User blog comment:Ralok/Let us talk here/@comment-160529-20101228035438/@comment-160529-20101228040030

also in regards to an earlier discussion about spartan-IIs vs spectres

i would like to point out that spartan-II's armor is vastly superior, maybe not the shields but definitly the armor

the mass effect and halo armor share similiar physics (unlike the shields) nad thus can be judged better in comparison

for one the mjolnir armor can lock, effectively rendering the user invulnerable. this is what allows them to survive planetfall

and thus far all observed spectres (shephard) have clearly died from orbital descent. ..

still mass effect weapons are sufficiently advanced to allow better penetration of the armor. . . . . which can be penetrated with the more modern weapons of halo

this implies the shields of halo are weaker in comparison to the tech involved with mass effect shields

there is also an ammo problem with halo weapons

mass effect weapons sometimes use thermal clips to increase teh speed of combat, these are heatsinks though and not ammunition

the ammunition is abotu the size of a grain of sand, shaved off of an ammo block. if a proper cooling system is installed then the gun doesnt need to be reloaded

and thermal clips can be gathered after they have been cooled and reused (not in gameplay but in actuality)

just had to get that out of my head