The Evolution of Halo's Covenant - The Grunts
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- In this episode of The Evolution of Halo's Covenant, I take an in depth look into the various appearances, gameplay and AI behaviors the Grunts have seen throughout the years. Thanks for watching!
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What's your favorite Grunt and why? I want to know! What Covenant species should I cover next? Thanks for watching :)
Do the marines lol
Me because why not
And I'd like to see Hunters next
My favorite grunt is the one from the start of Delta Halo, screw the jackal who stole his doll. Do a UNSC evolution please
@@youtubegoogleb Agreed, I know they're not covies, but the Marines should either be next, or at least, after jackles and/or Hunters, given Drones and Engineers will probably be very short videos.
CE no debate
Bungie grunts: Funky little crab dudes
343 Grunts: Horrific little gremlins with giant t-rex heads
"funky" untill H3 came out. don't know you, but i found horrorifyc the H3/HR grunt's design
@@MrPronGogh93 it's their mouths and skin
@@CaptainCynica1 and the mask, and the curb-like hands, or the bad habit to kamikaze you
Halo CE-Reach Grunts: Crab people
Halo 4 Grunts: Turtle people
Halo 5 Grunts: DooM Demons
@@mLj0011 more like: H:CE-H2 gruts: cute little monkeys type
H3-reach: horryfing crub like alien
H4: turtle like alien
H5: disturbing chamaleon/turtle like alien
Grunt becoming more crab like,
“Why does everything evolve into crabs”
Is this an Adventure Time reference?
@@brethnew no, I think it is from a video that says "why does everything evolve into crabs?"
@@amazingbro6723 unfortunate
@@brethnew here's a link to it m.czcams.com/video/wvfR3XLXPvw/video.html
czcams.com/video/LDU_Txk06tM/video.html
“Grunts are the cutest alien species in Halo”
Huragoks: *cries in corner*
Only their heads are kinda cute.
They be cute, but it’s sad we haven’t seen them in many games
They're both cute
they're robots
Floaty boys
I like how halo wars 2 made Halo 4's grunts a cousin species to the grunts that we all know and love.
I think / hope that’s what infinite is doing
I didn’t play 2, what was said or read or whatever to indicate this?
Well all the halo 4 versions of the covenant are different sub species of the original trilogy covenant. All of this was said in the books but halo wars 2 was just the first to show them side by side which is something I love about it
@@dajhier1 I read somewhere that the jackals are a different species than the older jackals
@@dajhier1 There's also a Grunt unit in HW2 that are a bunch of methane crazed Grunts who will suicide squad on your units and they take on the H4 appearance, where as normal Grunt units will look more in line with the classic design
My favorite line is "You killed flipyap! Or is it uh yapflip. No flipyap was his brother! Don't tell me I don't know flipyap me and flipyap went to nipple academy together even though he's dead.😂
Just got that achievement. Took me more than a year, probably 15 months since I started playing MCC.
My favorite is that very talkative Halo 5 grunt’s long talk about life, designs, and the workd
Same 😂😂😂😂
@@pancholopez8829 I got it on accident...
Was that in halo ce or halo 2 ?
If there’s one thing 343 did right with the Grunts.. it’s the Goblin mech suit. I love it so much
Unpopular opinion but I actually like the Grunts in 343’s games, as well as some of the other redesigns…they’re just really jarring when comparing them to the others and I think deserve to be different species to the Bungie designs.
And yeah, the Goblin is hella cool! “DEATH LASER!!!”
I like the goblin suit feels like something grunts would use
@@autistichades5552 Wish granted, they've been a subspecies of each race canonically since the release of Halo Wars 2. I can understand that though, they're so different that they would have their appeal to other gamers, and honestly if they wanted to fit them in later games, such as having them being a slightly tankier versions of normal grunts with a bit more hp, while say taking away their mobility(much like Reach's gameplay wise) they could fit a bit of a niche of their own that would fit the newer style. More enemies isn't a problem in my eyes as long as they don't replace the originals. But it doesn't look like they'll be doing that for Infinite so far.
The 343 grunts are more alien like and look more menacing
The other thing 343 right is halo infinite
I didnt realize how much halo 4 grunts look like they came straight out of gears of war
While I do like the design, to quote from ebr "there was no transition"
Don't do us Gears fans like that
@@machina5 ?
From what I heard, the guy who came up with the new bulkier enemy designs worked on Gears of war.
@@anjaneyasreetrout2444 really?
CE are my favorite grunt voices. _“NOT AGAIN!”_
Bad Cyborg!
They got elite!!! Run!!!
"He's everywhere!"
I once shot a Grunt in the arm while he was about to throw a plasma grenade, causing him to whip around and attach it directly to the Elite Major behind him's crotch. As the Elite screamed in outrage, the Grunt's last words before the grenade went off were a high pitched whine of "It wasn't me!"
@@AJadedLizard lol
Goddamn I love these. The Grunt's dialogue in Halo 3 was the best IMO.
"I thought it was just a piece of scenery but it's really him!"
I dunno, I'm a sucker for the friendly Grunt dialogue in Halo 2.
"Arbiter...Savior? Stupid Jackal, say 'Thank you!'"
"They killed Yapyap! He was my best friend..." :(
@@felixcrentist1595 You killed Flipyap! Or...Yapflip. Was he? Flipyap. Don't tell me I don't know Flipyap! He and and I went to Nipple Academy together!
@@AJadedLizard I love this specific grunt
@@charlesdemers1197 He may not always be right about his cohort's names, but he's always sure he knew them.
The Needler animation in CE is indeed their reload animation. Lovely video, btw :)
Hello, Vengeful
Hello poonyap
Hello, b1
Hello Neon
Hello the great cloacker
Bungie: cute little itty bitty baby tiny crabs
343i: Wretches from Gears of War who think they're grunts
Halo 3 ruinned grunts.
@@llamadasinrespuesta4631 U Mean Halo 4 And Halo 5 Right?
@@kevinmillerwaynejr5852 no, grunts were cuter in halo ce and halo 2.
Those copycats!
@@llamadasinrespuesta4631 Homie Halo 3 Still Has Cute Ass Grunts lmao Halo 4 And 5 Butchered Them
The curled methane tanks in Halo CE always reminded me of shrimp🍤 lol
They hurt our backs!
Yes I’m not the only one
Shrimp
Make the next one the marines.
I second this
I third this
I fourth this
I fifth this
>evolution of the COVENANT
>’do the marines!’
5 mins ago I said, "When is he releasing the grunts?" after rewatching the elite video for the 5th time.
I'm always re watching as well. Wish there was more content like this that's not sellout halo lore.
Next few minutes you'll be the fifth reply to this comment.
@@clausthebaus4178 hmmm
Could it be?
@@clausthebaus4178 Hey! Hey! What!?
One of my favorite moments of playing Halo Combat Evolved is wondering where I was hearing noises come from, I stood up on top of this balcony looking down over the floor. As I turned left the npc grunt adjacent to me litterally turns right at the same hesitant speed and when our crosshairs/faces met he immidiently said "oh no"
literally had a Looney Tunes moment
I didnt know the reach grunts were able to speak english in their sleep
Like us speaking gibberish in our sleep
I never knew this. The more you know….
Same here
I never noticed that spec ops grunts never panic, I now have a new found respect for the little guys.
Regarding the CE Grunt’s Needler shaking animation, it is indeed meant to be a reload. Both them, elites, and even jackals who are modded to have needlers will do that style of animation when their Needlers run dry and these animations even have the word “reload” in their index names.
Cool
I noticed when he was confused about it, he showed a clip of the grunt reloading pretty obviously at the same time
Can we just appreciate how halo CE had such a perfectly balanced enemy roster? Same with the weapons there is no weapon redundancy, each gun had a unique role to fill.
Yeah CE’s sandbox was basically perfect. Glad that Halo Infinite’s lead sandbox designer thinks the same way 👀
Except for multiplayer although it is almost impossible to balacne weapons for both single and multiplayer
@@cryptdk2400 the problem is since the pistol is a starting weapon then why even use the ar?. Just because a pro can kill you with a redundant weapon doesn't make it any less redundant
I never played the multiplayer game, but I have to say it, once I found the shotgun, I ended the game all doom style
IMO it is a much more Half-life like sandbox, and less an interconnected army. There are enemy classes and few ranks, and they are stuck with highly specific roles, ranks and behaviours. Where as all the games after deploy their units in more varied, unexpected formations.
The reason grunts are so large in numbers, is because canonically they breed like wildfire, which is also the reason they are cannon fodder
And the reason they speak english in ce, 2, 3, is because they can learn very quickly in battle, and some grunts pick up english from human troopers/captives
The reason they dont speak english in reach is, because it is set before ce, the grunts didnt have much time to develop their english.
Reach ends like 2-3 weeks before CE after about 27 years of war. I think they might've had time
@@derekmensch3601 But, like... not those grunts though. They were fresh out of nipple academy.
@@TotallyRealistic English is a prerequisite of Nipple academy
Yeahhh idk about that, the covenant spoke fluent English when making first contact with humanity, because they had studied them for a time before making contact.
Based off your explanation Grunts would've had awhile to learn, considering Reach was 20+ years in the war, and Reach came out after Halo Wars 1 elaborated this for the non-book readers.
Another explanation I read from GameInformer or Xbox magazine (one of those)- is that Cortana upgraded herself between Halo 1 and 2 to decipher their language for Chief on the fly, but that doesn't account for the Arbiter being able to speak to Johnson and having him understand him.
My guess- the game devs make the Covenant speak alien when they want and speak human languages when they want- for the vibe of the game they're making.
"It's definitely unsettling seeing a grunt charge at you with 2 blue balls of death"
Take that out of context
*I’ll never forget you Bob, the grunt that attempted to escape with me from the crashing ship in Halo 4.*
*may you rest in pieces*
"It's safe to come out now, this is general, uh humanoid."
"Heyy, the demon store called, and they're all out of you. Poorrrr you! Stolen at the age of 6 and conscripted into the military, boohoo!"
Halo 3 grunts are the best grunts
General humanoid XD that's too funny
ONI has a severe military breach bruh.
welcome to the dvd surroundsound test, doodoo doodoo!
final grunt supreme
Hey, Demon! The jerk-store called, and they’re all outta _YOU!_
Man I don’t like the looks of halo 4&5’s grunt minor but the ones wearing helmets look awesome imo!
Very glad to see those ones returning in Infinite alongside OG minors and ultras
Halo 4 grunts are damn turtles with a mechanic shell, although they're funny
I kinda like 5s brain dead look
He mentions how the tube just going to their nose and leaving their mouth exposed looks like it'd be annoying but I'd argue it's lore friendly. The grunts (with a few exceptions) have always been treated as lessers so it makes sense that the lowest ranks would be given the most basic equipment and why would anyone care if they were uncomfortable? Even more-so because the Covenant in 4 and 5 weren't any of the major factions but various ill-equipped splinter factions so they'd have even less materials to go around.
The 5 grunts are honestly so disrespectful to all the others
So, the king has finally returned to his throne
I love how looking at Halo 3 it still holds up and could fit in nowadays
“Might be a reload animation”
Literally shows clip of a grunt needler run out of ammo, the animation plays, needler is now reloaded.
lol
Halo 4's and Halo 5's Grunts just show off the classic, "If it isn't broken, don't fix it." I've never understood 343's need to entirely redesign every Covenant race in a way that entire goes against the faithful representation of previous games.
343 hired people who hated parts of Halo. One of those parts was visual design, hence the new look.
Pretty bad business decision if you ask me, but hey, they made Halo 4 and 5, so no surprise there.
They actually didn't own the art rights for the classic designs
@@retrodarktrooper6372 Which is fair, but seems very odd. From that perspective, they seemed to get the right to name their game Halo but that's it.
Halo 4 and halo 5 were both great. You guys are obviously too attached to the old looks and let nostalgia blind you. In the old halo games the way they sound and the things the grunts said made it hard to believe they helped bring humanity to the brink of extinction. In halo 4 they were more alien like and somewhat menacing. Being faithful isn’t always good. Same thing with the other races that were redesigned. The elites were cool looking in the original series but they look even cooler now and more dangerous.
@@Chopstorm. you could say that EA makes “good” business decisions and look at their reputation
"You always have bad feeling- you had bad feeling about morning food nipple!"
Absolutely adorable.
Just realized that this year is the ten year anniversary of the ten year anniversary of Halo CE. Dang I’m old......
Damn
They should make a anniversary of ce anniversary
@@lukethelegend6370 only, redesign the old ce models
20 years u mean dude
@@shanesharwood2985 20 years since Halo CE, sure. What I’m saying is it’s the ten year anniversary of the Halo CE Ten Year Anniversary Edition.
"short and squatty, grunts stand at 5 ft"
Me at 5'6: "exsqueeze me?"
Right I’m like hold on how tall is everyone else??
@@drippysi3379 6’4
Next one should be on marines, after that i think maybe the "evolution of" should be on the vehicles, maybe like the wraith?
Agreed! Starting with the Wraith would also be unique since most youtubers either start with the Ghost or the Warthog.
Why would he move on to the vehicles if he hasn't even finished the enemies yet? Use your brain
Evolution of Warthog runs in Halo
Reach Grunts flee a lot from grenades in my experience, though that's probably due to Firefight almost always having Tough Luck skull on.
I saw this and got so excited I broke my phone screen pushing that like button so hard
Jesus Christ! I never realised how horrifying the Halo 5 grunts look
Ah EBR uploaded a video.
*pours a glass of whiskey*
*lights cigar*
*injects heroin into eyeball*
lol
I’m betting the next video is going to be about Jackals/Skirmishers
Ungoy means monkey in my mother tongue (Bisaya from the Philippines)
We need a mcc grunt dlc so we can play as a grunt instead of master chief
Heck yea
Also in the Halo 2 Grunts that I also love is you can give them and switch them different weapons like the Needlers, Plasma Rifles, Brute Rifles, Fuel Rods, and Plasma Pistols. And also possibly giving them SMG's, Human Pistols and or rocket launchers. Halo 2 is my favorite game overall out of the other Halos. Hopefully they have many kinds of Grunts in Halo Infinite like in Halo 2 especially the Heritic Grunts
“The cutest alien species in Halo.”
Come on, everyone knows the engineers are way cuter.
true
dude vergil was so sweet
Engineers also killed the strongest Elite to ever live... simply because they were playing around with some tools then a grunt snuck past them an activated an audio log. The engineers curious thrn started messing with it and accidentally activated a Nova Bomb on the Covenant Super Carrier
Buck: "Pheew, that thing stinks"
Engineers aren’t aliens
Halo 2 Grunts, look the cutest imo.
3:54 i love how the elite looks at the grunt in an almost dissapointed manner
7:27 Ah yes I agree, the grunts are the most visually expressive grunts
It haunts me to know that the Grunts are like 5-6 feet tall
I love the Grunts, every time I play as The Arbiter I always give the little guys the best guns.
The CE and 2 grunts seem to differ like soldiers in HL1 and HL2. In the first game, they are tankier and often rush, in the second they are more tactical, but less durable.
Never realized Halo 4 grunts have 6 packs
Do the jackals next
Hopefully he knows that the reason 343 Jackals have a different head design than Bungie’s was because they’ve established them as a different subspecies.
@@Laserbeak316 hopefully
Those mf caught me off guard the first time they shot at me a charged plasma shoot , since then, I'm scared of them.
@@hotcocoacoffe3938 I thought they were a joke in halo ce.
TBF, on the topic of the reach DMR, Halo 1 you had the Magnum, Halo 2/3 you have the Battle Rifle and Carbine. You've always had a precision mid-long range weapon with decent ammo count that was capable of making grunts obsolete.
Reach DMR had a much longer red reticle range. Halo 3's was 60, Reach's was 90.
DMR is babby gun for babbys
There is a reason why Halo CE Grunts are my absolute favorite Grunts.
The Halo 4 Grunts look like the crazy frog.
This guy sponsored himself in his video, what a madlad
This man just called Grunts the cutest alien species in Halo when Engineers exist
No
Engineers are Kiddie bullshit. Odst is not an real halo game.
@@niklassororitas Lol nice reach
@@niklassororitas odst is real shit
@@niklassororitas all halo games from CE to 4 are real halo games.
The CE grunts were the best! Miss those curved tanks.
Honestly, the Reach designs should have never been used outside of Reach :/
It was for continuity
@@neroidius6915 Well, 'continuity' didn't look that good.
Reach was made to be a game with its own look. A gritty take on the series.
It was not supposed to look the same as the rest of the series :\
@@ne3333t you say that like CE isn’t a gritty game featuring a horrific recording showing a whole squad discovering some little zombies that eat them up and rooms full of corpses and you punching your fist into your captain’s face to dig up some hardware out of his brain while he’s already dying a horribly agonizing death
@@neroidius6915 I guess a better word, although it sounds like I am talking bad about Reach, is that it was overdesigned.
They put much more detail in it than necessary to make it have its own look.
@Su Us Even if they were the same as the ones in 3, which they are not, I would say 3's design is the worst of the originals anyway.
I love the grunt that sings to you in Halo 5 on the mission where you first encounter the arbiter
Imagine being killed by a grunt on easy lmao.
Journalists be like
It happened me, I didn't remember the spec ops grunt could use the alien rocket launcher (I know that's not the name of the gun, but I honestly don't remember).
@@hotcocoacoffe3938 fuel rod
Imagine being a br*tish “”””””person””””””
@@HIPHOPHEAD1031 it’s Bri'ish, not Br*tish
Just got dinner, perfect timing lol
I seriously can't stop watching these videos, man. Keep it up!
Marines or Jackals have got to be next
halo 3's grunts are by far the best grunts in the entire halo franchise. There were hilarious, managable with headshots, but deadly in huge numbers or with the catch skull on. Even without the IWHBYD skull, their lines were funny as hell.
Not enough people appreciate how badass and strong these guys are
I just got this notification and got excited. Thanks for the great Videos dude
I honestly really like both styles of Grunts. I can see the 343-era being used as tougher and heavier or shock assault grunts with needlers and plasma cannons while the bungie Era designs act as fodder.
That was my first time ever hearing the reach grunts speak English
Same.
For something that appeared in my recommend feed, I'm shocked how little subscribers you have for such great content.
The grunts are adorable and it always makes you feel bad to kill them when the run away, at least until they start shooting you for sparing them
Great video. You should do the Jackals next.
I wish that the Grunts would have carried over the curled methane tanks and alternate masks seen in ce. In Reach they really should have had all grunts spawn with either the minor harness or the heavy harness to add variety (the spec ops would have the major harness to differentiate them). They should really give higher ranking grunts the ability to use plasma rifles, and other handguns used by Brutes and Elites.
25:24 The white grunt with the different backpack is actually a spec ops grunt that has a bugged permutation which is why they appear white
I saw this in my subscription notifications and got so excited
Edit: how did you get the non-gameplay footage of the grunts in combat evolved?
Possibly PC mod
For CE you have to enable the blind skull, play SC and right before you get to the map room, there's a hidden active camo. Activate it, quickly go up to the Grunt you want to examine and there you go, homemade theater mode. It doesn't last forever though, so you'll have to restart the checkpoint a couple times. As for Halo 2, just enable the blind skull and play on missions where the Grunts are your allies. Hope that helps
I didn’t find out about this video until I saw it on Twitter even though I have notifications on.
I absolutely love this kind of content, and you do it amazingly well. Super glad I found this channel.
why yes youtube, I would like to watch a 38-minute video about grunts
Man 5k subs congratulations 🎉 love the vids
I have a feeling you really like Halo 2 :P
Me: subscribes. CZcams: glitches out and unsubscribes. Me: NOT AGAIN!
Are you simping for this guy?
Playable grunts in Infinite please. Also great video about the ultimate unit in Halo.
Other games might have "better" AI Halo's certainly have the most believable
Halo CE AI is far more competent than most games that have come out since.
What is practical about nose only tanks is they can eat and also use their mouth as a third clasper without unequiping gear.
Just wanted to note a couple things about the CE Grunts:
1. Grunt Majors can be seen equipped with Fuel Rod Guns late in the game, most notably on the natural bridge to on Two Betrayals' Control Room canyon after destroying the first phase pulse generator.
2. Their "Needler slapping" animation is indeed a reload animation.
Even the elites have the same animation while using a needler.
The elites do have english lines in ce too, Just really rare
Wich ones? I've never heard one of their english lines, would be kinda funny
There are two instances where Halo 4 grunts can be seen sleeping.
1. There’s only one sleeping grunt right under the first elite you encounter at the bridge.
2. There’s a Spartan ops episode showing and beginning with sleeping grunts.
Fun Fact: Halo Reach, Halo 4, and Halo 5 grunts are never seen to have a animation to carry and deploy plasma turrets.
Which level in Halo 4 or Spartan ops?
@@Endtimes4ahatter the very first mission called "Dawn' I believe
@@Endtimes4ahatter The first level for the first one but I forgot which episode and chapter but the cutscene begins with sleeping grunts
0:04 engineers: il pretend like i didn't see that
“They seem to be physically weaker than ce grunts”
Shows him wolfensteining 2 assault rifles as proof
i know they are not part of the Covenant but it would be really cool to see an episode on The Flood.
*Love these videos
As far as I know (wich is very little) they just appear in halo ce, 2 and the anniversary versions.
@@hotcocoacoffe3938 your almost right there in ce,2,3 halo wars 1,2 and the anniversary versions
@@IcyHalo damn, I gotta play the rest of the games, thanks for the info tho
next one should be the jackals with their skirmishers sub species.
I think I like the CE Grunts mostly cause their high pitch voices and dialogue was hilarious
Especially the "Not again!" line was tagged with a grenade
I enjoy them consistently across the media
The manner in which the editing is done as well as the humor delivered, the style overall I guess, reminds me a lot of the older CZcams videos and how they were presented back then. It's actually pretty refreshing. I love it!
This is awesome such a great video King 👑 keep up the great work love your vids and always looking forward to the next one
I love this series and hope it expands to all the other races and species
4:54 "Die!" "Hu Hu Hu Hu Hu" funniest thing I've heard all pandemic.
Funny too I voice act and sound like a few characters makes it more hilarious for me. Went so well too.
You should do Jackals and Skirmishers next. I think it would be interesting to break down their design and gameplay variety they bring to each game.
The grunt goblin should return they were incredibly interesting both from lore and gameplay.
Also the grunts should step out from the comedic relief and into a more serious note. Their lore feels like they are just a tragedy of a race and I would like to see that reflect.
Nap yap approves of this
@Kiylin684 YT all those stories of those stories would eventually have the spave free in the end. This keeping your spirits high will only work if they eventually get independence. But that is never going to happen and it feels rather strange to me.
4:50
I see you have chosen death EBR
2:38
Covenant symbol? I always thought it was some opening to slot in something, like a storage slot.
Most of the Grunts are barely children. Imagine fighting a Grunt that is older and battle tested. 🤯
Sad they are sent to fight at five years old
Why does the halo 4 grunts look so much like they are from ratchet and clank? Is it just me?
Probably because they’re pretty stylized compared to the rest of the game
The first halo game I played was halo 4, I loved the designs (except of the elite design), then I played the rest of halo games and I was like:
"What kind of gears of war demon first spawned in Doom is this mf grunt of halo 4?"
as a wise man once said: "IT'S EVOLVING, JUST BACKWARDS"
I think that this video has the best editing so far! I can’t wait for when you get to the jackals.
"Grunts, are the cutest alien species in halo"
Engineers: allow us to introduce ourselves
Nah, bungie grunts are better