10 Facts you might not know about Spartan-III's 

Most people just say ots for game purposes. Another thing for me is the expanded lore cam out after h1

Don't know if this could be canon, but my personal head-canon explanation is that the light just helps Spartans to see even better, similar to how first gen night vision scopes relied on infrared lamps to see better.

I thinking that maybe it could’ve been more of a benifit for any marines fighting along side him rather than for the benifit of cheif himself

Gameplay purposes. Also, in a close quarter combat situation in darkness/low light environments, having your opponent shining a bright light straight in your eyes is a huge disadvantage since you're temporarily blinded. Perhaps that's one of the uses of his flashlights, to blind his foes when needed. If you have played Halo Wars 2, you probably remember Jerome using said tactic, turning his lights on before fighting Banished brutes in a dark room. If my memory serves me correctly, the MJOLNIR helmets (or the ones fitted with cameras) can record stuff for intel gathering purposes, so a bright source of light is required; otherwise, the footages they get would be pitch black. In addition, our eyes need time to adjust to brightness or darkness. I don't think Chief (or any soldier) would have that luxury in combat to wait for his pupils to dilate/undilate, hence the lights.

it's not for him, its for you, the viewer, who doesn't have the ability to see perfectly in the dark. simple as that.

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Hell yea halos version of army of 2

Yeah you got a good idea there. An assassin theme of stealth, seek and destroy?

That would be really cool. I also thought it would be cool to play as a normal marine during the first contact on harvest. Or a game where there are different missions but you play as different people. Some missions are a success, while others are complete failures.

ive been wanting to fight the Innis since halo 3.

That's basically what ODST coop was: * Weaker than the Chief and Six, but still superhuman (carrying turrets around and surviving plasma shots, just like Spartans wearing SPI instead of Mjolnir). * Recharging shields, even if the game used a different name (which Headhunters had on their SPI)

Then tried to kill Master Chief and Cortana with ODSTs during a training exercise. 🤣 He paid for that mistake dearly and had a lot of explaining to do with Mrs after Cortana got done with him.

That shit was dirty as hell, too! Imagine endangering your entire species out of jealousy and pettiness

I think this is a fascinating showing of humanity and it's relevance to the real world because it goes to show that even with xx on the line that humans will still human or just that there are still people who will let their pride and ego get in the way of goals regardless of their importance.

Akerson 😂 what a bum

Yeah it's like a more human spartan but not goofy like s4rs

@@johnmacangus2634 I like the 4s because they are a natural evolution of the Spartan program and shows how far humanity has come since the beginning of the H-C war. I’ve never found them to be goofy, but I understand preferring the previous iterations.

@@J0J0Reference I see what you mean. I don't mean goofin a bad way but like they are more human in nature

Agreed. SII will always be the og for me but SIII are the real unsung heros IMO. They were trained from ages younger than Spartans, in harsher conditions, given inferior equipment and then after almost of decade of brutal training sent on legit suicide missions that were expected to have 100% casualty rate. Akerson might have been fighting for humanity, but he had zero concern for the sanctity of life or the suffering of those under him.

@@comancheclub3449 I believe it was either Kurt or Mendez that commented on Ackerson, saying he would sacrifice his entire family if the opportunity was there

Installation00 has actually made a video all about Kurt. “Kurt-051 Lore and Theory”

@xSARGEx117x cut training time doesn't necessarily mean worse. Purely because I vaguely remember Spartan 3 training ended up being more extensive, cruel, and tougher to make up for the less training time with a more emphasis on teamwork and comraderie than the Spartan 2s. I also vaguely remember Kurt telling Halsey that if a Spartan 3 was wearing Mjolnir, they'd be on par with a Spartan 2.

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Nah, IIs are just better. That’s why.

@@Vinlaan i think the same but facts can Tell otherwise. With the same technologue and training, IIs are better for sure but... 3s augmentations were developped ans upgrade from the résulta if the 2s augmentations 3s have been trained by a Spartan that understand Spartan capability 2s were trained from infiltration missions against insurectionnist. 3s, to fight the covenant. 3s didn't had the same budget for their equipment, so they had weaker equipments. If Put 2s un SPI armor, Will they still ne better than 3s?

@@pascallavoie8417 Spartan IIIs are as strong as IIs, but the IIs combat training hits DIFFERENT. The IIs were trained since the age of six years old. If we put them in SPI armor, we’ve got to remember how much faster they are genetically. We’ve got to remember that their bones are encased in TITANIUM and some shit. We’ve got to remember that they are THE Spartans. Not some fodder designed to die. I’m not saying the spartan IIIs are weaker, Im saying the Spartan IIs are more skilled and knowledgeable of combat. So, a Spartan II would beat a Spartan III, BARELY.

Agree 100%. I actually like Spartan 3 program more then 2’s. Just like there is a certain minimum level of augmentation required to out preform a elite, there is also a necessary quantity of those quality soldiers needed to compete with the covenant army. If you can only produce single digit production percentages of Spartans compared to the covenant‘s quality elites, hunters, and brutes soldier production; your going to loose the war. Hence why I appreciate the Spartan 3’s quantity and quality! The bonus is it opens up new ways of using Spartans for the necessary self sacrifice missions that otherwise would of been too expensive to even be viable long term. Plus being developed by being kidnapped to fight your own people trying to break free from Orwellian State control is, in my opinion, a less cool vibe. Way cooler to be a part of a elite Spartan program with the numbers to make a difference in the war, from a pool of orphans looking to inflict vicious vengeance upon the covenant. Now was it perfect? No the augmentations still required a minority of the human population to be genetically comparable but did it succeed in their goals. More quantity then Spartan 2 ✅ More cheap then Spartan 2 ✅ For most anti-covenant purposes, just as good as Spartan 2s; doing all this wile being forced to use by necessity inferior quality equipment but on a value Analysis they made the most of it. ✅ Note: Later Spartan programs were able to seemingly acheive more mass production but that technology was not matured enough in time during the Human Covenent war. They needed more Spartans yesterday during that war so the Spartan 3 program was nesciary stop gap. 3s armor may have lacked energy shields but if did have active camo which is a much wiser choice for budgeting, spec ops and espionage. And in my opinion the later generations of Spartans that have mass production don’t have as cool of a backstory. So for me 3s are a nice middle ground. Cool backstory. Making a lot with less. Necisary sacrifices. With numbers to try to make a difference.

I believe all but a few were given SPI armor, which was a cheaper alternative to Mjolnir armor. If I recall correctly, it has a type of cloak rather then a shield.

@@ethnobotanyboy yes they have photo reactive plating that made them have discount active camouflage. Super based IMO. Energy shields have limits but you can’t hit what can’t see. You can’t even fight what you don’t notice. More survivable to stealth past Beam Rifle Jackals then go in visibly guns blazing. Most Spartan 2’s didn’t active camo at the time so mass producing it for the 3s would have been a huge deal. Even still some Spartan 3s like Noble team got energy shielded Spartan 2 armor but ,for the most part, majority made due without.

@@ethnobotanyboy The SPI armor had both. its just that one would draw power from the other in order for that mode to perform at maximum capacity. like the cloaking would fizzle or static when the shields recharged. Headhunters being the best of the best got a more advanced version of SPI On a separate note, you are correct that a few had the privilege of using Mjolnir, such as Noble Team being equipped with MK V

The 'hole point of them' is to make spartan cheap that means that means the changes aren't as good 25% worse by my estimate

Naomi is a Spartan II test piloting the MV5 core of Mjolnir Mark VII, but yes, similar armor and possibly twos or threes (threes more likely, given their size in comparison to pre-augmented Agryna) who could have also been test piloting the armor. It's actually possible that one of the three Spartans was Naomi, and the other two could be Tom and Lucy, or maybe Ash and Olivia, if they were later given Mjolnir.

@@swimmerofage2148 those are good suggestions but it cannot be Tom, Lucy, Ash or Olivia as they were currently on Onyx then later in the actual Dyson Sphere as the Battle of Earth was unfolding

It could be one of the two new cat 2 team made cannon, teams anchor and strider

Literally love creating a back story for my spartan 3, simply bc its so much fun and brings a lot of mystery

Kurt is more comparable in regards to the Spartans and how he viewed them than Ackerson, whom was barely in Ghost of Onyx after pitching it. Kurt loved his Spartans and it's still just as tragic as Kurt felt powerless and responsible for the destruction of Alpha and Beta company, despite that not being anyones fault (well ONI is to blame since 3s didn't have any logistical support like the 2s)

Well atleast the program was relatively safe and zero kidnappings were conducted and to be fair everything was going shit during the spartan 3 program. I actually hated Halsey's reaction to "her" spartans hey lady if youre gonna kidnap and treat me like a labrat which we barely survive btw the last thing i would want is for you to act like my mother atleast akerson is honest.

Some of noble team also view Dr Halsey as a mom and maybe even some other spartan 3s too.

​@@ezyo1000that's the sad story of a spartan, at least they had a father figure of sorts

Ermm...she did sanction their kidnappings, directly kill many of them with unsafe surgeries and subject them to awful training as well as making their parents suffer abhorrent crimes against humanity

George was big by spartan standards in general

Spartan 3's were meant to be a cheaper alt to the spartan 2, though there were some spartan 3's that were basically strong as spartan 2's i.e. Noble 6

I had someone argue that Spartan-4 was superior to a Spartan-3 my favorite generation just can't get W.

@@NoNameTaken117 People tend to bring up the "cheaper" thing, but they always overlook a very important point; the _armour_ was the budget cut, not the Spartan. The bulk of the cost of a Spartan-2 goes into their absurdly expensive, impossible-to-mass-produce GEN1 Mjolnir. That's why most Spartan-3's got SPI Armour until it was replaced by GEN2 Mjolnir; it can be mass-produced cheaply enough to supply them.

@@williamgibson3862 I've seen that fairly often, they usually seem to think the Spartan-3 augmentations were "watered down" versions, when it was actually the Spartan-4's who got that dubious honour.

@@vegeta002 Exactly I have never read/seen a Spartan-4 fight elite's or spartan-2 without armor the 3s have a crap ton proof.

Case in point, Noble Six.

It takes a special Spartan to be hyper lethal. Not just throw one in Mjolnir and they immediately become hyper lethal.

@@travisvanalst4698 I am aware. I was speaking specifically of Noble 6.

It wasn't just the armor, they were weaker yes, but it wasn't by a MASSIVE margin. That would be the Spartan 4s.

Tom and Lucy are both from Beta company, so you are correct.

@@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem I posted this the moment I stumbled onto the apparent mistake in the video, but later information in the video gets their backstories correct, so I am sure this was a simple oversight during the recording and editing process, nothing to worry about.

You may be right about the UNSC being hella good with biotechnology, if I am correct the UNSC already had a cure for Cancer long before the Human Covenant War, so maybe?

No, they were from alpha. They were the only 2 survivors from operation torpedo where there were 300 of them attacking a Covenant refinery. They even had the 1st PSI armor model that wasn't vacuum sealed. They jumped in water to survive the explosion and their helmets filled with water.

Damned good suggestion. Thinking now of postwar SPARTANs running Ilsa's augs, but being being successful because they didn't drive her insane...

No it wasn't a mistake. Tom and Lucy are alpha, not beta company. Not all of Alpha Company died, Tom and Lucy were the only 2 survivors. They even wore the first SPI armor model.

@@East_Coast_Toasty_Boy Tom-B292 Lucy-B091 Both betas. Jun is still alive so I guess one did survive.

@@devonwarnock2625 I forgot about their numbers lol

exactly lol. It literally states that Lucy was a dwarf compared to the other Spartans and the Spartan III augs were a quantum leap in comparison to the IIs.

Facts, I hate when fans feel the need to bring up S-IIs whenever S-IIIs are mentioned.

Wow, thank you! Much appreciated ❤

Indeed, Jorge seems to be common "proof". Maybe they think all Spartans of a class are the same size or something.

Yea I think he was already tall for his age

Spartan 4's are far inferior to 2s and 3s. Lesser training and lesser augmentations. The only thing that gives them a chance is their armor.

@@jasonzaragoza9413 Yeah I'm not that into the lore that I know the augmentations I just know that each generation had different ones Which I assumed was weaker augments each new gen but since the video said that wasn't really the case with 2's and 3's I wondered about 4's augments and how they stack up cause I don't know. So thanks for letting me know It's a shame their not as good as 2's and 3's but I still want a video on them as well to know more about them cause I enjoy infinite and my spartan 4.

@@Daniel-qx7tv yea the 4s are honestly just barely augmented to be slightly above normal humans in physical terms. Their armor makes up alot of the difference though, while 2s and 3s were augmented to be far beyond anything humanly capable. Without armor a 2 and 3 could probably manhandle a whole squad of 4s. Even with armor they could beat quite a few.

​@jasonzaragoza9413 I'm pretty sure the Spartan-IVs are well above the average human in terms of strength and speed rather than just being slightly better, but yes, they are inferior to the IIs and IIIs.

As far as I've seen, only a handful of Spartan 3s were on par with 2s. The rest are inferior, but it isn't by a MASSIVE margin like the Spartan 4s.

They're only smaller because they didn't receive implants, and they didn't receive implants because technology and advanced augmentations rendered them useless. The Spartan III chemical augmentations provided them with every benefit that the Spartan II augmentations provided.

@@jasonzaragoza9413 I know... The Spartan 3 augmentation process was more advanced but like I said, they were in generell smaller than Spartan 2's

​@JAGtheTrekkieGEMINI1701 I don't think they were generally smaller, but there was a greater variation of height because of the more lenient requirements. That's why Lucy was extremely short for a spartan while Kat, B312, and Jun were close to John's height with Kat and B312 being slightly shorter while Jun was a little taller.

@@flatarthur3161 There are different hights, but in generell Spartan 2=taller>Spartan 3

Well you have to remember that humanity was huge, there where easily millions of children orphaned by the covenant, and only around 900 of those were selected as Spartan III's, so despite the fact that there were more quantity, Spartan III's only had slightly less strict genetic vetting than the II's did.

the cut corner approach mostly applies to the armor though, which has been stated to be ridiculously expensive to produce, (of course then you have 343 who just disregard that fact and produce hundreds of armor sets for the 4s lol). unarmored, a Spartan II and III are near identical in skill; the IIIs having the better training while the IIs have the decades of experience. They'd have been better off just producing MJOLNIR armor for the 300+ remaining Spartan IIIs than developing a whole new (and far inferior) program.

Delta Company is an interesting concept to theorise about, but I can’t help but wonder who is training them if not Mendez and obviously not Kurt bc he valiantly sacrificed himself. Maybe some other surviving Spartan-IIIs? Some ONI Agents perhaps?

@@beastmode1915 Jun is always an option as he was a bit with IVs but his time table might be a bit full

@@Succubus_Autumn yeah his timetable would definitely be full with the recruitment of new Spartan-IVs, and the fact that if he was to train them he’d be unavailable for a few years, I think it’d conflict too much with established lore. Still, if they wanted a Spartan to head the training, we still have a good few Spartan-IIIs kicking around and who haven’t been picked up by writers for new stories, or they could always write a new character but I’d personally prefer them to use an existing one