The easiest way to kill a bob is on sword base. Save weapons like the rocket launcher and sniper rifle until you go back to sword base. He either spawns at the mission start (the landing area), or on a floor inside the base
only in H5 the hunters are seen to go berserk in the games, while its been part of halo lore for much longer than that. kinda makes you wonder what took em so long to implement that
@Andy Gygi 100%, if you kill a hunter, their bond brother will usually stop shooting, charge, and go for a melee kill. It's been a thing since Halo 1, though like everything else it can bug out like what happened in this video.
1:32 Unggoy Grunts 7:32 Kig-Yar. Jackals/Skirmishers 14:11 Yanme’e. Drones 17:09 Huragok. Engineer 18:46 Lekgolo. Hunters 22:09 Jiralhanae. Brutes 32:25 Sangheli. Elite 48:41 San’shyuum Prophets I tried my best lining up the words, sorry if you have OCD
Nytrekkor on average grunts are smaller than the average human, I think that’s pretty obvious when you compare the size of a marine and grunt in halo 3 for example.
I know these ranks were made almost entirely for gameplay rather than lore purposes, but I always thought it was weird there were no designated pilot classes. I can envision Grunts and Elites that would be given special training to be vehicle and aircraft pilots, and have their own special armor and gear to go along with it. Also on that note, it is a bit funny how Grunts can pilot some vehicles like Ghosts, but Jackals are never seen in the games piloting or driving anything. Is there a lore explanation for this? Maybe since the Jackals are essentially just pirates and mercenaries, the upper Covenant caste never trusted them with the keys to any expensive hardware.
When the grunts rebelled I feel one of the things the grunts gave as part of coming back was they keep the keys and if the birds get near them they get the hands 🤣
As I remember it jackals have very narrow vision, making them good marksmen but bad at any fast reflex combat. This would make sense as their style tends to be sit back and shoot and why they don’t pilot craft and are terrible at melee.
My monkey brain went and read the thumbnail as "Pranks of the Covenant", and though I'm still fascinated by what's here, I made myself a bit sad that I didn't get to find out how the Sangheili handle April Fools.
@@MisterJohnDoe Jackal: it was just a prank The prank: *KILLING OFF THE ENTIRE METHANE SUPPLY OF THE GRUNTS AND IN THE PROCESS SPARKING A GRUNT AND JACKAL CIVAL WAR*
The Brutes' rank structure is the most confusing IMO. Their armour is so damn similar in colour & appearance that I literally cannot tell them apart. They're either blue or yellow. Tehe only rank I could separate was the Chieften.
21:25 I have an ODST guide book and it has a paragraph on gold hunters “Recent combat has revealed gold-armored variants in addition to the usual dark blue of a hunters armor, which while visually impressive, doesn’t see to yield any additional benefits to the Hunters already awe-I pairing combat prowess. Golden hunters attack with fuel rod shots, while blue hunters fire streaks of energy; both are equally damaging.”
In halo legends, there was a chapter of an arbiter battling in sanghelios, they are shown as sort of samuraiesque society, could also be cus of halo legends being cartoon/anime oriented, but still, very interesting
@Scott Fackrell They have a Wet-Navy in lore as well. Like to think space is no different than the sea, they both follow the same miltiary doctrine with large vessels, also you can look at our history with colonialism era in the 1700s. So it make sense to just call it the Navy really.
The golden armor in Halo 3 odst is (what I believe) a queen colony. They shoot different kinds of rounds as the standard Mgalekgolo shoots a fine beam consisting of around 2-3 seconds long, while the golden Mgalekgolo shots individual canon rounds, similar to that of a fuel rod cannon. Also I believe that “she” is slightly Healthier and buff-ier on harder difficulty’s
2:23 I would really like a novel or short story of the grunt rebellion showing the event in more detail. It would be very cool to see this covenant only event.
@@TAR-sl2ox there’s a glitch on halo 2 where you play as a grunt but I believe you have to have a second player. Also there’s mods that allow this as well
Funny thing is I always kill him before he runs away and gets to the area where all the jump brutes are, normally a have a plasma cannon and shoot him down from the second floor where all the invisible brutes are.
19:00 Pretty sure we see 1 Sangheili Ultra in Halo CE, during the Silent Cartographer mission, there is an elite that gets stuck behind the doors leading into the cartographer facility when you initially try entering and the doors shut and lock. If you look at him through a scope (or get lucky with a plasma grenade and kill him) before the doors close, you can see the armor and helmet matches that of the Ultras.
Just wanted to note at 39:20 an Elite minor is accompanying Rtas during his meeting with the prophets. I always found it a little strange that an Elite Minor would be worthy of being in a private meeting with the Covenant hierarchs.
I commonly consider myself a halo guru. I’ve been with this most of my life..... I have studied this series for almost a decade now. It will be in May of 2021. I had literally no idea that the skirmishers species name was the t’vouen! New information to unravel! Thank you!
Contact Harvest was ONE of the BEST halo books I've read. Definitely in the top 10. It's was honestly interesting to see the evolution of Sgt A.J. Johnson and see the first contact with the covenant through his perspective.
Its actually in the book “Contact Harvest”. When the 3 prophets we see in the games are having their ascension ceremony a few Grunt Merchants described exactly as you did show up.
Alright so we have super small sentinel, small sentinel, and big sentinel. Then in Halo wars I we get medium and smaller-but-not-smallest Sentinel and in Halo wars II we get super big sentinel.
One notable difference between the gold mgalekgolo and the regular blue ones is that the gold seem to only shoot one fuel rod shot rather than the consistent line.
@@tylerellis9097 in CE they shoot fuel rod shots whereas in Halo 2-3 they shoot streams instead of fuel rods. In Reach and H4 they go back to fuel rod shots and in h5 they either shoot fuel rods or multiple mini homing ones. Because Halo 3: ODST uses halo 3 assets, the generic blue hunters have particle cannons that shoot streams whereas the gold hunters, commonly called spec ops hunters by fans, shoot fuel rod shots in a game where they would otherwise shoot streams.
Tubby Duck They’re Gold cause they’re a new variant added for ODST. The only difference between it and the Blue Hunter is the projectile it shoots. It’s not a Spec Ops Hunter come on really.
Anyone looking for time stamps for each covenant race here you go San'shyuum or Prophets 48:41 🖤 Sangheili or Elites - 32:24 Jiralhanae or Brutes - 22:09 Lekgolo or Hunters - 18:45 Huragok or Engineer - 17:09 Yanme'e or Drones - 14:12 Kig-Yar or Jackals/Skirmishers - 7:32 Unggoy or Grunts - 1:32 Introduction and Intro: 0:00
Wow, I never realized how much the lower rank brute armor all looked the same. it looks really bad to see just one blue colour defining all of them. A bit of crimson like elite major would have been nice.
I feel sorry for the human who discover what the San’Shyuum was like during the Forerunner days. I probably would have nightmares for days with that knowledge.
Its quite possible that the San'Shyuum looked differently than how they currently do, which could explain why they were considered beautiful. They look the way they do now because of massive inbreeding due to the limited population on High Charity
You reckon it would be possible to do a Promethean version of this? I understand how difficult and long this would've taken to make, but we really don't get much info about the Promethean, it would be nice for someone to shine some light on them.
Prometheans don’t have ranks other than Captain and Normal like Soldier captain, Crawler captain, and Knight captain. Excluding Firefight ranks. That would be a long list considering they have many name Variations.
@@atlas9852 Same here. Though it'd likely be less of a Knights Rank video and more of an "All Prometheans" video. I have noticed at least 3 Promethean Knights in Halo 4: Smooth back, spiky back, and glowey back. I think the glowing back is called a Knight Battlewagon? Idk, just heard it somewhere. There's regular and alpha (spiky) crawlers, and I don't think watchers have a ranking system. Halo 5 is the only Halo I'm not really a fan of, so I don't know about the human-sized Promethean soldier things.
Who else thinks that the Brute Honour Guards should have made a brief return when you and the flood make your way across the brute infested bridge at the end of The Covenant? And these Brutes would be the toughest in the game, making your last encounter with the Covenant a memorable one
Covenant: Has complex ranking systems that take veteran warriors of different species decades of violent wars to rise through One green spartan: So anyways I started blasting...
@@Definitely_Dave especially since after and during the human covie war, pockets of them had colonies where humans and species of all kinds traded, both normally and black market, and were peaceful with each other, and were distanced from the war for the most part.
It's kind of disappointing that almost all of the Brute ranks in Halo 3 wear armour that is so similarly styled and coloured. It's really difficult to actually pick out the various sub-ranks in gameplay.
I hate the Brute Minor - Major - Ultra armor schemes in Halo 3. The colors and patterns are too similar to one another for me to differenciate them on the field. Plus Blue just isn't a fitting color for Brutes, I prefer the higher ranking Brute colors like Brown, Red, Grey and the like, makes them much more intimidating than the mellow royal blue colors.
I'm a new subscriber and I absolutely love your content! I know this video probably took a long time to make so I really appreciate it! I just played through all the campaigns on Halo MCC and wow your videos make it 100% better!
I killed an “elite hero” in halo reach firefight once. Was blastin so hard didn’t even know it was a different rank until after. Is that supposed to be bob?
What about Kaidon? I know it’s basically a political rank but you also mentioned the High Councilors so it probably should’ve been included. This is a long and spectacular video though so I know it’s really easy to forget a few things here and there. Edit: My bad, Kaidon is not a recognized rank in the Covenant only in Sangheili politics.
If the Covenant had attempted to understand Humanity as an enemy, I wonder if Yanme’e would’ve been used more frequently on Earth, due to their psychologically terror-inducing bug-like appearance. Imagine the sheer terror that loosing an army of buggers on a city like New Mombasa would create in people, as opposed to the military might of the Sangheili or the, uh, brutality of the Jiralhanae. Also, I imagine Lekgolo, as opposed to Mgalekgolo, could cause a lot of damage along these lines. I’d guess the gold Mgalekgolo are the ones of the pair that are higher-ranked, or the one of the pair that existed before the other, with the blue ones being the lower-ranked.
Didn't Arbiter (Thel Vadam) hold the position of Supreme Commander during Halo CE and the beginning of Halo 2? He led all of the Covenant forces during the attack on the first Halo.
*after the covenant war* Arbiter: “we just taught it would be a very neat social experiment” Hood: “what was the experiment” Arbiter: “reduce the human population to I don’t know.... zero” *leans closer* Arbiter “also the grunts don’t need the methane tanks. We just wanted to see how the they fought on meth”
40:13 Here's what the Silent Shadow may have looked like in game(Halo CE Mod): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pPD_i0jDSKU.html 41:17 This elite in Halo 2 may actually be an Ossoona. Positioned in a spot to observe 117 in combat, and does not attack on sight. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WFEjFhtoyF8.html
You forgot the best Elite of them all. The Council Ultra Honor Guard Elite! The Master Chief got lucky and killed him but by far the most bad ass elite of them all.
Yes and no. Halopedia back in the day misinterpreted a line from a book and made a page for a Jackal Zealot. That mistake made it's way into a guide book. I left it out since the "rank" hasn't appeared elsewhere and the original context makes it clear that "zealot" was being used as an adjective, not a rank.
They should make a game where you played as a sangheli and you went through iconic missions in the halo story but as an elite and the more missions you did and if you were good at you’re job you would unlock new elite ranks.
I think the Gold Armored Hunters were in ODST because of the fact that both versions of the Hunter canons were used, so they made a Gold version so it's easier to tell which canon the hunter is going to use by looking at them.
Fascinating video, one thing that could have been mentioned though, as talked about in some of the more recent books about the Silent Shadow: They function as the Secret Police of Sangheili command structure, which I thought was fascinating. Even Shipmasters and Fleet Masters that saw a First Sword of the Silent Shadow boarding their ship feared for their lives, knowing that there would be little they could do to stop a First Sword from removing them from their command, by force if necessary.
I kind of knew of ranks and stuff but wasn't sure what they were called. Awesome video! Now I'll be calling them by their proper name rather than Red, Blue or Gold . I've escalated from Halo Normie!
It’s odd to me that the Kig-Yar is the second lowest race in the covenant. They were some of the most effective killers during the battles on earth and installation 05. If you know what I mean you know what I mean.
Ahh. Love a good, long lore video. Been putting this on for 10 mins here and there when I’m waiting on something or just have a few minutes. Good stuff!
