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Halo Lore - Why the Covenant Uses Plasma (instead of bullets)
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- Why did the Covenant use plasma, instead of bullets like the UNSC? Today we'll tackle this question, brought to you by Ron and Jacob!
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Unless it’s a MAC gun! “That MAC gun can cut a round clean through a Covenant capital ship.” - AveryJohnson
Charlemagne S actually even those have failed us in some of the books. The shield can sometimes protect a covenant cruser just enough. But it was the most effective weapon against them.
James Irwin-McConnell The MAC’s on the stations were more powerful, the station was built around the gun. The MAC’s on ships were of lower caliber, and it took 3-4 more rounds to take down a Covenant ship!
Charlemagne S and yet a small scout group managed to destroyed the Malta and Athens stations
jason robles Yeah, with bombs because they couldn’t get close enough with their carriers without getting dusted off.
No Username, Move Along I’m not talking about the boarders, they sent the boarders because the carriers and captial ships couldn’t break through the perimeter. Regret’s ship had to run through Malta’s debris field to get to Earth.
Because they didn't liked the 3 first states of matter, so they decided to use the 4th one. The plasma.
AlexandeR SciswoR O3O Fax
AlexandeR SciswoR O3O Well there are actually seven states of matter
Renaissance 6 10, 1856 So ...?
“Hmmm ok I’ll put that in a folder marked “Secret” because everybody knows that’s the best kind of Protection.”
@@Renaissance-fw1ox
How?
Railguns are vastly superior to plasma, why waste energy on producing plasma when you can have a shell travel so fast it generates plasma through friction, and will pass through any shield or anti-munitions system.
I think the energy used to propel the shell would be higher than the plasma but idk I’m just guessing
Jenkins, fire your boltor!
I’d imagine it’d shoot slower since you need to charge the coils before you fire.
The constant stream of scientific inaccuracies in this video are agonizing to listen to. Like harvesting plasma from space. It seems like the vidposter doesn't even understand that plasma is not a unique "substance," it's a state of _any_ matter superheated beyond a normal gaseous state, and even if you gathered it, you'd have to find some way to prevent it from losing thermal energy. We may use plasma in our weapons in the future, but it's more likely that plasma will be created as byproduct of firing high-velocity kinetic weapons, like the railguns you mentioned, or created by explosive weapons. Technically, we already use plasma in shaped-charge warheads. RPG-7s, for instance, superheat copper into a high-velocity plasma jet to punch through armor, and they were developed as far back as 1961.
Collateral damage.
The Covenant actually do use more projectile weapons than expected. The carbine fires a radioactive slug. The needler and needle rifle use crystalline projectiles. The fuel rod cannon fires, well, literal fuel rods. The plasma caster/plasma launcher fires grenades. Then of course there’s every brute weapon.
So there's really only 3 plasma guns? Plasma pistol, plasma repeater, and plasma rifle? (Excluding covenant ship plasma weapons)
theres also the vehicles with plasma, the ghost fires plasma, so does the wraith, the phantom fires plasma, etc
@@domainexpansion-boosiefade I literally just said excluding ship weapons
@@FreezyPop oh my bad i read that wrong, even then the ghost and the wraith aren't ships though?
@@domainexpansion-boosiefade but when I said ships I meant everything vehicle like as well I just didn't feel like going back to fixing that mistake
Back in the halo 3 days when I was Young I always thought they used it cuz they were aliens..... 7 year old logic
Aaron Formanekgibson in a way you weren't wrong. Just half right. They are aliens but just far more advanced.
Same here lol
@@dawsondamer9434 yeah, but we are aliens to them, too.
It's still true. You can explain it better.
@Salty Pickles With a side of CHEEZY HAIR JELL back then I would of spammed the gun thinking it was a machine gun
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This video should be named “Why don’t the UNSC use plasma based weaponry?”
$$$
Seriously, shit's expensive as is. Outfit tens of millions of footsoldiers, starships, and vehicles with plasma weapons and the means to recharge it all, and the UEG would be bankrupt far quicker than it had by the end of the war.
Cause plasma loses energy extremely quick, a bullet can kill someone from miles away, plasma at such ranges would be a gust of wind
I typed a frickin essay above but short answer. Ballistic weapons are better. No matter what level of technology you have plasma weapons would require more bulk and energy to deliver the same destructive force as a ballistic equivalent. Plasma weapons have to do all the work required to create a "shot" ballistic weapons get to offload 99% of that work to an ammunition factory. Their ammunition doesn't require constant electricity to store and transfer. In fact there's pretty good reason to suspect that Human use of ballistic weaponry has a lot more to do with them surviving the covenants size and headstart than Spartans ever could.
Gamer Legends Wasnt the unsc experimenting to a degree with plasma weapons, remember that bit where they talked about experimental plasma rounds as a solution to take down the covenant energy shield in halo wars in a cut scene?
Omega Actual dude, their entire species is trying to survive, they wouldn't care about the money
I'd like to see an alternate game difficulty after Legendary that disables all skulls and completely throws out existing damage tables in favor of total lore-accurate damage.
You are a genius
It should be called, "Lore" difficulty
It could be a skull on its own, just like the tilt skull, that way you can play normal difficulty with lore dmg tables too
So 6 difficulties.
- Easy
- Normal
- Heroic
- Legendary
- LASO (Legendary All Skulls On)
- Realism (stays true to the lore, with maybe or maybe not Iron on)
ODST would become impossible. Without shields you'd die in 1 hit from everything.
"Projectile weapons? How primitive"
*pulls out energy sword* "woot woot woot, AaaAAAHHHHH!"
"But they get the job done."
halo 2 fan
Now, now tell me why are shields so bulletresistant if the Covenant never engaged against Humans before the war? -_-
Maybe such shields where designated first to handle micrometeorites, and those pesky bastards are way more potent than bullets
Honestly bullets shouldnt do much DMG to shields. Depending on the round obvi but small arms fire is gunna bounce off the shield. Same way it would if u shot metal how it'll ping off and u gotta be careful. not saying they cant wear down the shields but a Covenant soldier vs an ordinary soldier (not spartan or super soldier) Would and should win most cases. Their shields would be our biggest problem once we figured out how to break thro em or disable them then the war becomes 50/50 on who has better tactical sense
I knew about plasma ever since halo 1 & how deadly it Is but what about the forerunner weapons because you can shred a player & there body is gone.
Love The Forerunners use a substance called Hard Light. Hard Light is harvested from stars and can be used to make shields, weapons, armor, and much more like the Halo Rings.
PackHunter117
It's like trapped photons?
So they have quantum technology?
PackHunter117
So when we see allies and enemies dedigitalize, could they really be transported into some quantum computers' memory?
Forerunner Weapons are Hard Light Projectiles, Centuries ahead of the Covenants Tech.
Lone Wolf
It should be obvious that it's not only centuries, but millennia ahead of the covenant.
I never thought the question would ever be answered
Just Some Guy without a Mustache I know right, because it was obvious to everyone, wasnt it...
I see you everywhere, how much free time do you have?
Ryaslin if you see him everywhere how much free time do you have?
I see you on every anime video lol.
Psh, I donate plasma all the time for beer money. Tell the covenant to hit me up if they're ever low.
Damn
@@kevincloud574 damn what? Lol you donate plasma, you've got more money for beer, and less blood in your body so you get drunk more easily. It's the perfect maneuver.
hi, I'm someone who recently got a treatment that uses donated plasma, so thanks for doing that
If anyone has the MCC, play Halo 2 today to get an achievement called “Back at it” which means to play Halo 2 on the 9th day of a month. I got it and thought others would like to get it too.
(This is because Halo 2 game out on November 9th.)
Fro sty thanks brother
Ryan McGuire No problem, I just thought that it was a rare achievement, so why not help others get it
Fro sty damn, I played a game and didn’t get it, it was because I already got it on the 9th of February in 2017, fuck! Halo 4 has one for the 6th of any month and halo 3 is the 25th of any month fyi
Ryan McGuire Nice, thanks.
Fro sty RIP I'll have to aim for next month
Technically the Covenant still use projectile weapons such as the Needler, Needle Rifle, Carbine, Fuel Rod Cannon, Concussion Rifle, and all the Brute guns except for the Hammer are projectile weapons. Even the spike nade throws out shrapnel when it explodes.
PackHunter117 I noticed he didn't say anything about the carbine, the covenant readily use it and it is quite effective so why didn't he mention it? That kind of undermines his point in the video, plasma was not flawless and the covenant knew that which is why they use the carbine
emanresuasisiht Plasma was very useful but it still didn’t need to replace projectile based weapons. And yes your right it kinda does. On their starships they only used plasma weapons true but infantry weapons is a different story.
I would agree with kinetic projectile-based weapons being useful in their own ways, such as their projectile would shoot faster than plasma would, well in the game that is, I don't know quite a lot about plasma, but if it is slower than a bullet, then a marine should be able to get more rounds down range than a covenant plasma weapon can, not sure about their plasma lasers though. However, the use of Plasma weapons is to destroy biological matter, for example, the flood, fire is the most effective weapon against them, it burns and destroys biological matter, so for the flood, it can destroy their bodies and the bodies of their possible hosts which could be dead bodies left on the battlefield. Also, destroying the bodies would be effective with ridding the flood of some of its food which it would need to survive.
@@VoidedEmptiness also plasma weapons reveal there position when fired, and i think light cover would a big hassle as the plasma is not really a penetration weapon
Well, if the ‘noob combo’ is anything to go by, plasma weaponry can be incredibly deadly
Ryaquaza 1 true
Only in video games my friend
Not really because in order for the plasma to be effective it needs to be combo'ed with a conventional weapon....At the end of the day human weapons have always been more reliable in-game. I would love to see a halo game where the plasma is as devastating as in-lore
drag00n77 wrong. One fully charged plasma pistol shot and one head shot with the carbine does the trick.
@@evanmann8731 the carbine isn't plasma based though...its closer to a conventional weapon and it doesn't use a dedicated battery.....regardless the carbine is unreliable compared with a BR or DMR.....the BR/DMR fire armor piercing rounds that are somewhat effective against vehicle armor.....the carbine/needle rifle does ZERO damage to vehicles.
This is the least clickbaity halofollower video in forever
Named By I mean the other one would be the the one where they talk about Halo references on TV they forgot one in the show Power where one of the characters is playing ODST and is it bad that I know where he is in ODST he's at the part about to go get Romeo sniper rifle
I can relate a lot!
True.
"while we never see it in the games" a charged shot from a plasma pistol will track
Sugoni Yeah, in halo reach if you play as an elite in MP plasma pistol charged shots do track enemy's
This comment was completely redundant.
Sugoni How so? I was presenting an example of the plasma pistol tracking, if you play as a Spartan for example they do not track but if you play as an elite then they do
I like plasma against covenant and bullet against god damn flood
Halofan 117 I prefer sword and hammer so I can slice and dice and pound them into oblivion.
Ironically, plasma would be better in every way lore-wise against the Flood, since it burns and vaporizes stuff it splashes into, instead of just making tiny holes through it.
In Halo CE and 2, i agree with you. Projectile weaponry is much better against The Flood (if we look apart the Energy Sword in Halo 2) But in Halo 3, one extremely effictive way to kill of flood is to dual wield energy rifles and blast through theyr mongrol hides. But the Energy Sword has become less effective compared to the Halo 2 counterpart.
Halofan 117 hell yeah! Plasma takes down shields super quick and battle rifle gets those one shot head shots on flood even on legendary
Me too and Plasma in the Shields and Bullets in the Head>>>>> Battle........
Ok but the actual reason is probably something more like "cool aliens using laser weapons"
The comment is 4 years old but... laser and plasma are 2 different things
I'm guessing those crates we always see the covenant using are some of the charger stations referred to here.
ThePineappleGuy Damn wish we could use them in game like say you rub out of energy and no other guns near by would be useful I mean won’t be used all the time but if you don’t want to get rid of your favorite covenant gun you can just go near a station and recharge like we do with halo weapons racks, I mean they are kind of used cause they have guns in them they just don’t charge which again I think would be cool if they did
Games For Cykits agreed
Games For Cykits spv3
It's a cargo crate
I wish there was a game mode above legendary called, "Lore". Plasma is as devastating as the Lore, but there's less enemies in the game.
TL:DR I got all excited and this ran a bit long. But there's good reason the humans put up such a fight with ballistic weapons, the covenant still employ them, and the promethean weapons seem to be a blend of energy and ballistics. Ballistic weapons will always be more powerful pound for pound.
There is no reason with anything we know about plasma today to buy into this. Plasma containment and direction is energy intensive. The ammo limit available in the games is generous. If the lore really portrays them as so much more practical the lore itself is silly. In reality the logistics of containing and discharging plasma would be less energy and space efficient than conventional ballistic weapons. A plasma weapon would either need a tank of preheated and ionized plasma, or ready the plasma charges on the fly, perhaps from a classical gas. Though with gas being the least dense, of the classical states of matter, a weapon of a given size would have less ammunition capacity than a ballistic counterpart.
To get around this we could instead give the weapon a liquid, or solid matter supply, and have the weapon elevate this matter to plasma state on the fly. Of course this takes incredible amounts of energy in addition to the energy that will be needed to contain and direct the plasma once manufactured. This means big batteries. Then we have to deal with managing the heat, to protect the weapon and the user. More bulk for heat sinks. A ballistic weapon offloads so much of this energy and management to the factory manufacturing the ammo. As such an equivalent ballistic weapon can have a high energy density charge and high mass slug. The only thing the ballistic weapon is responsible for is lighting the prebuilt charge and directing the projectile. This leaves lots of space available for durable construction, heat sinks, or the use of lighter weight caricaturing. Whatever level of technology is available to the covenant, the same destructive power is always easier to achieve with ballistic weapons.
So plasma weapons lose the practicality game. But what about the question of overcoming defense. Halo presents plasma weapons as shredding shields, but being poor against armor. Now there's more than one way to make a defensive field. If the shield is magnetic, it would make a mockery of directed energy weapons like the beam rifle. Likewise a magnetic shield should be able to easily redirect plasma. Yes it would be possible to have a plasma ball so massive that the shield generator would be overloaded, however the mass and space advantage is in the defenders favor. Now if the shield instead projects a specific particle perhaps that particle would be poorly suited to absorb or deflect a plasma charge. If the shield instead worked like the kinetic barriers in mass effect, something like a plasma round would be more energy taxing to deflect with a mass "slap" than a magnetic field. But halo is softer sci-fi than ME and this doesn't really seem to be how they portray their shields anyway.
Onto actual armor plating. There is no way plasma gets the advantage here. Tank armor today would laugh off plasma weaponry of any sensible scale. A simple ablative coating on standard metal armor could breakaway and evaporate, carrying heat away with it. Plasma weapons would have to overwhelm large sections of the vehicle until too little ablative coating remained, before they could even begin to warp and melt the underlying metal. The coating is going to be at an advantage, all of it's energy deflection work, was done at the factory, the plasma has to do its work in the fight. Yes a ship 100x the size of it's target could have devastating plasma weaponry. But plasma loses the pound for pound fight by a long shot.
So, why do the covenant use it? Well the covenant have been using shields for a long time. If we take it as given that whatever the shield tech in halo is, it folds to plasma weapons, then its understandable the covenant came to favor plasma weapons from hundreds of years of civil war and subjugation. I think there's a second layer to it though. Plasma is a "cleansing fire." Covenant can be heard referring to their grenades as such in halo 2. Plasma is culturally significant to the covenant. These are the reasons plasma is so prolific among the covenant, not a strict superiority over ballistic weapons, but a situational one over their shield tech and cultural significance.
Thanks, I read all of that 🙂 I'm an amateur science-fiction so it was right in my ballpark
Just came here a year later to say you are the only person that seems to have any clue what plasma is.
Dude, 500 years into the future, they have man-portable fusion reactors that every spartan has in the back (inside) of their armor. It is roughly the size of one of those early cell phones. The closest thing we have to a fusion reactor today (called ITER, look it up) costs minimum 10 billion US dollars, it is one of the largest machines we have ever built, it is only experimental and it isn't even fully built yet. Halo universe has no problem with energy generation and storage. To the Halo universe we are the equivalent of how technologically primitive the medieval Europe is for us. Go and try to explain Leonardo da Vinci, as smart as he was, how a nuclear reactor or particle accelerator works, I am waiting. Hell, since tech development speed is usually not linear, but exponential, it means to the Halo-verse, we the humans of the early 21st century are the equivalent of a bronze age civilization to us. You are comparing a modern missile cruiser to the ancient fishing boat when you compare the Halo-verse to what we know of science today. They are so advanced, they got space magic.
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Darth Vader i thought you only posted comments on General Heeds' videos
I agree!
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In halo 2 anniversary when Arbiter confronts the heretic leader he takes a lot of plasma shots in the cutscene with his shields up. However in the books, not even elite armor can take more than 2 or 3 before failing or dying. His armor is insanely strong compared to anything else.
slicer940 well gameplay is different from comics
More like the books are total bullshit sometimes
So basically the covenant in the games are nerfed.
oh yeah. definetly. master chief eating plasma rounds to the chest? fat chance. his organs would be cooked.
@Thelondonbadger The suits were designed to stop bullets and shrapnel in a human civil war. In the books the chief takes a plasma pistol round (a glancing blow) and it took out his shield and knocked him over if I remember correctly. A second round and he would have been gone :)
J Williams the spartans are nerfed more though and the flood has been nerfed so hard...
Yeah, but i think the covenant weapons were not as practical in some ways, like if a few stray rounds go into the air, now everyone knows your position and like if you hit an armored target and cook the folks inside great, but the plasma dissipates once the field is gone, soo if you hit a leaf, well you absolutely destroyed the crap outta that leaf, but not the marines hiding in the jungle
@@themanimal369 a small disadvantage but if you put a civilization against one another one being a energy weapon based military vs primitive projectile weaponry the energy based civilization would win 100% of the time the only reason humans won the covenant war was plot armor, hell even in space combat the UNSC always lost against the covenant. 1 covenant ship can take an entire fleet of unsc ships
Isn’t all the “lore” technically a retcon of the games. All the book description of how strong plasma weaponry actually is was all written after the first game came out. Their cannonity also seems questionable. If game plasma is weaker due to gameplay balancing then why are they as weak in the cutscenes and movies? I think those are more canonically accurate to the lore than the books ever are. If the plasma weaponry is as strong as they are in the books then those poor unshielded jackals, drones and grunts would be fried as they fire their weapons.
Quick summary of Halo lore: New>Old, Games>All. So if the games on Heroic (which seems to be the "canon" difficulty) are one way, that's how things be.
... you don't know much about plasma, do you?
1. You see lots IRL: Flames are technically plasma. Last time you saw a candle, you saw plasma.
2. No need to scoop plasma from a star, just run a high voltage current through a gas to strip electrons off the atoms, that's how you make plasma.
3. Yes, you can control plasma because it is just a soup of electrons and possitive ions, but using the exact same magnetic fields, you could also control anything that reacts to an electromagnetic field, including iron-based bullets. So nothing special about plasma there.
The one thing that makes plasma more dangerous than a bullet is that plasma is usually several hundred degrees celsius and carries a high electric charge in itself, so getting hit by a blob of the stuff would burn you while giving you the shock of a lifetime (literally, as that would probably stop your heart).
Stop being a sperg the man is referencing Halo lore and gameplay segregation.
Benschachar But he still managed to get that wrong tho
*Blood* of there army, get it? Plasma? Get it?
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Plasma doesn't need to be collected; a weapon with enough energy can turn air or other materials into plasma. I think that is what the Covenant weapons really do.
I don't think that is true, and if it was, it wouldn't be practical. How do covenent weapons fire in space? They would require plasma reserves. Another problem occurs when in a different atmosphere, as the plasma would behave differently on every planet your poor grunt self found yourself deployed on. The cost and logistics are too great.
@@superb_ray_of_light but how do you even have a plasma reserve
@@DeltaPrime95 it would have to be a standard material that Covenant weapons would ionize into plasma, probably a gas of some kind. The reason that the Covenant ship needs to carry the gas with them is because plasma isn't just energy, it's a state of matter. A ship in space couldn't fire without a reserve since there is no material to ionize. Like I said, even if the Covenant didn't have reserves, and had an atmosphere surrounding their weapons, any new atmosphere could change how their weapons works, or prevent it from working at all.
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I feel like bullets should be really effective against shields, but bad against armor. Plasma should be good against armor, but bad against shields.
John Smith it would actually be quite the opposite
I thought the energy shields from plasma would absorb the energy of plasma, but would be much harder to stop the speed of a projectile that could penetrate the shield. Of course this technology doesn't exist, so we can only hypothesize.
John Smith Projectile weapons are good for penetrating armour plating because of the shear amount of energy concentrated on the small surface area of the nose of the projectile. However against shields it is far more likely to simply ricochet off than dig in and normalise into the armour. This is cause by shields likely inability to move and deform. Plasma on the other hand will be excellent at boiling away surface sections of armour as when the plasma impacts the armour plating it will largely loose the magnetic containment and dissipate explosively away from the armour into space due to plasmas extreme temperature and pressure. Against shields the plasmas high energy state will want to dissipate rapidly into the shield.
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I would argue that the kinetoc energy needed to pierce armor is nothing compared to a minature sun boiling away at you in a concentrated area. Remember all that energy is being discharged at one in a small area and though it won't have the kick it won't need to.
Though my take on the OP is that bullets are a great cheap alternative for depleting shields though armor penetration especially with space age polymers and metals may varry. Plasma is just more reliable in future wars
@@alexanerose4820 except for the fact that plasma would explosively dissipate upon the loss of the magnetic containment field. If you distort the form of the plasma bolt the magnetic field will fail. When the bolt strikes an armour face the magnetic field fails and plasma does what plasma does and rapidly expands due to the immense heat and pressure. Afterward the plasma takes the path of least resistance and explodes rapidly away from the strike face rapidly cooling and becoming a gas again. The overall damage caused in that short period of time is also limited by the rate the material can heat up at. Therefore ceramic or the common place albative coating on the armour would limit the damage caused in the milliseconds time frame even more. This means that halos depiction of plasma would leave nothing more than a mediocre crater or scorch mark on the armour. Kinetic energy weapons on the other hand are far superior at penetrating armour as they will not dissipate explosively in milliseconds and concentrate vast amounts of energy on a overall smaller surface area. Let's take a look a modern APFSDS penetrator M829A1. It's Penetrator weight is ~4.5kg at 1575m/s which is 5.81MJ of muzzle energy. Being a 27mm penetrator with a typical furstrum length of 55mm that brings the surface area to 2402mm squared. Yeah a whopping 5.81MJ concentrated on 2402mm squared and the number grows even higher after initial penetration as the head errodes off and mushrooms out creating a smaller surface area.
Couldn't the covenant take out most of us just by harvesting the plasma from the sun's near our colonies?
Dank Fish But where’s the fun in that lol
that would take a retarded amount of time if its even possible
the humans probably Mac them before they do it
Time to set it up, being detected, dangerously close to sun which allows all sorts of tactics the UNSC can use to their advantage. Aswell as scrambled sensors due to all sorts of radiation coming from the sun can hinder all sorts of manouvers and proper comunication.
Dank Fish No, there is way to much matter for that even to be feasible in the next few billion years
But if they need to maintain a magnetic field in order to fire the weapon, doesn’t it means the gun needs some form of power source too? And doesn’t that makes the gun’s battery need to refill too? And even If the battery don’t run out, then why don’t they use this OP battery tech to power one much stronger and faster weapon like lasers? Not to mention the plasma weapon’s stealth capability is near zero, as it is literally shooting colorful and slow(in bullet standard) projectiles.
Another point, if they store those extreme temperature plasma inside those guns, doesn’t that make the gun very unstable and a simple damage can make the gun into a plasma grenade and kill the user and teammates?
AND, the reload issue is bad too, bullet bases weapon can share bullets, while the gun stays intact. But the plasma weapon can’t share plasma deposits or battery, so if you run out of plasma, you need to wait for you teammates to finish the objective alone or die in order for you to pick up his gun and be useful again, which is ineffective, even you said it can fire all day (which is weird because plasma weapon is still projectile based, means it still need to shoot something out, and a gun can’t contain an infinite amount of plasma deposit, so unless it eject a extreme small amount of plasma, what you said is probably not true.).
@@029arbiter It has a power source, it is the battery you have in game as well. After the battery runs out, the gun still contains plasma to shoot, it doesnt have enough charge to do so. this is also shown with your gun fizzling when you try to shoot with an empty battery. However, in lore. unlike what we see in game, you can fire hundreds, if not a thousand rounds with a single battery.
they way plasma is stored in lore it doesnt have that extreme temperature until it is triggered by an electrical current, think of it as fuel for a flamethrower. it is a liquid or solid until triggered, and when it goes into the gasform it reaches the extreme temperature.
They have varients like lazers, think of the beam rifle. The issue with those is power, a much more powerfull and faster discharge requires more battery, requires more modifications to make the beams accurate and leads to a more cubersome weapon.
Having thousands of degrees hot bolts of colorfull energy fly at you is a pretty good way to terrorize an enemy, what is even more terrorizing is having those come flying at you from nowhwere because the covenant have stealth technology. no strict need to make your projectiles not very visible if the gunner himself can dissapear and move to a new position.
the plasma goes from a liquid or solid into gas when fired. When something turns from liquid to gas, it expands to 1000 times it's original volume. hence why gunpowder is an effective propellant. In this case the plasma isnt the proppelant, it is the ammunition. meaning stored plasma the size of a bullet, expands to a blob of superheated gas 1000 bullets big. In order to fire a bolt the equivalent in dimensions to a 500 lbs bomb, you only need 0.5 lbs piece of ammo. And this is speaking about the dimensions of the projectile, not the actual explosion when it connects.
@@charchadonto No, not really my dude. Gas does expand in atmospheric pressure, but their magnetic containment fields (a field of positively charged ions that hold in the plasma, which is ALWAYS also made of positively charged ions because that's how plasma works (when matter becomes plasma its electrons become so excitatory that they are stripped away from the matter). This gaseous expansion would not be instantaneous. Also, weight/mass =/= volume.
@@charchadonto sooo the humans were able to fight back in ground engagements fairly well, and i think you are right about the plasma reloads not being a big deal, revealing your position every time you fire, is not a tactical advantage, no matter how terrifying it might be, it will not scare artillery shells also cover is very effective against plasma
The video hasn't started yet, but my basic knowledge of Halo lore is that all their tech is from the forerunners, and plasma worked much better against their shields, so when fighting each other they adopted plasma as their primary weapons. When they stopped fighting against shielded opponents, they didn't adapt.
It is hard to tend to a wound of plasma compared to a bullet wound. The armor or shields they would have developed also would be more immune to bullets in theory. To fight each other they would have to have a greater weapon for a greater defense
Can you do a video on everything we know about hardlight weapons
"If the plasma worked as well as it did in the lore then there would be no point in playing"
uhhhh... Legendary?
Halo 2 legendary? 6 rounds from a plasma rifle and you're toast (sorry about that). Jackal snipers?
UNSC, set 500 years from now, still using bullets
The only thing is that if you melt the skin, you would create a seal on the person you just shot. So It would both disinfect and stop all bleeding. Keep in mind that most battlefields deaths are from blood lost. There are very few instances of people dropping dead.
In lore you can still take a plasma bolt but it'll melt your armour
Clark Dauphin But if it hits your skin it will instantly burn it.
PackHunter117 it'll he like a 3rd degree burn. Biofoam helpe
Clark Dauphin like a forth degree burn
Why Why yeah, it was an unshielded spartan who took a plasma bolt and only got a burn. It did melt a hole in the armour though
Cameron Stradling more like a new 6th degree being honest
“Reloading takes precious seconds” “covenant soldiers has to go to charging stations, plug in their guns and wait a bit.” I love e logic.
Fuck it, I'd take 4 seconds to swap mags over having my gun be out period until I can go to a rear area and refill.
The charge can last a day of fighting. That’s a ton of shots fired before even reloading. Imagine not having to carry ammo because it’s all in your gun and a charging station most likely being somewhere on the battlefield and only recharging your guns once per day.
@@Teddog293 you can't dodge a bullet and cool down rate for plasma weaponry is slower than reloading. I'm going by the game play experience. Swords, beam rifle and charged plasma pistol are deadly.
Are you stupid or don’t know any lore covenant plasma weapon charges last for days without needing to be recharged and who said they’d wait for their weapon to recharge if they could just grab another one while the other weapon charges ? Are you special or just naive.
Nick Kendrick gtfo you really just said your basing your logic only by the games ? You must be a child.
With bullets, you get tearing and ripping and with plasma you get burns. I would say that the reason the Covenant chose (or evolved to) plasma weapons is that they are more effective at depleting shields of an equal tier adversary. Energy is energy, and plasma just has more energy to deal to the shields and thus requires fewer shots to deplete said shields. Bullets, on the other hand, are more effective at killing than plasma shots. Bullets will rip, tear, and blast holes into any object with pure kinetic energy causing hemorrhaging and shock while plasma offers little kinetic impact (with exceptions) with most the damage done by burns that could induce shock if it hits flesh and if not flesh lesser burns. My point is that bullets are more efficent at killing un-shielded targets than plasma-based weapons.
Bro these lore videos are the shit. I watched (listened) to a ton of your videos on it on my way 6.5 hour drive home over the weekend. Keep it up man they’re sick!
Remember when Zanny called himself halo swallower?That guy is a genius.
Where did the Needler come from? Which race invented it?
Captain Polaris the elites most likely
The elites did. And nobody in the universe knows how to make it except for the elites. ONI is working on it though.
The elites made it duh
Oh cool, Thanks dude.
The elites made it and they hardly use them lol
3:30 - Huh? Plasma is collected? Plasma isn't a chemical compound... It's s state of matter that is incredibly ionized / heated...
1337GameDev But you could still harvest it from sources that make it.
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Which would mean enduring those conditions around the capture device, and maintaining the plasma conditions inside the capture device.
I think it'd be much easier to manufacture plasma inside a device, rather than make a device that can be opened/closed and harvest it in a dangerous environment. That's kind of silly.
That's equivalent to harvesting steam for steam engines from geothermal steam vents. Well you "could," but it's not practical, and much easier to create it when needed, especially when maintaining steam takes a ton of energy. Plasma would be orders of magnitude more...
PackHunter117 nope not how that works at all. If i wanted hydrogen id just mine jupiter. Why go through the extra effort of needing to keep plasma in state when i could just pump energy into whatever gass i want the plasma to be made out of on site.
Now I want to know more of the lore about the forerunner hardlight weapons.
Dont the banshee Torpedos somewhat track?
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Not plasma, radiated isotopes are it's ammo, like covenant carbines, but on a larger scale.
oh alright thanks for telling me!
What about the Plasma Launcher in Halo: Reach? It basically fires miniature plasma torpedoes that track targets.
thats so true!!
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That I actually think incorporates both plasma and radioactive isotopes, seems like it magnetizes balls of plasma, concealing a radioactive isotope.
1. Because plasma, for the same mass of a bullet or explosive, can contain the same amount of energy without producing as much recoil.
2. An object heated to a plasma state is far more explosive than its explosive counterpart, only exceeded by nuclear weapons and black holes.
3. No need to make physical accommodations for the different sizes of projectiles.
4. The lethality of a plasma can be based on how hot it is, unlike bullets which is based more on velocity (and thus recoil).
5. The amount of mass you can fire can be adjusted, unlike in bullets and explosives that have a fixed mass.
6. The heat of plasma will force someone to shed their armor.
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You're making the assumption that no one will ever innovate or create workarounds for plasma tech. Meanwhile conventional arms are at the limit of their potential.
@Skelotor Two the problem is people think of plasma in the wrong way. Given how inherently volatile it us it wouldn't work that well as a projectile. That is a plasma "gun" wouldn't work well beyond maybe a few metres at best, plasma just cant contain its energy in a condensed form long enough for it to travel a significant distance. A much more practical use for it would be in grenades or torpedoes, something that contains that vast heat energy and releases it all at once, effectively vaporizing anything it is targeted at. When it comes to handheld ranged directed-energy weapons, it's best to hold out for tech like lasers and particle beams.
Plasma in real world = absolutely trash. Plasma in halo= God tier weapon
Fun bit of lore for you about Sgt Johnson. He suffers from a degenerative disease caused by exposure to high-yield weapons grade plasma. He was standing near a crate of captured plasma grenades when it exploded. Little is known about the condition because soldiers usually die from the immediate effects of plasma weapons long before these secondary effects can manifest, so there's no cure. Johnson was offered a medical discharge but demanded to be sent back to the front lines, arguing that he could still fight, and that if he was going to die in a few years anyway, he might as well take as many covenant as he could with him.
And they do use projectile weapons like the brute spiked or needler rifle
True, I always thought plasma was just easier to get which is why it is more prominent than any other projectiles in the covenant arsenal
Out of ammo for your plasma rifle or plasma pistol get rid of that S@$%
There might be several aspects you might be missing that matter in war. Such as how the manufacturing of the weapon itself, the maintenance in the field, how the weapon performs logistically. Firearms might perform better in some situations and plasma might perform better in others. For example the wraith is a good indirect fire vehicle with the plasma mortar but ultimately the UNCS scorpion would be able to put multiple shots through it before it could return fire effectively. Rate of fire is huge as a plasma rifle might do more damage when it hits someone the assault rifle has a better chance of hitting someone poking out of cover due to the rate of fire. Plasma small arms will always show the person's position when fired while firearms won't always especially at longer ranges. I liked the video just a few things that might not be thought of.
The Covenant do technically use ballistic weaponry though mainly Brute weaponry like the spiker, mauler, and Brute shot are ballistic.
Plasma vs ballistic, both are projectiles.
I don't want to burst your bubble but projectile weapons our kinetic weapons are actually better then energy weapons our plasma weapons, even the military that once dreamed of entire armies and fleets armed with lasers and blasters, are begging to realize there disadvantages
João Soares damn atmosphere getting in the way
João Soares what if we made a hybrid. So we still had high velocity and penetration and high melting temperatures.
physics says no
Isaac Pope actually no, plasma once launched begins to dissipate the atmosphere helps to compress the plasma, whit out it, it would dissipate as soon as it was released, the atmosphere performs like magnetic field that compresses the plasma, permitting it to have a military use, but it's practicality would be of a high thermal low damage and absurd lo range,
Rey Herrera in effect there already are kinetic round of high kinetic and thermal damage, rounds made using magnesium, our even more effective depleted uranium rounds, the magnesium rounds burn at really high temperatures as close to plasma, uranium round are very sharp and they also burn the armor, also at temperatures close to plasma, our even the old HEAT rounds they do kinetic damage using super heated metal,
The covenant uses plasma, because they also use energy shields and plasma is more effective against shields than bullets are. Bullets however are more effective once you drop their shields. We all learn this very quick.
actually, guided plasma does exist in-game, albeit minor
the shot from a full-charged plasma pistol has a slight ability to track
"Plasma isnt something you can just come around from day to day"
> When humans have been using fire for literal millenia.
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I think if they made the plasma weapons work like in lore, It'd be much more difficult and possibly overload the older game systems, but if they implement a skull in the new game that puts this feature in game by turning it on, I'd be appreciative, maybe call it the Canon Skull.
Don't forget how the carbine fires radioactive projectiles that have been described horrifically in the books. A marine took a round in the torso, and lived for a while but was actually untreateable because the radioactive round poisoned his blood and seared his insides.
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Halo's Oddworld and of course a 40 minute in depth examination of a 2 minute engine demo when they could've examined it in 10 minutes.
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When you showed the covenant ship being destroyed by the improperly launched microwarpdrive (when George dies). That wasn't a plasma weapon that was half of the ship being accelerated to warp in pieces.
What? No slipspace drives work by opening a portal in to the dimension slipspace. Where the heck did you get the idea the halo uses warp drives?
Isn't plasma just super heated gas? I wouldn't think it would need to be harvested from a star. I assumed the "ammo" was just the power source used to super heat gasses that it pulled from the atmosphere. I suppose for space combat, they'd have to store the gas source, but since it's compressible, it would be a lot more space efficient than solid projectiles.
My biggest takeaway from this video was the scene where Master Chief falls in the water, getting almost every other Halo game you get killed almost 10 seconds after doing it.
Plasma would be so inneficient on energy. A heap of energy wasted on making a magnetic field just to guide it, why not just use a laser, where most of the energy can be delivered to the target as damage
Obviously they can do it because they have the tech to easily mass produce it it's like a cave man saying its impractical to make ammo for guns because they don't have the modern factories and facilities to mass produce ammo
But ballistic still weapons work after an EMP bomb goes off, but plasma can't since EMP eats the power out of electronics rendering them useless in a fight.....
So why didn't the UNSC use EMP bombs in the first place
Exactly. War is over
Archlight is Online they did
looks like its sweeping time was it EMP using a nuke or a real EMP bomb
heat is extremely powerful in space because there is very little way to dissipate it in a pure vacuum. If hit the plasma will not only damage the hit area through melting it will also gradually warm up the rest of the ship, making it eventually too hot to operate unless serviced.
I always saw it as a balancing choice, if the enemy used hitscan weapons the gameplay would be vastly different, maybe even unfair.
If this was a real thing, covenant would have a hard time once on the ground. Marines taking shots with the Battle Rifle in semi-auto could easily hit elites at 500+ meters easy. Plasma travels too slow and dissipates at certain distances.
I think that is how it works. Elites always try for close in combat with plasma and sword. They rely on shields and their speed to get them there. If they do anything at long range, they make jackals and wraiths do that.
I'm not saying bullets are superior but a plasma weapon would instantly cauterize any wounds meaning that dying of blood loss and having your internal organs scrambled is something that only the projectile based weapons of the UNSC could achieve, which I guess is the only real advantage.
Cauterization is the controlled application of heat over time. In reality, if you were hit with a ball of plasma hot enough, all of your internal liquids directly subject to the intense heat would immediately boil and rapidly expand, resulting in explosion of flesh - quite the opposite of cauterization
Plus if you get shot in a limb with a bullet there's a solid chance it'll keep functioning. Plasma burn would destroy the muscles, tendons and nerves right down to the bone. Bye bye limb.
@@pirateman1144 *laughs in hollow point*
@@DogClutchNot to mention that plasma hits can leave 3rd to 4th degree burns.
you forgot to mention that you would still have to carry around ammo for plasma guns and to cause any real damage to armor it would have to be densely packed making each "magazine" of plasma relatively heavy. remember plasma is not just energy, it has actual weight to it.
uh... Don't bother with the principles behind Halo weapons. It's fiction, and it most certainly can't be taken seriously. Plasma weapons would be extremely easy to shield against. All you need to do is slap a big electromagnet on every soldier, and they instantly become walking plasma deflectors. Kinetic energy weapons, such as bullets, missiles and EM Railgun rounds, on the other hand, are much more difficult to stop. Also, only high-temperature plasma is hazardous. Low-temperature plasma is, for the most part, harmless. You also wouldn't need to "harvest" plasma. It is technologically much simpler to carry a power source, and generate plasma from your desired source material on the fly.
Halo is just a video game for adolescents, take everything from it with a grain of salt.
Plasma weapons as depicted in halo are one of the most inefficient weapons that can be devised in terms of plastic deformation work in the target per energetic requirement of firing.
The first reason for that is time duration of the physical contact of the fast flying plasma projectile with the target on impact (elastic colludion) is very tiny because after the disruption of the containment field the plasma will immediately disperse. This means that there's no time for heat tranfer to the target, only a tiny fraction will be transferred to the target and the rest will be wasted.
The second reason is that the plasma projectile is literally a chunk of gas that a temporarily self-sustaining containment field (possibly electromagnetic in origin) keeps barely together. Obviously the armour penetration qualities of a chunk of gas is vastly inferior to solid projectiles.
So the effects of a plasma weapon on impact is similar to a low yield HE round's effect without fragmemtation damage, but requires vastly more energy and sophisticated technology to produce. Meanwhile the fragmentns of a penetrated solid projectile will bounce around the interior of the target causing massive subsystem damage (organ faliure, internal bleeding) ( a plasma weapon cautarise the wound).
Atmosphere will further spoil its efficiency because during flight, the plasma will be heavily cooled by the atmosphere, and the air drag, turbulence will actively try to disrupt the containment field.
Even if someone creates a plasma weapon that can hurt other someone, its projectile can be easily defeated with ablative armour (like those that are used on reentry spacecrafts).
The go-to realistically usable sci-fi weapons are still solid projectile weapons and lasers. To put it simply if you invest the same amount of energy into a solid projectile or laser weapon that is required for a plasma weapon to hurt someone, then the adequate solid projectile or laser weapon will utterly devastate said someone.
My god man, what nerd pill did you take when you wrote this?
Seriously? Can't enjoy anything without someone getting mad about it because it's not "realistic". There's something called "Suspension of disbelief", But you probably know that, since you're so smart.
Can you do the forerunner instead, their weaponry is more complex than plasma.
God Tube yeah, it's like hardlight or something
There are preloaded magazines. We have the capability to do that, because it's easy enough to just load them in at the factory. In fact, there are pockets on flak jackets and belts just for holding magazines.
I love these new style videos where you into greater detail about small mundane things such as this, or whether spartans get paid or the rewards for a covenant should they defeat a spartan. Idk. I really like these new videos and hope we get more.
But bullets are MANY times faster than almost all plasma weapons, which is a huge advantage
Not really energy weapon based civilization will always beat kinetic based civilizations it's like comparing a society who uses bows and arrows against a society who already uses modern fire arms, the same argument can be made about bows having the advantage of reusable ammo if the bolt isn't damaged and that its quiet but it's a small advantage that is too primitive to defeat a civilization with a more advanced technology. If the covenant just gave all their troops full body shields those primitive kinetic weapons would be useless but that would make them too OP
@FBI A gauss gun would be too much effort to use and too long to reload like a flintlock and would have too much recoil also cannot be used in multiple times. Gauss guns would require immediate replacement for its coils or barrel after one use in G or gravity. A plasma weapon would melt a person in half no matter what armor you have and it can be utilized like an M4 rifle with a ammo capacity of 100 times without weapon malfunctioning after 5000 rounds
@FBI plasma is hotter than the suns core that is more energy than what a railgun could muster railgun. In reality one shot from a plasma blast should disintegrate a person even its a spartan armor. No metal can withstand plasma unless that metal can be used as hull for a ship to travel on the core of the sun. The 9nly way to counter plasma is through the use of energy shields. No metal I know can utilize the concentrated energy of something 1 million times hotter than the suns core. Theoretically speaking one shot from a plasma pistol should instantly disintegrate master chief in one shot but due to plot armor and video game physics it doesn't show its full realistic potential
@FBI than its not Plasma minimum heat to be considered plasma is at leat 1000 times hotter than the suns core
Bullets are badass in every way but that’s just me
We have actually seen examples of covenant plasma guidance in the games. The plasma pistol’s charged shot has a limited tracking capability in-game and the plasma launcher from Halo Reach and Halo 5 fires out plasma-based projectiles that lock on and track targets.
What you all don't understand is the bullets get stuck in the wound causing much more damage after the initial impact, plasma burns which heals the wound before further damage can be done after the initial few seconds of force
What does the Spartan laser fire plasma?
samedoughnut 70 keyword is laser
Aaron Formanekgibson should have seen that earlier thanks
samedoughnut 70 the Spartan Laser is basically just a glorified laser pointer.
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Oh jeez this video is horribly wrong. I love this channel, don't get wrong
I also know loads about real human guns
But what gets wrong
You don't have to load each mag individualy, you just hit the mag realease, pull it out and put a new one in. You only load them individually after battle when they are empty, like charging covie weapons after battle.
You don't use up that much ammo, in halo with the AR or BR you just spam or hold RT. In the real world you take cover and fire in bursts you hold it when suppressing or shoot at cqc. About damage, it does a lot more than you think. Due to the combustion in the gun, the bullet is extremely hot fllies extremely fast. Around 1700 miles and hour. But due to it's heat, it burns and melts the flesh since it is going, the flesh caves in, once it goes out the other end (if it does)i it rips out some flesh and blood if it stays in, it still does "a lot of damage" - Phil Swift. Damage also depends on the bullet size. In halo, the AR takes a 7.62mm, a larger rifle round and a DMR round. The Magnum takes a .50 AE, the 2nd largest pistol round every made, a really big ass round, The sniper takes .50 BMG, a bigger asser round. (Bullet sizes are from the packets you find in Halo CE) I
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The sniper actually fires a round a bit bigger than a .50 bmg. It's a 14.5mm x 114mm
Yea what If you run out of loaded mags? Idiot
@@ThatSexMachine
1. You won't, unless you are trigger happy or spray and prey
2. You ask a fellow soldier, most NATO force all use NATO standard STANAG magazines
3. Use your sidearm
4. Ask for singular bullets from a specialist (e.g someone with a lmg) then fall back and load you mags individually
5. Fall back get more if possible. (If there is supplies nearby)
Stop being a sperg the man is referencing Halo lore and gameplay segregation.
Dont try to sound like you know what youre talking about if you dont know literally fuck all about firearms. .50ae is NOT the 2nd biggest production pistol cartridge
Well, considering that any hit from plasma weaponry would lead to the vaporization, rapid expansion and explosion of the contact area as your tissues and fluids are superheated, even a glancing blow to a non-lethal area would be life threatening the majority of the time.
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This is pretty cool Bryan so halo is inaccurate because if we are working on plasma technology shouldn’t the UNSC and Oni have these technology
Vincent Bonilla should have them regardless. Decades of war and these chumps couldn't come up with a plasma gun. Like oni never reverse engineers
In halo the unsc have a plasma based rino and maybe other plasma based guns
Goldenspartan Gaming oh do they. Well forgive my ignorance, but I still think they should have developed much more. That's just my opinion though.
Fellow Human I got that
They had trouble reverse engineering Covenant technology, costly & very time consuming not to mention they're were in a middle of a war to near extinction, all they manage to get from them was shielding technology which took around 25 years to understand it with the smartest people of the 26th century. After the war they had "just" started to understand basic concepts with the help of Engineers & Swords Of Shanghelios. Hell the UNSC had little understand of Forerunner technology at all, they have no idea how the Infinity engines work excatly, all they know it works as well. Halo is very accurate of its science & technology, as well of it's economics & politics behind it.
I’m afraid you’re wrong and almost every point in this video first off I would like to challenge the argument that plasma is deadly I would like to start off by saying that it is less dense than air as such the ionized atmosphere that actually touches you wouldn’t have much effect because there’s not very much of it not to mention it would be very in accurate because plasma is Hot and light it once to rise if you want to keep an energy fuel around it it will either take constant tracking or a projectile inside of the plasma which would negate the whole thing entirely next I would like to challenge the fact that you could use it all day when it comes to things like batteries you have something known as energy density and the more energy you can pack into a battery the more volatile it becomes so for something they could even fire such a projectile is plasma in the form of a pistol the battery would have to be more volatile Than nitroglycerin and you must understand that plasma is just a nice atmosphere which is basically electricity but not exactly it’s A weird gray area but nonetheless to stop some of the most powerful beams of plasma you wouldn’t need armor you would need aluminum foil and if you actually managed to get hit by a handheld weapon the worst that you could experience is some burning of the outer most layer of skin are you greeted the future holds a lot of stuff that we cannot comprehend but when you start define the laws of thermodynamics that’s the point in which I for one get a little pissed
Stop being a sperg the man is referencing Halo lore and gameplay segregation.
Think you can some grammar there?
One thing about plasma's heat that I didn't see you mention was just how much of that could realistically be used in small arms. When it comes to the warships, yes the vessel could use the heat aspect of plasma's legality to the fullest extent between the ship's shielding and other material sciences the Covenant put into the armor. A lesser extent could be given to the vehicles. But if you look at the small arms, most notably the plasma rifle and pistol, the ball of plasma is formed mere inches from the user's hand with nothing shielding the hand but empty air.
Using the real ceiling of plasma's heat capabilities would evaporate the user's hand the moment he fired. And you can't really say the user's energy shield can protect them, since not only do unshielded units use these weapons, but elite and spartan shields on the hands are much thinner than everywhere else.
As such, plasma based small arms would have to be either redesigned to protect the user, or have much lower temperatures.
3:54 Umm, no. When you go into battle, you have extra (FULL) magazines loaded into your vest for easy access. Drop empty mag, draw new mag, seat new mag, pull charging handle/hit charge assist, and continue firing. With the exception of tube fed shotguns, you don't have to load each round into the magazine before loading the mag into the reciever.
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You forget that in the book Halo First Strike that the UNSC used meteorites superheated with the MAC cannons fusion coils to make plasma torpedos for a covenant weapon to fight back at the covenant with.
We actually have seen plasma being "guided" in the games. The plasma pistol's charge shot has had homing in most of the games. The plasma launcher in Halo: Reach could lock onto players, but I'm not sure if that fired plasma or projectile plasma grenades. If memory serves, the Anti-Air wraith in Halo 5 can lock onto vehicles. I kind of want to say that the AA wraith could lock onto air vehicles in 3, but can't remember for certain.
I think it was Joseph Staten (although it may have been marty o'donnell) who said that 500 years in the future, we had already invented some of the most powerful weapons man could ever imagine. He gave the example of a weapon that took the form of a glass of water, that when you drank it, all of your enemies died. But eventually we decided that was too boring and went back to fun guns.
This just makes master chief even better because he always starts with UNSC weapons. Even with a disadvantage (at least, before he picks up a plasma weapon), chief stays the covenant's devil.
I think the key to covenant plasma is that the plasma is shaped in such a way that it creates its own self generated containment field as it moves
I LOVE THIS VIDEO! Plasma weapons are for CHADS! Ballistic weapons are inferior. Period!
one of the issues I feel like pointing out with plasma is that the electromagnetic shaping in all probability works both ways. hypothetically, if an elite were to activate his electromagnetically shaped sword or plasma rifle to use on me, I could put up some sort of electromagnetic screen to keep it at bay. I'd still have to deal with the heat and superhot gas if it were to 'cool off', but those can be managed.
I bet the covenant scavenged up a means to suppress this, but it wasn't mentioned here, so I felt I should point it out.