This is hard on the Elite minors too. Imagine you are an Elite minor leading a team of 6 Grunts and 4 Jackals. Grunts are child soldiers, Jackals are sneaky opportunists, and basically it’s just yourself fighting a team of well equipped humans.
Buuuut even the worst equipped of you has a freakin' plasma pistol! Those things are amazing. Imagine them realistically portrayed. You send a few shots down chamber and your target is now on fire and is actually melting on the points of impact. Plasma is hot enough to set anything on fire- it breaks down and burns water vapor, and any water in the local tissue. Now imagine an overcharged shot hitting someone. Even if they're wearing the titanium armor from the games, it's now glowing hot and melting, cooking the wearer unless they remove it fast enough. The covenant are pretty freakin' OP. Elites are cocky for a reason
Humans in halo actually SUCC ASS!!! despise how many novels, portrated them as badass inspirational super heroes, in gameplay freakings marines must problably have decended from south park's Kenny Macornick, those son of bitches died way too often, they are the worst drivers, they problably are vaccinated beyond repaired meaning deep autism, proffesional nihilistics with strong suicidal tendencies, I barely make it on heroic and as hard as I try to keep them alive somehow they ended 15th feet underground when I turn my head back at them.
I remember reading one of the Halo books; Halo CE time frame- Master chief a midst a battle with the covenant, a grunt got the jump on John and ended up ripping the helmet off his MJOLNIR armor, the master chief himself underestimated the grunt's strength and one almost ended up killing him.
Er..... And space zombies, space robots, space bugs, space bird things, space monkeys, space hive worms, and elites which are apparently alien space samurai
Even before learning of the unggoy rebellion, I always knew there was something tragically wrong with their species regarding what the Covenant did to them
@@Nicho8688 well, the person who designed the Grunts in Halo: CE made their movements based on monkeys or gorillas, so the terminology isn’t that far off.
I try this a lot, and often wind up having to Team kill my marines so that they don't shoot them. Well, the marines would probably blow themselves up with their own grenades anyways.
My old man once said, “ never underestimate the power of stupid beings in large numbers” He said that in 2001. 2552: Truer words have never been spoken.
Dothurnaax I agree. But what I said was a joke. Cause Halo had significant events taking place in 2552. And the video involved grunts.... grunts having large numbers. Low key being very smart but high key just stupid. But yea, 2019... I agree.
Relative means. A group of highly intelligent creatures with predominantly low stature will always be taken advantage of in a realm where might makes right The point of this paradox is essentially that when you put a gun in the hands of an infant, there is no way it will achieve commendations for bravery Now put a gun in the hands of hundreds of thousands, no one will be paying attention to their wits either Ironically it's interesting to think how much sanshyum were able to take advantage of intel at high volumes. The engineers, the grunts and their decryption skills, heck the hunters and their shape shifting abilities are a form of competent intelligence
From my first encounter of the grunts in ce they where and still are my favorite alian race and I always felt bad killing them because there so lovable. When you're on the battlefield and you kill a grunt and he says "you killed my daddy" and then runs a you with to plasma balls about to explode, it's heart breaking.
First time I really noticed this was starting Halo 3, they would occasionally say things like ‘he killed my friend’ and that was just heartbreaking for such a otherwise goofy video game fodder enemy
Grunts. Definitely Grunts. The average IQ of a fully developed COD player is usually about 5-10. The record high IQ for a COD player was 20 when I tried it out. (Yes i'm calling myself dumb, that is because i am)
You had to because when you let them go they will get behind you one by one and then kill you as a group while you think they just ran away. I experienced this in Halo: Combat Evolved
Ok before I watch the rest of the vid. I have to say that grunts are pretty smart. They know how to attack in groups and know when a fight is unwinnable for the most part. They also know when and where to throw grenades
my favorite fan AU is the one where Humanity adopts the grunts into its fold in order to gain allies and as a message to the other factions that humanity is their best chance. Granted this happened like forty years following the HCW and without the rise of incompetence like in 343's halo timeline so humanity was in a position to do it.
@@lad5912 Same it would be so fun being a little Grunt attack squadron and would be awesome to panic and snort I would Spam them even more playing as a the A.I. and in control of Spawning foes or characters!
So in the end, the covenant almost killed off three species. The humans during the human-covenant war, the elites during the great schism and the grunts during the grunt rebellion. Man, they deserved the flood.
7 is anything from stone age to before the first factories 6 is industrial era. 5 is atomic age. 4 is where the Kig-yar where at when humanity was discovering gunpowder. 3 is where humanity was from halo CE to halo 3. 2 is where the covenant where from halo ce to halo 3 1 is where the forerunners where at. tier 0 exist because only the precursors where ever more advanced then the forerunners and they don't count because they are dead. tier -1 doesn't exist because technology is based on a understanding of the laws of physics, not achieving some magic to go beyond them.
Based on what The Dishonored Coward listed, real-live humanity is probably both in teir 5 and 6, and possibly starting to go into teir 4 (probably in the next 100 - 200 years). It would be nice see humanity reach teir 4!
As evidence they are cute watch what happens when retired war vitrine Michal Michialson of the marines when he steps on a auto drive bus with no passengers other then unggoy, and goes on his 2 hour ride to the beach....
I used to love the grunts back in 7th and 8th grade. I used to talk like them, pretend to be them, and write stories about them. Over the first months of 8th grade, after 2 previous failed attempts, I wrote a 20,000ish word story about a grunt named Flick who lead a grunt rebellion against the covenant. After watching this video 6 years later I suddenly realize why these little methane breathing arthropods were my favorite part of the Halo games. I was bullied in 6th and 7th grade and I must have subconsciously empathized with the plight of the grunts. Anybody who got bullied as a kid or as a teenager knows how it is...Long live the grunts! I still love you guys.
'Grunts never proved a challenge' tell that to my friend; there were 3 of us in a legendary difficulty firefight, myself and my other friend (say friend number 2) had both been killed by a mixture of brute chieftains and swarms of suicide grunts but, there were only 3 enemies left before the end of the wave - 1 elite and 2 grunts, so of course my friend beats the elite to death (because why waste ammo at that point) and loses most of his energy shield in return, then the penultimate grunt routs and runs around the corner of a building so my friend chases it and - just as he turns the corner - runs slap bang into the last grunt, standing less than a metre away. This last Grunt had a fuel rod cannon. So, in less time than it took to say 'OH SHI' we were reloading back to the previous checkpoint. Moral of the story is, don't underestimate anything with a fuel rod cannon.
Best example of their lethality. Halo 2, heretic grunts with needlers are absolutely lethal in numbers. When you play as Arbiter give them plasma rifles and they can stand up to brutes.
I always saw grunts as cute and innocent and would usually leave them alive unless I had to keep marines alive or clear an area to continue the mission.
I recently met a Grunt as the Arbiter who begged me not to send him back further down into the temple we were in. His exact words were "Please no send me back! Big scary! Beast! *Incoherent babbling with the word Brutes* Please!" Then he willingly followed me further down into the temple and was killed by the Sentinel that he was scared of.
Fun fact: In the book, Halo : Shadow of Intent, there is a grunt named Stolt, that not only became the leader of a group of Elite Rangers, but also apparently faced a nameless Spartan and seriously wounding them.
I'm not sure if this is fact but here's what I've heard about the grunts' intelligence. Before their planet's ecological collapse, they were a race of great engineers, who had the potential to be a space bearing race. I've also heard that they invented the NEEDLER. The gun that literally no other species can understand, and THEY made it. Now here are some things that I know they DID invent. The grunt goblin(aka Balaho Battlesuit) and the plasma gauntlets used by YapYap the destroyer's brute rider units in Halo wars 2.
To answer your question at the start, 727 grunts killed during my first playthrough of halo reach on pc at heroic difficulty. So total is likely in the high ten thousands.
Grunts have kill me more times than any other covenant soldier with their unexpected granades because when i was begining playing halo i ignore them and i ended explouding in a plasma explosion a lot of times then i discover it was them and started focusing them instead
New rule: You must spare the grunts if they run from you scared, the only way you can attack them is 1.they attack you 2.its the only way to get to the next level
