Lore Accurate Master Chief Finally

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[@MintBlitz]

Thoughts on the Final Episode of Season 1?

[@dadoll7099]

Haven’t even started watching the whole series

[@sentient9478]

@@dadoll7099 I would have been there the second the first episode released... But the series was not based on the games... I... Still can't... Understand why they did that...

[@agentoranj5858]

@@alextsukishima7666 No, malice.

[@ThelVadam7777]

@@dadoll7099 same

[@ssundeebum]

I saw that if you have subtitles on, the big brute is called Atriox.

[@CommanderConvoy]

Writers: "We never looked at the games" Animators: "Every one of us EARNED Recon."

[@laytonmiller5865]

This comment is underrated AF. I actually wonder how many current halo fans are old enough to understand what this means.,

[@Franky566]

@@laytonmiller5865 you still remember how to get the hayabusa?

[@laytonmiller5865]

@@Franky566 I don't remember anymore, but I had it. I think the only thing I didn't have was the flaming helmet but I think you had to be an actual Bungie employee to get that didn't you?

[@AnonymousHamster]

@@laytonmiller5865 Currently? 67, by the looks of the likes.

[@IAmKnightsDawn]

@@laytonmiller5865 earning recon through community creatons or beating Bungie in multiplayer match was a pain, but it was such an achievement.

[@bakubread9308]

i love how this show goes from genuinely good action scenes to the worst bastardization of a main character I think I've ever seen

[@Who-Uhm-Cares]

It’s not bad the problem is they made Chief way too fucking human for the shows good

[@benatchison8962]

Swear to god the action team is working independently from the story team

[@cristianroy21]

Bipolar as hell 🤣😂🤦🏻

[@wizardmon1337]

@@benatchison8962 So just like RWBY?

[@abhigyanbalodi2615]

@@wizardmon1337 As a RWBY fan that truth hurts harder than a flying slipper

[@fractalflux1120]

To be honest, I was thinking "Hey that's not bad! The HUD is little odd and the Jiralhanae blood is wrong color, but it's pretty damn good for a fan animation!" Then I realized it was from a 200-million dollar TV show that I've never heard of before...

[@sebastianaguilar3924]

What’s the show called?

[@ShaBoop11]

@@sebastianaguilar3924 Master Cheeks

[@Broockle]

same 😆

[@xxvi382]

@@ShaBoop11 Lol

[@goldjaws]

@@sebastianaguilar3924the show is trash. They butchered masterchief and even showed his face.

[@LordyT34]

Whoever directed the fights in this show obviously loved Halo a lot. No one else on the writing or directing staff did but hey it's something

[@junniferluzeytonz]

Definetly something cuz this s**t is absolutely bonkers with org**m worthy choreography that nearly sort off rivals the likes of john wick and an overwhelming amounts of pure badass black air force energy

[@Metaphysicist]

The people who made this show wanted Mass Effect.

[@thebigbadwolf8508]

he need a raise for this scene i'm a 100% sure it's the camera man that played all halo and said lemme handle this scene and did this wonderful job props to him for saving us with this scene.

[@Arcanineisthebest]

The sound work is complete ass tho

[@SomeDude518]

There's a lot of game play Easter eggs in the show, but the lore side feels like someone's yanking diarrhea out of a cocktail made dried fecal matter.

[@_GOING_DARK_]

I love how every fight scene posted online of this show is “FINALLY LORE ACCURATE CHEIF” and then the rest is just “THIS IS THE WORST ABOMINATION EVER”

[@caelanathey124]

Yeah because the fight scenes are the only bits that feel like Halo. Although i gotta admit Chief was pretty game accurate in the last few minutes of the final episode.

[@Darek_B52]

Kinda shows what the show should've been. Even then the action I've seen isn't anything great. The show is trash from story to choreography.

[@caelanathey124]

@@Darek_B52 i feel like the final episode was the most Halo feeling episode of the show. And if Master Chief remains how he was in the last five minutes then I think it could be really good next season

[@Darek_B52]

@@caelanathey124 meh it feels like it's nice windows on a house with rotten foundation.

[@ethandonnelly1973]

The funny thing is that lore accurate has become a meme for chief being unstoppable but in the books the brutes were a massive threat. Elites and Spartans were close but elites always had a strength advantage still while brutes could man handle Spartans easily, and I'm pretty sure from memory the first encounter with brutes was a big "Oh shit what the fuck are these things" Moment for all of blue team not just the chief So we finally have a scene of lore inaccuracy because it massively overstates his badassery and the chief here should probably be getting ripped apart against 3 brutes in close range like this. Hell even 2 brutes would probably be too much in close quarters.

[@koolerpure]

this part was sick but i cant be the only one noticing chief running out of ammo constantly but his rifle keeps firing anyways

[@DangerVille]

Very quick at reloading I guess

[@ultrareconking5942]

halo 4 campaign

[@enzo0260]

Plot Bullets from ep 1, when he butched the elites using the same chaingun that didn't even scratch them 3 minutes earlier, only this time is just infinite ammo

[@Who-Uhm-Cares]

Bullets are some of the most inconsistent things in Hollywood

[@ultrareconking5942]

i just came up with a better comment. Master Chief simply has the Famine skull turned on

[@BigSnakey]

I love how his ammo display on his gun at the end shows he has 4 shots left but he pops off like another 10... Lol

[@BANTHAxFODDER]

Yeah it was only counting down one every three or so shots

[@lorencelaflair4306]

One burst was counted as 1

[@zimnylech527]

Janky special effects and sloppy execution aside, I really, unironically, love how Chief takes a severe beating in this scene, but then just keeps going. Paradoxically, this makes him look even more OP than if he gracefully dodged every single shot and swing.

[@Nempo13]

Would be better if we saw his armor getting damaged from it. It isn't like some amazing super metal. His armor is made of crap we have today and it would absolutely get janked from those blows.

[@Dren69420]

No it’s not.

[@Dren69420]

Although the metal is titanium composite, he has an overshield which takes about 60% of the beating for him. Not to mention that titanium isn’t “crap”, it’s able to stop a 44 magnum and up.

[@TheDeadzon3]

​@@Dren69420 I mean their armor is meant to hold up against most arms, with only sustained armor piercing ammo made in that universe can cause it to fail. Then you have the fact it's also made to withstand plasma weapons as well.

[@randomusernameidk]

​@@Nempo13 "his armor is made out of crap we have today" Wait so we have armor that has regenerative shields capable of deflecting most any kinds of small arms fire and is even capable of surviving falls from orbit and still be combat worthy after the fall?

[@JevonSwallow]

They even got the "burst with an assault rifle, then melee to finish them off" loop that everyone does in Halo

[@donttouchmysoda7551]

that is the only similarity between the games and the show then, good job u found it!

[@lowercase21]

@@donttouchmysoda7551 bet the cgi guys are fans and wanted this to be really good thats the only thing I can come up with. When they showed his face I was so pissed off I was like who the hell is this!? Idk in halo 4? I think when it only showed his eyes I was like clint eastwood? Is that you? Yeah, I'm ok with that. Lol

[@epicphail2926]

They don’t really do that in this scene…

[@PapaSmurff660]

I never burst the ar unless fighting ai

[@returnedtomonkey8886]

This proves there were some genuine halo fans in the production crew.

[@IvanGarcia-ld1gn]

This looks more like a very well made fan animation than an actual studio produced show.

[@rainbowtheranger]

Yeah holy sh*t

[@parkeranimations3671]

Fan made?

[@breastmilkgaming]

Halo CE looks better lmaooo

[@tagrerte4701]

I didn't watch the show and am now confused : is this video not a fan animation ? Is it from a professional studio ??

[@acmaiden5236]

Agreed 100%

[@proverbialking3452]

The most unrealistic part of the entire cinematic is that the assault rifle is killing grunts in like a three round burst. And there is no anxiety inducing beeping of shields being depleted.

[@CandleWisp]

There is a scene where the shield gets depleted and beeps. But this video is a combination of 2 scenes and cuts out that part.

[@RiceKookaa]

This is easy mode not legendary

[@jaredrose2195]

I love how at one point, the assault rifle has 2 bullets in it, and then it immediately fires 6 more shots

[@Megacooler96_]

It's funny that the only times we get to actually see the real Master Chief is the opening fight from Episode 1 and then the final fight scene in Episode 9

[@DangerVille]

Did you forget Episode 5?

[@kryppo4245]

@Private117 chief isnt a whining reckless teenager in the books lmao

[@VictorGarcia321]

This series focus more on Jhon than Master Chief, its trying to show us more about his human side, but i think we will see a lot of 117 on season 2

[@jason5123]

@@VictorGarcia321 and somehow halo 4, 5, and infinite was able to do that without butchering the character

[@bogdanfota4686]

@Private117 Which book? Game of Thrones? 'Cause this show is trying to be exactly that.

[@thinkwithurdipstick]

Love how you can see the ammo slowly ticking down from 8 to 2 even though he shoots about 135 shots, and then he continues to shoot about 30 more without reloading

[@606films9]

They wanted to remind the fans of the old halo, so they gave Chief lag

[@jack_ru6603]

Lore accurate bro.😝

[@dirtyhairy4495]

Don't give them the idea bro they'll start making him reloading and start talking ohh wait he can't no more😏

[@Akomarongg]

and when on 2, she shoots 5 shots. and it doesnt move.

[@somefuckingretard8289]

@@Akomarongg I wonder who the fuck was designing and animating this and was like: "Yeah, this is very logical and makes sense."

[@user-fp3yc9hm6m]

I love how they stayed true to Halo CE’s graphics😂 Seriously this look like it came straight out of an episode of Red vs Blue.

[@junniferluzeytonz]

But you have to admit the movements of the animation and the choreography is award winning and hype worthy But the cgi sadly gives me feeling of a kinda sort off unfinished cinematic

[@user-fp3yc9hm6m]

@@junniferluzeytonz Yeah for a full scale tv production with motion capture technology and a staff of professional stunt team they better nail it.

[@Ben-ek1fz]

@@user-fp3yc9hm6myeah the animation is… well it leaves a lot to be desired, but the actual cheography is perfect . A bit janky but very good, its a shame the rest of the show wasn’t like this

[@ZONE_DWELLER]

RIP RvB BTW, we'll miss ya Rooster Teeth.

[@jaymiester]

I like that it took Jimmy Rings being killed and Cortana taking control of his body for him to actually act like the Master Chief

[@Just_Caden]

I like how this looks amazing then when he's dual wielding the plasma pistols the budget drops to like 5 bucks

[@JainaSoloB312]

YUP

[@quackhead8938]

Real chief would do a bxr then tbag

[@AS-fp4gb]

I read this comment before watching, and... jesus H Tapdancing christ. You were not exaggerating. his HUD changes for goodness sake.

[@nandyrewman6513]

I was thinking this too but then I realized, I think it looks so offputting is because bullets have recoil, a plasma pistol wouldn't. His arms not moving or tensing at all is what makes it uncanny

[@matthewboer8279]

They most have used the nerf gun versions to save money.

[@wolfcantdrive6897]

I’m impressed. He didn’t take off his helmet or see his face for a good 30 seconds.

[@MrSarcasticGaming]

I don't think this is the show isn't this Halo Infinite?

[@tank_dempsey]

It’s because he’s dead

[@Spillow-C]

there are a couple of inside the helmet shots in this battle, Mint Blitz edited them out

[@jasonshinn6212]

Haha 😂 Amen!

[@deathinabottle6759]

@@MrSarcasticGaming it’s the season finale of the show

[@cracno1125]

The worst part is when you remember that Chief is like this only because Cortana is controlling his body. At least, that's what I remember.

[@McCowski]

She helps predict incoming attacks and definitely augments certain movements, but it's still 90% chief doing the shit.

[@whothou]

​@@McCowskino that's not what's happening here. Cortana is completely controlling MC here. That's why he stops talking.

[@McCowski]

@@whothou I read some more comments and figured out whatever the hell the show runners did to butcher the lore and the game.

[@matthewryan9238]

@@whothouno she wasn’t, it wasn’t until you see the dual wield pistol that she had control.the beginning was all Chief.

[@graphite7898]

@@McCowskiThe first thing you said is what it would have been if the show's writers actually followed the lore and games at all lol

[@sanctionedmeat8578]

It started good, then he decided to suddenly fight like starlord

[@samturner6061]

Imagine if every episode was just this kind of mission, and the end just has the Chief sat on the Pelican silently with his helmet on, on the way to the next mission. Then by like season 9, maybe they can take his helmet off. And there's just another helmet underneath.

[@TexMackerson]

Boring ass "big green robot guy killing aliens" Just as halo 3

[@DarkGamer-dq7gz]

Hell yeah

[@nicholasfly5914]

Not silently. With a lot of complaints and emotions as if it was a teenage drama. Cuz game and books accurate Chief is too low on emotions, which is "UnFoRgIvAbLe FoR tHe MoViE iNdUsTrY".

[@leoncoben6983]

As the camera pans up to viewpoint where we can't see his face yeah. Sounds good.

[@rezboifrybread]

@@nicholasfly5914 Have you never seen the Mandolarian? A character can convey emotions even with full body armor on and they can do it pretty damn well. When they did take off the mask it was for a reason and it didn’t stay off.

[@zmk4555]

Cortana taking over chief is the most chiefest moment there is. No talks, no voice, just action

[@nikiradio]

For real that’s the chief we wanted!!!

[@FuhzyLiquids]

And he didn't say a word after being taken over

[@240devil1]

It was the dumbest moment of the fight and there was absolutely no need for it besides Chief and Cortana having a bonding moment.

[@luckybreak360]

Honestly though in my opinion that's kinda boring

[@flanagamer]

Yeah but that defeats the whole point of their dynamic - the human side of Chief and the robot side of Cortana work in tandem to create an effective overall weapon. If it’s just Cortana controlling everything that makes no sense. 🤷🏻‍♂️🙄

[@acetrigger1337]

It looks very good for a fan project. ...wait.

[@KallMeKomi]

These fight scenes are fucking amazing. The choreography is almost on par with Monty Oum's work on Red Vs Blue

[@TheAgentTexas]

This looks pretty cool. Maybe someone should make a halo tv show. Edit: I figured I should be more constructive in my feedback and follow Mint's example. I think doing their own rewrite of the story was a bad idea. They should have gone with a spin off story in the correct canon. I think it's likely that a high up thought that the show wouldn't be successful without master chief and thus we get a new story because pretty much all of his story is told already and you can't add much to it unless you just rewrite everything.

[@SilverViper1000]

It looks so aweful. The physics are completely wrong. But the whole serious doesn't know how simple physics work. This cgi combat looks much more fake than the opening cutscenes of halo 6

[@pianoxcovers5312]

@@SilverViper1000 because this show has a budget of 90 million, while halo infinite had a budget of 500 million.

[@r.e.z9428]

@@pianoxcovers5312 Budget doesn’t equate the quality of the script. If the writing was good, people would be more forgiving.

[@justadictatorridingonanuke3714]

@@pianoxcovers5312 the budget of 500 million has been proven false I think

[@phoenixjones7191]

@@SilverViper1000 yeah the characters in the scene lack weight. They look plastic and light because of it.

[@c_rock3512]

I don’t even think the actor who played chief did a bad job… just the writers man, brutal.

[@ashurad_fox5991]

yes it wasn't a bad job, but you forgot that he is one of the reason why cheeks always took his helmet off. then rant about how people wanted him to put the helmet on at all times.

[@bulldog2000]

Really though I don't even fault the actor I just heavily what the writers were smoking

[@ashurad_fox5991]

@@bulldog2000 the actor was the same as the writers tho. When people pointed it out about "Master Cheeks" always being helmet off. He pretty much tried to defend that decision (1 to be recognized as that person who played that character, 2 just to defend that decision)

[@bulldog2000]

@ashurad_fox5991 I can understand him wanting to take it off though cause otherwise they could replace him easily if there isn't a face associated with the character

[@ashurad_fox5991]

@@bulldog2000 that is true, but he and the writers could've pushed it like the Mandalorian. Pedro Pascal made that character his in the mandalorian, due to his performance. (even with the helmet on, and when it's helmet off... it's not for the sake of showing his face, but to mold the character's personality) Compare that to Master Cheeks, and because of his helmet off behaviour. We can summarize his character as an idiotic soldier that is too overdramatic to make him seem more "human". If the show just shows Cheeks being more cold towards people, but still has a human heart. And always keeping the helmet on until the last ep where he shows his face... The actor would've probably received praise for his acting like Pedro Pascal.

[@t-mac1236]

Awesome. I can tell you worked very hard in the beginning sequence

[@SwordTune]

Shoots 4-5 rounds. Ammo counter goes from 4 to 3. Amazing.

[@DoctahDave]

He definitely had the Halo CE assault rifle with that many rounds being let off without reloading

[@theblubanshee8027]

You can see the ammo count and the funniest part was when he fired about 10 rounds into a brute. And the count went down by one number

[@danielc2701]

@@theblubanshee8027 Shh... I know he's hacking, you know he's hacking, let's just keep it under our hats lol.

[@JohnDoe-zj6xf]

😅for someone who made such an atrocious halo show its evident that they failed in math too.

[@danielc2701]

@@JohnDoe-zj6xf Nonsense! They are just portraying "realistic government accounting" in the show! 🤣 Accountant: "So we spent 10,000 rounds for this battle..." Inspector: "No, 1,000." Accountant: "But sir, you can clearly see...." Inspector: "The government is on a budget, son, and we need to tell the people electing us that we are still keeping to the budget or we'll get the boot next election."

[@JohnDoe-zj6xf]

@@danielc2701 😁

[@sloreo8278]

I cant decide if this looks like well done miniature stop motion or like someone made it reasonably well in Blender. Either way, the cost of these episodes is hilarious for what it is. Don't get me wrong, its cool, but it doesn't look as good as the price tag would imply.

[@xXMc1ovinXx]

digital corridor could do better. This animation has zero weight behind the characters and as soon as you start watching, it takes away from the show. It takes away from the fight and choreograph of the fight because ur thinking wow, he has infinite ammo and no weight behind anything. Like Halo infinite the intro with atriox was vastly better in the 20 seconds of it lol scenes nowadays need weight behind the animation

[@blondeboy4868]

was about to say this lol

[@flavourruling2162]

Looks like how I remember Spy Kids 3

[@BigBladeFan]

Idk wtf you guys are on but this was better then mandos action scenes

[@ace3154]

I say scrap the live action and give it to blur studios

[@lenz117]

Cortana: Jhon come home Jhon: I'm on a mission Cortana: I'm home alone and rampant.

[@dextergrif]

We needed more of this

[@rcrobo]

This looks both awesome and super janky at the same time.

[@tyler_bt3326]

Halo 4s cutscenes looked better in 2012. And they’re the same amount of CGI as anything in this scene. It’s a joke

[@tyler_bt3326]

I’d like to add, this series had a budget of $200 MILLION

[@leoncoben6983]

Yeah I don't know how they managed that. I want to like the scene, but at the same time I hate how awful it looks.

[@zetasann]

@@tyler_bt3326 what the fuck did they spend the 200 million on Did they launder it

[@tyler_bt3326]

@@zetasann fuck knows mate

[@TheGothGaming]

This show could’ve been good if they: -removed all of Kwan’s story -remove all of Makee and replace it some Arbiter hunting for the artifact -tone down by A LOT all of master chiefs emotional scenes Imagine how good it would’ve been if it was an Arbiter instead of Makee. Hunting for the artifact, the he somehow finds Reach and infiltrates using invisibility/cammo. And during the Halsey chaos he manages to steal the artifact. It would’ve been so awesome. Writers dropped the ball

[@danielgeronimo5538]

What's worst with Kwan and Makee is the fact you can pretty much replace any of them with the more compelling female characters of the games and it'll make sense and feel less forced.

[@somefuckingretard8289]

@@danielgeronimo5538 I guess they just wanted to force their feminine bullshit in the story. Kind of like "I'm not Starfire" or whatever it was called when they self insert their own self

[@keithjohnson7893]

That moment when you accidentally ask for a sex scene between Chief and Arbiter O.o

[@DigitalEWhore]

I haven't seen the show, but are master Chiefs scenes like, him being too emotional or there's too much general emotion? Because if it's the former, then yeah, if it's the later, then nah I think that could work

[@TheGothGaming]

@@DigitalEWhore master chief acts like a depressed teenager angry at his mom. He is way too depressed, he looks like he is about to cry every second

[@CyberLou]

Wow this looks like an incredible Halo animated fan Film!

[@epicsshadesmaster-animatio4398]

The brute fighting thing was actually very clean with the bits of first pov

[@D4C_Gaming]

The fight choreographers of this show were really doing something entirely different from the writers.

[@wadeash2937]

Lol sad isn't it. Motion to have the Choreography team write season 2 if we are forced to get a season 2.

[@LilC1deep]

@@wadeash2937 seconded

[@Leftysrev3nge]

Definitely feels out of place

[@420lildonn]

They actually played the games

[@D4C_Gaming]

@@420lildonn this is probably true lmao

[@Hi_Ryyydrums]

As cool as this is that we finally get to see this, I can't be the only one who thinks the CGI looks a little....goofy? I usually don't even care about bad CGI but for some reason this just felt off, don't get me wrong its not bad but it doesn't feel like a giant studio made this, it almost feels like a big KZbin channel made this.

[@henrysarson7417]

from the action it depicted it was pretty good for a Tv Show

[@Zoltoks]

No this was hot garbage dude poorly choreographed bad cgi and not engaging at all.... the fan made metroid Samus vs masterchief was better than this at least in the weight scale.....and that was made around 2009

[@HawaiiNinja]

@@Zoltoks Oooooo you talking about Haliod lmao lets go! I miss Monty

[@zalabit927]

Yeah, i felt like i could watch this from a modern RvB video with some extra budget.

[@diegogl734]

I think mint accelerated a little the scene, you know, for the copyright, maybe that's why it looks a little weird

[@badluck9749]

It's a good action scene until you start paying close attention and realize how they stand around doing mime routine half the time.

[@christopherriale4719]

Lore accurate brutes too. They pretty much just yank everything even without shields

[@3000naryDude]

So this is what Master Chief should look like.

[@nick33ee]

correction: looks like.

[@erickruckenberg8716]

Pretty much yeah. He’s ain’t too complicated.

[@lelouchthedemon]

a bot control him? lol

[@robbielarios9835]

It still isn't accurate to the lore either. In the books he could barely take on one berserker Brute who was choking him out and almost killed him. The only reason it didn't is because it finally succumbed to it's wounds. It took 2 full mags from an assault rifle to hurt it.

[@schoolemail3999]

@@robbielarios9835 In a comic showing what happened whilst chief was on the ark with the prophet he takes on just about every singular brute on the ark there, so it is accurate.

[@wote2760]

Still feels "cartoony" compared to the fighting and action of the Bungie Halo Landfall

[@priteshrana6930]

It is cartoony, Nothing of this garbage series even comes close to halo landfall.

[@DynamicDurge]

Feels like im watching a mountain dew ad. Was half expecting for chief to turn to the camera and talk about how you can win an xbox one if you buy a pack of doritos.

[@hurrhurrmurr]

@@DynamicDurge I honestly thought that this was a fan animation until I saw the description and other comments.

[@AttakusZakus]

Landfall was about Marines and ODSTs though. Ya’ll are getting weird with wanting something edgy. Halo was never edgy, it was always based on Aliens.

[@adriflux7704]

@@hurrhurrmurr same

[@YaloChief]

Lore accurate mint blitz actually

[@enzoborghetto]

when the show finaly shuts the fuck up and decides to be badass halo action its genuanly some of the best halo content ever

[@TheDustyChinchilla]

Throwing the gravity hammer to block the other Brute’s gravity hammer from hitting the marine is absolutely insane.

[@puddimcdunns3958]

Was that not a spartan?

[@vitobratta_WL]

@@puddimcdunns3958 it was kai, the OP made a huge typo

[@TheChurchofJim]

@@vitobratta_WL No it wasn't dumbass, the marine was a spartan but he was talking about the person Chief was protecting

[@skyloryunsc]

They show it like Master chief could barrelly lift it while in the game we sprint jump and attack fast with them.

[@CapitanGreenhat]

No one involved with this show read the books, watched any content, or played any of the games. They have said so several times

[@Swaggs907]

Imagine if the whole show would’ve been like this. This is what we wanted. Maybe it’s just me but it also looks like it was shot in miniature. Maybe it’s the cgi or the lighting idk. This is what we wanted tho. Forget all that melodrama crap and bad writing. Action and mystery. That’s what the halo show should’ve been.

[@sanchoquixote1121]

The irony is, if this was a fan short, everyone would have screamed "why don't the idiots in Hollywood hire these guys to make a tv show?!".

[@JonezBBQ]

This wasn't even a well done scene dude. Compare this to cinematics from 2007-2008 and this looks like it was fanmade. It's actually pathetic

[@Ekajje]

It wasn't shot in miniature. Brutes are actually, canonically fucking HUGE. They tower over Spartans and regular humans are basically ants. Don't forget that Grunts are only like a foot shorter than the average human.

[@hellcatdave1]

@@Ekajje you missed his point. He's saying they look like action figures. Not chief looks small compared to the alien races.

[@Santa1936]

@@hellcatdave1 Yeah the animation is just really bad.

[@Whoami691]

the ONLY moment that felt like halo.

[@iconicrevenant2440]

a man dreams of these kind of battles every night i swear

[@Shurikan136]

this is the chief we want, however the cgi is so of putting in some of his movements, especially his running. However, that hammer throw was badass

[@ThatsAggravating]

Yeah, bad cgi for sure…

[@crapcase3985]

I prefer that running over his robocop walk

[@ajh3461]

I kind of like the weird movements. In Warhammer 40K, Space Marines running supposedly looks weird because nature doesn't normally let something that large run 40+ mph.

[@existentialselkath1264]

They have some really good assets to work with, but I cant help but think that this scene was rushed out the door. The animation is just so weightless and the camera has no physical presence.

[@olly123451]

@@existentialselkath1264 yeah that’s what makes it feel so weird to watch, there’s absolutely no weight or punch to a lot of chiefs movement, he’s so floaty when he moves.

[@onyx_gabriel]

If you look closely at Chief’s HUD when he was holding and firing the AR, you can see the bullets started dropping slowly and just stopped counting the last few. The fight choreography is great, don’t get me wrong

[@plzletmebefrank]

Nvm. Thought I saw the ammo counter on the rifle glitch. But yeah... He has four rounds, and then can suddenly fire like 8-10 more.

[@brianle2147]

Also, the mini-map rotates, but nothing else on it moves lol

[@KSmithwick1989]

You kind of have to use tricks like that. Considering the suits are improperly designed, as they lack proper ammo storage. If they went realistic the suit's silhouette is going be altered by all the gear on it. Defeating the viewers ability to recognize it as Master Chief.

[@IckusVickus]

@@KSmithwick1989 Can't they use this?? kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJW3fIiXjLKMrNE

[@plzletmebefrank]

@@KSmithwick1989 at the same time... The suit is supposed to be a something of a mini tank platform. Having ammo outside would interfere with systems and give the enemy an easy target (either the ammo itself or the mechanism that retrieves the ammo) on a tank. So... It'd make sense if there were some sort of pockets in the suit to place ammo into. I think I remember a cutscene or something where there's pockets in the legs. Might be thinking of the movie Edge of Tomorrow though... I know they had something like that with their exosuits. All this to see... There are legitimate reasons why you wouldn't want ammo outside the suit. But... There's not really the room for it.

[@thesmockinggunYT]

Me at work fighting for the last donut.

[@Gurmudgin]

Now that’s the kind of lore accuracy I like!

[@michaelscott6022]

Looks like an HD rendering of a PS2/3 cutscene. Edit: I'm not usually one for noticing graphics and things like that, but the uninspiring greenscreen, the jarring flat color palette and background, and the unrealistic smoothness of the character motions and lack of cosmetic detailing... a community college summer course would have done a better presentation.

[@Zero_XTZ5]

Bro they do not have the money to try this

[@davidhowell1415]

Seriously I have seen old fan made animations on KZbin back in like 2009 that are better than this

[@zoomunzoom5893]

Try making a cgi show with the budget, seriously. 200+ mil goes way farther in a 1hour 30minute movie than a show that last 9+ hours. Seriously. Criticize the freaking writing, not the CGI

[@morgantuttle5997]

@@davidhowell1415 link me some, I want to see if the brutes and grunts look that good

[@ready1player31]

@@zoomunzoom5893 budget is no excuse if people can render better stuff for KZbin videos

[@onerandomclone]

I find it painful that the only actual time we see Chief be lore accurate are in action sequences which even then have continuity issues. I’ve said it before and i’ll say it again. $10million per episode was not put into this show. Clearly someone’s been filling their bank accounts on the sidelines or something like that.

[@TwiceTheBitsGames]

Looks like they spent quite a lot on this last episode which is why we got so much filler in the middle of the season.

[@lordofthetreefrogs3186]

I have had the same thought

[@Bojoschannel]

I don't believe 10 million goes exactly for each episode, some could have double that. This kind of shows and movies with lots of cgi, costumes and all that are really expensive, then you take into account all the extra expenses for executives, manager and all that useless stuff and 90 million for 9 hours of episodes isn't a unreasonable number. A 2 hour movie with cgi on the level of the show can go up to 50 million alone, so you do the math

[@Sporeboy87]

@@Bojoschannel But they couldn’t get good writers now could they

[@JohnDoe-zj6xf]

Then they should have made just 3 or 4 episodes with total runtime of 5 hrs per season. Kept it Lore accurate and no fillers no need for character development no mindless changes, no alternate timeline. Just 3 or 4 episodes of high adrenaline high stakes Humanity Vs Covenant War.

[@ImmortalKyle]

This show is a monument to all of their sins.

[@wileymoore3914]

I love how his assault rifle says 4 rounds but he fires like 20 more 😂

[@bryr1590]

When they announced that Halo would be getting a tv show this is what everyone was expecting. Instead we got about 12 minutes total of stuff like this out of 9 episodes of a poor man’s space game of thrones.

[@graphite7898]

Without any of the good writing that makes GoT good lmao

[@ultimatepotato192]

@@graphite7898 beside the last 2 season

[@FJaypewpew]

MISTER CHEEKS, DID YOU PUT A BABY IN THAT TRAITOR?

[@sandman4663]

Okay but this is a horrible fight scene. Did we watch the same video?

[@brightroot5719]

@@sandman4663 it at least somewhat resembles what people think of when they think halo.

[@Isaac-le8zv]

I thought the same, the only issue with that, is that even in that episode we didn't see a real MC, 'cause at the end, he gives up and let Cortana literally take control of himself, the real MC wouldn't give up and still save his team and the artifacts.

[@AeroQuattro]

yeah but remember he couldn't touch the artifacts, that's why he had cortana take over. plot line babyyyyy

[@Barryschitpeas42069]

Wouldn't be surprised if next season she "restores control" and his voice is different and his helmet stays on

[@CM-jc7gk]

@@Barryschitpeas42069 lol Any "Halo" TV show or movie, which is made to also appeal to mainstream audiences who don't play "Halo", would have Chief's helmet off a lot of the time. Pablo Schreiber is a good actor. Chief's helmet will stay off. That's the reality of making a TV show/movie out of a 1st person shooter game.

[@Isaac-le8zv]

@breaking the 4th wall like bro literally from the first time when Cortana shows up, Halsey told her that she would take control of the MC progressively, TAKE CONTROL of him, not unlocking some killer shit. That's why she told the MC when he gives up, that she wasn't sure if she can bring him back. so no, he is still not the Master Chief, it's just Cortana in command, you can see that even the info in his helmet changes as Cortana was taking control of him

[@rafel1715]

Yeah all he had to do was just hold out for 2mins, he died for nothing.

[@ryankroskey9351]

Those few minutes when your buddy is killed in co op halo campaign

[@nomadronin707]

I could watch this for hours.

[@MaraShaeButterBiscuit]

Master Chief: *Gets his back slapped with a damn gravity hammer* The fandom: WAIT WHAT?! Chief: *Stands back up* The fandom: *WAIT, WHAT?!!*

[@TheRedKing247]

To be fair canonically the actual gravity part of the gravity hammer has to be activated before use, and you can otherwise just use the thing as a normal hammer - and it makes sense to want to use it as a normal hammer here, considering there's half a dozen of them right next to each other.

[@johnsolo247]

It looks like he got hit with the melee end of a spiker not the hammer.

[@sparkrock9134]

at 0:03 secs was the only point where the gravity part of the hammer was used. When Master chief got hit with the hammer it was with the back end of the hammer as a backswing after missing with the gravity end of the hammer at 0:19 secs. But after that it doesnt make since or follow the logic of what was happening so far since the gravity hammer still goes off even tho the gravity end land on the Brute at 0:22 secs. So gonna have to go with because PLOT!

[@TheDelethar]

@@sparkrock9134 he didn’t get hit in the back by a hammer it looks like a mauler

[@anxiousearth680]

If you mean 0:19, it was actually just him dodging. Hammer didn't hit at all.

[@Nathan-uc6rn]

I love how you can see his ammo count going down consistently until he gets to 4 shots left and then he just has infinite ammo

[@notasherflynn]

Probably just lag

[@jasonlynch282]

Infinite ammo skull

[@gravemind883]

Feature not a bug

[@johndoee7449]

He just a marine in Chief armor

[@ahmedkileralshareef2224]

If anyone is wondering the song is called "genesong"from halo 2 I believe

[@shatterpoint23]

The kick at right brute's hammer was great.

[@alextsukishima7666]

It's enough to make me forget them showing Master Chief's cheeks

[@scarletpsychowolf3578]

If the price for this moment is to endure character assassination, it's not worth it

[@willferrellssweetnips]

Master Cheeks

[@willferrellssweetnips]

Yeah I'm 3.. well I'll be 3 in June actually

[@alextuch4captain353]

@@scarletpsychowolf3578 you assassinated your own character when you let master chief get bitches before you.

[@ujtyhbfgtfsdxz]

@@willferrellssweetnips wow creed! Lookin fresh!

[@heemjefee6889]

I was shocked to learn this was in the official Halo show. For $10 mil per episode they really know how to make it look like a KZbin fan animation someone made in their spare time. EDIT: I was wrong, the budget for this entire show was $200 MILLION. That makes this absolutely unacceptable. EDIT 2: I've had a few people try to tell me "No the CGI looks good for a $10 mil budget." No it doesn't. Game of Thrones had a similar budget of $10 mil an episode and that show's CGI was extraordinarily good. Not to mention this show had an overall budget of $200 mil, meaning they very well could afford good CGI. The CGI is bad, much like the show itself. I really do not understand why people are trying to defend it.

[@Donorito]

Thats what I thought it was...

[@marcusaurelis]

wait..... so this isn't fan animated?! Pretty goddamn bad. It also doesn't look like the same CGI in the first few episodes...?

[@caseyhall2320]

@@marcusaurelis I don't watch the Halo show but bruh, that's gotta be one of the coolest looking fights we've gotten that wasn't RvB or Lone Wolf. C'mon man 🙄.

[@petierodriguez101]

This action scene looks like it fits exactly with that budget. The scene looks awesome.. Plenty of wide angles, long takes of choreography and plenty of dynamic camera angles changes. The filmmaking is great in this scene, doesn’t even look like a fan animation.

[@heemjefee6889]

@@petierodriguez101 The CGI is shit for a $10 mil scene and they don't even pay attention to the ammo counter they include in the scene. Just because it has flashy camera angles or whatever does not make it a good scene when it doesn't even look real to begin with. Half the animated moves look more like stop motion than actual fluid combat and the lighting is so weird all the on screen characters appears almost like plastic or rubber rather than organic mass and metal. Hell sometimes it flat out looks like they booted up the game itself from 2013. Like seriously Red Vs Blue by rooster teeth had better animation to some of it's fight scenes.

[@ImJamieX]

i love how they did the first person cam during these fights... kinda wish they continued to do them in season 2.

[@zaddydaddy162]

Nah it’s just a mint doing his daily stretches

[@jaygarcia6094]

This is all the show needs to be, Master Chief being a badass without showing his face.

[@KingDragonKraken]

Fuck yea... Everytime he took it off.. i was like. "There goes my game hero... " Fucking dumb. Such a let down bro... I BEAT THEIR GAMES ON LEGENDARY trying to see his face. So he can show case it like I didn't wait years for a glimpse... But not continuous af! Ruined too much emotions and they didn't stick to the Halo Games and books !

[@stephencurry4835]

And committing treason

[@caseyhall2320]

Chief doesn't even need to show his face to express his emotions. It might be easier that way, but we already have video games of him showing his emotions in his own stoic way.

[@nicholasfly5914]

In one of the official HALO books there's a lot of episodes where Chief wasn't wearing helmet and even armor. Everywhere else - "The armor is part of my body".

[@Theminecraftian772]

The animation was apparent, the choreography was stiff, things didn't look like they weighed the right amount, and chief fired extra bullets after his magazine reader should have read empty, but it was still awesome to see him actually behaving like the "hyper-lethal" soldier he is supposed to be.

[@keagasourus9883]

Oh I thought this was a well done fan animation this actually came from the show...

[@dr.catherineelizabethhalse1820]

Yup so much to critisize but it is always cool to se action scenes with at least okay presentation of spartan abilities.

[@RatKingJim]

I’d give you a like but you’ve already have 117

[@azrieldalusong5042]

@@keagasourus9883 thought so too

[@UnknownSquid]

Showing him being a super soldier is good, but honestly all this rolling-flipping fancy melee choreography just looks ridiculous and cartoony to me. What exactly is "lore accurate" about simply catching a gravity hammer blow? Even if chief was strong enough for that, the rifle used to stop it here would snap like a twig. Compare what we see here, with the depiction of a super soldier portrayed in the "Astartes" 40k fan film (not to mention the shameful quality disparity). When I imagine Chief being shown at his best, I don't imagine silly Naruto fight scenes pulling highly implausible dancey combat moves. I imagine a ruthlessly fast, methodical and precise soldier. One who's facing entirely lethal foes, but is in control and expertly guiding the situation, not just getting stuck in a suicidal moshpit and relying on the god of conveniently scripted choreography to save him.

[@DoctorPhilGud]

Chief never woke from the pod. This is all just a fever nightmare.

[@mark-angelofamularcano237]

That armor is doing some serious work!

[@plzletmebefrank]

I like how the ammo counter goes from 04 to 10 in one of the frames to justify him shooting it 8 more times without reloading. Also... Is this the combat evolved AR? Cause that was a lot of rounds.

[@nightphantom5208]

He’s just really fast bro

[@Nxccraft]

assuming this was even before the events of FoR then yeah this looks like the CE AR LMAO

[@Echidna23Gaming]

He just swapped weapons and had 10 left in the other mag

[@scottalbrecht6937]

Don't doubt the Chiefs active reload speed!

[@conor9109]

Anyone else notice the bullet count continuing to go down and reset back to 8 or 4. Then one burst leaves the number count at 4 for 2 or 3 rounds and he never reloads

[@nicholasfly5914]

Ammo count on HUD just stuck at 28, btw.

[@iKnownot999]

​@@nicholasfly5914 think that's ammo not in the gun the bullet count to the left does go down but still incorrectly

[@AS-fp4gb]

It was infuriating me, so good to know you noticed too

[@TonyTylerDraws]

They’ll patch that glitch in the next season

[@adapterconverter5380]

its the story lore luck

[@Wroughts014]

Its crazy what a single fan can create on their own with a low budget

[@HeroProductionz]

Honestly, lol. The show had a 90 million $ budget and they were able to fund 3 half decent CGI fight scenes. I feel if they decided to use the budget for a retelling of the games or something that wouldn’t span 7+ hours of walking through corridors and “Reach city” and they focused on retelling Combat Evolved’s story (prob spanning for a little bit of less time) we could’ve gotten so many more impressive visuals and fight scenes. A sci fi horror survival show would have been so cool, I feel with Alien pretty much flopping for the last 3 decades Halo had an actual chance to revive that genre. With the flood portion of the game.

[@matthewrobledo8996]

S2 action scenes will give you headaches

[@JBrotsis1]

who could've guessed in this universe, the plasma pistol would be stronger in a fight than an energy sword.

[@philipfahy9658]

Well I mean that is accurate to lore, plasma pistol is S tier

[@gcwishbone]

@@philipfahy9658 isn't every covenant weapon?

[@HydratedBeans]

@@gcwishbone yeah if you get hit with any plasma weapon then your blood will explode.

[@SourRobo8364]

They just should have had Blur make a 3D animated halo show. All the best parts are heavily CGI anyways.

[@gravy7944]

Budget would have to be through the roof

[@irshadtyo]

I was thinking the exact same thing……

[@SourRobo8364]

@@gravy7944 Uhh, not if it was all CGI. Cut out all the expensive live action stuff. Hell, they could have reused models from the Halo 2 Anniversary cutscenes if they really wanted to save a few dollars.

[@SourRobo8364]

@@gravy7944 It's estimated that a high quality 3d animated show costs $100,000 a minute. Say each episode is 60 minutes long that's $6million an episode. The halo tv show costs $10million an episode. So it would save a lot of money doing it animated and probably be a better show for it. For comparison, each episode of Clone Wars was said to cost $1million an episode allegedly.

[@KSmithwick1989]

@@SourRobo8364 The issue with that, is the $9M an episode figure is basically fake. The $90M budget was not solely a production budget, it was also used for marketing, licensing, and legal/administrative purposes. Not to mention the retainers they paid, when production was suspended in 2020, due to the pandemic.

[@sinsaydoes8816]

With all the effort in making these fantastical action scenes it just makes me wonder if making the show fully animated would have been cheaper and just better in general...

[@link2g715]

chief kicking away a grav hammer in full swing is beautiful

[@devileye90]

it’s a cool scene that we’ve been wanting more spread across episodes, but there’s a lot of jarring errors still (discounting it being not close to lore or the games). i think the live action fights in halo 3/reach/infinites trailers are more convincing in the tactics and decisions chief makes in combat.

[@jorkNar]

He's basically fighting stationary. When did Chief ever stop moving to fight?

[@jorkNar]

So that brute at the beginning tries to axe him with his spiker- and Chief blocks the attack with his AR, and staggers the brute? This is AtLA movie and Power Rangers level fight choreography.

[@thegoat2985]

yea it doesn't make much sense to blow their budget load on these bombastic action scenes. Would much rather have more muted gun play with a sprinkle of the bombastic moments

[@bendynamic2150]

To be fair in the books and comics Chief and his team are like insanely good and pull crazy stuff off.

[@Notski]

@@bendynamic2150 But also in the books a single brute could take down master chief. There's actual realism there, where here it's just Hollywood bullshit

[@hans3519]

Bro likely had freebird solo playing in his helmet too, they never stood a chance

[@mrreziik]

Action scenes in this show are so good

[@worstenbroodjes429]

Gotta give them props for making it look artistically like Halo. Even the environment has this dreamy scifi halo feel. Too bad everything else sucks. I'm done with Halo because it hurts me how everything is just 'meh'

[@KalebThomasisdead]

I'm pretty sure that was actually the map from halo 3 in this vid, so that's pretty cool lol

[@laytonmiller5865]

@@KalebThomasisdead If it wasn't it was probably at least deliberately styled to look pretty much exactly the same.

[@mrsoisauce9017]

The only thing that’s keeping me into halo is Infinite (I know: Infinite doesn’t have a lot of content, but the art style and the core gameplay are just like older halo games if not better, and the story while not the best is still reasonably good, so Infinite is the only thing keeping me in the halo community)

[@KalebThomasisdead]

@@mrsoisauce9017 Can someone explain what's so bad about infinite? Everyone's talking about how trash season 2 is but i grew up with NO season rewards lmao. Old halo games didnt even have dlc! And if a game did have dlc (for example cod) you had to pay 15 bucks for 2 new maps and a calling card. Maybe infinite isn't bad, maybe the community has gotten greedy lol

[@worstenbroodjes429]

@@mrsoisauce9017 mp is okay. I've always loved the campaigns/story as a kid and this one had fun gameplay but left a bitter taste in my mouth when it came to environments and story. Its far from the epic story it could have been and is unfinished for sure

[@nolanwood2143]

Fun fact: this scene is not actually accurate to MC in the books. In the book "First Strike", the Chief has his first run-in with brutes aboard the supply ship "Unyielding Hierophant", who are wielding brute shots. There's a long fight/grappling section where it's said specifically that the Chief *cannot* overcome the raw physical strength of the Jiralhanae. The only way he can break out of the grapple is by application of his training in wrestling, and relying on his dexterity and core strength to spring himself from the grapple

[@HerbMandoom]

NERD! ...I was coming to say the same thing, but I realized the title was sarcastic

[@SkyFireYZ]

I think I remember this part

[@SeanUCF]

I know the passage in the book you're talking about and what you're saying is essentially who would win in an arm wrestling match in terms of raw strength. What does that have to do with this scene where MC is using his agility here, to borrow a phrase: "float like a butterfly and sting like a bee".

[@nolanwood2143]

@@SeanUCF he literally blocks a full-force strike from a Grav Hammer with his forearms. I feel like that has correlation to the raw strength of the brute vs the raw strength of the chief

[@Tonybc99]

they are not doing a grapple in this scene and eh is not overpowering them by brute force, if much he uses their own strenght against them

[@SecretRedBeard]

It was over the minute he kicked that hammer out of its hands

[@WizzLock117]

Master Chief getting smacked by gravity, Hammers, and getting up like it's a nothing 💀

[@CraZyBoTGeometryDash]

Atleast we get a badass scene of chief destroying brutes and other aliens in the TV series.

[@S3RPENT0R]

Imagine if these action sequences had a good story to go with them...

[@s-l-e-e-p-yJak]

Man the mc is really using every bit of his armor

[@Ashinfinity]

That last 5 mins helmet camera less cortana X master chief version is the real master chief what we ve been looking for.

[@JustaBritishPerson32]

It said 06 on the ammo counter all the way through

[@MintBlitz]

Good pick up :)

[@grondstein8147]

It actually counted down but reset every time the gun came back on screen

[@NoOne42]

What're you talking about? It goes from 15 at 0:10, then 8 at 0:13 to 2 at 0:15 for both gun and HUD? Of course, it seems not exactly in sync with actual fire, and then some more fire after that which doesn't update the HUD, so I won't say they got it perfect or anything, but unless I missed something that bit at least seems reasonable?

[@jeremytung1632]

This was so lore accurate I thought it was an ambitious fan project.

[@Benjuicyy]

I mean.. it is But the only ones who appear to like it's source material are the action choreographers

[@danielc2701]

What? You mean you can't block a gravity hammer with your shields? *SPLAT*!!! lol.

[@mitchell1091]

​@Benjuicyy it's not. At all. Even close. In lore, the *average* Jiralhanae is much, much stronger than a Spartan. And certainly won't be effected by a puny AR as shown here. Not to mention, 2 hits to the head from a grav hammer? He's dead. Cal died after 1 hit from a badly wounded chieftan.

[@vitobratta_WL]

@@mitchell1091 But it's chief, he would've punched through all 3 of them in 1 hit causing them to explode

[@mitchell1091]

@vitobratta_WL wrong again.

[@thedabbingender9955]

Im glad he still gets hit with the hammers a few times just to show he isn't straight up death, destroyer of worlds.

[@DirtyDangleDaryl]

Chief looks like the drunk uncle in a family reunion that everyone has to pull away from the kids section

[@Whaccd]

I legitimately didn't think this was from the show because of how good it was.. which is really not a great thing to say, but it is a sign that this thing could go in a more entertaining direction with Season 2. I would actually sit down to watch this show in its entirety if they focused mainly on the action and fighting, with over arcing stories simply being the conflicts and actions that take place during them. I think Halo got popular not because of the story itself being very dramatic or intricate, but because the actions the character take within it feel so larger-than-life. Chief literally piloted a NUKE. He's the most iconic badass in gaming imo and its all the crazy stuff he does during fights that keeps him so interesting.

[@dumbguychannel445]

doom guy is more badass, chief became a bitch in 4 & 5

[@loganpullo7044]

Imagine if the whole show was like this. Some people just believe halo fans are being negative for the sake of it but I saw plenty of moments where halo fans like things for example the armor and weapon props, action scenes, soren, and Cortana the problem is mostly the writing decisions.

[@TwiceTheBitsGames]

@@loganpullo7044 You cant make a whole show like this. Eventually it would get boring pretty quickly. They havent developed any of the characters in any meaningful way. If they had we might feel something when characters lives are in danger. Instead I watched it like I was watching a game which is fun, but it isnt very deep.

[@jonathanschwein8740]

E9 was a tremendous sigh of relief. All of it. Every portion. The best part was not having a second of Madrigal in it 😂, even though I'm sure that will come full circle in S2. Lots of twists and turns that I fully cringed at along with many moments that were just, bad. With that said, they turned it around for the better. When taken at face value as a space drama, it's not horrible, but it NEEDS to focus more on the relationship between Chief and Cortana. That relationship is key to solidifying this silver screen adaptation and it appears to be in the beginning stages of something actually good.

[@gurgleblaster2282]

@@TwiceTheBitsGames hell there are games with more depth. This was just a bunch of tropes stuffed into a show and given a halo skin mod. I liked the casting though.

[@ckmishn3664]

I would think the "lore accurate" version of Master Chief taking a gravity hammer shot directly to the head would be Chief's death.

[@GoofysBandit]

Mmmmm no. Because that's exactly what happened at the beginning of Infinite. Atriox bopped him on the head with his gravity hammer and he survived

[@shabibmahab]

@@GoofysBandit 343 lore isn’t exactly spot on either

[@rebotsomat]

to be fair, it looked like a backswing to wind up another proper 'gravity' swing

[@wumbosaurus9121]

My headcanon is that you gotta use it a certain way to create the 'gravity' effect. Also, he never gets hit with the blunt side of it, only the blade. Which to be fair, should absolutely split his head from his shoulders. A nearly half tonne hammer swung by an 8 foot gorilla would do that to you

[@AnimatedTerror]

@@GoofysBandit it was stupid there too.

[@arty8457]

That's the chief we know and love

[@hooliganbubsy7298]

There's something I always found weird and that's the fact that no game has ever decided to incorporate the realistic effect that bullets or stabbing would have on an opponent. Like when he shoots them, they should start bleeding to death. Even if they keep attacking they should slow down and eventually die even without being hit again.