: "What are you talking about?" The art designer says, "It's got
: a spinning cylinder bit in the middle, is made of grey metal with glowy
: stuff on it, and it shoots a laser beam, that's exactly like the old one,
: even added a handle to have it make more sense." Could be worse, they
: could just retcon the entire thing(glares angrily at Halo Reach). But in
: all honesty they didn't call it just a sentinel beam, so I assume there's
: some sort of cheeky background as to why it looks very different. Looks
: more in line with other Promethean weapons, so they probably changed it to
: make it more recognizable as a Promethean weapon at a distance. However,
: if it does the disintegration thing to targets I will nod approvingly,
: yeah didn't happen in old Halo games but would sure as hell make the thing
: more realistic as a weapon for fighting the flood, and if we're going to
: change shit it better be to fix issues from previous games.

You are correct in that we often see a new design and immediately go, welp, giving that thing a name tweak to help clarify. lol ;-)

: "I get my original recon helmet next year, I don't care what the
: sentinel beam looks like." -Stretchy Dec 7, 2016

lolz <3