Originally posted by Super Marie 64
[b]Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't Master Chief take bullet showers from the Mass Effect weapons without noteworthy damage? The bullets he doesn't dodge, that is. [/B]
Don't think of their weapons as firing bullets, think of them as firing tiny little chips at massively hypersonic velocities.
That said, no Neph, handheld Mass Accelerators (Aka guns) do not fire at subluminal speeds, lol, nowhere near. Mostly due to the fact that so far, scientists in the MEverse have been unable to mitigate the recoil such velocities would bring, the absolute FASTEST Mass Accelerators, the ones on Dreadnoughts, is only IIRC 17% lightspeed.
But yeah MC cannot win. Thanks to our good friend the Blaxican, he has proven Master Chief is like what? Class 2? And possessing "only" 20 millisecond reaction time. To be honest, normal soldiers in Mass Effect can probably achieve similar or better reaction-times (Though I admit my memory is hazy on that subject), and his strength is not signifigant enough to even puncture their shields. Nor are his weapons, actually.