine on Halo CE and the remaining marines will be hostile forever, basically forcing you to fight them, but in Halo 3 if they turn on you just hide and they’ll eventually forgive you. You can basically just kill as many as you’d like and no longer will accidentally splatting two of them be as much as a problem as it used to be. You can even completely clear crows nest now, although it’s still difficult
Ha one the funnest experiences I had on Xbox days my buddy accidentally ran over two marines when going into the final building to kill the scarab. He got instantly mowed down by the others. No hesitation on their part lmao.
Twice I hav3 had the ultimate unsc Ally following me, the first time was on the halo 3 mission, The Covenant, where the odst with red shoulders survived the ENTIRE mission and he killed SO many enemies, he also destroyed a tank, 2 ghosts, a chopper, and several banshees. While surviving it all on legendary difficulty. The second time was in halo infinite, where an average looking marine just hopped on the back of my mongoose, well this man was definitely not average, he killed maybe just as many enemies as I did on heroic difficulty, destroyed multiple different vehicles, saved 3 squads of soldiers, and by the end of it he was practically a spartan it felt like, he stuck with me for an hour and a half. But sadly, gold doesn't last forever, my game very sadly crashed and I lost him. 😢 Luckily though both of these soldiers technically didn't die, so maybe they retired in peace, as HEROS.
Halo 3 (at least in my opinion) had the best allies over all. They seemed balanced against the Covenant. Also, this is often forgotten but you actually can have Covenant allies in Reach. It's only seen in Firefight Versus. They performed ok though getting them in a Rocket Warthog on Beachhead or Unearthed was dumb since their rockets would home on the Spartans.
Both Luke and Elijah are so powerful as a duo. Elijah has an energetic voice and quick wit, Luke has a soothing calm voice and dry humor. Usually when I watch UA-cam videos and they change the format with a new person delivering the dialog, it takes me off guard... But for your channel, both of you work so well together, and I love every time you two are featured.
Vale came in such clutch on a meridian mission hold out section where she saved me and my friend 3 times and allowed us to complete it. Tanaka was utterly useless in all missions though 😂
In Canon, the marine you said looks like sergeant Johnson in CE On Halo IS, in the book the Flood he's identified as him and says the same lines he does in game.
First time playing Halo 3 with my sister, we got to the level where you teamed up with the flood. We didn't really pay attention to the cutscene, maybe we skipped it, but we ended up just killing all the flood we saw until we saw they were our allies. Cool thing is I don't think they ever turned on us.
I was playing spartan ops in halo 4. I don’t remember the exact level because it’s been a while but it’s the level where you’re battling on the Infinite and you have to defend the hanger bay. I was playing on legendary and had a sword ultra charging me up the ramp. As I popped his shield, I had to reload. Realistically, he probably needed 1 more DMR round to kill him. As I backpedaled for time, a marine stepped to the top of the ramp and blasted this sword elite with the butt of his assault rifle. Never even fired a shot. The sword ultra died instantly, since he was so damaged, and somersaulted down the ramp. Most bad ass marine I have seen in any halo.
Always had special experience with allies, that is actually my favorite part from Halo series. I was so addicted to them that I even re-played that one Halo 4 level which you will get a couple of marines fighting along side with you. My favorite level is that Halo 2 mission somewhere at the beginning, I managed to drive my Warthog onto the Scarab in the end. The marine on the machine gun killed every enemies on top of the scarab.
Hey guys ! Love your vids, regardless of the current situation of the franchise, we all really appreciate your commitment to the content. Thanks heaps. I watch ya'll daily.
The cool thing about CE Marines is they will get demoralized if you are losing the fight. But if you are kicking ass they get more confident and throw more grenades.
@@NYG5 Halo 2 marines have a similar system coded in if im not misunderstanding the mod tools. They have a timid, normal and aggressive parameters for things like chasing a target, taking cover, shooting etc. If they are in a stronger position they will be more aggressive, especially when talking about numerical advantage and the opponents "scariness" level. The issue is when the marines are given the ai order to follow a player, they will choose to stay near the player even if it will put themselves at great risk, which throughout the game, theyre told to do a lot. That is to say, if you betray the marines in metropolis after the city center fight, and you saved as many marines as possible, you will notice how aggressive they are in chasing you down, as they will likely have a large numerical advantage and not accounting for the fact that they may have vehicles around they may be using, but if you betray marines on a level like cairo or regret in areas where they dont have numbers, you will notice they will take cover a lot more often and be more passive. I have actually modded a personal map of quarantine zone to have marine combat encounters and they are more aggressive than most enemy types in the game. If you could not head shot a marine, id say they'd be the most difficult enemy to kill in the game, but luckily the BR and carbine are great at taking them out.
CE marines do not have a morale system tied to the player, that is a myth. No halo Game has that. Only starting with Halo 3 do they even have morale combat mechanics tied to Sergeants and Arbiter but still the not the player
@@tylerellis9097 I thought the rank was just to determine which ai marine was the leader of a squad, so they'd be the ones yelling orders. I didn't think morale had a factor in it, the marines don't seem affected by the squad leader dying, but this seems to be the case in every game, marines in halo 2 don't seem affected by the player dying besides saying a voice line
Oh you also had the gold shield jackal stay alive;that jackal just refuses to die whenever I'm running that mission. Me and my friends even nicknamed they guy 'Bulwark' as we have yet to see his shield pop.
Halo 3 always had my favourite Allies especially when you could throw a rocket or Spartan Laser on them. I always tried to keep them alive as long as possible. Marines on both The Covenant and The Ark with Infinite laser are extremely useful on higher difficulties. Fun video!
3:02 "Dude, that's an elite, but he's supposed to be on our side, what do we do?" "...Pretend it's the Chief and roll with it?" "You're an idiot. But whatever, works for me."
Fun fact, you don’t have any marine allies in Halo 5 or Halo Reach. In Halo 5 the humans that help you are the private militia of Meridian, and in Halo Reach, all the “marines” are actually members of the army, not the navy.
No, you do have marine allies at the end of Reach. They are wearing different uniforms from the Army troopers you play with a majority of the game. Also the ODSTs are attached to the Marines so those are marines you fight alongside too.
@@RepublicTrooper125 Still disappointed that bungie gave every ally in reach a damage debuff, and if you were wondering why it seems like reach marine ai cant kill anything, ai in general have a damage debuff to other ai on top of the human weapons damage debuffs, so yeah... Thats why on legendary a trooper with a rocket cant even kill the weakest elite in 1 hit. its like their guns are useless
@@RepublicTrooper125 Oh yeah you are right, I completely forgot about that (And yeah, I wasn’t counting ODST as marines but as their own thing) Haven’t played Reach in a while.
The effectiveness of any allies depends a lot on their weapon. A squad of 4+ battle rifles is nearly unstoppable. Allies with precision weapons aim for the head with unbelievable accuracy. Elites have a tough time when they're outnumbered and brutes are a joke.
I always love fighting beside ODSTs and I always try my best to make sure they stay alive. Don’t get me wrong I do the same with Marines but ODSTs are cooler and rarer so it makes it easier
me rolling up to the function in a razorback with my 5 marine oomfies equipped with arcane sentinel beams (we are going to turn the Banished into the Vanished)
I've had instances on heroic and legendary that the workers kill the hunters by themselves in halo 3. I actually found this out on accident when I went AFK. Big respect to them boys.
Fun fact in Halo 2 legendary if you give a Jackal ally a sniper or carbine they will have the same inhuman accuracy of the Jackal snipers plus their shield for extra defense.
I seriously can’t stand the Marines on infinite. I ditch them as soon as I can. If they follow I do everything to shake them. I’ve never done that in Halo until that game. I was overall disappointed with it. The fact that Cortana’s story was ended basically just by watching it ruined it for me and the weapon did not feel like a good replacement. She was far more annoying than I ever felt Cortana was.
I agree with you the marines suck especially in vehicles (rocket launcher marines ) they allways blow me up when i try to ram something and the weapon makes me want to shove nerf darts in every Orpheus in my body then use a cheese grater on my kneecaps and my elbows
The halo infinite marines are what allied Spartans should've been. You give a squad of them snipers and they will refuse to let you get close to any covenant. I had one take a random long range shot at some vegetation off in the distance and I thought it was a misfire until he bragged about getting a heads hot and the other marines congratulating him. On my may over to see what he killed the rest of them are lighting this place up and when I finally get there just nothing but dead brutes lol
You guys forgot that in halo reach firefight you can change teams and play as an elite alongside the covenant forces against other people playing firefight as Spartans. So you can have convenient ally’s in reach.
In Halo 3 the covenant mission there was a marine that me and a friend gave a fuel rod gun from killing one of the brutes in the beginning of the level. I figured after you go up the first spire he would just despawn or get killed along the way but after going back down the spire he was still there fighting the covenant. We jokingly called him the chosen one. We flew that marine to the next spire, completed that and he stayed with us through the rest of the level. Once we got to the two scarabs we lost him, defeated all the enemies and sure enough, he comes walking up to us. We gave the chosen one a hornet as a gift, he took it, crashed into us then flew off. I had no idea they could go through the entire level but man that was awesome. wish he could have gone inside the control room with us and fought along side the flood as well.
A pretty cool thing I discovered on data hive, if you don’t kill the NMPD guy and complete the rest of the mission, Buck and Dare will become “enemies” and will try to kill you.
Halo 2 has the best Marines hands down. They basically carried me through the level Regret after I gave them sniper rifles. On Outskirts if you play it right you can have 4 or 5 marines all with snipers and beam rifles melting everything in front of you. Halo 3's marines were mostly meh, but the ODSTs at the start of the Ark will do some serious work if you give them power weapons.
the halo CE marines when ever their is a ghost nearby are my bane. the amount of times they will jump in a ghost and just drive in front of you and take your perfectly lined up rocket shot aimed at wraiths is insane, i think they are coded to drive in front of you so they advance through the canyon with you on assault on the control room but it just causes them to block every shot your trying to make
The spartans napping is a reference to the spartans never die they only go MIA now we know what they mean they just decide to take random naps in the middle of the battlefields and play dead lol.
Ah, I see you are not a fan of the power trip that is a razorback full of marines with powers weapons... I do recommend you trying to give all marines in a razorback shotguns though. Surprisingly effective.
!!!YOU DIDN"T MENTION THE HUNTER ALLIES IN HALO 2!!! All allies are appreciated. Ones that stand out: specific Thel 'Vadam (The arbiter) My favorite character in the entire franchise. Exuberant witness I find her to be EXTREMELY cute. She is everything Guilty Spark wanted to be but never was. general: Allied covenant, especially hunters. Construction workers from halo 3, those guys are brave! (and very good shots!) All marines, but ESPECIALLY the marine from H4 who takes a Promethean knight with him via grenade after getting stabbed through the chest! All passengers/gunners, operating vehicles would have been a lot less effective without them (just don't let them drive!) The teammates from teams Noble, Osiris, and Blue.
7:15 I mean while in odst you don’t have shields I personally would class the regen system as a shields as it recharges and stop your health from lower as well being affected by black eye.
I now see why Halo fans hate Halo 5. It's not geared toward Halo fans at all but instead the more main-stream fps players. The best examples of this are the drastic change of design in basically all areas including weapons, armor and vehicles. And the reviving feature it so not Halo 😞.
Theyre just challenge points to try and keep alive through your playthroughs. ARs become very niche, player only weapons on legendary and marines get trapped in stunlock when every grunt and jackal has a plasma machine pistol. If you can glitch extra marines on Truth and Reconciliation they can help a lot on the gravity lift since they will actually have some numbers on their side.
Melee Arbiter in Halo 3, headshot him and swap his weapon for a rocket/Spartan laser or brute shot. The closest weapon appears in his hands when he gets up
@@halinaqi2194 Beam rifles and carbines are harder to come by. Besides, Halo 2's marines focus their fire enough to consistently land super combos. Needlers in Halo 3, sadly will not super combo from multiple needlers.
@@puddel9079 you can bring a beam rifle with you from the beginning area, there is 2 beam rifles in a crate right before you take the lift to the prison section (just push it down the lift), so you have 3 by the time you release the marines out, you can get 2 more at the first outdoor area. There are 4 carbines in crate in the prison section alone, its not too difficult. On legendary, which I play 99% of the time, needlers wont work, since enemies kill way too fast, carbines will headshot most enemy types real quick, and beam rifles will melt enemies and stun lock them. Needlers are fun, ngl, i also some times screw around with giving them 5 brute plasma rifles. but yeah h3 needlers are strong but the ai fire way too slow with them.
@@puddel9079 Bruh gravemind is filled with nothing but Beam Rifles and carbines once you get the marines. 5 Needlers is a unique and Viable strat though
Oh dude the workers on halo 3… I always over equipped them with EVERY weapon I found, and I made an army and I would just sit and wait and eventually they would overpower the covenant and absolutely DESTROY them by the anti air gun
In Infinite you can splatter your marines with vehicles and objects or you can place them right where a vehicle gets dropped off at the FOB's and test their agility...😈
Halo infinite marines are insane if you're struggling on legendary. Get a troop hog and fill it with marine especially if you give them power weapons they will just murder everything
Logically speaking for the marines in halo infinite. It would be reasonable to believe that only the best soldiers in the UNSC survived and over the 6 months while trying to hold out from the banished, thus seeing the marines be absolute Chads
i just saw a video showing that they are adding that stupid bug helmet to infinite. thought about this channel and saw that a new video was in. good timing?
Sad he forgot you get hunters for allies at the end of halo 2. Wasn’t for very long but still pretty awesome
Hands down one of the best allies in the series (if not the best)
Everyone knows it is Johnson in Halo 2, my man really saving laso runs on the hardest halo game what a madlad
Go Arbiter. I’ll follow when reinforcements arrive
You just gonna act like Kat didn't exist?!
8:14 "your honour my reticle went red"
@@1celess what's the first hardest?
@@1celess Correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think he was talking about outskirts I think he was talking about halo 2 in general.
The “sleeping” Spartans are a reference to the noble 14, 14 players who stayed online in halo 2 for days to keep it alive when the servers shut down
I remember one of the times I played The Storm in Halo 3, during the Hunter section, I turned around after they spawned to deal with some Brutes I had somehow missed and when I turned back both Hunters were dead and there was a Marine with a shotgun standing over one of the bodies. I have no idea what the hell happened but that Marine definitely became a Spartan-IV because holy fuck
Missed theater check opportunity.
Marines and Elites with shotguns were pretty strong in Halo 3
The Halo CE Sniper Marines were amazing, if you got one into the side seat of the warthog, they would rapid fire with that sniper with insane precision, form a huge distance.
I honestly liked fighting alongside the civilians during Halo Reach, Halo 3 and ODST, and Halo 5. They function like the Marines but they give a new perspective on the fights you take part in. Also you forgot the Militia from Halo Reach's mission Nightfall. They still functioned like the Marines, Troopers, Airmen, and ODSTs in the game. Fighting alongside Elites Grunts and Jackels in Halo 2, 3, ODST, and 5 was so cool too since you're not with Marines and stuff so you can see the Elites perspective of the fights you're in.
There are no civilians in odst unless you mean the cops
I don't want to be that guy but you only fight alongside Grunts and Jackals in Halo 2
@@gooseegg617 That's what I meant. It's still the same thing, non-military forces.
@Commander Cody You are "That Guy" for not understanding what I meant. You know what I meant so I shouldn't need to explain something everyone should know.
@@inductivegrunt94 bro I ain't having a go at you all I'm saying is I don't recall ever fighting alongside with the Grunts or Jacakals in Halo 3, ODST, and 5
So about kats driving in reach, she'll try to drive loosely in the direction of your reticle, so as she makes the 130 point turn a lot of times that is cause by you moving your reticle where she's trying to turn around from
So THATS how it works? So we straight up been causing our own deaths all this time?
@@dj11o9er I'm my experience yes
So we can’t actually give her shit then cause she’s actually just driving where WE have been telling her to…
That's if you're IN the same vehicle she's driving, one time on sword base I had her in a Revenant and I was out to hit buttons, and an elite was on one side of me, and Kat was on the other, and she chose to run the elite over...
2:51 I’ve been saved by a grunt. Not ally grunts tho. It was an enemy grunt who plasma stuck his brute and killed him and himself
This one comment encapsulates the spirit of grunts in the Halo games xD
That grunt sounds like caboose lmfao
I love when that happens
CE guilty spark sucks as an ally. Teleports you far away from the Index, abandons you to unlock doors (meanwhile Flood are just moving freely through the vents), and doesn't use his weaponry at all until Halo 3
If only Mr. “Go Arbiter I’ll follow when reinforcements arrive” helped out some more
Cared more about reinforcements than the arbiter
He's just loves procrastinating
Just a point of detail, in Reach you don't really see Marines till the Pilar of Autumn level (the guys with the clear visor MP helmets are marines. Everyone else is an Army Trooper. But that's splitting hairs.
Theres a few airmen too. In the mission where you're in the ship you can fight with Specialists
Edit: My bad. Specialist is a rank in the US Army.
@@USSCYT Those are Army Pilots not Air Force.
Where as the Marines on Pillar of Autumn are actually Marines.
@@tylerellis9097 Are you sure? I dont think Specialist is a rank in the army. But it is one in the Airforce. But, I think theres a higher chance it's a naval aviator
@@USSCYT the Halo warfleet book and the game code confirm they’re just army pilots. Falcon pilots use the same model btw
@@USSCYT pretty much every NPC in reach is UNSC army units. Which is odd since Army units were mentioned in EU lore but we never see them except Reach. It's why you don't have any of the standard gear as the Army units in the UNSC didn't really need the more advanced gear. UNSC army is used as garrisons on planets so 2,3, and ODST should have em too.
The hunters in halo 2 that fight with you were really really strong
And cute. Hunters are quite cute.
9:44 This automatically puts you on the list for worst Halo allies
10:49 How my mom describes me to other family members
14:06 Since Chief can no longer ping pong around in a escape pod to murder all other marines, he had to get creative
Halo 3 Marines are easily my favourite, but that’s mostly because how their AI works
Accidentally kill a marine on Halo CE and the remaining marines will be hostile forever, basically forcing you to fight them, but in Halo 3 if they turn on you just hide and they’ll eventually forgive you. You can basically just kill as many as you’d like and no longer will accidentally splatting two of them be as much as a problem as it used to be.
You can even completely clear crows nest now, although it’s still difficult
Ha one the funnest experiences I had on Xbox days my buddy accidentally ran over two marines when going into the final building to kill the scarab. He got instantly mowed down by the others. No hesitation on their part lmao.
You forgot 2 other allies in halo 4 and 2 other allies in halo reach
H4: Sentinels and scientists
Reach: unarmed civilians and armed civilians
Speaking of Halo Reach’s squad mechanic and the named marines/troopers, it’s possible to get the one, the only, Chips Dubbo as a squad member as well
Twice I hav3 had the ultimate unsc Ally following me, the first time was on the halo 3 mission, The Covenant, where the odst with red shoulders survived the ENTIRE mission and he killed SO many enemies, he also destroyed a tank, 2 ghosts, a chopper, and several banshees.
While surviving it all on legendary difficulty. The second time was in halo infinite, where an average looking marine just hopped on the back of my mongoose, well this man was definitely not average, he killed maybe just as many enemies as I did on heroic difficulty, destroyed multiple different vehicles, saved 3 squads of soldiers, and by the end of it he was practically a spartan it felt like, he stuck with me for an hour and a half. But sadly, gold doesn't last forever, my game very sadly crashed and I lost him. 😢 Luckily though both of these soldiers technically didn't die, so maybe they retired in peace, as HEROS.
Halo 3 (at least in my opinion) had the best allies over all. They seemed balanced against the Covenant.
Also, this is often forgotten but you actually can have Covenant allies in Reach. It's only seen in Firefight Versus. They performed ok though getting them in a Rocket Warthog on Beachhead or Unearthed was dumb since their rockets would home on the Spartans.
What about the different types of allies in Reach? Army troopers, Marines, Airmen, ODSTs, Saber pilots, and Spartans? I thought that was awesome
Can't believe Elijah ignored the worst ally in the series to date, that being Jun the traitorous sniper in Halo Reach.
Kat from Halo Reach *HAS* to be on the list or I´ll drive off the cliff myself this time
Both Luke and Elijah are so powerful as a duo.
Elijah has an energetic voice and quick wit,
Luke has a soothing calm voice and dry humor.
Usually when I watch UA-cam videos and they change the format with a new person delivering the dialog, it takes me off guard... But for your channel, both of you work so well together, and I love every time you two are featured.
Vale came in such clutch on a meridian mission hold out section where she saved me and my friend 3 times and allowed us to complete it. Tanaka was utterly useless in all missions though 😂
In Canon, the marine you said looks like sergeant Johnson in CE On Halo IS, in the book the Flood he's identified as him and says the same lines he does in game.
First time playing Halo 3 with my sister, we got to the level where you teamed up with the flood. We didn't really pay attention to the cutscene, maybe we skipped it, but we ended up just killing all the flood we saw until we saw they were our allies. Cool thing is I don't think they ever turned on us.
I was playing spartan ops in halo 4. I don’t remember the exact level because it’s been a while but it’s the level where you’re battling on the Infinite and you have to defend the hanger bay. I was playing on legendary and had a sword ultra charging me up the ramp. As I popped his shield, I had to reload. Realistically, he probably needed 1 more DMR round to kill him. As I backpedaled for time, a marine stepped to the top of the ramp and blasted this sword elite with the butt of his assault rifle. Never even fired a shot. The sword ultra died instantly, since he was so damaged, and somersaulted down the ramp. Most bad ass marine I have seen in any halo.
Always had special experience with allies, that is actually my favorite part from Halo series. I was so addicted to them that I even re-played that one Halo 4 level which you will get a couple of marines fighting along side with you.
My favorite level is that Halo 2 mission somewhere at the beginning, I managed to drive my Warthog onto the Scarab in the end. The marine on the machine gun killed every enemies on top of the scarab.
Hey guys ! Love your vids, regardless of the current situation of the franchise, we all really appreciate your commitment to the content. Thanks heaps. I watch ya'll daily.
I’m really glad that your finding ways to keep up the content, keep up the good work!🙂
The cool thing about CE Marines is they will get demoralized if you are losing the fight. But if you are kicking ass they get more confident and throw more grenades.
Yeah it was cool how they had a morale system, they had the beat banter too, overall the most fun NPC allies to have in any game.
@@NYG5 Halo 2 marines have a similar system coded in if im not misunderstanding the mod tools. They have a timid, normal and aggressive parameters for things like chasing a target, taking cover, shooting etc. If they are in a stronger position they will be more aggressive, especially when talking about numerical advantage and the opponents "scariness" level. The issue is when the marines are given the ai order to follow a player, they will choose to stay near the player even if it will put themselves at great risk, which throughout the game, theyre told to do a lot.
That is to say, if you betray the marines in metropolis after the city center fight, and you saved as many marines as possible, you will notice how aggressive they are in chasing you down, as they will likely have a large numerical advantage and not accounting for the fact that they may have vehicles around they may be using, but if you betray marines on a level like cairo or regret in areas where they dont have numbers, you will notice they will take cover a lot more often and be more passive.
I have actually modded a personal map of quarantine zone to have marine combat encounters and they are more aggressive than most enemy types in the game. If you could not head shot a marine, id say they'd be the most difficult enemy to kill in the game, but luckily the BR and carbine are great at taking them out.
CE marines do not have a morale system tied to the player, that is a myth. No halo Game has that.
Only starting with Halo 3 do they even have morale combat mechanics tied to Sergeants and Arbiter but still the not the player
@@tylerellis9097 I thought the rank was just to determine which ai marine was the leader of a squad, so they'd be the ones yelling orders. I didn't think morale had a factor in it, the marines don't seem affected by the squad leader dying, but this seems to be the case in every game, marines in halo 2 don't seem affected by the player dying besides saying a voice line
@@halinaqi2194 They have the leader killed “Broken” huddling together mechanic based on the leader dying. Look at their AI Styl.
Oh you also had the gold shield jackal stay alive;that jackal just refuses to die whenever I'm running that mission. Me and my friends even nicknamed they guy 'Bulwark' as we have yet to see his shield pop.
Halo 3 always had my favourite Allies especially when you could throw a rocket or Spartan Laser on them. I always tried to keep them alive as long as possible.
Marines on both The Covenant and The Ark with Infinite laser are extremely useful on higher difficulties.
Fun video!
3:02
"Dude, that's an elite, but he's supposed to be on our side, what do we do?"
"...Pretend it's the Chief and roll with it?"
"You're an idiot. But whatever, works for me."
How could you guys forget about the only time in the halo series you have hunter allies in halo 2?
I always judged my allies based on how well they followed you throughout the level, and I remember og halo to to be great at that
Fun fact, you don’t have any marine allies in Halo 5 or Halo Reach. In Halo 5 the humans that help you are the private militia of Meridian, and in Halo Reach, all the “marines” are actually members of the army, not the navy.
No, you do have marine allies at the end of Reach. They are wearing different uniforms from the Army troopers you play with a majority of the game. Also the ODSTs are attached to the Marines so those are marines you fight alongside too.
Did you even pay attention in Reach?
@@RepublicTrooper125 Still disappointed that bungie gave every ally in reach a damage debuff, and if you were wondering why it seems like reach marine ai cant kill anything, ai in general have a damage debuff to other ai on top of the human weapons damage debuffs, so yeah... Thats why on legendary a trooper with a rocket cant even kill the weakest elite in 1 hit. its like their guns are useless
equip your allies with covenant weapons to help alleviate the problem, needle rifles are probs one of the best XD
@@RepublicTrooper125 Oh yeah you are right, I completely forgot about that (And yeah, I wasn’t counting ODST as marines but as their own thing) Haven’t played Reach in a while.
ohhh you forgot the allied hunters on the great journey...
The effectiveness of any allies depends a lot on their weapon. A squad of 4+ battle rifles is nearly unstoppable. Allies with precision weapons aim for the head with unbelievable accuracy. Elites have a tough time when they're outnumbered and brutes are a joke.
I always love fighting beside ODSTs and I always try my best to make sure they stay alive. Don’t get me wrong I do the same with Marines but ODSTs are cooler and rarer so it makes it easier
In halo reach I had an odst named t. Brady, which I thought was a reference to Tom Brady
now the civilians in CE has a reason for being so crap due to having less hp so anything even a wimsy slap will kill em
me rolling up to the function in a razorback with my 5 marine oomfies equipped with arcane sentinel beams (we are going to turn the Banished into the Vanished)
I've had instances on heroic and legendary that the workers kill the hunters by themselves in halo 3. I actually found this out on accident when I went AFK. Big respect to them boys.
Can’t believe you completely missed Halo 2s hunters, as well the Halo Reach fire fight fight allies on the covenant side
Always loved getting run down by marines in 2.
Fun fact in Halo 2 legendary if you give a Jackal ally a sniper or carbine they will have the same inhuman accuracy of the Jackal snipers plus their shield for extra defense.
Thanks for the amazing vid love hearing you Luke and Elijah
I seriously can’t stand the Marines on infinite. I ditch them as soon as I can. If they follow I do everything to shake them. I’ve never done that in Halo until that game. I was overall disappointed with it. The fact that Cortana’s story was ended basically just by watching it ruined it for me and the weapon did not feel like a good replacement. She was far more annoying than I ever felt Cortana was.
I agree with you the marines suck especially in vehicles (rocket launcher marines ) they allways blow me up when i try to ram something and the weapon makes me want to shove nerf darts in every Orpheus in my body then use a cheese grater on my kneecaps and my elbows
The halo infinite marines are what allied Spartans should've been. You give a squad of them snipers and they will refuse to let you get close to any covenant. I had one take a random long range shot at some vegetation off in the distance and I thought it was a misfire until he bragged about getting a heads hot and the other marines congratulating him. On my may over to see what he killed the rest of them are lighting this place up and when I finally get there just nothing but dead brutes lol
“130 point turn”
Nice and crispy sound that isn't breaking my headphones! Thank you so much!
The elites on floodgate will throw grenades like crazy and I've been killed by them in the past
Spec Ops Elite moment
They really gotta add driver's ed to UNSC basic training.
You guys forgot that in halo reach firefight you can change teams and play as an elite alongside the covenant forces against other people playing firefight as Spartans. So you can have convenient ally’s in reach.
I personally confirm you can kill Infinite marines...
Halo 2 Grunts with plasma rifles on Sacred Icon or the Marines with Beam Rifles on Gravemind.
In Halo 3 the covenant mission there was a marine that me and a friend gave a fuel rod gun from killing one of the brutes in the beginning of the level. I figured after you go up the first spire he would just despawn or get killed along the way but after going back down the spire he was still there fighting the covenant. We jokingly called him the chosen one. We flew that marine to the next spire, completed that and he stayed with us through the rest of the level. Once we got to the two scarabs we lost him, defeated all the enemies and sure enough, he comes walking up to us. We gave the chosen one a hornet as a gift, he took it, crashed into us then flew off.
I had no idea they could go through the entire level but man that was awesome. wish he could have gone inside the control room with us and fought along side the flood as well.
I hate the Halo 3 Floodgate elites so god damn much, I actually can't count how many times they've betrayed me with hail mary stickies
Spec Ops Elite moment
OORAH another Rocket Sloth video 😎
A pretty cool thing I discovered on data hive, if you don’t kill the NMPD guy and complete the rest of the mission, Buck and Dare will become “enemies” and will try to kill you.
The best allies are the elites on "Sacred Icon" that have carbines. Nothing can change my mind. Those chads are so useful
So glad someone said this. On Legendary speedruns they can change the pace at the end so much so that you could get a new PB just by them being there
Halo 2 has the best Marines hands down. They basically carried me through the level Regret after I gave them sniper rifles. On Outskirts if you play it right you can have 4 or 5 marines all with snipers and beam rifles melting everything in front of you.
Halo 3's marines were mostly meh, but the ODSTs at the start of the Ark will do some serious work if you give them power weapons.
Uhh the best ally is in halo 2 on sacred icon when the grunt says "Arbiter our saviour! Stupid jackal say thank you!"
the halo CE marines when ever their is a ghost nearby are my bane. the amount of times they will jump in a ghost and just drive in front of you and take your perfectly lined up rocket shot aimed at wraiths is insane, i think they are coded to drive in front of you so they advance through the canyon with you on assault on the control room but it just causes them to block every shot your trying to make
The spartans napping is a reference to the spartans never die they only go MIA now we know what they mean they just decide to take random naps in the middle of the battlefields and play dead lol.
Everyone making fun of the marines until ones in the gauss turret
I can't believe "the hunters have come to our aid" in Halo 2 wasn't mentioned at all
Tbh yeah, I love the Infinite Marines. I always force them to have guns like the BR and MA40, cuz those guns are a nice combo. Idc what they say
Ah, I see you are not a fan of the power trip that is a razorback full of marines with powers weapons...
I do recommend you trying to give all marines in a razorback shotguns though. Surprisingly effective.
@@Destroyer_V0 it never felt effective for me. Plus the range
@@dj11o9er Range is def a problem for all shotguns, won't lie there.
I love so much that the video has started 20 seconds in. And you haven’t rambled about garbage no one cares about!
The ODSTS at the beginning of the covenant are goats when you put the 2 spartan lasers in their hands
!!!YOU DIDN"T MENTION THE HUNTER ALLIES IN HALO 2!!!
All allies are appreciated. Ones that stand out: specific
Thel 'Vadam (The arbiter) My favorite character in the entire franchise.
Exuberant witness I find her to be EXTREMELY cute. She is everything Guilty Spark wanted to be but never was.
general:
Allied covenant, especially hunters.
Construction workers from halo 3, those guys are brave! (and very good shots!)
All marines, but ESPECIALLY the marine from H4 who takes a Promethean knight with him via grenade after getting stabbed through the chest!
All passengers/gunners, operating vehicles would have been a lot less effective without them (just don't let them drive!)
The teammates from teams Noble, Osiris, and Blue.
I’ve rinsed halo 3 to death and never in my days have I seen a flood tank form spawn infection forms in. That’s mad
In Halo 2 on the easiest difficulty I used to try super hard to keep every team of marines or Elites alive
The best way to make any ally npcs useful is to give them power weapons once they're low on ammo.
7:15 I mean while in odst you don’t have shields I personally would class the regen system as a shields as it recharges and stop your health from lower as well being affected by black eye.
11:04 bro looks like HiddenXperia
Unarmored dude gets shot in the head at point blank: "omg guyz he died in just one shot!"
New video idea: rank every halo book based solely on the cover art
Halo infinite marines have really annoying dialogue
halo is life halo is love
I now see why Halo fans hate Halo 5. It's not geared toward Halo fans at all but instead the more main-stream fps players. The best examples of this are the drastic change of design in basically all areas including weapons, armor and vehicles. And the reviving feature it so not Halo 😞.
You should do one for all Halo bosses and even better, weapons
Marines on Halo CE Legendary are no more than momentary distractions for the Covenant before they all focus their fire on you
Theyre just challenge points to try and keep alive through your playthroughs. ARs become very niche, player only weapons on legendary and marines get trapped in stunlock when every grunt and jackal has a plasma machine pistol.
If you can glitch extra marines on Truth and Reconciliation they can help a lot on the gravity lift since they will actually have some numbers on their side.
Melee Arbiter in Halo 3, headshot him and swap his weapon for a rocket/Spartan laser or brute shot. The closest weapon appears in his hands when he gets up
Rockets and fire nades when working with the flood. No spare bodies and no trust
Halo 2, equip all the marines on High Charity with needlers, they'll tear up anything through most of the level.
you are better off giving them 5 beam rifles, they will handle every jackal sniper and more.
@@halinaqi2194 Beam rifles and carbines are harder to come by. Besides, Halo 2's marines focus their fire enough to consistently land super combos. Needlers in Halo 3, sadly will not super combo from multiple needlers.
@@puddel9079 you can bring a beam rifle with you from the beginning area, there is 2 beam rifles in a crate right before you take the lift to the prison section (just push it down the lift), so you have 3 by the time you release the marines out, you can get 2 more at the first outdoor area. There are 4 carbines in crate in the prison section alone, its not too difficult. On legendary, which I play 99% of the time, needlers wont work, since enemies kill way too fast, carbines will headshot most enemy types real quick, and beam rifles will melt enemies and stun lock them. Needlers are fun, ngl, i also some times screw around with giving them 5 brute plasma rifles.
but yeah h3 needlers are strong but the ai fire way too slow with them.
@@puddel9079 Bruh gravemind is filled with nothing but Beam Rifles and carbines once you get the marines.
5 Needlers is a unique and Viable strat though
Oh dude the workers on halo 3…
I always over equipped them with EVERY weapon I found, and I made an army and I would just sit and wait and eventually they would overpower the covenant and absolutely DESTROY them by the anti air gun
In Infinite you can splatter your marines with vehicles and objects or you can place them right where a vehicle gets dropped off at the FOB's and test their agility...😈
I’ve always wanted a “easiest laso missions” video, no one has made one
I think we all know what halo reach mission should win
He forgot how in firefight versus you can play as an elite to kill your friends, so you technically get covenant allies in reach
Halo infinite marines are insane if you're struggling on legendary. Get a troop hog and fill it with marine especially if you give them power weapons they will just murder everything
Halo CE Marines with a sniper riding passenger in a hog have Godly aimbot.
Bro running out of ideas like its getting worse lmao
It's actually a interesting video imo
I got here quick, also howdy from OK
The best Halo ally is Arby. No video needed!
Flood in firefight?! I did not know about that
You forgot the Rebels on the Reach Sniper level
Logically speaking for the marines in halo infinite. It would be reasonable to believe that only the best soldiers in the UNSC survived and over the 6 months while trying to hold out from the banished, thus seeing the marines be absolute Chads
i just saw a video showing that they are adding that stupid bug helmet to infinite. thought about this channel and saw that a new video was in. good timing?
You cannot only kill marines in Infinite by running them off a cliff, but can actually just run them over.