The attention to detail is astounding. The banshees in the fight have forward-swept wings, indicating they're a variant intended for use in space combat. Also, the UNSC naval strategy was to group MAC firing solutions onto single targets to ensure a kill. Great stuff.
dont misunderstand, THIS IS FANTASTIC. but making anything better than what we get from 343 or the actual holders of the halo IP is easy at this point, they set the bar so low... 15 seconds of this sodaz video is better than everything to come out of 343 in the last decade and a half.
@@TheAngriestGamer. i mean i actually do enjoy halo infinite but as of late they are just pissing me off with how they are handling it lol (more so i enjoy the campaign)
A truly "proper" version would've had both fleets being at distance so great the naked eye wouldn't be able to see the fleets from one side But that would be less interesting to see, so glad we got a version with the fleets close to each other
@@Bernoris Same, but if I were to nitpick every Halo fan animation, I would never be able to enjoy any of them So the most I can do is enjoy the rarest Halo fan animation ever: Space combat
While I’m sad that people are assholes and you can’t and won’t do WH40k anymore, it’s still great to see you moving into other universes and honoring them with your work! Keep it up mate!
yeah 40k fanboys out there cant take a hint good to see he moved on dint deserve to be harassed and given false promisses from a no good company hope @SODAZ will do battle tech stuff
Love the space battle sequence in the biggining! Really shows how outclassed the UNSC was during the war. Also notice the distinct lack of cruisers as during the later stages of the war, there was litteraly 20-ish individual cruisers in the entirety of the fleet, so in this fleet engagement, the UNSC not having any cruisers is 100% canon! The ODST drop sequence is pretty dope as well! Can't wait to see the complete product!
Not TECHNICALLY true. There were at least 64 heavy cruisers in one section of the Home Fleet (Halo 2) but frigates did essentially become the UNSC Navy's poor bloody infantry.
@@ClericOfPholtus May be nitpicking, but they also weren't Halcyons (mostly retired aside from Pillar of Autums) we see mostly Marathons, but the other parts of Home Fleet might have had Halcyons. Certainly they couldn't have been down to just two ship types if they were scrambling everything
@@multiversepatriot3148 I'm pretty sure that in the book "Halo: Fall of Reach" it stated that Captain Keyes was pleasantly surprised at the presence of a Marathon class cruiser at the battle of sigma octanus iv because of how few cruisers in general are left in the fleet (which was stated as 20 if I'm not mistaken), with all of them being put on essentially garrison duty over high value inner colony worlds.
Holy shit this is literally like movie level quality in terms of the music, sound, camera work and everything. The reveal of the battle the animation the cinematography bloody hell all of it is fantastic :D
Destroyers at the beginning of the war had a life expectancy of less than 2 weeks. I presume Frigates during all stages of the war had similar or less.
The tv show writers (and 343 for that matter) don't understand what made Halo so good and memorable. Bungie's Halo was more universe driven than it was character driven.
Easy, they don't read the source material and make the movie that's faithful to it. No, all they make is a movie with Halo name and claim their movie is better than source material. It's all about ego
@@ahardworker2154 Only message folks want from Halo is either the gritty wholesome feeling of a gut punch of a known character die or sheer self preservation fighting the Covenant.
At least the covie plasma weapons are shown to be devastating similar to how the books described them as being able to melt through body armor and burn through flesh until it reaches vital organs. And even cause dismemberment in some cases.
All of SODAZ's halo WIP are lore accurate. The UNSC needs sheer numbers to even have a chance at beating the Covenant in a space battle, however small said chance is. Also, the UNSC is actually quite effective in ground combat engagements (mostly because they have superior tactics and the knowledge of the terrain- which allows them to perform guerilla warfare, which is their most effective option since the UNSC would take heavy losses in a frontal assault), it's only when the Covenant gain orbital superiority that the UNSC ground forces are... Well, f*cked.
And the funny thing about a numbers advantage is the Covenant technically outnumbers and outclassed the UNSC anyways, so their battles had to be picky and hope to god no reinforcements come in(Remember Reach).
This quality can only be achieved by someone who cares about the subject matter - Kudos. Hope to see much more in the future and hopefully you never again find yourself caught between a selfish, greedy toy company and an army of frothing neckbeards.
Already better than that live-action crap Paramount is trying to push, and this is only a minute long. Don’t ever let this one go man! The galaxy is counting on you!
That was so fuckin cool. The burning human ships at the beginning, implying the humans are putting up one hell of a fight, but they're slowly but surely loosing to the Covenant onslaught is just perfect.
The fact that you got the ripple effect on the covenant ship shields to work like they do from rockets hitting them is just magic and I literally had to go back and just see that section multiple times just because of the attention to detail.
Amazing work as always! I love the cinematography camera angles, remind me of Battlestar Galactica. And the SFX of the Covenant ships firing around 0:25 sound a lot like the plasma guns from the Terminator 2 intro, which made for a good chuckle.
Dear god, even the way the explosions form on the covenant corvette, flames coming out the hangars indicating an explosion… and don’t get me started on the energy shield fizzles
Why havent i seen this before? Dude, this guy has got more creative skill than 343 could ever muster. THIS feels like how halo should be. Well done man .
My God, a Halo space battle. That's what I want to see in the Universe. It hasn't been explored much and finally an audiovisual video material will do it soon. My God, I'm very excited. Keep it up.
Glorious as always. Our man never lets us down. Love seeing the CCS-class Battlecruisers along with Corvettes. Perhaps we could a CSO- class Supercarrier in the future? I'd love too see the battles from the books come to life like this.
Omg now that’s the most amazing space battle I seen so dam far! Loving that space battle animation! With explosives and missiles and guns and plasma. That’s epic!
When fan animations are better quality and infinitely more interesting than whatever Hollywood can make with 10 million dollars per episode really makes you think 🤔.
Seeing 4 or 5 UNSC frigates fire MAC rounds to destroy one covenant ship only for a single covenant ship to take out 2/3 UNSC frigates in one salvo really captures the technology plight in the story - great stuff.
Man this makes me want a Halo show that’s like Battlestar Galactica. Following one ship and it’s crew threw the war. So much show and movie potential for this universe and paramount gives us their weird take.
Holy shit!!!!!!! Amazing!! Very much Bungie mid 2000s feeling!! Sad when you alone are doing the glorious work 343 couldn't even scratch since their very first day 😲
absolute mad lad is even getting the orbital battles right nothing like a mac round punching though a covenant ship with its shields depleted or a plasma lance cutting a UNSC frigate in half.
For anyone complaining why the space battle is too close, this is just an assumption btw so I might get a lot of things wrong. Judging from the debris behind the covenant fleet I think the battle started far away but the covenant fleet decided to rush straight through the UNSC fleet, the UNSC fleet is then unable to retreat since retreating means the Covenant fleet getting significantly closer to the planet they're defending. The UNSC fleet is obviously not there to fight the covenant but delay them with everything they have while the other fleet tries to assist with the evacuation.
honestly, im so damn happy to see this. Halo space combat is such a rare thing to see, and the stuff we do see are small and not very great. This is different entirely. Thank you for taking the time to make this wonderful thing
This is amazing! Really awesome to see ODST and unknown Spartans in combat together. I love the Master Chief but it’s neat to see other aspects of the halo universe
My dude is going to make a better Halo show than Paramount ever could
Ngl top comment do be facts
Indefinitely By leaps and bounds
The difference is that one is made by a dedicated fan, the other is made by a room full of writers who don't understand what made the games great
Not hard, one has passion the other one is a cash grab
And I've seen more action in this short video then I have 5 episodes of the Paramount cash grab. Well done👍👍
The attention to detail is astounding. The banshees in the fight have forward-swept wings, indicating they're a variant intended for use in space combat. Also, the UNSC naval strategy was to group MAC firing solutions onto single targets to ensure a kill. Great stuff.
and also including the details inside the drop pods. For this to be wip I'm looking forward what we'll see for the final product
Well yea but they didn't single target one and the covenant had more of those vampire fighter class for better space combat
honestly my sad bit was just how close together they were
Also the sdv class corvette which didn't have shields was properly shown as being hit without shields. That's a crazy amount of detail.
SODAZ, making better HALO cinema than the actual show. Again.
With some free animating software from valve
No kidding lol that show has huge fundamental flaws
dont misunderstand, THIS IS FANTASTIC. but making anything better than what we get from 343 or the actual holders of the halo IP is easy at this point, they set the bar so low...
15 seconds of this sodaz video is better than everything to come out of 343 in the last decade and a half.
@@TheAngriestGamer. i mean i actually do enjoy halo infinite but as of late they are just pissing me off with how they are handling it lol (more so i enjoy the campaign)
You can't make things right without true love and devotion and with tons of political correctness.
Finally, a proper UNSC vs Covenant space battle.
A truly "proper" version would've had both fleets being at distance so great the naked eye wouldn't be able to see the fleets from one side
But that would be less interesting to see, so glad we got a version with the fleets close to each other
@@Howardtheone can't help but feel weird seeing 500+ meters long ships being so close to each other tho
@@Bernoris Same, but if I were to nitpick every Halo fan animation, I would never be able to enjoy any of them
So the most I can do is enjoy the rarest Halo fan animation ever: Space combat
Yeah like they made frigates very easy to destroy for the covenant, and making the covenant ships harder to down with frigates, truly accurate indeed
While I’m sad that people are assholes and you can’t and won’t do WH40k anymore, it’s still great to see you moving into other universes and honoring them with your work! Keep it up mate!
Glad he moved on, Some of those entitled fanboys dont really deserve his work.
@@renzmanzano4010 please explain
@@matternot666 When he was forced to take down all of his WH40K videos, a bunch of people got mad and started to harass him
yeah 40k fanboys out there cant take a hint good to see he moved on dint deserve to be harassed and given false promisses from a no good company hope @SODAZ will do battle tech stuff
The whole thing was a mess really
Love the space battle sequence in the biggining! Really shows how outclassed the UNSC was during the war. Also notice the distinct lack of cruisers as during the later stages of the war, there was litteraly 20-ish individual cruisers in the entirety of the fleet, so in this fleet engagement, the UNSC not having any cruisers is 100% canon!
The ODST drop sequence is pretty dope as well! Can't wait to see the complete product!
Not TECHNICALLY true. There were at least 64 heavy cruisers in one section of the Home Fleet (Halo 2) but frigates did essentially become the UNSC Navy's poor bloody infantry.
Explain that to the Halo 2 environments then where we see hella Halcyons
@@ClericOfPholtus Imma go with it being Earth, so they pulled fckin EVERYTHING to protect Earth once Reach fell.
@@ClericOfPholtus May be nitpicking, but they also weren't Halcyons (mostly retired aside from Pillar of Autums) we see mostly Marathons, but the other parts of Home Fleet might have had Halcyons. Certainly they couldn't have been down to just two ship types if they were scrambling everything
@@multiversepatriot3148 I'm pretty sure that in the book "Halo: Fall of Reach" it stated that Captain Keyes was pleasantly surprised at the presence of a Marathon class cruiser at the battle of sigma octanus iv because of how few cruisers in general are left in the fleet (which was stated as 20 if I'm not mistaken), with all of them being put on essentially garrison duty over high value inner colony worlds.
Holy shit this is literally like movie level quality in terms of the music, sound, camera work and everything. The reveal of the battle the animation the cinematography bloody hell all of it is fantastic :D
its like the intro for star wars epIII, which he might have taken inspiration from
Creaming your pants over bare minimum
The cinematography is insane
If you've seen some of his war hammer animations you would be astonished
True Halo.
SODAZ should just make the TV show at this point.
A tip of the hat to the UNSC Sailors, whose life expectancy during an engagement with the Covenant fleet could be measured in seconds.
Destroyers at the beginning of the war had a life expectancy of less than 2 weeks. I presume Frigates during all stages of the war had similar or less.
Most of the frigates were lost thanks to coles campaign
Holy shit this is epic
How could big studio executives not realize that this is what people want from a Halo show, not the crap they are making
All about the message and ego.
It about spreading the MESSAGE
The tv show writers (and 343 for that matter) don't understand what made Halo so good and memorable. Bungie's Halo was more universe driven than it was character driven.
Easy, they don't read the source material and make the movie that's faithful to it. No, all they make is a movie with Halo name and claim their movie is better than source material. It's all about ego
@@ahardworker2154 Only message folks want from Halo is either the gritty wholesome feeling of a gut punch of a known character die or sheer self preservation fighting the Covenant.
Looks better than the tv series
That's a low one
That's an easy one, but deserved
At least the covie plasma weapons are shown to be devastating similar to how the books described them as being able to melt through body armor and burn through flesh until it reaches vital organs. And even cause dismemberment in some cases.
All of SODAZ's halo WIP are lore accurate. The UNSC needs sheer numbers to even have a chance at beating the Covenant in a space battle, however small said chance is. Also, the UNSC is actually quite effective in ground combat engagements (mostly because they have superior tactics and the knowledge of the terrain- which allows them to perform guerilla warfare, which is their most effective option since the UNSC would take heavy losses in a frontal assault), it's only when the Covenant gain orbital superiority that the UNSC ground forces are... Well, f*cked.
And the funny thing about a numbers advantage is the Covenant technically outnumbers and outclassed the UNSC anyways, so their battles had to be picky and hope to god no reinforcements come in(Remember Reach).
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If you enjoy what you’re doing, definitely keep doing it. This shit is insane!!!!!!!
This dude literally did the "Fine I'll do it myself". Keep it up my man!
I was just listening to Halo music
Cant wait till you finish this and see your next project.
I've been waiting nearly 20 years for this kind of high quality halo content
Love the animation and being as lore accurate.
아니 이제는 우주전까지...어디까지 가려는겁니까...
I would love to see an animation of the naval battle where Captain Keyes fought 3 Covenant ships using the famous Keyes' Loop
Amazing as always!
Imagine a world where the big money series were produced with the same passion and skill this guy works at.
ODSTs
“Feet First Into Hell”
🎩
🐍no step on Snek! 🇺🇸🇭🇰
This quality can only be achieved by someone who cares about the subject matter - Kudos.
Hope to see much more in the future and hopefully you never again find yourself caught between a selfish, greedy toy company and an army of frothing neckbeards.
Already better than that live-action crap Paramount is trying to push, and this is only a minute long. Don’t ever let this one go man! The galaxy is counting on you!
That was so fuckin cool. The burning human ships at the beginning, implying the humans are putting up one hell of a fight, but they're slowly but surely loosing to the Covenant onslaught is just perfect.
Finally, some good fucking food
The fact that you got the ripple effect on the covenant ship shields to work like they do from rockets hitting them is just magic and I literally had to go back and just see that section multiple times just because of the attention to detail.
This was 10x better than the new halo TV show.
My man just shamed 343. Like give this man the budget and a team and we’d be set with halo stuff forever!
The use of Reach armor ability sound effects for the drop pod noises was very clever and resourceful.
Hail! The Greatest among us has risen to bless us once again! Keep up the great work!
My guess is this is where the budget for the halo tv show went.
This is how the Halo TV should've looked like.
Amazing work as always! I love the cinematography camera angles, remind me of Battlestar Galactica. And the SFX of the Covenant ships firing around 0:25 sound a lot like the plasma guns from the Terminator 2 intro, which made for a good chuckle.
0:57 - Adeptus Astartes: "That's cute..."
Dear god, even the way the explosions form on the covenant corvette, flames coming out the hangars indicating an explosion… and don’t get me started on the energy shield fizzles
0:45 Fantastic, that was fantastic and awesome! Fighting between UNSC and The Covenant on space while they send deployed ODSTs on city.
I can’t get over how plasma sound effects in space are terminator sound effects and I love it
Why havent i seen this before? Dude, this guy has got more creative skill than 343 could ever muster. THIS feels like how halo should be. Well done man .
My God, a Halo space battle. That's what I want to see in the Universe. It hasn't been explored much and finally an audiovisual video material will do it soon. My God, I'm very excited. Keep it up.
That glimpse of a fleet battle was FIRE!!!
While I will forever miss the 40k animations this...this is true art right here
Homie started off with a firefight and progress up to a whole space battle. #Respect
I think Halo might be your calling instead of the 40K. I love how good these animations are.
Glorious as always. Our man never lets us down.
Love seeing the CCS-class Battlecruisers along with Corvettes. Perhaps we could a CSO- class Supercarrier in the future? I'd love too see the battles from the books come to life like this.
Omg now that’s the most amazing space battle I seen so dam far! Loving that space battle animation! With explosives and missiles and guns and plasma. That’s epic!
When fan animations are better quality and infinitely more interesting than whatever Hollywood can make with 10 million dollars per episode really makes you think 🤔.
Seeing 4 or 5 UNSC frigates fire MAC rounds to destroy one covenant ship only for a single covenant ship to take out 2/3 UNSC frigates in one salvo really captures the technology plight in the story - great stuff.
That is actually a beutiful halo space battle
0:42
"We are droppin' into Hell, troopers! Time to grow a pair!" - Edward Buck, Halo 3: ODST
These four minutes are better than the Halo movie in its entirety
This is the kind of thing I was hoping would be in the Halo TV show... well done.
The firepower the covenant ships can throw at their enemies is just too overwhelming.
Clever use of the BF1 They Shall Not Pass soundtrack there. Nicely done.
Your work is incredible. My only bummer is that people pushed you away from your 40k projects they were awesome as well :(
this is a really increadible work , imagine how can be if a big studio make it some similar
I cant even imainge the justice you as an animator could give a spartan when it comes to their speed in the lore.
SODAZ: Don't try it
Paramount: You underestimate my powers
Love the terminator phased plasma rifle sounds effects.
genuinely better than the halo show
Finally a halo space battle animation. Thank you for this gem.
Man this makes me want a Halo show that’s like Battlestar Galactica. Following one ship and it’s crew threw the war. So much show and movie potential for this universe and paramount gives us their weird take.
That outer space battle between Humans and Covenant is insane fr
Holy shit!!!!!!! Amazing!! Very much Bungie mid 2000s feeling!! Sad when you alone are doing the glorious work 343 couldn't even scratch since their very first day 😲
SODAZ nails the sense of speed and weight in all his stuff. It's amazing how consistently fluid and frantic everything feels. Just mind-blowing.
This and the rest of your work are really good, keep up the good work!
You must never stop your crusade brother, drown out paramount with your superior animations
absolute mad lad is even getting the orbital battles right
nothing like a mac round punching though a covenant ship with its shields depleted or a plasma lance cutting a UNSC frigate in half.
Better than Netflix Halo
You continue to create truly jaw-dropping work with your animations. Any upload by you is a real treat.
Absolutely incredible! I wish they'd make a series on the Halo Covenant space battles!
Wow BF1 soundtrack is so good it even fits in a Halo project
By the prophets, our boy is doing Halo stuff. This is a dream come true!
For anyone complaining why the space battle is too close, this is just an assumption btw so I might get a lot of things wrong. Judging from the debris behind the covenant fleet I think the battle started far away but the covenant fleet decided to rush straight through the UNSC fleet, the UNSC fleet is then unable to retreat since retreating means the Covenant fleet getting significantly closer to the planet they're defending. The UNSC fleet is obviously not there to fight the covenant but delay them with everything they have while the other fleet tries to assist with the evacuation.
Love the terminator future war laser sound effects hahah
These WiPs are getting me so hyped, I cant wait for the complete animation! But I shall, dont want you to rush your great work :)
one of the best renditions of a halo space battle, and this is coming from perhaps one of the biggest halo lore nerds alive. Well done.
Again, same energy as ''Indies makes better things then triple A''
Halo with Battlefield 1 music?
Perfection.
Ayee Battlefield 1's outro theme
This is what every Halo fan wants
I'll definitely watch your series. Only the Fans can make Halo Great again.
Omg thanks for making my dream come true I always wanted a halo space battle
This is the content of a real connoisseur.
Aw man this would make the emperor blush good work man
this is just so gorgeous i have no words right now. You really are such an amazing animator, i always rewatch your videos until a new one comes out
The fact that we're most likely never going to see something like this on THIS scale in the show is sad. Great work SODAZ, as usual.
Bro why couldn’t this have been the opening to the halo tv show holy fuck man amazing work💯
0:30 those effects... wow, just wow, look at that purple smoking things
that opening shot gave me chills
SODAZ you are a gift. So many fandoms love your content, and I'm happy I found your channel.
This is really coming together, your talent and patience to make this is phenomenal
The way this is shot reminds me of Mass Effect Space Battle Cutscenes. That's a compliment. :)
Great work, can’t wait to see more!
This guy gives me hope for the future of Halo
Amazing work as usual Sodaz! Looking forward to the next Halo related material you've made!
honestly, im so damn happy to see this. Halo space combat is such a rare thing to see, and the stuff we do see are small and not very great. This is different entirely. Thank you for taking the time to make this wonderful thing
This is amazing! Really awesome to see ODST and unknown Spartans in combat together.
I love the Master Chief but it’s neat to see other aspects of the halo universe
Loving the plasma torpedoes, very good
1000x better than the multi million dollar tv show, love you sodaz