How Plasma Works (Halo Lore) 

SameToken Keep up the amazing work! You should do a collaboration with Installation00!..

It's good to see you're okay, Token! Missed ya Vids :)

Just in time for Halo Infinite gameplay!!

How much power will need to make a real plasma weapon from halo.

SameToken the library

For chief at least, marines can take a jackal sniper shot and keep going for some reason

Tyler P Well it would be a relatively small wound.

@@djcuevas1057 You haven't watched Installation00's video on it, then

Luke Notable has a lore difficulty vid

@@Tentaclear1 nahh chief could take it - if anything it should be the other way around. MC is a tank in comparison

Bullets are just as deadly but covies have magical shield

Imagine being Rookie at all... Poor dude went through hell only to get offed in a book by an insurrectionist. My mans didn't even get the chance to die in game.

@@soap9277 Thats true...

wow these xenos still use pea shooter? that doesnt reach 40 meter? seriously tho if i want a weapon that isnt just projectile i would have all of round be shaped charged ammo

It's not far off tbh. On Heroic or legendary it does not take much *at all*

The smarter kid: *cough* 5 stages *cough*

Colin Shaw yes, the 5th one is called Bose-Einstein condensate

A lot more than 5 lol. I can name like 10. Ex: Photonic matter, Superfluid, Neutron Degenerate Matter (Stuff making neutron stars), Quark-Gluon Plasma, Strange matter

iirc correctly their are like 20+ states of matter its just that most people don't need to know them, unless you go into certain science careers.

@@sharonishere Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Strange Matter only theorized to exist?

@Boy Gorgeous Jesus, it really has been almost 19 years already since CE was released. Wish time would slow down sometimes, man

Haha as someone who uses nothing but covy weapons i figured this out a long loooong time ago

It's really noticeable in like halo 3 reach etc. You can see the the plasma balls fire off at different angles when it alternates. For example the bottom part firing shows the plasma ball come up onto the cross hair from an upward angle, and the top one shows it coming down on the cross hair from a downward angle. Then down range it kind of creates a vertical-ish cluster of plasma balls when firing full auto. Halo 1 for example shows the plasma balls fire straight down range for the plasma rifle

how not?

That's attention to detail :D

I remember that part from The Fall of Reach!

Don't forget Miranda Keyes getting 3 in the back!

@@aeronautisch I remember that too. It was pretty vivid, so it stuck out in my mind.

@Thominus Rex I think the spikers are superheated metal spikes, so they are different, yeah. It's been a while since I've played, but I think you're right.

for the comments about the Spiker, the projectiles are simply under normal conditions just superheated metal spikes. In canon, they are still very deadly. Indirectly related, but the Spike Grenade is deadly even if one fragment hits you due to the sheer size of the needle and how hot it is. To a normal human, one spike is large enough to create a HUGE gaping hole in you even with body armor to catch it and stop it from taring your spine apart or even blowing you in half. The only reason the victim lived was they were tended to by a corpsman who used biofoam (I hope) to seal the wound. And thus while he was out of the fight, he still had enough strength and mental faculties to act and do his own mission of locating the Chief's drop pod. Also to reinforce the statement of how lethal the needler is, that is just if ONE hits you and you fail to discard it in time. If enough get in you to supercombine, it has enough destructive power to blow you into nothing more then a mist, nothing left to bury. All of this combined by the abundance of plasma weapons is likely reason enough to assume that one reason that plasma weapons are not so powerful in the games is that at the time of the games, the UNSC was forced to research HARD on armor and uniforms that have some protective properties vs Plasma. And as a result, you have the body glove rendering the player very durable vs plasma weapons and marines able to withstand multiple shots from plasma bolts while nobody is harmed by missed plasma, due to the glove's anti-heat properties and the researchers of humanity getting the motivation to make their uniforms and armor to have reflective properties to defend against that plasma. What I am curious now about though are how would humanity expand on energy shielding in the future. This is a different subject now, but I'd assume in the future, collaborations between the Sangheili and Humanity will lead to personal shields that do not demand a combat harness or full suit of armor to employ, and in fact can be worn on far less advanced armor systems. It would also indirectly resolve problems with the non-spartan human's constitution discrepancies. As in reality, in all of the games, the humans have regenerating health (With CE giving them hidden "shields" similar to the player's that recharges) So a shield system would make sense. But perhaps I'm dreaming too much.

Yeah that would be horrifying, especially since you’d see such a familiar place be infested with a strange -silent- alien parasite

@@SameToken I agree

That mission will forever give me chills

Or 343 guilty spark

For me the scariest would be high charity from halo 2, having covenant remnants still lurking around but also having a major flood outbreak to deal with

It aint stupid if it works

Flamethrower is technically plasma

@@JC-om7nr Eeehhh...more like “proto-plasma.”

Plasma is ineffective against the flood though. That's where the human weapons outshine them, specifically the shotgun. Since flood do not have a central nervous system they can be hit multiple times with plasma bolts and it won't slow them down

@@epicty3607 This doesn't make sense, flood are depicted as having a weakness to incendiary weapons

Mr Man 306 Yep along with Installation00

@@cancelanime1507 except he's annoying af

Rocket Skates Umm no he’s not... Care to elaborate on your claims against mr.00?

Rocket Skates how is he annoying?

Was about to say don't forget about instalation00

Inquisitior? What are you doing in this universe for the sake of holy God emperor?

Sorry here if I'm wrong, but Lone Wolf is easily the scariest. Because, despite knowing what's coming for you, you basically know you're done for. Fighting against insurmountable odds in an open area, where Elites, ranging from Minors to Field Masters, are fighting you when there are also several Covenant vehicles such as Wraiths and Spirits (despite those being the only ones in the mission, it's said that Ghosts also had shown up) incoming to help them. Not even counting the fact that they're gonna glass you even if you live through the ground forces. But knowing that an unstoppable force is coming to hunt you down is kind of terrifying, honestly.

@@familyneves9777 you could write a book

You do have good points. But the covenant do have other means to kills us. The needle pistol and rifle are a good balance for the covenant to have. A weapon that has the heat of a plasma weapon but also having a solid state so it can act like a regular bullet. Not mention the covenant has the height, strength, speed and equipment to counter us.

Kaiser Dragon there’s still tradeoff with covenant projectile weapons, but generally they are superior to Human their human counterparts for sure. In particular the Carbine has more penetration power plus thermal, chemical and radiative damage, although not as devastating as plasma. The carbine can still be countered at extreme range by chemical projectile weapons due to the nature of how a carbine’s round is launched, as it loses mass the further it travels. As for Needle based weapons, they’re more lethal than bullets, but not as versatile considering you can put practically any kind of material or payload into a cartridge whereas with most covenant weapons they’re limited to one specific munition.

@Troy Gonzalez well yeah...

And that one marine made it almost halfway

@@mis4vr877 Yep, he is a legend.

@@sodium7127 I heard about that. Where can I read more about that marine?

@@Scottf573 his name is marvin mabuto

The flood book

Former Human-Covenant war vet here I Still suffer from PTSD

AnotherMaggot Fall through a temporal wormhole or something buddy?

@@smalliesmalls9601 slipspace has been known to make entire ships disapear, they gotta go somewhere.

Everywhere I go, your always there before me...

Imagine halo infinite having a burst pistol and dual wielding... Damn noob combo would be annoying as hell, without counter...

@@marranin007 Dual wielding spitfire or voids tear with whispered truth.

I love the plasma pistol :(

I like the plasma pistol it’s very fast

Plasma pistol is usually a go to weapon tho... Especially on legendary

The CE version was amazing. The emp is powerful, but it's tap firing was crazy good too

Dual wielding plasma pistols is bae

Jesus, what happened to you?

holy shit what do you mean by saying you experienced it??

recycled aids he got shot by a real covenant plasma rifle duh🤣

As An Average Arsonist I can confirm what you said is both factual, and painful as it sounds.

he says "like a cutting torch" guys, it's pretty obvious what happened

I totally agree, they’d feel so far out of their depth there. Playing as chief it’s freaky, but being a marine would be psychologically damaging.

@@SameToken Hence the dude shooting Chief. Pretty scary when you think about it.

I'm torn between that and Floodgate. Idk if the shock of seeing the flood for the first time would be worse, or the deep pit of dread and hopelessness you'd feel in knowing full well what it is and what it's capable of, and that it's on earth. Anyone realising that would immediately think that earth and humanity is completely and utterly fucked.

Plus in Emile’s death we see him get stabbed in the back and not being cut in half as he is hoisted in the air

Hey how's Chips Dubbo doing?

Haven’t seen him since Installation 00. I know he hasn’t retired, he is immortal like me. I’m sure one of my doppelgängers is with him.

@@navb0tactual The Captain needed him on the bridge ASAP

just too cool to stay in fictional worlds I guess?

Plasma pistols do seem to feel less and less powerful, I remember them having a stun effect in Halo CE. And thank you!

@@SameToken Definitely. It's analogous to the magnum, which was a beast in CE, then was reduced to a pop gun by Halo 3 haha.

PatersonPercussion In the books it will punch straight through the armor plating of mjolnir.

Dj Cuevas It does in the game too, after the shields are gone.

After halo 3 plasma pistols are so good, they are the best tool to destroy banshees and heavy vehicles.

Covenant Ships: Laughs in mini Slipspace Jumps

@@luisalfredogaleanavera9602 not fast enough

@@alexandreparent82 even so the covenant ships have shields that is why they destroyed the human fleets, before you could empty the shields of the ships the others had already destroyed them

Covenant: Laughs in Energy Projector

@@luisalfredogaleanavera9602 2 shots from ship mounted mac guns to destroy one covenant ship.1 shot from an orbital defense platform to annihilate 3 of the biggest covenant ships if they are alligned.

Really glad you enjoyed it, thank you so much!

I really appreciate that, thank you!

Great idea, noted!

SameToken like what they thought about there guns and stuff but cool that you replied 😀

Always you can use ceramic or carbon nanotue covering. Make it real :)

Thank you, I really appreciate it! I must admit, the promise of making more of these videos has kept me going through my final year.

Optican, healthcare on demand

How the hell did humanity even last against the covenant

@@ashplattsii1fan92 The short answer is that they didn't. UNSC victories, ground and space, during the war often relied on some combination of surprise, superior firepower, and superior numbers. Pretty much everything about the Covenant war machine was objectively superior in the context of fighting a total war. From the human side, it was effectively a 27 year long fighting retreat against a technologically superior enemy that had no ROE, and whose primary objective was their complete annihilation. By December 2552, the UNSC navy was nearly destroyed, hundreds of colonies had fallen, Reach had been glassed, and Earth was being invaded. Without the Great Schism that tore the Covenant apart, the UNSC would have been defeated by early 2553. The main reason it took so long is that the Covenant had very poor intel about where human worlds were. Even at the end, when Regret jumped into earth orbit with fifteen ships at the beginning of Halo 2, he didn't expect to find humans in the system at all.

Ya! You get hit by 1 shot from a scarab beam, you will be a charred corpse...and if you survive, you would be unhealable so you would be dead either way!

Yip. Right there! Scarab: Deadliest plasma gun ever!

Well considering we're mounting laser cannons on warships nowadays, we may see plasma weapons in our lifetime

We’ll make them and then instantly ban them due to the torture someone would go through if they got shot by one.

@@jacobackley502 yeah, but those are only for detonating missiles/projectiles in air as apposed to them hitting whatever they were gonna hit.

@@valtyrodinson430 probably will be used to light small vessels on fire too, given the problems seen in the Strait of Hormuz and piracy.

That whole mission was batshit insane

I still wish that slipspace bomb had it's timer not fried for Jorge can survive same thing with Sgt Johnson if he survived Halo 3 he would of went into cryo sleep and would of died in space because of forward onto dawn being ripped in half plus the vacuum of space can kill you if you don't have a mask or helmet on

@Colin Shaw yeah

This is still early. We still have five hundred years until we get to halo timeline

@@pedrovalenciasalazar144 IRL plasma makes for a terrible weapon. Dumping heat into something quickly is surprisingly difficult cause the evaporation of the target shields the target. They take stupid amounts of energy to do anything, the required electromagnetic fields to get the plasma anywhere are near or completely impossible. Not to forget that the requirement of an em-field makes it one of the few things an em-shields could actually be used against.