In a game where we're fighting a battle of survival against aliens, I get the feeling that's the general idea. They're supposed to look human.
In a game where we're fighting a battle of survival against aliens, I get the feeling that's the general idea. They're supposed to look human.
Yes, but in war, dont you want to look as sinister and imposing as possible? I would react much differently to a guy with nothing in his face strolling in, then with one with a mask glaring down on you. Without eye contact, or even faces, you cant connect to the thing in front of you, and it makes something like a usual marine become something much more scary. Also it just looks kick ass.
The Game... Army of Two comes to mind Chains... Nice work on the drawing, though what is that thing on the right.
I was bored, did an up-close on the face, came out weird. And actually I was looking at killzone refs more for it, because I just love that game.
No, I'd try and look as practical as possible...?Originally Posted by sKc_Chains
The most practical thing to do during a war would be to affect and hurt the enemy in anyway you can, such as morale and confindence. A faceless enemy popping up and doing ambushes, is much more scary then an obviously known threat and will make enemies experience anxiety, fear, paranoia, and eventually some will even go insane and have a nervous breakdown. Theyve even started covering up marine faces in halo wars, because they identified this trait. Even nowadays in iraq, soldiers will often wear bandanas or cloths over most of theyre face and then sunglasses, Im just making the mask be able to do something, like letting marines survive the use of gas grenades, or chemical warfare, without getting hurt,it also has night vision and a cup holder.
Last edited by Chainsy; June 15th, 2008 at 04:29 PM.
In several videos my cousin has sent back to us in Iraq, they are wearing masks like the ones in Army of Two. My cousin say the soldiers just choose to wear them, but I understand what Chains is saying.
Dunno who taught you that, because the best way to scare the living shit out of an enemy is to actually kill them. Being unseen is preferable to being spotted which makes that utterly redundant, and failing that it's preferable to kill the enemy, not fuck around with face masks or goggles or whatever else. No soldier I know of wears a gas mask just to look scary, anyone who thinks that's official practice or should be needs to lay off the games and action movies.
Gas attacks? Alright, that makes sense. Looking scary? No.
Learn phsycological warfare. A a natural thing is to fear the unknown. Seeing as the covenant are extremely religious, the uknown or different will scare the living shit out of them. Master Chief has his face covered up, and they consider him a "demon". No matter how small it may seem somehting as in-signifigant as a mask can cause a huge morale shake on the opposing force. Al-queda cover up their faces with turbans and cut off peoples heads on youtube, the renegade african goverments make the childs kill their parents to break them into docile, obedient soldiers. Phsycological warefare is a huge part, and doing something as small as wearing a mask, has the practical uses of night vision, gas attacks, but also adds this boost of morale destruction. Its not a simple matter of just scaring them, its a matter of combining an assault in both physical and emotion spectres that can amke an opposing force so strong. The romans for example, were knwn never to smile, and were not known bluffers. After settling a large dispute with Egypt and another country another country tried to plow in and take advantage of egypt in this weak form. The romans forces were spread thin by the barbarian wars, but no one outside of rome knew this. So they sent a lone senator with 2 escorts carring the roman symbols of power. They rode up to a full 10000 men and asked to see their leader. The leader came forward and asked " What is a senator doing in Egypt, go back to rome!"
The senator replied " The question is, what are you doing in Egypt? If you take any step other then east, you and your men will be killed on the spot by the hidden roman army."
This roman army was not here, but all the leader knew was the reputation of the romans as no bluffers, and here was a senator with the symbols of power. Fearing what was not there, the leader ordered a full blown retreat back. Because of using something as small as some symbols, they held back 10000 men. I can easily bring up some more examples, but I dont want this web page to burst from this one post.
Dude, I fucking know psychological warfare. I also know "not getting yourself killed by being a dumbfuck" warfare, and the latter takes precedent. Come back and lecture me when you're in the armed forces, until then, don't try and tell me you know more on the matter than I do. Find me an example of one modern, organised armed force which wears masks and such purely to scare the enemy. There are none. Soldiers wear scarves and shemaghs around their faces to keep the dust out and stop the sun glaring off their skin. SAS troops wear gas masks while on CT ops because they use flashbangs and gas grenades in close quarters. Gask masks cut peripheral vision, they're cumbersome, and nobody in their right mind uses them when they don't need to.
Learn practical warfare.
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