You hit the nail literally on the head as after this mission is when the team started to drop. At this point we had cut off their initial invasion plans, or so we thought, then all hell broke loose. By the time we reached New Alexandria it was all but over and the Covenant controlled nearly the entire planet and all escape routes. It's amazing the Autumn was able to escape.
That push we make to the Spires. It really seemed like we were going to make some kind of a difference. That MAC round was talked up pretty good. And it couldn't to a tenth of what that carrier was capable of. That was the real "OH SH!T" moment of the battle. Winter Contingency, "Oh, there's Covenant on the Reach? Pfft, there is an army of Spartans here, what are they gonna do?" Sword Base, "That's what you guys get. You mess with Reach, we Spartans turn you to ash." Discover the Covenant army: "Ooooooo, that looks like fun. Time to show the Covenant what we can do!" Carrier shows up: "...we're all going to die, aren't we?"
I still think one of the reasons why reach fell was because the covenant had the upper hand, not in numbers, but by surprise. Who knows if they've been there for months. recon, gathering intel, testing how quick UNSC forces are to respond, the size of their force, rotations etc. If it were under different circumstances, I think the UNSC would've stood a chance, with the CSO down and if the covenant didn't have the element of surprise. Thing is they already established a beachhead long before the UNSC could even notice
@@Padlock_Steve that’s the thing most of H1-3’s cutscenes were filmed like it was a film meanwhile Halo Reach’s cutscene were film in nearly the same way as that of those camcorder films where they film in first person POV or on CCTV cameras and generally moving as if you are moving alongside the characters as another person or a camera mounted on the characters themselves, I believe this is a way to make the scenes more personal and connected to the viewer rather than the cinematic vibe that were used in previous titles
@@DEEZ_N4T That is... a very great way of putting it, and a great use of cinematography in those games. I don't know how to explain it well, but Halos 1, 2, and 3 placed alot of emphasis on the events that these characters are placed in, even with them changing the course of it. Halo Reach is very... reaction based. The Spartans and the UNSC are watching the chaos and wondering if they're going to win and survive or not. There is no Halo ring to run around and blow up, just a doomed world and a doomed fate they're stuck with.
@@dr.boring7022 The reason it is a POV / Cam is because we are meant to be witnessing the Fall of Reach, whereas in 1-3 we are dictating the story. Reach already happened we are just remembering it.
ya gotta love the beginning of Reach, the tactical feel of being in a squad of elite spartans. Thinking in the first couple missions the UNSC is putting up a decent defense of the planet and you might win the day.......only a few missions later to taste defeat after defeat being pushed back to the brink, This was bungie at their best and nobody can tell me otherwise.
I think it pulls off the same style thematic switch that Halo 1 does. In the game you were fighting off hordes of aliens in a galactic war only to realize it shifts to a "fight just to survive" horror game. Halo Reach has you feel like you're managing to fight the aliens off your world and save it, even to the point Jorge gives his life thinking he saved the planet, only for it to be dashed in the very next mission.
What? Bungie didnt created the abomination "Halo 5". Bungie left after creating reach. Showing that the universe WE got is Just at the begining to be Explored. But Microsoft dumped the idea and 343 created 3 awful games that actually killed the Franchise. But 343 isnt quite to blame they Really tryed to keep halo alive but were forced to create this Microtransaction Casino battle pass bullshit. They also Made stupid decisions like changing the Art Style - which they had to reverse in the end because 99% hated it. But before you think im a bungboy - holy makarony did bungie fucked up destiny. And there is No Microsoft to blame. They fucked IT up the same way all by their own so im convinced bungie would have ruind Halo the same way. They were just smart enough to use a diffrent Game to test out these scam tactics.
Just compare Halo infinite with diabolo 4 - then you realize what Microsoft wanted and what 343 was able to fight Off. Im Not saying Halo infinite is good. Its not. (OVERALL - Not talking just about Multiplayer) But diabolo with sneaky Button tactics to make you misclick amd accidental buy Something you dont wanted really Kicks the bucket
The CSO wasn't revealed yet and so far only corvettes had been spotted around the planet. This is one that was threatening ONI headquarters and was a priority target, especially once a Spartan team called in a strike. It wouldn't be until after that first tower is destroyed that the true scale of the Covenant occupation was revealed and the CSO was spotted.
@@VegetaLF7 THIS. The storytelling in Reach was really chaotic, to be fair, and sometimes a little hard to follow. And i always found this whole, "Oh where did the several kilometer sized ship and this giant army come from all of a sudden?" thing did not make any sense at all. Where the towers completely rendering the entire subcontinent not only impenetrable to sensors but also making it physically invisible? You could easily see that ship from orbit, not to mention a fleet and a landed army of Covenant making a lightshow like a major city. Its not as if Reach isn't the fleets headquarters with ships and space stations orbiting all around it. If the pylons were making them invisible, how did they build them in the first place? They had to get there somehow. Did an entire CSO Battlecarrier including its battlegroup just sneak in between two watch shifts? Did they teleport? Was the ship and fleet cloaked and at that point, why did they then need the cloaking pylons then? And after several drastic, unexplained Covenant incursions on the planet, a planet that is the military hub of the UNSC, including Covenant warships appearing ON the planet, behind the orbital defense lines, and sensor grids nobody noticed an entire subcontinent going dark for weeks/months? Like: "Did someone hear anything about Italy in the last few weeks?" "No, all dark. They all don't answer the phone or emails for 2 weeks now and so far, it the ISS crew told us they don't have their lights on during the night." "Ahhh, they probably just all have a hangover." "Yeah, that's good old Italy. They'll call us when they feel better. Remember when everyone in Ireland disappeared for a month after last St.Patricks day?" I loved Reach i think its the haloest Halo of all. But that extends to the storytelling. Halo was always a special case in terms of storytelling. And as Halo peaked in Gameplay and presentation with Reach (imho), It also peaked in the writers confusion about what is actually happening in the game.
@@tomitiustritus6672 perhaps the covies using secret technology snuck on with small craft and built the platforms without anyone realizing. i mean they were more technologically advanced than the unsc so
@Desert Power Yes. A probe latched on to UNSC Iroquois after the battle of Sigma Octanus IV. That's how the Covenant learned the location of Reach. However between Reach and Sigma Octanus IV was only a few days which makes the book and the game incompatible. Book UNSC can detect objects in slipspace (not sure about game UNSC). Indeed, the covenant invasion force inside slipspace was detected in the book. If the Covenant really did send a vanguard before the main force, it would have been done in real space. And traveling from beyond UNSC detection range to Reach will take a LOT more than a week in real space. The Covenant don't have pinpoint slipspace capability at this point so them slipping (teleporting?) in to the planet can be ruled out in the book.
This game, man oh man, it was so good. What's even cooler is the website with our old characters STILL exists. My old General is still able to be viewed with all that armor I purchased. A lot of love went into Reach. I will always remember how beautiful they made the planet look with the aurora effects, several moons and just raw forests/mountains. They really brought an entire planet to life even with its own animals as well.
Just an interesting correction. At 1:07 Jorge says "repeat" on the radio. Soldiers will never use the word "repeat" as that refers to fire control orders, which could cause dangerous miscommunication. Soldiers will always say "say again" when they need something repeated. Just a small oversight from Bungie from an otherwise amazing game that brings great military action to Halo.
Literally wasn't that fleets job. Long Night of Solace was basically the mobile headquarters and flagship of a fleet dedicated to the location and retrieval of Forerunner relics. They deployed troops to get things ready for the actual invasion force, but they were mainly there for the Forerunner relics.
You don't know enough about the lore buddy. This isn't an invasion fleet, this is a fleet that discovered bridge by accident looking for artefacts and is now making landings which they do undetected while waiting for the fleet of particular justice
Fun fact about the defenses of Reach. If the Empire invaded reach with the fleet they had at Endor invaded they would have lost. Hard. That being said the Covenant took a lot of casualties despite technically winning. Could be considered a Pyrrhic victory.
@@green_creeper288 The Empire loses. There really isn't many scifi universes you can insert Star Wars ships into and have them win because of the nature of Star Wars tech.
@@Woopor As well as plot, it's largely due to the fact that star wars space battles are inspired by WWII, so starfighters are meant to mimic WWII fighter planes and capital ships are meant to mimic WWII naval battleships
They used a standard MAC round, not a high explosive MAC round. These MAC rounds are slugs that generate power from the kinetic momentum from such a high shot. Plus, it went right through the corvette.
@@chatterycasque9594 Infinity's Mac fires at 25% the speed of light, a slug from it hits at 2.22 teratons of TNT. Hiroshima was 16k tonnes. idk, I'm still leaning towards a atom bomb sized explosion.
It being a corvette with weaker shielding and superstructure, they likely were able to lower the velocity of the round to avoid collateral without lowering its effectiveness. It’s also, as they say, “in atmosphere(!?)”, so the air resistance would also slow it down.
MACs are only fired at that capacity in orbit, otherwise it would likely burn up in atmosphere or cause a whole host of issues. The other time we see a MAC fired at the ground it does exactly what you’d think a metal slug traveling at relativistic speeds would do
One of those necessary plot holes for a video game. If banshees moved like actual fliers, it would be an extremely unfun series as we got strafed to shit in every open space, especially since almost all the games the split jaws have air superiority
I've always thought the covenant had the banshees as something more akin to a ghost than an actual plane, basically flying bikes. Light, individual vehicles that just happen to take advantage of flight. Just assumed the covenant had larger, faster craft for proper flight. Or maybe we're just better at making metal go really, really fast.
@@amog8202 Canonically, Banshees do move much faster than in the games, but they are largely for ground attack and the Covenant have larger, faster craft like Seraphs for air superiority roles and spaceflight.
Let's take note that Noble 6 wasn't too overwhelmed when using the MAC, that cruiser would have brought the end of Master Chief and the future of humanity.
Presumably the sheer kinetic force imparted by the MAC round pushed it down faster, also whatever propulsion was keeping it up failed when the ship was obliterated, and I imagine that amount of weight would come down pretty quickly without anything holding it up
They fired a Mass Driver shot though the ship and it _didnt_ create a tsunami when it impacted the planet? Missed opportunity to show just how powerful the UNSC's kinetic weapons were.
It is such a good game, I miss when Halo felt the same way Reach did. Infinite is close, but still has a lack of grit / groundedness to it in an odd way
This was a very underrated game. Had too much development and everyone had their duties without overdoing it. It is a shame the lost the best way posible. Wonder what happened to June.
Imagine being on a Mac Defense Plattform chilling on low orbit. Taking down corvettes and shit not knowing there's a MF CSO CARRIER!! already in the planet sending coordinates to an overwhelming and massive invasion force. I bet that guy's day got ruined.
Essentially really powerful coil guns. They're basically rail guns with a difference in how the end effect is achieved, but ultimately it's a really big depleted uranium in Halo's case shell being fired really fast.
MAC's or Magnetic Accleration Cannons are essentially entire space stations dedicated to essentially being a gun, these massive stations are usually used for destroying oncoming CAS cruisers (in this case being used to destroy a small covanent corvette).
Ludicrously huge railguns floating in orbit. Railguns exist in real life, but they’re still in development. The advantages is they don’t use gunpowder and and they’re more than twice the velocity of your average bullet. Just uses the sheer force of a hunk of metal slung at supersonic speeds basically
on the topic of halo reach, which moment got you shocked up the most? Main was when John #5 picks us up and throws us out of the air lock as i watch the vessel blows up with him on board. still gives me chills to this day when i think about it.
Man i remember when i was younger i never understood what happened with the mac round and now im still so puzzled how i didnt Like i mustve just ignored everything they said
Minor nitpick but it would've been cool if they got the sound right for the MAC cannon blowing through the corvette. First of all it should've been much louder. Second it should've taken a while for the sound to reach them, instead of almost instantly.
There are normally a net of them around the planet, they can rotate to fire at any target in any direction, but due to how big a Orbital MAC is its quite slow to move. Plus the covenant fleet at reach was too big for them to make much of a difference, too many targets.
The most underrated halo game, for me the best is halo 2 and halo 3 could be the best but the story has a bit spoil. But Reach, I don't know they are just something else they are unique
Side note, would still be a Hiroshima size blast, but the said orbital defense, that could mean anything. The Navy had some ships in orbit alongside the defense platforms. A frigate easily could’ve made that shot.
that kinetic projectile is going too slow to be fired from a super mac, plus the kinetic energy released would be explosive not the little splash we get into the lake lol. Someone should see if they can mod the projectile to go faster and with an explosion at the lake to simulate more realism
MAC cannons can adjust the charge level of the capacitors, that way they can fire their safely at a planet's surface. MAC guns don't always fire at max velocity
Also, if the Eröd fired at a planet's surface at full power (impact energy equivalent to 51.6 Gigatons of tnt) it would cause a Mass Extinction Event, cracking the crust and showing the atmosphere with billions of tonnes of ash and fire
Too bad this was bungies swan song for their Halo. When343 got it, well, we all can see what they did. Halo 4 has little replay value, and I haven't even wasted my money buying halo 5 or infinite. Maybe in a few years I'll check the bargain bin for it.
how tf does a rocket desinigrate a phantom like that? cringeworthy effect. its should at most blow a piece off or sputter out and crash if it hit and engine or something. but completely poofing it out of existence? cringe
@@vincents6511 one "normal" personnel rocket would not completely desinigrate a phantom. do you not think the covenant would have upgraded alien armor on their assault crafts? lol that little rocket did way too much damage. yes i know how old the game is....... i also know how old the movie transformers is which had muchhhhhh better effects and made around the same time.
@@newslavecity8311 Transformers was a CGI Film that was rendered in High-Poly on very high grade computers. Those effects were not achievable in real time back then, and they still aren’t perfect even now. The reason Transformers and all other movies that involve CGI look so good is because of the quality of the models and the time given to render them.
Im pretty sure the orbital defenses shoot 3000 ton ferric tugston rounds that travel 4 percent of the speed of light Which would create a 55 kilometer deep crater in Reach This is more of a frigate MAC gun
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During this cutscene I thought we were winning the battle for reach. Little did I know this was the beginning of the end.
*cuts to most of the nobles dying*
You hit the nail literally on the head as after this mission is when the team started to drop. At this point we had cut off their initial invasion plans, or so we thought, then all hell broke loose. By the time we reached New Alexandria it was all but over and the Covenant controlled nearly the entire planet and all escape routes. It's amazing the Autumn was able to escape.
Anyone who read fall of reach knew this game wasn't gonna have a happy ending
That push we make to the Spires. It really seemed like we were going to make some kind of a difference.
That MAC round was talked up pretty good. And it couldn't to a tenth of what that carrier was capable of. That was the real "OH SH!T" moment of the battle.
Winter Contingency, "Oh, there's Covenant on the Reach? Pfft, there is an army of Spartans here, what are they gonna do?"
Sword Base, "That's what you guys get. You mess with Reach, we Spartans turn you to ash."
Discover the Covenant army: "Ooooooo, that looks like fun. Time to show the Covenant what we can do!"
Carrier shows up: "...we're all going to die, aren't we?"
I still think one of the reasons why reach fell was because the covenant had the upper hand, not in numbers, but by surprise. Who knows if they've been there for months. recon, gathering intel, testing how quick UNSC forces are to respond, the size of their force, rotations etc. If it were under different circumstances, I think the UNSC would've stood a chance, with the CSO down and if the covenant didn't have the element of surprise. Thing is they already established a beachhead long before the UNSC could even notice
One of my favourite cutscenes. Makes you think that you achieved something when in reality you didn't, not even close.
You did achieve something, it just ended up not being enough.
@@dewdew80 They delivered hope, sometimes that’s all that’s needed.
well actually you did, reach costed the covenant a lot, even though they won in the end.
The camera angles in this game were amazing.
The developers worked with cinematographers as far as I know for Reach
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@@Padlock_Steve that’s the thing most of H1-3’s cutscenes were filmed like it was a film meanwhile Halo Reach’s cutscene were film in nearly the same way as that of those camcorder films where they film in first person POV or on CCTV cameras and generally moving as if you are moving alongside the characters as another person or a camera mounted on the characters themselves, I believe this is a way to make the scenes more personal and connected to the viewer rather than the cinematic vibe that were used in previous titles
@@DEEZ_N4T That is... a very great way of putting it, and a great use of cinematography in those games. I don't know how to explain it well, but Halos 1, 2, and 3 placed alot of emphasis on the events that these characters are placed in, even with them changing the course of it. Halo Reach is very... reaction based. The Spartans and the UNSC are watching the chaos and wondering if they're going to win and survive or not. There is no Halo ring to run around and blow up, just a doomed world and a doomed fate they're stuck with.
@@dr.boring7022 The reason it is a POV / Cam is because we are meant to be witnessing the Fall of Reach, whereas in 1-3 we are dictating the story. Reach already happened we are just remembering it.
ya gotta love the beginning of Reach, the tactical feel of being in a squad of elite spartans. Thinking in the first couple missions the UNSC is putting up a decent defense of the planet and you might win the day.......only a few missions later to taste defeat after defeat being pushed back to the brink, This was bungie at their best and nobody can tell me otherwise.
And then the end of the game where you deliver hope, when everything else tries to make you believe there is none.
I think it pulls off the same style thematic switch that Halo 1 does. In the game you were fighting off hordes of aliens in a galactic war only to realize it shifts to a "fight just to survive" horror game.
Halo Reach has you feel like you're managing to fight the aliens off your world and save it, even to the point Jorge gives his life thinking he saved the planet, only for it to be dashed in the very next mission.
Bungie casually dumping all over Halo 5s squad system
Never had any stupid things happen with Noble team except Kat driving
What? Bungie didnt created the abomination "Halo 5". Bungie left after creating reach. Showing that the universe WE got is Just at the begining to be Explored. But Microsoft dumped the idea and 343 created 3 awful games that actually killed the Franchise. But 343 isnt quite to blame they Really tryed to keep halo alive but were forced to create this Microtransaction Casino battle pass bullshit. They also Made stupid decisions like changing the Art Style - which they had to reverse in the end because 99% hated it.
But before you think im a bungboy - holy makarony did bungie fucked up destiny. And there is No Microsoft to blame. They fucked IT up the same way all by their own so im convinced bungie would have ruind Halo the same way. They were just smart enough to use a diffrent Game to test out these scam tactics.
Just compare Halo infinite with diabolo 4 - then you realize what Microsoft wanted and what 343 was able to fight Off. Im Not saying Halo infinite is good. Its not. (OVERALL - Not talking just about Multiplayer) But diabolo with sneaky Button tactics to make you misclick amd accidental buy Something you dont wanted really Kicks the bucket
the fact that a supermac which should focus on the CAS and CSO class Supercarrier's turned itsself around just to annahilate a small corvette
The CSO wasn't revealed yet and so far only corvettes had been spotted around the planet. This is one that was threatening ONI headquarters and was a priority target, especially once a Spartan team called in a strike. It wouldn't be until after that first tower is destroyed that the true scale of the Covenant occupation was revealed and the CSO was spotted.
@@VegetaLF7 THIS. The storytelling in Reach was really chaotic, to be fair, and sometimes a little hard to follow. And i always found this whole, "Oh where did the several kilometer sized ship and this giant army come from all of a sudden?" thing did not make any sense at all. Where the towers completely rendering the entire subcontinent not only impenetrable to sensors but also making it physically invisible? You could easily see that ship from orbit, not to mention a fleet and a landed army of Covenant making a lightshow like a major city. Its not as if Reach isn't the fleets headquarters with ships and space stations orbiting all around it.
If the pylons were making them invisible, how did they build them in the first place? They had to get there somehow. Did an entire CSO Battlecarrier including its battlegroup just sneak in between two watch shifts? Did they teleport? Was the ship and fleet cloaked and at that point, why did they then need the cloaking pylons then?
And after several drastic, unexplained Covenant incursions on the planet, a planet that is the military hub of the UNSC, including Covenant warships appearing ON the planet, behind the orbital defense lines, and sensor grids nobody noticed an entire subcontinent going dark for weeks/months?
Like: "Did someone hear anything about Italy in the last few weeks?"
"No, all dark. They all don't answer the phone or emails for 2 weeks now and so far, it the ISS crew told us they don't have their lights on during the night."
"Ahhh, they probably just all have a hangover."
"Yeah, that's good old Italy. They'll call us when they feel better. Remember when everyone in Ireland disappeared for a month after last St.Patricks day?"
I loved Reach i think its the haloest Halo of all. But that extends to the storytelling. Halo was always a special case in terms of storytelling. And as Halo peaked in Gameplay and presentation with Reach (imho), It also peaked in the writers confusion about what is actually happening in the game.
@@tomitiustritus6672 perhaps the covies using secret technology snuck on with small craft and built the platforms without anyone realizing. i mean they were more technologically advanced than the unsc so
@@tomitiustritus6672 just a thought though haha
@Desert Power Yes. A probe latched on to UNSC Iroquois after the battle of Sigma Octanus IV. That's how the Covenant learned the location of Reach. However between Reach and Sigma Octanus IV was only a few days which makes the book and the game incompatible.
Book UNSC can detect objects in slipspace (not sure about game UNSC). Indeed, the covenant invasion force inside slipspace was detected in the book. If the Covenant really did send a vanguard before the main force, it would have been done in real space. And traveling from beyond UNSC detection range to Reach will take a LOT more than a week in real space. The Covenant don't have pinpoint slipspace capability at this point so them slipping (teleporting?) in to the planet can be ruled out in the book.
man i will never get tired of that. the MOMENT the corvette's at a safe distance from the base they just fucking demolish it
Despite the loss of reach, it's still immensely satisfying
This game, man oh man, it was so good. What's even cooler is the website with our old characters STILL exists. My old General is still able to be viewed with all that armor I purchased. A lot of love went into Reach. I will always remember how beautiful they made the planet look with the aurora effects, several moons and just raw forests/mountains. They really brought an entire planet to life even with its own animals as well.
Where at? I need to check on my MIA spartan for nostalgia sake.
@@firebeardlongfellow5295 bungie took it down I think. I will never be able to see my Eclipse Spartan ever again.
Something about the graphics in reach makes them so timeless. It looks a bit aged, but it still looks so good and fits together perfectly
I aimed to please on that day. Jorge was a good Spartan.
… So were you.
Me when playing this mission: YES YES YES.
Me 2 seconds later reminding myself of the books I’ve read, and the other games: NO NO NO NO
The soul crushing story telling of this game is beyond comprehension. Such a masterful writing
Just an interesting correction. At 1:07 Jorge says "repeat" on the radio. Soldiers will never use the word "repeat" as that refers to fire control orders, which could cause dangerous miscommunication.
Soldiers will always say "say again" when they need something repeated. Just a small oversight from Bungie from an otherwise amazing game that brings great military action to Halo.
well its dr halsey
500 years from now they'll be communicating with thought beaming
Yeah, that was a bit of a slip in radio discipline. Glad somebody else caught that.
they NEVER get the "say again" correct. Even band of brothers, pacific, saving private ryan screws it up
@@simunator Yep, which is weird because they usually have military consultants on these sorts of things.
Bro destroyed a whole Corvette with a fuel rod cannon
One would think that if the Covenant were so superior, they would have destroyed Reach's space defence first ,then, attacked the planet.
Literally wasn't that fleets job. Long Night of Solace was basically the mobile headquarters and flagship of a fleet dedicated to the location and retrieval of Forerunner relics. They deployed troops to get things ready for the actual invasion force, but they were mainly there for the Forerunner relics.
You don't know enough about the lore buddy. This isn't an invasion fleet, this is a fleet that discovered bridge by accident looking for artefacts and is now making landings which they do undetected while waiting for the fleet of particular justice
This game will never get old
0:49
Ranger: Shipmaster! We detected a rapidly approaching object from the sky!
0:50
General shipmaster: ....evacuate the shi---
Jorge: Nice work BTW.
Other ranger : First Macing ... yeah me to .
To this day, this is the only squad that made me feel like I was in one. And the only Halo story that makes me feel something.
Thank god, I'm not the only one who shot rockets at the corvette ship
Orbital defense MAC, such a weapon would be a hugely devastating round in atmosphere. Loudest explosion in air you'll ever hear....and deaf
"your request to enter atmosphere has been DENIED"
”Someone should take a picture” jorge said and i immediately took a screenshot lol
I love how you can see the momentum exchange, the ship suddenly sinking down from the inertia of the MAC round
Fun fact about the defenses of Reach. If the Empire invaded reach with the fleet they had at Endor invaded they would have lost. Hard. That being said the Covenant took a lot of casualties despite technically winning. Could be considered a Pyrrhic victory.
The empire would've lost or Reach would've lost?
@@green_creeper288 The Empire loses.
There really isn't many scifi universes you can insert Star Wars ships into and have them win because of the nature of Star Wars tech.
@@Diamond-bd5ox Star Wars tech has a lot of arbitrary limitations for plot sake
@@Woopor As well as plot, it's largely due to the fact that star wars space battles are inspired by WWII, so starfighters are meant to mimic WWII fighter planes and capital ships are meant to mimic WWII naval battleships
At first it was going well. Then setback after setback, loss after loss.
“FORCE MULTIPLIED!”
Roanoke what are you doing on Reach?
Sir!.....Starting at the feet!
"I aim to please"
Wouldnt the mac round have cause an enormous explosion upon impact with the ground? Like nuclear level explosion?
They used a standard MAC round, not a high explosive MAC round. These MAC rounds are slugs that generate power from the kinetic momentum from such a high shot.
Plus, it went right through the corvette.
@@chatterycasque9594 Infinity's Mac fires at 25% the speed of light, a slug from it hits at 2.22 teratons of TNT.
Hiroshima was 16k tonnes.
idk, I'm still leaning towards a atom bomb sized explosion.
It being a corvette with weaker shielding and superstructure, they likely were able to lower the velocity of the round to avoid collateral without lowering its effectiveness. It’s also, as they say, “in atmosphere(!?)”, so the air resistance would also slow it down.
@@jessehenderson2967 Using the biggest example doesn't mean it's the best. 👍
MACs are only fired at that capacity in orbit, otherwise it would likely burn up in atmosphere or cause a whole host of issues. The other time we see a MAC fired at the ground it does exactly what you’d think a metal slug traveling at relativistic speeds would do
I wonder what they thought a few banshees going like 10 miles an hour is gonna do against long swords going like 300 mph
One of those necessary plot holes for a video game. If banshees moved like actual fliers, it would be an extremely unfun series as we got strafed to shit in every open space, especially since almost all the games the split jaws have air superiority
Maybe they got multiple flying modes one for air support the one u see in games and one for high speed interception
I've always thought the covenant had the banshees as something more akin to a ghost than an actual plane, basically flying bikes. Light, individual vehicles that just happen to take advantage of flight. Just assumed the covenant had larger, faster craft for proper flight. Or maybe we're just better at making metal go really, really fast.
@@amog8202 Canonically, Banshees do move much faster than in the games, but they are largely for ground attack and the Covenant have larger, faster craft like Seraphs for air superiority roles and spaceflight.
@@Diamond-bd5ox yeah
I still remember me and my friends watching to this scene when we played together on Xbox 360 😢
I wonder if the crew knew what was coming when the longswords pulled away
That's not orbital defence, that was Master Chief falling down
"For a brick, he fell* pretty good"😂
@@anthonyrodrigues5032 😂😂
Let's take note that Noble 6 wasn't too overwhelmed when using the MAC, that cruiser would have brought the end of Master Chief and the future of humanity.
What im more confused is how the corvette turn that quick it should turn slow or continue going forward
Presumably the sheer kinetic force imparted by the MAC round pushed it down faster, also whatever propulsion was keeping it up failed when the ship was obliterated, and I imagine that amount of weight would come down pretty quickly without anything holding it up
They fired a Mass Driver shot though the ship and it _didnt_ create a tsunami when it impacted the planet?
Missed opportunity to show just how powerful the UNSC's kinetic weapons were.
It is such a good game, I miss when Halo felt the same way Reach did. Infinite is close, but still has a lack of grit / groundedness to it in an odd way
This was a very underrated game. Had too much development and everyone had their duties without overdoing it. It is a shame the lost the best way posible. Wonder what happened to June.
Imagine being on a Mac Defense Plattform chilling on low orbit. Taking down corvettes and shit not knowing there's a MF CSO CARRIER!! already in the planet sending coordinates to an overwhelming and massive invasion force.
I bet that guy's day got ruined.
man, imagine how many thousands of covenant were on that ship doomed to drown
Pvt Thompson being the main character in the opening there
Can someone enlighten me since I'm new to halo. What are Mac cannons
Essentially really powerful coil guns. They're basically rail guns with a difference in how the end effect is achieved, but ultimately it's a really big depleted uranium in Halo's case shell being fired really fast.
Check out the breakdown video by installation 00 on super macs. insanely detailed explanation.
Big fat railguns
MAC's or Magnetic Accleration Cannons are essentially entire space stations dedicated to essentially being a gun, these massive stations are usually used for destroying oncoming CAS cruisers (in this case being used to destroy a small covanent corvette).
Ludicrously huge railguns floating in orbit. Railguns exist in real life, but they’re still in development. The advantages is they don’t use gunpowder and and they’re more than twice the velocity of your average bullet. Just uses the sheer force of a hunk of metal slung at supersonic speeds basically
Covenant: LMFAO we're the best. They don't stand a chance
UNSC super-mac: DON'T MAKE ME FCKING ＬＡＵＧＨ
The music :( it's so beautiful
always wondered who voiced the "orbital defense is standing by to take the shot", he sounds like the principal from the simpsons
Cool fact; the super mac on a Punic class super carrier hits with a kinetic force of 1025 megatons with a 500 ton tungsten projectile
on the topic of halo reach, which moment got you shocked up the most? Main was when John #5 picks us up and throws us out of the air lock as i watch the vessel blows up with him on board. still gives me chills to this day when i think about it.
I think they should’ve kept the lock-on feature for the rocket launcher.
This was as very tough video game. And it wasn't the difficulty.
I like u cut g : 0:49
0:32 the sun kinda looks like a kill ball
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How do you go from 80 views to 6k? Genuinely curious like just the algorithm?
guess so. Just went on my channel one day and saw it blew up.
MAC Round for the win
This is the only good example of a Mac gun in game
And what the hell happened to those orbital defences when you needed them the most?
Man i remember when i was younger i never understood what happened with the mac round and now im still so puzzled how i didnt
Like i mustve just ignored everything they said
Funny, the speed of sound and the speed of light are the same in this universe
I thought I was the only one who noticed that.
Minor nitpick but it would've been cool if they got the sound right for the MAC cannon blowing through the corvette. First of all it should've been much louder. Second it should've taken a while for the sound to reach them, instead of almost instantly.
Question... Why the hell does reach have a cannon powerful enough to one-shot a covenant carrier... and it's pointing at the planet...
Bc story
Probably normally pointing at space but is able to turn around
A MAC cannon is powerful enough, I guess.
Its an orbital station bruh
There are normally a net of them around the planet, they can rotate to fire at any target in any direction, but due to how big a Orbital MAC is its quite slow to move. Plus the covenant fleet at reach was too big for them to make much of a difference, too many targets.
The most underrated halo game, for me the best is halo 2 and halo 3 could be the best but the story has a bit spoil. But Reach, I don't know they are just something else they are unique
Awesome
That velocity, and that little splash?
Side note, would still be a Hiroshima size blast, but the said orbital defense, that could mean anything. The Navy had some ships in orbit alongside the defense platforms. A frigate easily could’ve made that shot.
Mac rounds aren’t nuclear
Always thought the MAC round impact on the water was a little anticlimactic. Shoulda put up a huge plume IMO...
why did this video blow up haha
This is only the beginning
Idk it was in my recommended
Been recommended a bunch of Reach videos in the last week
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that kinetic projectile is going too slow to be fired from a super mac, plus the kinetic energy released would be explosive not the little splash we get into the lake lol. Someone should see if they can mod the projectile to go faster and with an explosion at the lake to simulate more realism
MAC cannons can adjust the charge level of the capacitors, that way they can fire their safely at a planet's surface. MAC guns don't always fire at max velocity
Also, if the Eröd fired at a planet's surface at full power (impact energy equivalent to 51.6 Gigatons of tnt) it would cause a Mass Extinction Event, cracking the crust and showing the atmosphere with billions of tonnes of ash and fire
Splash one.
Back when Halo felt like it was a battle in a war, surrounded by a whole military, with a chain of command and support infrastructure.
That's what I missed in Halo Infinite, the gameplay was good but it's just lacked the scale the old games had
Best halo before went downhill
0:56 F12
Did he talk?
Is that D2
Idk maybe
wha- eh, close enough i guess...(Bungie)
I made a fire meme
No way the first dislike has been made
It’s gone now
Oooft.
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Remember Reach and the last good Halo game
Too bad this was bungies swan song for their Halo. When343 got it, well, we all can see what they did. Halo 4 has little replay value, and I haven't even wasted my money buying halo 5 or infinite. Maybe in a few years I'll check the bargain bin for it.
how tf does a rocket desinigrate a phantom like that? cringeworthy effect. its should at most blow a piece off or sputter out and crash if it hit and engine or something. but completely poofing it out of existence? cringe
Do you know how old this game is? plus the phantom had taken damage already by emile
@@vincents6511 one "normal" personnel rocket would not completely desinigrate a phantom. do you not think the covenant would have upgraded alien armor on their assault crafts? lol that little rocket did way too much damage. yes i know how old the game is....... i also know how old the movie transformers is which had muchhhhhh better effects and made around the same time.
They blow up similarly to scarabs for whatever reason.
@@newslavecity8311 Transformers was a CGI Film that was rendered in High-Poly on very high grade computers. Those effects were not achievable in real time back then, and they still aren’t perfect even now. The reason Transformers and all other movies that involve CGI look so good is because of the quality of the models and the time given to render them.
@@rbmedia8798 nobody asked though..
Im pretty sure the orbital defenses shoot 3000 ton ferric tugston rounds that travel 4 percent of the speed of light
Which would create a 55 kilometer deep crater in Reach
This is more of a frigate MAC gun
The energy of the MAC cannons can be varied, the stats you listed are just the maximum