{"id":2681,"date":"2012-08-24T08:57:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T13:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=2681"},"modified":"2012-08-24T13:04:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T18:04:52","slug":"so-why-the-change-of-look-for-the-covies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=2681","title":{"rendered":"So why the change of look for the Covies?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had an opportunity to question a 343 employee about this last night. (Can’t say who though)<\/p>\n

Anyway, I ask if the change to the Covies looks were for aesthetic reasons, or polygon count, or something entirely different.<\/p>\n

As suspected, the look of the traditional Covenant forces was changed to make them look more menacing. Frank O’Conner has eluded to this as well.<\/p>\n

There apparently was a discussion about the Jackal in particular with their more bird-like appearance and not being as threatening. The decision was made to make them appear a little bit more dinosaur like, giving them a stunted beak and moving their eyes forward.<\/p>\n

That definitely changed the look of them. For the better? Hmm you decide:<\/p>\n

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I happen to like it. Other than the head, much of the rest of the Jackal remains intact from previous iterations. The new version in Halo 4 definitely looks more bad-ass and no where near bird-like.<\/p>\n

I was told there really won’t be any canonical explanation for this. It’s not like the evolved. It’s just an aesthetic change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had an opportunity to question a 343 employee about this last night. (Can’t say who though) Anyway, I ask if the change to the Covies looks were for aesthetic reasons, or polygon count, or something entirely different. As suspected, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halo-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2686,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions\/2686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}