danimal1384 said:
Samus has no sense of tactics or stealth, which the master chief excells in both. so while she would be expecting him to charge out into the open like every enemy she's ever experienced has done, he would be 2 kilometers away with mines already planted and a sniper rifle trained on her head. she would end up dead before she ever found out where he was. now i'm not a halo fanboy by any means, in fact i had spent years fighting against it's proclaimed GOD like status. but i'm putting this into a sense of realism, if there can be such a thing given the subject(s) in question.
As for LordOmnit's comment of the size of MC's sniper rifle, in the game, it fires 14.5mm armor piercing, fin-stabalized discarded-sabot rounds. 14.5mm is fucking big. 20mm were used in World War 2 as anit-aircraft guns. and Sabot rounds are full of burning magnesium, which is around 6000 degrees fareignheight. this isn't a small rifle, nor weak by any means. one shot and Samus's environment suit would be bubbly and melting. if she can't go through lava, she can't take sabot rounds, period. the assault rifles in halo fire 7.62mm rounds. i've seen what 7.62mm rounds do to people, it blows them in half, literally.
I really have to contest you here. First off, Samus has as much, or more stealth then Master Chief. She is a bounty hunter first and foremost. Her SOP for combat is the scan her target at a safe distance, assess it?s condition and weak points then attack in a way such to give her the best tactical advantage. Master Chief looks at the old motion tracker and starts shooting in the direction of any blips.
As for the weapons, again, you are way off. Master Chief?s sniper rifle is a Barret M82A1. It is indeed 14.5mm. Also known as a 50 Caliber. The Caliber of the gun more accurately is a reference to the diameter of the barrel though. As the rounds fire from the Barret are the same caliber as those fired from a Desert Eagle pistol. But the cartages themselves are vastly different. It is not as simple as bigger is better. Speed is important and the Barret shells pack a lot of propellant so they can travel long distances with minimal drop off. If he is firing fin stabilized sabot rounds, they are NOT magnesium rounds. Sabot is just a term for a bullet within a bullet. You see the fins could not travel smoothly down the barrel of the gun. So they encase the actual round in a breakaway shell that is perfectly round. That breakaway casing is 50 caliber (half an inch). The sabot inside is much smaller, but can travel a long distance. Just because the A-10 warthog uses magnesium rounds (among many others) in its main cannon which are sabot (the casing in this case to prevent them from igniting with the air before they are fired) does not mean all sabot rounds use it.
You have not seen what 7.62 rounds do to someone. In most cases they leave fairly clean holes. A single 7.62mm round (smaller then a .38, larger then a .22) would do little to you unless it hit a vital organ, or was hollow point anti-personnel. As the rounds MC uses would be designed for armor piercing potential they would be solid, fully jacketed slugs. But firing at full auto they can devastate a target.
Yes, Samus can survive in lava, and pretty much any hostile environment. Longer, I would venture, then even Master Chief could. MC?s tech is 500 years in the future (though his weapons seem surprisingly current day don?t ya think?) Samus? year is probably closer to 1000 years in the future. She has the tech, she has the skills, she has the win.