Apparently I'm now in love with one game I thought I'd ban from my life for all eternity. Just how it goes I suppose... Oh, and who says cyborgs don't get love? I LOVE MASTER CHIEF!!!♥!!!
There are those who said this day would never come. What are they to say now? Oh! And I figured out that the Grunts in fact DO wear masks, and this is why:
Grunt: Me take off mask, smell better! But nooo, always have to fight on oxygen planet! How come enemies don't breathe methane?
Also, it IS a backpack and not a physical part of them:
Grunt: Need... to... change... backpack.