[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] CoolCJ24 I love how all these haters imagine MAC strikes as being explosive, massive shells creating city sized craters. Does anyone know how a MAC works? The MAC shell has NO explosives. And if you look hard enough on the first level of Halo 2, you can find a machine that is loading MAC shells into the MAC gun. Even on this Super MAC Gun, the shells are only the size of a Spartan. The MAC shell, in fact, relies entirely on the immense speed it is fired at. Fired at 40% speed of light, this is the reason it rips holes in ships and destroys shields on Covenant ships. So a MAC shell hitting a map would cause the death of anyone in a 20 metre radius due to the debris and damage anyone within 35 metres. It would also cause a deep (not wide, DEEP) crater, whilst anyone nearby would feel their controller vibrate heavily. But let me re-assure everyone: the MAC shell does not cause an explosive/uber-sized attack. It causes a medium-scale yet devastating physical impact attack. [/knowledge][/quote] I always assumed that the MAC round was just a enormous Gauss round. It uses the same firing technique, and like the Gauss, it doesn't really explode.