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Originally Posted by Kahardrin
I had to find out how many shots each gun had, and well I did, Plasma Rifle = 200 shots, Plasma Pistol = 300 shots or 11 at overcharge.
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Shenanigans. A fully charged Plasma Rifle carries 100 shots. No more, no less. Same for the Plasma Pistol. [Edit: retracted for lack of evidence.]
On top of that, what you're describing is unsurvivable by humans. Yet, all marines and all covies (even the grunts) could and did survive getting shot by plasma weaponry in game. Even the plasma pistols on full overcharge. Only the sniper gear and explosive shot (rocket launcher and grenade equivs) could insta-kill anybody.
For Halo, the game canon necessarily has to trump the books. Even the technobabble guide. Just like the movies necessarily trump anything in the SW EU.
Computing the height of the Scarab by MC's fall time was clever, though. I don't think in-engine gravity was correctly set at 9.8m/s^2, even on "Earth", but it is a clever approach to getting that measurement.