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I still remember it like it was yesterday

NOTHING BUT TEATS AND TEDIUM THEY SAID

@@manuelaigner5126such amazing times, I mean I was like 6 years old but I feel that made it even more awesome

Such a chad

Imagine if he joined the Arbiter after H3 and became a Grunt general of some kind lol.

​@@Xenictent THAT would have been awesome.

No doubt. Still really sad child soldiers though

​@Woodyisasexybeast I have a screenshot from playing mcc last week of 4 grunts all running at me at once with grenades and I can't lie I was actually terrified

5’6 ?! Are you telling me they’re jerma sized ??

5’ 6” to the top of their heads or their methane packs?

Methane isn’t meth

Funny that you mention the deacon. Dadab is his name and I actually just finished a video about him. Uploaded like 3 days ago

Nah, the elite was nuts and would’ve had him killed at the drop of a hat.

Nah, I'd say Zuka recognized that Yayap was actually smart for an Unggoy and that he deserved to be held in slighly higher regards than just cannon fodder

Am I mistaken I swear I remember elites killing grunts sometimes when they surrendered? I could be wrong it's been many years

They’ve basically been shafted at every turn. They also happily accepted Cortana’s demands as well. That’s where they got grunt goblins!

Pretty sure there was actually 6 rebellions!

I love that. I yearn for a grunt focused story one day. Contact Harvest proves to me they could absolutely carry a story

Did you name him Snip-bap Skywalker in honor of star wars tradition?

Dude, imagine having a D&D style Halo media

@@fanamatakecick97 There is a Halo RPG called Mythic

@@Gingrman-mx4sp What for real?!?!?!

Wish he’d made it out 😢

Well, we gotta go back for him!

So true

Loser

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When they blow up by grenade, rockets or the needler.

You can’t change my head cannon!!

Yep, the odor we associate with methane is an additive called mercaptan. It’s so any gas leaks can be easily detected.

@Brocuzgodlocdunfamdogson same with propane.

Oxygen by itself is also explosive.

That is literally the meaning of that phrase..

I couldn’t agree more with your opinions regarding The Flood. The chief bits are so lazily written but the good parts, like Yayap and Zuka’s story are good enough that it’s worth the read. I absolutely love the scenes depicting Keyes and his struggle against being infected by the flood. It’s so tragic and very well written. I love that they adapted it in the CE terminals. I’m thinking I might cover a story about a grunt and an engineer who become best friends. It’s an excellent story too and a bit more developed than Yayaps. Plus it’s written by Joseph Staten.

Honestly my favourite parts where it going into solid detail and examples of the average elite field commander being awful at tactics and command and how the UNSC are able to overcome the covenant’s superior units and tech though good strategy.

@Based Sneedclave I forgot about that. Yeah, the Covenant are like the Imperium from 40k where they’re so steeped in tradition, and a reverse engineering old technology that they don’t really innovate. That was a cool part.

@Woodyisasexybeast I was going to suggest that you could make a video about the story where the Engineer and Grunt became friends, but forget to include it. Was that in Contact Harvest? I haven’t read the book yet, but I really need to. I have it on paperback just laying around, but kept putting it off. I agree that the fact they put that part from the book where Keyes gets infected as part of the Annavery terminals was really good. Sadly, most of the stuff in that remaster didn’t really work well. The Halo 3/Reach graphics were really pretty, but didn’t translate well. I honestly never thought about the thing you mentioned in your video about how untold numbers of Grunts would have suffocated during missions. That definitely makes their story more tragic. One thing I don’t like about the Grunt design (goes for all of them) is the fact that the inside of their mouth isn’t blue. Their insides should be the same color as their blood. That’s why our insides are red/pink. Jackals and Elites should have purple mouths because of this. As for Brutes their physical appearance and blood color was never consistent. Personally I chalk up the reason for Chief’s sections being badly written is because the author couldn’t really do that much with them. Sure there were a few cool minor details, but he wasn’t able to deviate too much from the book. The other sections were definitely really good. One of my favorite parts with Chief is how when he kills Zuka he does it so casually, and has literally no idea who he just took out. The part that mentioned how Hunters have bond brothers was really cool. Although, the emphasis on their back spikes and how Chief cut himself on them was dumb. I’m not sure if this is a plot hole or not, but in CE you set off the Autumn’s fusion reactors and make it blow up the Ring. This makes me wonder why they didn’t just set UNSC ships to self destruct and send them straight at a Covenant fleet after they take too much damage. Maybe the shields make this not work, but if that can destroy a Halo it would punch right through their shields. Your Black Team video was pretty good. It’s too bad that their interesting story ended in such a dumb way. Although, I’m not a fan of the Spartans falling in love since they’re basically adopted siblings. While none of them are biologically related, they all grew up together so it makes it really weird.

It is in Contact Harvest. Which is by far one of the best Halo books, period. Joseph Staten is a superb writer. Don’t put it off anymore. Read it! It’s up there in my top Halo books for sure. Along with The Fall of Reach and Cryptum/Primordium/Silentium. I much prefer the original aesthetics in most areas but I’d be lying if I said I disliked the remaster. With it came the terminals, which I absolutely love. Plus we got some absolutely spectacular landscapes. I’m not crazy about the lighting or character models though. The covenant models, specifically. I’m not entirely certain regarding the idea of flinging self destructing ships into covenant forces. One obvious drawback to such a strategy is the costly nature of producing starships of that magnitude. The UNSC needed every ship they could get because their resources were so limited. I enjoy black teams story precisely because of how unusual it is. Viewing it from certain angles definitely does give some “sweet home Alabama” vibes. However, when a group that large is forced to cohabitate, romantic relationships are literally inevitable. To say that EVERY Spartan views the others as siblings seems ridiculous to me, which is why I think the story works.

They’re more akin to crustaceans, funnily enough.

@@Woodyisasexybeast see that's exactly what I mean, that's amazing and so neat

Kinda like the first time I found out hunters were colonies of worms

I have a hunter video that would probably blow your mind too.

I suppose that’s true, though unlikely. Either way, he would’ve made an excellent edition to the swords of sanghelios.

Yayap survived in a cave with Foehammer.

Thanks so much! Spread the word! lol

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Hmm. Not a bad idea. Thanks for the input! Halo is an over 20 year old franchise so there’s a lot of cool stories to cover.

Grunts are my favorite

That’s very kind of you. I try my best to do right by the source material :)

Thanks!

Thank you! I’ve got a script written for a new one :)

Thank you! This is actually an idea I’ve been playing around with. Like an in depth dive into a specific species. There’s a lot of fun and obscure little lore nuggets surrounding certain creatures.

@@Woodyisasexybeast Awesome! Looking forward to it. And thanks for the ♥!

Thanks! I’m in the early planning phases of a new one already

@@Woodyisasexybeast No prob!

Thanks! I don’t have a ton of stuff up yet but I’ve got plenty of more concepts in the pipeline. I just need to pick a topic for the next one…

I subscribed too

Yayap and Jenkins are by far my favorite parts of the book

Thank you ❤️

An oldie but a goodie. Great character that doesn’t get nearly enough love. Pretty sure my video is the only one covering his story which is just criminal

Yep! I wanted to do this specifically from the grunts perspective though because he was my favorite character in this particular book. This is from a novel btw, not a comic. It’s from Halo The Flood which is a novelization of Halo CE.

I haven’t seen the new episodes yet but I’ve heard they’re staying a bit more true to form so maybe in the next season we’ll see yayap.

WHAT WAS THE MASTER CHIEF DOING 14:58

Thank you ❤️

100% canon. Sources are in the description. Thank you!

I’m glad! I’m in the early phases of the next one already. Should be fun.

@@Woodyisasexybeast I'm sure it'll be a banger vid

I’ve got another one in the works too :)

I really wish they would’ve added some kind of Easter egg for them in the CEA. Maybe some secret voice lines if you stand by the crate they hide in or something.

@@Woodyisasexybeast True. I bought The flood a few months back and really loved their story. For sometime i even thought he was Yayap, was Yapyap cuz i didn't noticed the name xD in my head canon, he did escape and changed his name to Yapyap

Technically speaking you do face Zuka. He's the Elite that is in the elevator we take after setting the reactor to go critical and heading up to board the Warthogs for the escape. In the book he's killed when Chief drops the elevator and rolls a grenade over the edge. Cortana even wonders what his deal was. All that and his death amounted to little more than a "huh, that was weird, anyways..." reaction from Cortana with Chief barely noticing.

Moments like that will make you question reality lol

Yeah, he’s a cool character. Different though. This is about Yayap

Unfortunately, I doubt it. As advanced as the covenants tech may have been, the grunts weren’t the ones that usually received such things

It’s from The Flood

I have shorts on both Jenkins and Keyes because I love their stories as well. I may one day do a long form video too. Something along the lines of “most horrific flood moments” or something. Definitely not the final title but I think you get the idea. Despite all of the additions to the lore, I still feel like The Flood holds up really well. There’s some weirdness here and there but all in all, it works out decently. For example, I think there’s mention of a hunters spine being severed or something? I forget what exactly was said but it doesn’t perfectly line up with what was established later. Easily passable and explained away but odd nonetheless. Either way, I do think it’s a good book thanks to the added bits. Keyes’ death is genuinely one of my favorite sequences in the entire series.

Now that you mention it I remember seeing those videos and liking them. If you ever do one that expands more on Keyes you might want to cover what happened during The Cole Protocol. I recently listened to that book and it was really good. I really liked how Truth had some Jackals trade with humans using modified plasma weapons designed for humans. Said weapons were tracking devices and by giving them to Insurrectionists they could destabilize parts of the UNSC. Too bad all the intelligence Truth showed in the books and 2 wasn’t present in 3. The parts where he’s mad at Regret for messing up his plans and seeing the hierarchs arguing plants seeds of doubt in the Arbiter were good. One of my favorite things about Cole Protocol was how they showed a different side of human society with very different political affiliations. Such a shame we don’t see more stuff with the Insurrectionists. Wasn’t a fan of a lot of the changes in CEA, but I did enjoy the terminals. By far the best is the one that adapts Keyes experience in The Flood book. I think that some of the contradictions with how Elites act in The Flood vs later lore be reconciled by having certain Elites be less religious than the others, but they out up a show because it benefits them socially. It would also make them more interesting if they had different views and weren’t all just slight variations of each other. I just now remembered one weird contradiction between the book and CE comes from the part where that one Covenant craft collects Keyes. In the book they killed everyone but Keyes, and in the game Keyes is accompanied with several marines when you rescue him. Cortana even says they captured the rest of the command crew in the second mission. I think if there was a remake or my schitzo version of a Halo show they could probably have them kill a few of them who fight back, and execute the traitor because the Elites would view her as dishonorable and untrustworthy for selling out her own people.

Now that you mention it I did see those videos and remember liking them. If you ever do one that expands more on Keyes it would probably be a good idea to cover his actions during The Cole Protocol. That was an interesting book. I really liked how it delved into a different side of humanity and how they viewed the UNSC. I also loved how Truth had Jackals trade altered plasma weapons that had secret trackers and by giving them to Insurrectionists they’d destabilize the UNSC. The parts where Truth is scolding Regret for messing up his plans and the Arbiter is deeply disturbed by the fact the hierarchs aren’t united. I personally wasn’t a big fan of a lot of the changes in CEA, but I really liked the terminals. The best is definitely the Keyes one where they reinacted that scene from the book. I think some of the changes to the lore like the Covenant being less religious and the Elites not having the same honor code could be hand waved by having some Elites be less concerned with the theology and mostly just out on a show because it benefits them socially. If they had different views on Forerunner tech and other things it would make them more interesting and less like slight variations of each other. Kind of like how there was that crazy Elite in Ghosts of Onyx who wanted to have the Flood overwhelm his ship and his underling killed him to save the crew. One contradiction that you can’t mesh is how in the book when they catch Keyes they kill everyone except him, but in the game Cortana says they captured the surviving command crew and you find Keyes with several marines. I think if there was a Dead Space/Resident Evil style remake of my schitzo ideal Halo show they could reconcile these two by having the Elites kill anyone who tries to fight back, and execute the traitor because they’d view her as dishonorable and untrustworthy for selling out her own people.

I mean, it did though. This is ripped straight from the novelization of Halo CE and is 100% canon. It’s 100% still doable in MCC

It’d definitely be a good comedy if it didn’t end so tragically

At what point in the series do you ever see a grunt suffocating? I make do with what exists

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Master chief shall massacre all grunts

@@gamerrowedy6614 n... no peez

@winkystinky I’m currently in the process of doing a challenge run where I beat Halo CE in legendary without killing grunts. I’ve made it through POA and Halo but T&R is an absolute nightmare

@@Woodyisasexybeast oh jeez. Good luck I guess, that's pain.

I’ve got another in the works!

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100%. The chief sections are what brings the novel down